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- June 16, 2019
- The Ultimate Warrior RIP
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I am not a professional wrestling aficionado.
Over the years, those days with Ricky Gleaton and his dad Mortimo in front of their television in Perry South Carolina during my youth having long gone by I grew apart beginning with the various groups seeking membership in the Actor's Guild.
This being said, in my heyday I would sit in front of that teevee and hoot and holler with Mortimo and Ricky fully engrossed in the show and nothing will replace the fondness in my memory for those days, those guys, and the entirety of it all.
It's a sadder, colder world now with Mortimo and Lula Bell having gone their separate ways and even Ricky went his after parting with Nancy.
One of those characters I never fully engaged due to his relative late arrival viz a viz my viewership was The Ultimate Warrior, aka Dingo Warrior and simply The Warrior having seen primarily clips and promotional spots here and there during breaks from my activities of daily living while engaged as an instructor in the stupid state technical college system.
He was born James Brian Hellwig and was the consumate showman and I loved the rough and tumble mouthy braggadocio and how they incensed the crowd into various stages of uproar.
The Ultimate Warrior died on April 8, 2014, at the age of 54 in Scottsdale, Arizona while walking to his car with his wife.
His final diagnosis was the lifestyle disease atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease which is cause by plaque build up secondary to calcium adhering to the muscular walls of the arterial vessels.
All this being said he was an impressive man who attained the pinnicle of his career several times in the form of championships and what a sad way to go for such a magnificent physical specimen.
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- June 15, 2019
- Global Wind Day 2019
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Today is Global Wind Day designed to celebrate wind energy.
Naturally, anything with "global" in it's title is not only suspect, but ridiculed as far as I am concerned.
Yes I view wind energy as one of those viable alternatives to oil based economy abuse by the military industrial complex.
It would be a fine thing for me personally. I only wish that the global were gone because I'd just as soon develop domestic resources with domestic work for our own people.
This not being the case I choose to observe Global Wind Day as a celebration of our own personal wind, the lowly fart.
Breaking wind is a way to demonstrate that production indigenous to your own orientation and location.
It may be loud, silent, odorless, or deadly.
Global Wind Day I pass gas in your general direction.
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- June 14, 2019
- Flag Day 2019
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I am considerably more patriotic than I was in my earlier adult years.
When I was a child I was blindly patriotic. My awareness of world affairs has tempered my adult attitudes and I must confess a somewhat tainted position on patriotism due to my familiars as well as the realization that "friends" aren't always really "friends" ...
Now, with the advent of the Obama debacle I am more attuned with that which is real and that which is not and I try to be there for my country in spirit and person.
Today is Flag Day — celebrated each June 14 in commemoration of the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by the Second Continental Congress.
It has undergone a bit of evolution with President Woodrow Wilson issuing a proclamation establishing June 14 as Flag Day. On August 3, 1949 National Flag Day was established by an act of Congress.
It is not an "official" federal holiday.
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- June 13, 2019
- Tarrantino to do Star Trek ?
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The news leaves me somewhat stunned ... and I'm already anticipating the F bombs.
I'm wondering if it will be some spin on
"Where no F Word has Gone Before" or
"Swearing ... the Final Frontier".
The previously light on the swearing Star Trek franchise is obviously heading for a little banal debauchery and will either result in some debasement of that franchise or result in it taking a bit of a swoop and a soar.
Time will tell and I will certainly be watching !
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- June 11, 2019
- Timothy McVeigh Executed 18 Years Ago
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I remember the day Army veteran turned domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was executed.
Timothy James McVeigh 1995
April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001
In light of the speedy resolution of the prosecution and his cooperation there almost appeared to be a countdown by the entire country.
This young fellow who colluded with Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier to take out the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building as an act of protest using Ammonium nitrate and nitromethane ignited in a truck parked adjacent to the building.
They acted in retaliation for the Ruby Ridge and Waco siege as well as other government raids ... and elements of US foreign policy.
The devastation was shocking and the maiming of individuals and loss of life to the tune of 168 killed over 680 injured was a difficult matter to comprehend, particularly in light of the fact that the truck was close to a daycare center located there.
His co conspirators didn't get off lightly either. Nichols is serving multiple life terms for his part and Fortier served 12 years and was released.
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- June 10, 2019
- Neal E Boyd
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Neal E Boyd
November 18, 1975 – June 10, 2018
Neal Evans Boyd was a young man from Missouri who became a contestant on America's Got Talent singing opera.
I remember his interaction with the host, Jerry Springer and how sensitive Mr Springer was in his interaction with the young man with tears streaming down his face that he was trying hard to suppress ...
He also did a number of pop selections after winning an emotional third season of that program.
He gave the distinct impression that he was pursuing this for his mama, whom he loved very much.
On June 10, 2018, he passed at the age of 42 in Sikeston, Missouri from what was established to be a combination of heart and kidney failure, compounded by liver disease.
His career was noted by his vocal clarity, presence and projection as well as generosity and extensive donations to charity.
He never forgot who he was or from where he came.
He did all manner of spots for various interests and was an enthusiastic and optimistic citizen of the world and patriot of the United States of America.
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- June 8, 2019
- World Brain Tumor Day
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In my career I have encountered a number of individuals with brain tumors. They exhibited a variety of deficits in sensory and motor skills and all in all they were a heart wrenching bunch with whom to work.
In the medical environment you are supposed to suspend all feelings otherwise and tend to business. This is something I did.
However, that time after work was revisited with events of the previous day and I have to admit an inability to cope with certain aspects of my duties during that off time ... particularly while working with younger persons and children in particular.
It's a difficult matter to stop being a person even though the workaday world requires it. So you do what you can in that regard and try to cry it all out when nobody is looking.
Today is World Brain Tumor Day. Held under the auspices of Deutsche Hirntumorhilfe e.V. (German Brain Tumor Association) which provides information and support to brain tumor patients. It is held as a day of commemoration and tribute to those patients and their families for that difficulty they endure with the course of their illness. The day promotes interdisciplinary approaches to current therapy.
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- June 5, 2019
- World Day Against Speciesism
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Today is the World Day Against Speciesism, said to be a form of discrimination based on which species an individual may have membership.
Now this connotation of increased importance of any species over another is pretty much a human contrivance ... I feel likely created by peta and other faulty rights groups attempting to place human attributes on animals or plants or whatever ...
I personally feel that man was endowed with dominion over the Earth and that includes all animals in compliance with those laws layed out in Leviticus.
The entirety of "The day being designed to remind people that speciesism, like racism and sexism, has no place in a civilized society." is about as faulty as someone telling me I can't have a piece of meat or partake of vegetables because even though they are of lower phyla in the big scheme of things I should treat them as equals.
There are companion animals. There are food animals. Some animals cross boundaries and are companion animals up to that point food becomes scarce.
At any rate, peta can take a flying leap and I don't partake of attributing high order attributes to lesser species.
Food animals are simply that. Food.
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- June 4, 2019
- Memorials for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
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I remember the Tianamen Square protests.
I remember the young man facing down the tank which attempted to go around him.
I saw the aftermath which consisted of individuals who were smeared upon the pavement by the weight of tracked vehicles ordered to run them down.
I remember the martyrs of democracy in China and how it made absolutely no difference.
This is the same type situation the democratic party would force upon The Republic were we to permit it.
So on this day when we take pause to remember the recurring atrocities of the Chinese government in power we should always remember that ruthlessness with which they treat their own people and surely we will never be treated better in our interactions.
This is why there is theft of intellectual property. This is why there is hacking and the pilfering of whatever may be there. Only now are we realizing that the bulk of our internet infrastructure is produced by the Chinese.
How stupid can we be in the long run?
I'm neither organizing nor participating in any memorial projects regarding the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests which ultimately led to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
However, I still remember.
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- June 2, 2019
- Reminiscing about John Pruett's recent Birthday
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I've been reflecting on my late stepfather, John Pruett because his birthday was last May 30.
He had his idiosyncratic ways about him, as we all do but he was a good man and took me as his own at a time when I was mostly foundering, adrift in a multitude of mistakes.
It was his idea to apply for my present job ... even though my supposed "best" friend at that time said I would never be hired.
That only goes to show you that you should pick your advisors with extreme care.
The road is populated with those who know nothing except the mainstream media party line — which has proven itself to be largely faulty with the advent of Trump and the collusion and subterfuge of governement officials pursuing political agenda on our dime.
Alas, John has been gone since January, 27 2016 and each successive day we all seem to miss him more.
But rather than wish for him to be back here with us it is more suitable to await our turn to be with him whenever that time might come.
No man knoweth the hour.
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
Matthew 24:36
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- June 1, 2019
- June 2019 is Here
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We're now in June ... one of those 30 day months. It's the month in which my dear mother was born and as such has great personal sentiment.
June is the month in which summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere. The summer solstice goes down Friday, June 21st this year.
The specialists have their own variations on the start of summer.
The meterologists make the call at June 1.
The astronomers, June 21. I also view the summer solstice as the actual start of summer.
Call me old fashioned.
The astrologists say that at the start of June the sun rises in the constellatiuon Taurus and at the end of June the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. Precession of the equinoxes ... i.e., the shifting of the axis of the earth during it's rotation results the the sun being in the astrological sign of Gemini, ending in the astrological sign cancer.
I've never placed a lot of store in astrology and my friends who do tell me that I am typical for my particular sign ... Aries but I'm afraid that that's an area into which I cannot delve otherwise because I don't even think the name of the my "sign" is spelled correctly.
So there you have it. June is here. I'm glad it's June but the summer has taxed me greatly with my preference for cooler temperatures. Be all of this as it may I don't get to pick any of these celestial events nor would I really want to be able to do so.
Suffice it to say that June is here. Welcome June and I don't want to wish anyone's life away but I look forward to November as well.
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- May 31, 2019
- World No Tobacco Day 2019
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World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed annually on this date internationally.
It's primary focus is that of a vehicle by which a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe may be encouraged.
Furthermore, the day purports to draw attention to the widespread prevalance of tobacco use and it's deleterious health effects which include second hand smoke disease impacts.
This day was encouraged by the World Health Organization and like so many worthless projects run by the United Nations the day has been ineffective because smokers are smoking regardless of those consequences to their health and the health of others.
It's about as useful as the "Just Say No" campaign which became known as the "War on Drugs" which did absolutely nothing except make the problem worse.
Politicians and the UN need to get out of these things which are so obviously beyond their scope and to which they may only rise to their level of incompetence.
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- May 30, 2019
- Staycation Winding Down
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So I'm on the home stretch of my staycation.
Got a lot done.
Have a lot more to do.
It's a difficult matter to tend to business pursuits while at work so this time off has been useful for handling those things on my plate —
Some of which become protracted during their course of completion.
My "time off" as it were ends on Friday.
I will have a remaining weekend to try and recover fully prior to my return on June 3.
However, this being said I'll be ready to jump back into those projects upon my return.
In the immortal words of comic Steven Wright, "life's a bitch and then you die".
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- May 29, 2019
- The EU has seen better days
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It seems that the core of the EU is abandoning this notion of being subjugated by the Rothschilds and Belgium in favor of a nationalist lean whereby they control their own destiny without submitting to the UN and their need to control jurisdictions far above their meager existences ...
Yes, the globalists are finding their numbers diminishing because that utopia they profess simnply dosen't exist and people are learning the true meaning of Agenda 21 which they attempted to evolve into another vehicle of world domination.
It would seem that the world isn't quite as stupid as the globalists would like.
So as Brussels becomes increasingly isolated and the UN is finally starting to get theirs all I can say is GOOD. This business of third world nations trying to impart their taint of utter stupidity is really more than one might be able to tolerate.
The left. The democrats. The crooks that would siphon the finances of the world into their own coffers and leave the remaining people without their own funds are being found out.
Turd billionaire George Soros has not been successful in his attempts at financing the subterfuge at a sufficient level. Serves the nazi bastard right.
All he could do is sell out the Jews. The rest of us wouldn't go quietly into the night.
These stupid leaders of countries who would lead their people down that primose path of slavery to the European Union are finally getting theirs.
Sovereignty of nations assures that those resources, products, and finances are owned by the proper individuals ... not some criminal organization in Brussels.
To HELL with the Rothschilds. BOO to the EU.
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