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- May 8, 2019
- World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
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Today is World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day and is a reference to what is now the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Society.
As I recall the Red Cross, be it American, International, or whatever other jurisdiction under which they may operate is an assistance vehicle which deals with catastrophies and such internationally.
They have a definite "leftist" orientation and organize fringe group support happenings such as those with alternate relationships, gender dysphorias, and such and this has pretty much placed me at odds with a mechnism for the continuation of what I view as human stupidity.
Be all of this as it may I am always for assistance to the down trodden and victims of catastrophic events.
However supporting the psycho orientation du jour just because it's this trendy indoctrination component picked up by the public education systems of the world is quite a bit much for me personally.
So I will remain conflicted but the red cross emblem no longer inspires the same warm and fuzzies I used to feel when thinking about them.
I don't go for enablers of deviant behaviors and IMHO this is too much of what they have become.
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- May 7, 2019
- Alexa has been eavesdropping on owners from the beginning
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So you like the idea of a digital personal assistant because it makes you feel all high tech and such.
Alexa, that virtual digital assistant developed by Amazon for its Amazon Echo and Echo Dot line of computing devices has a back end engine running on Amazon Web Services in the cloud.
This imparts an ability for it to learn an individual or family's preferences and expand its functionality over time.
The news threads are reporting that it has been eavesdropping on it's owners from the beginning.
You poor sheeples.
It's kind of like video poker. Anything that will back itself against a wall and take on the world cannot be beat. So Alexa has been providing various data sets about you and yours to whatever stores have been provisioned by it's masters and you have had no informed consent nor can anything be done stop or expunge your record.
This is why I use diagonal cutters, superglue, and tape to disable those microphones placed in consumer electronics against my will and limit wireless network access to assets in my environ. I rule the roost around here technologically.
The rest of you may continue to allow these creators of various bugging devices to steal your personal secrets for their personal wealth acquisition.
And through my suspicious nature and constant vigilance of evolving technogies, I hate to keep repeating this, but I told you so ... repeatedly and long ago.
The consequences are not yet fully known too.
Shame.
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- May 6, 2019
- International No Diet Day 2019
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Piggies rejoice ! Today is International No Diet Day (INDD) and is devoted to the celebration of body acceptance along with the various shapes of bodies on the earth ...
And incidentally the promotion of a healthy body and self image.
They make mention to those unrealistic fashion models who must starve themselves to get work.
They note the dolls with which children play presenting the same imagery with which the children grow up with bad bad body images and subsequent diminished self esteem.
Initially celebrated in the UK in 1992 various feminist groups have latched on in an effort to focus on the fact that fat dykes need loving too.
So if you're a sow or a lovely gilt in waiting or a boar or even a dapper young barrow today is your day. Woo pig souie to youie.
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- May 5, 2019
- Cinco de Mayo 2019
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Another fifth of May celebration to suffer through.
What was once one of my days to howl has become a dismal day of disdain for Mexico, illegal immigration, and hispanics who are out to get over because of those billboards erected by the democrats offering all manner of entitlements to those who are not entitled.
It's amazing just how irresponsible governments and people can be in this day and age.
Particularly those who want something for nothing or to gain control of a government by underhanded subterfuge and dishonesty.
Boo Mexico. Boo Cinco de Mayo.
Boo democrats.
Boo hispanics looking for a handout.
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- May 4, 2019
- National Bird Day 2019
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I try to attact and feed birds in my yard. I sometimes suffer bombardment by various clumps of droppings which strike my truck and sometimes make me preturbed with birds in general.
By and large though I would rather have them than not and my frustrations with the squirrels eating the seed placed for birds is another preventive in my existence.
Today is Bird Day, held each May 4 to promote the conservation of avian species and habitat.
It originates in 1894 by one Charles A Babcock who was the Superintendent of Schools in Oil City, Pennsylvania.
By and large I think we should attempt to acommodate birds because I think they have a lot of barriers and hurdles trying to eek out an existence ... particularly in more urban innercity type environments.
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- May 4, 2019
- Star Wars Day 2019
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May the fourth be with you. Ah, yet another day marked by many of my friends. I have trouble believing the fandom present in those people 20 years my junior but ... yes we have some real star wars people out there.
Now me, I watched the first episode and that was it. To be honest, all the prequels and sequels pretty much gave me contempt for the entire franchise — and perhaps that wasn't entirely fair.
So to Lucasfilms congratulations on your success. To Tony and the rest of you ... get a life. I hope you have a good day but leave me out of the celebration if you don't mind.
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- May 3, 2019
- Sun Day 2019
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Today is Sun Day. It was designated by United States President Jimmy Carter and is an advocacy mechanism for solar power.
It's modeled on Earth Day and is one of those green initiatives which have driven various democrat, progressive, and socialist elements of the United States government to go bat crap crazy with various other mislabeled agenda which lack feasibility.
The solar movement has been an boon to a few of my friends who utilize it to reduce their electricity bills. In general there are two rationales:
• Ownership of the equipment
• Leasing of the equipment
Both methods have various benefits and liabilities arising from those contract elements they entail.
So happy Sun Day and Go Solar if you're so inclined. Just avoid these stupid socialists who think you can have everything free and without charge. It is a lot worse than unsustainable. It cannot be initialized on a financial platform of taxing the rich to provide their funds to everyone else.
I have difficulty understanding just why this is so uncomprehensible among the stupid left.
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- May 2, 2019
- sovereign internet is both censorship and protection
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I was on Drudge today and a tidbit caught my eye ...
President Vladimir Putin igned into law a "sovereign internet" bill today allowing the Russians to isolate the country's internet segment. The law states that it comes into effect in November.
Now the people declaring themselves as various "rights" groups are whining loudly and vigorously and if I know Putin, it will not faze him or those who implemented this austere possibility for their citizens.
This is all done in the name of security of Russians online and the broad wording of the bill has some screaming censorship ... which in light of that security I recognize is likewise quite apt.
If I required protection from some jerk wad exploiter as always seems to be hitting my assets I would want just such protection.
However, I have multiple avenues at my disposal which some do not have. My most valuable assets can only be reached through a tunnel.
They tout the typical methodologies for selective routing and though such controversial laws generate a lot of consternation IMHO if Mr Putin can stand the heat from his consitituents this is not an entirely bad development. Your friends at google and microsoft and yahoo as well as MANY ISPs would just as soon feed to you the wolves mouthful after mouthful.
There are other aspects such as those facilitating the ongoing Kremlin clampdown on media and internet freedoms which results in jail time for simply sharing a meme. I am not a proponent of censorship. I am a proponent of protection. I'm okay with selective routing and practice it with a vigorous evolving firewall which sometimes gains a life of it's own.
I am nobody's tool and nobody's fool.
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- May 1, 2019
- Loyalty Day 2019
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May first is Loyalty Day "for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom."
It derives it's origin from the "Red Scares" of the 1920s through the 1950s which were first instigated then corrupted by the alcoholic manipulations of the Chair of Senate Government Operations Committee, one Joseph McCarthy who attempted to strong arm the country into fears of pending communist takeover with what were mostly mechanations of his legal counsel, the deviant Roy Cohn.
So take a moment and try to be thankful for what you have regardless of the idiotic rantings of the democratic party and their subservient SJW, antifa, muslim, and socialist minons. They will get theirs quite soon enough.
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- April 30, 2019
- Honesty Day 2019
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This day is about honesty and straightforward communication in politics, relationships, consumer relations and historical education.
It was established by one M Hirsh Goldberg who chose the last day of April being the end of that month containing "April Fools Day" and it is the anniversary of George Washington's first inaugration on April 30 in the year 1798.
Well ... given the present state of honesty in the democratic party I fear that we will never know any modicum of either truthfulness nor grasp of reality from them since they have spawned the idiot socialists Bernie Sanders and the mule faced moron socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez whose understanding of academia and notions of things real is surpassed only by her foul personality and absence of good judgement and reality otherwise.
Unfortunately, the sad state of affairs of public eduction which has been all but ruined by the leftist proponents who chose indoctrination over education has left the suceeding generations less than adequately versed in critical thinking as evidenced by their pitiful rants regarding the same tired untrue notions of identity politics, the fallacy called 'transsexuality' and those other aspects of these failures to recognize just who and what we are in the context of "being".
Suffice it to say that these are dark days for the concept of honesty and I dare add that it is likely to end only with the advent of guerrilla warfare upon the falsehoods propagated by the left.
In all honesty, enough is enough ALREADY.
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- April 25, 2019
- Pondering the age of Sixty Four
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So I'm at this iconic age ... 64 years old. Ive only been here for eleven days and I must say I don't feel any differently than I did at 54 — about that time I took my current job and embarked on an exciting career in municipal government. Hell, I don't know if I'll ever retire but at least I can do the work.
The love front remains static and on my own terms. I gave up the pursuit of companionship some 15 years back and I have to say that it hasn't really impacted anything inasmuch as my amorous pursuits remain as they were and I continue to find them satisfactory.
Early on I really did see myself as a grandfather at this stage of the game but I've given up on all that too; barring the appearance of some unbeknownst baby mama like the many potential candidates of which I am familiar.
All-in-all I'm fine with the notion of being single and knowing where I am in the big scheme of things.
Still, there's this part of me which ponders the 'what ifs' and the 'if onlys' as though they really might make a difference.
Likely, they won't.
When I'm 64
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a Valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds Who could ask for more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck and Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
John Lennon and Paul Mccartney
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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- April 24, 2019
- Vibrio vulnificus and Me
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While perusing the news threads as is my daily habit I ran across health warnings for seafood contaiminated with a gram negative bacteria called vibrio vulnificus which is said to be making the rounds and is quite prevalent and even more deadly.
Actually the thing that caught my eye was the admonition that 'older fat men' need to be most worried.
Being an older fat guy I naturally took notice and got the information I wanted regarding just what the risks are ... but really failed to see how they appertain to me personally.
It turns out that researchers think that the bacteria may be looking at older fat or chubby men as 'easy targets' at which I pretty much cast scorn in light of such unscientific generalizations ... but boy the news threads are pushing the spin vigorously.
First, the bacteria is indigenous to coastal estuaries and the like and has been vectoring primarily through the consumption of raw shellfish. It is said that contracting this bacteria can cause death in as little as a day or two. The "lucky" ones merely lose an appendage or two and are concentrated primarily in the raw oyster eating populations. However, beachgoers have also contracted the bacteria from proximity in the waters they inhabit and therein lay the morbidity.
You can cook seafood. You can't boil the beaches to kill the bacteria prior to utilizing the shore for recreation.
• Thoroughly cooked seafood will kill those germs including vibrio vulnificus bacteria. • Hygiene is emphasized with recommendations that include washing kitchen utensils in hot soapy water. • Avoiding raw seafood material including those juices which typically are part and parcel of newly unpackaged seafood. • The primary treatments are antibiotics, surgery, and amputation. • The prognosis in full blown cases is grim.
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- April 23, 2019
- Dead is Dead
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The news threads are talking about how Al Qaeda is resurgent and ISIS is on the rebound.
What's wrong with this picture ?
Someone obviously thinks they were dead when they weren't. This business of claiming victory over terrorist organizations when said victory is in actuality merely the thinning of some stronghold or two is totally unsatisfactory.
Had there been sufficient death in the rolls of Al Qaeda and ISIS there would be no news threads reporting such pitiful information such as the suspicion of rebounding and resurgent terrorist organizations.
Dead terrorists can't regroup. The intelligence community needs to act on our behalf and the military needs to clear this vermin from the world once and for all.
While you're at it we could get rid of the northern tier terrorist proponents mouthy ass Rep Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) and her decidedly unamerican cohort Rep Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) who were sworn into the 116th Congress when they should have been deported with their families and everyone who voted for them.
We're not taking a sufficiently strong stance against these usurpers of the United States of America.
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- April 22, 2019
- Earth Day 2019
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I have never been a 'tree hugger'. This being said I am not a proponent of pollution either.
Situations like the great pacific garbage patch and the abominal pollution in India and the Russian Federation bring me great distress due to the utter lack of clean up happening ... and
Let's not get into Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture of Japan or the Chernobyl diaster near Pripyat, northern Soviet Ukraine.
Then there are the wholesale slaughter of marine mammals and over fishing and the massive deforestation of the Amazon basin.
Today is Earth Day that annual event celebrated internationally each April 22 in support of environmental protection.
Originally celebrated in 1970, Earth Day has blossomed with various events in more than 193 countries. These are are coordinated by the Earth Day Network.
Happy Earth Day.
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