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I was born left handed but beaten to the right by my schoolteachers. Writing with the left hand was not an option when I went to school. Pushing the pencil or one of those pens with the long nibs across the paper often ended up with a hole in the paper.

The result was that the things I did at home, I continued to use the left hand while those tasks performed at school were done with the right hand. Even today, I still eat with my knife in the left hand. The same goes for when I use a spade.

By the time I was nine I could write equally well with both hands and the only way to know when I switched hands was the slant of my letters, which brought on a few hidings before I seized the practice.

But it is not all bad news because – even though I ‘unlearned’ the ability to write with the left hand, I’m ambidextrous in many tasks. I can use a hammer and play pool with either hand. I can bat both left-handed or right-handed though there is a difference. I can hit the ball harder with the left hand but I am a much safer batsman when I take strike right handed. Oh, did I mention that I can play chess, checkers and monopoly equally well with either hand?

Being left handed is rather unique. Only one in ten people are south-pawed but certain species, like the sulpher-crested cockatoo, are entirely left-clawed while most parrot species predominantly use the left claw.

But being left is not all kosher. The Latin word for sinister also means left or evil while the Sanskrit word for left can also mean wicked. Differences in the lefty’s brain can lead to disorders like schizophrenia and one study showed that 40% of the sufferers were left-handed. It was long believed that left-handers were more prone to alcoholism but research proved this wrong. However, it was established that left-handers do drink more often.

Left-handed politicians hold an advantage in TV debates, as their gestures appear right-handed on screen and appeal to the right-handed majority. And finally, left-handed medieval knights had the advantage when invading castles because the clock-wise spiral of the staircases restricted the sword’s swing for the invaders.

Many famous people are (or were) left handed. Amongst them, we can count Bill Clinton (if we can believe him), Benjamin Franklin, Joan of Arc, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Prince Charles, Napoleon, Fidel Castro, Jack the Ripper, Paul McCartney, and many more. So, if you are left handed, don’t feel left out.


A grand day to you all.

The United States' oldest continuously operating sea service...
and smallest service...
turns 225 years old August 4, 2015!
Instituted as the Revenue Cutter Service August 4, 1790.

So...break out the goodies...

Toss the squids on the barbie
And let the festivities begin!!!



This Coast Guard Day blog is dedicated to

Captain Kwang Ping Hsu, USCG

He survived the Japanese Occupation of Nanking during WWII,
came to the U.S. with his family after the war,
became the first Chinese-born graduate of the Coast Guard Academy,
was a remarkable aviator,
and commanded the first U.S. military aircraft to land in China
after the Cold War. (A Coast Guard HC-130.)

I've heard that he passed a few years ago,
and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

CAVU*, "Sky Ping"!


*Acronym for ideal flying conditions -
Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited!

When I see war on youtube or documentaries i see, mostly, men that are proud to fight for their country, but what is it they are fighting for ?..Do they actually know or are they brain washed to fight.

Young men high on testosterone are flown into countries that they need not be in, I believe and army is to defend your country form being invaded, yet the cannon fodder of your men and women seem happy to go and kill a few whom their masters have said are a risk

As these men return to their families, many reflect on what they have done and why.If soldiers felt nothing about taking the life of another human being, that would be indicative of sociopathy.

The transgression that bothered one soldier I read about from Iraq most wasn’t the carnage in the mosque that he and his fellow fighters had done, but another, even more disturbing incident, an accidental killing at a vehicle checkpoint in Iraq. The vague description this guy gave to a local television reporter is horrifying: ‘A vehicle came through that hadn’t been cleared.‘The lieutenant says: “Take them out.” He took them out. They went to the van – it was a bunch of little kids. And he had to take their bodies back to the family.’Instead of killing an armed enemy, he had, through the orders of an officer, killed several children. Accidental killing of civilians in the Iraq War, as in all wars, are much more common than you can imagine. Numbers are so high it wouldn’t benefit the military to keep accurate tabs; rigorous documentation would just fan the public relations nightmare and boost the propaganda value of the deaths for the other side.

He, like many combatants, were able to contain their guilt while still in Iraq. But when he returned home, he brought the Trojan horse with him. It was there, in the calm of these ‘safe’ surroundings, that his guilt and shame overwhelmed him.

Why is it not explained to to these new soldiers, from past soldiers what you can expect ? many returns with PTSD.

And veterans PTSD statistics get revised over time. The findings from the NVVR Study (National Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Study, in Four Volumes) commissioned by the government in the 1980s initially found that for "Vietnam theater veterans" 15% of men had PTSD at the time of the study and 30% of men had PTSD at some point in their life. But a 2003 re-analysis found that "contrary to the initial analysis of the NVVRS data, a large majority of Vietnam Veterans struggled with chronic PTSD symptoms, with four out of five reporting recent symptoms when interviewed 20-25 years after Vietnam.

As of September 2014, there are about 2.7 million American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (compared to 2.6 million Vietnam veterans who fought in Vietnam; there are 8.2 million "Vietnam Era Veterans" (personnel who served anywhere during any time of the Vietnam War)
According to RAND, at least 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have PTSD and/or Depression. (Military counselors who have been interviewed state that, in their opinion, the percentage of veterans with PTSD is much higher.

Some 8000 US veteran commit suicide each year !

The blogs here have a certain negative quality as of late...

Men calling other males manginas, or putting women down because we now have more control over our environment...not dependant on men...we are an educated bunch with good jobs and friends...and life is good...

Here is a video clip regarding the phenomenon of angry white males...from a different perspective...one that may just turn your frowns upside-down...feeling left out or marginalized...this clip is for you...

it happened today in Florida, when will it stop. answer - it wont until some screw-ups are corrected. the first thing is the correct the interpretation of the 2nd amendment by the nra, the gun mgfs, the gun sellers, and the judges of the supreme court who were bought off by the above. ask the average person what does the amendment say, answer "I can have a gun". that is true - in part - what else does it state ( the part which has been ignored with the blessing of the supreme court ) how about - in order to maintain a militia. how many units of the militia have been formed or are in existence ? answer , none ! one thing the amendment does not say is - you have the right to kill people. maybe that is the whole ball of wax. i would recommend ( oh boy - am i ever going to receive rebuffs for this and what follows) a new law be enacted by congress , it is this: any person who kills another person with a firearm, automatically receives an irrefutable death sentence unless the shooter can prove without a doubt he/she was in harms way. mental excuse can not be considered , while it is probably the shooter is off his rocker for considering what is going to happen, and doing it.
i am not against a person owning a gun , i have owned guns, but i never had any desire to kill anyone whether i was concerned about the penalty or not. if the law was adopted , it wouldn't solve all the problems , but i believe if a person knew he or she would be put to death if they did the killing , and there would be no way of escaping the death sentence, they would think again.
in addition to the above law, i believe whom ever sold the gun , manufactured the gun ,or promoted the sale of the gun, or was responsible for the action to get the gun in the hands of the killer, shall be charged as an accomplice. think about it , i did not say take away your guns,i did not say the 2nd amendment was wrong,i only want people to be responsible and having a law that will make people think about the consequences could help.
studecar

How weird is the alphabet? A J and K sound alike (unless you are a Scot – they say jiy, not jay)
B C D G P T V sound alike – and if you are American, Z joins that bunch
E L M N S X sound alike
I J (Sottish) and Y sound alike
Q U W are linked

O, R and Z (English) stand alone but none are so utterly odd as H.
In English, it is aitch
In Spanish, hache – you might think hash, like cache? oh no. You say it, uh-cheh.

As an utterly odd person (out and proud), I’m looking for another H. Hopefully a hero not a heel.

Since J and Z have alternate pronunciations maybe other letters do in your version of English - maybe even H folds quietly into the mix as a simple he. But I suspect H is always the one which sneaked in from galaxies far far away. I mean, look at it. It's just - different.
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And ..... continuing to learn the Spanish alphabet. As you were.

Around 5 years ago I bought a cheap toaster...$10. The price was right, the product was wrong. The temperature setting was too touchy that the slightest turn was uncooked or burnt. Possibly before I moved or during the yard sale getaway, the toaster disappeared. I didn't miss it because it was horrible, but I really wanted a toaster.
Last week, when shopping at Walmart, I bought another cheap toaster... yes, $10.
It seems low-end toasters haven't been affected by inflation.
I started it up without toast to get the 'new smell' out of it. The apartment quickly smelled of burned plastic and I unplugged it in fear it would set off the smoke detector alarm.

My partner said "Take it back" but I persisted. I moved it to the 2nd bathroom, turned on the exhaust fan and started another round of making (empty) toast. Allowing it to cool, I went for 2 more rounds. Little by little the burned plastic smell disappeared and the door closed in the bathroom kept the apartment from smelling like... burned plastic.

I had an English muffin I wanted to toast, so I split it, put it on a plate and headed to the bathroom. When asked where I was going... my response was "I'm going to make toast!"

Just to avoid questions about health and safety. It's a 2 bedroom / 2 bath condo and that bathroom (with a shower) is used for storage, the toilet has a plastic cover (like hotels) and the sink is only used for dental, water-pik, hand washing, mustache trimming, etc.

HellO All,
Think of the Matrix as a chessboard where there are a thousand levels lvl 1 being lowest and 1000 being highest. Now if we take Mr Tate hes on lvl 931. and the general income earning population is on lvls 100-300.

Now the interesting part of this game of chess is that the higher the lvl the less pieces you have. At a certain point let's say lvl 500 you are given 9 pieces; 4 pawns 1 horse 1 bishop 1 rook queen and king.
If you are @ lvl 900+ there are no kings on the board. Why? Because the player is now the king.
Same is the case for your opponent, however your opponent has the help of his predecessors to slow your climb and it is his job to keep you at your lvl as hard as he/she can. And like any game the higher you climb the greater the difficulty.

Now those in control of the game will NEVER let anyone pass lvl 999, because those who have made it to this lvl get to meet an opponent who speaks on behalf of those at lvl 2000 to not pass this lvl or you will become an enemy of the 2k players. So at this point which is what your opponent has been playing for since you attain lvl 600+ is to play stalemate games to prolong your lvl up.

But then you have me still lvl 1 after 30+ years, and the reason is I discovered hidden levels. But its encrypted, see level one has traps on the board which open up when you decide not to play. but the traps are invisible to all and the only way to see these traps is to lower yourself and become the board, that way you never get trapped and discover the traps. The interesting part is the moment you become the board the encryption removes itself.
What all don't realize one of those traps leads you to level ten thousand.

So, to summarize, I have surpassed the 2k players to become a 10k player from lvl 1

What level do you think you are realistically?

Mark 10
“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Christ replied,
“What did Moses command you?”
They said,
"Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”

Modern definition of divorce:
the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.

Now heres something I noticed about this concept
Official marriage documents werent invented until the md 19th century according to wiki.
And the 10 commandments are presumably written between the 16th and 13th centuries BCE to after 750 BCE.

To refer back to:
"Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”
There is another discrepancy with this statement. Only scholars or man of status could read and write but the commandments were written for all and Moses had just freeed his people. So there is no way a former slave could read or write.
So its safe to say all was done by word of mouth, lets not forget the FIRST tablet had divine scripture which Moses smashed when he returned to see not only fornication but murder amongst men and and gang rape of women and highly likely children too.
Lead by an Egyptian man who was disowned by his own because of the blood markings above his door, which made him as equal as the slaves he used to oppress.

Moses with the acute sense of insight, foresight and vision, foresaw the cruelty of men even after he left this world.

See what you do not know about the first tablet was, as Moses threw the tablet, before it hit the ground a massive lightning bolt passed through the tablet shattering it into dust. For the tablet itself was Sacred and Heaven made was forbidden for it to touch the soil in the first place
Tthe lightning bolt did not stop there oh no the same bolt passed through the soil and hit an air pocket to create the greatest underground explosion.

But with a single command Moses told the earth to leave the women and innocent. Moses was so enraged with the actions of the men abusing the women and children death was their reward.

So if most of the men were killed who was the approval of divorce, by word of mouth, written for?
The women and why?
"A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh."
How does two flesh become one?
Through a child no?
"Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
So with that said, divorce means abortion in the old times yes?

And that you had to obtain approval from the pregnant woman to have the abortion, so you could go f%%k another woman to get HER pregnant yes?

It was highly unlikely that a woman would want a divorce unless it was forced upon her, for their innate love and protection for a child was fierce in a cruel barbaric world they lived in.

Wouldnt adultery then in modern terms be classed as murder?

Food for thought?
Ty for reading.