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- October 14, 2018
- Bald and Free Day 2018
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Well it's another Bald and Free Day; time for dummies to celebrate the surface available on the top of heads ready for that rich wax shine.
Yeah, you might guess that male pattern baldness is something I'd just as soon not have.
The day is characterized as one to cherish that freedom which comes from saving money on hair cuts, shampoo, hairspray, combs, brushes, and so forth and so on.
I am bald. I will certainly celebrate Bald and Free Day ... but enjoy it ?
I don't think so.
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- October 13, 2018
- Navy 243rd Birthday
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My last celebration of the Navy's Birthday was on October 13, 1977.
We were aboard the USS MacDonough (DDG-39) on the missile deck underway immediately after quarters when Wayne Mead, one of the finest fellows anyone would ever want to meet took a moment to wish me "happy birthday" and said a few words about honor, duty, and the Navy.
We were at sea somewhere, but I don't remember the last port of call but I recall that moment as one of those kindred things — having been a Navy brat and all. It rather brought me full circle and helped me in coming to grips with the entirety of enlisting, "plan B", and completing my hitch honorably.
Wayne Mead was a very young Chief Petty Officer. He ran the 48A three dimensional radar mounted on the mast, forward and above the stack amidships. He was good company and someone you could talk to about anything.
I worked the AN/SPG 55-B Air Search Radar and Missile Guidance Set. I also did two tours of 'mess cooking' (their reward for doing such a good job on the first assignment) ... and I was also a compartment cleaner upon demand.
You see, my enlistment wasn't the "smooth sailing" I might have preferred; but everyone there knew I was the son of a Master Chief. — even the Captain ... and it made a difference in my interactions. So even if I was cleaning the compartment, workspace, or mess cooking I always threw myself into it lest I become known for the low quality work of some others who I encountered there like me, having a somewhat less than optimal attitude.
I wanted to be someone who could be counted upon despite my dismal combative behavior otherwise. Yes, I was trouble.
The first iteration of the US Navy was the formation of the Continental Navy on October 13, 1775. The Navy was reprovisioned by Congress in March of 1794. Though the Continental Navy was to be decommissioned and dismantled that original October 13, 1775 remains the official birthday and today is it's 240th anniversary.
Happy Birthday Navy. Thank you Chief Mead for everything.
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- October 12, 2018
- crowleymas
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Today is the feast for life of Aleister Crowley.
Edward Alexander Crowley aka Aleister Crowley was a pagan mystic and practitioner of majick who lived from October 12, 1875 through December 1, 1947.
He is a self ascribed 'prophet' of a religion he invented called Thelema.
Some of those religious sacraments are quite repulsive by mainstream interpretations of propriety, particularly — but certainly not limited to his interpretation of the eucharist.
He viewed magick as "the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will".
A prolific writer born to wealth and privilege he rejected his parent's fundamentalist Christianity in favor of the his hermetic pursuits and those supernatural elements pertaining thereto.
Among his tomes are what he claimed were 'sacred' texts for his followers.
He traveled extensively practicing ceremonial majick and a wide range of sacred ceremonies embracing most all of the practices observed by the eastern religions of the world.
He was not one to adhere to contemporary norms of social interaction and was both promiscuous and defiant of most of the traditions and expectations of polite company. "Do What Thou Wilt" was his motto and he observed it to the hilt.
Some individuals view Aleister Crowley as a prophet and visionary. Others are rather unkind toward him at the other side of the spectrum of opinion.
I know not what others may see in him, only that if given the choice to "take him" or "leave him" I would most definitely leave him as my views on theology and magick are radically incongruent with his.
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- October 11, 2018
- National Coming Out Day 2018
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National Coming Out Day is an abomination just as are those who observe it.
The so called LGBT community consisting of those who prefer same sex coupling and body modifications to assume the phenotype of that sex they are not like to revel in their abnormality by holding formal fetes associated with the fact that they choose the dirt road untaken.
Take the word "phobia" as a suffix to various permutations of the LGBT lifestyle. This misnomer implies "fear" of gays as in 'homophobia' where the reality is more in the line of disdain ... someone who fears you is not an individual out to do their level best to kill you or maim you beyond all recognition because they think your lifestyle is deviant.
Anyway, my gay bashing days ended long ago. Somewhere around 1976 as I recall. I have a number of gay friends whose friendship I both enjoy and with whom I am happy to socialize. That realization that others are not going to live their lives in accordance with my personal wishes (sigh) leaves me only to accept what happens with others and their lives and I have learned to separate the lifestyle from the person.
However, I retain the right to my personal opinion because I don't force it on anyone nor hold anyone elses transgressions of it against them.
We have to get throught this thing called life and I have a few gay friends that I wish were still here to share all that they were with the rest of the world.
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- October 10, 2018
- World Mental Health Day 2018
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Today is World Mental Health Day.
It's a day to pursue mental health education as well as awareness of — and advocate against — those social stigmata which go hand in hand with even the slightest perception of mental illness.
To those I am known in those circles I frequent as a decided "nut" (thanks grandma !). Likewise, I am certainly attuned to 'polite behavior' viz a viz those variants I may pursue by choice and lo, I have been told by mental health associates that the spectrum called "normal" is extremely wide indeed and that I should not take too much stock in those 'psychology majors' with a psychological label for everything thinking they know all and are all. So ... regardless of what may be uttered to the contrary I am indeed comfortable with both myself and my grasp on reality ... now that I know the difference between the realms of fantasy and what is real.
I wasn't always at that state and the cultivation was long and difficult.
Be all of this as it may I hope you can enjoy the day and get out there and have those discussion that bring forth the essence of your being. One thing for sure is I'm not the lying evil violence inciting likes of both the mainstream media the democratic party.
I would love to tick someone else off from those spheres of existence for the glee it brings me to tear them apart.
Happy World Mental Health Day and I hope you don't get all global about it. These globalists need to take a hike and leave the sovereign nations who choose to command their own destiny to them and not some Belgian or Rothschild or God forbid crook Jesuit.
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- October 9, 2018
- National Nanotechnology Day 2018
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Nanotechnology involves mechanization devices on an an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.
The concept subminiaturizes components for the manipulation of correspondingly small enviornments.
Often the components are molecules and atoms and these devices have a lot of "quantum realm" applications in the development of new materials and machines at the atomic scale.
This, like AI is a very up and coming bleeding edge technology even though it's been around for quite a while now.
So I like to mark the day and read up on the current state topics at least annually.
Like AI too there are various doomsday scenarios of implementations which do not have the best interests of human beings at their core.
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- October 8, 2018
- Columbus Day 2018
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Today we mark Columbus Day, which is a national holiday here among other places. It officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
Though I'm sure there are significant observances elsewhere, it has been my experience that the day is primarily one for retail sales events more than anything else.
I suppose there is a precedent somewhere given the protesters of the day and their counter celebrations such as "Indigenous Peoples' Day" or "Native American Day". It would seem that more governors are of the Jerry Brown full of crap variety with their 'state holiday cancellations' of Columbus Day.
Anyway, Happy Columbus Day if you are of the persuasion. If you are opposed to the notion, I hope whatever substitute your feeble mind came up with as a replacement floats your boat.
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- October 7, 2018
- National Dark Poetry Day 2018
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As a young man I pursued poetry. So much so that stuff I thought was good really wasn't and the prevailing impression I derived from the experience was I did nothing for the language and it did little to nothing for me.
Therefore, I gave it all up early on ... right after my hitch in the Navy I recall.
October 7 is the day Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore Maryland at age 40 in 1849. The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has marked this day as National Dark Poetry Day in memory of him.
Now I have been known to pen a few very dark and horrible pieces of poetry in my day.
My only regret results from the fact that I lost interest so long ago and now rarely engage the poetic inklings at all aside from the occasional clever quip which resulted from the incessant nonsense of those days.
Suffice it to say that I'm beyond that stage pretty much forever.
However, back in the day ...
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- October 6, 2018
- Ralphie May Gone a Year ...
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Ralph Duren May
February 17, 1972 – October 6, 2017
American stand-up comedian, actor
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- October 5, 2018
- Stealth Gateways Installed in Equipment Outsourced to China
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Well ... I knew it would happen. I hate to say "I told you so" but ... I did.
Bloomberg is reporting on alleged infrastructure spying attacks by China on modified equipment manufactured by their agents and sold to Amazon who passed it right on down the line to now compromised business like the absolutely stupid human beings which comprise that company.
In fact, the only people more stupid that them are we who are being forced to buy routers and other network components manufactured by the Chinese which likely include similar hardware exploits designed to provide a stealth gateway into various companies.
The compromised technology chain is upon us thanks to the lack of due diligence by those individuals importing this equipment for profit.
Were the tables turned China would execute those responsible. Public and messy.
In the nooterized environment which the United States is becoming at the behest of the left and those wussy Republicans doing their bidding we need to stand up and grow a pair for a change.
Start handling our OWN manufacture and STOP importing CHINESE anything.
We should embargo the entirety of Chinese exports and not bother with investigating their products for any level of safety.
We're paying them to steal our technology because the CIOs and tech giants kowtow to their market. Facebook. Zuckerberg in PARTICULAR. Amazon. Twitter. Dell. HP. Supermicro. Google. They are all complicit in this robbery.
Our panty waist legislature with the stupid people like Diane Feinstein, Maxine Waters, Mazie Hirono, Corey Booker, Cuck Schumer, Nasty Pelosi, and all the leftist proponents as well as the 'me too' idiots are so busy undermining the country that they have no time to actually take care of business.
China needs to be handled. Screw them into the ground. I personally feel that a scorch the earth policy is in order. You can't steal technology if you don't have a country from which to base operations.
China appears as an enemy of the state always with a spy posing as some "chinese american" ready to pounce upon technical secrets and pass them on to the place of their true loyalty.
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- October 4, 2018
- World Animal Day 2018
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World Animal Day is a celebration meant to "raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe".
It is concerned with both wild and domesticated animals and is essentially an international observance stemming from grassroots concerns and participation.
While I differentiate between animals I consider vermin, or companion and food animals the consortium of individuals comprising World Animal Day do not.
I view it all as a highly worthwhile endeavor and tend to abandon my practical issues for the greater good.
World Animal Day speaks for those creatures who cannot do so for themselves.
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- October 3, 2018
- Remembering Woody Guthrie
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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
aka Woody Guthrie
July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967
American singer-songwriterWhen I was a kid there was a man I viewed as a 'folk singer' and musician named Woody Guthrie.
He was a proto social justice warrior of sorts ...
only with manners and decorum lacking in today's idiot sjw populations who think everything is all about them.
He passed at age 55 when I was but 12 years old and I don't think I was sophisticated enough to fully appreciate him or his art for my evolution was long in coming and my understanding of humanity trailed that miserably.
I did have a bit of an Arlo Guthrie phase early on and it was then that I attempted to understand the father at least as well as I did his son.
All of this served me quite well until I entered the navy and sold my soul to rock and roll and became a heavy metal head.
Nowadays I have a full appreciation for the art of Woody Guthrie. Some of his songs are standards from that folk genre we don't hear so much of these days.
I simply don't view politics as a suitable vehicle for musical talents and though our philosophies differ radically I can still take pause and appreciate the man and rare talent that he was.
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- October 3, 2018
- Fall Is Upon Us
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Well ... the Fall season is upon us. Ever since Sunday September 23rd.
While I normally welcome the time with open arms, it has been impossible to differentiate Autumn from Summer given the heat and humidity up to this point in the season.
Yes, those 100 degree days with 80 percent humidity kind of put a damper on the realization that cooler time should prevail.
Halloween will soon be here. It will be time for those holiday seasonal 'warm and fuzzies' to ensue. I always look forward to Halloween as the official start of the holiday season for me personally.
I've already noticed subtle changes in the color of the deciduous leafage and this progresses begining in June from what I've been able to gather over the years. Many don't notice that early start that was pointed out to me by my late friend, Dewitt.
So soon it will be 'Fair Week' that historical time for a drop in temperature. Unfortunately, I don't do the fair anymore. It simply doesn't attract me with it's lack of adult fare type attractions.
From a rather insipid southern approach they view it all as "family" fare while I view it all as dull and without entertainment merit.
However, I remain looking forward to the remainder of the hoildays as they progress one by one. Onward through January when they will wind up by and large until the next barrage the following fall.
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- October 2, 2018
- Adventures in Distilled Water
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A while back I mentioned how I bought a home water distiller and a BPA free 3 gallon plastic container.
I've been tracking the savings and they are significant compared to the money I was spending on plastic gallons of distilled water from the various vendors close in to my location.
The price has run from about 87 cents to about a buck ten in the immediate area with some running as high as a buck twenty or so closer to work.
If you do the math that resolves to an average of a dollar and five cents per on average with a weekly consumption of five to eight or so gallons with frequent increases into the to 10 gallon per week in the summer months when I am more thirsty and other times depending on what I have going on at the moment. I had been buying 8 to 10 bottles a week and cannot really account for where they all went. Tea, work refreshment, and various other uses played into the picture.
1.05 x 10 = 10.50 a week frequently
1.05 x 08 = 08.40 a week often
So now my needs are met with a daily distilled gallon produced intermittently in my home. I was shocked at the "cigarette ash" appearing residue at the bottom of the vessel and I maintain the cleanliness with distilled vinegar which I allow to sit for hours prior to hitting it with the old scotch brite scrubber.
It's all very quick and easy as I refill the vessel and five hours later transfer the distilled gallon of water to my storage tank.
I can't really comment on the electrical useage associated with the distiller but the fact that I no longer trudge from the store to the truck and from the truck to the house with those 8 to 10 gallon bottles of product each week has been a boon in and of itself.
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