May 24

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May 24, 2020 Week: 21 Day: 145

86004: H 71° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 556mi.; Nearest active fire: 325mi.

Extreme Risk of Fire

Record High: 83°[1983] Record Low: 23°[1909]

May Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"The future belongs to those who believe

in the beauty of their dreams."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

The income tax system employed by the IRS that we know today would not be put into place until 1913 with the addition of the 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads, "Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived..."

When the income tax was fully established in 1913, the tax rate was 1 percent. Few paid income tax to the IRS, as it was required only if you made $3,000 or more per year. That year only 1 out of 271 Americans had to pay income tax.

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

"During a Zoom class session for an MBA class, a classmate had his video on but seemed to believe he had stepped off-camera. He stuck his hand down the front of his gym shorts at which point our professor stopped mid-sentence and there was an extremely awkward 30 seconds of silence. I nearly fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard."

Observations This Week

National Tire Safety Week:  18-24 Link
Fleet Week (NY): 20-26
National Polka Weekend: 22-24 Cancelled due to COVID-19
Mudbug Madness Days: 23-25 Cancelled due to COVID-19
Old-Time Player Piano Weekend: 23-25  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National African Violet Week: 24-30

Observations for Today

Aviation Maintenance Technician Day Link
Brother's DayIndianapolis 500 Moved to August 23.
International Tiara Day
Morse Code DayNational Escargot Day

Neighbor Day
Scavenger Hunt Day

World Schizophrenia Awareness Day Link
Yucatan Shrimp Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Great morning walk before returning home to do weekend cleaning. A great day to be outside.

Read an article about the Superintendent of Jeffco, in CO. He is polling parents for their input on reopening schools. He is asking about their concerns of safety, their children receiving a great education, any special needs of families, etc. Very Cool.

Biden and Trump both put their respective foot in their respective mouth: Biden messed up by questioning the 'Blackness' of any Black person who voted for Trump. Trump is launching a $1million campaign against him with the comments highlighted in the ads. Trump is also starting a campaign for Jeff Sessions' Republican opponent in the primary for Jeff's previous Senate seat. Both main candidates need to think about consequences of every word that leaves their mouth and every dollar that leaves their pocket.

Pleased to see that Trump ordered American flags at half mast through Sunday for the many victims of Covid19. Good for him.

IHS [Indian Health Service] ordered 247,000 masks for its personnel on the Navajo Reservation, only to find most are unusable. Another order of 130,400 did not meet medical standards. The masks, originally made in China were purchased from a new vendor. That vendor had just opened his business in April. His previous job was President Trump's deputy chief of staff. How can his happen to the Navajo people?

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Example: TM...in...AY = twelve months in a year

ATG...is...NG

ABITH...is...WTITB

TP...is...MTTS

HAL...is...BTN

AP...is...WATW

N...is...TMOI

Historical Events

1738 John Wesley is converted, launching the Methodist movement; celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day

1775 - John Hancock was elected president of the Second Continental Congress.

1830 - Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale was published.

1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first public telegraph message - 'What Hath God Wrought?' through the Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph line.

1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge over the East River opened, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1894 Lowell Observatory, Arizona, first begins observations of Mars with an eighteen-inch telescope, leads its builder Percival Lowell to conclude there are canals on Mars

1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1930 Amy Johnson becomes the 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia

1935 - The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in Major League Baseball's first-ever night game at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1938 - A patent (#2,118,318) was issued for a Coin Controlled Parking Meter to Carl C. McGee of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1943 - Josef Mengele, the 'Angel of Death' began working at the Auschwitz, Poland concentration camp.

1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in Great Britain

1976 - The Concorde began regular passenger service between Europe and Washington DC.

1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel

1991 - Thelma and Louise, starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, was released. Their car was a 1966 Ford Thunderbird.

1995 - ABC made the announcement that an episode of All My Children was deleted from broadcast due to the recent Oklahoma City bombing. In the story line a character was supposed to explode a church in which her ex was re-marrying.

2018 US President Donald Trump cancels summit with North and South Korea because of hostile statements from North Korea

2018 World's largest cat-proof fence (44km) completed at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, central Australia to protest endangered species

Birthdays Today

82-Actor Tommy Chong

@81-Queen Victoria (d. 1901)

79-Singer Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman]

76-Singer Patti LaBelle [Patricia Louise Holte]

76-Actor, Puppeteer Frank Oz [Frank Richard Oznowicz]

75-Actor Priscilla Presley

71-Actor Jim Broadbent

66-Actor Alfred Molina

55-Actor John C. Reilly

Puzzle Answer:

All that glitters is not gold

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

The pen is mightier than the sword

Half a loaf is better than none

A picture is worth a thousand words

Necessity is the mother of invention