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- December 16, 2018
- Flu Shots and Us
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It seems that some 40% of us are not bothering with the flu shot this year.
I got one ... and immediately became ill with what I perceived to be a moderate upper respiratory infection.
Began right around the bronchial region and migrated quickly to my sinuses and persisted for about 2 weeks.
Why did I do it ?
It was free and recommended. Besides, with me getting on and all I figured what could it hurt.
Being as suspicious of the medical industrial complex as the next guy I have visions of injections containing mercury and other toxic substances and it's not a far reach for me to expect a surreptitious lethal injection by design as a part of some governmental pursuit of the New World Order population reduction or some radical lefty taking it upon themselves to thin us all out.
I was somewhat surprised to note that almost half of the citizens decline the injection. Do I blame them ? Heck no. I trust their judgement for themselves a lot more than some bung hole in Richland County lying to me and the world.
Too many medical professionals are simply untrustworthy anymore. That's why the thought of going to a hospital staffed by students repulses me to the nth degree.
IMHO you should stay away from Richland Hospital if you value your life. Lexington hospital is just another death trap as well. Providence is a fraudulent rip off as far as I'm concerned.
I just wish these were my only complaints with the local hospitals. However, Richland and Lexington in particular are rife with poor decision makers and equally poor care. Mayo in Jacksonville would be my first choice.
You take your life into your own hands anymore regardless of the providers. My last physician was out to force me to take those pills his pharmaceutical rep was pushing even if it tripled my medication expenses.
This is not a person who cares about my health. It's someone out to make a buck at my expense.
Luckily I'm pretty happy with the medical crew at the employee health center. Unfortunately, I don't know how much longer it will be available to me. They already stripped our health benefits down to the bare bones in the form of the vastly inferior "state health plan" in their pursuit of decreasing expenses. They said that nobody guarantees benefits anywhere and we're just lucky to be employed.
Maybe they're right.
So if you decline a flu shot more power to you. I certainly am one to seriously consider joining your ranks. I'm sorry that I don't trust the local hospitals nor EMS services available ... but I don't for good reason.
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- December 15, 2018
- Zamenhof Day
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So today is Esperanto Day. Esperanto is a language that I once considered taking up in my pursuit of all things communicato ... but gave it up for assembler and the xBase dialects early on in my career.
Whereas Esperanto is a mechnism for people to communicate with each other, those languages I chose were high level mechanisms for communicating with machines.
Suffice it to say I likely will never be that social butterfly of which I always dreamed I'd become.
Esperanto is said to be the most widely spoken of what are known as "constructed international auxiliary languages. It was created ostensibly to foster peace and international understanding.
My personal views remain centric to the fact that I am an US citizen and if you want to communicate with me you better learn English or stay the heck out of my country. Hear that hispanics ?
L. L. Zamenhof was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist. He created Esperanto in the late 19th century as an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language .
Today is Zamenhof Day, aka Esperanto Day. It is celebrated each December 15th which is the birthdate of it's creater, the late Dr Zamenhof.
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- December 14, 2018
- Monkey Day
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My friends once envisioned themselves as monkeys flinging their poo at each other during the course of their work days.
This comparison, though meant to be self-effacing is a venture into species coping mechanisms.
Sometimes we humans could use a library of coping mechanisms to get through some of our more outrageous timeframes.
Monkey Day is one of those unofficial observances celebrated on December 14 by artists Casey Sorrow and Eric Millikin while they were art students at Michigan State University.
Monkey Day celebrates monkeys and "all things simian" including other non-human primates like the apes and such.
Celebrated internationally, is is also called International Monkey Day and World Monkey Day AND yes ... I DO indeed realize that a chimpanzee is not actually a monkey.
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- December 13, 2018
- The Secret is in the Addressing
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My new mail server had been giving me a fit.
I installed and configured multiple instances to no avail.
I was beginning to think that I was exhibiting early onset Alzheimer's as I had only done the same task successfully so many times it wasn't funny.
Finally, when my frustration peaked I checked the DNS information being propagated on the internet.
Lo and behold ...
The IP address was that of the web server and not the mail server.
YouReekA, there was the answer 6 months later. I could have checked this particular parameter five minutes into the process.
Sometimes I don't know where my mind goes but it obviously went off on a tangent with this petty penny ante mess because now it's all fixed and everything is working.
Sometimes the sideline gets lost in the shuffle of life and the workaday world.
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- December 12, 2018
- Google, the Judiciary, and We Peons
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Sundar Pichai of google attended a congressional hearing and was read the riot act regarding china, data warehousing, and privacy.
He fielded a lot of questions while before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday.
With the crack the tech sector has been in it's surpising to me personally that this would be his first foray into domestic governmental inquiry given google's frank political bias, ad policies, and general sleazy way of doing business.
Mr Pichai is just another overpaid scumbag like Zuckerberg who isn't really accountable to anyone regardless of how they choose to step on the taxpayers because he still gets paid.
What does he care if anyone in congress likes or dislikes him, his practices or that criminal element into which google has devolved since it's incept. Ethics mean little to nothing in the 21st century schizoid world in which we live. He's too busy raking in the cash to worry about ethics or the law.
Boo!
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- December 11, 2018
- Trump Haters Beware
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There is a large contingent of WE, THE PEOPLE who support the President.
I count myself among their numbers.
There is no democrat or so-called "progressive" or other Leftist ANYTHING which can quash the support he has among the voters.
We are the patriots of The United States of America.
We believe in the Constitution of the United States.
CNN, MSN, the main stream media puppets following their deep state string pullers might want to think about history and consequences.
There is no panty waist leftist crook out to monetize government for their own wealth like we've seen in recent history going to prevail.
We've seen what you've done and we know who you are.
Your handlers are not going to be able to save you. Obama is not going to be able to save you. Hillary can't save you either. She's going to need help in that department her own criminal self.
These false characterizations of nothingness and that waste of time which is the Robert Muller taxpayer robbery can't save you either.
You deserve the pie in the sky utopian delusions of Bernie Sanders and the lunatic fringe idiocy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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- December 10, 2018
- Remembering Richard Pryor
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As a young man I enjoyed the work of Richard Pryor. He crossed cultural boundaries and that was one of my favorite passtimes and a recurring thematic element in my own life so I naturally had an affinity for his pushing of the envelope.
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
American stand-up comedian, Actor, Social Commentator
December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005
Many others in my midst were turned off by the vulgarities associated with his material ... but that didn't faze me so much as his choice of white women as consorts but that too was simply my cross to bear and not his.
He would go off on tangents regarding current issues and I was struck by both his insight and witicisms.
I enjoyed his films and though I outgrew some of the humor they remain icons of the times which were theirs.
In a world where he was misunderstood and misconstrued by those in my various circles of interaction, he held a place with me where he was both understood and respected for who he was and what he was doing in those tumultous times he occupied.
His health was affected by his lifestyle diseases and of course the associated drug culture into which he immersed himself.
He had some heart problems and suffered from multiple sclerosis at the end and my heart went out to him for those intense issues and the misery he underwent.
His widow Jennifer said that "At the end, there was a smile on his face" and I suppose that speaks volumes for this man who did a whole lot of things and consistently placed his own spin on every one of them.
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- December 9, 2018
- International Anti-Corruption Day 2018
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Today is a travesty in terms. The United Nations has declared today International Anti-Corruption Day. Quite ballsy for an organization which has authored Agenda 21 and Angenda 30 in their long standing plan for world domination and control under the so-called "globalist" agenda supported by the progressives and the democratic party in general.
International Anti-Corruption Day has been observed annually, on the ninth of December, corresponding to the passage of the UN Convention Against Corruption on Halloween of 2003 ... how apropos for the ghouls out to rule the Earth.
It is stated as a vehicle to raise public awareness for anti-corruption by the very entity providing most of the corruption on the planet.
The UN is the second most corrupt organization on the planet after the banking industry based in Brussels Belgium which would have itself declared ruler of the world because there are insufficent testicles on the world to place them on notice and remove them from the entirety of the business world.
When we as a planet can stop usury as a business practice enriching the coffers of the "globalist" crooks then maybe I can stop scoffing at these utterly transparent seedy notions promulgated by scumbags like the United Nations and their masters the Rothschilds — and that financial mafia which is the banking industry located in Brussels, Belgium who would rule the world if they could.
"The Federal Reserve" of the United States is just as bad. 100 years of money for nothing and stupidity at the helm of our finances. Get rid of those crooks too. They're all part and parcel of the same cancer infecting the world and the United States in particular.
I say "Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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- December 8, 2018
- Deepmind claims Deep AI
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A company called DeepMind has an artificial intelligence called AlphaZero which they claim is showing signs of human like intuition and creativity.
Characterized by their developers as a ‘turning point’ in history, I'm not so akin to the chess player algorithm (or chess players in general) being either creative or intuitive.
You can beat a chess player without any modicum of either by having enough tactics up your sleeve (or in your core) and this simply does not wash for me personally.
However, people may call anything "intuitive" or "creative" if it gives them that business plan edge over the price of stock or foot-in-the-door merger opportunities.
I'll defer further discernment until I see something A LOT MORE impressive than a chess algorithm being portrayed as the "be all" and the "end all" in AI.
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- December 7, 2018
- Pearl Harbor Day 2018
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Today is Pearl Harbor Day.
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, or simply "Pearl Harbor Day" to we Navy brats is an annual observance comemorating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii which began United States involvement in World War II.
Many service men and women in the military of the United States of America lost their lives or were injured on December 7, 1941 — characterized as a 'Day of Infamy'.
This is also the day my mother chose to inter my late father, MMCM Jim Williamson, Jr who was laid to rest with full military honors at Clinton Methodist Church in Salley, SC on 12/07/2001.
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- December 6, 2018
- Roy Orbison
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Roy Kelton Orbison was a pillar of the am radio during my youth.
Roy Orbison
April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988
He was always on and we were always listening.
Even while I was at Camp Sewee in Awendaw he was there on WTMA crooning through the loudspeakers.
In a world of teenybopper, bubblegum, and manly man musical presence he was there offering a sensitivity and complexity unavailable elsewhere.
His passionate belting out of lyrics coupled with his expanse of vocal range was an attraction to me and just about everyone I knew during the 1960s.
Coiffed in dyed jet black pompadour and always dressed in black with dark glasses he commanded a stillness of stage presence which projected mystery with all the art.
He died of a heart attack the age of 52 leaving us with a catalog of emotion, melody, and lyricism which has remained a formidable collection in my lifetime.
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- December 5, 2018
- Saint Nicholas Eve
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The holiday season is marked by many observances and celebrations. One of those I try to keep in my heart is Saint Nicholas Eve ... even though it is not indigenous to the United States itself. It remains dear to my heart due to that love of the entire season imparted to me by my parents.
I was fortunate to enjoy a wonderful childhood marked by parents who held Christmas in their hearts. Each impending Christmas season featured lights and decorations and every year there was something new added to the collection.
Indeed, Christmas was always merry.
Today we celebrate the Western Europen legendary tradition of Sinterklaas, the proto Santa Claus whose origins are deeply rooted in the celebration of Saint Nicholas — the patron saint of children (and we who remain child like into our old age).
He goes by a variety of ethnic monikers with today's feast celebrating his "name day" which is an annual celebration marked by the giving of gifts today.
So we in the United States have for the most part adopted this tradition in the spirit of the season and no one can cast it asunder.
That notion that the United States is "no longer" a Christian nation is totally false as was the credibility and qualifications of the brigand Barack Obama and that dude he married to be president and first lady of the country they invaded.
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- December 4, 2018
- My Biological Father
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Daddy passed on this day in 2001 after an extremely long illness which became fiercely difficult toward the end.
Jim Williamson, Jr
January 29, 1932 - December 4, 2001
He was a tough and capable anathema to all things wimpy and never complained regarding the severe consequences of his lifestyle disease which was the results of tobacco use.
When all was said and done I was glad for the mercy he was shown at the end even though when that moment came all I could do was cry in all my profound grief.
Over the years I have tried to remember who he was and what he was about rather than those tragic circumstances surrounding his end.
He was a good man and a hard act to follow.
Rest in peace.
Proverbs 3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
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- December 3, 2018
- Robert Louis Stevenson "Teller of Tales"
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One of those hallmarks of my youth was Robert Louis Stevenson.
Robert Louis Stevenson
November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894
He was an author from Scotland who wrote action adventure novels just right for a little fantasy land kid such as myself.
I didn't dwell on them, but I dare say some of my mannerisms likely were derived from the various characters I encountered while reading his work.
He traveled extensively ending up in Samoa on a 400 acre estate where he assumed the Samoan name Tusitala ... which means "Teller of Tales".
He wrote many novels and short story collections of which I have perused and enjoyed many times over the years.
He also published collections of poetry as well.
He died at the ripe old age of 44 which is quite young by my reckoning ... you know, with me being so elderly and all.
However, he suffered from episodes of failing health and pursued suitable locations which might benefit his condition to no avail.
His final two attempts to travel to his home in Scotland likewise were unsuccessful.
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