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February 27, 2020
Poor Poor Pitiful Dylann Roof
The Gurney    
So the incarceration of Dylann Roof isn't going along those lines he expected. Lets see, a white supremacist mass murderer is supposed to be treated with those kid gloves associated with the utmost respect and admiration.

The young idiot Mr Roof feels that he's being verbally harassed and abused without cause as well as being treated disproportionately harsh in letters to the AP.

So this 25 year old who murdered nine church members who had taken him in and shared their worship service with him can't take that heat secondary to the consequences of his actions.

He claims an attitude of hatred by the general public makes his jailers feel justified in "abusing" him.

All I can say is look kid:

You are the one who pulled a gun in a house of worship and drew down on the congregation then killed 9 of them and took off only to be captured in North Carolina a short while later.

In the book of Leviticus you should have been taken out and stoned to death immediately. As far as I am personally concerned, you got off easy.

Your victims:
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Clementa C. Pinckney (41)the church's pastor and a South Carolina state senator
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd (54)Bible study member and manager for the Charleston County Public Library system; sister of former state senator Malcolm Graham
Susie Jackson (87)Bible study and church choir member. She was the oldest victim of the shooting
Ethel Lee Lance (70)the church's sexton
Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49)Pastor who was also employed as a school administrator and admissions coordinator at Southern Wesleyan University
Tywanza Sanders (26)Bible study member; grandnephew of victim Susie Jackson. He was the youngest victim
Daniel L. Simmons (74)Pastor who also served at Greater Zion AME Church in Awendaw
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45) Pastor; also a speech therapist and track coach at Goose Creek High School; mother of MLB prospect Chris Singleton
Myra Thompson (59)Bible study teacher

Just ask the families of your victims how unfairly they feel they were treated. Unscrupulous and immoral murderers do not deserve the mercy of the righteous — which they gave to you freely of their own accord in the spirit of agape ... which of course is purest Christian love; something likely missed along the way in your upbringing.

Selah.

I keep wondering in that clarity of retrospect if young Mr Roof wishes he might have thought things out a little more ... perhaps a little bit better prior to such devastating actions from which the consequences thereof his poor parents cannot save him.

I'm grateful that I never messed up this badly in my life. My parents were always able to pull me from the fire ... even if I did have to enlist.

We often don't know why we go astray. We only know that we do. Some of us more than others.

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February 26, 2020
On Arresting Six Year Olds and other Idiocy
6 Year Old Arrested for fighting staff in Orlando  
  6 Year Old Arrested for fighting staff in Orlando
That stupid leftist libtard idiocy so characteristic of the public education system raised it's ugly head again in Orlando when a six year old was restrained with wire tie handcuffs and hauled off from school for allegedly 'kicking and punching' and other childlike mannerisms children undertake in their lack of experience and worldly comportment.

This happened at her Orlando Charter School.

The arresting officer indicated that this measure was "not what you think" implying a gentle handling of the child offender.

Why didn't they arrest the incompetent school staff as well.

While I'm fine with school discipline this notion that a child can be arrested and hauled off from school in this manner speaks volumes for both the ineptitude of educators in general and that lack of judgment proliferating in juvenile justice as well.

Those frustrations associated with unruly children may indeed drive an adult to distraction ... but when we devolve to a society which casually arrests and hauls off six year olds in the name of juvenile justice our system is beyond broken.

All I'm saying is when I was six, though I likely would not have kicked or punched I certainly might have cried and carried on in a similar manner and placing wire tie handcuffs on me would have made the situation much worse at this point in my life when I would have been out to enact revenge with extreme prejudice.

How you treat a child in school is a determining factor in that type of adult they become. I am living proof that public education is the biggest mistake perpetrated on the children of the US.

This child should have been sent home, not to jail. I hope the kid's grandma sues and wins.

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February 25, 2020
Remembering Bill Paxton
    Bill Paxton
One of my favorite actors of all time was Bill Paxton. Ever since Aliens and his portrayal of the Marine Hudson it was pretty much me and him from then on.

I watched most everything he was in looking for those subtle nuances he always brought to the role ...

Game over man

Private Hudson
Portrayed by Bill Paxton
Aliens (1986)

William Paxton was born in Fort Worth Texas on May 17, 1955 ,,, just a smidge over a month younger than me. He began in music and became a character actor extraordinaire.

Those films I most enjoyed included The Terminator, Commando, Weird Science, Aliens, Near Dark, Predator 2, Tombstone, Twister, Titanic, Nightcrawler, and Marvel's Agents of SHIELD as well as his award winning portrayal Randall McCoy in the History channel miniseries Hatfields & McCoys. What a disturbing film that turned out to be for me personally.

He died while we were both 61 on February 25, 2017 from a post operative stroke.

There by the grace of God go I.

If life were truly fair he would still be around flexing that thespian muscle and rewarding the viewers of his filmography with innumerable excellent performances.

I have missed his work in my entertainment life.

Rest in peace.

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February 24, 2020
The Issue with Room Mates
whine baby    
When I was young there was the concept of room mates. People would cohabitate and split expenses between them in an effort not to spend those meager wages of the early 1970s as quickly as might happen otherwise.

There were innumerable acquaintances who were room mates and they enjoyed their lives as the result of this additional expendable income from the arrangement.

Me, I never wanted a "room mate" stranger cohabitating with me in my life.

Call me unsocial, call me whatever you like ... the entire concept of living with someone I don't know has been abhorrent to my existence.

This attitude has pretty much remained to this day. I avoid conversations leading toward the area of habitation sharing because as my best old ex-friend Tom used to say "living by yourself is a groove".

The people who attempt to call me to the fence for a discussion of how they need a room mate is largely left on deaf ears. This vision of some needy "organ donor" stranger repels me. Those females juggling five children from various baby daddies likewise are getting nowhere with me.

How can a female who has had sex with everyone in the immediate area really consider herself attractive anyway — besides the fact that she may be 40 years younger and all.

I simply cannot become a welfare check supplement.

It's really not up for negotiation or debate because it takes two for any discussion and I'm simply not having it.

I don't intend to be unsociable or project a mean attitude by any stretch of the imagination. However, by the same token I don't intend to become prey either and my place can't be shared by just anyone anymore.

Suffice it to say that your baby daddies need to take responsibility for your ugly little offspring of diverse colors and leave it at that. Crayolas need to be taken from a box of crayons not delivered by an obstetrician.

I don't know, it may be selfish but some men decline to assume the duties secondary to those carnal inclinations of women — nor those associated responsibilities created by other men.

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February 23, 2020
The Broken Heart
    broken heart
 

There is a uniquely human concept known as "the broken heart" whereby people become immensely sad usually as the result of unrequited love and that sequela rejection and moving on.

Sensations include the heart being perceived as a cold lump in the chest which attempts to sustain a person in the absence of that will to go on.

There is an emptiness otherwise said to pervade the very soul.

Happiness appears to depart for parts unknown to the point when those affected are no longer interested in where it's gone.

They shun approach and interaction.

They refrain from interpersonal interaction and decline to smile or speak or even acknowledge that others exist.

There is this dark acceptance of being done and other considerations become secondary.

Its easy to let go. The difficulty lay in attempting to grasp at nothing.

Such is the convoluted recovery process for those who allow others to control their emotions.

I dare say these type of antics are primarily a manifestation of the young crowd and likely dissipate when a person hits their forties.

I know I used to go bat crap crazy over my smattering of lovelorn episodes.

Now, it's move on and stay out of my way.
 

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

I can think of younger days
When living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do
I could never see tomorrow
But I was never told about the sorrow
How can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man? How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart
And let me live again

I can still feel the breeze
That rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow
But no one said a word about the sorrow
How can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down
How can you stop the sun from shining
What makes the world go round

And how can you mend this broken man? How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart
And let me live again
La la la la la la, la la la la
La la la la la la, la la la la
Please help me mend my broken heart
And let me live again
Da da da da
Da da da da, da da da da da, da

Performed by the Bee Gees
Song by Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb
Lyrics
   © Warner Chappell Music, Inc
   © Universal Music Publishing Group
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February 22, 2020
The Poor Sheep Clone Dolly
Dolly the cloned sheep
Dolly July 5, 1996 - February 14, 2003
 

When your existence is solely for the benefit of others what good is it ?

There was a sheep named Dolly which was cloned from 3 mothers via a process called "nuclear transfer":
 

1  provided the egg
1  provided the genetics from a somatic (body) cell
1  carried and gave birth to the clone


The birth of Dolly was announced on this day in 1997.

She had six offspring who were normal by all accounts. When she was 4 years old it is claimed that she developed arthritis and began walking stiffly.

This claim has been subsequently disputed in the literature.

On February 14, 2003, Dolly was euthanised because she was suffering with progressive lung disease and alleged severe arthritis. It was discovered later that she had developed cancer as well.

Thus ended the life of "the world's most famous sheep". Sad to think that her total existence was for research.

Nothing left to the imagination. Other clones of this animal have grown normally and lived a full life. As for Dolly, she was stuffed and placed on display as the item of genetic curiosa she is.

Again, nothing in her life really benefited her.
 

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February 21, 2020
Peter Tork RIP
    Peter Tork

In my youth there were the Monkees, a bubble gum pop culture icon replete with television program, collectable figures, guest appearances, and of course popular music.

It has been my sad experience to witness the death of Davy Jones who died suddenly in 2012 while tending to horses from the sequela of arteriosclerosis.

A year ago today Peter Tork succumbed to a rare form of cancer.

All in all I'd like to say that The Monkees contributed to that entertainment I enjoyed in my fantasy laden youth and indeed ...

I even sang a number of those songs on occasion and sometimes had the audacity to fancy myself a performer with my own televison show.

Those wistfull daydreams not withstanding, half of the 1960s era icon which were The Monkees are now passed leaving half: Mickey Dolenz and Michael Nesmith remaining.

The days of reunion shows likely have passed as have the heyday of The Monkees, that 1960s innocence they projected, and myself.

Rest in peace.
 

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February 20, 2020
World Day of Social Justice 2020
Another stupid SJW 
The social justice warrior is a radical manifestation of a person who expresses or promotes socially progressive views. It's not enough to state your opinion regarding some matter of personal importance. These people want to force you to accept their views as your own as well ... oftentimes turning to violent confrontation and screaming as loudly as they can 6 inches from your face.

My personal experience with these fools consists primarily clips from various outlets and indeed those items typically represent failed interactions which are funny and often times scary.

In real time I have encountered a few at my local sushi bar and I have refrained from calling these girl children down for the idiots that they are in the name of social comportment and not to embarass the Itamae of the establishment who is a personal friend of long standing.

While I agree that on the surface, a concept of social justice projects this notion of being fine and well and good I'm afraid that it loses all of that in the execution by ignorant snowflake millenials and their lack of both knowledge and experience in all things.

The "stupid component" of the SJW population is my single objection — and it is pervasive in this ideological genre. The leftist indoctrination imparted by the public school systems in lieu of true 'education' rings true all too often in the presence of social justice warriors and their lack of logic, no understanding of history and science or English as well as their rude comportment, and ignorant stance on all too many sociopolitical issues.

So today is World Day of Social Justice aka Social Justice Equality Day.

It is alleged to be observed internationally ... although I don't ever hear or see much about it locally. The thrust of the observance is the promotion of social justice and therein lay the faults of those who practice this which now has become a faddish, tired, cliche.

The provision of "artificial social justice" by those who cannot even manage their own lives effectively does little to nothing in the improvement of poverty, exclusion, gender equality, unemployment, human rights, and so-called "social protections".

All the modern social justice warrior has to offer is a vague reaction called a "trigger" whereby they go off like some lunatic in search of a nice big shot of thorazine. Calm down bitches.

It is for the individual to rise above the fray and make their own way. It is not for society to take from the worker and give to the shirker.

The United Nations would declare a number of social "rights" which are more the privilege of those who perform in society rather than those who seek to exist as the leeches that they are.

The social justice warrior is primarily a domain of little weenies watching the CBS bastardization of star trek in their mother's basements along with their female counterparts, the mouthy stupid girls with nothing relevant to say so they glower and scream their overworked, overdone feminist cringe babble and other elements of unsubstantive nothingness.

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February 19, 2020
Wild Unsubstantiated Claims regarding Candidates
    Honest Abe
I keep reading these opine pieces where commentators are touting various things that 2020 democratic candidates will do for people. Mind now, these are pie in the sky ruminations made to look factual like "A Buttigieg presidency will invest in building a stronger future for Black America".

I've read all kinds of ridiculous claims by Steyer who is nothing more than a billionaire liar as evidenced by his ridiculous accusations against President Trump in the vein of that fake news continually perpetrated by The Counterfeit News Network aka CNN, The Washington Compost, and let us not forget both the New York and LA Times.

In the sum total of all these pie in the sky and lie claims it's important to research the facts for yourself.

Don't let Steyer the Liar fool you. Don't believe some idiot in the opinion section of your local yellow journalist news rag like The State guide you in your decisions.

You need to research multiple (preferably objective) sources on each and everything you may question.

Indeed, it is difficult to amass a library of truly objective news and information sources because the main stream media is as biased as it gets.

ABC, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC certainly are NOT the source for an objective item of information. Rest assured MSNBC staffers wouldn't know objective journalism if it bit one of them on their crusty fat ugly biased asses.

It's very difficult to fathom the stupidity exhibited by members of an electorate who are both ignorant of the facts and too stupid to pursue them.

How many times have I seen some SC democrat on teevee blubbering about how good Cory Booker, Gayboy Buttfukgieg, the liars Tom Steyer and Elizabeth Warren, the commie socialist Bernie Sanders and the office monetizing Senility Joe Biden are.

These members of the electorate not looking for a hand they're looking for a handout. Just an entitlement seeking bunch of slugs weighing down the system as a career.

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February 18, 2020
The Counterfeit News Network
CNN counterfeit news network    
In my entire life I have never encountered a more yellow journalism bias in a news agency than CNN.

Not that most of those things purporting to be objective news outlets don't simply fail the smell test on most all of those items they claim are news but in reality are the manipulations of a foundering failure of international news feeding the public with their never ending line of crap from people as untrustworthy as the entirety of that organization.

The true tragedy is our failure to educate people in the methods of critical thinking, the recognition of obvious bias, outright lying in the form of so-called "news" and other manifestations of CNN and the rest of the main stream media.

I personally attribute this failure of critical thinking we suffer in the United States is due to the public education system which has been over run with your common garden variety libtard out to indoctrinate impressionable minds into their particular strain of stupidity in the name of being herded around like food animals being prepared for slaughter.

I personally have had about all the stupid I care to endure.

CNN should be terminated with extreme prejudice as the enemy of the state it has become.

Boo.

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February 17, 2020
Ne dis jamais jamais
    Sean Connery as James Bond in Never Say Never Again
Sean Connery as James Bond in Never Say Never Again
I was a metal head about that time I had reached my EAOS and was separated from active duty in the Navy.

I was also on the outskirts of idiocy with my recovery coming full circle in the next couple of years.

My dramatic behaviors and associated theatrics were the stuff of legend in my large circle of friends and one of those things I consider to be the advent of maturity was removal of the phonies and the drug dealers and those thorns in my existence who were there to be humored or otherwise take undue advantage of my good nature.

So I batted around various thoughts of life and career and those portends of schizophrenogenic human interactions diminished with the exclusion of crook physicians, purpetrators of medicare and other insurance fraud, and the charletains they utilized in their practices.

I left "plan A" for the self sufficiency of "plan B" and have remained there in favor of popping a cap in the head of some two faced user which formerly predominated my existence.

Still, I had to contend with matters of reputation, the earning of dollars, and various aspects of career to the point of distraction at times ...

But I persevered and moved onward and upward through the fog.

Then there was the removal of all recreational drugs cold turkey.

I figured it would be this insurmountable end to my existence because the workplace was now pushing pre-employment drug testing the very thought of which filled me with fear and foreboding.

Luckily when you make up your mind to do better this is likely what will transpire and I gave it all up without a single episode of withdrawal.

This has pretty much been the case since those early 1980s efforts and I find my brain began functioning better from a standpoint of dexterity and memory retrieval almost immediately.

I certified in everything as a matter of conscience until that point when I realized that computer vendors and schools tout "certification" as a matter of revenue generation. They never helped me a single iota in the field. All the certified "professionals" who couldn't do the work after their bootcamp test passing simply flooded the field with incapable techies and thusly, I rose to the very top of the field.

For when the PhDs were found lacking. When the masters degree holders proved incompetent. I could perform the technical duties quickly and correctly.

So in the presence of pedigreed individuals sporting nothing but ineptitude they were let go while I was retained.

The naysayers be damned. The friends who said I'd never get hired. The coworkers saying "you don't have a degree" were far beneath my subject matter expertise and hardware skills.

Never Say Never.




Never Say Never

Never, never, never say never
Ne dis jamais jamais
Better, better believe in forever
And it can be that way

You think that you could never love again
The one time really tore you apart
So don't even try to touch your heart
You're never going to give it again

Never, never, never say never
Ne dis jamais jamais
Better, better believe in forever
And it can be that way

You think that too much joy can only bring pain
Before you know it, it can be gone
But give me a chance to prove you're wrong
You'll never say never again

Never, never, never say never
Ne dis jamais jamais
Better, better believe in forever
And it can be that way

Take time to smell the roses
Don't hold back your one chance
It hardly lasts, it hardly lasts
Better, better believe in forever

Out here I stand with my heart in my hand
My hopes on a wing and a prayer
I must have been born with a hole in my head
Cause I've never said these things before

Never, never, never say never
Ne dis jamais jamais
Better, better believe in forever
And it can be that way

Lyrics by Tommy Shaw
Peformed by Styx on the album Cornerstone
1979
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February 16, 2020
Damaged Goods
damaged goods  
Persons regarded as inadequate or impaired in some way are often called 'damaged goods'.

I used to think that I was the most damaged of goods upon the planet.

However, there are those even more whiny and crybaby than I all the while touting their alleged vast social superiority in my face.

The results of failed marriages and other relationships sometime leave us bitter and apparently feeling used ... often unable to relate to anyone remotely interested later and resulting in this control freak persona that simply cannot work in the presence of free wheeling intellect and massive experiential world inventory.

The tedium associated with trying to effectively communicate with another so utterly unable to read between the lines of interpersonal relationships to the point that everything is a abject hostile confrontation to the nth degree and as offputting as absolutely possible leads to somewhat severe consequences in the world of others and their spheres of existence.

It is a difficult matter to attribute Kierkegaard’s aesthetic, ethical, and religious connotations to a flippant secular immensely spooky emotionally labile human being. So all psychosocial bullshit aside, that which remains available is an attitude of "parting company" and that act of "being done" with all remaining failed interaction and indeed, this should be sufficient in all subsequent matters.

Be all of this as it may, some baggage typically remains and the parting of company is difficult in the presence of what are considered "feelings" no matter how trivial they are considered by any other said to be significant.

Suffice it to say "I'm done" because in the end I have a low tolerance for whiny ass bullshit.

Not wishing company in life — for any reason — comes with both it's own set of problems and rewards ... but how you comport yourself in the navigation of such a reality is telling and foretelling.

What you do tomorrow depends upon what you do today.

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February 15, 2020
ENIAC Day 2020
    ENIAC historical display

Yeah, my career path has me working plan B.

Automation support, computers, networks, hardware, software, media ... you know the drill.

Having started quite early in the 'information age' I predate the personal computer by about a decade.

In that beginning of my career, there were minis and mainframes but not much in the way of microcomputers.

These were mostly consumer models such as your commodore 64, tandy color computer, and a few breadboard style LED byte display models which were not really for the uninitated.

In fact a scant month after purchasing a DEC VT-100 (Robin) CP/M conversion package the IBM PC was released and obsolescence was all I really had at that point.

It is my duty to make sure that the operations go smoothly for my assigned areas. I have a number of side interests which also come into play. They all need me.

Today is ENIAC Day, which celebrates the world’s first computer.

On the tenth of February in 2011 the Philadelphia jurisdiction declared that February 15, 2011 as ENIAC Day. This correpsonds to the 65th anniversary of the unveiling of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).

ENIAC is the world's first general-purpose electronic computer and was developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Thus began what was to become my 'plan b' as it were. I'm very fortunate to have been able to embark on it when 'plan a' became no longer feasible in my existence.

Happy ENIAC Day to you.
 

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February 14, 2020
Valentines Day 2020
Happy Valentines Day
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