This is Week 30 of 2010►Day 210 with 155 days left.
It is Day 101 of the BP Mess. Day 13 of no leaks
FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
The rain last night continued most of the night. Luckily it was a fairly gentle rain so was able to soak in.
The Federal District Court stopped SB1070’s most controversial sections from going into effect. Now the appeals process will start. This will now be going on for years.
I went to a dinner on some of my investments. These particular ones are doing very well, paying out about 10%. Wish the others were doing that well.
It rained on and off this afternoon and this evening. Most of it was gentle. It was nice with a high of 79°.
MY QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: It is within the power of writers and artists to do ch more: to defeat the lie!
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION
>At the hight of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one American dollar was equal to 4.2 trillion German marks.
>The largest part of the $15 million needed to buy Louisiana from Napoleon was lent to the U.S. by English, Dutch, and French bankers.
GREY MATTER PUZZLE 1
What is represented by this BrainBat? BALLBBALLABALLSBALLKBALLEBALLTBALL
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM
WESTMINSTER, Md. — A Maryland man has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for stealing a spider from a public library. Carroll County Circuit Judge J. Barry Hughes sentenced 27-year-old Randy Humple of Westminster Monday.
Staff at the Westminster library called police May 19 after they discovered Chili Rose, a Chilean Rose tarantula at the information desk, had disappeared. Witnesses told authorities they saw Humple with the spider and that he bragged about swiping it.
Hughes also sentenced Humple to four years in prison for violating his probation in a 2007 assault case. Humple told the judge he knows he's done some stupid things and he wants to serve his sentence.
The judge said that while what Humple did may have been "stupid on one level," it was also "criminal on another level."
A LITTLE LAUGH
My friend was late for a meeting and was speeding on the freeway. A state policeman pulled her over. He was a little grouchy when he asked for her paperwork so she thought she would make lite of the situation.As she handed her paperwork over she said "I guess this means I will not be attending the policeman's ball"" The state policeman said " I'll have you know that state policeman have no balls" He quickly realized what he said, handed her back her paperwork, went to his car and drove off!!!!
GREY MATTER PUZZLE 2
I'm used a lot. I'm older than a computer. I have a lot of fiber. I can be colorful. What am I?
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
NASA launch—from the cockpit: Click Here!
GREY MATTER PICTURE
This is a close up of what object?
SOME CALENDAR INFORMATION
► Weekly Observances ◄
25-31 National Salad Week
► Today’s Observances ◄
Lasagna Day
National Chili Dog Day
Rain Day
Norway : Olsok Eve Festival (1030)
Thailand: National Thai Language Day
Romania: National Anthem Day
► Hit Songs on this date ◄
Peg O' My Heart The Harmonicats in 1947
Teddy Bear Elvis Presley in 1957
Light My Fire The Doors in 1967
I Just Want to Be Your Everything Andy Gibb in 1977
Shakedown Bob Seger in 1987
► Born today ◄
…The Arts
Melvin Belli, ‘King of Torts’: attorney: represented Mae West, Errol Flynn, Muhammad Ali, Jack Ruby, Tammy Fae Bakker; author: Everybody’s Guide to the Law, born in 1907
Ken Burns, 57, Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director: The Civil War [1990-91]; Baseball, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Robert Fuller, 77, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train) , born in Troy NY
Robert Horton, 86, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena) , born in LA, CA
Martina McBride, 44, country singer, born Sharon, KS
…Athletics
Fernando González, 30, tennis player, born Santiago, Chile
…Business & Education
Peter Jennings, Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News) , born in 1938
…Politics
Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman/writer (Democracy in America) , born in 1805
Elizabeth Hanford Dole, 74, former US Senator (R, North Carolina); former president, American Red Cross; former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor, born Salisbury, NC
Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43) , born in 1883
Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt, born in 1861
…Science/Religion
[Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, the mad Russian monk, born in 1871
► Obituaries today ◄
Cass Elliot, singer of Mamas & Papas chokes @ 30 in 1974
Raymond Massey, actor, pneumonia @ 86 in 1983
David Niven. actor (Rugues), @ 73 in 1983
Richard Simon. cofounder of Simon & Shuster, dies
Vincent Van Gogh. dies in Auvers, France in 1890
Fred Waring. orch leader (Fred Waring Show), @ 84 in 1984
► Events ◄
…The Arts
1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
…Athletics
1874 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of England received a patent for the lawn-tennis court.
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
…Business & Education
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghenies, Pitts Gazette
…Indigenous People
1706 Spaniard Juan de Uribarri is leading twenty soldiers, twelve settlers and 200 Indian allies from Santa Fe to rescue a band of enslaved Indians held by the Cuartelejo Apaches in what is now eastern Colorado. They cross the Arkansas River near present day Pueblo, Colorado.
1837 Henry Dodge, representing the United States, and the Chippewa Indians sign a treaty (7 Stat., 536.) at St. Peters, Wisconsin. The Chippewas trade large land holdings for $9,500 immediately, $19,000 worth of supplies, and a release from their debts.
…Politics (US)
1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
…Politics (outside US)
1858 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan signed
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
…Science / Religion
1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act
GREY MATTER ANSWERS
…1
Basket Balls.
...2
I am paper!
…Photo
A gas stovetop
TODAY’S PHOTO SHOT
Auschwitz
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