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- July 18, 2018
- National Caviar Day 2018
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So whereas that stuff I consumed with great gusto so long ago was the real thing — nowadays the word caviar is extended to any fish or shellfish roe derived by any processing which may transpire.
Suffice it to say, the expense of caviar is not something I justify in my life anymore.
The little implements, wedges of lemon, and those crackers aren't part and parcel to that off time ... which now doesn't include reclamation of my soul from the clutches of purest evil.
So now I enjoy it when I encounter it; but no longer actively pursue it.
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- July 17, 2018
- World Emoji Day 2018
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Today is World Emoji Day — an unofficial holiday celebrated on July 17. Said to be a "global celebration of emoji" it is marked with various events and products released for the occasion.
The word Emoji means picture letter and is a a small digital image or icon by which an idea or emotion may be expressed in electronic communication.
Emoticons are pictoral representations of facial expressions usually formed by keystroke combinations like ;-) for the purpose of conveying feelings or tone.
The world in all it's facebook, twitter, and social media glory has embraced these in electronic communication for whatever value they may personally glean from their use.
The cutesy cutesy of it all having been lost on me back in the 80s, what was once a fad is now quite the mainstream social media lemming bulwark and there is even a study of emoji use by persons in states ranked by popularity.
Okay, maybe I am a word purist and maybe I could at least try to be a little more fun and YES, I have used both the emoticon and the emoji in various past lives ... but really and truly my cutesy phase ended some forty years ago and though I personally now fail to see the allure — by all means the rest of you go for it.
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- July 15, 2018
- Home on the Meth Lab
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The news threads are reporting a resurgence in the manufacture, sale, and use of Methamphetamine. I personally feel that there has been no resurgence — with the frequency pretty much remaining fairly high across recent history.
Methamphetamine has been rampant in my home county for years now. There are stupendous spreads of rows and columns of mug shots featured in the local newspaper ... mentioning the busts of meth kitchens, 60 arrests, and a veritable plethora of fugly individuals who should take a look in the mirror and understand what meth is doing to them.
It's not bad enough that cooking methamphetamine presents hazards in the form of toxic pollution requiring industrial cleanup methods coupled with the real and present danger of the effects of repeated volatile inhalants plus the possibility for violent explosion ... there are also those effects the drug imparts to the user before, during, and after exposure.
Mug shots in particular are typically dramatic in that you could tell those individuals with more lengthy histories of drug use compared to others who were 'newbies' in the drug culture.
The addictive nature of the drug is why the manufacture operations are so prevalent ... and obviously the craving for the drug tends to make an addict oblivious to the obvious detrimental effects it has upon them. It appears to leech from their pores and addict complexions are the most striking hit of meth use. Then there is a general disheveled appearance with diminished hygienic maintenance and the dull blank stare many display as well. Others look intensely angry in their throes of withdrawal — for one thing incarceration does for them is keep them away from the drug.
Personally, I don't think you can really call it a "drug" either. This is a toxic chemical admixture created by amateurs for morons such as themselves. It would never be for me and I am sorry for all of them. Based on physical appearances in the aforementioned mug shots draped across the front page of the local newspaper, jail has been the best thing to happen to a number of them for a long time.
Seems that the dreaded 'downward spiral' takes many forms these days ... I'm having problems coming to terms with all the things which presently pass for recreational drugs. Bath salts or methamphetamine cooked up by some unscientific goon in a kitchen or living room somewhere with questionable equipment and methods -- and all kinds of dirt, adulterants, insects and vermin -- simply doesn't conjure up such visions in my little brain of an ex-head long ago ... and the people continue to ingest these substances regardless of what it does to them as a result.
Having given up all recreational drugs some thirty years back I consider myself fortunate to have missed the entirety of the meth epidemic for it is truly a horrific site to behold from the standpoint of those users caught and made to answer to the law.
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- July 14, 2018
- Pseudointellectual Dumbosis
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There is a phenomenon in education whereby idiots are awarded "doctorates in education" then given leadership roles in the failed education system of the United States.
This situation affects the entirety of the educational quagmire into which we thrust trusting children whereby a small fraction thrive while the rest languish in that democrat so-called "progressive" leftist indoctrination nothingness which is the result of a public education. The evidence is a Republic layed waste by a political ilk rejected by the last election.
This predicament crosses gender boundaries with males and females in the education system being equally affected and it is becoming quite evident that some presenter of information in a book is far less effective than a true domain expert in a field when it comes to instruction of any type.
How can you tell a feeble higher educational institution? They advertise to weenies watching late night television in their mom's basement.
What is the remedy for higher educational standards in the United States of America? Stop allowing the unions to force school districts to retain incompetent, malevolent individuals and pay them to play cards and read magazines in a guarded break room. Stop letting squeaky little stupid dizzy limp brained Ed D's become public school district superintendents, do nothing significant or worthwhile over the expanse of an entire career, then collect a fat pension at the expense of the tax payers just because those populating the school board are either equally stupid or chummy, or otherwise in cahoots. The public served by the public education system is equally part of the incompetence problem.
The educational system in the United States was broken by educators. Dumb ass teachers and dumber ass administrators which formed part and parcel of "no child left behind," the passing of students despite failed coursework, "common core," and other travesties of policy and the associated didactic failures which make FAR too many of our advanced degree holders just another moron in the mix.
How many times do I have to encounter yet another incompetent doctorate or masters degree holder in my lifetime? I've already asked to pay less taxes in my attempt to stop support of this failed system ...
Whereas advanced educational credentials formerly implied advanced intellectual capabilities this simply is no longer the case in ENTIRELY too many instances. Can I at least get a DUH ? Boo!
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- July 13, 2018
- AI, death, and the FDA
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I once worked at Richland Hospital with a person who could sense impending death.
His accuracy was quite uncanny and downright spooky at times and he worked up until he became ill, predicting his own death as well.
So there is an AI package which is purported to predict impending death with remarkable accuracy — so much that it has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is expected to save lives from unexpected mortality in the US as a result.
The company with this tech, Excel Medical out of Florida has been touting it's new WAVE Clinical Platform which includes a deep-learning algorithm that can accurately predict whether a given patient might be at risk for sudden death.
It is comprised of a network of digital medical records with physiological metrics in real time all said to calculate the risk of a patient six hours before a human physician might.
It can even phone on call professonals at it's own initiation through a smartphone app.
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- July 12, 2018
- Simplicity Day
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When I taught college one of my constants in the way of admonitions for those seriously pursuing technical careers was my practice of the "KISS" method: "keep it simple, sweetheart" ... which was a polite company variant on the thing told to me in the Navy.
Over the years I have attempted to simplify the complex and it has allowed me to go places and do things for which a lot of my peers never aspired and indeed — cannot do either.
It is said that today is "Simplicity Day" in celebration of the anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birthday.Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
The significance I believe is his advice to readers regarding the simplification of their lives. The complexities which comprise the world today could use a bit of simplification.
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- July 11, 2018
- World Population Day 2018
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Today is World Population Day, precursor to that global population manifesto of the United Nations toward sustainable development called Agenda 21 and it's depopulation and concentration of the existing citizens under armed control by UN forces with the revamp called "Agenda 30" necessitated by their inability to make things happen because too many of us are not quite as stupid as they first thought.
They describe various innocuous appearing scenarios which appear innocent enough until you tie it all together with green spaces which become no man zones after they disarm the entirety of the country and this new world order the traitor Bushes joined forces with the criminal Clinton's and the brigand Obama in order to try and send us over the precipice of centralized socialist "global" control from Belgium with all the elements of subterfuge and foolish lambs going to the slaughter at the behest of the democrats and progressives touting a world of slavery through rose tinted glasses.
I'm keeping my weapons. That stupidity which is the NO RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS Austrailia will not influence me like it has them and their populace are fools to allow their government to disarm the entire continent. How can you trust the few to provide for the many? It won't happen.
The UN does not control the United States. I shall not submit to UN control. I will not be subjected to the new world order. The traitor Bushes, the criminal Clintons, and that muslim kowtowing brigand Obama can go straight to hell or Kenya or where ever that foreigner originates.
Socialism has never worked and has only resulted in mass deaths and destruction. How many times must the lessons be learned before we realize the folly of those past mistakes of history.
BOO !
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- July 10, 2018
- Nikola Tesla Day 2018
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Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943) was an engineer of Croatian-American extraction who had a grasp of the universe exceeding the capacity of those who stole his work from his hotel vault immediately after his death.
Those robbers of puny intellect could not grasp that which they purloined much less implement any of it so the government thieves simply confiscated that which was his in the name of that greed and criminality which has become the deep state.
So far beyond the standards of his day a lot of his ideas were relegated to science fiction and indeed they provided quite the show in many of the attractions of the time. That which was suppressed by a military industrial complex bent on keeping fossil fuels and limited supply commodities for the taxpayer still wrangle with those old ways, ignoring all that could be accomplished if they were relieved of their duties and that which they have stolen were released to the world for utilization.
Today is World Tesla Day, aka Nikola Tesla day, aka simply Tesla Day and celebrates that which he was and his contributions from which he was unable to benefit during his life time.
That dishonor which is the deep state, the robber government, and the liars among us shame us in that light which was Tesla's life and what he did — but moreso what he knew and would share with the world had he been permitted to do so.
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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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