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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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- May 28, 2019
- tor network rejections remain steady
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Tor is freeware that enables anonymous communication on networks. It routes traffic over a free international network with relays all over that conceal a user location and blocks identity from those networks upon which their users might tread.
I have specific policies in place whereby access from tor networks is forbidden on my stuff. I have rules in place to assure this at several levels:
• Firewall rules block subnets known to me.
• Web server rules catch the bulk of the rest.
Very few tor networks escape this redundancy but I notice that the trickle of tor user access attempts haven't abated over the years to the point that I've stopped that bulk of block attempts in favor of letting the existing infrastructure handle the problem.
I'm not so much against anonymous access as I am those exploits too many tor users choose to attempt at my expense.
Sorry, but I'm all done being a sucker for web traffic and I'm happy to block anyone and everyone including google and anyone else out to exploit my sites.
No one else is going to make me their bitch. I don't care who you are.
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- May 27, 2019
- Memorial Day 2019
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Memorial Day 2019
Memorial Day is back with it's marking those lives lost in service to the country. Though it is the unofficial start of Summer; we're already there with most high temperatures in the low 100s already.
My plans include visiting Fort Jackson National Cemetery to pay my respects to my late stepfather. I would also like to travel to Salley SC to visit the grave of my daddy as well.
It's a more somber time than it was in my childhood having lost sigificant numbers of family and friends with military backgrounds.
It doesn't hurt emotionally as much as it has at various times in the past.
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- May 26, 2019
- Nadler Looks Rough in Press Conference
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Delusional chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler appeared weak and looked like he was going down for the count at a presser held by equally hallucinating moron New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Friday morning in Manhattan.
I suppose the stress of spouting the democrat standard bullcrap is starting to wear on his psyche because he looked really bad at the fete.
There's something about that realization that everything you're doing is a facade devoid of reality which can become toxic.
Sometimes it's better for a human to step back and perhaps discard that lack of reality in their lives.
Losing the fantasy aspects in much of my own life did wonders for me.
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- May 26, 2019
- National Paper Airplane Day 2019
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I'm sorry to say that I haven't made a paper airplane since well before the last time I spoke about this subject.
While aerodynamics and creativity are stimulating concerns I'm afraid the workaday world simply does not provide enough time otherwise for these pursuits.
National Paper Airplane Day is one of many observances and is observed each May 26 in the US in commemoriation of these home made toys tossed in elementary schools since time immemorial.
There are even competitions involving the creation and flying of paper airplanes with recorded statistics for posterity.
Not to knock it all, but there simply aren't enough hours in a day.
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- May 25, 2019
- Geek Pride Day 2019
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The word 'geek' has undergone some evolution over the recent past, i.e., during my lifetime. Early on the reference was to social ineptitude or being clumsy and/or possessing distressing social habits.
There were circus freaks labeled as 'geeks' for the horrors they imparted as part of those theatrics meant to repulse the paying customers coming to see them.
Later that parlance evolved into describing others who are accomplished in science or technology ... but retaining the aforementioned social ineptitude.
Be all of this as it may, I was always rejected for being the fat new kid with acne and as such nobody really cared anything about my abilities or lack thereof.
Flash foward to Geek Pride Day.
This celebration of geek culture has never really been my cup of tea, though I am completely immersed in that environment which causes it's existential aspects and have been so for the entirety of my career. The thing originates in Spain back in 2006 and was propagated by the internet into that which exists presently.
A number of technophiles were instrumental in the startup of Geek Pride Day and though some really are into it to a fault; personally I always preferred a paycheck to be my primary source of pride and I'm afraid that the pursuit of the almighty dollar has been my personal motivator throughout my evolution as the consumate subject matter expert and therefore "geek" I am today.
I care not for fifth avenue parades featuring floats centered around prime numbers nor even the Big Bang Theory even though I watched up to the time they became too complicated and tedious with their various love interests and/or whiny lack thereof.
Suffice it to say, I'm a geek and I'm proud — but not for those reasons which might first come to mind.
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- May 24, 2019
- Staycation for Memorial Day
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I'm off for the long weekend. In fact, I stretched it out from 3 to 10 days. It's a difficult matter to contend with everything going on anymore so I'm needing additional down time to recoup my losses of serenity and calm.
This is my second staycation in the recent past.
I don't really have any plans for Memorial Day itself. I think I might visit my father and step father's graves to pay my respects but that's about it.
I'm also probably going to release a little bug spray around the house. Not that there's a problem but I don't want one either. I usually pick a day when I will be out a long while.
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