Feb 28

 

 

Feb 28, 2021   Week: 8    Day:59               Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 48°\ L19 °\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%    Wind:  15mph/ Gusts:  7mph

Nearest Lightning: 896mi.                          Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  244mi

Record: 65°[1999]  Record: -16°[1962]     Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Random Tidbits

A little group called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases performance by 34 percent and alertness by 54 percent. Pilots take advantage of NASA naps while planes are on autopilot.

A Little Humor

What does a frog use to fish with?

A tad pole.

True Things

People tend to look at this pandemic as a local crisis, but it is a global concern. And a global debate. Just like in the United States, there are people around the world who underestimate the seriousness of the threat and are reluctant to follow all of the safety protocals. Like this woman in South Africa who was challenged when she walked into a supermarket without a mask on. When management threatened to throw her out she resorted to the only mask she had on her person. The one between her legs.

The bizarre incident was caught on camera at a Pick-n-Pay supermarket in South Africa. The shopper was asked to put on a face covering by a security guard, but she claimed she didn't have one. When the woman was warned that she would be refused service unless she had a mask on, she removed her thong undies and put them on her face.

The video has since gone viral.

You can clearly see the woman reach under her dress and dig around a bit. A moment later out comes the black thong which she deftly pulls over her head. Another female shopper appears to congratulate her, saying "well done". It's impossible to say whether this comment was made sarcastically, or if that's just how the ladies roll in South Africa.

Back in December, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stressed that not wearing a face mask in public is a criminal offence. The clip has sparked outrage online with many blasting the woman for entering the shop without a face mask on. One person commented: "We have a serious virus and (she thinks) a G-string will save her. Come on grow up. What must your family think?"

It was not reported whether the supermarket allowed the woman to shop with panties on her face.

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

17-4/3

National Pasty Week Cancelled

28-3/6

 

Today’s Observations

Floral Design Day  Link
Girl Scout Cookie Weekend: 26-28  
Link  On-line sales only!!!
Golden Globe Awards
National Chili Day

National Science Day

National Souffle Day

National Tooth Fairy Day  Link   Link  
Public Sleeping Day
Rare Disease Day Link  

US Snow Shoe Days: 26-28 Link Cancelled

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Cool off quite a bit last night. Very slowly warming up with a stiff breeze.

After changing linens and cleaning the bathrooms, I decided it is a good day to be lazy. That is what I’m doing.

It is extremely difficult to read about the slaughter in Ethiopia. Our Focus/HLO visit there years ago was so enlightening. Almost every airport I have visited since then I have met at least one Ethiopian as a shuttle driver or other worker. They love their country. They also love the US. This is so heartbreaking.

The news is telling us about CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. This year’s CPAC has people attending that believe the election was stolen. A few believe that Trump will be inaugurated again in March. The overall tone seems to be that Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and will remain so. I understand that people can have different ideas and still be friends. I am reminded everyday that some of my friends are conservative. They except the election results and hope that Trump will run again in 2024. The line between being conservative and being a Trump conservative has become very blurred. I only hope the Republican Party can figure out what is going on within their party and realize that things have to change.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Shoot at me a thousand times and I may still survive. But one scratch from me and you will find your prospects take a dive. What am I?

Historical Events

1066 – Westminster Abbey opened

1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.

1784 – John Wesley chartered the first Methodist Church in the United States. An Anglican, Wesley wanted a church structure for his followers after the Anglican Church abandoned its American believers during the American Revolution.

1827 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was incorporated. It was the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

1854 – The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. It was primarily anti-slavery people.

1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was incorporated in New York, as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.

1922 – The United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

1935 – Wallace Carothers discovered Nylon while working at DuPont.

1940 – Basketball was televised for the first time. The game was Fordham University vs. University of Pittsburgh

1953 – Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announced that they had found the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.

1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard were offered for sale to the general public.

1983 – CBS sitcom M*A*S*H ended after 11 seasons, airing a special two-and-a-half-hour episode watched by 77% of the television viewing audience.

1993 – Near Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, agents of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) launch a raid against the Branch Davidian compound. At least 80 people, including 22 children, were killed.

1996 – KISS reunited at the Grammys in full makeup and costume.

2002 – Sotheby’s auction house announced that Peter Paul Reubens was the creator of the painting The Massacre of the Innocents, not Jan van den Hoecke as previously believed.

2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church – the first pope to do so since 1415.

2012 Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall

2018 700 illegal churches closed in Rwanda for being too noisy and lacking building permits.

2019 Summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump collapses without agreement

Birthdays Today

@93 – Linus Carl Pauling, American chemist and biochemist (d. 1994)

90 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor

88 – Paul Krugman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

73 – Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer

66 – Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, actor

@62 – Zero Mostel, American actor, comedian (d. 1977; aneurism)

60 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress

@27 – Brian Jones, Stones guitarist, songwriter, producer (d. 1969; misadventure)

Puzzle Answer

An eight-ball

 

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