September! The month that gives us fall! I always look forward to cooler weather and the promise of snow. Some of the older folks around here say that because of our cooler summer that we will get a major hurricane and they ain't liking it...they say they've noticed a pattern, these are people in their 80's. So it will be interesting to see. If a Harvey hits Mathews County, this county will be history.
Been seeing all this stuff about it has been 142 months since the last major hurricane. That would be just short of 12 years. Without thinking too hard I come up with hurricanes Hannah, Irene, Gustav, "Super Storm" Sandy, Ike, and Matthew. Some say those hurricanes didn't make landfall. When I show them the evidence (like they've forgotten all the images already?!) they say well, it has to be a Cat 3 or higher. Show 'em the evidence and they shut up. I emailed the National Hurricane Center but have not heard back yet. When you look at the stats (damages, death, destruction, etc) on each one, you can't fucking convince me we ain't had any major hurricanes in nearly 12 years!
I understand that another sweet soul has passed away too soon. Damn shame. Seems like the sweet ones are the ones who have to endure the most shit. One of the worst things in the world is to be betrayed, and then to have an STD on top of it...that has to be the most horrible thing to happen to someone. But seems there was a lot of that going around...
And this is interesting...had an email from a former (who shall forever remain a former friend) friend. This friend used to bitch to me right and left about some mutual friends of ours and ask me if she was "right" to feel offended, to feel snubbed, etc. I still have them emails in my old mail folder. So this person wants me to forgive 'n' forget and maybe be friends again. I don't forgive, I ain't Jesus (tho I used to be convinced it was my real name!) and I gots the memory of an elephant so I don't forget. I thought for a minute about what to reply and then thought, why reply? Be a waste of time, I don't want to hear no more about certain cretins and what they've done now or forgotten to do or whatever. Just ain't interested. So I will just let that email sit in the old mail file. When someone shows you what they are, believe them. And this person is no one I want to be friends with ever again. That door is nailed shut!
And now off to get some of that yummy peach ice cream I made from our homegrown peaches!
PS: A six word story from a while back:
I know more than they know...
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Friday, September 1, 2017
Friday, April 1, 2016
Tercet
April Tools
They never thought that they'd get caught
Not a faithful one in that lot
And they think that they are so hot!
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
March 3, 2015
So I heard from someone who said they didn't think I predicted Trump would win the nomination, all the way back to last August. But I did indeed: August 14, 2015 (I also said the same thing in September and October.)
So we will see if my prediction comes true but looks likely so far. And we will see if Obama refuses to go.
I know people who were diehard Obama fans and voted for him twice who've jumped ship for Trump. I think the only way to stop Trump is for Cruz to be supported but whatever happens, happens. Who needs a reality show when you've got the presidential stuff going on? :)
Why did I say that Trump would win the nomination? Because people want real change. They're tired of bullshit. "Hope and change" was a good promise but fell flat. Trump will bring about change. Will everyone like it? No. But not everyone liked Obama, either. That's the way it always is; you can't please everyone. One side is always pissed. And seeing the vitriol spewed by libs does nothing to sway me (or anyone) to their side. They just beat the same tired drum with their tribe.
I will say that I am saddened by the lack of constitutional knowledge displayed on both sides but especially on the Dems side. They say that only the uneducated will vote for Trump but they lack knowledge of the Constitution and for history in general! I've called out a few on Twitter and on Facebook. One Dem on Facebook messaged me to say that he "knows his history and the Constitution but the other side doesn't and he's trying to trick them." I didn't buy it. He and his tribe all slap each other on the back and congratulate each other for the "points" they made that were so wrong historically that it is sad.
Didn't these people go to school? Don't they read, have any curiosity about history and our Constitution?
And those voting for Sanders? Like that'll go far. As criminal as she is, HRC will win the nomination. Those who are for Sanders are the ones who tend to want everything provided for them. Ya know what--only about 45 % pay no federal income tax. Those who do pay taxes will have even more heaped on them to pay for the free education, absolution of past education debt, free health care, and so on. We can't afford it. So with the added taxes, more will decide that they are better off not working and even more will pay no federal income tax, further burdening those who do. Be careful what is wished for, as the saying goes.
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So we will see if my prediction comes true but looks likely so far. And we will see if Obama refuses to go.
I know people who were diehard Obama fans and voted for him twice who've jumped ship for Trump. I think the only way to stop Trump is for Cruz to be supported but whatever happens, happens. Who needs a reality show when you've got the presidential stuff going on? :)
Why did I say that Trump would win the nomination? Because people want real change. They're tired of bullshit. "Hope and change" was a good promise but fell flat. Trump will bring about change. Will everyone like it? No. But not everyone liked Obama, either. That's the way it always is; you can't please everyone. One side is always pissed. And seeing the vitriol spewed by libs does nothing to sway me (or anyone) to their side. They just beat the same tired drum with their tribe.
I will say that I am saddened by the lack of constitutional knowledge displayed on both sides but especially on the Dems side. They say that only the uneducated will vote for Trump but they lack knowledge of the Constitution and for history in general! I've called out a few on Twitter and on Facebook. One Dem on Facebook messaged me to say that he "knows his history and the Constitution but the other side doesn't and he's trying to trick them." I didn't buy it. He and his tribe all slap each other on the back and congratulate each other for the "points" they made that were so wrong historically that it is sad.
Didn't these people go to school? Don't they read, have any curiosity about history and our Constitution?
And those voting for Sanders? Like that'll go far. As criminal as she is, HRC will win the nomination. Those who are for Sanders are the ones who tend to want everything provided for them. Ya know what--only about 45 % pay no federal income tax. Those who do pay taxes will have even more heaped on them to pay for the free education, absolution of past education debt, free health care, and so on. We can't afford it. So with the added taxes, more will decide that they are better off not working and even more will pay no federal income tax, further burdening those who do. Be careful what is wished for, as the saying goes.
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
September 10, 2015
Family reunion done. Company has come and gone. Now back to my usual routine...until October 24 when we go to visit some of my relatives. So been getting caught up on emails and such, and finally turning my attention to some books that have been in my stacks for a while.
One book in particular is quite riveting...I don't know how I even originally found this book. Maybe someone gave it to me, or I picked it up at one of the library book sales. But it has been in my stacks for a year at least. Wanting something not too heavy, I picked a book out of the stack and began reading about 9:30 pm a few nights ago. I read straight through the book that night. And read it again the next day.
I wondered why I had not heard of this book before and checked the pub date: 2011. That explains why I had not heard of this book. The title of the book is "Surviving a Shark Attack (On Land): Overcoming Betrayal and Dealing with Revenge," by Laura Schlessinger. I had not heard of this book in 2011 because I was recuperating from my own shark attack (on land), which happened in 2011.
In the years since then I have recovered and am even stronger now. In the years since, I had figured out "why" and "what" and so on. And made peace with the fact that those people are out of my life forever, and embraced the fact that those people are out of my life forever.
I've done a lot of writing on this blog in the past year or two or whatever it's been. So no need to rehash all of that. I was able to slash to the bone what happened and expose the marrow of truth.
But. It is interesting when I read what others have to say about people like these and see that I was right. I did figure it out.
Whilst this book of Schlessinger's is full of good stuff and on-the-mark analysis, I will post just a few relevant tidbits. The book should be available in most libraries and available on amazon.com. I encourage everyone to read this book!
It took a little while (maybe too long, but I give benefit of the doubt too often and too much credit to people who don't deserve it) but I finally figured out that the person who betrayed me was jealous. She wanted certain people all to herself. She conned them. She "won." But you can't con people who are truly friends, who want to stay in a relationship of any kind. Unless they want to be conned. And the "win" here is a tarnished one.
Here is what Laura Schessinger says on page 30:
Possessiveness
“Imagine making new friends, only to find them getting ever more cold and distant. For the life of you, you can’t imagine what has happened, and uncomfortable to try to get information out of them. Then imagine discovering that one of your prior friends has been poisoning their minds about you to turn them away from you. Imagine going to that original friend and presenting point-blank the proof that they’ve been spreading horrendous lies about you, your marriage, your children, your mothering, and so forth. Why would a “friend” do that? The answer is a horrible distortion of biblical writings: “There shall be no friends before me.”
The so-called friend’s betrayal of the friendship by spreading disgusting gossip about my caller was not meant to directly hurt her at all, but rather to eliminate all competition so that the “friend” couldn’t possibly lose the friendship. Clearly, she believed that she was only going to be seen as a valued friend if there was no one else to compare with—and some people see sharing as minimizing their gains. Possessiveness comes from insecurity.”
From page 23: “Perhaps this is only a misunderstanding that can easily be rectified with a friendly conversation aimed at clarification and a reestablishment of bonds.”
I had this same thought, also brought out in page 23 of Schlessinger’s book: “You are usually wise enough—especially after a night of sleeping on it—to know the difference between a glitch in communication and a frank betrayal of your trust, faith, privacy, truth, status, reputation, relationships, and so forth.”
Why do people do this? Why do they hurt others? Pretty simple, as the book says on page 24: “…hurting other people feels good when it is in the service of the hurter’s ego. Plain and simple. It is an endorphin and adrenaline rush to have godlike power over the life of another human being who has or is something you want or wish to be.”
So I had “friends” that this person was covetous of. She wanted these friends, all for herself. Instead of getting to know people and be included in a large circle, this person sought to shrink the circle. While she was destroying my friendships behind my back, she was asking me about others in the circle; trying to get intel on them as they were her next targets.
So it is all as I had thought. And as I have written about in the past few years. And I can sum it up in six words: She loses by winning the losers.
She is welcome to them, and they are welcome to her. I am thankful to not fit into that circle, but have created an even better circle that is inclusive. The only ones not included are those who perpetuate evil on innocent persons who have been nothing but kind to them, in order to cause the hurt they felt to someone else. But that is just an excuse—you are not powerless to stop.
When I was the recent target of evil, I stopped responding to this person and blocked her on Facebook. I didn’t go running to mutual friends; I didn’t have to. She blasted her hate all over her Facebook wall. While the intent was to hurt me, in private message and publicly, it did not. She hurt herself more. I had no intention of running to our mutual friends about her, bad mouthing her to them. (It was the same a few years ago when a "friend" was bad mouthing mutual friends to me, I did not go to our mutual friends as I did not want to interfere with relationships. But that is exactly what that "friend" sought to do.) I had no intention of hurting her relationships with people. But she is trying to do so, just as “someone else” did some years ago. And for the same reason: Possessiveness. Wanting to eliminate the “competition.” But why do we have to compete? Why can’t everyone just get along?
Rhetorical. Because I will never, ever be friends with such people again. I trusted too much. Gave the benefit of the doubt too much. They are all in the cornfield with Anthony…in The Twilight Zone.
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One book in particular is quite riveting...I don't know how I even originally found this book. Maybe someone gave it to me, or I picked it up at one of the library book sales. But it has been in my stacks for a year at least. Wanting something not too heavy, I picked a book out of the stack and began reading about 9:30 pm a few nights ago. I read straight through the book that night. And read it again the next day.
I wondered why I had not heard of this book before and checked the pub date: 2011. That explains why I had not heard of this book. The title of the book is "Surviving a Shark Attack (On Land): Overcoming Betrayal and Dealing with Revenge," by Laura Schlessinger. I had not heard of this book in 2011 because I was recuperating from my own shark attack (on land), which happened in 2011.
In the years since then I have recovered and am even stronger now. In the years since, I had figured out "why" and "what" and so on. And made peace with the fact that those people are out of my life forever, and embraced the fact that those people are out of my life forever.
I've done a lot of writing on this blog in the past year or two or whatever it's been. So no need to rehash all of that. I was able to slash to the bone what happened and expose the marrow of truth.
But. It is interesting when I read what others have to say about people like these and see that I was right. I did figure it out.
Whilst this book of Schlessinger's is full of good stuff and on-the-mark analysis, I will post just a few relevant tidbits. The book should be available in most libraries and available on amazon.com. I encourage everyone to read this book!
It took a little while (maybe too long, but I give benefit of the doubt too often and too much credit to people who don't deserve it) but I finally figured out that the person who betrayed me was jealous. She wanted certain people all to herself. She conned them. She "won." But you can't con people who are truly friends, who want to stay in a relationship of any kind. Unless they want to be conned. And the "win" here is a tarnished one.
Here is what Laura Schessinger says on page 30:
Possessiveness
“Imagine making new friends, only to find them getting ever more cold and distant. For the life of you, you can’t imagine what has happened, and uncomfortable to try to get information out of them. Then imagine discovering that one of your prior friends has been poisoning their minds about you to turn them away from you. Imagine going to that original friend and presenting point-blank the proof that they’ve been spreading horrendous lies about you, your marriage, your children, your mothering, and so forth. Why would a “friend” do that? The answer is a horrible distortion of biblical writings: “There shall be no friends before me.”
The so-called friend’s betrayal of the friendship by spreading disgusting gossip about my caller was not meant to directly hurt her at all, but rather to eliminate all competition so that the “friend” couldn’t possibly lose the friendship. Clearly, she believed that she was only going to be seen as a valued friend if there was no one else to compare with—and some people see sharing as minimizing their gains. Possessiveness comes from insecurity.”
From page 23: “Perhaps this is only a misunderstanding that can easily be rectified with a friendly conversation aimed at clarification and a reestablishment of bonds.”
I had this same thought, also brought out in page 23 of Schlessinger’s book: “You are usually wise enough—especially after a night of sleeping on it—to know the difference between a glitch in communication and a frank betrayal of your trust, faith, privacy, truth, status, reputation, relationships, and so forth.”
Why do people do this? Why do they hurt others? Pretty simple, as the book says on page 24: “…hurting other people feels good when it is in the service of the hurter’s ego. Plain and simple. It is an endorphin and adrenaline rush to have godlike power over the life of another human being who has or is something you want or wish to be.”
So I had “friends” that this person was covetous of. She wanted these friends, all for herself. Instead of getting to know people and be included in a large circle, this person sought to shrink the circle. While she was destroying my friendships behind my back, she was asking me about others in the circle; trying to get intel on them as they were her next targets.
So it is all as I had thought. And as I have written about in the past few years. And I can sum it up in six words: She loses by winning the losers.
She is welcome to them, and they are welcome to her. I am thankful to not fit into that circle, but have created an even better circle that is inclusive. The only ones not included are those who perpetuate evil on innocent persons who have been nothing but kind to them, in order to cause the hurt they felt to someone else. But that is just an excuse—you are not powerless to stop.
When I was the recent target of evil, I stopped responding to this person and blocked her on Facebook. I didn’t go running to mutual friends; I didn’t have to. She blasted her hate all over her Facebook wall. While the intent was to hurt me, in private message and publicly, it did not. She hurt herself more. I had no intention of running to our mutual friends about her, bad mouthing her to them. (It was the same a few years ago when a "friend" was bad mouthing mutual friends to me, I did not go to our mutual friends as I did not want to interfere with relationships. But that is exactly what that "friend" sought to do.) I had no intention of hurting her relationships with people. But she is trying to do so, just as “someone else” did some years ago. And for the same reason: Possessiveness. Wanting to eliminate the “competition.” But why do we have to compete? Why can’t everyone just get along?
Rhetorical. Because I will never, ever be friends with such people again. I trusted too much. Gave the benefit of the doubt too much. They are all in the cornfield with Anthony…in The Twilight Zone.
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Friday, August 14, 2015
August 14, 2015
Lol. Just watched the Trump speech, and predictably the liberals on Facebook are all atwitter, so to speak. They're passing along what others are spewing and it is obvious people are guessing, out right lying, purposely twisting, or snatching bits and pieces off of Twitter...I think they're just out right lying and hoping that others will take those lies as fact and not vote for Mean Mr Mustard. I mean, Mr Trump. So of course I have to set a few of 'em straight with the facts, as someone who actually watched and took notes ( the fact checker in me...).
I think Trump said some good things. He also said some outlandish things. If Dr Carson wins the nomination, he has my vote.
Here's my prediction: Trump will win the nomination. But Obama will invoke martial law and will stay in office.
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I think Trump said some good things. He also said some outlandish things. If Dr Carson wins the nomination, he has my vote.
Here's my prediction: Trump will win the nomination. But Obama will invoke martial law and will stay in office.
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Sunday, February 9, 2014
50 years!
Great music spread throughout the land
The day the Beatles hit the fan.
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The day the Beatles hit the fan.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Beach treasures
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| Copyright JClark 2012 |
Tiny treasures from the beach
Oh the lessons they can teach.
(Click photo to enlarge)
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