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If the rubber really hits to road and life as we know it really takes a dramatic turn in a different direction...how much control do you have over your life?

Take for example, this pandemic....many businesses were involuntarily shut down, people lost many jobs, people lost loved ones, people lost relationships, and people lost places where they lived. Did they have any control to make the outcome different?

Take for example, when you get old....some will lose their minds and not know their loved ones who come to visit them on a daily basis. Others will have no control over their bottling functions and defecate all over themselves. Did they have any control to make the outcome different?

Take for example, at any random time....an unidentified vehicle comes and visits you from overhead. You have no recollection of it ever leaving as you watch it overhead from your bedroom window and you and your partner mysteriously end up in the middle of the room facing each other. Did they have any control to make the outcome different?

Those are just a couple of examples I can think of.

With those in mind...how do you proceed with your life? Do you proceed with your hard principles tattooed on your forehead and scream your opinions out where everybody is to hear your voice because what you think is sooooo important.

or

Do you proceed with your life with complete faith and peace that you are doing the right by your fellow woman/mankind. You know things of this life are out of your hands and to try to take over control of what is out your hands can be very stressful and can threaten your health and therefore make a peace within difficult to obtain.


just some thoughts...

Happy Friday all.

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... But criminal, violent, looting, racist, lemmings to decades of Democrat urban rule, lives,--- well, how could these ever matter nearly as much, as the ones the ueber left likes to refer to as Uncle Toms?
Ask the data sources, which of these two groups fill our jails, kill each other in droves, leave families fatherless (and dependent on the new daddy----the taxpayer), and show other such high character behaviors.
Can't make any of this up. But watch the full syndrome types try magically to spin it all away. And laughably to toss the R word about in their anger and virtue signaling.
Might make a nice chimney sign, on one of the Vierk castles. Readable from the street, side by side with the MAGA shtick. And a big picture of the big guy. And of his co-winner, VP Pence. No?
The other sign, could use a campaign poster from the local Dem Party headquarters. Taking a sign saying "Biden for PRESIDENT". And with a little cutting and pasting, we have, "Biden for RESIDENT---of an Assisted living Facility". Suited many when it was, "Hilary for PRISON"'.

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
? Steven Weinberg




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As the director of the prestigious Vierk Institute for the Study of Cognitive and Behavioral Political Disturbances, pride does come before the fall. Perhaps I was just a bit too smug about how well we had characterized the more severe forms of Thump Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes. After all, one need only to read a few postings/copy and posts from fake news sources, from the loony lefties here, for the usual displays of deep pathology. VERY deep.
But even I couldn't have predicted just how far the signs and symptoms can evolve.
Now here comes a Mz. Kathy Hochul, Lieutenant Gov. of Mr. Cuomo's Empire State of New York. In a full pander, virtue signalling, uncontrollable angry response to President Trump's belated (over a century) pardon of suffragette fighter, Susan B. Anthony, for her 1872 crime of trying to vote, one time House member Hochul had much to say.
She considers the act of the full pardon as somehow unforgivable. An unforgivable pardon, as it were.
Her reasoning is that, even though Miss Anthony broke the (then) laws by voting, "she did nothing wrong". Ghandi and womanizer/thesis plagiarizer MLK, would disagree, as fighting improper laws by breaking them first, then facing the music, was much in their style. VERY much
"His motives in granting this pardon cannot be for any good reason. Allow her to rest in peace.", quoth LG Hochul.
More in line with the most severe cases of TD-HD Syndrome visceral hate and distortions, this could not be. Even has me perplexed. I'm consulting with our epidemiologists, as perhaps we must consider a quite different disorder. And the emergent changes in our country will not please the alt-lefties.
Inclusion and diversity, all right. Of the least beneficial sorts, especially in the large cities.
Once again, the alt lefties confuse the politics of past times with those of today. Fits conveniently well with all their false, VERY false, narratives. Except, of course, for VP Biden's deep and rank real racism.
Live and learn.
Hope I'm not demoted, and lose my stuporvisory private, VERY private, access to all the hottie nubile interns.

But possibly lethal to those not who have not yet had a Covid infection. LoL

I just found out the glamorous Joanna Lumley smokes up to 40 cigs a day, at 77. THEN I found out research is very quietly being done to see if smoking, when of course it doesn’t kill you, makes you live longer. I did some research of my own. I have no idea how kosher this list is. The link is at the end of the main post, and I think the list will have to run into comments, it's LONG. I did some spot-checks and discarded a few obviously dodgy ones. Cheer up. It could be diet, or booze, or coffee. Nobody seems to know. But golly.

Jeanne Calment, who died in France at the age of 122, was known for three things: her quick wit, her fondness for bicycling around the small city where she grew up - and the fact that she was a daily smoker. At 117 she quit smoking (because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her) but resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable.

Marie-Louise Meilleur, of Canada, became the oldest living human being when Calment died. She had chain-smoked all her adult life but quit at 99. She died at 117. So the jury’s still out there.

John McMorran of Lakeland, Florida smoked cigars, drank beer and ate greasy food. His eyesight failed in his final years, and people needed to shout for him to hear them, by the time he died at 113.

The Queen Mother, mother of the late QE2, was a bon vivant who loved horse racing, gin cocktails, champagne and cigarettes. She died at 101. (For balance it should be noted the King died quite young of lung cancer and his daughter was violently anti-smoking as a result, as is the present King.)

Hollywood director Billy Wilder, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 95. No wonder smoking is banned from the silver screen. Not even 100!

The above facts were cherrypicked from this link and more (and some non-clebs, but older) follow in the comments. This blog is obviously only for those downtrodden skulking puffing behind the bins as the non-smokers will instantly dismiss it as propaganda. Yup! Somewhere to point when people sneer that smokers are too stupid to realize they are killing themselves.

I'm shopping for an electric toothbrush. O ral-B looks like the company to buy from as they are available locally. Four models with prices and features are listed on their website. Seriously technology has (in my opinion) gone too far. Who would have thought that Bluetooth connectivity would be an important feature for a toothbrush. 10 meters is the extent of a Bluetooth signal. that would mean if I walked more than 33 feet my cellphone would alert me I've traveled out of range. Important?

WARNING, WARNING !! Bluetooth signal lost... brushing out of sequence.

Many exist in life; and in fact, provide clues for the study of causal hypotheses in much of science.
Here's one. The less validly formally educated, the greater the need to dis others on their alleged levels of intelligence. Use of words like fool. amateur, etc.
It is likely similar, dynamically, to the overuse of words like Racism, Sexism, and the "phobias", so often seen among those of certain political persuasions, while signaling great personal virtue.. Also seems to go along with the need to bully, especially on physical characteristics of others, or, say, skills, such as the ability to use language. Often used by some in certain crafts, about which there are deeply feared questions on personal competence.
Easy to detect, from the volume and intensity of the displays. Often stridently put forth, so there's rarely little chance for missing it.
Rarely not a hoot to see. Enjoy it regularly right here on CS.