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- December 10, 2017
- Wicca Proliferates
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It seems that witchcraft is becoming the "religion" of choice in the decline of traditional religion. The news threads report that numerous people are "falling under the spell" of wicca as though it brings some redeeming quality to otherwise spiritually meaningless existence.
Elements include "high priestesses", warlocks, other levels in the hierarchy of witches claiming to practice "the craft of the wise" in groups referred to as "churches" and blah blah blah.
I love to see the black robes and regalia of these deceived souls as they would have us believe that same false religion which grips them. This is more of the leftist nonsense purveyed by the groups like the hollywood illuminati in their never ending quest for perversion in the finest tradition of the Bohemian Club and their adoption of all things profane.
Enlightenment? What enlightenment.
Scripture Selections Concerning Being Deceived Deuteronomy 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Isaiah 44:20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? Jeremiah 4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. 20:7 O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. Ezekiel 14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. Obadiah 1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him. Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. John 7:47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Romans 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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- December 9, 2017
- Difficulty is Universal
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I've had a rather difficult week. At work my algorithm for web forms has changed radically and the jump from HTML4 to HTML5 with data binding is fraught with another level of componentry I'd just as soon forego.
The domestic front has been somewhat tumultuous with various perceptions which all had to be sorted out amongst the clan. I was mean to my sister on the telephone and feel ashamed of it all ... I really should cultivate some tolerance for chatty things. It's really been problematic for me in the past.
I missed a call from my uncle and ended up returning it about 26 hours later. He's probably ticked with me over what should have been a couple of small questions covered quickly.
Yesterday I got hijacked by my lottery vendor who "powerplayed" my ticket for me sucking up half of the funds I was going to use for supper. Anyway, I ended up buying a few groceries to compensate.
All in all there has been confusion and anxiety and I hope it all calms down before Monday of next week.
I'm starting to become a little phobic of my activities of daily living and this too needs to pass as soon as possible.
"tough times don't last tough people do"
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- December 8, 2017
- Net Neutrality and Bickering Vendors
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Customers of Amazon are now drawn into the feud of Google and Amazon competition. Youtube is being pulled from Fire TV and Echo Show devices as the crybabies fight and allow that to ripple through to the customer base.
This is the problem with near monopolies which are unregulated sufficiently to protect the consumer. Apparently there aren't enough in the way of fines and perhaps the jurisdictions need to think up a few more ... maybe the crybaby fight fine where the customer doesn't matter to some uppity set of vendors who disagree with each other.
Retaliation in the market place is evidence for two players being too big for their britches.
That resulting disappointment of some kid with electronics which can but won't operate a social media platform is due to what may only be described as the basest form of selfishness in technology.
What a crass bunch of whiny people in charge of these two companies.
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- December 7, 2017
- Pearl Harbor Day
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Today is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day observed each December 7 in memory and honor of the 2,403 US citizens killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
It was on the anniversary of that day my mother chose to lay my biological father to rest — but it really had no tangible meaning for me personally until that time.
It's funny how things can change so abruptly and profoundly in the minds of people.
I now remember that particular Pearl Harbor day as though it were yesterday.
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- December 6, 2017
- Hacking to be worse in 2018
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I'm reading in the threads how hack attacks on internetworked machines will be worse next year. The threat arises from the exploitation of users and assets available on the public domain which are insufficiently protected or not at all.
The gullible, the open network projection of friendly space some companies wish to project, as well as down right obsolete software stacks and security software implementations will be the key factors in this success projected in the threads right now.
Time to double down and get your house in order. If someone calls you regarding a problem on your computer which they say they have detected from "their" end ... hang up on them.
If you're on an obsolete operating system with old security implementations or none at all ... upgrade.
If you're a general access shop wanting the people to have easy fast access instead of knowing who your users are and what they may be up to that might be incongruent with your business model ... good luck.
I don't trust anyone that I can't authenticate to my satisfaction. I check my logs for selfish idiots and their exploit attempts out there trying to get through various holes in my infrastructure. I firewall entire countries as a matter of policy. I block those domestic networks who give foreign nationals on my block lists an alternate route. These people who think that the internet will take care of both them and itself are in for quite a shock when things come up compromised. Your ISP can only do so much if they will do anything at all.
It's your trade secrets, product lines, financials, and other aspects of existence on the line. Establish your barriers and points of failure before others do it for you.
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- December 5, 2017
- Repeal Day
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In my younger days I consumed alcohol. In the Navy I began hanging out at the enlisted men's club and there I could drink long and hard very cheaply. This behavior pretty much continued through my hitch and came to a slowdown sometime afterwards.
After that I would drink socially or go off on a bender like consuming half a bottle of tequila only to regret it severely afterwards.
Nowadays, I can't remember when I last had a drink of liquor, beer, or any other alcoholic beverage — not that I wouldn't imbibe ... I just have not experienced any occasions where the prospects were relevant to me personally.
I'm just a little TOO old to be hanging out at the club anymore. Besides, bar flies tend to annoy me when they start yapping.
Today is Repeal Day, marking the December 5th, 1933 end of Prohibition and the resumption of the legal consuming of alcohol.
I have never been prohibited from drinking. I know of people in my family who probably wouldn't make it without at least a snootful each day.
As for me, I am content to let it all alone until such time as I view having a drink as socially relevant. I know I'll never just "need" a drink.
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- December 4, 2017
- Daddy Passed 16 Years Ago
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Dad chose a difficult road for a career path, one that required all of his attention at their whim and this didn't leave much outside what was approved for servicemen in their daily lives or those of their family.
Still, he endured it and went on to have a second career afterwards and his projection of that stalwart and stoic superman remains with me to this day.
You never think you will lose those pillars of strength which represent themselves so clearly in your past ... but lo and behold time changes all things and those frailties which consist of humanity ultimately unfold themselves upon us regardless of appearances ...
The years have flown since my Dad passed on December 4, 2001. It was a very difficult time and I don't think you ever really get totally past it all; but the ensuing years have brought me to a point that I don't think of it every minute of each day as I did early on ...
We're all headed down the same path, age, change, entropy, and ultimately death but sometimes the heart ignores what it cannot tolerate leaving us to crash and burn in our own grief after reality has come on down.
Carrying on does get to happen, however fleeting that is in and of itself and those memories though sweet will never replace that reality we once knew and enjoyed so much.
All a person can really do is await their own reward and rejoin our loved ones in spirit when it is our time to go to them.
It's sad but those choices which remain grow few on that path which is life and family. All we can do is abide and that is precisely what we're continuing to do.
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- December 3, 2017
- The Morons of Columbia
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I live in a metropolitan area in the Deep South. One of the issues I have with the place is the number of drivers on the road texting while endangering me and everyone else in their midst.
Case in point: yesterday I was turning left onto Assembly Street from Richland Street behind a vehicle which was all over the road and driving at a speed below half the posted limit.
Upon overtaking this vehicle in the left lane I noticed it was a woman behind the wheel texting with her phone while attempting to steer and it wasn't going well.
Naturally, there were no public safety officers present and this is only one of a great many incidents I have encountered within the city limits where state law has plainly stated that texting while driving is unsafe and ILLEGAL.
My connundrum surrounds the personal problems I would incur should I take these morons out as a public service.
It would have been a simple matter had I not wanted to become some bad man's boyfriend while awaiting lethal injection.
The moral of the story is texting while driving is stupid, unsafe, and illegal. We need some better method of detecting these menaces to society without forcing the law abiding tax payer to become a vigilante and pursue them all to the death.
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- December 2, 2017
- Jim Neighbors RIP
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When I was a young child a staple of my television viewing was the Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, USMC.
James Thurston Nabors
June 12, 1930 – November 30, 2017
American actor, comedian, and singer
Both programs featured a character named Gomer Pyle portrayed by Jim Neighbors. My attraction to the programs began with the 'down home' easy going humor and it was something I could (and did) watch. I suppose the child in me drove that habit to watch the two programs.
The character Gomer Pyle was a country man involved in various aspects of those activities which comprise daily living. In the Andy Griffith franchise he was a mechanic and in the spin off he was a PFC in the Marine Corps.
Each iteration was that same enthusiastic good natured fellow regardless of the backdrop and he held my interest until I became older and "thought" I was too sophisticated for such viewing.
Later, I heard Jim Neighbors sing in his baritone and was amazed at that new facet of his entertainment to which I was introduced. Though I never really became a big fan of the musical Jim Neighbors I would indeed engage a few numbers on the teevee as they presented themselves over the years. I was sorry to hear of the passing of Jim Neighbors day before yesterday. The fact that the announcement came from his "husband" was not surprising ... but I recall having second thoughts when I first knew he was gay — having heard ancedotal evidence years prior to that time.
All-in-all we have to accept people as they are and I feel that my world in particular was better for having Jim Neighbors as a part of it. So gay or not I'm sorry his run is over and I wish his family and friends peace in their time of grief.
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- December 1, 2017
- Sexual Misconduct R Us
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So the news is simply hopping with new claims of sexual misconduct every day. Some of these are certainly projecting veracity while others ring questionable through and through.
The problem is that each case appears to be "guilty until proven innocent" and I find that to be pretty bass-ackwards to the way justice goes down in this jurisdiction.
The clouds of suspicion are being largely ignored ... like a number of democrat women making all manner of claims against a Republican candidate and just where was all this hubbub when we had a serial rapist in the White House ? Now I don't profess to know whose guilty nor innocent and I certainly feel that time is an issue with 30 years being a bit long to wait to complain about "misconduct".
Kind of makes it sound like mutual consent type behavior to me. Be all of this as it may the accused have rights I feel are being stomped on and this sad state is what we have become as a nation due to the idiot democrats and their penchant for the money of George Soros.
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- November 30, 2017
- Cities for Life Day
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The death penalty is execution imposed on someone who has convicted a capital crime in the jurisdiction passing sentence. I am more ambivalent toward it's implementation than I was a decade ago — when I was pro to the nth degree.
The extreme nature of execution as a judicial punishment juxtaposed to the botched executions which sometimes occur have lent credence to it's abolition by many on the Earth.
However, it remains in various forms as that ultimate price to be paid for what are supposed to be the most heinous of crimes. Some places list drug trafficking right on up there with mass murder and it is carried out for nonviolent as well as violent crimes on the books of those nations which impose it upon their citizens and others who happen to be apprehended there.
Today is Cities for Life Day. It is a worldwide observance supporting the abolition of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 each year and is one of those things countries like to point out as being on the "civilized" end of a scale listing countries having the death penalty viz a viz those which have abolished it.
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- November 29, 2017
- Google Home Mini ...
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The new electronic gagetry is progressing at a geometric rate. There are new ways to provide the content of your casual conversations to those servers on the so-called cloud designed to contain them for further processing by marketing people, law enforcement, the NSA ... just anyone with whom the owner of that information wishes to share !
So google wants to be your virtual assistant with a new model of google Home designed for every room of the house. They tout a "sleek" minimalist design loaded with "more features than ever".
Now then, I'm sure it appears quite Japanese but my issue is not so much it's presence but what it's doing while it monitors all conversations in it's purview.
I'm already suspicious of Alexa and everything else designed to be your "mouth of the South" with wifi access to the internet all ready to capture and store whatever is encountered for the benefit of whomever decides what personal recognizance is relevant to their marketing and / or regular transmissions to the NSA.
Anyway, call me paranoid but there will be no such devices availing themselves to any nice spying on me while they tend to my every personal assistant whim. The thought of the innumerable suckers who will place these "assistants" on their networks with full access is one compelling lesson in naivete.
I'll bet the sales will be peppy among the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Soon google will own the bulk of that wretched refuse of our teeming shores.
Pigeon of the electronic snoop and stool pigeon.
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- November 28, 2017
- the rise of the digisexuals
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Well ... I should have, but did not see this coming. The advent of sex robots with diverse and numerous capabilities is giving rise to humans who prefer them over human partners.
what are we becoming ?
I attribute this largely to the ridiculous feminist movement which is so intent on removing men from their existence to the point of lesbianizing woman kind and this ridiculous view of white males as being privileged so that such migration to manufacturerd sexual partners I suppose was inevitable.
The idiot generation which gave rise to the millenials — you know, that generation of burger flippers which arose from the 1980s post hippie big hair punk apocolypse where free love no longer mattered and the only thing which got universally shared were STDs.
So a high tech partner which can speak and interact and even fake orgasms better than a human female is bound to displace those icebergs into which too many women are evolving.
Luckily none of this affects my sexual proclivities which are nil for so many years now and perhaps that indeed was a true benefit of being fat, bald, ugly and and therefore shunned in my life. No hard feelings; but I really thought interpersonal relations would improve over time and this is a digression from anything I might view as progress. Hell, I can do better and have done MUCH better than this.
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- November 27, 2017
- The origin of the CARE package
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How many times I have sent a "care package" to someone?
Much too numerous to count. Early on I thought the term referred to a feeling of concern or interest in someone or something, i.e., resulting in the attachment of importance.
Later I learned of the organization CARE as it arose from the consequences of World War II. On this day in 1945 CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe. Now the title is an acronym for Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere ... a modernization of that initial mission in the context of the provision of help internationally.
It is a coalition of 14 member nations with a goal of providing humanitarian and emergency relief as well as the provision of long-term development projects internationally.
So the "care packages" of my earlier existence were actually symbolic of a much larger entity and my "care" as it were a minute example of local inclusivity.
CARE has been around for 72 years. Longer than even me.
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