This is Week 47 of 2010►Day 326 with 39 days remaining
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TODAY’S QUOTE— Vernon Howard
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
Our forecasted 1-2” of snow didn’t arrive, or maybe it did. It started snowing about 9am, then it rained, then it got sunny, then snow, then rain, then sun. The weather service is saying that we got about ½” of moisture today. I forget to mention the 45mph wind gusts that were above the average 31mph wind we had all day. I had some laundry to do, some TV shows to catch up on and no need to be outside, except to feed the birds.
After watching my Sunday morning news analysis shows I realize the invasive body searches aren’t going to end until we either change our terrorist catching philosophy or some group files a law suit. The latter will only make us less safe. The philosophy is that ‘anyone may be a terrorist’. I don’t like that philosophy but realize that no one has come up with a better one. A lot was said about Israel security, but when you look at the number of flights to and from Israel every day, they can do it their way. We in America just have to realize that no one knows who is a terrorist and who is not. This is a sad commentary for sure. I have also decided that the secrecy of our search results doesn’t help the situation. If we, as Americans, knew the number of weapons were confiscated, the number of passengers who failed the first security check and had to have a pat down, the number of passengers stopped from flying because they were too high a risk then we might be more understanding. Right now, all we know is that three or four guys have gotten on a plane in the past nine years with something that could bring down the plane. They were stopped by crew and/or passengers from completing their job. Today it sounded like the administration doesn’t think we need to know. Why? Because releasing such information to the public will also release it to the terrorists. While I believe that all the terrorists are a few cans short of a six pack, they do learn from their mistakes. It took them three separate attacks on the WTC to bring it down. They tried a couple of car bombs that didn’t do that much damage. If the Administration announces it won’t be checking women, blondes, children, physically challenged, or individuals over 70 since none of those profiles have been a problem, it is a good guess that the next suicide bomber will have one or more of those characteristics. No one asked about the young Asian guy who got on the plane looking like an elderly white guy with all the proper ID and emerged from the restroom without his disguise. Thankfully he was just a refugee and not a terrorist. He was flying Air Canada from Hong Kong to Vancouver so maybe that is why.
I’m going to have a busy week getting ready for Thanksgiving. Grocery shopping for pie stuff, and finding it with as little hassle as possible. I’ll be making the pies on Wednesday and it looks like it will be still be snowing—on and off. The cloudy weather always gets me in the mood to clean and/or cook, so that will all be good.
HOLY MACKEREL:On Nov. 22 1963 all three of these men died
…Aldous Huxley, English novelist ("Brave New World") at his request (he was unable to speak and wrote a note) his wife gave him overdose of LSD @ 69 …John F Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas @ 46
…C.S.Lewis, English novelist ("The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"), renal failure @ 64
JEOPARDY PUZZLE—(Super Jeopardy Answers) from 1990 THE HUMAN BODY
Also called the corium, it's the thicker layer of skin under the epidermis
This tube that carries food from throat to stomach is the narrowest part of the digestive tract
In humans night blindness is an early sign of a deficiency of this vitamin
Harder than bone but softer than enamel, it's the yellowish tissue that makes up the bulk of a tooth
The movable lower jaw is the mandible; the fixed upper jaw is called this
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION—Flirting
Studies show that people who flirt have higher white blood-cell counts, which boost both immunity and health. Scientists say there are 52 “flirting signals” used by humans. Of these, the hair-flip technique is the most common.
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In Little Rock, AR, an antiquated law is still on the books warning that engaging in playful banter may result in a 30-day jail term. In New York City, another outdated law mandates that men may be fined $25 for gazing lasciviously at a female; a second conviction stipulates the offender wear a pair of blinders whenever he goes out for a walk.
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A full 62 percent of drivers have flirted with someone in a different vehicle while on the go, and 31 percent of those flirtations resulted in a date!
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM
CHATTANOOGA, TN- A Tennessee judge has ruled a schoolteacher was not justified in holding a group of "ghostbuster" teenagers at gunpoint at a local cemetery. Friends and neighbors of Stacy Swallows say he only wanted to protect a private graveyard near his home north of Chattanooga when he road blocked nine teenagers late one night in early September and pointed an assault rifle at their cars, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported Thursday. Used needles and condoms had been found among grave markers, headstones were overturned and cars were parked around the property late at night, they said. "It had been trashed so many times by a bunch of punks," Tommy Iles, a friend of Swallows, said outside of court. "These kids don't have any respect." But Hamilton County Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon said a history of mischief at the cemetery didn't give Swallows the right to hold the teens at gunpoint. "They were curious ghostbusters, but they weren't criminals," Moon said of the teenagers. "Should the young people have been there? No. Did they commit a crime? No." Moon ordered the case, in which Swallows is charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment, sent to the Hamilton County grand jury.
A LITTLE LAUGH
A couple moved to the country when they retired. One mild winter, they had a bit of a problem with rodents in the garage. So they bought one of those little sub-sonic mouse repellants, the kind you plug in and they emit some kind of sound that drives off mice. The husband was showing it to their neighbor and explaining that it was an animal repellant. He told her that it worked on everything from mice to elephants.
"Really!?" she said, "Mice to elephants, eh." sounding a bit skeptical.
"Yes," he replied, seriously. "We've had it here for a couple of weeks now and we haven't had a single elephant in the garage the whole time!"
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
UP CLOSE PICTURE
This is a close up of what object?
CALENDAR INFORMATION
♦ Weekly Observances ♦
19-25:National Farm-City Week
21-28: National Bible Week, National Family Week, National Game & Puzzle Week, National Teens Don't Text and Drive Week, Better Conversation Week, Church/State Separation Week
♦ Today’s Observances ♦
Start Your Own Country Day
Humane Society Anniversary Day
Guinea: Portuguese Aggression Anniversary
Lebanon: Independence Day (1943) from France
Bern Switzerland: Onion Market Day-autumn festival
♫ Early Folk-Rock Hits ♫
Click on Song Title to see and hear the original
Comments are from Richie Unterberger, travel and rock music
6. The Mamas & the Papas: "California Dreamin' " The most pleasing overtly commercial manifestation of folk-rock, the harmonies and beguiling melody resulting in the group's first big hit.
7. The Lovin' Spoonful: "Do You Believe in Magic?" Folk-rock at its happiest, on the song that introduced the Lovin' Spoonful to a wide audience. 8. Donovan, "Sunshine Superman." The track that not only fully moved Donovan from acoustic to electric music, but also helped trigger psychedelic rock.
8. The Beatles, "Norwegian Wood" Undoubtedly the Beatles' greatest lyrical triumph during their folk-rock phase.
9. Judy Collins, "Both Sides Now" The most graceful mass folk-rock smash of the late 1960s, an example par excellence of an original early 1960s folkie growing into the folk-rock revolution with maturity, and the track that first enabled a Joni Mitchell song to reach most ears.
10. The Youngbloods, "Get Together" Many artists covered Dino Valenti's classic ode to love and brotherhood, including the We Five, the Jefferson Airplane, and (in live performance) Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell. The Youngbloods were not the first to do it, but they were the ones to have the biggest hit with the song, and deservedly so, as their slow arrangement and Jesse Colin Young's vocals brought out the most rousing, soulful qualities of the tune.
11. Country Joe & the Fish, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: The funniest, and most vicious, anti-Vietnam War protest song. Not always thought of as a folk-rock song, but it should be noted that -- in addition to boasting a psychedelic jugband flavor -- it was first recorded as an acoustic jug band folk tune on a 1965 EP, prior to the release of the famous rock version two years later on the group's second album.
♦Today’s Births♦
╥ THE ARTS
1857 George Gissing, English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
Floyd Sneed, 68, musician: drums: group: Three Dog Night
1899 Hoagland Howard Hoagy Carmichael, actor/songwriter (Stardust)
1906 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon)
1921 Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen), comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School)
1924 Geraldine Page actress (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
Jamie Lee Curtis, 52, actress (True Lies, Halloween, A Fish Called Wanda)
Terry Gilliam, 70, actor, writer (“Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” Life of Brian), director (Brazil)
Mariel Hemingway, 49, actress (Manhattan, Personal Best, Superman IV)
Scarlett Johansson, 26, actress (The Other Boleyn Girl, Match Point, Lost in Translation)
Richard Kind, 53, actor (“Spin City,” “Mad About You”)
Robert Vaughn, 78, actor (“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” The Magnificent Seven)
╥ ATHLETICS
Boris Becker, 43, former tennis player
Harry Edwards, 68, sports sociologist
Billie Jean King, 67, former tennis player
╥ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
Shawn Fanning, 30, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
Rasmus Lerdorf, 42, Greenlandic computer programmer
╥ POLITICS
1868 John Nance Garner, 32nd VP (1933-41)
1890 Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69)
╥ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1898 Wiley Post, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
Guion S. Bluford, Jr, 68, first black astronaut in space
♦Today’s Obituaries♦
Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), cancer @ 58 in 1983
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr, inventor of Ferris Wheel, typhoid fever @ 36 in 1896
Lorenz Hart, lyricist, pneumonia/alcoholism @ 48 IN 1943
Mae West, actress, @ 87 in 1980
♦Today’s Events♦
╥ THE ARTS
1880 Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut
1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly, in Paris
1965 The production of Man of La Mancha, including the classic The Impossible Dream, opened in New York City for the first of 2,328 performances.
1984 Fred Rogers of PBS’ Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood presented a sweater, knitted by his mother, to the Smithsonian Institution as “a symbol of warmth, closeness and caring,” according to museum officials.
╥ ATHLETICS
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1950 Lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons (19), Minneapolis Lakers (18)
1998 Denver Broncos QB John Elway passed the 50,000-yard career-passing mark.
╥ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
╥ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1812 Potawatomi Chief Winamac is killed in fighting with Captain Logan (Spemicalawba). One of two Potawatomi Chiefs with the same name, he is a principle leader in the attacks on Forts Dearborn and Wayne in 1812. The other Winamac is pro-American.
╥ POLITICS (US)
1943 FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving
╥ POLITICS (International)
1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
╥ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
ANSWERS
∞ JEOPARDY
Also called the corium, it's the thicker layer of skin under the epidermis
What is the dermis?
This tube that carries food from throat to stomach is the narrowest part of the digestive tract
What is the esophagus?
In humans night blindness is an early sign of a deficiency of this vitamin
What is Vitamin A?
Harder than bone but softer than enamel, it's the yellowish tissue that makes up the bulk of a tooth
What is the dentin?
The movable lower jaw is the mandible; the fixed upper jaw is called this
What is the maxilla?
∞ PICTURE
Fingernail clippers
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