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Aug 13, 2020 Week: 33 Day: 226
86004:
H 85° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind:
3mph\Gusts: 6mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 145mi.; Nearest active fire: 59mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 90°[2002]
Record Low: 39°[1999]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to success
is more important than any other one thing."
-Abraham Lincoln
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Random
Tidbits
Hyperinflation is a situation where the price
increases are so out of control that the concept of inflation is meaningless.
The post-WWII
hyperinflation of Hungary holds the record for the most rapid monthly inflation
increase ever: 41,900,000,000,000,000 percent for July 1946, which means prices
doubled every 13.5 hours.
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A little
humor
How
do you know when you’re staying in a Mississippi hotel? When you call the front
desk and say, “I’ve gotta leak in my sink,” and the person at the front desk
says, “Go ahead.”
Four
women are driving across the country together, each one from a different state:
Idaho, Nebraska, Montana, and California. Shortly after the trip begins, the
woman from Idaho pulls potatoes from her bag and throws them out the window.
“What are you doing?” asks the Nebraskan.
“We
have so many of these things in Idaho, I’m sick of looking at them.”
A
moment later, the gal from Nebraska pulls ears of corn from her bag and tosses
them from the window. “What are you doing?” asks the gal from Montana.
“We
have so many of these things in Nebraska, I’m sick of looking at them.”
Inspired,
the Montanan opens the car door and kicks the Californian out.
*BONUS
How
is it that the caveman survived the asteroid that made dinosaurs extinct?
Social
Distancing…They stayed 65 million years apart.
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State Name
Origins
There
are several theories of how America's youngest state got its name. One theory
maintains that "Hawai'i" is derived from the word
"owhyhee," which means homeland in native Hawaiian. Another theory
postulates that the name comes from a combination of the words "Hawa"
and "ii" and means a small or new homeland. Still another belief is
that the name originates from the Polynesian Hawaii Loa, who discovered the
islands, according to an ancient local legend.
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Observations
This Week
Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link
Elvis Week: 8-16 Link
Assistance Dog Week: 9-15 Link Link
Perseid Meteor Showers: 9-13
National Motorcycle Week: 9-16 Link
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 9-16 Link
National Resurrect Romance Week:9-16
Weird Contest Week: 9-16
Safe and Sound Week:
10-16 Link
US Amateur Golf Week: 10-16
Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico Aug10-20, 1680
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Observations
for Today
International Left-Handers
Day Link
National Filet Mignon Day
National Prosecco Day Link
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Here it is mid-week. Can’t believe I am looking forward to Friday
shopping. After my walk, I got in my ride and just cruised around town for some
new scenery. I did not get out, just drove around about 30 minutes.
Last week it was reported that gun sales increased by 80% compared
to last July. Now TSA has seen an increase in loaded guns at TSA checkpoints.
The increase is now 15.3 loaded guns/one million passengers. Don’t forget, air
travel is down over 70%. Wow!
A police chief in Marion County, FL, has issued a new order: No
one will wear a mask in our buildings. This includes employees, vendors, and
visitors. His reasoning, for every medical person that tells you to wear a mask,
I can find who says they do no good.
Sec. of Education DeVos has never been one of my favorites. She is not helping
public schools and goes out of her way to help Charter and Private Schools. She
is stonewalling on student debt forgiveness. Now it is reported that she is the
only Secretary in the administration to have 24/7 security since her
conformation. That has cost taxpayers $25million so far. Also, she will not
provide guidance for schools to open safely. She has been working from her home
in Michigan for months. How is this helping America?
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I
act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat.
What
am I?
*Bonus
A boy and the doctor are fishing. The boy is the doctor’s
son, but the doctor is not the boy’s father.
Who is the doctor?
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Historical
Events
1521 – Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes captured Aztec leader
Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1918 – Opha Mae Johnson was the first woman to enlist in the
United States Marine Corps.
1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was
released in theaters.
1961 – East Germany closed the border between the eastern and
western sectors of Berlin with the Berlin Wall.
1965 – Jefferson Airplane made their first professional appearance
at the Matrix Club in San Francisco.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts were released from a three-week
quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York, New York.
1997 – South Park aired for the first time on Comedy Central.
2013 – Google Incorporated suffered an outage for five minutes.
All of its services, including Google Search, YouTube and Google Drive,
experienced this outage. During that brief time window, the world’s Internet
traffic dropped by 40%.
2015 Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations
against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion
2015 US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting
La Coiffeuse, stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001
2019 Measles cases have tripled worldwide in 2019 according to WHO
with 364,808 reported against vs 129,239 in 2018
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Birthdays
Today
@90 – Fidel
Castro, Cuban revolutionary, 15th President of Cuba (d. 2016)
@84 – Ben Hogan,
American golfer, and sportscaster (d. 1997)
@80 – Alfred
Hitchcock, British director and cameo performer (d. 1980)
@76 – Don Ho,
American singer and ukulele player (d. 2007; cardiac arrest)
@72 – Bert Lahr,
American actor (d. 1967; pneumonia)
@66 – Annie
Oakley, American target shooter (d. 1926; anemia)
61 – Danny
Bonaduce, American actor, and DJ
@58 – Dan
Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007; prostate cancer)
@57 – John Logie
Baird, Scottish engineer, invented a television (d. 1946; stroke)
38 – Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, American political consultant
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Puzzle
Answer
A
kitten
*Bonus
The boy’s mother.
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