Jan 31

 

Ready to Welcome February!

Jan  31, 2021  Week: 5  Day: 31     

Local:  H 44°\ L 14°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  5mph                       

Very Low Risk of Fire           Active fire:  59mi

Nearest lightning:  836mi.

Record: 63°[2018]   Record: -25°[1916]              

Visibility:  10mi

Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind,

if they do not enter into our daily lives?

~E. M. Forster

Random Tidbits

The highest denomination bill ever printed was a $100,000 note that was printed from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It was used for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the front.

A Little Humor

Q What dog can tell the time? A watch dog!

A robber broke into my house last night looking for money... I woke up and started searching with him

True Things

Traffic came to a stop as police in Tulsa, Oklahoma chased and tased a naked man running along the highway. Police arrested and charged James Jackson with indecent exposure, obstructing justice, and burglary.

Drivers slowed and pulled over when they saw Jackson, 24, walking naked down the LL Tisdale Parkway. At least a couple of passengers recorded the incident with their cell phones. One video shows Jackson slamming his fist on a car as it passes by. He appears to try and open the driver side door of a truck that stopped to avoid hitting him.

Jackson continued to walk down the highway and starts to sing before a police officer arrives and attempts to take him into custody. Jackson ignored numerous commands to stop and get on the ground by Tulsa police officers. That's when an officer unsuccessfully used his Taser to subdue Jackson.

In a video Jackson is seen removing the wires from his body and running away again.

A second officer shows up and also uses his Taser. The two officers eventually get him on the ground and carry him away.

Jackson might have been having a mental episode or was under the influence of drugs, according to police.

Weekly Observations

Sundance Film Festival

28-2/7

US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days
Angouleme International Comics Festival 
 Link

28-31

Catholic Schools Week

31-2/6 

Meat Week

31-2/6  

 

Today’s Observations

Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day
Backward Day

Brandy Alexander Day

Eat Brussel Sprouts Day

Grammy Awards
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
National Hot Chocolate Day

Street Children Day Link  Link 
World Leprosy Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I got about 3” of powder snow last night. Easy to remove from my vehicle. Now the sky is blue, and it is warming up. Next storm due mid-week.

Rep Taylor-Green is sure in the news. I see she also posted that the horrific California fires were caused by Jewish Laser Beams. The press has been interviewing adults from her district. Many are glad they voted for her and hope she continues her rhetoric that will eventually heal our country. I don’t recall when I was told I would be living in an alternative universe.

My first safari and a visit to Robben Island were highlights of my Focus Travel Club/HLO trip to South Africa years ago. It is a beautiful country with wonderful people and great safaris. The new variant of Covid is giving the country a bad name. So sad.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet you miss me when I have flown.

What am I?

Historical Events

1865 – Congress passed the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America.

1958 – The United States launched its first successful orbiting satellite, Explorer-I.

1961 – The United States launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into test suborbital flight. Ham landed safely about 17 minutes later.

1992 – ABC Sportscaster Howard Cosell retired.

1993 – The Super Bowl (broadcast on NBC) featured Michael Jackson marking the first time there was ever a solo performer during the show.

1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

2001 In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

2006 US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retires and is replaced by Samuel Alito

2017 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice Department officials not to defend Trump's travel ban

2018 trump administration formally suspends the Clean Water Act

2019 Colonization of the America's in the late 1500s killed so many people it cooled the planet and led to a "Little Ice Age", according to a scientific report published in "Quaternary Science Reviews"

2020 United Kingdom formally withdraws from the European Union (Brexit)

Birthdays Today

@97 Carol Channing, American entertainer (d. 2019)

@84Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)

@78Garry Moore [Thomas Garrison Morfit], comedian, game show host (d. 1993; emphysema)

@70Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008; lung cancer)

74 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player

@67 Pearl Zane Grey, American author (d. 1939; heart failure)

@53 – Jack Roosevelt ‘Jackie’ Robinson, baseball legend (d. 1972; heart attack)

51 – Minnie Driver, English actress

48 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress

40 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

@31Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist, composer (dd.1828; typhoid/syphilis?)

Puzzle Answer

Time.

 

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