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- July 8, 2018
- Ernest Borgnine
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It's amazing how television characters sometime insert themselves into our lives.
Ermes Effron Borgnino
aka Ernest Borgnine
American actor
January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012
While at this juncture, I am far less subject to such leanings toward fandom I had my glory days of television watching which now seem farther and fewer in between — I mean to the point of total absence if you catch my drift ...
One of those constants in my childhood was Ernest Borgnine.
As a Navy brat I felt it was unpatriotic to miss McHale's Navy and as such I watched what I believe to be all of the episodes and movies over those years comprising my childhood.
He was in a number of other productions I watched as well but my memories of "the skipper" are those which stick out in an otherwise unremarkable history of television viewing.
Besides it was one of the few things my father and I both enjoyed so I would take each opportunity that arose.
Once in a while we cross paths on syndicated television and I again experience a few flashbacks of various moments in time from my youth.
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- July 7, 2018
- World Chocolate Day 2018
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Chocolate is a confectionary food prepared from roasted cacao seeds which are then ground and sweetened then utilized to create innumerable candies, coatings, frostings, and baked goods.
Today is World Chocolate Day aka International Chocolate Day in some places. It is one of those yearly events ocurring internationally and depending on who you read either celebrates the introduction of chocolate to the Europeans in 1550 — or simply exists to share the taste of chocolate among varioius people.
It is one of many chocolate celebrations and one of those confections I love to taste now and then.
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- July 5, 2018
- I used to like poetry ...
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I used to like poetry. I used to write it frequently. It was one of those facets of my impetuous youth that I shed like so many other habits ... good and bad that came and went over the evolution of who I was compared to who I am.
I liked to think that people constantly change ... but some don't. I prefer to think good things of those in my midst but sometimes those thoughts turn pretty morbid when I realize that person I so idolized in my younger years is nothing but a sociopath user who has hurt a string of people badly in his self-serving wake ... or the moron so-called 'professional' golfer who hasn't ever won a prize playing golf was a "nice person" when he's really just the total scumbag and has been the entire 40 years I've know him. What's more, his stupid son is even worse having followed that poor example his entire life.
I suppose it's a part of realization. Knowing who your friends are, who your friends aren't, and understanding that what you thought wasn't reality as much as you may have wanted it to be so ...
A personal quest to avoid becoming some individual who pretends to have virtues, morals or religious beliefs and principles, etc., which really aren't there -- and in particular exhibiting actions that belie some fictional set of "stated" beliefs -- which which likewise are fictitious -- has been one of my evolutionary goals. While I think I've achieved that by and large I realize that there's always room for improvement and endeavor just to be the best person I can be.
I used to like poetry. I used to write meaningless tones representing ideas of lofty intent which crashed to the ground. Now I'm not so much a fan. Now I don't write poetry anymore. It's a facet of who I am based on what I've experienced over the years. I don't see life and others through the fantasy of innocence which once was mine. Now I understand a lot more of what is real. I only wish some of it weren't ...
Sometimes I look back on that young foolish imbecile which was me and yearn to tease out the innocence lost among the faces who smile at you attached to hands which stab you in the back. It's no use, however -- for in the grand scheme of things we are meant to learn over time.
That which we did not understand eventually gains crystal clarity with enough experience. At least I can have the satisfaction of trying to become a person I can respect; though I also must suffer the realization that early on I wasn't even close. I don't necessarily think this a bad thing either. I would much rather know my friends, enemies and myself and gaze upon that which I have become without those regrets I might otherwise feel. That path to manhood simply wasn't a walk in the park for me like it is for some people. Guess I took the scenic route.
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- July 4, 2018
- Happy Fourth 2018
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The Fourth of July is a national holiday marking the anniversary of the adoption of our Declaration of Independence in 1776. With that profound dementia exhibited by the democrat and progressive elements of our political landscape coupled with the main stream media and their adherence to those same faulty patterns of logic and presence ... not to mention those rumors of impending civil war, all I can say is:
Bring it on !
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- July 3, 2018
- Dog Days 2018
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Here we are, back to the start of dog days — those hot humid overpowering times when dogs go mad from the heat and people may be cross, and the outside is a boiling pot of misery lacking anything in the way of creature comfort.
Named for the dog star Sirius which rises in this time frame the heat and lethargy as well as drought, thunderstorms, and a variety of other somatic and environmental ills are part and parcel of this time of year ... particularly in the deep South.
The "dog days of Summer" represent that hottest, most uncomfortable summer experience in the Northern Hemisphere.
So, according to the Farmer's Almanac we're embarking on those dog days with the heat, humidity, and heavy, airless, stifling, oppressive, muggy atmosphere pervading the area like a big hot sponge through which we in South Carolina negotiate during our day ... which historically often lasts through the end of August and sometimes into September.
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- July 2, 2018
- World UFO Day 2018
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I am a rather unlikely UFO enthusiast. I am afraid that these beliefs I acquired late in life correspond to my discovery of the deep state and ...
First, the concept of government must be redefined, because there exists the government of 'we the people', elected and appointed officials, public representatives, the executive, legislative and judicial branches, etc, etc, a la your standard junior high civics course.
But then, there is also the unacknowledged 'government': the 'government' of deep cover, deep black projects, contract agents and companies, and shadowy mid-level functionaries whose task it is to ensure that the government of 'we the people' knows little or nothing about the unacknowledged 'government'.
The right hand does not know - or often want to know - what the left hand is doing....
Unacknowledged
by Steven M. Greer, M.D.
Copyright 1996
So, now I am left with both a set of unanswered questions in that aspic of disdain for presidents long dead, the Greata Treaty and it's legacy of deceit spun by a group of people who would spend my tax dollars in an unaccounted black ops fashion and take it upon themselves to murder anyone and everyone they view as getting in the way.
Today is World UFO Day. We're supposed to scan the skies in wonder as we remember the 1942 crash in Roswell, New Mexico of the UFO(s) famous for the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident.
Be all of this as it may I am pretty bent on disclosure by the government and hope that the funds for these operations are terminated with extreme prejudice for how dare they presume me to be unable to "handle" any contingency — extant or consequential. The deep state has no respect for the Constitution of the United States nor the taxpayer.
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- July 1, 2018
- International Tartan Day 2018
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As I have noted earlier I am of Western European extraction with my lineage being from both Great Britain and Scotland. Since I have had more of an affinity for my mother's side of the family that Scot in me tends to come out on occasion ...
Tartan Days are celebrations of Scottish heritage. Beginning on April 6, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.
It has it's beginnings in Canada of the mid-1980s and spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s.
Today we celebrate the Austrailian version called International Tartan Day is held on July 1, which corresponds to the date upon which the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan was repealed.
Tartan Days usually feature parades of pipe bands with Highland dancing, traditional games of strength, and other Scottish cultural entertainment.
I usually simply admire from afar as I am doing this year.
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- June 30, 2018
- Asteroid Day
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Today is Asteroid Day.
AKA "International" Asteroid Day, it falls on the anniversary of the Tunguska event in Siberia which fell on June 30th, 1908, and is the the most devastating recent asteroid-related event on the planet.
The day is dedicated to study of the asteroid and associated risks of impact on the Earth.
The main three goals are:
Employ available technology to detect and track Near-Earth Asteroids that threaten human populations via governments and private and philanthropic organisations.
A rapid hundred-fold acceleration of the discovery and tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids to 100,000 per year within the next ten years.
Global adoption of Asteroid Day, heightening awareness of the asteroid hazard and our efforts to prevent impacts, on June 30 - With the United Nations recognition, this action item has been achieved.
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- June 29, 2018
- Location Information and Me
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There is a bit of a hubub going on about the sharing of location information. Typically some networked device like a web browser or a cell phone operates under software with coding to both evaluate and store this data ... primarily geolocation stuff and you are allowed to "opt out" as it were at your discretion.
Now then, I am not a proponent of sharing location data. This is due to the incorrect geolocation associated with my IP. I fully understand that this is the fault of the ISP and I will hold them accountable in due time — two months now and counting.
They have me listed as Summerville, SC when in fact I am about 110 miles away. Nobody thinks that I should care about this only I've brought it to the attention of everyone involved from stupid google to idiot ISP and they can all shove it at this point.
The GIS antenna is one of those expendible items installed which I have no qualms in cutting with extreme prejudice.
Suffice it to say that location information as it relates to stupid Google and the equally stupid Time Warner now called Spectrum leads me to believe that my business and traffic are not valued and as such I will be separating from both as a matter of course imminently.
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- June 28, 2018
- Google now Gone
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Well. Google ignored robots.txt and my host blocks by using IPs instead ... and that was the final straw.
Google is now banished from the realm entirely. I'm going by subnet increment disallows.
It's a shame when a search engine presumes to be more than it is. Turns out I don't need them at all.
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- June 28, 2018
- I Tossed Out Google
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I've decided that Google is simply not an "organic" search engine, but an ad company ... solely, unequivocally — and a very greedy one at that. For this reason, I am blocking their spiders with scripting of my own design.
They have a propensity for bypassing the usual identifications with their crawlers and I have both anticipated and coded up front for this as well.
In an attempt to be fair, I am not blocking search engine results solely because they come from google. If there is a hit the fact that it comes from google will not cause that hit to be forbidden.
I decline to be the victim of a monopoly any longer. I don't shop at Amazon for the same reason. The rest of you can do whatever you like. They can index the business card. They can index the hobby site. The have to stay off the blog however and I'm not going to mess with them anymore about it.
If they get too pushy I still have a set of IP firewall rules already written to keep them off my node entirely. When I think of how many stupid seo "professionals" want to push sites to google it just makes me want them around me even less.
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- June 27, 2018
- National HIV Testing Day 2018
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Today is National HIV Testing Day, aka NHTD. It is a day for people to be exposed to the idea of testing for HIV and know their status.
Those reasons are typically personal and of the 11 million US citizens who have HIV one in seven are unaware of the fact.
HIV is a viral infection spread through certain bodily fluids which attacks the immune system.
The CD4 "T Lymphocytes" are specifically targeted by the virus, progressively weakening the immune system until it is no longer effective at fighting off infections.
This creates the potential for opportunistic infections and cancers culminating in the full blown AIDS (acquired immunodeficency syndrome).
Having witnessed the effects of AIDS first hand as I have is a very humbling and sympathy inducing experience.
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- June 26, 2018
- Christmas made a Federal Holiday in 1870
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On this day in 1870 the holiday of Christmas was officially declared a federal holiday in the United States.
This was fine and well and good until the brigand Barack Obama decides to declare that the United States is no longer a Christian nation ...
Which it REMAINS despite his evil muslim satanic rant.
We remain "One Nation Under God" despite those atheists and interlopers trying to impart their stench upon The Republic.
Those leftist globalist democrats and their so called progressive variants who would have us become a globalist new world order slave like the EU is making out of Europe as we speak.
The mistakes of allowing "just anyone" to emigrate is becoming evident in Germany and Scandinavia.
Sharia will never be the rule of law in the United States of America.
Too many of us here simply won't stand for it or any manner of intruder attempting to force it upon us.
God rest ye merry gentlemen.
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- June 25, 2018
- The Long Goodbye From my local K-Mart
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K-Mart has a location at 1500 Charleston Hwy, West Columbia, SC 29169 (803) 794-9150 which has been around since my childhood. This is a store where I shopped for Christmas presents when I was just a chap ... and it's still here in the same place with pretty much the same exterior look but a much different interior look.
You can imagine my pleasure to find that it was not going to be closed with those many other K-Mart stores in that last spate of closings recently. However, this all ended with my last few visits because I came to the sad realization that it's just a matter of time.
The management of this location is totally unsatisfactory. I repeatedly go there to find them air conditioning the airport vicinity with front doors wide open in the hundred degree plus heat indices.
This along side the other mismanagement makes me wonder if anyone really cares about profitability when I see the prices of items I can walk across the street and get for 30% less on average.
Then there are those episodes like the day I saw a young black man take his old beat up shoes and put them in the box from which he had just changed to brand new shoes only to place the box with his old shoes on the rack and walk out unchallenged by any of the several employees milling around him.
I bought two laundry products where the prices were not those at the display from which I chose them as I stood in the humdity and heat adjacent to that door which had been open all day long adding adding more to the cost of operation which I can only presume trickled down to me with a selection of overpriced products and subpar order and cleanliness of the entire facility.
Yes, the old K-Mart of my youth is dying a slow painful death from a corporate structure either too disinterested or too stupid to see the folly at hand and just why they will never be profitable at that location.
Why don't they fire these stupid employees and give the store a fighting chance ? Could it be that the entire organization has fallen into such disarray that everyone is simply too incompetent to do what is necessary to operate ? It sure appears so.
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