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- April 11, 2019
- Julian Assange arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London
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Since 2012 he was attempting to avoid extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault that have since been dropped.
Now, he's up on US federal conspiracy charges related to one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets and the UK will decide whether he is extradited for conspiracy with former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning to download classified databases.
Normally I'm a straight law and order "you do the crime you do the time" kind of guy.
However, given the pardon the brigand Obama gave to this sick bird Bradley Manning I'm reticent to wish to see Assange prosecuted on those charges Manning escaped ... at the hands of a stupid chief executive the ungrateful wretch had the audacity to bad mouth public and messy afterwards.
Leave it to the United States to cultivate a situation so screwed up as to allow the wrong person to be prosecuted.
Manning is the criminal here. Assange was merely practicing journalism.
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- April 10, 2019
- Siblings Day 2019
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Well, another Siblings Day is upon us and I am taking time to lament the exceedingly distant relationships I have with all of mine.
The day is recognized regionally but not federally and there is a promotional foundation said to be devoted to making the day more of a "mainstream" event.
I have so many coworkers who are close with their siblings and the thought that I have no relationship with mine used to get me down.
Nowadays, it's simply the way things are and I haven't allowed it to faze me for decades.
Regardless, I hope your relationship with your siblings is far better than that nonexistent one I have.
Happy Siblings Day to you.
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- April 9, 2019
- National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day 2019
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Today is the National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day and represents those individuals who did battle for their country and were captured and imprisoned.
The National Prisoner of War Museum in the United States is appropriately housed at Andersonville National Historic Site at Andersonville, Georgia. Anyone with a grasp of United States history is aware of the horrors of this place during the Civil War and those atrocities committed therein.
The bottom line regarding former prisoner of wars deserve our utmost appreciation and should be honored as those protectors of The Republic they are.
I have always wondered how my behavior would evolve under circumstances of imprisonment as an enemy combatant during war time. Being the rather non compliant horses ass I was during my military stint otherwise it is likely that I would have found myself executed under such conditions.
I'm not one to take mistreatment laying down.
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- April 8, 2019
- Draw a bird day 2019
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- April 8, 2019
- International Romani Day 2019
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I am not aware of ever meeting a gypsy. All I have seen is photographs and I have always found the distinctive apparel, hairstyles, makeup, and jewelry to be impressive.
There have been anecdotal accounts related to me by various others regarding interactions with gypsies but I don't place a lot of substance to anecdotal evidence being a child of the scientific method I prefer to evaluate the "evidence" for myself.
The gypsies are also known as the Romani who are their people referred to by the name they prefer. Their language is called Romany and I try to differentiate between the two out of cultural respect.
Today was set aside in 1990 at Serock, Poland to celbrate the Romani culture and take note of those issues with which they contend in society.
Gypsy
So I'm back to the velvet underground
Back to the floor that I love
To a room with some lace and paper flowers
Back to the gypsy that I was
To the gypsy that I was
And it all comes down to you
Well, you know that it does, well
Lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice
Oh and it lights up the night
And you see your gypsy
You see your gypsy
To the gypsy
That remains
Her face says freedom
With a little fear
I have no fear
I have only love
And if I was a child
And the child was enough
Enough for me to love
Enough to love
She is dancing away from you now
She was just a wish
She was just a wish
And her memory is all that is left for you now
You see your gypsy, oh
You see your gypsy
Ooh ooh, oh oh, oh oh oh
Goodness strikes
Maybe once, maybe twice
And it all comes down to you
Ooh oh, and it all comes down to you
Lightning strikes
Maybe once, maybe twice (oh)
I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes
(And it all comes down to you)
Stevie Nicks
© Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd
BMG Rights Management
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- April 7, 2019
- National Beer Day 2019
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Once upon a time I would regularly partake of a brewski. I could down a beer with the best of them after leaving active duty in 1979.
Nowadays I don't imbibe much to speak of. I will have a beer if it is offered socially but the end of my drug culture days pretty much marked the end of my beer drinking as well.
National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7.
This is the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act which legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% was enacted after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933.
This led to the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition being repealed on December 5, 1933, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which ended prohibition.
April 6, the day prior to National Beer Day, is commonly referred to as New Beer's Eve.
National Beer Day was first created in 2009 by one Justin Smith of Richmond, Virginia who was instigated by a friend of his and the whole mess centers around a social media campaign and ending up being recognized by Virginia politicians and pretty much unofficial recognition by the rest of us.
As for me ... I can't say I won't ever down another one it's just not that frequent indulgence it once was.
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- April 6, 2019
- National Tartan Day 2019
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Saturday April 6 is National Tartan Day in the United States. Clothing featuring tartan plaid is often worn by Scottish Americans taking part in National Tartan Day.
While I don't consider myself Scottish American, but am of Scottish extraction on my mother's side of the family.
Locally there is a big annual celebrtation called Tartan Day South. The have events which run the full gamut of traditional highland games of strength, bag pipes, celtic festival activities, food, and fun.
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- April 5, 2019
- Pursuing the Kinder and Gentler
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Vicious. This is how I always characterized myself. Pursuant of the fray, scrappy all the way — and ready to beat your ass at a moment's notice.
I was as contrary as contrary could be in the name of argumentativeness and making some vague point even I couldn't recall oftentimes later.
All that played well when I was a young man. Now that I'm older I have to take a more tolerant attitude lest I get my old decrepit butt kicked regularly. You see, we can't joke about certain things at different junctures in our existence and I definitely feel that my badass phase ended some time ago.
So now I'm this 'keep to myself' introvert with a gregarious streak and I can hold down a conversation regarding most topics without losing my cool or actually exposing my innermost attitudes because I have years of practice.
These gloaming years have imparted a certain acceptance for some things while leaving me adamantly opposed to a lot of new others which I consider immoral or counterintuitive or even criminal ... democrats.
Yet I am left with the distinct feeling that were a life and death conflict to ensue that I still might prevail. Being highly practiced at headshots taken from 300 feet has left a tinge of confidence which won't leave willingly.
For I am a white man. Not privileged. Just opinionated. My opine comes with a fully loaded .357 magnum at the ready and as long as you maintain your space I'll maintain mine and leave you alone.
Tread lightly around the US Constitution, save your thralling acumen regarding the inevitability of the new world order ... and most definitely keep your sharia to yourself.
You cannot fool me and the United Nations will never rule me. Neither will the likes of the European Union, anyone in Brussels nor anyone named Rothschild. I prefer to refrain from becoming a fool's fool like the pawns of George Soros, nazi pawn and the enemy of the United States of America.
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- April 4, 2019
- How do I love thee
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That intense feeling of deep affection known as love has eluded me by and large throughout my lifetime.
Though I haven't really pursued it; those times I did engage it were fraught with misgivings and regrets and simple longing to be free of the tentacles of some equally misguided female.
Then there are other situations where I was left with nothing but regrets for not having pursued what was definitely there.
And always, there is that company with which I end up and far too many simply are less than suitable as well.
All I ever wanted was someone I could talk to that attempted some level of understanding and by and large what I got was "do you dig where I'm coming from ?" ...
So I am content to puruse those entertainment choices with the significant others in my life and forget the notion of soulmates, sharing my life with another, or even anything far from those various indulgences I handle with remuneration.
It's a life and I'm satisfied with how things have turned out regardless. Far better to be alone than entwine with someone less than adequate in the scheme of personality, intellect, and comportment.
Sonnet 43
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- April 3, 2019
- National Burrito Day 2019
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The first Thursday in April gives us National Burrito Day.
I have a real penchant for eating burritos.
Even though I had to give up going to the local Taco Bell because of their rude ass bitch employee I still partake at the other establishments nearby.
Taco Bell just "thinks" it's the only show in town.
So my tortillas rolled around a filling, typically of beans or ground or shredded beef with guac and various other condiment items now typically come from either Salsarita's or La Fogata as they are particularly close ...
And both provide highly satisfactory replacements for what used to be my beef burrito supreme fix.
So in 2019 April 4 is National Burrito Day.
I hope you'll partake of a serving at your favorite establishment serving such fare and if it's Taco Bell I hope you avoid the rude cow of an employee at 2353 Augusta Road in West Columbia SC.
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- April 1, 2019
- April Fools Day 2019
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- March 27, 2019
- Sleep, America, and Me
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Well, various studies have been touting the value of sleep and saying that American's simply don't get enough.
Furthermore, they indicate a certain disdain for slumber as an essential activity and say it needs to be both routine and a priority.
It is said that cardiovascular disease and other maladies of the human body are directly related to a lack of sleep and that the notion of "you can sleep when you're dead" has some of us headed precisely there.
It is further indicated that "make up sleep" as is sometimes a weekend activity simply does not substitute for that regular implementation of sleep as an activity of daily living.
Now me, I'm afraid I don't have any issue with sleeping.
In fact, I likely exist as some deviant exception to the rule and likely I'm in in a state of having too much sleep.
This happens as the result of going to work and arriving home afterwards early ... then scarfing up a goodly nap to awake to a full evening still available.
This was my life for several years at a job I gave up for the abuse of a Persian monster.
I likely will not suffer the weight gain, increased inflammation, as well as behavioral and cognitive problems to include depression, anxiety, as well as impaired memory function. I do indeed suffer the Type 2 diabetes and shook the smoking and substance abuse long ago.
So sleep ... I get a lot of it. It sounds much like I'm the exception to the rule here in the United States.
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- March 23, 2019
- World Meteorological Day 2019
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Today is World Meteorological Day. Observed each March 23rd it commemorates the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization March 23, 1950.
It's primary focus includes those contributions of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to the benefit of society with various international activities.
This year's theme is the Sun, the Earth, and the Weather.
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- March 22, 2019
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Andrew Lloyd Webber aka Baron Lloyd Webber is a British composer with long running musicals, film scores, and various recordings to his credit.
One of my particular favorites is his album, Variations, which I first encountered in the Navy courtesy of young FTM2 Michael Lawyer ...
who was quite the electronics head I might add —
and the album has remained high in my list of all time favorites since that time.
He has a wide range of eclectic offerings which vary from operatic through avant garde and has received innumerable accolades and awards from his peers and the world at large.
He was born on this day in 1948. Happy birthday to you !
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