Jun 5

 

 

 

Jun 5, 2021   Week: 23    Day: 156

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 30%

Local: H 81°\ L 50°

Wind:  2mph/ Gusts:  5mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  150mi Nearest Lightning: 141mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

John F. Kennedy

 

Random Tidbits

 

Butterflies are a long-standing part of the earth's environmental fabric, with butterfly fossils dating back as far as 40-50 million years ago.

Butterflies are sensitive to pesticides and habitat loss, both of which have been driving a decline in butterfly populations. Some of the most successful butterflies eat agricultural products that man has modified.

 

Humor

 

Howard dies and waits in line for judgment. He notices that some souls go right into heaven, while Satan throws others into a burning pit. But every so often, instead of hurling a poor soul into the fire, the devil tosses him aside. Curious, Howard asks Satan,” Excuse me, but why are you tossing them aside instead of flinging them into hell with the others?”

“They’re from Oregon,” Satan replies. “They’re too wet to burn.”

 

Real Cities

 

Mosquitoville, Vermont s a populated place located within the Town of Barnet, a minor civil division (MCD) of Caledonia County.

The elevation of Mosquitoville is 1,004 feet. Mosquitoville appears on the Peacham U.S. Geological Survey Map.

 

True Things

 

Least Competent Criminals

-- Robert Radek, 29, of Marlboro, New York, scored a hat trick on March 7 when he was arrested three times in one day, the Daily Freeman reported. First stopped that morning in the city of Newburgh, driving a Jeep Cherokee, Radek was found by the trooper to have a suspended license and crack cocaine with him, for which he was charged with a misdemeanor and released, according to authorities. At 2:30 p.m., police said, the same trooper stopped him again, this time in a Honda Civic, and again found him in possession of crack cocaine, along with heroin. His final arrest came at 5:45 p.m., when Radek was stopped driving the Cherokee again and detained after the trooper determined he appeared to be under the influence of drugs, said police. Radek was released with tickets on all three violations and ordered to appear in court in April. [Daily Freeman, 3/17/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

 

Oral Health Month Link

Outdoor Marketing Month

Perennial Gardening Month

Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month  Link

Potty Training Awareness Month Link

Professional Wellness Month

PTSD Awareness Month Link

Rainbow Book Month

Rebuild Your Life Month

 

 

Weekly Observations

 

INVICTUS GAMES Link Cancelled 

5/29-6/5  

National African Violet Week

5/30-6/5

National Marina Days Link

5/31-6/9  

Horseradish Days Link  

4-6 

International Clothesline Week

5-12 

National Lemonade Days Link

5-13 

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Apple II Day
Artichoke Days: 5-6  
Link  
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Belmont Stakes 
Link
Do-Dah Parade Day 
(Kalamazoo, Mi )
Drawing Day or Pencil Day 
Festival of Popular Delusions Day 
Link
Gingerbread Day

Hot Air Balloon Day

National Black Bear Day  Link
National Bubbly Day  
Link  
National Ketchup/Catsup Day

National Moonshine Day
National Play Outside Day Link 
National Prairie Day 
National Trails Day

National Veggie Burgers Day  Link
The Wicket World of Croquet Day 
Link  
Turtle Races Day 
World Environment Day

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Warm, calm, a great Friday.

I really enjoy the Olympics. I think there is a real chance that they will be postponed again. Japan is not vaccinating very quickly. Spectators will be few and far between. Vendors, hotels, restaurants will loose money. If they decide to go hold them, I hope these young athletes are vaccinated and that they are kept safe.

The NBA finals continue…now it’s Denver v Phoenix. I am torn as to which team I want to win. I guess I’ll watch and yell for both teams.

I washed my vehicle this morning, hoping that a clean vehicle will bring us some much needed rain.

 

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

There is a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

 

Historical Events

 

1837 – Houston was incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (or Life Among the Lowly) began a ten-month run in the National Era, an abolitionist newspaper.

1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express left Paris.

 

1916 – Louis Brandeis was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the first American Jew to hold the position.

1933 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the United States off the “Gold Standard”, a result of the Great Depression. President Nixon, in 1971, completed the transition when he announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, $35 an ounce at that time.

1956 – Elvis Presley introduced his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show

1966 – The Beatles had a taped appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, debuting music videos for Rain and Paperback Writer.

1968 – Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian.

1977 – The Apple II went in sale.

1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five people in Los Angeles, California, had a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests ended violently in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead. Many western journalists had errantly speculated that the army would not fight against the people.

1990 South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

 

2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK

2018 US President Donald Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN

2019 Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and Technology"

 

Birthdays Today

 

@77 – William Boyd, American actor, producer (d. 1972; Parkinson’s)

70 – Suze Orman, financial adviser, author, television host

65 – Kenny G, American saxophonist

@62 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist (d. 1946; heart attacks)

@57 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff (d. 1908; gunshot)

50 – Mark Wahlberg, American actor, (aka rapper Marky Mark)

42 – Pete Wentz, American singer-songwriter and bass player

@26 -- Breonna Taylor, EMT (d. 2020; mistakenly shot by police)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.

 

 

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