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- May 14, 2017
- Happy Mother's Day
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I celebrated Mother's Day with my mother yesterday as she has a previous engagement today. We went out looking at a few things here and there and had a nice lunch.
Then I took her home and placed my cellular router on my late stepfather's computer so she could play with some actual bandwidth instead of that Roadrunner Lite monstrosity with which she usually contends.
But today IS Mother's Day where again we celebrate our mothers, motherhood, the heartstring ties that bind us together, and the influence of mothers on society.
Seeing how I was given the best mother in the world I feel sorry for the rest of you who must contend with something less.
Regardless, I hope your Mother's Day is as good as good can be.
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- May 13, 2017
- A Remarkable Faith
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The atrocities of ISIL/ISIS are not new at this point of time. There is no depth to which they won't stoop to attain their goal of an international world wide caliphate featuring them as rulers and their deviant interpretation of sharia as the the law.
When you witness the rantings of false religion. When you see that evidence for the true nature of these radicalized adherent to Islam. It is a surprising notion that the immigrant demands to incorporate sharia as OUR laws are not dealt with more effectively than they are. The mutilation of girl children. The impersonation of police officers. The threats and acts of violence by persons ostensibly here to escape "religious persecution" and the whiny liberals who would dare encourage their admission to the Republic.
This is the TRUE legacy of Barack Obama. The attempt at ruination of the United States of America at the hands of a bunch of pseudo religious thugs whom he placed in our midst and nobody stopped him until it was too late. He should be held accountable.
Recently the murders of 21 Coptic Christians in Egypt was all over the media. Some of the backstories are profoundly tragic beyond the headlines ... for one of their members was not initially a Christian. He wasn't even an Egyptian, but he was murdered along with the 20 who were.
All 21 men had been working in Libya when they were kidnapped by ISIS. But as can be seen in pictures where they are lined up on the beach to be killed, one of them had darker skin and different facial features. This was the man from Chad.
The Coptic Christians were given a choice to deny Jesus or die. They refused to deny Him, knowing it would cost them their heads.
When the terrorists ordered the man from Chad to deny Jesus or die, he answered, “Their God is my God,” thereby sealing his fate.
The Man Who Was Beheaded the Day He Became a Believer
Michael Brown
townhall.com
Posted: May 12, 2017 10:38 AMWhat made a non believer Chadian citizen; die for Christ, along with his “20 Coptic Christian friends
The threads speak of the victims calling out to Jesus at the time of their horrible agonizing deaths at the hands of ISIS. That information brought tears to my eyes when I considered how many times I've done the same to no avail under comparatively petty circumstances. It made me ashamed.
bombayorthodoxdiocese.org
Fr Thomas Philipose in Learn Orthodoxy
February 22, 2015
I know that my personal theology has come under strain of late and my belief system has evolved with the new scientific information I have acquired in recent years. However, I will make it a point to remember these men who died for their faith without flinching at the hands of brutal murderous ISIS infidels who corrupt religion with their very existence and dare to think that we will adopt their sharia in light of all we now know about it and them.
Colonel Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, former Prime Minister of Lybia, used to tell his people how Islam will breed the rest of us out of existence with their six to eight child litters compared to our one or two. Those very people to whom he bragged murdered him on October 20, 2011. Are we going to let them do it to us as well ? Some of the stupid liberals in the United States seem to want this more than anything.
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation 20:4 Holy Bible, King James Version - Comments (0)
- May 12, 2017
- Men going their own way
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I have been exposed to a thing called MGTOW ... Men going their own way. Somewhat of a "mens rights" movement if there can be such a thing.
The only interest I really have in it all are those similarities to how I live my own life and the comparative sociology of the so-called "womyn" movement quite a while back where the feminists looking all frumpy, fugly, and pissed off adopted this nonstandard spelling of the word “women” that they might avoid a word representing themselves incorporating the suffix of 'men'.
The whole MGTOW smacks of metrosexuality gone radical and makes me think of lesbians only it concerns straight males who simply seek independence from those cultures espousing coupling with the opposite sex.
About the only thing I've noticed about the entirety of it all is how some of the ladies go bat crap crazy when they cannot dominate or manipulate their partners all of a sudden when they decide that the need to 'go their own way' as it were ...
It seems that the paradigm of heterosexuality has shifted to a one to many from a one to one model. My personal thoughts remain "old school" and I am more inclined toward traditional roles and a model more attuned to the interpersonal relationship where meaning has substance as I interpret it.
All too often I see those who grow weary of interaction at those levels leading to this phenomenon of men going their own way. I certainly can't knock it given the fact that I have unconsciously been practicing since my early thirties.
I just feel that romance suffers when everything is about one thing be it a person or relationship. I like to consider others special too.
The relationship thing was bound to change with all those other manifestations of altered reality like trans-this and trans-that and "preferred personal pronouns" as though they actually mean something.
Perhaps when (and if) we return to that reality governed by who we really are instead of these manufactured fantasies where little boys sue because they can't make themselves up like little girls for their drivers license photos all with the blessings their "proud" misguided idiot mothers than perhaps we will eventually return to that thing we've lost sight of called meaningfulness.
Sooner or later it needs to stop being "all about me".
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- May 11, 2017
- Writer's Block
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Sometimes I have a topic all ready to go and forget the specifics prior to the writing phase.
This has happened only today.
I sat at lunch thinking "this would be a good thing to blog about" only to reach the evening hours and come up with nothing.
That mist which is the mass of synapse between my ears fails me again ... for keyword searches have failed me as well.
Those are my "last ditch effort" to which I resort in times like these.
Forget about it.
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- May 10, 2017
- Misappropriation of the Stars and Bars and Laws
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In the modern world the Confederate flag, to include the Confederate Battle Flag have been misappropriated by a section of white supremcists bringing dishonor upon it and subsequently to the memories of those honored dead who fought under them.
Then we had a foreign national american governor with no real appreciation of the meaning of that flag who both insstigated and allowed it to come down from the SC State House because she was doing the bidding of the vocal few in the presence of a silent many who protested quietly.
It is sad that symbology is only important for a subset of the taxpayers in the United States. Sadder still the fact that entitlements are paid to illegal intruders into our borders who come here to breed a bunch of "automatic citizens" and drag us down even more.
These are the low hanging fruits of the so-called "progressive" movement where the word "progressive" is a misnomer meant to cloud the facts as morons such as the the various comediens acting like the fake news who act as though they're taking the "high road" when in fact those like her seek only to take from the worker and give to the shirker.
The Dearborn Michigan has suspended the Bill of Rights three times in favor of Sharia Law. When Muslims come here they live under our Laws. At NO time do we live under theirs. The Sharia is not relevant in the United States and the stupid liberals need to get that straight before it's too late.
They are proponents of a candidate for president who lost because she would monetize the office for personal gain. In those closed eyes of the liberals — blind to what is happening lay the true tragedy in the United States. We have a number of local foreign imports who like Ms Bee are undermining the strength of the United States under the symbol of a donkey by meddling in politics when they should just pack up and go home.
Today is Confederate Memorial Day, is a public holiday observed by the U.S. states of South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas since the end of the American Civil War to remember the over quarter million members of the Confederate States Army, Navy, Marines, and militia who died in combat while fighting for their home land. This day is also marked by observances in many other states. It is observed in late April in some southern states recalling the surrender of the last major Confederate field army at Bennett Place in 1865.
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- May 9, 2017
- A strong case for encryption
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I was reading a tidbit on the Sophos site regarding the pitfalls associated with sending unencrypted documents as email attachments.
It seems that about 2 years back a person with one Plymouth University sent a spreadsheet containing salaries and other compensation for about 250 senior staffers to an incorrect email address.
The error was reported to the appropriate authorities in Great Britain and it was reported that the document had been deleted by the recipient.
Then last week said document was sent by an anonymous source to a local newspaper with all information intact.
The university's solicitor engaged the newspaper regarding the subject telling them that it is clear from the content that said information should have been sent to the newspaper and requested immediate deletion with written confirmation of that deletion ... and so forth and so on.
The apparent automagic recurrence of this document which was deleted at the "original" disclosure point leads us down that sticky trail indigeneous to cloud users everywhere:
1. Nosy staffers going through your stuff
2. The persistence of backups
This security hole could have been plugged with the presence of encrypted content and a key shared separately from the document.
In our haste towards efficiency hitting the "send" button can sometimes be our downfall. When you entrust an outsource with your business you assume your business will be handled with a certain level of trustworthiness and confidentiality.
HOWEVER, this does not carry over to the destination and their staff. Backups sometimes linger for decades. People come and go. Just how trusting are you? I am so glad that I was raised to handle my own affairs unlike so many businesses elsewhere who rely on the staffing of others to compensate for their own inability to manage their own data systems.
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- May 8, 2017
- The Topical Conundrum
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This intricate and difficult problem of coming up with a suitable topic sometimes has me stymied.
I encounter a topic which is ... let us say not exactly fare for polite company and pursue it anyway.
Those places others will not go are hallmarks of my entire existence and as such are essential to that which I am. All I can really do is handle them with some modicum of sensitivity and hope for the best.
So yes, you will encounter stuff here you may not want to read. Try to remember that I gave this place an R rating for a reason and that if you cannot appreciate a provocative wordsmith at work you're better off staying away from here.
Just when you think everything's cut and dry I will always toss you a curve. Again, this blog is "rated R" ... however, that is not an X rating.
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- May 7, 2017
- International Masturbation Day
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So. Topics just aren't getting any easier to write of late. Could it be these topics have escaped me over years of blogging and three separate iterations of this blog as well?
Today is a day set aside to recognize those many of us who choose to take matters into our own hands ... yes ladies and gentlemen it is National Masturbation Day aka International Masturbation Day.
In Great Britain and Austrailia the day is known simply as "Wankers Day" and is observed in those countries each July 21 to make known the right to masturbate.
It seems the day was begun in honor of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was summarily fired by President Clinton for suggesting that masturbation was a suitable part of student sex education curricula in the United States.
As we all now know, Mr Clinton prefers such things be done by a female partner, preferably wearing a stunning blue dress upon which the act is consumated along with a large marinated cigar. He also is said to enjoy the option of biting.
The month of May has even been declared International Masturbation Month so all you purveyors of self love give yourself a big hand and get right on out there and start choking those chickens.
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- May 6, 2017
- Boogers are health food
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Okay ... where in the devil can I begin with this one.
The Telegraph in UK is reporting a science article stating that the consuming of boogers is good for both the teeth and general health.
Now that I have your attention, it seems that a number of studies held at MIT and Harvard among others indicate that parents should not discourage picking of the nose and consuming the mined goodness because of the plethora of beneficial bacteria contained therein.
They went further to say that consuming snot prevented bacterial from adhering to the teeth — which is that precursor to the dreaded plaque as reported in the American Society for Microbiology.
And to top it all off (at least in my book) was the admonition that the findings were therapeutic for defense agains respiratory infetion, gastric ulcers, and the scourge called HIV.
There is even a push for development of a synthetic mucoid toothpaste and chewing gum as a vector for the acquisition of the goodness of boogers.
Sooooo In the spirit of using fecal capsules for the cultivation of healthy intestinal flora and other later and oh so similar developments on the health front in a similar vein; I'm gonna have myself a nice puke and consider this the next time I get that stuffy nose.
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- May 5, 2017
- Cinco de Mayo
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Cinco de Mayo (fifth of may) celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at Puebla on May 5, 1862.
Whereas I formerly celbrated the day, the rampant influx of illegals from Mexico and specifically the criminal takeover of Watts and Compton in California by Mexican gangs who threaten, intimidate, beat, burn out, and kill the locals with impunity has caused me to wish for a national purge of all illegal hispanics yesterday.
There is a price to be paid for such behavior and the wages of sin is death.
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- May 4, 2017
- You Can't Always Be What You Want ...
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I was looking over DailyMail.com and encountered another of those self indulgent messes in the vein of gender dysphoria, race dysphoria, and other manifestations of individuals who, for one reason or another, decline to accept who they are in deference to simulating something else that they are not.
Whereas the gender dysphoria type of person envisions themselves as being of one sex, their chromosomal make up states that they are indeed the other ... in the absence of any true intersex chromosomal mosaic genotype they may possess.
It's all very confusing when one ponders the various motivations which will make an eight year old child claim to be a boy with a vulva. If you are sporting a vulva you are not a boy. Period.
Then there are those such as Rachel Dolezal and others who identify with a race other than that to which they were assigned at birth and simply undergo a cosmetic transitioning which may or may not include other aspects of the other race such as taking an "African" name (which more times or not are some variant on the "unique" name which is simply made up by a parent).
Now we have a "species dysphoric" individual who was bullied as a child and cultivated an affinity for elves and has spent a pile of money assuming that identity from a cosmetic standpoint; for indeed this man remains who he is, just another screwed up human being trying to assume the identity of preference regardless of the facts surrounding his existence.
This so-called "trans species" fanboy transformed himself into a stereotypical elf via various cosmetic surgical treatments to include plastic surgery, removal of all hair from the body, bleaching of the skin, and artificial coloring of the eyes. The maintenance regimen alone is well beyond anything I could afford or would care for in actuality.
Furthermore, when you grow up a blonde caucasian female and have a lot of historical photographic documentation indicating that indeed you are caucasian, no amount of hair treatment, and skin coloration is going to make you that african you seek to be.
Finally, changing species is simply not possible and a person who simulates being an "elf" is simply that — an imitation.
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- May 3, 2017
- The pursuit of health
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I find my relationship with my health to be in flux. That ever changing attitude toward what may and may not be done on my behalf is again on the move.
About 3 months ago I was placed on injectable testosterone by my physician along with an oral estrogenic balancing agent because of my borderline hypogonadism ... which by the way mysteriously fluctuates between "low" and "borderline normal" preventing me from insurance coverage.
My dilemma is an inability to administer an IM injectable to myself. I simply do not have what it takes and will not pursue another to provide the shot. I have found the medications to be a bit expensive in the absence of any coverage whatsoever so I suppose I must remain the low T girly man I am presently.
However, I find this preferable to giving myself a shot.
Tomorrow I shall deliver the stuff to my physician's office, inform him that I choose not to undergo the therapy and will give him the drugs and the syringes and needles for his trouble.
There are some places I simply decline to go and self administered injections are one of them.
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- May 2, 2017
- Hysteria in Troubleshooting
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Sometimes a diffuse scripting error can make you envision all kinds of problems which could exist ... but don't. It is also a difficult matter to concentrate when people are milling up and down the halls making racket but your boss wants you to keep the door open for appearances.
Such is a similar pitfall into which I fell Friday through Sunday with a smidge on Monday. When I closed the door and "fine tooth combed" my scripts the issue became evident only after I had a look at the datasources and took stock of what was there and what was not.
The moral of the story is keep the distractions to a minimum and check the small stuff prior to becoming engulfed in some ocean of occult reasons for which a script is failing.
Not everything is a bloody massive failure. Sometimes a simple string of characters can make all the difference between "operational" and "failing".
I was failing and now I'm operational.
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- May 1, 2017
- May Day
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My earliest memories of May Day were at Aragona Elementary School in Aragona Village, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The memories involve me traipsing around a maypole along with what were predominately (entirely?) female class mates wrapping ribbons all the way down.
I seem to recall singing some little ditty for which I really didn't know the words and "faked" it as it were ...
May Day is a holiday usually celebrated on May 1 around here and originates in the ancient spring festivals of the Western European northern hemisphere, Scandinavia, and surrounding areas.
It is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures. Dances, singing, and cake are usually part of the celebrations that the day includes.
Beginning sometime in the late 19th century this day and the associated holiday became sullied by the association of International Workers Day as the results of efforts by the Socialists and Communists.
It seems this membership of something called "the Second International" wanted to commemorate the Haymarket affair in Chicago which was the consequences of a bombing which happened at a labor demonstration.
International Workers Day may also be referred to as "May Day", but it is a bastardized celebration and is in no way related to traditional May Day.
I personally prefer to keep the commies and socialists out of the celebration altogether. Like the democrats and progressives they are a useless drain on society and should be relegated with their ilk to the city of Leeds, Great Britain. Sorry Bernie.
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