December 2020

    


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This year is ending, but the destruction is only beginning. COVID-19 is kicking into high gear AGAIN. The daily death toll in the United States continues to outpace the day before. The hospitals in California are filled beyond capacity. People sick with this hideous virus are dying in hallways. Trump's pipe dream that this virus was going to vanish after the November 4th Election should have been a wake up call to invoke the 25th amendment. Some news clown was reporting the 25th amendment doesn't cover Donald Trump. So there you have it. A psychopath hell bent on watching millions of people die can stay in the White House. Donald Trump and the GOP have decimated this country. We have lost any shred of global respect.

I wish I had something positive to look forward to this coming 2021. I don't see anything. The vaccine is NOT getting into arms. It is going to take a YEAR or longer to even get close to the 80% immunization level. This is the level scientists are telling us is the bare bones minimum necessary to stop this virus from spreading further. This vaccine is NOT going to disappear. These vaccinations will not eradicate this plague.

I am going to be in danger of contracting this virus for the remainder of my life. This is the way I see things unfolding. I suppose I have no choice but to get the shot. I did not take the swine flu shot. I did not take the H1N1 shot. I have not taken a flu shot in 35 years, maybe longer. I am 65. What the hell. The only other choice I have is chocking to death on my own fluids. I don't like the odds, but I have to play the hand out.

My plans for 2021 involve me sitting in my room. I will exercise. I will learn Fortran and Julia to do mathematical calculations and statistics so I can handicap Major League Baseball and NFL Football and College Football games. I will have to learn Python if I get into web scrapping. I don't know if I will have to take it that far.

Things could be worse. I still have my heath. I have to get my stamina back. Age is not kind in that area. I still have my mind, for what it is worth. Everyday is an exercise in pushing the envelope just to stay at an even keel. I was born into a world that didn't give a rat's ass about me. I will die in a world that doesn't give a damn about me. The more things change, the more they stay the same.


So the Donald has decided to shit on the American people. Nothing new under the sun. I hope this is a wake up call to all of you who worship the ground beneath him. When your family asks why they are living in the street, you can tell them that the President is making America great again.


The television is off and it will stay that way. The bulk of the work I did on Time to Blog! was done with the idiot box in OFF mode. I turned it off because I was sick of the commercials. They were a threat to my overall intelligence. The level of ignorance and immaturity television has reached is a bottomless pit. The dumber people get, the lower the levels or program content become. I don't see a bottom. Social media is nothing but a mirror image of the general IQ of the global population. There is fantastic content on YouTube. You have to dig for it. You have to begin at a certain level of awareness to begin the journey of finding excellent content on YouTube and be able to distinguish wheat from chaff. My computer science education owes a debt of gratitude from content providers who took the time to produce quality material. I enjoy watching martial art matches. I will enjoy these things as long as they are made available to me. I said in July 2004 that the trash in cyberspace was getting deep. I never imagined it would turn from trash into piles of stinking, steaming manure. I remember standing at my blackjack table watching the week end crowd parade past me. They were monkeys with monkey minds. Now these same idiots are running amok telling the world they have constitutional rights to destroy private property and burn cities to the ground. These monkeys are physically attacking whom ever, when ever they feel like it. Little if anything at all is being done to stop this.

I hate to think I have reached a decision where I will turn my back on the world, again. Things are different today. I do not have to report to a job and deal with the public or co-workers. I can sit quietly in the confines of my own world and try to finish this last shoe in peace. I will have to figure some way to get an income steam flowing. I can not live on the Social Security I am receiving and pay off my debts AND pay my monthly bills. This is a sad situation I have brought down on myself.


A Merry Christmas to everyone. I am watching the 1984 version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens starring George C. Scott. I rather like it. I even like it more than the 1951 version with Alastair Sim. I will also watch It's a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart. This is what I do on Christmas. It has become a ritual. These movies make me cry. I am hard on the outside. I project an air of not caring. This is an illusion. I do care. Inside, I am a marshmallow. I know my life has meaning. I have accomplished great things. Things that are only known to myself. This is as it should be. To walk the Earth looking for admiration is futile. It doesn't matter. The need to accumulate wealth is a curse, and a necessity, of living in a world based on materialism. The ghost of Christmas present told Ebenezer Scrooge to beware of Ignorance and Want, the children of the future. They exist. When I turn on the television, they are on CNN, television shows, commercials. They are everywhere and they are still invisible. They are big dollars to be exploited. They are a commodity bought and sold on the open market to the highest bid.

A great deal of work lies in front of me. 2021 is going to be a year of sacrifice. This sacrifice will be worth it.


The news of the day is a pile of dung, sitting there steaming and stinking for all to admire. A new strain of COVID-19 has surfaced and the world's egg heads think it is 70% more virulent than the original strain that ripped 2020 a new asshole. Scientists are reassuring the world that it isn't more deadly, it just spreads 70% more quickly. At that rate, the entire population of planet Earth most likely will get infected. Hospitals that have reached full ICU capacity will not be able to treat additional patients. The dead will be stacked up like cord wood and packed into refrigerated trucks while graves are dug.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccinations are rolling. People are getting the shot. Looks like Operation Warp Speed is firing on all cylinders. Catchy title. Makes us guinea pigs feel like it is a miracle drug when the truth may be that this vaccination was pushed through and crucial testing necessary to ensure safety was brushed aside. Billions of dosses have been sold and billions are in the pipeline already sold before they have rolled off the assembly line. Huge dollars are being deposited into juicy bank accounts at warp speed.

I don't even want to start on what Trump is doing. 2021 is going to be a year where I will sit tight, keep my head down, and stay healthy. I won't have much of a social life but what else is new? I will dedicate myself to healing my mind, body and spirit. All three have taken a tremendous beating and I must attend to the damage. My financial situation is also a concern but I will deal with it.



The ignorance has gotten so deep that it has stifled my voice. It is weighing heavily on my faith in the human race.
Trump is scrambling to keep his ass out of the court system. This has to be why he is so desperate to stay in the White House. It is obvious he doesn't want the responsibility of running this country. He would have to give a damn. He does not give a shit about anything but himself. The man is the poorest example of a human being that has walked this Earth since Pol Pot.

The only hope I have left in my bones is that Trump will leave the White House without a major incident. God only knows what this sick bastard will do. If he can't rule this country, he might do something unspeakable. If he goes this route, the number of deaths COVID-19 has taken due to his indifference could be a drop in the bucket.

2021 doesn't look to be any better. The country is in such a shambles, I can not see what difference Biden will make. It is going to be a decade or more before we see real prosperity for the common man and women in the street, if ever. The departure of Trump is something. Things will be better on this fact alone, but I am afraid it will be short lived.


penelope scott -- rät [song about the culture and philosophy of Information Technology]

Caution! Strong language.
I feel better now that I warned you.

Computers have been my hobby. I never went into the Information Technology workspace. I wanted to. I put in applications to entry level positions 18 years ago. I didn't have a college degree in Computer Science. I did not have 5 years prior work experience (for an entry level job?). I could have done the work. The Geek Squad at Best Buy have nothing on me, but I will never get the nod to even work for a hack operation like Best Buy. That's OK. I still love UNIX and I continue to learn more about programming each day. It has kept my brain young.




Dionne Warwick responds to Wendy Williams:
'There is no need for you to say my name'

This is an example of why I no longer have a desire to watch television. This is a prime example of how an intelligent, sophisticated adult conducts themselves? Wendy Williams taunts a woman who's shoes she can not begin to fill. Wendy Williams is a child.

I see people who work on the show joining in, rolling in laughter, kicking someone who they THINK is down. They are cowards and buffoons.




I don't know why I was thinking of Lonnie James Dennis a.k.a.LJ Dennis. I knew this person. We trained at the Tangsoo Do Karate Academy 25 years ago. He looks like a man who has been through hell, but that is to be expected. He has been in prison for 23 years, and he will die in prison. I am sure I have written about him and how one day he just snapped. It is a frightening thing that something like this could happen. One day you seem perfectly normal and the next day you are on a bloody killing spree. Here are two articles I was able to dig up about the murders and the sentence he received.

Jury doesn’t buy manslaughter in two deaths
by Bill Gang
Wednesday  March 3, 1999 

Killer of two given life without parole
Bill Gang
Wednesday  March 31, 1999 

I want to tell you a fact never published in the Review Journal. I was hoping to find the original breaking news story from 1997. I might have to pay to see it again, and I am not flush with cash at this present time. I remember it well. It was reported that the police contacted LJ Dennis and brought him into custody without incident. The community was never in danger. It was not explicitly said, but it was inferred he was picked up at his place of residence. He wasn't.

I am almost positive I have written about this in the past. It is a long story. I will tell it again, but not today. The truth of the matter is, I kept him at my apartment until the detectives came and arrested him.


I have remained silent. It is obvious what is coming down the pipe. I said months ago that the sound of war drums were beating. The peace of nations all over the globe are being tested and torn asunder. I did stop watching CNN. The news giant is nothing more than a glorified Jerry Springer Show. The audience fits the bill for both shows.

This year was a disaster. I can only hope that 2021 will be an improvement. I doubt it. Joe Biden is telling me that Blacks and Latinos are the first ones who are hurt in any crisis, and the last to recover. He has statistics to back that up. What about White people? We are immune to crisis? This man is a fool. China and Russia are going to cut this man a new asshole. At the end of the day, it isn't going to change his lifestyle much. It will be people like myself who will continue to suffer.

I listened to the full 46 minutes of President Trump's video posted to Facebook. Trump said this speech was the most important one of his presidency. If that is true, his presidency was nothing but a pathetic joke.

*Note

Happy 25 years JavaScript.
You changed the world!



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