Dec 1



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Dec. 1, 2019 Week: 49  Day:335
86004:   H 32° \ L 14° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  297mi.  Nearest lightning:  928mi
Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  7mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[2008]   Record Low: -7°[1905]
Dec. Averages: 44°\17° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world,
and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit,
things that are easy, things that are free,
things that you can do every day:
civility, respect, kindness, character.”
~ Aaron Sorkin

Random Tidbits

Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb. Edison had a record number of patents - 1,093, to be exact - and the vast majority of them weren't his own inventions. He was just a guy smart enough to find real inventors and steal their ideas before they could take the credit.

Edison got the patent for the light bulb in 1880, but its true father was Warren de la Rue, a British astronomer and chemist, who created the first light bulb forty years earlier.

Observances This Month

·         Aids Awareness Month Link
·         Bingo's Birthday Month
·         Buckwheat Month Link
·         Car Donation Month  Link
·         Egg Nog Month
·         Fruit Cake Month
·         National Drunk & Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month
·         National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
·         National Pear Month
·         National Tie Month
·         National Write A Business Plan Month

Observances This Week
Thru 12/1
National Deal Week   

Thru 12/4
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link

1-7
Cookie Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week  Link

Observances for Today

Antarctica Day
Basketball Day
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Civil Air Patrol Day
Clark Kent's Birthday (Superman)
Day With(out) Art Day
Rosa Parks Day
World Aids Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Sun is shining, no clouds, very chilly. This storm brought about 18” of very wet snow over two days. Much needed and much appreciated. Shovelers were here around 7a, I dug out about 9a, for the second time during this storm. Much easier today as we only got about 6” since I last dug out. Main roads are wet. Surprisingly, the grocery store had very few customers. I figured more people would be picking up stuff after the holiday and yesterday’s snow. Sounds like it will take a long time for this mess to melt. The weatherman predicts highs in the low 30’s until Friday.

I was very disappointed to read about the University of Farmington in Detroit. First is was a fake university set up by Homeland Security during the last months of Obama’s term. It offered fairly cheap tuition for foreign students on Student Visas. They had a nice website, and everything had to be done on-line. They didn’t list any staff or class schedules. After registering and paying students were monitored by Homeland Security. Then, the students learned it was not a real university they were deported because their student visas were revoked. Over 250 students from India were deported. It was finally shut down but any foreign student who registered and paid is still on the hook for the money and will be deported. Very slimy and disgusting.

During the recent impeachment hearings, it was pointed out by Republicans the Ambassador Yovanovitch had not hung up President Trumps official photo in the embassy…suggesting that she was a Never-Trumper. Turns out that the official portrait was not reproduced for Embassy and other Federal Building use for 15 months after the inauguration…as Trump and/or his staff didn’t approve an official photo.  And Yovanovitch hung the official photo on the day it arrived at her embassy. Seems a little sleazy on the part of the Republican member who brought it up at the hearing.

Getting in the Christmas mood. Stores and a few of the neighbors have their outdoor decorations out for all to see. I’m used to shopping for stuff that can be in a suitcase so it should not be that difficult to find what I need. I talked to my brother in Mexico on Thanksgiving. One of his specialties for Thanksgiving is Mincemeat pie. In today’s world, and actually my whole life, mincemeat pie never had meat, but lots of fruit and spices. When he made it in NYC, most of the guests had never had it, and were a little leery of trying it. After one bite, it was a success.  Well, he can’t find any mincemeat in Mexico, so I’m taking a few jars of NoneSuch Mincemeat to we can have the pie for Christmas.  

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page

How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

Historical Events

800 - Charlemagne judged the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican, and decided in the Pope's favor.

1783 - The first manned voyage of a lighter-than-air hydrogen balloon left Paris carrying Professor Jacques Alexander Cesar Charles and Marie-Noel Robert to almost 500 feet and landed 28 miles away after about 2 hours in the air.

1841 - The first steamboat engine built in America for a screw-propelled vessel, designed by John Ericsson and built by Captain Sylvester Doolittle, installed on the ship Vandalia, was launched.

1884 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"

1885 - Invented by Charles Alderton, Dr Pepper was first served at the W.B. Morrison & Co. Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas.

1887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in "Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle

1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduced the continuously moving assembly line, producing a complete automobile every two-and-a-half minutes. It was the first true "mass production" system.

1913 - The first U.S. drive-in automobile service 'filling station' opened at the traffic intersection of Baum Boulevard and St. Clair Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1952 - The New York Daily News reported that Christine Jorgensen was the first case of sexual reassignment surgery.

1953 - The first issue of Playboy was published.

1955 - Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.


1958 - A fire at Our Lady of Angels School elementary school in Chicago killed 90 children.

1968 - Broadway Show - Promises, Promises (Musical) opened  


1974 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 crashed northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport; also TWA Flight 514, another Boeing 727, crashed northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.

1975 US President Gerald Ford visits People's Republic of China

1978 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size

1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)


1990 - The Chunnel between England and France was connected and celebrated when and Englishman and Frenchmen broke their respective sides. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the French president, François Mitterrand, in a ceremony held in Calais on May 6, 1994.

1991 - Britney Spears appeared on Star Search.

1992- The Young and The Restless aired the 5,000th episode. In honor of the event, The Price Is Right (also CBS) even featured Y&R themed showcases.

1994 - The Game Show Network, the 24-hour channel dedicated to game shows, made its debut

1994 - Home & Garden Television (HGTV) made its debut.

1997 - 8 planets in our Solar System lined up from West to East beginning with Pluto, followed by Mercury, Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn, along with a crescent moon, in a rare alignment visible from Earth that lasted until December 8.

2007 - #1 Hit: Alicia Keys - No One

2012 - #1 Hit: Rihanna - Diamonds

2017 President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
Birthdays Today

@88 - Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor,
founder of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
(died in 1850)

84 - Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter

80 - Lee Trevino, American golfer

@76 - Mary Martin, American actress and singer
(died in 1990; cancer)

75 - John Densmore, American drummer, The Doors

74 - Bette Midler, American singer and actress

@72 - Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter
(died in 2006; brain cancer)

@65 - Richard Pryor, American comedian
(died in 2005; heart attack)

68 - Treat Williams, American actor

@44 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist
(died in 1993 ; gunshot)

31 - Zoë Kravitz, American actress

Puzzle answer:

Once: 100-10=90, after that you are subtracting from the previous answer.


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