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- February 18, 2017
- False Images for Public Consumption from the Left
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Lots of individuals demonstrating in an effort to "make appearances" and creating things that aren't. The left is so entirely full of crap anymore that they cannot discern "what is" from what is that bull they propagate in the name of social justice ...
These immigration protests are demonstrating against an attempt by the administration to stop incursions from people whose only aim in life is to get into the United States and either convert or kill us all.
So protest on you cloddish human beings. Don't bother to understand your topic and don't bother to get any facts. Live in this utopia which exists only between your ears and fails the checks of reality repeatedly.
Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia
These restricted countries are where the bulk of threats toward the United States originate; they are the homes of terrorists who murder and maim others in their own countries ... and are opportunistic purveyors of mayhem out to get us.
And the liberals protest enmass for the "downtrodden immigrants" who include an element with specific designs on killing us all.
These so-called "immigrants" are rife with an element which will kill you and everyone you love at their first opportunity.
I would be ashamed to only think at the level these protesters exhibit regarding the very real time risk of death by immigrant. They want the scoundrels to be able to come and go as they please even though they make public threats of death and destruction all the while.
It's bad enough the liberals and progressives seek to rewrite history in their own imaginary image but must they endanger us with the slant of their ignorant taint which is so proudly exhibited for the world to see ?
Though they lost the election the stupidity in the electorate of The Republic remains ... mouthy as ever.
Duh.
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- February 17, 2017
- Happy Birthday Loreena McKennitt
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Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt
February 17, 1957
Canadian musician
One of those favorite chanteuses of mine is Loreena McKennitt. She hails from Canada and is an award wining soprano vocalist, musician, composer, harpist, pianist and plays the accordion.
Her specialty is Celtic and Middle Eastern themed musical pieces and many of her works enchant and enthrall me with their melodic lyricism.
Her heritage is Irish and Scottish and early on she wanted to be a veterinarian who turned to music because it obviously spoke to her and called her to it as a profession.
Her music certainly has spoken to me over the years and inspired me to listen to that which she offers the world in the form of her art.
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- February 16, 2017
- Adventures in Streaming Television
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Yes, I am a difficult customer.
I will terminate business with you with extreme prejudice at the drop of a hat if you go so far as to commit one of a few "infractions of no return".
Take Sling.
I was trying to restart with them when they failed to load the entire package into their app.
When I approached customer support for resolution I was sent this boilerplate list of questions which in no way reflected insight into the nature of my problem or anything other than blowing smoke and voila, it was over.
So now, given Roku's spam remote with buttons labeled for their "annointed few" apps I am seeking other avenues in hardware as well.
Fickle ? Not hardly.
I just know what I want and when I'm being preyed upon by a company.
Suffice it to say that it may well be that I am doomed to forever be unhappy with streaming television.
I have quite a few devices and services to traverse at this juncture.
As long as I have options I will pursue that combination which "floats my boat" as it were.
No hard feelings, just take your incompetent support idiots and go away otherwise.
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- February 15, 2017
- Valentines Afterglow
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It's said that every three hours an online dater gets scammed. Not too swooft if you ask me. Not that it really matters for me at my stage of life; but I can see how the various others seeking to be significant might fare in the crucible which is cybercultivation of relationships.
My brief foray into the mess found me with about ten females taken with my various communications and me wondering just what the heck I was doing anyway ... and alas; I determined that those things I find endearing and attractive aren't always common denominators in the fray.
This isn't to say there is a problem one way or another but I simply enjoy face to face interaction over the emails and pictures and what have you involved in the online variant. So I abandoned my pursuit of finding love online and have piddled around with various others who have their own motivations and left it at that.
I will say that communications in the form of paragraphs which look like text messaging shorthand were probably the biggest repellant of them all.
There is this thing called literacy and the ability to be at once eloquent and articulate which simply fails to project itself when every other sentence is "do you dig where I'm coming from ?" ...
Then there are those who would appear perfect. That's almost (but not nearly) just as bad. My trepidations with them arose from individuals wanting to talk late into the night and spend every waking hour together.
I have to have a little down and alone time it seems, but the rueful part of dating on line was passing up that chance to engage women who really had what I felt was going on in the relationship department because it was — well, too much.
So I am left to just do my occasional social thing and carouse with a few "buddies" from time to time. Regardless, I shall likely remain single. Let's face it, I simply don't have that much time remaining and I've pretty much seen all I need to see and done all I need to do.
So valentines leaves me a little empty this year with no one with whom to interact but it's better this way for me, I think.
We make our own beds in life and I am quite content to sleep in mine with or without someone else.
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- February 14, 2017
- Happy Valentines Day
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- February 13, 2017
- Adventures in cleaning out the Fridge
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Criminy. Yesterday I excavated the refrigerator after neglecting it for over a year.
There were spills originating from things that haven't been there in a long time.
While most of the parts could be put into the dishwasher, I'm afraid that they all wouldn't fit together necessitating a multi-load operation which took most of the day.
The shelves were entirely too big for the "easy route" so I hit all three with copious amounts of the clorox stuff then rinsed a couple of times until the appearance was almost new ... with just a few spots of rust staining the rack in the freezer.
I went ahead and tossed most of the residual products prior to starting and the herbie curbie has a lot more in it than usual.
I think I'll make a run for the staples like mayo, mustard, ketchup, and so forth because I'm feeling really good about the sanitary appearance of everything after the purge and cleanse operation.
This coupled with a good thaw in the form of being off all day is an added benefit. There wasn't any frost to melt, but I feel that the compressor could use a spate of down time to clear any frozen moisture from the unit.
I'm glad I got to spend the bulk of the time visiting Mom at her place and I feel bad about allowing things to get so far out of hand.
Oh well ... I suppose we dudes aren't the suzy homemakers we should be but I have made amends on the fridge front and feel much better about it all.
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- February 12, 2017
- National Freedom to Marry Day
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- February 11, 2017
- The "War on Trolls"
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Yeah, tolls are out there. Those commenters who proliferate various racist, profane, misogynistic, misanthropic along with any other derrogotory commentary one might care to label remain rampant on the internet.
Now google and wikipedia are teaming up to work on a set of algorithms to detect personal attacks and other nastygrams in an effort to comprehend such posts and effect some kind of policing of the comment threads embedded in forum type apps.
While I certainly view trolling users who add nothing to the substance of any site as cyberslugs I absolutely do believe in calling out the various morons proliferating stupidity and misinformation by any means necessary.
This in conjunction with freedom of speech has me somewhat at odds with my own feelings regarding the efficacy of this particular project from a value added perspective and it has been my experience that various human monitors are virtually worthless in this regard.
I project the AI stuff to be much worse given it's total lack of humanity. The subtle nuances of setting an idiot straight are a valuable commodity in the world today particularly in light of our generation of burger flipper's children coming to the forefront of the marketplace with all their inability to spell and define the terms they use while communicating their nothingness.
Well, though google was never going to glean any monies from me anyway, I just tore up the check I was sending to wikipedia.
Discernment is decidedly missing from the crap I've been reading in the anti-troll codifications under consideration.
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- February 10, 2017
- US border agents and social media passwords
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In that truism that non citizens have no rights and shouldn't even pretend to ask for them, persons visiting the United States might be required to give up their social media credentials to border agents as a facet of tightened security. Failure to cooperate may result in not getting into the country.
Now then, I'm as pro security as anyone. I certainly envision border security as one of those aspects which enhances our safety ...
BUT As I said earlier when HR departments were doing the same thing that it's a positively Nazi position to require anyone to give up any password on any account they own — and blood likely would be drawn depending on how quickly I could grab the offending person by the throat and stop their breathing.
As I have repeatedly stated the problem with the Nazi party in general was that nobody would tell them "No".
Luckily, I have no social media accounts to which one might gain access. I wonder how that is going to work out for those attempting to cross the border. Sometimes we tend to turn jingoistic in our fervor of protectionism. There are places where a government may not tread and any password or credential I have is in that pathway.
If a foreign country were to try to coerce me into relinquishing any social media credential for absolutely any reason I'd likely be put in jail. Most likely death row if they have one. Nay nay a thousand times nay ... and anyone who asks that of me is a scoundrel of the lowest order. Far below used car salesman or even mill supply house owner.
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- February 9, 2017
- Adventures in ID10T errors...
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The I. D. Ten T. error hit me today. For some reason it ocurred to me to check my web contact forms on my three sites. This entailed a test run just to see how things went.
WHell ... it turns out that 2 out of 3 had fatal run time errors, both associated with cut and pasted code segments where I neglected to accommodate the separate pages ... which were formerly one.
So, after frantically patching things up in the database and scripting which took every bit of 5 minutes or so I was up and running on all three without errors at all.
This is a classic example of what can go horribly wrong when multitasking fails completion.
I wish I could say that this will never happen again ... but only time will tell.
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- February 8, 2017
- Spoiled by the 24 inch dual monitors ...
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So one of those things which draw me to work each morning is the dual monitor configuration of my workstation.
Not that I'm crazy about Dell equipment mind you, but those 24 inch monitors give me so much work area that when I'm working at home I sit there and pine for them and all that room upon which I may work.
It's a sad state of affairs when a "thing of the internet" becomes so integral to your existence that you miss it's presence when it's not there. It seems that my neural pathways have grown accustomed to having dual 24 inch monitors and I suppose I'm just going to have to take that plunge on my workstation at home or never truly feel technologically fulfilled ...
Of all the anal retentive neuroses to acquire at this late stage of the game.
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- February 7, 2017
- Josef Mengele
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Josef Mengele was just one of many Bavarian Nazi monsters who "got over" on both justice and the Nuremburg Tribunal. A physician in the SS (Schutzstaffel) the so-called "protective sheild" formed in the Nazi party as a personal bodyguard for Hitler and others in the Nazi leadership; Mengle was just one of many evil henchmen serving under Heinrich Himmler.
Josef Mengle
The Nazi Angel of Death
This man conducted so-called "medical experimentation", "anthropological study", and "heredity research" on concentration camp inmates with the help of various medical professionals among the prisoner population by subjecting them to extremes of temperature, chemical injections, unnecessary surgery, procedures of dubious medical ethics, and outright murder and maiming without regard to that pain and suffering they were forced to endure.
He was particularly interested in twins; and to be under his "protection" was in and of itself an abomination in the name of proving "nature over nurture". He was known for bringing candy and such to the children, and speaking sweetly to them all the while sending great numbers of them to the crematorium as corpses a short while later.
Of course there was the Nazi eugenics program providing the adequate fodder in the form of victims placed at his disposal. This was all done under the auspices of National Socialist racial theory to which he subscribed. He would meet the trains from which the prisoners would disembark and direct them to his area where they may have felt safe ... for a short while.
The root of that sociopsychopathy of it all lay in that perversion of the Nazi ideology touting superiority to all others in conjunction with Mengle's total lack of remorse for his wartime activities claiming he had never harmed anybody.
The world was relieved of this charlatan scourge of humanity on February 7, 1979 when he suffered a (second) stroke while swimming at Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil and drowned.
I had just returned from a Med cruise and was discharged from the Navy a scant four months later. All of this history regarding Mengle was known to me except his death for years afterward.
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- February 6, 2017
- Pulp Fiction, Tarantino, and Scripture
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I watched Pulp Fiction yet again last night. It is an entertaining flick with all the violence, twists, and stark surprises I've come to expect from a Tarantino movie. My favorite part continues to be when Jules goes off on a quasi biblical rant which is supposed to be "Ezekiel 25:17" and indeed it is a stunning speech for those who are unattuned to the scriptural reference.
Personally, I have read Ezekiel so much that it rapidly approaches memorization. Though the reference isn't accurate I can certainly suspend belief long enough to thoroughly enjoy it in the movie.
"Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
Jules Winnfield
Pulp Fiction
Portrayed by Samuel L Jackson
Misquotation by Quentin Tarantino
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- February 5, 2017
- Johnny Pruett Internment Anniversary
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One year ago today Johnny Henderson Pruett was interred at Fort Jackson National Cemetery a scant 4 miles from his home. It is a sad day for me as I have missed him terribly each day since he passed on January 27, 2016.
Rest in peace.
PRUETT, JOHNNY HENDERSON
MSGT US AIR FORCE
KOREA, VIETNAM
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/30/1933
DATE OF DEATH: 01/27/2016
BURIED AT: SECTION 3 SITE 891
FT. JACKSON NATIONAL CEMETERY
4170 PERCIVAL RD COLUMBIA, SC 29229
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