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Of course if you believe in God.

With that aside, what do you think? Are some people just so special/influential/inspiring/moving...

I think some musicians are that.

I have been listening to a lot of Shakira's music lately...not even sure why...I cannot even understand the language most of her music is in...and it is just amazing.

Good Thursday/Friday all.

I shouldn't ask a question... do women still fall for men in uniform?
Yesterday, I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and news articles and cleared my cookies & cache file. This morning, when I came to the CS main page, the images at the bottom were men and women where I only see local women after I've previously logged in.

Oh look... it's a man in an army uniform appearing on CS. He's using the name of McJames. We all know he's a scammer with a stolen photo of General James C. McConville.

Every week I see bogus profiles of guys in uniform and wonder if women are attracted to a military man or if it's something only perceived by scammers.

I don't understand why this virus is such a big deal. I admit it. Yes there's no effective treatment or cure yet. Fact remains the infection rate is low - the city it started in has 11 million inhabitants and no precautions were taken at first. Why didn't more of the 11 million get it

Fact remains the fatality rate is low - the 2018 flu killed nearly 70K in America alone, nearly killed me in another country for that matter, barely made it to the news. Uh?

Fact remains that for most people it is pretty mild. Pneumonia is no fun at all but only if you are old, or already having health difficulties, or have lung problems, or are overweight / diabetic, will the virus become a form of pneumonia there's no current cure for, but it does only affect a small percentage.

Fact - those not at high risk, or who are prepared to take the risk, are being frogmarched by the more fearful despite all the above.

So maybe there should be a declaration to opt out for anyone prepared to sign a pledge to protect those who are opting in. Swear to wear hi-vis t-shirts or hats clearly stating I OPTED OUT, perhaps, so they can recognise each other, and shake hands normally. A forehead tattoo saying OPTED OUT is complete peace of mind for everyone else.

A pledge, perhaps -

1. I will wear my hi-vis OO colours (lime with purple OO letters?) prominently at all times when in public
2. I will keep well clear of anyone not displaying OO colours
3. I will leave the bulk buying and panicking to the wusses
4. I willingly and voluntarily forgo medical investigation / treatment of any symptoms which remotely resemble this virus and in proof of this agree to having OO tattooed on my forehead. Now back off and let me get on with living my life my way since I am not risking or interfering in any way with yours.

Fair's fair.

My two day fast from CS blogging is over, and I feel like a new man!. More energy, better body odor, fewer farts, memory up, increased regularity, stronger voiding stream and much more. But the kicker is, big little Vierk seems to have gained a few inches in length. Those yogis are onto something. Can't make any of this stuff up folks.

Today I am going to do the long overdue job of giving my bathroom (it's a bathroom without a bath) a good clean. I may be gone some time.

This has nothing to do with Trump and ultraviolet.



Yeah, I need a haircut...

I made it to Walmart this morning 10 minutes after opening to do (what I consider) weekly shopping. Since this area is on a stay-home order, I got a few extra items to minimize my trips out... important things and not 4 bottles of Coke like the last trip!

Expecting the panic buying to be over... I was wrong.
Displays of fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs all looked like normal. This time there were a limited selection of meats, better than the last visit.

It was the paper products aisle that was empty.
I did see one woman with a package of toilet paper so there must have been some stock that got scooped up in 15 minutes of the store opening!

While reading and doing some hard thinking about something today.I read a post about someones culture and such.About how that particular culture was or is.It proved to me that there are still prejudices in this country today.

One of my older late brothers had enlisted in the Army many years ago during wartime, and during that time frame he had met and wished to marry a young lady but because she didn't wish to move to the states and leave her parents behind they both went their separate ways.I did see a picture some time ago of her sitting on his coffee table of the many times I'd been at his apartment and she was very pretty. I thought to myself on how neat it would've been to have had some possible Japanese nieces and nephews.I would've been such a proud and happy Aunt. But it never happened.

I'm of mixed race myself.My late father who was born Native American had been adopted by a American Indian family when he was a small child cause his own mother who was white had given him up.

When I had learned of my older brother and the lady that he had wished to marry back then and if they obviously would've had any children should I had just had nothing to ever do with them or her even though they would've been my nieces or nephews regardless of their culture which their mother had originally came from?

In November 1999, five year old Elián Gonzalez was found in an inner tube floating at sea three miles off the coast of Florida's Fort Lauderdale. The fishermen who found the boy turned him over to the US Coast Guard. Elián's mother and twelve other escaped from Cuba headed to The United States. The motor of the boat broke down and started taking on water during a storm. Only three made it to safety, the others including Elián's perished at sea.
Elián was released temporarily to his great-uncle, Lázaro, who lived in the Little Havana section of Miami. His cousin Marisleysis acted as the guardian to Elián.

Elián's father In Cuba, was trying to get the boy returned to his country and the Miami family was trying to keep him in the United States. Negotiations went on for weeks and all options had run out

A Florida family court judge revoked Lázaro's temporary custody, clearing the way for González to be returned to his father's custody. Attorney General Janet Reno ordered the return of Elián González to his father and set a deadline of April 13, 2000

The house was surrounded by protesters as well as police. There was speculation that some of the protesters were armed and prepared to thwart any government action. The relatives insisted on guarantees that they could live with the child for several months and retain custody, yet the family defied the order to release custody of the boy. Negotiations carried on throughout the night, but Reno claimed that the relatives rejected all workable solutions and made the decision to remove González from the house and instructed agents of the Border Patrol's special BORTAC unit to raid the house in the pre-dawn hours of Easter Eve, April 22. They snatched the boy to safety and four hours later, reunited him with his father who was flown from Cuba to the Coast Guard Station in Opa Locka, Florida.

It's all over but the shouting... I remember hearing Elián's cousin Marisleysis crying to the media "We've always tried to nego-sha-gate..."

My ex-wife and I followed the story and it became an inside joke to mispronounce negotiate. Marisleysis... you go girl!

Currently, I'm nego-sha-gating some small details on the sale of my house.

Yesterday a friend of mine suggested to me that since weekends are boring why didn't we just load ourselves in the vehicle and just go out somewhere.He said that's what his parents used do years ago.So that's what we both did.We got in his vehicle and went.Yes we did distance ourselves from other people.We both do reside on his late mothers property and do our errands together so we saw no need to distance ourselves from each another.

We put the dog in his vehicle that we both share the care of and just drove to a lake somewhere that we hadn't been to in years and went fishing and afterwards and had some lunch.It was the best time I had in some time, yes we did practice our distancing from other people.Caught some fish but they were to small in size to keep so afterwards we went to a drive up window and had some lunch and then drove to another location did some more fishing and then drove home.It was a fun time just doing something in the spur of the moment.I wonder if any of you have ever just got in your vehicle and just went somewhere to blow the stink off so to speak. It felt so good just to be away from our computers,tv and such.