May 29

 

 

 

May 29, 2021   Week: 22    Day: 149                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 10%

Local: H 78°\ L 41°

                                                         Wind:  0mph/ Gusts:  2mph                                                                    EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  99mi Nearest Lightning: 341mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Humor

 

The state motto is “Live Free or Die,” which appears on license plates made by prisoners. —Jon Stewart on The Daily Show

 

Real Cities

 

Frackville, Pennsylvania is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Frackville is located near the intersection of Interstate 81 and Pennsylvania State Route 61, approximately 102 miles northwest of Philadelphia and 45 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre. Frackville is named for Daniel Frack, an early settler.

 

True Things

 

Recurring Themes

-- Laura Rose Carroll, 50, and her daughter, Emily Rose Grover, 17, were arrested in Pensacola, Florida, on March 16 after an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found the duo had allegedly stuffed the ballot box with votes for Emily for homecoming queen last fall. Suspicions were raised when the Escambia County School District reported illegal accessing of hundreds of its students' digital accounts. Authorities said Carroll, an assistant elementary school principal, had access to the district student information system, and investigators traced unauthorized entries into the system to Carroll's cellphone and computers, where nearly 250 votes were cast. Fox News reported that investigators also said students reported being told by Grover about her mother's activity. Each of them was charged with offenses against computers and other cybercrimes, along with conspiracy. [Fox News, 3/15/2021].

 

Weekly Observations

 

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

Thru 30  

National African Violet Week
National Backyard Games Week

National Safe Boating Week
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week
Link

 

23-29

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link
International Learn To Swim Week
Link
National Fragrance Week
Link

24-30  

Mule Days  Link  (Moved from April)
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories:

 

25-31

Fleet Week (NY)

26-31

Mudbug Madness Days

28-30     

 Black Single Parents Week

28-6/3

National Polka Weekend Link

Old-Time Player Piano Weekend Cancelled until 2022

29-31 

INVICTUS GAMES Link

29-6/5  

 

Today’s Observations

 

Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day (ARMAD)  Link Link  
Ascension of Baha'u'Llah
Coq Au Vin Day

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
International Jazz Day 

Learn About Composting Day

National Biscuit Day

National Learn To Swim Day Link
National Polka Day: Thru 30  
Link 
Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A nice day…warm, clear sky, no wind. Great!

I get that people should clearly apologize when he/she learn they are in the wrong.  I am getting a bit concerned about the apologies that movie makers and actors are speaking to get China to show their movies. They have decided that an ‘apology’, no matter how unclear, is necessary so they can make money. Disney went out of its way to thank Chinese entities for Mulan, even though it was not filmed in China, nor did it have Chinese citizens in the movie. Now John Cena apologized to the Chinese, in Mandarin, though he never said what he was apologizing for. It is assumed it because he called Taiwan a country in the promos. One of Tom Cruise’s movies had a decal on a jacket blurred out because it could have been seen by some as a Taiwanese flag. I am so grateful that I took the Trans-Siberian trip from Moscow to Beijing before the US relations soured so much.

It is a long weekend and most of my friends are traveling somewhere…some to Phoenix, some to New Mexico, and others to California.  I’m just hangin’ out in Flagstaff to enjoy our great weather.

  

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What would you find in the middle of Toronto?

 

Historical Events

 

1453 – Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captured Constantinople (now Istanbul) after a 53-day siege, commonly referred to as The Fall of Constantinople.

1790 – Rhode Island was the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and was admitted as the 13th US state.

1848 – Wisconsin was admitted as the 30th US state.

1913 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris, France

1914 – Heavy fog caused a collision between cruise ship Empress of Ireland and coal freighter, the Storstad on the St. Lawrence River in Canada that killed 1,073 people, mostly tourist passengers on the Empress.

1982 – Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.

1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

2004 – The National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.

2015 – One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opened.

2018 Starbucks closes more than 8,000 US stores early for racial bias training after two black men wrongly arrested in a store in April

2018 Death toll on Puerto Rico 70 times higher than official figure, likely 4,600 died from Hurricane Maria according to Harvard University study

2019 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president

2019 World's smallest surviving baby, a girl, discharged from Sharp March Birch Hospital in San Diego after being born at 23 weeks weighing 8.6 ounces (245 grams)

2019 British politician Boris Johnson ordered to appear in court over claims he lied to the public during Britain's Brexit campaign

2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization

2019 Tourist boat sinks after colliding with another boat on the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, killing 28 people

 

Birthdays Today

 

@100 – [Leslie Townes]’Bob’ Hope, English-American actor, singer, producer (d. 2003)

@71 – Tenzing Norgay, mountain climber (d. 1986)

65 – La Toya Jackson, entertainer

@63 – Patrick Henry, lawyer, politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799; cancer)

63 – Annette Bening, American actress

49 – Laverne Cox, transgender actor

@46 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President (d. 1963; assassinated)

46 – Mel B [Melanie Janine Brown], English singer-songwriter

 

Puzzle Answer

 

The letter “o”

 

 

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.