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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
I spent the day at home. I did some straightening up, in prep for my surgery. I hate coming home to a messy house after being away. Since I am not sure how long I will be in, it gets a little complicated. I don’t want to have fresh stuff rot, but I don’t want to come home to an empty fridge.
I got two calls today. One from the hospital billing office, wanting to know why I hadn’t paid a bill from November. Since I never got the bill, I couldn’t pay it. I went back through my ‘stack’ and as expected no bill. They are sending me a new one. Then my ENT doc’s office called to see why I hadn’t gone to my follow-up. Because the doctor said I didn’t need to. When I talked to the scheduler she had told me they would mail the pre-op info to me. Surprise, she didn’t mail it, so tomorrow I have to run over and pick it up. NBD-no big deal.
The City of Tucson, the U of A, and others had an amazing memorial service for those who were killed and injured last Saturday. It started with a Yaqui prayer by the president of the Yaqui tribe. It was very moving and certainly showed a very good side of AZ as a community and as a state. More than 15,000 were there to see this historical event. It is time for the healing to begin.
Thankfully the crazies will not be protesting at the funerals. They cut a deal. We won’t protest if we get radio air time to spread our word. They got the air time. Hopefully there will be a power failure and no one will hear their words. They will not be looking for healing or peace. They still may protest at other funerals as the only deal they could cut was not to protest at the 9 year old girl’s funeral. Freedom of Religion, yes. Freedom of Speech, yes. Freedom to Hate, please, not now and not in the future.
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∞ JEOPARDY PUZZLE—(Super-Jeopardy Answers) from 1990 HAIL TO THE CHIEF
…answers at bottom…
• He was impeached in 1868 but was acquitted by a margin of 1 vote
• He had 48 grandchildren, 1 of whom also became president
• Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he had college chum N. Hawthorne write his campaign bio
• In a 1964 survey, he was named 1 of the 2 greatest engineers in U.S. history
• Not only was he the 1st president to win a Nobel Prize, he was also the first American to do so
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM-- MERIDIAN, ID
Tyler Ashton Marx's lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both.
The son of Jared and Leslie Marx was born at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, at St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho.
Jared Marx is serving in Iraq and watched his son's birth over the Internet.
But Tyler Marx isn't the only one in the family with a memorable birthday. His older sister was born on Sept. 9, 2009 — 9/9/09.
A Minnesota couple's daughter was born Tuesday with one less one. Amy Zeller and Codjo Mensah welcomed Flora Mensah to the world at 1:11 a.m.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION— Salvation Army
• The Salvation Army was at the frontlines in World Wars I and II, offering comfort and pastoral guidance.
• The Salvation Army led in the formation of the USO – United Services Organization. The USO operates service units, which serve members of the armed forces abroad.
• The Salvation Army has approximately 2,500 brass bands worldwide. Since the 1920’s, a Salvation Army brass band from Southern California has marched in the Rose Bowl Parade.
• The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 by William Booth. The red Christmas kettle debuted in San Francisco in 1891 in the guise of a crab pot. A depression had thrown many out of work, including hundreds of seamen and longshoremen. The campaign proved so successful that by 1900 it was imitated nationwide.
• The first Salvation Army band was formed in 1882 by accident. Charles Frye and his sons offered their services as bodyguards for Salvation Army street preachers. They began playing music on their brass instruments to give them something to do while they protected the officers, and soon after quit their family business to lead the Army’s music department.
• The phrase “on the wagon” was coined by men and women receiving the services of The Salvation Army. Former National Commander Evangeline Booth – founder William Booth’s daughter – drove a hay wagon through the streets of New York to encourage alcoholics on board for a ride back to The Salvation Army.
A LITTLE LAUGH
The Wolf Man comes home one day from a long day at the office.
"How was work, dear?" his wife asks.
"Listen! I don't want to talk about work!" he shouts.
"Okay. Would you like to sit down and eat a nice home cooked meal?" she asks nicely.
"Listen!" he shouts again. "I'm not hungry! I don't wanna eat! All right! Is that all right with you? Can I come home from work and just do my own thing without you forcing food own my throat? Huh?"
At this moment, the wolf man started growling, and throwing things around the apartment in a mad rage. Looking out the window, his wife sees a full moon and says to herself, "I guess it's that time of the month."
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS—small records
• The smallest commercially available stitched teddy bear measures 9 mm (0.29 in) and was made by Cheryl Moss (South Africa). Cheryl has been making and selling 'Microbears' for 6 years in specialist teddy bear stores. Microbears range from 9 mm to 13 mm in size.
• Steve Klein of Klein's Designs, Encino, California, USA, produces hand-blown miniature wine bottles standing 3.2 cm (1.2 in) tall and with a volume of 0.75ml (0.026 fl oz). Each bottle is corked, sealed, and labeled. Limited to 1,000 bottles per type of wine, each issue is accompanied by a formal certificate. Prices currently range from $20 to $90 for a bottle of Gros Frere et Soeur 'Richebourg' which has a 24 carat Gold Seal.
• The record for the smallest newspaper measures 32 x 22 mm (1.25 x 0.86 in) achieved by First News Newspaper in West Horsley, Surrey, UK published on the November 8, 2007 in celebration of Guinness World Records Day.
∞CLOSEUP PICTURE
Can you identify this close up picture
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
♫ T V COMMERICALS OF 1950’s♫
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♪… Esso Extra
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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
‡…THIS WEEK…‡
8-14 Universal Letter Writing Week:
9-15 Home Office Safety and Security Week • International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
11-17 Cuckoo Dancing Week:
12-16 National Soccer Coaches of America Week:
‡…TODAY IS…‡
Make Your Dream Come True Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Public Radio Broadcasting Day
Rubber Duckie Day
Norway: Tyvendedagen (St. Knut's Day—end of the Christmas Season)
Togo: Liberation Day (1967 overthrow)
US: Stephen Foster Memorial Day
‡…Today’s Births…‡
• AUTHORS
1834 Horatio Alger Jr author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win)
1628 Charles Perrault French lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
Jay McInerney, 56, writer (Bright Lights, Big City)
• ATHLETES
Joannie Rochette, 25, Olympic figure skater
• BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1885 Alfred Fuller CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
1949 - Brandon Tartikoff TV executive: president of NBC at age 31
• ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
1919 Army Archerd Hollywood columnist/TV host (Movie Game)
Trace Adkins, 49, country music singer-songwriter
Orlando Bloom, 34, actor (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings trilogies)
Patrick Dempsey, 45, actor (“Grey’s Anatomy,” Enchanted, Sweet Home Alabama)
1913 Ralph Edwards TV host (This is Your Life)
Nicole Eggert, 39, actress (“Baywatch,” “Charles in Charge”)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 50, actress (“Seinfeld,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine”)
Richard Moll, 68, actor (“Night Court,” Wicked Stepmother, The Flintstones)
1931 Charles Nelson Reilly actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1919 Robert Stack (Robert Langford Modini), actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane, Unsolved Mysteries)
Frances Sternhagen, 81, actress (“Cheers,” Misery; stage: The Good Doctor, The Heiress)
1884 Sophie Tucker [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
• POLITICIANS
1808 Salmon P Chase (Senator-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)
• SCIENCE & RELIGION
Mauro Forghieri, 76, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer
1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
‡…Today’s Obituaries…‡
1929 Wyatt Earp US marshall (OK Corral), @ 80
1864 Stephen Foster composer (My Old Kentucky Home), fever @ 37
1691 George Fox founder of Quakers, in his sleep @ 66
1978 Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN, Vice President), bladder cancer @66
1941 James Joyce novelist (Ulysses), perforated ulcer @ 58
1599 Edmund Spenser poet (Faerie Queene), distressed circumstances @ about 46
1985 Carol Wayne Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, accidentally on beach @ 42
‡…Today’s Events…‡
• ARTS
1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
1948 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cincinnati
1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
• ATHLETICS
1988 Los Angeles Dodger/San Diego Padre Steve Garvey retires
1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
• BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City
1955 Chase National Bank (founded in 1877) and the Bank of Manhattan Company (founded in 1799 as water company) agreed to merge
1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities
• INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1756 For the next five days, Pennsylvania authorities, and local Indians will hold a council in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Governor Morris, and several other prominent people will represent the British. The Indians will be represented by Aroas (Silver Heels), Belt of Wampum, Canachquasy, Isaac, Jagrea, Seneca George, and several others. These discussions will lead to the eventual declaration of war against the Delewares and the Shawnees by the British, later in the year.
1834 Joseph Rutherford Walker leaves Monterey, California in route to the east. He will "discover" Walker Pass through the southern Sierra Madre Mountains. This pass will become part of a major emigrant trail to California."
• POLITICS (US)
1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
• POLITICS (International)
1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
• SCIENCE & RELIGION
1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)
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ANSWERS
∞ JEOPARDY
• He was impeached in 1868 but was acquitted by a margin of 1 vote
Who was Andrew Johnson?
• He had 48 grandchildren, 1 of whom also became president
Who was William Henry Harrison? (Grandson was Benjamin Harrison)
• Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he had college chum N. Hawthorne write his campaign bio
Who was Franklin Pierce?
• In a 1964 survey, he was named 1 of the 2 greatest engineers in U.S. history
Who was Herbert Hoover?
• Not only was he the 1st president to win a Nobel Prize, he was also the first American to do so
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
∞ Close up Picture
Carmel Apples
• AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW •
