One year ago today: April 17, 2013, Macon, GA.
Five years ago today: April 17, 2009, nothing happened.
I had to reinstall Windows on an older unit, so in the hours it takes, I watched a 2013 TV movie called “Time of Death”. I’m not normally impressed by the latest generation of cookie-cutter actors but mousy Kathleen Robertson does a credible job of looking twenty years younger. Her family connections are a formidably guarded secret, but I can smell daddy’s money from the balcony. (She will only own up that her father is an “interior designer”. Of what, the Vatican?)
My favorite Festus quote: “That Pack Landers is the sort of feller you’ve got to walk upwind of even if there ain’t no breeze a-blowin’.”
What a tragedy, that Korean ferry boat capsizing. By some reports, there was a “bump” just prior and it isn’t hard to figure out it was no migrating whale. Ferry boats ply a prescribed route. The media is all about the grieving relations but don’t get distracted. Until further notice, you can say the ferry hit a submarine. The only question was, “Whose submarine?”
Russian, Japanese, North Korean, Chinese, or US? It’s those choices since the southern coast is the last place any of these people have any legitimate business. Get ready for the big cover-up. Those kids are dead and somebody is to blame. Find the culprits and their bosses and string them up by the thumbs. Alone, in a room with the children’s parents. There is absolutely no call for this type of incident in the days of GPS. Something funny was going on.
In another gripe, the world needs another Craigslist. The old one has gone sour. There was a time when you could publish the most outrageous things quite anonymously. That is what made that list the fun that it used to be. Now, you can’t place anything in most categories without supplying a unique phone number, which of course is one of the easiest things to trace since it is probably either a cell or a land line. I’m against such tactics because if they want your name and claim the right to identify and track down people, they should be required to state that up front. But no, they pretend they just want a phone. The Internet became great because of anonymity but they’ve ruined that.
Do I believe in freedom of speech? Yes, but that is capped by majority rules and right to privacy. You can say anything you want, no matter how obnoxious, but only to those actively willing to listen. Thus, in my America, there would be no begging, no religions knocking on doors, and most advertisements would be moved in bulk to past the end of the broadcasting. As far as what you say or how you say it, there are other laws to take care of that. Also, I would it illegal to require anyone to be an audience for anything presented as free.
Now the other day I showed some fancy chocolate and it has come to my attention that an awful lot of people consider themselves to be connoisseurs. Nonsense. I’m not even a specialist but I’d rather talk about chocolate than loose women. First of all, don’t eat cold chocolate and all added ingredients should be on top, not mixed in. Like tea or coffee, the full flavor of chocolate is part of the light aromatic oils that need to be near room temp to excite the taste buds. Favored inclusions are coffee, nuts, and fruits or flower petals. Yes, there are edible flowers in top quality chocolate.
As for coffee, you want the roasted Bourbon Arabica grown only in the Galapagos. Nuts depends on your preference and mine is pistachios from Bronte, Italy. They are larger and greener than regular and can only be harvested every second year. I’m also fond of hazelnuts, but only the fragrant type from northern Sicily. Chocolate contains salt, so make it black salt from Hawaii, the only salt that should be allowed in chocolate. This salt also makes the surface of the chocolate shiny and gives it a slight snap when you break off a piece. I do not care for wine in chocolate. It’s probably a cover-up.
I have not eaten much chocolate in eleven years. Eleven long years. Do you ever get the impression the days are flying by and there's nothing to show for it? Not me! Heck no, I have a blog. Even my nothing April 17ths go down in history. Just so you know, Hector.
ADDENDUM
Nobody said the system is perfect. But we are saying that fact is never an excuse for bureaucrats to behave like ignorant shitheads. And today’s news is precisely that. What follows here is a sad commentary on the degeneracy of the American system. One could say we’ve been invaded by a hostile force, a domestic enemy who has overthrown democracy in this country. That enemy is the non-elects, the civil service. Today, the strange case of Cornelius Anderson. He was sentenced to 13 years beginning in 2000. Until his release date arrived, nobody noticed he was not in jail.
Now, this happened in Missouri and I won’t recount the number of times I’ve warned the world about the type of people who live in states across the Mississippi and Ohio that start with “M”. Yes, I lump them together because they all appear to support their perverted politics or are guilty of not opposing it. I only got one very large tar-brush for the likes of such people.
Last summer, Missouri sic’d a SWAT team on Anderson who was quietly at home getting his kid ready for school. That’s another reason I am against the militarization of police—wannabe Rambos are not famous for their restraint. Give today’s cop a MBT (main battle tank) and he’ll find a use for it quicker than you can say “Waco, Texas”.
The Missouri Department of Corrections is tight-lipped about which employees are responsible. Goes to show you can’t have a Missouri without Missourians. My ruling is simple. Anderson served his time because he spent the 13 years doing exactly as the court had instructed him. Those who arrested him should be sued personally for their obscene misconduct and Anderson should be re-compensated by the State for the embarrassment of the unnecessary raid—to be paid out of the salaries of the bureaucrats. And they should pay him time and a half for what he would have gotten for exemplary behavior.
Like all “business” that makes a bad decision, they should pay out of their own pockets. Northern assholes will never learn to behave until they are forced to pay for their own mistakes and the problem gets worse the further north and east you go. Ignorance only stops at Ottawa because there is nothing past that. Have I made myself clear on this issue? I will retract my words if anyone, repeat anyone, can prove me wrong. Not convince me, prove me.
And while we are on the topic of corruption in the system, civil servants should not be allowed to vote. That situation is clearly a conflict of interest—just ask Canada. Please note that the entire commentary on this issue is intentionally worded to be as controversial as possible. You too.
