Friday, June 18, 2004
The Rabbit has it by a nose: 
The Dog says: Gimme me back my Lunch, Squirt! Or I'll have Rabbit Stew instead!
Enemies make strange bedfellows!
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The Dog says: Gimme me back my Lunch, Squirt! Or I'll have Rabbit Stew instead! Enemies make strange bedfellows!
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A sign of the Times? 
In my country we have a Crime soving problem, and at the end so's folks won't get the mistaken impression that this country is violent or dangers in any real sense, the host always says "the crimes on this programme tonite, were more the extreme rather than norm. Don't have nitemares" If they tell you similar in America where guns are legal to own, and no guns are here, if they think you believe it is safe, or at least a safe haven, and no danger at all, they must think you don't have all your cornflakes in one box, or something!!
Not that America is any more dangerous than anywhere else where guns are legals. And even here, where even sports guns are illegal, that just makes it that the only people who have guns, are the criminals! I just dispute the way when our country is a danger zone compared to how it used to be, they try to make it seem like times are not a changing and haven't for about 50 years or more!
Addictions in the A.M
I recall a time which doesn't seem very long ago, certainly within the last five years and going back at least 20 years, where I would wake in the nite, after an hour or two's sleep, gasping for a cigarette. I used to think this was real weird. But then had a friend a few years ago too, who used to so wake up in the morning gasping for a cigarette, she would sleep with a new, unlit one under her pillow she told me so she didn't have to wait long after waking. Well, I don't sleep very long periods at nite, normally, most nites two or three hours will be it, sometimes are awake solid for 25 maybe 36 or sometimes 48 or more hours, but it has nothing to do with nicotine addiction. But can also sleep for 18 hours without waking waking gasping. However, on waking, finally to start the day, on any morning, those addictive cravings will hit. And I think sometimes its hard to tell cravings apart from one another. I can't really tell, if I would really fix the craving by morning coffee
or a cigarette first. Coffee often comes first. I also think it can be very hard to tell, between addictions and being hungry. Even if the addictive craving is not at all food-related. Anyhow, morning has come, the day is brighter than for the last week or so, the sunshine is in this Crazy Calvinists heart again. And have had morning coffee, tho as yet have been up two hours or more and no cigarette, likely cos I don't have any in the house. And its not easy to just go and get some now. I used to joke that I could never give up smoking or else my dog wouldn't get so many walks. My dog has been gone 18 months or more, and yet the pressure of life makes smoking seem not doable to quit. My doctors would like me to, with fluctating B.P. and neurogenic pain is often made worse by smoking too, but as I said to my doctor, can things really get any worse? I am not recommending smoking to anyone. Tis a bad, unhealthy, habit that should be avoided at all costs, if one has never smoked before and why give yourself an addiction at the cost of your health, if there's no need? I think addictions become sinful and a problem when they have total control over you, and you become a slave to it. I think that would be a form of idolatory. My addictions above were like that maybe 18 months, 2 years ago, now can pretty much take or leave either, and never clock watch if out, to see how long before I can get my fix. Tho, when out of cigarettes could do with this chappie as a pet, to roll me a home made one.
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
It seems to me, that apart from Glorifying God and enjoying Him forever, that people were created in a huge part to love and be loved. I had a discussion with someone over twice my age a few nites ago, and he said he wasn'tmade to love, he wasn't made "that way" And I can't say in his earlier life, but don't think either, because of this mindset of his, he may have ever felt anyones real love towards him. He's a hard person to love even a little. The "happiest days of his life" were spent during WWII where he was out of danger but in the army. The happiest days of his life were spent before he had a wife and family. I think that says a lot about his view on life and love. Yet, he seems okay for it, in Himself. His mind is sound.
Yet it also seems to me, that after x number of years of not being loved and no one to love, that could very well be the source of true insanity. Especially if most all else there is pain of varying degrees about a life that was lost, and taken by others more than anything else. I've never feared my sanity, except once over 20 years ago, when rather than live with the pain life had caused, suicide seemed the best choice. It was probably the illest I remember feeling, and most miserable time of my life. Until now.&nbs,p; A dog in the house who loves you and you only have to look into there big brown eyes to see it, and who can help but to love a helpless animal back. That may not sound much, and I think its little to desire, as without the ability to give and recieve love, and stuck in the house more or less 24/7 insanity seems a real possibility. Confined to bed,for now through doing a sommersault in my w/chair, on Sunday, confined to the longings for changing things, past as well as present. In a loveless house and a loveless world. I used to always think, that by enlarge this was a world without love, and the older I get the more it seems true. And what value is a life without love? A puppy would be enough. But no, not a possibility. Love, life happiness, puppies, belong to other people. locked away from the world, from life, love and happiness and puppies, is all there seems to be. And seeing as God is getting no glory from this, I can see no point to it. God can't be glorified, by you, if you're away from the world.
Lyrics for: A World Without Love
I won't stay in a world without love
Please lock me away
And don't allow the day
Here inside, where I hide with my loneliness
I don't care what they say, I won't stay
In a world without love
Birds sing out of tune
And rain clouds hide the moon
I'm OK, here I stay with my loneliness
I don't care what they say, I won't stay
In a world without love
Yesterday: June 16th.
The Beatles said it this way:
1)Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though theyre here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
tis after one am here now on June 17th. I don't announce it when it is due, cos it is meaningless. But yesterday the 16th was my birthday. If my long held prediction is true, I shall be dead by this time next year. Tho never dreamed when this thought first appeared in 1977 that it was more likely than I had even imagined five years ago. Today, was nothing special, no differeesnt. Still trapped in my pain wracked body and my mind that won't cope with what seems impossible. I had phone calls and cards and gifts, even one phone call from a lady in WA, U.S.A who visited me on Boxing Day last year. Yet, the day was empty, much like any other day. To spend it in the prison, that has become life, with someone who has always been around, yet has never shown he cared, and as time has gone on, its become obvious the reason he does stay is for convienence. Yes he cares in his own way. Much like one would for a family pet. In fact, my pets were better cared for. Old age if fit, has no limitations, yet an astonishing age yet an astonishing fitness still is seen as an excuse from life and responsiblity. Many people more than fifteen years younger would be thrilled to be so fit. And that's not just my opinion. So, my birthday, it came it went. He threw money at me, and I said thank you. The normal polite rituals and attempts at being a normal family. I would rather have love than his money. More than the family pet. But as it is, theday had surprises I never expected like the phone call from America. But it was just another sad song to sing. A life of lameting and weeping and screaming out, inside for the things that are gone, that were nevre to be had, everything outside of normality. Unloved, uncared for, never alive. My rivers of tears run deep, not for a life that may or may not be coming to a close, but for a life that was lost.
"Where is the life we have lost in living?" T.S. Elliot
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Well, I have been reading through Lamentations and Jeremiah of late. The weeping prophet. And figured this guy, would maybe like to be given the same name, but from what I've heard of him, and its only hearsay not first hand hearing or seeing, but none of it was complimentary, he's a false prophet. Jimmy Swaggart.
The Truth will always come out!!! Even the animals know! No one can hide sinful activity!! Tho not sure what one would call a cross between a dog and a cat. Think it would be more than a mongrel or a moggie. maybe a monggie.
Useless info for this Day!!
Well, I like history, I should do its all behind!!
June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar< The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by Neapolitan doctor Aloysius Lilius, and adopted by Pope Gregory XIII on February 24, 1582 (the document was dated 1581 on account of the pope starting the year in March).
The Gregorian calendar was invented because the mean year in the Julian Calendar was a little too long, causing the Vernal equinox to slowly drift earlier in the calendar year.
..... Click the link for more information. (168th in leap A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected.
..... with 198 days remaining
. - Pope Pius IX is elected pope.
1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 - University Tests Act allow students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister
1903 - Ford motor company incorporates
1915 - foundation of the British Women's Institute
1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Fein
1924 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded
1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania
1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón
1956 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath
1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building
1972 - Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 - Opening of the New York Jazz Museum
1972 - Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland
1976 - Student riots in Soweto, South Africa
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR
1981 - Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
1983 - Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR
1994 - A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
1996 - First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa
2002 - Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.
Births
1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
1583 - Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
1613 - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and later Duchess of Orleans (d. 1670)
1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, early American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1792 - John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1801 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (d. 1885)
1813 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1820 - Athanase Coquerel, French protestant preacher (d. 1875)
1826 - Baron von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
1829 - Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (d. 1909)
1836 - Wesley Merritt, soldier (d. 1910)
1837 - Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
1838 - Cushman Davis, politician (d. 1900)
1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (d. 1913)
1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
1880 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian -American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
1890 - Stan Laurel, actor, comedian (d. 1965)
1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979 (d. 1987)
1902 - Barbara McClintock, geneticist (d. 1992)
1902 - George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist (d. 1984)
1907 - Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981)
1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist and expert on turtles (d. 1987)
1910 - Juan Velasco, President of Peru from 1968 to 1975 (d. 1977)
1912 - Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete (d. 1956)
1916 - Hank Luisetti, baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 - Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher (d. 2001)
1917 - Irving Penn, photographer
1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 (d. 2004)
1927 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer
1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld, author and playwright (d. 2001)
1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer
1934 - Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
1935 - Jim Dine, artist
1937 - Erich Segal, author
1938 - James Bolam, English actor
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon
1941 - Lamont Dozier, record company executive
1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
1951 - Roberto Durán, boxer
1952 - Michel Blanc, French actor
1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
1952 - Gino Vannelli, vocalist, songwriter
1955 - Laurie Metcalf, actress
1966 - Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
1970 - Phil Mickelson, golfer
1971 - Tupac Shakur, musician (d. 1996)
1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
Deaths
1216 - Pope Innocent III
1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, chancellor of Scotland (b. ca. 1555)
1626 - Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander (b. 1599)
1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. ca. 1630)
1707 - Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel, best known for her Mémoires (b. 1625)
1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1804 - Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1817 - Alexander Dallas, statesman and financier (b. 1759)
1848 - Ludwig II, Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, (b. 1777)
1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
1855 - John Gorrie, physician, early pioneer in refrigeration (b. 1803)
1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
1866 - Auguste Barthelemy, French satirical poet (b. 1796)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 - Norman MacCleod, Scottish clergyman to Queen Victoria (b. 1812)
1878 - Crawford Long, physician (b. 1815)
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English pen-manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1894 - William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)
1900 - Prince Francois, Duke of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1818)
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor (b. 1860)
1940 - DuBose Heyward, writer
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1958 - Imre Nagy, former Premier of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, actor, played Superman (b. 1914)
1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player
1971 - Lord Reith, first Director-General of the BBC (b. 1889)
1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (b. 1912)
1979 - Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley (b. 1916)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, film director (b. 1911)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Kim Milford, actor (b. 1951)
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1996 - Mel Allen, baseball announcer
1999 - Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party (b. 1940)
2000 - Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan, consort of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1903)
2003 - Enrico Baj, Italian avantgarde artist
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finland-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
Holidays and observances
South Africa - Youth Day
Bloomsday, in honour of James Joyce's Ulysses
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