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Aug.
27, 2019 Week: 35 Day: 239
86004: H 86° \ L 56° \ Average Sky
Cover: 20%
Nearest
wildfire: 27mi. Nearest lightning: 814mi
Wind: 3mph\Gusts:
5mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 88°[1994] Record Low: 36°[1978]
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)
Today’s Quote
If
you aren't fired with enthusiasm,
you
will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince
Lombardi
Random Tidbits
The U.S.
government borrows approximately $5 billion every business day.
The U.S.
government pays more than $1 billion each day just on interest on its debt
In 2008, U.S.
households lost an estimated 18% of their net worth, equaling approximately an
$11.2 trillion loss. This collapse was the largest since the Federal Reserve
began tracking household wealth after WWII.
Observances This Week
24-9/1
Chuckwagon Races:
24-9/1
National Composites Week Link
National Safe at Home Week
Observances for Today
My Rambling Thoughts
I headed out
early to do some needed shopping. Got it done and home in record time. It’s another
warm day with 20% humidity, making it feel a lot warmer in this dry climate.
Maricopa County
(think Phoenix) made Nat’l news again. Joe Arpaio, the 87-year-old former sheriff
who was pardoned by the President for being unfair to Brown people and who
started a tent city for inmates that were forced to wear pink underwear, has
now decided he will run again in 2020. He lost last time after a 34 year reign.
Only in AZ. That county is very conservative and Ol’ Joe may have a chance.
I wrote about
Cyber technology yesterday and said it was scary. Then, last night on 60 Minutes,
they had a piece on Cyber-crime. They were reporting on the number of cities in
the US that have had their computer servers infected and then encrypted. The only
way to get their data back is to pay the hackers around $80,000. The good guys
say they keep the amount that low, because they figure every city will pay that
much to get their data back. Other victims include hospitals where they can’t
access patient records. Their fear is that computer machines that keep patients
alive could be hacked also. One hospital waited 2 weeks to pay, after they had
to create 10,000 sheets of paper records on their current patients.
G-7 is over and
no major gaffes. Nice. He skipped the climate change session. And our leader
didn’t even mention nuking hurricanes that are off shore. Probably good he
skipped the climate change stuff.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page
A woman was in
court for killing her husband. She said she wasn’t guilty and that she dearly
missed him. In the closing statement, the woman’s lawyer stands up and says,
“Her husband was just missing. Everyone look at the doors. He’s going to walk
through them in about 30 seconds.”
The entire jury
stares at the doors waiting for waiting for this woman’s husband to walk
through the doors. The lawyer and the woman stare at the jury.
The lawyer
concludes by saying, “See! If you were so sure she killed her husband, you
wouldn’t be watching that door!”
The jury
immediately gave a guilty verdict. Why?
Historical Events
410 - The sacking
of Rome by the Visigoths ended after three days.
1813 - French
Emperor Napoleon I defeated a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and
Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1859 - Petroleum
was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first
commercially successful oil well.
1893 - Sea
Islands Hurricane, Georgia, South Carolina.
1939 - First
flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft,
in Germany.
1955 - The first
copy of the Guinness Book of Records was issued.
1962 - The
Mariner 2 unmanned space mission was launched to Venus by NASA.
1967 - Beatles manager
Brian Epstein died of an accidental Carbitral overdose.
1988 - #1 Hit:
George Michael - Monkey
1994 - #1 Hit:
Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
2003 - The first
6-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan
and Russia, convened to find a resolution to the security concerns as a result
of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2003 - Mars made
its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing just 34,646,418
miles away.
2011 - #1 Hit:
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
2011 -
(Hurricane) Irene struck the United States east coast, killing 47 people.
Birthdays Today
Martha Raye,
comic actor, singer
(d.
1994 @78 pneumonia)
GW Bailey,
character actor (M*A*S*H movie, Police Academy) (75)
Barbara Bach,
actor [Bond girl] (71)
Pee Wee Herman [Paul
Rubens], actor (67)
Lyndon Baines
Johnson, 36th US President
(d.
1973 @ 64; heart attack)
Tom Ford, fashion
designer (58)
Chandra Wilson,
actor (Grey’s Anatomy] (50)
Ma$e [Mason
Durell Betha], rapper (44)
Puzzle answer:
The woman was
watching the jury and not the doors because she knew that her husband wouldn’t
walk through them because she had killed him. If she has really missed him like
she said, she would have been watching the doors.
