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July 7, 2017
Cheating higher in Older Americans
    Diane Choksondik from South Park
The Independent had a rather interesting piece (sic) on extra marital sex among persons in their 50s with an increasing trend being noted.

They covered a study by the IFS which went so far as to state the emergence of a 'generational gap' when it comes to extramarital sex ...

It simply follows that those who once constituted that group called all my slutty friends have simply gotten older and are remaining just as they were.

The trend in the younger folks appears to be opting for less promiscuity than their predecessors.

I blame the 1960s and it's drug culture and permissiveness which likely spawned these attitudes and likely can never be curbed.

I also attribute some of the inclination for whoredom to others who have male partners with those affectations of old age like "low T" and various other organic causes which force their corresponding "lackanookie" partners to seek comfort elsewhere.

Some of the stories I've heard regarding nursing homes and such could likely become the stuff of grannies gone wild videos were there a market for varioius flapping body parts — and likely spills over in the subsequent prevalence of plastic surgery anymore.

There is some comfort to the notion that my diminished activity offers me a level of protection compared to that wild child on the west coast which was once me ...

Jumping the bones of any and every female I could coax into the sack. Didn't take much either. A few drinks. A little toot. Another girl wanting to be room mates.

I may be older and wiser, BUT I'm also quite a bit less functional with health care provisions which simply do not accommodate my needs on the hormone replacement front.

Perhaps should my attitudes lean toward the more aggressive sexuality I once pursued vigorously ... things might change. Until then I'm prepared to watch television and sit at my computer rather than pursue the polyamory my cohorts obviously prefer.

America’s Generation Gap in Extramarital Sex
Institute for Family Studies
July 5, 2017

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July 6, 2017
National Fried Chicken Day
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As one who consumes entirely too much fried chicken, I am proud to announce National Fried Chicken Day ... begun who knows when by who knows who to celebrate that greasy artery clogging southern delicacy called Fried Chicken.

You differentiate the "fried" of the species by that medium in which it is prepared.

My personal favorite is KFC Original recipe ... the one done up by the fine people on Decker Boulevard.

I won't eat the local Kentucky fried chicken nearby on 12th street in West Columbia because the ignorant bitches can neither cook it much less serve it in the manner in which The Colonel intended.

The only place worse than KFC in West Columbia, SC is Bojangles next door at 12th Street and Augusta Road — where the rip off employees don't even realize that a four piece box should contain 4 pieces of chicken and NOT 3.

Leave it to some insipid inbred West Columbia denizen to get fried chicken wrong ... of all things. I suppose the quality of employee may be lacking given the work environment. I never had a problem at the Bojangles on Elmwood Avenue uptown.
 

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July 5, 2017
Adding a Confederate Flag to the Decor
     Confederate Battle Flag Infantry

Well, I ordered a hand sewn 4x4 foot Confederate Battle Flag to hang on one of the walls of my home. My ancestry has deep roots in the confederacy and I'm really not concerned with whomever doesn't like the notion ... after all, it is my house and I get to pick what is there and what is not.

It's okay with me if others dislike the confederate flag for whatever preconceived notion they have. I do have distain for those jurisdictions who deny what the flag is in deference to what it totally is not.

Like the political coward Nikki Haley did in South Carolina.

You can say it symbolizes hate because the idiot crackers in the KKK utilize it as their so-called symbology. However, there are those of us with honored war dead who fought under that flag and as such it is a difficult matter to simply wipe it from the earth as stupid revisionist morons might like to do.

The confederacy is merely a part of my heritage. The flag will take it's place on a wall somewhere yet to be determined. I won't let anyone mess with it, either.

History remains after the desecration ends. The confederacy has been desecrated by the former govenor of South Carolina among many others. There remains a contingent of citizen tax payers who will not let it's memory die.

Dylann Roof and his ilk do not represent the memory of the confederacy and his use of the confederate flag is anathema to that memory. The KKK likewise do not represent the confederacy and project an ignorance which is at once humorous and disturbing.

There were a lot of slave holders in the North as well as the South and the people who brought the slaves here were Dutch traders.

I likewise make no apologies for slavery because I never owned another human being nor wanted to either. This business of holding generations hostage for the past hasn't worked out too well for those seekers of reparations, now has it ?

We cannot help where we're from and who our ancestors were. I am from the deep South and my ancestors fought for both the confederate and union armies. Some of the more poignant stories of my ancestors revolve around the confederacy.

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July 4, 2017
Happy 4th of July
Happy Independence Day

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July 3, 2017
Dog Days
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Today commences the "Dog Days" of Summer, that hot and humid time for taking it easy when in the outdoors lest you sunstroke or something worse ...

Named for Sirius, the dog star, known as the largest star in the constellation Canis Major (big dog).

These days correspond with it's rising at dawn and the seasonal effect was one of heat, drought, lethargic people, thunderstorm activity, fevers, mad dogs, and less than optimal luck.

In the Northern hemisphere they connote the hottest most miserable part of Summer.

They may be described as those 40 days beginning July 3rd and ending August 11th.




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July 2, 2017
World UFO Day
My recent involvement with research into extraterrestrial presence on the earth has been at once disturbing and edifying for me personally.

Those revelations made to me and cross referenced by me have impacted my attitudes toward my government, faith, and disdain for this globalist political thrust which seeks to destroy our constitutional government and place us at the whims of some multinational association such as the UN which only seeks to control every aspect of our existence simply because they believe they can undertake the task and achieve it.

    Roswell Daily Record July 8,1947
Today is World UFO Day. It is an international observance for people to attempt to observe UFOs and is named the UFO crash in Roswell New Mexico back in 1947 which the military has repeatedly lied about on several fronts in an effort to maintain that control above the constitutional government in favor of the "Greada Treaty", the "Majestic 12", and the shadow government which subsequently assumed control turning our "constitutional republic" into an oligarchy in the name of personal enrichment for those who Eisenhower mistrusted which remains to this day.

Luckily, there is a large sector of the populace which has done it's homework and amassed the data appropriate to the tracking of this misuse of tax dollars in support to the black ops required of the shadow government and those billions for which accountability is not required have fallen both into question and scrutiny at this late stage of the game.

That trechery which is the shadow government will stop at nothing to retain power and can and will murder citizen patriots as it suits them for any reason they perceive to be warranted against the taxpayers.

So happy UFO day in the land of the enslaved and the home of the cowards.

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July 1, 2017
July is here ...
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As we enter the seventh month I am suddenly aware how time is flying right on by (as usual) those doldrums of June and the oppresive heat and humidity are likely to continue and I'm sure glad I work in air conditioning.

This morning finds me off to do a little shopping to buy some of those many items I'm out of — like dish washer tablets and "real" pine oil cleaner (NOT Pine Sol).

Anyway, I'm on a 4 day weekend and will be tooling around town on various errands for the bulk of it all.

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June 30, 2017
Local Whining over the Affordable Care Act Demise

As work on the Republican health care plan continues there has been a local uprising of sorts by those who want the tax and spend dole of Obamacare to remain.

    Local protest against the Republican health care bill

The coverage in one of the local rags was really quite a bit much with comic book representations of so-called debilitating disease represented in lipstick, mascara, and varioius body paints being characterized as "a gruesome scene" (puhLEEZE) and the chanting and home made signage touting this lament of that freebie which will soon be gone.

It's all fine and well and good to live in a socialist country and if that is your preference, by all means move there and live.

This business of expecting the workers to pay for varous others to receive never ending treatment at their expense simply is not the way to go in these otherwise uncertain times.

We are being expected to fund and support a never ending stream of children brought to the world by various women engaging the genitals of countless men who chose to lay around and breed rather to engage gainful employment and it simply is not happening.

People who have worked all their life and need some help are a different story.

Deadbeat parents can simply make other arrangements.

So yes, I come off as hard hearted over this matter but I've seen one too many emergency rooms flooded with colds and what have you which should be treated by private physicians which have never been present due to the motivations of those parents engaging this "need to breed".

We have been left with an entitlement crazy generation who feel that whatever need they may have should be funded by everyone else in the country.

It all has to end sometime. May as well be now. Naturally all of the "agencies" and the protests against the Republican health care bill not to mention the South Carolina Progressive Network leeches who want to take everything from the worker and hand it over to the shirker, calling the Republican measure to resume some semblance of sanity to government a "zombie bill".

Rumor has it that the military industrial complex and their masters the bilderberg group want to thin out the population anyway with nobody even bothering to challenge them. Well ... if that what it takes, it just may happen.

Get off the dole and go to work.
 

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June 29, 2017
Yet ANOTHER New Ransomware
petya ransomware    
At work we received an enterprise wide warning regarding the new petya ransomware which encrypts both files and the master boot records of infected machines.

It orginates in Europe with Russia and Ukrane hit early and hard. It has also impacted enterprises in the US and Western Europe and uses several attack vectors.

Once you get hit you receive a message demanding three hundred dollars in bitcoin to unlock the data. All data is encrypted at that point in time.

It appears to extract credentials from an essential windows file. It's primary portage are TCP ports 445 and 139 and unless some mistake is found the data cannot be accessed.

Now then, this is quite similar to Wannacry but adds a "worm" component for spreading the malicious code. Luckily my servers all keep stealth port assignments in effect and the firewalls are tighter than a ...

Pretty doggone tight.

The clear and present danger appears to be enterprise configurations such as those in multinational companies and like I keep telling ya ... backup is your only real time hope.

There is banter of the "Petya is not ransomware" variety being passed around with the definition leaning toward "destructive wiper malware". I find this reasonable given the fact that the email company the originators had been using has terminated their account with extreme prejudice rendering them incommunicado.

So, uh if you value what's on that disk drive let's hope you have a spare copy lying around. This has got me all fired up to start cloning my drives and I intend to get hot on that task immediately.

ALSO, I suppose that my repeated admonitions regarding what a cold place the internet is may be hitting you in the old realization by now ... ? Good luck and back up !

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June 28, 2017
Facebook, people, and hate speech
     Freedom of Speech
It seems that Facebook is in the midst of a thing they call "Hard Questions" which is a series discussing various issues of modern existence. One of these coming to the fore is "hate speech" and opened with one of their officers stating how the company is against it in all forms.

My personal view is that speech should be free, hate or otherwise. One of the primary problems in the world today is this "protected mode" existence where a sector are "offended" by hate speech and want it banned.

This "safe space" mentality is a prime mover in the "pc" impetus and as such is a detrement to a free and open society. It turns us into an intolerant population of twits who cannot function in the throes of reality.

The value of "freedom of speech" is the ability to know from where a person positions themself in their sphere of existence. If that existence is offensive then the offended should simply shun the presence where ever it happens to arise.

Instead we find these people wanting to squash the rights of others to save themselves some modicum of offense in life. Therein lay the problem with this bunch of hoity toity patent leather types who would just as soon suppress you as look at you all in the name of "their" view of "correctness".

There are times and places for polite company. How you comport yourself in those various venues available to you is an indication of just who you are and where you stand. I, for one would prefer knowing that from your own expressions of idea ... not some watered down version a Yale grad accustomed to "safe spaces" and that sweet nothingness called their lack of reality can accommodate without screaming in protest.

I make no bones about it. If I believe it, I'm going to say it and I really remain unconcerned as to who gets offended. This is the nature of freedom of speech. This is who we are and we are not going down the revisionist apologetic path concoted by some misinformed manipulative would-be educator.

Freedom of speech is a constitutional right and not subject to the whims of those who would claim it implies a requirement for any level of polite interaction or any other predicating condition anyone might want to impose upon it.

So I get my share of hate mail. So there are those on the earth who hate me. There are likewise a segment of populace at the other end of that spectrum and I am satisfied with who I am and what I say. So whine on about it all you like. I'm remaining me and I'm fresh out of apologies for what I think or say. It's reality and you can just deal with it.

America

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!

Samuel Francis Smith




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June 27, 2017
Great Expectations
Icarus Falling by NikkelahGhaz on DeviantArt
Icarus Falling by NikkelahGhaz on DeviantArt
       
I expect too much. On the cusp of what awaits me in the world of technology ... I still expect the vendors to be one step ahead of the exploits, nipping the hackers and bots in the bud. However, this is fairly impossible — leaving me to simply firewall the problem children and go about my business.

This business of earning a salary and maintaining the side stuff not to mention the ever present blog. There remains little time for those other things I need to do. Even some of the highest priorities must await completion of those duties which pay the house payment and buy the food and other goodie consumbables I typical throw down with great gusto.

So, given the fact that I am who I am and my situation is such that it is; I suppose I'll just have to cool my jets and not get all fired up over news of various shortfalling security implementations on those packages I purchase — or have shoved down my throat like Windows 10 was.

After all, it's not my world out there. I'm just another cohabitating techie trying to get by.

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June 26, 2017
Fear of Flying
    Asiana 777 Crash
Well ... when I was a kid Erica Jong came out with a novel of the same name. Lately it's reared it's ugly head in my notions regarding travel and the portends appertaining thereto:

First there is the TSA. I think I'd rather not encounter them thank you. I'd hate for some idiotic nothing to turn into a murder trial but given some of the antics for which the TSA are now legend the notion of bare knuckled revenge could be conceivable.

Then there are the various "crashes" ... and particularly those with little wreckage and no bodies recovered. My relationship with my government is not so solid as to blindly trust those in charge of my safety in that regard either.

It's far too easy to bring down a plane and call it something else anymore. I'm not one to volunteer to be somebody's cheap shot example, either.

Then there are the flight crews. I certainly have nothing against them but I am not going to submit to just any old thing myself and some of the antics of stewardess activities rival the origins of the dumming down of the United States, i.e., the educators.

Can I get a "Duh" ?

There's stupidity in them there environments and I am reticent to throw myself into a fray at 45,000 feet or allow some pea brain to be responsible for my safety when my point in time and space becomes beyond my control.

Sorry, but I simply don't trust any of you. I'd sooner take my chances on a nice conveyance like the Titanic.

The Titanic

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June 25, 2017
Web Site Owners are sometimes Stupid
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There is this notion that seo can bring you to the top of google results. Nothing can be farther from the truth. You purchase your position in the results of a google search because it is not a "search engine" so much as an "advertising company" out to fleece you for all the cash it can.

So when you hear a web site owner talk about wanting to move up in the google rankings they are suffering from a misconception which is part and parcel of the google experience.

You pay them or you stay low in the search results.

The so-called "organic" search engine section of results pages are likewise not an objective ranking but based on just how good your business with google is.

I am lucky not to need google for any aspect of my business. I feel sorry for those who do and suffer from the delusion their lack of deep pockets propagates.

It appears that the entire seo illusion is part and parcel of a an advertising company appearing as though they are really a search engine company to disguise that predatory business model of which everyone is so envious.

It's in-keeping with that stupidity so prevalent in a world where critical thinking has been deemed unimportant in favor of pseudo intellectuality manifest by safe spaces, revisionist history devoid of fact, and political correctness by those who cannot function in that chaos called "reality".

These are the consequences of that generation of burger flippers we raised in the late 80s and early 90s reproducing and creating this generation of imbeciles bent on hyperconnectivity, telling all they think they know, and notions that everything on the planet revolves around them.

Then there are the redneck HVAC company owners who have unrequited lofty goals in search engine rankings and choose to blame their hosting provider for work beyond the scope of their agreement ...

So they pursue others thought able to provide this scratch for their eternal itch to the tune of artifically inflated yet continually unfulfilling results because now they are prey to their own petty preconceived notions of search engine viz a viz advertising company out to sell you want you want.

As google so aptly put it on their phone mail system back when I actually believed in them as a forthright honest company:
Please press "1" if you are paying more than $5000 a month or "2" if you are paying less than $5000 a month.
owners of the search engine company that really isn't a search engine

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June 24, 2017
The Yellowstone Caldera and Us
    Old Faithful Erupting Yellowstone National Park

When I was a child I had the opportunity to visit the Yellowstone National Park with my parents. It was a wonderful time even in the cold season we went because everything was very colorful and wonderous to take in when you're a first grade child and quite impressionable.

I recall sleeping in the car — being warm and toasty despite the chilling temperatures outside. I recall a warning of "Bear !" sometime in the the night but don't reall being afraid at all. There was something reassuring about being in the safety of my parents company. I was never in fear and my needs were always provided.

The water features and the geothermal events were captivating memories which have stayed with me over the years.

Lately there have been some 500 plus earthquakes in the Yellowstone Park area since the twelveth of June. Though this is not an unusual ocurrence, news of which I recently read regarding the supervolcano which is the yellowstone caldera and the alarming possibilities for massive activity on a scale some have described as "prehistoric" have come to mind.

The subterranian gasses and molten rock available for reactivity is of a scope beyond the imagination of those unattuned to thinking in terms of epochs and extinction level events.

Me ... my imagination is taking me places that are both scary and thought provoking as I consider the possibilities of this giant volcanic/geothermal incident waiting to happen.


 

    Grand Prismatic Spring Yellowstone National Park

 

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