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September 17, 2019
Ric Ocasek Passed in Manhattan
Ric Ocasek

    
Back in my waining Navy days I encountered a cassette tape called simply "The Cars". I popped it into the player and pretty much became a fan by the time it was through.

I never visualized myself as some new wave freaky deeky with all that bizzare hair and accessorizing but yes ... they had won me over even though I had sold my soul to rock and roll and was a unrepentant metal head up til that point in time.

One of those responsible for my miraculous conversion was one Richard Theodore Otcasek who went by a somewhat abbreviated form of his name Ric Ocasek. Those lyrics and music I found so alien to my existence became something I couldn't do without there for a while.

I wore the tape out and had to buy Jerry a new one. I even bought a new player and some headphones to boot.

Sunday I learned that Rick Ocasek was found dead in his apartment. My musical tastes throughout my lifetime flashed before my eyes in an instant and then I said a little prayer in his memory.

Rest in peace.

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September 16, 2019
Memories of Mary Travers
    MOVING by Peter Paul and Mary
When I was a child there were Peter, Paul, and Mary. They were folk singers in an era which was simpler and less electronic and much more acoustic with melody and harmony holding more weight than some overpowering electric guitar riff or pulsating syncopated drum solo ...

In particular I was enamored with their renditions of Puff the Magic Dragon (my fantasy laden mind certainly would have been attracted there) and If I had a Hammer and Bob Dylan's Blowing in the Wind. Later, there was Leaving on a Jet Plane during my high school years.

Having no political inclinations whatsoever made their music sublime for it was when the apolitical aspects of my manchild's mind departed that I pretty much went my separate ways for the politics sullied their performance art in all my impetuousness and we were estranged for many years in between.

As aging does she suffered the ravages much in the same way it has ravaged me and she evolved into a likeness I may not have recognized had I not been through the process of her disease along with the rest of us following the so-called "pop" culture.

Regardless, she had a valiant go fighting various illnesses and cancer until she succumbed to Leukemia on September 16, 2009 at 72 years of age. She remains a pillar of my musical experience and I have cherished those recordings with which I used to sing right along until shyness overtook my personality around the fifth grade.

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September 15, 2019
International Day of Democracy

Here we have yet another united nations farce based on the supposition that they promote and uphold the principles of democracy when in actuality they support the tenets of controlling the world under the guise of sustainability and wish to effect population control by killing the rest of us.

While they tout the 'value' of democracy their goal is totalitarian rule of the world under the auspices of some global alliance which should be more than just shunned; they should be actively pursued and eradicated from the face of the earth.
 

Agenda 21 is DEATH    

Sustainability is a joke secondary to those costs associated with recycling most materials.

If you can't truly achieve sustainability then there must be some other ulterior motive behind this farce.

Agenda 21 cannot be allowed if the denizens of earth are to survive.

Democracy doesn't matter when the death committee called the UN is allowed to assume control of all the green space no mans land parcels whereby you will be shot on the spot if the UN so-called 'peacekeeper' assassins can get you.

Those of the ilk of the brigand Obama and the bulk of those libtard New World Order traitor bushes and the rest of the democrats would gladly hand you over to them for disposal. After all, they won't be part of the population control themselves ... Get us out of the united nations. Get the united nations out of the US.
 

Tags: politics, weapons, world, endings
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September 14, 2019
Remembering Grace Kelly
I recall the steep cliffside roads along the path from Nice to Monaco when I was travelling while on Liberty in the Navy.

Those steep hairpin curved passages were a bit unsettling for me ... a big brawny raucous man child sailor in the late 1970s. I recall feeling how imposing they were and how they appeared as a wreck waiting to happen.

   Gratia Patricia, Princess of Monaco
Grace Patricia Kelly
aka Gratia Patricia, Princess of Monaco
November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982
Some three years afterward Princess Grace of Monaco was mortally injured on those very roads and it took me quite aback in time to those days they imparted trepidation on my part.

I recall that Prince Rainier was never the same after that point in time. How his former happy and peaceful countenance was replaced with an underlying saddness which radiated from him each and every time I saw him thereafter.

I must say that although I truly believed Grace Kelly to be a beautiful woman, I was not the fan of her film career as were most others around me. Suffice it to say that I was more preoccupied with giant crab monsters and walking tree demons, those things provided by the likes of Shock Theater in the Aragona Village of Virginia Beach, Virginia ... and my childhood tastes were certainly not those quality dramatic portrayals for which she was known.

However, I have always empathized with the Grimaldi family for having to endure their terrible loss. I have always wished each of them well over the years as well.

In the sum total of who we are and what we become it is evident to me that we evolve over time and end up the product of what happens on our watch.

I am a kinder, gentler person because of those impacts the loss of Princess Grace of Monaco had on her signficant others and it has been a tempering factor in that impetuousness which was me.

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September 13, 2019
I broke my rock collection
rock collection    
Appropriate fare for a Friday the Thirteenth;

I have a small collection of polished lapidary stones brought back from Death Valley by my Mom when she went to visit inlaws in Las Vegas with my late stepfather.

This collection holds great sentimental value and had been with me quite a number of years until last Tuesday when it became knocked onto the floor from my desk shattering the clear glass container and fracturing a couple of the stones to my utter dismay.

I was inconsolable for several hours while I pondered my loss in the background while presenting a brave face to my cohorts who heard the glass smash and inquired accordingly.

Having just written a piece on not being a whiny crybaby I felt obligated to 'suck it up' and get on with my life in a fairly rapid fashion.

However, I still feel my attention to detail could use some work as can my situational awareness in light of this clumsy episode of destruction which leaves me feeling without.

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September 12, 2019
National Day of Encouragement 2019
The National Day of Encouragement in the United States was announced in 2007 and occurs each year on September 12.

It is the idea of Mayor Belinda LaForce of Searcy, Arkansas and was enacted as a local observance regarding a lack of encouragement among high school students on August 22, 2007.

Governor Mike Beebe of Arkansas, signed a proclamation making September 12, 2007 the "State Day of Encouragement" for Arkansas with a pretense of coming together and encouraging one another.

    New World Order
President George W traitor Bush signed a message making September 12 an official National Day of Encouragement ...

Likely in support of his daddy's New World Order he and his cousin Barack Obama wanted more than anything in their efforts to ruin the country and give the United Nations control of the populace from Belgium so they could kill us all at will from their green space "No Mans Land" kill zones à la Agenda 21.

Like we were going to take that crap lying down.

The Encouragement Foundation is making plans to get more states involved in the National Day of Encouragement in the future.

National Day of Encouragement can take a flying leap as far as I am concerned along with the Obamas, the Bushes, and their New World Order wishes for the destruction of The Republic.

Want encouragement? Encourage yourself. Quit being some whiny ass high school harry crybaby.

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September 11, 2019
Stupid vs Treacherous Scripting
Well ... I've been mulling over the proclivities of a few search engines of late.

I'm sorry to say that the impressions I've been left with aren't too thrilling.

The sum total of my experiences leave me wanting to bludgeon the back stabbing duckduckgo which claims not to be 'tracking' anyone when in fact it sets cookies for other search engines to exploit; IMHO likely for remuneration.

Then you have the absolute stupidity of bing viz a viz google which is actually a nice piece of work were it not for the background manipulation it does to the user.

So your choices are pretty much endure stupidity and/or be manipulated by search engines out to prey on the uninitiated in an effort to formulate your opinions for you.

Personally, I'm one to type directly into the address bar and I am no fan of the alleged 'default' search engine.

alleged lemmings   
I do not require anyone's research and care not for those attempts, surreptitiously or otherwise to direct my opinions nor my interests in any direction other than those derived from my own life's experiences and background study.

I'm glad I never was one to be a lemming or worse ...

some pied piper rat I encounter so frequently these days.

The search engines only go so far with me because they have simply become untrustworthy.

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September 10, 2019
Commercial Loads Killing Television
    emerson 50 inch led hdtv TURNED OFF

I have started and cancelled cable over the number of commercials they show in an hour.

Likewise, I have run through most major streaming companies and cancelled all of them due to similar commercial loads.

My issue ?

I decline to pay some schmoe to watch a bunch of commercials they're airing.

Heck, I won't sit and watch a bunch of commercials on a free stream either.

The bottom line is there needs to be a different mechanism.

Advertisers are going to lose all but those who won't buy their goods anyway due to a lack of disposable income.

We with disposable income to spare resent your commercials.

Can you say massive DVD and Blu Ray collection ?

Get a clue.
 

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September 9, 2019
California Admission Day 2019
Today is a legal California holiday marking the admission of the 31st state into the United States of America.

Little did we know that the place would devolve into the sanctuary city making law breaking hell hole it has become and that we would all be better off nuking it from orbit ... it's the only way to be sure.

The Compromise of 1850 is that historical event from which this abomination rose into our ranks and after a succession of insipid libtard governors and a variety of equally moronic mayors and such the place is a shambles and likely the next point of leprosy due to the excrement caking the streets, persons populating the nether regions in carboard box houses and tents and a government more concerned with providing illegal aliens entitlements than they are taking care of citizens in their midst.

Hollywood Sign Lettering

Boo California. You may have started off well and lasted such for many years but your downfall has been steadily progressing since the early 1980s with a populace inclined to believe it's okay to be stupid as long as you look good.

Well ... I'm happy to say you're running out of good looks at warp speed and that Hollywood mistique has degenerated into a bunch of leftist toads unable to do anything constructive at all.

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September 8, 2019
I Remember Moondog
Moondog
Louis Thomas Hardin
May 26, 1916 - September 8, 1999
    

When I was in the eighth grade I encountered a brief bio of a fellow called 'Moondog' who was referred to as an eccentric musician and poet from the streets of New York.

This appeared in one of my several literature books of those times and I recall being taken aback by this fellow in Viking garb who appeared highly animated as though engaged in oratory — but likely was reciting some work of poetry he had written.

Later, I learned that he was Louis Thomas Hardin, an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor musical instruments who was blind from the age of 16.

He resided in New York City from the late 1940s until 1972 and was frequently to be found on 6th Avenue, between 52nd and 55th Streets, wearing a cloak and a horned helmet as he impersonated Odin as part of his public persona and schtick.

He would sometimes be busking with a musical instrument and material of his own creation or hawking his music. Other times he would be standing on the sidewalk quietly.

He was known to locals as "the Viking of 6th Avenue" because they were largely unaware of his musical career and proclivities as an inventor.

I never stood in judgement of him because of his eccentricities ... perhaps in part due to those of my own.
 

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September 7, 2019
National Beer Lovers Day 2019
    Glass of Beer
September 7th brings us National Beer Lovers Day, marking the methods and ingredients of zymurgy as it pertains to the brewing of beer ...

In an earlier time and place I would be somewhat more enthusiastic of the day seeing how I used to imbibe with extreme gusto.

Those were my Navy days and the times afterward spanning several years which have now gone by the teetotaler into which I evolved in my post apocalyptic detachment from all recreational mind alteration due to those constraints testing placed upon employment applications.

Now, I certainly don't hold a beer against anyone ever and as long as a person tows the line from a perspective of self control and civil society we will never have any friction at all.

Coming from an environment rich in alcohol abuse during my youth I naturally cultivated a caution with beer.

So many of my high school classmates died from automobile accidents and I recall many drunken forays into those risks one pop top at a time.

So regardless, happy National Beer Lovers Day to you and should you choose to partake try to exercise moderation.

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September 5, 2019
Weather Limbo
Hurricaine Dorian    

So locally we're anticipating some of Hurricaine Dorian today ... not that I "really" think we'll get any significant weather.

It's just that schools will be closing and therefore parents at work will likely need to perform childcare duties.

This leaves me somewhat wondering what the workday will be as I arrive at 6 am and make ready for the day's festivities.

Spoke with Mom and she's cancelling her classes if the weather is too heavy. She will defer this to the last moment.

So regardless I'm hauling my carcass to work because that's where the action is.
 

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September 4, 2019
Remembering Joan Rivers
    Joan Rivers
Joan Alexandra Molinsky
aka Joan Rivers
June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014
I will always remember the acerbic wit of Joan Rivers. She was a controversial American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host whom I came to know when I was quite young.

That rapier wit never failed her and her observations (Michelle Obama is a Tranny) often intrigued me in their circumstantial relevance at the time they went live.

What caught my eye early on is the self deprecation in her material and there was an underlying confidence that shone through it all and I always knew I would like her unconditionally from that early boyhood slug that I was in youth through the early loss of her due to botched medical care a scant five years past.

So much water under the bridge. So much left to say about so many around her. How I wish she were still her to share those insights and that fearless tell it like it is woman she always was.

Joan Rivers meant something to me and my life. She imparted a tolerance for myself that no one else could give me. Rest in peace.

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September 3, 2019
National Welsh Rarebit Day 2019
Welsh Rarebit    

When I was a kid my mom would make us Welsh Rarebit. It was quite a meal and we ate it with great relish over either bread and sometimes dipped crackers into it.

I couldn't get enough of it there for a while. It was the only redeeming aspect of my life in that misery which was Goose Creek, South Carolina and those mean navy chidren of the denizens of that hell hole.

Today is National Welsh Rarebit Day.

Welsh rarebit is a savory traditional Welsh dish.

It consists of a melted cheese sauce with other ingredients which vary depending on the palate of the preparer.

It is served hot over slices of toasted bread and is frequently served as fondue.

The name of the dish translates to "Welsh rabbit" and it originates in Great Britain from about the 18th century.
 

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