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October 22, 2019
International Stuttering Awareness Day 2019
    International Stuttering Awareness Day
I've known a few stutterers in my day. Most of them took it all in stride and we never made a big deal out of the occurrences nor was any indicated.

As long as you can make your point if the route gets a little circuitous what does it matter among friends.

Others have severe problems with stuttering. Persons such as this will sometimes acquire neurotic habits as the result and really and truly I'm okay with how they feel about it as well.

Today is International Stuttering Awareness Day. The day stems from that one percent of the world population said to have a stuttering problem ... which they describe as a speech disorder.

As for me, I would never wound the psyche of another over the issue of stuttering and I understand there are various levels of the problem with some of the more severe likely to impart a hesitation in social situations.

I welcome communication from all people. If you stutter I view it as 'character' more than anything whereby you impart your distinctiveness to the interaction.

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October 21, 2019
Robot Judges in AI Courts
Quintesson Judge from Transformers The Movie    
I've read a number of threads touting robot judges and jurors for their lesser degree of fallability, total lack of sympathy, and other machine type aspects which could be applied to jurisprudence in the near future.

The adoption of a "device" to pass judgment on a human being troubles me personally to no end.

Perhaps it's due to the fact that I know bias which is supposedly absent could be coded into these mechanisms without the general public even being aware ... and it's a proven scenario in social media that dirtbag programmers will bias their algorithms in accordance with whomever is paying the bills regardless of what the hairball billionaire owners like Mr Zuckerberg, Mr Bezos, and that ubiquitous peckerhead Mr Gates and his nasty indian acolyte Mr Nadella might say otherwise.

Nay, I decline to support AI jurisprudence and would never willingly submit to a decision from some program written by programmers to decide my fate. We simply don't live in an objective world anymore and anything can be coded in the mix.

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Just look what India has done to Adobe. Their product line has devolved to an abomination due to these influences.

Don't let some Indian American programmer be involved in my life at any level. Don't let some Russian decide my legal fate either. The domestic varieties are no better anymore. We need to cultivate a higher degree of ethics in the area of code and I don't really think it's possible.

Where's Larry Lessig when you need him?

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October 20, 2019
World Statistics Day Preview

When I was a kid I had no end of trouble with mathematics. Those problems snowballed throughout elementary and secondary educations until after then Navy when I discovered I was a wiz with algebra with words.

So I became this 'natural' of an applications programmer doing primarily high level stuff until I branched out into AI with list processing using Franz and Common Lisp after a brief spate of Turbo Prolog.
 

STATS    

My initial work in PL/1 made it all possible and indeed, during the xBase years I became a legend in my own mind. I learned how to shift datasets on the fly, cook books, and amass great volumes of statistical data like it was a walk in the park.

So today is the date of World Statistics Day. It went down for the first time in 2010. An international observance, it is celebrated every 5 years.

Though I don't see the reason for the increment, the "actual" next World Statistics Day will be celebrated on October 20 2020. I'm cool with this early trigger finger because it actually means something to me in all the democrat nothingness in my surroundings.

The statistics are telling on the democrats with their numbers diminishing steadily because of liars like Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, and Nadler. The party becomes it's own worst enemy.
 

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October 19, 2019
Blood Pressure Pill Hell
    Human Heart

I have high blood pressure. It's likely due to my corpulence and frequent lapses in good dietary practices ...

But I try to maintain a steady compliance with my medicine in an attempt to avoid any undue sequela of my less than optimal genetic makeup.

So my physician added a second pill in the recent past to the other two I was already taking. It has a different action and by and large there have been no untoward side effects.

Aside from the usual "blood pressure pill hell" I sometimes get myself into when I take the drugs on an empty stomach or drink excessive amounts of coffee and such.

So with the intense urgency is my perception of some 'bladder proximity alert' which appears to fire when I arise from my desk and my travels bring me close to a rest room.

The urgency kicks in full force for some unforseen reason.

Be all of this as it may the alternatives are quite grim in the prognosis department for those who don't comply with blood pressure meds.

This being the case I suppose I shall simply abide.
 

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October 18, 2019
I hate STUPID web sites
Amazon does business with Forked Tongue    

I hate a stupid click bait web site. These sites with preconceived notions of what you're supposed to do when you go there.

These little pop up apps which are supposedly guiding you through a visit as though you're there to compare their wares like some trained monkey before you plop down your plastic and let them fleece you.

Chalk it up to the millennials. They are the ones some of these site are expecting to see. Engaging a customer with half a brain doesn't even cross their creativityless dullard minds.

Like Amazon. Remove your payment card and they rig your accounts so they may never be used again. Like the payment card industry standards don't matter when they conflict with their uppity retail retard policies.

... And the UTTER stupidity of those liar representatives they employ is becoming legendary.

So I'm satisfied to do my shopping in more brick and mortar establishments. These web experiences grow more and more banal and obtuse with the absolutely required tedium and underhandedness as every day passes.
 

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October 17, 2019
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2019
    Apocalyptic Girl in Casket Painting Denver Airport
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is marked each 17th of October since it's incept in Paris, France in 1987.

The United Nations officially designated October 17 as The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

They have a solution. It's called Agenda 21 which has become Agenda 2030 since they couldn't make it happen when originally planned.

In the name of sustainability they will just kill all of the people they deem as in violation of their unilateral dictate of "rules".

Read. Understand. Act.

We are not the property of the UN.

Get us OUT of the UN.

Get the US out of the UN

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October 16, 2019
Pope John Paul II Day 2019
Karol Wojtyła Pope John Paul II    
In Poland, today is Pope John Paul II Day. On each 16th of October the people celebrate the election of Karol Wojtyła as Pope.

I have had my problems with the Catholic church, particularly since the death of Pope Paul II.

I feel that the leadership of the Catholic Church has been in a downward spiral with a bunch of the weakest most inconsequential leaders who have effectively amounted to no leadership.

The so-called replacement 'vicars' of Jesus Christ do not even exhibit adequate knowledge of the Word of God.

IMHO Pope John Paul II ascended to the papacy after the murder of John Paul I by a cardinal in the church itself.

He lead the church with a strength and pious example which commanded respect from the world.

His departure was a sad day for the Catholic Church from which they never overcame the utter lack of leadership they have suffered ever since.

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October 15, 2019
Global Handwashing Day 2019
Those who know me realize that I'm not a 'global' anything. The 'globalist' movement and it's Agenda 21 under the auspices of the United Nations who would exert total control of us from their Belgian stronghold will have to kill me to gain my compliance with them.

For I am first and foremost a patriot and decline any form of domination by any Rothschild or Bohemian Grove nasty or the United Nations period.

    Global Handwashing Day
I am however what you might call a 'hygiene freak'. I'm one of those people who will get in the shower and hang out for 20 or so minutes at the drop of a hat. I do this in an effort to be clean and fresh and it is not a reflection on anyone else in my midst.

It's purely something I do for myself.

Today we have yet another Global Handwashing Day.

The day is observed each 15th of October and is designed to promote the use of soap and water in an effort to improve the personal hygiene of the world.

There are a number of critical times handwashing should occur such as after using the toilet, prior to eating, and of course ... anytime one might have compromised cleanliness due to interaction with the environment.

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October 14, 2019
Friday at the Fair
So the end of last work week found me at the fair. I went with a friend who masqueraded as my sugar momma but that had a few unforseen circumstances which were somewhat "less than optimal" to say the least.

The sun was beating down and I thought the temperature must be approaching 100° in October. It all precluded that lingering for which I had been yearning and it put the kybosh on any photography which I had also envisioned early on.

Upon entering the joint she got in for free with her ID and then she went so far as to get me a "senior" discount ... much to my whining disappointment.

I think she may have done this as an act of revenge for making her the banker.

So we went through most of the buildings and I wanted to see more in the way of sand carving and plants but the art section was pretty much everything I remember.

SC State Fair

The buildings we walked through were generally unfamiliar and the bathroom access could have been much better with the sunburnt bald head of mine and all.

We encountered two colleagues from work who had arrived that morning at 4:00 am in service to Breast Cancer Awareness Day. They were of good cheer and tolerating the heat much better than I.

So we got a lemonade which was quite good and wet and cold. The french fries were somewhat smaller than I remember but they were good too. I skipped the sausage and other things I spoke of when planning the excursion and really, I was okay with it all.

We had a walk around the midway and the large ferris wheel was really a sight to behold. The main attraction I wanted to ride was the double decker merry go round until I saw it. It was some 25% of the size I expected so I passed on the adventure.

The bottom line here is that after 22 years (last visit was in 1997) I came to the realization that the more things change the more they stay the same and I guess I'm good for another 22 years.

To top it all off I lost the truck in the parking lot. Yes, I could have brought the fob with the panic button. My sugar momma took it all in stride and hasn't told me she hates me yet ... but I'm very embarassed by it all nontheless.


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October 13, 2019
No Bra Day 2019
Kat Denning as Max on 2 Broke Girls    
It's No Bra Day which is held yearly since 2011 and is typically included in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There is a world wide contingent of observers and has been related to "Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day" from which it originates.

Now I'm not one objectify others nor knock anyone for their choice of garments and do I generally refrain from the ogle of every bodacious set of ta ta's I encounter. If you want to go braless I suppose it's between you and your garments.

Some ladies get serious backache from the pendulous nature of the female breast and as a man ... though I like the pendulous stuff I'm more attuned to the health issues therein.

Breast health, though predominately a female issue is also a male problem from a standpoint of cancer. So if you want to go braless I I think it's your perogative and that decision should be free from any manner of undesirable scrutiny on the part of others..

After all you need to project that awareness indigineous to your personality and you should have the right to go forth into the community without being sujected to excessive input from some one less initiated to the female requirements in that particular area.

So have yourself a merry little No Bra Day regardles of how they may be situated in your own foundation garments ... or lack thereof.

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October 12, 2019
Crowleymas 2019
    Aleister Crowley
Proponents of a 'religion' known as Thelema founded by English occultist, writer and generally nasty human being Aleister Crowley celebrate his life on this day.

Known as the "feast for the life of Aleister Crowley" it celebrates the giver of "the law" said to be given to him from an entity named Aiwass which subsequently became the foundation of this so-called religion and philosophy of his creation called Thelema.

Now, while he has proponents thoughout the world claiming he is a seer and posessing extraordinary paranormal abilities and powers; the sum total of my readings have lead me to believe he is mostly just a pervert with some of the nastiest proclivities I've ever had described in writing and I could never be his acolyte nor hold him in any level of esteem ... much less reverence.

I consider any notion of following his teachings as some misguided set of pseudoreligious 'tenets' utterly abhorrent.

But it's (mostly) a free world and if you're one of those who follow Thelema hold Aleister Crowley in some semblance of respect and/or admiration by all means go for it.

I, on the other hand, choose to ignore the day by and large having discharged my duty to bring what I feel to be the works of an utter charlatan to light.

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October 11, 2019
National Coming Out Day 2019
It's National Coming Out Day a day that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer individuals celebrate the act of 'coming out' i.e., making their "status" known to the world.

Now, I know fags who are in, I know others who are out and still others who are WAY OUT ... and suffice it to say that I attempt to maintain some semblance of humanity about me when interacting with them.

Many of my deviant cohorts dislike the fact that I believe that homosexuality is a sin that violates the laws of the one true God as stated in Leviticus ... such as those populating Sodom and Gomorrah United Methodist Church.

However, being who YOU are comes with the liability that I may remain who I am and it's not negotiable.

How I feel is often suppressed in the name of civil comportment and indeed I actually have homosexual and other deviant friends whose company I enjoy HOWEVER ...

This being said I also don't knock others who hold disdain for the bloody lifestyle and I don't hate anyone for being queer.

Like I said. I suppress my attitudes toward the act of gaiety in human beings because I feel we need to try and get along.

Those notions that I am supposed to feel bigoted because I don't view being homo as a human right is neither here nor there .

So happy National Coming Out Day you fudge packers and carpet munchers. To each their own ... including me.

LGBTQ Shotgun

I must note here that the 'PC Police' at work got me and had me remove choice statements from the text lest I incur trouble.
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October 10, 2019
K-Mart in West Columbia SC is Closing
blue light special no more ...
Closing K-Mart Store in West Columbia SC
The K-Mart at 1500 Charleston Hwy, West Columbia, SC 29169 along with the other two last K-Marts in South Carolina are closing.

Such ends the one in West Columbia which was a pillar of my childhood.

The store has been in decline as evidenced by the hot August days where the doors were all open with the air conditioning going full blast.

Then there were the several times I witnessed young local men remove their old beat up shoes, place them in a box from which he had just placed new shoes on his feet then departed bypassing the cashier.

I feel that the fundamental issue with K-Mart in South Carolina has been good management — or actually a total lack thereof.

Had the chain instilled good management into their stores they likely would not be closing now.

It's a sad tale of incompetence, poor judgement, and criminal activity which likely dulled the competitive edge to a state of nothingness.

That's what they get for hiring no character inept management just because that's all they could get in South Carolina.

So much for the Blue Light Special in my home town. I used to shop at the location there since I was a kid.

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October 9, 2019
Another moment in time
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Robert Kennedy

Charlie Brown and the Little Red Headed Girl

Close To You

Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be close to you.
Why do stars fall down from the sky, every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be close to you.

On the day that you were born the angels got together.
And decided to create a dream come true.
So, they sprinkled moon dust in your hair
And golden star-light in your eyes of blue.
That is why all the boys in town follow you all around.
Just like me, they long to be close to you

On the day that you were born the angels got together.
And decided to create a dream come true.
So, they sprinkled moon dust in your hair
And golden star-light in your eyes of blue.
That is why all the boys in town follow you all around.
Just like me, they long to be close to you
Just like me, they long to be close to you

Lyrics Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Performed by The Carpenters




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