TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1986 - To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV
MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
I picked up my taxes and President Obama and Gov. Brewer will be sending me a check, when they get around to it. I can wait.
Our discussion group meets tomorrow night. We all were tired of talking about money, so we are going off the schedule and talking about various international issues. Should be an interesting discussion. I haven’t picked my topic, but I have tomorrow to set it up.
Because of the late hour that I get back tomorrow, and an early dinner with a couple of the participants, I will not be posting a blog tomorrow.
AZ is back in the WTF headlines, again. The house and senate of the state passed a ‘prove you are native born if you want to be on our ballot’ bill. To be fair, all the candidates have to produce a ‘full length’ birth certificate that has physician’s or midwife’s signatures. If the candidate can’t do that, they can provide two other ‘proofs’. One of them is a ‘circumcision certificate’. Wait, I thought that only some 3rd world countries did female circumcision. Female circumcision is not done here, let alone with a certificate. Male circumcision isn’t done on every American male due to cultural and/or religious concerns. I thought the constitution left such matters to the Feds. As one article stated “there’s a reason AZ is seen as the meth capital of democracy”.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
A perfect use for those little hotel soaps is to deodorize your luggage. Once back home, unwrap one and toss in your suitcase before storing. (Wrap in mesh first) The mini bars will deodorize your luggage and keep it smelling fresh for your next trip!
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To remove salty residue from terra-cotta pots, scrub with a mixture of 1/4 cup white vinegar, 1/4 cup rubbing alcohol and 1/4 cup water. The vinegar removes the salt, and the rubbing alcohol sanitizes them.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…
If just 25 percent of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 billion bags a year.
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About 1 percent of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
PUZZLE: Trivia Quiz […answers at bottom…]
1. Where was or is the original 'Penthouse'?
2. What planet in our system is not named after a god?
3. The Titanic had a sister ship, what was its name?
4. What do deciduous trees do?
5. What was Fonzie's favorite magazine?
6. What is a Sam Browne?
7. In 1845, Boston, it was illegal to do what without a doctor’s note?
8. What do stags tails, pickled worms, gallstones and tomatoes have in common?
9. What is Muckle Flugga?
10. Gene Hackman played sheriff Big Whiskey in which film?
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM:
A stamp that was supposed to show the Statue of Liberty actually features a replica outside a Las Vegas casino, The New York Times reported Friday.
The United States Postal Service admitted the mistake but said it planned to stick with its Lady Liberty "Forever" stamp.
"We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway," Roy Betts, a post office spokesman, told the Times.
However, he added the Post Office regretted the error and was "re-examining our processes to prevent this situation from happening in the future."
The Times said the image was taken from a photography service, but a "super-fan" of the statue spotted subtle differences and contacted Linn's Stamp News, which first ran the story.
The differences include the hair, more sharply defined eyes and a small patch.
Some people were delighted.
"Everyone thought the post office was honoring just one great American institution when in reality they were honoring two — the Statue of Liberty and Las Vegas," said Gordon Absher, spokesman for MGM Resorts International, which owns the New York-New York casino in Vegas. The fake statue stands in a fake New York Harbor. Others were less than pleased.
"It simply means the post office is doing a stupid thing," Edward Koch, former mayor of the real New York, told the Times.
A LITTLE LAUGH:
A woman goes into a sporting goods store to buy a rifle.
"It's for my husband," she tells the clerk.
"Did he tell you what gauge to get?" asked the clerk.
"Are you kidding?" she says. "He doesn't even know that I'm going to shoot him!"
CLOSEUP PICTURE: Can you identify this close up picture?
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’:
♫ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ♫
2005 Inductee: If Percy Sledge had only recorded “When a Man Loves a Woman,” one of the greatest of all soul songs, he would have earned his place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No less an authority than Jerry Wexler has called it “a transcendent moment….a holy love hymn.” Released on Atlantic in 1966, “When a Man Loves a Woman” topped the R&B and pop charts for multiple weeks and raised the bar for soul balladeering for all time. Yet Sledge’s career didn’t end with that momentous first single. Over the years he racked up a dozen hits at Atlantic, including “Warm and Tender Love,” “It Tears Me Up,” “Out of Left Field” and “Take Time to Know Her.”MORE INFO
Click on Song Title to see and hear it.
DAYBOOK INFORMATION
«THIS WEEK
10-16
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Privacy and Security Week
National Animal Control Appreciation Week
National Environmental Week
National Inspirational News Week
National Library Week
National Volunteer Week
Pan American Week
Passion Week
Week of The Young Child
11-17
National Personal Training Week
14-17
Fiddler's Frolic
National & Global Youth Service Days
«TODAY IS
Auctioneers Day
Husband Appreciation Day
National Stress Awareness Day
National Eggs Benedict Day
Record Store Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
… ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS…
Sir Kingsley Amis 1922 - 1995 English novelist, poet and critic
Anatole France 1844 - 1924 French writer; won the Nobel Prize for Literature(1921)
Henry Mancini 1924 - 1994 American composer
J D Salinger 1919-2010 American author
John M. Synge 1871 - 1909 Irish poetic dramatist
…ATHLETES
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [Lew Alcindor], NBA center (Mil Bucks, LA Lakers) turns 64
…BUSINESS & EDUCATION
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…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Sir Charlie Chaplin 4/16/1889 - 12/25/1977 English-born American motion- picture actor and director
Jon Cryer, actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV) turn 46
Grandmaster Flash, Rapper, turns 53
Peter Ustinov 1921 - 2004, London, actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd)
…POLITICIANS
Ernest Hollings, Former U.S. senator, D-S.C., turns 89
…SCIENCE & RELIGION
Wilbur Wright 1867 - 1912 American inventor and aviation pioneer
Today’s Obits:
1879 - St Bernadette,(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies of TB at 35
1825 - John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84
1828 - Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82
1991 - David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83
1994 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist, dies of TB at 53
2002 - Robert Urich, actor, Spenser for Hire, dies of cancer at 55
Today’s Events:
… ARTS
1935 - 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1979 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
1984 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
… ATHLETICS
1992 - NY Rangers win team record 50th game
… BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1956 - 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1962 - Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
… INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1528 - Panfilo de Narvaez sights Indian houses near Tampa Bay, Florida. He will anchor his boats in the area, today. Seeing Narvaez, the Indians will abandon their village. Narvaez hold Spanish royal title to the land between the Rio de las Palmas, and the cape of Florida.
1550 - Charles V orders a stop to Indian land conquests.
… International POLITICS
1705 - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1746 - Battle at Culloden: Troops of George II of Great Britain defeat Charles Stuart
1917 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1972 - 2 giants pandas arrive in US, from China
… SCIENCE & RELIGION
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
… US POLITICS
1862 - US Confederate Congress calls up all white males (18-35 years)
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1900 - US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
ANSWERS:
Quiz
1. Where was or is the original 'Penthouse'?
In a Real Tennis Court
2. What planet in our system is not named after a god?
Earth
3. The Titanic had a sister ship, what was its name?
The Olympic
4. What do deciduous trees do?
Lose their leaves in Winter
5. What was Fonzie's favorite magazine?
Hot Rod
6. What is a Sam Browne?
Military belt
7. In 1845, Boston, it was illegal to do what without a doctor’s note?
Bathe
8. What do stags tails, pickled worms, gallstones and tomatoes have in common?
Once thought to be Aphrodisiacs
9. What is Muckle Flugga?
Rock and Lighthouse on Uist
10. Gene Hackman played sheriff Big Whiskey in which film?
Unforgiven
Close Up Picture
Tricycle
…AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW
