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- February 9, 2019
- The Stupidity of the Left
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Yale Graduate Stacey Abrams went off on a rant of imagination after the President's State of the Union Address Tuesday, February 5, 2019. By all relevant accounts it was an excellent oratory with a vision which contradicts the democrat party's view that the voter should be enslaved by the government with their exclusive rule and profit.
This moronic wench, so typical of the modern female Yale graduate was touting nonexistent social justice warrior topics to support her incorrect supposition that she lost the Georgia governor's race due to the removal of improper Georgia voter registrations from their rolls.
The rest of her time was spent self promoting herself for another election she likely will lose.
Here and now is a prime example of the flaws inherent to the leftist political motivations which include that stupid bar tender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and those idiot constituents who placed her into office.
Only in New York where infantcide and untenable pie in the sky federal programs designed to fleece the public are introduced as being preferred over sensible capitalist innovations.
Then you have the stupid Robert de Niro who cannot even be present in polite company where he has spewed the F word instead of stating precisely what his issues with the President are in human language and adult terms.
Maxine Waters, who should have been put out to pasture years ago like the self-serving robber of the voters she is took opportunity after opportunity to lie her way through another spate of derrogotory commentary about the President.
Maxine Mouthy Ass No Manners Waters, IMHO you are the rudest, mouthiest, most insignificant bitch on the planet and I only hope that this is not lost on the ENTIRE rest of the world.
So as the human decency of the USA sinks slowly in the West we can only hope for those winds of change to blow a little reality past these imbeciles who think like democrats, vote for democrats, act like democrats, and believe the fake news and omitted news propagated by the main stream media.
Build the wall. To HELL with the democrats and the main stream media.
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- February 7, 2019
- A Week Before Valentines
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So today it's a week til St Valentines Day. No real anticipation here ... it's just that this will be the first year we won't be having any chocolates for the office. That ugly chocoholic in me has pretty much done me in on the candy front and I need to avoid it all like the plague.
To top it all off we're having something of a heatwave here in February ... just the 80s but hey, where's my arctic vortex blowing cold air all over the peaches.
Suffice it to say that the reason for the season rapidly eludes me given the state of my metabolic syndrome x and all the triglycerides and carbs I seem to be unable to avoid.
Hope you have a better time than I'm having with all of this. Gearing up for the let down.
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- February 6, 2019
- Vince Guaraldi
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Vince Guaraldi was a favorite musician of mine long before I ever knew who he was.
He scored the Peanuts Christmas special when I was a kid and that music marked me forever as a fan of the Shultz comic strip characters brought to life and those adventures they had and their interactions with each other to the tune of his accompanying piano perfection.
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi, who was born Vincent Anthony Dellaglio was an American jazz pianist noted for his compositions and arrangements to which he imparted innovative musical devices. He is well known composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip, as well as his performances on piano during his ensemble years as well as a solo career.
He passed at age 47 on February 6, 1976 allegedly from cardiac complications which were said to be either heart attack or aortic aneurysm. Regardless, his was a profound loss to his colleagues and the world of music in general.
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- February 4, 2019
- World Cancer Day 2019
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Today is World Cancer Day, an anual international observance to raise awareness of carcinoma and methods of prevention, detection, and treatment.
The day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support those goals specified in the World Cancer Declaration of 2008.
It is aimed at the reduction, illness, and mortality caused by cancer.
In support of those undergoing cancer treatment the day incorporates a No Hair Selfie participation program where others may shave their heads either virtually or actually and post these to social media to exhibit solidarity for those enduring chemo or radiation therapies.
I'd shave my melon had mother nature already taken care of that for me long ago!
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- February 2, 2019
- Groundhog Day 2019
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- February 1, 2019
- Là Fhèill Brìghde
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Today is Imbolc, which marks the beginning of Spring for Gaels (speaker of Gaelic).
Other inclusionary groups are the pagans, (and neopagans), wiccans, and Celtic polytheists.
The observance includes such activities as feasting, making Brigid's crosses and Brídeógs (doll-like figures), visiting holy wells, divination, and spring cleaning.
AKA (Saint) Brigid's Day, Imbolc is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and there is evidence it has been an important date since ancient times.
It is believed that Imbolc was originally a pagan festival associated with the goddess Brigid.
This was later Christianized as a festival for Saint Brigid, considered to be a reference of the same goddess from a Christian perspective.
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- January 29, 2019
- Happy Birthday Daddy
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It's not an easy thing to let a parent go.
When my biological father was at the end of the road we were under the misconception that he had a chance.
When the ugly truth reared it's head we had only caused him to suffer needlessly as the result of our selfishness.
It's a sad notion that we cannot save our loved ones from themselves and this is the case with Daddy.
For he was a smoker who could not put them down until it's beyond too late.
My sister takes after him in that she too is going to smoke right up to the time it's too late because she exhibits that same apparent physicial addiction that I would not allow to take control of me.
Rest assured that my daddy was a nice person who tried to contribute to the community and had many family and friends who both admired and loved him.
He could do absolutely anything which required handtools or farming implements.
It is said that "it ain't over til it's over" and to that I can only say "yes ... but we don't always recognize circumstances which present themselves to us".
Happy Birthday Daddy. From me on Earth to you in Heaven.
God Saw You Getting Tired
God saw you getting tired
And a cure was not to be
So he put His arms around you
And whispered "Come to me."
With tearful eyes we watched you
As you slowly slipped away
And though we loved you dearly
We couldn't make you stay.
Your golden heart stopped beating
Your tired hands put to rest
God broke our hearts to prove to us
He only takes the best.
by Frances and Kathleen Coelho
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- January 28, 2019
- Data Privacy Day
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I've had incidents of lost data. Never to others, only in my own domain as the result of carelessnes. Such as the time I lost, then recovered a client's million five in accounts receivable.
The thumbscrews of such recovery are extremely daunting but when you end up with a 2 cent overage compared to the paper record you are typically forgiven.
I am also apalled at the technology sector criminals such as Mark Zuckerberg who sold his customer's data as a part of his business plan and where nobody did anything about it.
You have to protect yourself in information technology efforts because those elected to fulfill that aspect of legality are in their just getting their cut.
I have said many times that facebook owns you if you go there.
The news of late has verified this contention and though it brings me no gratification ...
At least I was correct in the notion.
Today is Data Privacy Day. Europeans know it as Data Protection Day.
It is observed each January 28 to raise awareness of and promote privacy and standard operating procedures and best practices regarding data protection.
The whole notion of privacy protection education is the thrust of this day. It provides opportunities for collaboration among governments, industry, and educational institutions.
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- January 27, 2019
- Johnny Pruett ... still loved and missed by many
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Johnny Henderson Pruett 
May 30, 1933 - January 27, 2016 Since you went away we've missed you every day.
The 23rd Psalm23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. Holy Bible King James Version
Miss Me But Let Me Go
When I come to the end of the road, the sun has set for me.
I want no rites in a gloom filled room. Why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little, but not too long; and not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that we once shared, miss me, but let me go.
For this is a journey we all must take, and each must go alone.
It’s all a part of the Master’s plan, a step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick at heart, go to the friend we know,
and bury your sorrows in doing good cheer.
Miss me but let me go.
Amy Louise Kerswell
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- January 24, 2019
- The Failure of Education
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We have a myth propagated by the educators and passed around by those indoctrinated by them when they were SUPPOSED to be undergoing education instead.
This false notion is that a a four year degree is absolutely required to succeed in life.
So now we have a lot of uneducated drop outs strapped with educational loans they cannot repay and no prospects of anything in the way of gainful employment.
This is due to the change in the workforce landscape. Whereas once upon a time you went to the factory worked for 30 or so years. Retired and collected a pension.
Blue collar employment has been widely supplanted by white collar technical pursuits which have arisen largely from the advent of the information age.
When I entered the field, the only training programs were either military or at the PhD level. Now there are programs in every limp dick run by idiots technical school on the planet ...
And still there are closures and defaults and unfinished programs everywhere and not everyone gets a job due to their ending point skill set.
I was lucky. I was "hand trained" in a real world application where I was required to learn and perform in all aspects of hardware, software, and media where you were self sufficient or terminated.
Why then do 44 million educational debtors owe in excess of $1.5 trillion dollars in the United States alone.
Too much riff raff. Too much diploma mill. Too little education and hands on training. Little to no oversight.
Too many Educators are like the Nazis pillaging the Eastern European bloc.
Nobody guards the henhouse. They just exhaust funds and look to affix blame somewhere else when the well runs dry.
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- January 22, 2019
- Fed Up with Search Engines in General
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I maintain a blog which is for a subset of the population. This affords me the luxury of holding search engine companies accountable if they incur my wrath by thinking they are welcome anywhere and everywhere on my site.
Take google. They think it's such an honor for you to have them show up at your node that they may simply do whatever they choose on your site. My sitemaps outline the only places they may go but I sincerely doubt they even read them.
What about robots.txt ?
Ha ... what a joke.
While this may work for that multitude who values their traffic, alas I do not and when they tresspass into areas I deem off limits I try to fend them off politely.
Unfortunately, unable to take a hint they persist to the point that I just firewall as much of their network as I can.
I even include those collateral networks they bought and use for revenue streams and as alternate routes. You either stick to my sitemap or I'll make you go away. It's as simple as that.
You do not have my permission to run your custom code all over the place. Your bot is nothing to me and would just as soon firewall you as look at you in my logs walking all over my intellectual property.
Luckily, the really important stuff is password protected in the web server software. It seems that google has made contributions to Apache for which they are granted back doors in the product necessitating additional filtration scripting periodically.
However, it would seem that IP Tables hasn't received such contributions and thereby remains viable in the war against snooping and tresspass on the public domain.
I have had a number of people tell me how they can't find me in the search engines to which my reply is simply "excellent. glad to hear it". You see, some of us are private entities with content not meant for just anyone.
So if you don't like it good. It's a big internet out there.
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- January 21, 2019
- Morning Events
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This morning as usual I awoke, bathed, dressed, and went to work.
Having worked several hours I looked around to find no one else in the department and became curious regarding what was up.
After yet another hour it ocurred to me to have a look at the department calendar and low and behold it is a city holiday.
Having already posed the question to my boss and his boss regarding the curious state of affairs I went home and putzed about a bit then took a short nap as such goings on are rare early in the workday for me.
The moral of the story is keep up with your schedule a lot better than I have lest you find yourself arising early on your day off and going to work when you can sleep in.
I enjoy the opportunity to sleep in when it arises but cheated myself of the luxury because I have a lot going on.
No excuses.
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- January 21, 2019
- National Hugging Day
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I am not one of those overly affectionate people.
I have affections for sure, but typically with hold them from others in my midst.
This sometimes gets a little awkward in the presence of female family members whom I don't wish to appear to be rejecting ... because I certainly am not doing so.
So today we find ourselves immersed in National Hugging Day. It's a day devoted to squeezing someone in tightly in your arms as an expression of affection.
It's one of those latter day observances having been created by one Kevin Zaborney being first celebrated in Clio, Michigan on January 21, 1986.
The day was chosen for it's placement between the Christmas/New Years holidays and Saint Valentine's Day.
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- January 20, 2019
- Anniversary of Trump Inauguration
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On this day in 2017 Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America, becoming both the oldest person to assume the office and the best thing to happen to the United States in my lifetime.
He's not a brigand like Obama and his fugly first ladyboy.
Not a New World Order traitor like the Bushes.
He's not decent, but stupid like Jimmy Carter was to the detriment of The Republic.
He's an AMERICA FIRST president who has been treated badly by the mainstream media which ignored by and large all the criminal activity of the Obama administration and his profiteering secretary of state Hillary "Rob the tax payer blind" Clinton.
He has exposed so much of what is that shame called the democratic party and their continuing quest for power, big government, and control of the populace.
He has brought to the fore the mean spirited nature of the democrat agenda to open the borders and allow the throngs of individuals with nothing to offer to pillage the taxpayer merely for their democrat vote ... regardless of the damage it does to the taxpayer who must foot the bill for their travesty of big government, government healthcare, and nothing but continuing ever growing burden in return.
And his opposition thinks they can do anything to him without consequence as if SO many of us are not watching and fully capable of holding them accountable by any means necessary.
Here's to Ann Coulter and her astute recognition of those portends of the problem and excellent potential solution for it.
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