May 19

 

 

 

May 19, 2021   Week: 20    Day: 139                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 15%

Local: H 69°\ L 39°

Wind:  7mph/ Gusts:  19mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  365mi Nearest Lightning: 347mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

~Albert Einstein

 

Humor

 

After surveying property along the New Hampshire and Maine border, some engineers decided the boundaries needed to be changed. They stopped to tell a farmer that he was no longer in Maine but in New Hampshire. “Good,” said the farmer. “I couldn’t take another one of those Maine winters.”

 

Real Cities

 

Dummer, New Hampshire is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire. The population was 304 at the 2010 census.[1] Dummer is home to the Pontook Reservoir, popular with canoeists, kayakers and birdwatchers.

The town was granted on March 8, 1773 by Governor John Wentworth to a group of wealthy Portsmouth investors, including his father, Mark Hunking Wentworth, Nathaniel Haven and others. He named it after Massachusetts Governor William Dummer, who successfully defended the eastern English provinces from the French and Indians in Dummer's War. But the town remained unsettled until 1812 when William Leighton arrived from Farmington with his family. Dummer was incorporated by the General Court on December 19, 1848.

 

True Things

 

The Continuing Crisis

-- Larry Lee Harris, 66, of Willcox, Arizona, was arrested after chasing a caravan of three National Guard vans carrying COVID-19 vaccines out of a truck stop in Lubbock, Texas, on March 22 and trying repeatedly to run the vans off the road, police said. WAFB-TV reported Harris finally turned his vehicle into oncoming traffic and stopped the vans, then allegedly pointed a gun at a guardsman, identified himself as a detective and insisted on searching the vehicles. He told Idalou police, who found a .45-caliber pistol and loaded magazines in his possession, that he was looking for a kidnapped woman and child. "Mr. Harris appeared to be mentally disturbed," Idalou Police Chief Eric Williams said. All 11 unarmed uniformed guardsmen escaped unharmed. [WAFB-TV, 3/22/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Playground Safety Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week 
Link

Thru 30  

Cannes Film Festival

11-22

EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week  Link  
Health Information and Technology Week  
Link
International Heritage Breeds Week 
 Link  
International New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Eosinophil Awareness Week 
 Link  

National Medical Transcription Week  Link
National Transportation Week
National Unicycle Week
World Trade Week  

 

 

 

 

16-22  

National Foul Ball Week

16-21

National Bike to Work Week Link   
PGA Championship Link

17-23 

Health Information Professionals Week Link

18-24  

 

Today’s Observations

 

Buddha Day Link  (Celebration Date) Note: Historical date is always April 8)
EMSC (Emergency Medical Services) Day Link 
Emergency Medical Services for Children Day  
Link  
May Ray Day
National Hepatitus Testing Day
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 
Link
National Devil’s Food Cake Day

National Employee Health & Fitness Day Link 
National Juice Slush Day  
Link
National Scooter Day
Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
World IBD Day 
Link

World Plant a Vegetable Garden Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A nice Spring day…Yeah!

I made a quick trip this morning for baby Aspirin. I forgot to get them the last time I was shopping and ran out last night. Gotta keep the heart strong.

The Supreme Court is hearing a case that could change Roe v Wade. As an adopted baby, I wish all those who are against abortion would spend their time and money helping children who are unwanted. There are already too many kids in need of parents who will care for them. Like it or not, sex is a natural drive and without the choice of abortion, there will be even more unwanted children. Historically, there will also be many more deaths of young pregnant women who go underground to find someone to end their pregnancy. I am so tired of the ‘It is not for me, therefore it is not for thee’ mentality. I wish those against abortion would meet with expectant mothers planning an abortion, pay for their pregnancy and agree to adopt and raise the child. It they believe that the baby in the womb has done nothing wrong with it, then neither has the child carried properly to term.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

97. It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?

 

Historical Events

 

1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.

1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.

1780 – The Dark Day: that morning, a combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover caused complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States candles were needed by noon, and it did not disburse until the following evening, causing New England’s Dark Day.

1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands

1965 – Pete Townshend wrote My Generation today, his 20th birthday on a train. He was on a train because his car, a 1935 Packard hearse, was ordered away by the Queen.

1987 – A patent (#4,666,425) for “keeping a head alive” was issued to Chet Fleming.

1997 – Avian flu, A(H5N1), killed a three-year-old boy in Hong Kong, its first victim.

2011 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, project to search for dark matter, led by Samuel C. C. Ting, installed on the International Space Station

2015 Historic first handshake between Prince Charles and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at the National University of Ireland in Galway

2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor

2020 Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when world was in lockdown, in study published in "Nature Climate Change"

 

Birthdays Today

 

@79 – Ho Chi Minh, politician (d. 1969)

@78 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 1873)

76 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter

73 – Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter

@39 – Malcolm X [Malcolm Little], minister, activist (d. 1965; assassinated)

38 – Michael Che, American comedian

29 – Marshmello [Chris Comstock], American electronic music producer, DJ

29 – Sam Smith, English singer-songwriter

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Corn

 

 

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