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- December 22, 2019
- Christmas Eve Eve Eve 2019
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We embark on Christmas this year and I'm rather down in the moment.
It becomes increasingly difficult to focus on yuletide in the presence of that sadness enveloping me.
But it's okay — I'm sure this too will pass. My mind would be "on the prize" if there were one.
All I can do is live for the moment.
Spend those moments with mama and others significant to my existence. And surely things will improve ...
I'm gearing up for Christmas Day which I intend to spend with my mother.
I'm trying not to dwell on those endings marking the season for indeed, all eventually pass regardless of how much we love them.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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- December 21, 2019
- Forefather's Day 2019
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The day finds me reflecting on Cape Cod an my departed Navy buddy, Jerry Landry as he was my connection to that place and he held nothing back from me when I visited several times in a younger day.
Today is Forefathers Day, a holiday celebrated in Plymouth, Massachusetts, since 1769 commemorating the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth on December 21, 1620.
That heritage for which Jerry held so much pride escaped me prior to that time I stood there looking over Plymouth rock and the cranberry bogs, and the Coast Guard base and all that ocean and bay.
In the evenings when collecting my thoughts I often return there and wistfully remember those days when Jerry was around and there were yuks to be had.
He was always so proud of Cape Cod and that indigenous part of The Republic he represented while I remained just an "indian" in the context of historical representations and totally lacking that serenity he exuded at all times.
I used to call him a "pollyanna capecodese" and he called me a sasquatch.
I miss him and the cape so much to this day but I don't think it would be the same without him.
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- December 20, 2019
- Adventures in Mail Server Security
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Ah, the old mail server ssl/tls credential expired day before yesterday.
I did a brief interim patch with the self-signed version I used prior to becoming more 'official' in the smtp world.
Given that I was already down, the fact that my initial configuration failed due to an oversight on my part wasn't too disconcerting ...
However, this found me ending up 36 hours in arrears prior to finding the issue and resolving it pretty quickly as soon as I had realized my omission in the process.
Suffice it to say that I'm happy with the new 'two year' certificate and I plan to slap them on my three web servers very shortly.
There are worse things in life but having everybody reject your email over a certificate they don't like because it's SELF SIGNED doesn't have to be one of them!
Now ... for the SPF TXT record in DNS and I'll be totally pussed out for gmail and the rest of the internet butt holes.
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- December 19, 2019
- Buffarillos Unite
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I was reading an interesting thread on yahoo.com which states that by 2030 half of adults in the United States will be obese.
It went in to a lot of technical references and evidence and stated the organization undertaking the research.
Now. While I am not one to dispute these revelations I find the entire notion of undertaking extensive research and corroboration to be a bit unnecessary.
All I have to do is look at the bulk of those partaking of the local chinese restaurant buffet or standing in line to get a half dozen chik fil a sandwiches and the massive abdominal shelving and equally spacious love handles to know this is likely the road down which we plod as a nation.
Now I am over weight. Working on it not withstanding I feel that I consume a lot of calories which end up going places I can't ascertain.
I don't have gigantic flabbage hanging from my frame and I don't appear to be the fattest person I encounter either.
Can it be that I simply do not see what is there or it's all visceral accumulation or what?
Perhaps I'll never know. I attribute this lack of visible adiposity to those pills I consume to keep my blood sugar at bay and those lipids lowered and that cholesterol in check.
Should have been far more compliant much earlier. Of course, were my genetics better they would be unnecessary anyway.
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- December 18, 2019
- International Migrants Day 2019
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The United Nations wants international open borders so that any manner of migration is available to all the international terrorist organizations and burdens to society who want to suck any and all countries dry.
On December 18, 1990 their general assemby adopted a International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families toward this end.
This is primarily to achieve a more equalized distrubution of individuals for them to assume control of under the auspices of their Agenda 21/2030 so called "sustainability" agenda which in fact is an attempt to control all the countries people, resources, and lands.
Now then, not being one to support any manner of subterfuge from the democrats similar agendas through the UN who should be routed from the country by any means necessary I'm all for termination of both groups with extreme prejudice as the enemies of the state they are.
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- December 17, 2019
- Pan American Aviation Day 2019
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First flights are pretty nerve wracking. I recall when I took my first from Columbia Metropolitan Airport to Orlando Florida for Navy boot camp. The thrill of acceleration and the angle of ascent were pretty exhilarating for my young podunk self.
I remember similar feelings during the landing. Over the years I became jaded to flying and it was even commonplace in my 40s. Haven't flown in quite a few years since then.
Today is another Pan American Aviation Day. The US Federal observance commemorates the first successful flight of "a mechanically propelled heavier-than-air craft, accomplished on December 17, 1903, by the Wright brothers near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina".
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- December 16, 2019
- A Lack of Human Decency in the Democratic Party
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It is now patently obvious that the democratic party of the United States is without any modicum of morality, substance, or adherence to ethics or the law.
In the absence of all crimes defined as "impeachable" how can impeachment proceedings go forth as a valid legislative procedural methodology.
Everything that the democrats accuse the president of doing are actually the crimes committed repeatedly by democrats trying to affix their wrongdoing to an innocent president.
At what time is it enough to call for "human decency at long last".
Where is our Joseph N Welch calling down these dastardly democrats as he so eloquently cast asunder the evil Joseph McCarthy.
The democrats are the ones guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors ... not The President of the United States.
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- December 15, 2019
- International Tea Day 2019
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My most favorite girl is a tea drinker. She won't drink coffee and has some other specific dietary requirements but each morning I see her sitting at her desk sipping her cup of tea.
She is partial to organic green tea, but is a proponent of the various black teas and breakfast blends as well.
I have been a tea drinker myself. I find myself on a coffee penchant for the past years and perhaps a change is in order.
Today is International Tea Day. It is observed each December 15.
It is held under the auspices of the major tea producing countries and it is a vehicle for promoting the impact of international tea trade on the supply chain growers and workers as well as the citizen consumers in the name of fair trade. Naturally, the UN has stuck their nose into the business via their Food and Agriculture Organization.
I suppose when they attempt the date retarded Agenda 2030 global crack down they will need to swill down tea in mass quantities to get that taste of innocent blood out of their lying thieving and cheating globalist mouths.
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- December 14, 2019
- Monkey Day 2019
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When I was a kid we traveled from Hanahan, SC to Key West FL when my father changed duty stations to the USS Bushnell where he served as Chief Master at Arms.
Along the way there was a smattering of tourist traps and we stopped at a few of them to see what was there.
Among the reptiles and the birds there were various displays of baby monkeys for sale as pets.
I always thought they would make a great pet ... but inasmuch as many of my ideas during that time never panned out as being all that good, in retrospect I figure they too would have been a nightmare of overhead and behavioral problems.
Another Monkey Day is upon us. It's an unofficial international holiday celebrating "monkeys and all things simian".
I read about pet monkeys and chimps and based on those various descriptions I am glad I never went there.
Something about the potential of my best friend getting her face torn off by a pet simply doesn't thrill me none.
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- December 13, 2019
- Steve Buscemi
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One of those character actors who pop up in so many of those forays into film is Steve Buscemi.
He first caught my eye in some of the Tarrantino gems I've watched as well as various other action adventure type attractions which frequent my palate and all-in-all he really has added value to my theatrical experience from a standpoint of plot and comic relief.
It seems that he has played a whole lot more than just those things I've watched. Reading his filmography was an eye opener to someone who "thought" they were familiar with his career.
He was originally from Brooklyn and that seems to come through in many of his portrayals.
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I never knew he was a director until recently. For that matter, there is a whole lot he's about of which I was totally unaware.
He started his career as a New York City Firefighter and his affinity for that work has caused him to keep in touch with those compadres over the year.
I look forward to seeing more of his acting as a matter of personal interest and IMHO he is truly a great multi faceted addition to scripting and acting.
Today is his birthday.
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- December 12, 2019
- Global Warming is a hoax
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On this day in 2015 the Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Agenda 21 farce Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted.
President Trump seeing through the global control called "sustainability" announced that we in the United States withdraw from the Paris Agreement on the hoax called climate change in the Rose Garden on June 1, 2017.
While we have many proponents of the leftist notion that the UN should take us all over and control are people, income, and land use a substantial number seeing past their subterfuge remain and resist the UN and their Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 as the surreptitious take over of the planet they are in actuality. Those scientifically illiterate and educationally misled children like Greta Thunberg need to keep their whiny false flag mouths closed as should Time magazine and the rest of the libtard puppets of globalism and George Soros.
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- December 10, 2019
- Memories of Emily Dickinson
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I have many early memories of Emily Dickinson. It would appear that several of those teachers from my elementary and junior high school years were fans of her art and I read many of her works of poetry.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886
Most notable of these were Mrs Martha Robinson at Horace O'Bryant Junior High School in Key West, Florida during the late 1960s. We read from Dickinson in the English classes she taught in both the seventh and eighth grades.
Mrs Robinson was more tolerant of me than many of the others with the exception of Mr Jack Estol Swinger and Mr C Theodore Sands who were my buddies from the beginning through the bitter end.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She was born in Massachusetts and I came to understand several people from that state intimately and her prominence in that area of the country lead her down the path of education to include Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
Like me, she was pretty much the consummate loner. Like me she was also considered to be eccentric. Throughout these characteristics which excluded guests by and large she was a prolific poet who wrote around 1,800 poems ... though less than a dozen or so of these were published during her lifetime.
So those undiscovered talents remained so during her lifetime and that intellect and wordsmith she commanded was unappreciated by her contemporaries.
Now, things are different. Emily Dickinson had her way with the pen, rhyme scheme, and meter. Having written a fair amount of poetry over the years I can say that her efforts are well worth reading and I have been known to read favorite pieces thoughout my lifetime thus far.
A Man may make a Remark (952)
A Man may make a Remark -
In itself - a quiet thing
That may furnish the Fuse unto a Spark
In dormant nature - lain -
Let us divide - with skill -
Let us discourse - with care -
Powder exists in Charcoal -
Before it exists in Fire -
Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886
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- December 9, 2019
- The Irony of International Anti-Corruption Day
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Today is International Anti-Corruption Day. It has been happening since — get THIS — passage of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption on Halloween of 2003 allegedly to raise public awareness for anti-corruption.
The absolute nerve of this is that the United Nations is the single MOST CORRUPT entity on the planet with their farce Sustainable Development Agenda 21 which was originally designed as the New World Order disguised as "sustainability" to usurp the governments of the world and place the populations and lands under control of some criminal organization under UN control.
It's now Agenda 2030 because the United Nations hasn't been able to pull it off as there are too many on the planet who aren't the stupid dolts they envision as populating the entire world.
Rest assured, Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 are the same attempt to rule the world by the globalist mob called the United Nations.
Too many people fail to understand this plan to control the planet from a 'globalist' perspective and the UN fails to realize how many of us will bear arms against them.
Stop Agenda 2030. Learn about it. Discover the surreptitious surrender of the planet to those criminal elements the UN controls. Get out of the UN and destroy their attempts at domination by any means necessary.
Agenda 2030 is designed to box you up into concentration camps and take your earnings and punish any failure to comply with the wishes of the criminals implementing it upon the Earth up to and including your death if it suits their annointed few.
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- December 8, 2019
- Remembering Slim Pickens
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One of those ubiquitous character actors of my early existence was Slim Pickens. Louis Burton Lindley Jr began in rodeo and became a staple of the various westerns which were characteristic of that era. Two of those roles I remember most fondly were characters in Blazing Saddles and Dr Strangelove.
Slim Pickens
June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983
Louis Burton Lindley Jr aka Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer turned film and television actor. During much of his career, he played mainly cowboy roles and is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr Strangelove and Blazing Saddles.
He passed on this day in 1983 of complications from surgical intervention for a brain tumor. I can still hear his very characteristic voice on occasion and when I encounter him in a old western I am thrust back in time to my childhood to those old days when I had no cares in the world.
I remember the first time I saw Dr Strangelove and his riding the nuclear weapon to the ground after release from the bomb bay. It inspired various thoughts which have ultimately contributed to my "outside of the box" attitudes regarding life and technology.
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