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- September 25, 2019
- Non Breaking Up
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A "non breakup" occurs when you put away all thoughts of becoming close to another ... in the absence of any viable relationship whatsoever.
These matters trigger as mechanisms of self protection and sometimes equate to "raising shields" and other trendy froth which substitutes for reactive socialization in our 21st century schizoid world.
My personal preference is to make some decision in such matters from a standpoint of preemptive action and this has worked for me by and large for countless years ...
That pursuit being construed as more personally damaging than anything else in the mix.
So alas, all things come to an end sometimes even before they begin. I'm not one to go overboard anymore. Head over heels passed from my personality all too long ago.
Reality may be somewhat harsh but it's best to just pick up the pieces and move on when sufficient evidence exists to do so.
You can call it self realization, "coming to grips" or whatever floats your boat. I call it reality check.
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- September 24, 2019
- Remembering Dr Seuss
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When I was a child there were the works of Dr Seuss. His books were found in about every school I attended and I read each and every one to the best of my knowledge.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991
I suppose they contributed to my general language skills as I have become an accomplished wordsmith in my advancing age and those were some of my earliest influences.
They likely imparted a punny effect on me as well because I have (and still do) enjoy my various play on word adventures from time to time.
Theodor Seuss Geisel a children's author who engaged in political cartoons and various illustrations as well as poetry, animation and film.
While some of his stuff was decidedly adult fare ... I was one to reject the late labels of racist upon his memory by the left and their cohort of manipulative inciters out to mould the world into some politically correct monstrosity of their liking.
I recall those books and their indigenous vocabularies draped in rhyme scheme as being a different kind of entertainment from that literature I normally consumed in those tender young elementary school years.
Dr Suess was appropriate to my life and therefore he added to my existence and I am far better for having experienced his literary acumen.
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- September 23, 2019
- Autumn Equinox 2019
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I've never had any earthshattering war stories concerning the fall equinox.
I know what it is and when it happens and always look forward to a break in the heat of Summer but that's about it.
So the most use I typically get out of it is a break from the workaday world from a standpoint of extracurricular activities such as the blog.
I suppose that the album Equinox which came out early in my Navy hitch is about my only redeeming virtue when it comes to astronomic history.
Lately we've been seeing cooler evenings and quite frankly I would just as soon have cool weather all year long; but I realize that is far from that reality of life in this area.
The first cold snap has been historically associated with "fair week" which starts next month.
In this area but I note some years the cold weather coming well after the completion of the State Fair, depending on the luck of the draw.
The Autumnal Equinox 2019 marking the astronomical first day of fall will be at 3:50 AM on Monday, September 23rd.
The forecast includes highs in the 90s for days after the event.
Since we are in the Northern Hemisphere we arrive at this moment as the Sun crosses the celestial equator going south and it happens typically on the 22nd or 23rd of September.
Seasons are opposite on either side of the Equator.
Day and night times will roughly (but not exactly) be equal.
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- September 22, 2019
- Christmas 2019 is Coming
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With the advent of the fall season and all that implies I was just approved for a week off for Christmas late last week.
Haven't really made any plans but will likely putz around close in as usual and tend to those matters in and around the home.
I'd like for the season to be somewhat more festive than usual.
It seems that festivity escapes me during the holidays because my mood is low when it should be high, light, and airy.
I'm hoping things will be different this year.
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- September 21, 2019
- Trans persons offense and perception of rights
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Trans rights. There aren't any. If your chromosome configuration is XX you are female. If your chromosomes are in an XY configuration you are male.
The exception to these two truisms are "intersex" individuals; those with mosaic chromosomal configurations whereby there are combination configurations in which case that sexuality is indeed neither "male" nor "female" but a combination in varying proportions of the two.
These terms relate to a "genotype" which all people have and refers to the genetic makeup of individuals as it relates to gender.
Gender and Sex are the same thing in this context.
Another term called "phenotype" refers to the way a person presents themselves outside of their genetic makeup.
You can be XX and present youself as a male with your dress, cosmetics, and even hormonal and/or surgical intervention.
You can be XY and present youself as a female with your dress, cosmetics, and even hormonal and/or surgical intervention.
Phenotype has nothing to do with your genetic makeup and therefore no bearing whatsoever on your gender.
Phenotype is how you present yourself physically and socially.
These two aspects of all of us do not change the facts of our so-caled "transsexuals" who are in denial of their genotype as if it can be suppressed, is malleable, or otherwise may be manipulated by the poor gender dysphoric who believes they are the "incorrect" sex.
A dose of reality is all a person can do to arm themselves against the attacks of a population of individuals so misguided as to their own reality that they can do nothing aside from call names when you take them to task regarding their misunderstandings regarding their own reality and humanity.
Those reactions I have witnessed involve a lot of name calling and misguided anger directed at people who see through the subterfuge which is transsexuality.
My personal views involve acceptance of "what is" and not "what is wished" because changing your gender is simply not possible at this stage of medical science.
Your chromosomes cannot be rewritten in bulk to change your gender despite what you might project as a phenotype and there are always a number of holes in those claims of "passability" which is often used to substitute for "reality".
Transsexual women lament the fact that straight men decline to date them. There are even public calls for this to happen by groups who promote this misnomer.
The reason straight men don't date transexual women is because they are in reality men themselves and this really can't be gotten past by truly "straight" men ... who decline to be homosexual like the so-called "women" who feel entitled to a date.
Were transsexual women not men this issue would not exist.
Attributing what "you feel" as reality is incongruent with humanity. You are who you are regardless of how much you may not like it. Saying you are male or female does not necessarily make it so.
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- September 20, 2019
- Clickbait Everywhere
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I am somewhat apalled at the amount of misrepresented so-called 'informational pages' designed to display as many advertisements as is physically possible before my eyes in lieu of bonafide relevant topical data.
So I have reached the point where I will terminate a page with extreme prejudice rather than view it's deceptive brain dead layout of ad upon ad with a shred of information displayed upon a 'next' button like I'm their go fetch idiot.
I have even started populating my firewall with the subnets containing these sites as a matter of standard operating procedure.
The internet is mine on my terms.
I will not have my experience sullied by some moronic "test" or piecemeal presentation surrounded by brain dead ads designed to fill the coffers of these fakers in our midst.
This disdain is precisely why there will never be ads on my site.
Morons. Those who create these pages and those who pursue their fragmented spam laden presentations.
Boo !
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- September 19, 2019
- Yom Kippur 2019
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I am a gentile. This means I am 'of the nations' and not a Jew, one God's chosen.
Regardless, in my life time some of my best friends have been Jews.
There was Bruce Levy in Navy bootcamp. David Eden aboard the ship upon which I was deployed, the USS MacDonough (DDG-39), as well as Mrs Fran Spill and Dr Lawrence Weiner, a local allergist and his office manager who slid me all manner of side work at a time when I really needed the money.
These people were all blessings in my life, of the Jewish faith, and constitute much of the reason that I observe the high holy days of Judiaism and recognize the Jewish people as important to my life.
I even keep a kippa handy on those days I choose to attend synagogue; but I must admit that they are fewer since the end of my naval enlistment.
Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
It is the holiest day of the year for those of the Jewish faith.
The day involves itself with atonement and repentance and includes about 25 or so hours of fasting, prayer and the synagogue.
Shalom
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- September 18, 2019
- World Water Monitoring Day 2019
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We recently had a notice in the news regarding water quality and the fact that the local supply had acquired a peculiar odor.
The situation was attributed to a natural event called "turnover" and is secondary to the heavy rains of late which has caused increased organic matter to be contained in those water sources we utilize.
Luckily, I distill my drinking water and I suppose the odor is masked by the chlorine used in the local supply.
Today is World Water Monitoring Day. It was established in 2003 by America's Clean Water Foundation as a so-called "global" outreach program ... and has subsequently been named "World Water Monitoring Challenge".
They promote the use of test kits on the local water supplies to mark the anniversary of the US Clean Water Act.
While I won't be participating, I view the entire notion of increased funk in the water, innocuous or not to be grossly unacceptable.
I would wish to opt for better filtration and distillation in the process to ensure as pure a product as can be available.
I'm sure the powers that be could give a rip about what I think.
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- September 17, 2019
- Ric Ocasek Passed in Manhattan
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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
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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
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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.
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.
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- September 14, 2019
- Remembering Grace Kelly
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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.
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.
Grace Patricia Kelly
aka Gratia Patricia, Princess of Monaco
November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982
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
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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
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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.
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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