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- September 17, 2018
- Constitution Day
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Constitution Day is held marking the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine signees on September 17, 1787.
It also recognizes those who are born in the U.S. or by naturalization, have become citizens.
Also known as 'Citizenship Day' it is a federal holiday established in 2004 attached to an Omnibus spending bill.
There are too many arriving here expecting a never ending fountain of entitlements promised by the democrats in return for votes which is not sustainable and for which they choose to drag the nation down in their pursuit of power.
Therefore, I am in favor of much more stringent border controls with a "shoot them off the fence approach" whereby they rot where they drop, preferably on the mexican side of the border.
Severe ? Perhaps. No more so than evil California Representative Maxine Waters and her threats or moron evil incarnate Christopher Charles Cuomo of the Fake News Network with his idiotic rantings and false accusations or the manchild David Hogg who engages his mouth independently of his brain at the whim of those who pay him to act for them.
Suffice it all to say that there should be no entitlements for illegals. No "automatic citizenship" just because you come here to breed yourself a bunch of dependent citizens and enroll in welfare.
No cancellation of the Bill of Rights by a subset of the populace out to ruin The Republic like young fool Mr Hogg and his so-called "superiors" who are merely a flock of unqualified shitbirds running his show.
No more democrats promising the sun and the moon and stars to anyone and everyone on billboards in Mexico.
No more progressives like George Soros and his paid cronies who would subvert the rule of law because he can no longer turn his own people in to the nazis as he did for profit in WWII.
No lax border controls of any kind.
With the left promoting all manner of violence towards the conservatives a critical issue has become lost in all the threats and posturing:
Many of us are both armed and excellent shots from a distance. Beware of who you threaten and my MAGA hat will not be taken from me by anyone, especially some dumb libtard. Sparticus that moment cretin leftists of The Republic.
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- September 16, 2018
- IoT Stratagem ...
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The Internet of Things has been something to avoid on my network. While I secure my routers with a lock down most others ignore the entire notion of internet controlled stuff in the crib simply isn't flying with me presently ... and it's not that I don't think it is "cool" like so many others in my midst.
Internet enabled objects in the environment simply provide an exploitation mechanism I can do without at this time.
The premise lay in my opinion that the inherent risk due to hacking increases with the number of internet capable objects to be found in the enviroment.
Now to me, this certainly goes without saying. It seems that each window for malicious attack by that criminal element among the rest of we netizens is represented by the various environmental items we may control from the internet ...
Internet controlled switches, thermostats, and those other items with embedded systems could be as hazardous to our personal space as they are to the power grids and other networked automation controls we choose to place online without sufficient access control. The many articles I have read regarding IoT and risk assessment and management are really thought provoking with mention of internet controlled air conditioning, nuclear power plants, pacemakers, insulin pumps, smart meters and so forth being exploited by those who mean us harm.
So it would seem that my ever-wary conspiracy theory suspicion will protect me from engaging too much internet connectivity as a matter of controlling my environment remotely. Perhaps, if I ever view sufficient control exists my attitude may soften but I don't foresee it until I feel my firewall can prevent another person from reaching out and touching me without my express permission.
Perhaps when we stop buying all of our routers and switches from gd China my suspicious nature may abate. I simply decline to trust the enemy at all and China is our enemy. They spy on us and steal our technology and those in control are impotent to stop them.
I could stop them but I would not be popular and a lot of dead chinese would be laying around stinking up the place even more than they already do.
Technological stupidity ends when technology is a domestic product. Stop the chinese infiltration of the technology markets in the United States.
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- September 15, 2018
- the google domain
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On this day in 1998 Google.com was registered as a domain name.
Early on it was an organic search engine and worked well.
Then their focus became that of an advertising company and that was where the left leaning political aspects came into play with their subsequent cooking of the search engine results to promote their left leaning proclivities and bury those incongruent with their own twisted aims.
All they want to do anymore is make money off of everyone and take your content and use it as spitefully as they like during the process.
Since they defy the settings of robots.txt in their spider activity, toward the end of preventing this domineering criminal enterprise from continuing to screw me to the wall I ended up firewalling them. They retaliate toward this measure by preventing content on android devices. This antitrust crime is something they cultivate with enthusiasm as noted in the EU and other jurisdictions unafraid to put them in their place.
Trump is not afraid to put them in their place. Neither am I ... not that it matters.
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- September 14, 2018
- Henry Gibson
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Back in the innocence and stupidity of my youth there was a television program called Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In which ran from 1967 through 1973 and of which I partook regularly in my never ending quest for tube time in that period of my life.
The program was a variety show style comedy excursion into current events and classical tidbits with a character named Henry Gibson who did poetry and soliloquy among other things likely far beyond the comprehension of many who watched ...
Born James Bateman, Henry Gibson lived from September 21, 1935 through September 14, 2009. I always thought his stage name to be a play on the name of the playwright Henrik Ibsen — which I thought to be quite clever on his part, indeed. Some agree. Others don't.
His career spanned more than those comedic beginnings and included character roles running the full gamut. I remember how odd I thought it was to see him play the criminal element.
Regardless, Henry Gibson was one of those more memorable thespians in my life and I enjoyed each and every facet of his career set before me.
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- September 13, 2018
- Programmers Day 2018
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I've been programming for about 40 years now.
dmr ... Dennis Ritchie
It was "Plan B". When "Plan A" didn't work out I was lucky to have a backup plan in place.
I have run the gamut from PL/1 through the xBase dialects and with the advent of web technologies I took the cgi "non windoze" route and there I have remained until now.
People sometimes remark that I make an unlikely "web guy" because I'm not eighteen years old.
Today is Programmer's Day; a professonal holiday in celebration of coders originating in Russia and held on the 256th day of the year.
Technology with it's computers and software enable just about everything else so pay a little respect to we who make the machines do our bidding.
There are worse roads to take in life.
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- September 12, 2018
- Hurricane Florence Diverts
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The projected path of Hurricane has changed overnight and appears to be headed across South Carolina from the more northerly projections of just yesterday.
It would seem that the governor's closing of the public schools is much more astute than I first realized.
They are saying that we are in for a lot of wind and rain and I'm okay with this.
The bottom line is that the weather like so much else in our existence remains difficult to predict and those projections evolve over time.
Here it comes ...
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- September 11, 2018
- Remember 09/11/2001
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REMEMBER 
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- September 10, 2018
- TV Dinner Day
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I don't really recall my first encounter with TV dinners. However, that raging gourmand within partook with relish and cleaned his little tin compartmentalized plate as if they weren't going to make anymore ... and the meal became one of those many things I added to my diet over the years.
Throughout the decades I have consumed "TV Dinners" in a variety of formats containing a multitude of fast foods from fried chicken through spaghetti and beyond and just tonight I feasted on a Stouffer's fish filet with mac and cheese. Those little orange boxes have been a staple for years.
Today is TV Dinner Day, a time to mark the emergence of the prepackaged meal and the decline of nutrition in the United States since that first C.A. Swanson & Sons product introduced some two years or so before I was born.
In the beginning they were metallic packages you popped into the oven for a half hour or so. Nowadays, they are plastic plates with film tops you nuke for a few of minutes in the microwave.
Regardless, TV dinners and that convenience they represent will remain a part of my life. I try to limit the portions and consume a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables along with them.
Happy TV Dinner Day !
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- September 9, 2018
- The Red Heiffer
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The red heifer (פָרָה אֲדֻמָּה;) also known as the red cow, was a sacrificial cow brought to the priests according to the Hebrew Bible.
Its ashes were utilized in the ritual purification of Tum'at HaMet which refers to "the impurity of the dead" — i.e. an Israelite who had become unclean via contact with a corpse.
Well, the threads are reporting on efforts by the Temple Institute to breed a red heffier which have been successful paving the way for the advent of the third temple in Jerusalem.
That prophecy which states that the cow must be red “without blemish” makes no mention of animal husbandry utilizing various red angus embryos in pursuit of the that qualifying purification event for building the third temple. Inasmuch as the perfection of the Word of God is central to my understanding of scripture, I'm having issues with the utilization of technology to fulfill stated prophecy.
Specifically, I don't feel that The Almighty would have any need for in vitro processes whatsoever.
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- September 8, 2018
- My Imperfect Life
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My pursuit of diminished flaws and defects as they relate to my existence is a topic for which I am pretty ambivalent. There is this notion that I should aspire 'to be perfect in every way'. Then there is that stark reality that all too often those frailties which are certainly included in that who I am culminate in a never ending stream of situational transgressions of what "should have" compared to "did" happen in various practical life scenarios.
Over the years I have noted that my hopes or ambitions toward achieving that lofty goal of interpersonal appropriateness typically fall to the same subset of idiosyncratic perfunctory manifestations such as:
• temper
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• TMI
• profanity
• propensity for bawdy humor
• extravagance
• tendencies of a loner
• abruptness
1. My Temper
My impetuous youth has resulted in an adult with limited tolerance for exploitive, pushy, arrogant types — of which I might ascribe my own behavior in a previous era long ago ... and for which I am quick to throw up an impenetrable agressive defense which I personally view as effective at thwarting users, abusers, and other manifestations of the con artist, liar, thief, cheat, or lying ass technical college administrator.
2. Too Much Information
Oh boy! TMI has been a constant thematic element in my work relationships whereby I like to indulge my hobby of toying with coworkers in order to "get a rise out of them". Typically, while the intent is harmless I sometimes get carried away. However, I've been working on this and find this particular state of being to be improving, comparatively speaking.
3. Profanity
The salty sailor in me has been known to come out at the most inopportune times. While I have never been a fan of "mindless swearing" it is duly noted that my efforts to clean up my speech will continue as time goes on. I shudder to think that my exceptional vocabulary should be wasted on the banality of an inability to say what's on my mind without swearing. I keep plugging at it.
4. Propensity for bawdy humor
In keeping with profanity I find some of the most humorous things I enounter to be somewhat on the bawdy side of the equation. I think this too is a throw back to my Navy days ... and while I don't think it's particularly edifying I see the notion continuing in the foreseeable future. I used to fancy myself a comedian. Those days being long gone I think I crossed over to the dark side of humorousness in the mid 1970s. Must have been one too many Rudy Ray Moore records at the Wagener Drive In or something.
5. Extravagance
I spend too much money. I enjoy my petty creature comforts as well as fine dining and the full gamut of entertainment indulgences which leaves me wondering just why the immediate gratification is a worthwhile endeavor afterwards.
There is this notion of a 'penny saved' being a 'penny earned' and in that vein I could certainly use more savings and less expendatures. Like everything else, I'm working on it.
6. Tendencies towards being a loner
Now, at first glance this might be a disturbing image in the minds eye; until you remember that I am immersed in people for the vast bulk of my work week. The concept of "loners" and socialization is certainly not lost on me. It's just a difficult matter for me to be this social butterfly after I've spent 40 to 60 hours a week indulging all manner of the whims of others. After all, I sometimes feel that I am the only one undeserving of "down" or "me" time. Loner is a harsh term but far be it from me to spare myself an accurate description of appearances.
7. Abruptness
Abruptness manifests itself as anger, flippance, or a variety of other things based on the circumstances. Though it is never my intent I noticed just last night at my mother's house how abrupt I come off at times in the full presence of "feeling normal" and "without anger" at all. Toward that end I will attempt to project a softer reaction ... particularly toward my mother — without getting all disgustingly kissy faced as is the habit of some I have encountered over the years. Looks can be deceiving. Appearing short isn't always some crabby countenance. It's sometimes part and parcel to some troubleshooting event.
Anyway, I get the impression that my neighbors would like me to be a little more friendly and outgoing. I don't really see it happening in the foreseeable future.
I don't feel obligated to provide anyone with predictability nor excessive ebullience or effusiveness in my activities of daily living. I do endeavor to be presentable in polite company as well.
So, be all of this as it may; I recognize my shortcomings. I try to work on those I can control effectively and wrangle with those I cannot — and most importantly:
I try to understand the difference between them.
Cheers!
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- September 7, 2018
- Trying to make it up to God
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I have been a lousy Christian. I have used the title of the Lord, my God whose name is "I Am" in vain entirely too much. I have apologized and repent only to turn around and do it again the next day.
Fall short? I keep falling off a cliff.
It's no wonder winning the lottery eludes me. I have read of so many who have prayed to God and won while I have reached the point that I know there's no need mentioning it.
However, I remain stalwart in my belief that "God hears all prayers" ... Even if the answer is "no".
So I attempt to speak to God most every day. I share my hopes and fears, my dreams and aspirations. I attempt to understand Him and want Him to understand me.
Even though he knows all things from the beginning throughout the Eternity there is still that glowing ember which was the soul of a little boy so long ago.
That child who knew he was forgiven and fell asleep in the confidence of salvation despite his imperfections.
That jaded adult which he became not withstanding; I seek a more innocent moment in time which I shall never regain.
So I simply abide and speak my mind as best I can. I attempt to remain civil and reverent to a degree and hope that when all is said and done that I am not cast into the lake of fire.
I think I know the answer to the pertinent questions regarding His elect. I'm just not at all sure that I qualify for that connotation.
Regardless, all I can be is a man like all the others. Flawed more or less and just trying to get though this thing called life without wasting so much as I have up to now.
It's a difficult matter to pursue spirituality and be the profane person that I am. However, I'm working on it ... still.
I who claim to be Christian have hurt others.
Others who claim to be Christian have hurt me.
We'll just have to see what that tally is at the white throne and just who indeed are the deceived with their claims of impending 'rapture' regardless of how unBiblical it all may be.
Our works are all that accompany us to the hereafter. Mine are pretty shabby.
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- September 6, 2018
- National Coffee Ice Cream Day 2018
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Now then I am a proponent of drinking coffee.
It's more utilitarian than anything else with a need to get all "jacked up" to apply myself at work.
I haven't really been a fan of coffee confections like my nephew drinking the cold starbucks drinks like they aren't going to make anymore.
I likewise haven't been too enthused over a nice dish of coffee ice cream, either.
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer the chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry among the more exotic flavors most of all.
Today is National Coffee Ice Cream Day.
We don't know the origins of the observance, but there is quite a contingent of individuals who savor the flavor of this caffiene infused dairy delight.
Thanks, but I won't be having any.
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- September 5, 2018
- Be Late For Something Day 2018
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Being late is one of my darkest phobias ...
It's something the Navy put into me.
The thought of unauthorized absence and getting into hot water with the service was formidable enough.
However, I think that subconsciously it was the notion of having to fess up to my late father, Master Chief Williamson that made me REALLY want to always be on time.
My dad was a no-nonsense straight talking kind of fellow who didn't pull any punches and I just didn't want that to ever be a conversation we had.
Anyway, it became so engrained in my psyche that now I am chronically early rather than late.
I'd much rather be an hour early than a minute late. I guess as neurotic tendencies go I could have picked one more destructive than being on time.
This is just another quirk and believe me -- according to my niece, Rebecca, I have many.
So on this particular day we're not supposed to worry about deadline pressures, punching the clock -- or keeping track of the minutes and seconds as the fly right on by.
We're supposed to take a little more time for ourselves today and not worry about getting there on any schedule. So ease on by and toss that clock.
Happy Be Late for Something Day !
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- September 4, 2018
- Newspaper Carrier Day 2018
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I'm afraid that newspapers are on their way out.
They have pretty much been supplanted by the "new media" offerings of the internet juxtaposed with their own sloppy presence thereto ...
Complete with all the yellowness to which journalism has evolved in it's quest to influence opinions rather than report facts.
That stupidity which is the fake news of the present will ultimately disappear with those purveyors of such malfeasance as CNN, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times among the Washington Compost and other such rags of deceit.
Today is Newspaper Carrier Day in memory of one Barney Flaherty, the first newspaper carrier who was hired in 1833 by Benjamin Day, publisher of the New York Sun.
Then there is International Newspaper Carrier Day held under the auspices of the Newspaper Association of America typically held on the Saturday of the first week in October.
The purpose of International Newspaper Carrier Day is to recognize those contributions of newspapers to those communities they serve.
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