Jun 7

 

 

 

Jun 7, 2021   Week: 24    Day: 158

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 10%

Local: H 80 \ L  45°

Wind:  4mph/ Gusts:  11mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  126mi Nearest Lightning: 229mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

 

Random Tidbits

 

A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the sun.

When a person cries and the first drop of tears come from the right eye, its happiness. if it from left eye, it’s pain.

 

Humor

 

While fishing off Myrtle Beach, a Yankee tourist capsized his boat. Petrified, he yelled to an old guy standing on the shore, “Are there any gators around here?!”

“Naw,” the man hollered back, “they ain’t been around for years!”

Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming toward shore. Halfway there, he asked the guy, “How’d you get rid of the gators?”

“We didn’t do anything,” the old guy said. “The sharks got ’em.”

 

Real Cities

 

Big Bottom, Washington is on the Cowlitz River, Packwood, WA

 

True Things

 

Quick Thinking

An unnamed maskless woman waiting in line at a Pick 'n' Pay supermarket in South Africa was caught on cellphone video being confronted by a store guard who demanded she put on a mask or be thrown out of the store. On the video, she is next seen reaching up under her dress, pulling out her underwear -- a black thong -- and placing it on her face, the New York Post reported. Witnesses were mixed in their reaction. "Good lord," one shopper was heard saying. "Brilliant," said another. [New York Post, 2/26/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Marina Days Link

5/31-6/9  

International Clothesline Week

5-12 

National Lemonade Days Link

5-13 

Bedbug Awareness Week Link
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week 
Link   
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Business Etiquette Week 
National Headache Awareness Week
Link  
Pet Appreciation Week 
Link

 

 

 

 

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Today’s Observations

 

 

(Daniel) Boone Day
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

National Thank God It's Monday Day 
VCR Day

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Nice day…breeze is keeping it cool.

What is going on?...An American Legion official had the speaker’s mic turn off when he talked about how Blacks spearheaded Memorial Day’s earliest beginnings, claiming it was not part of the approved speech. He admitted turning off the mic and resigned.

Dreamers can enlist in the military branches and serve this country. Many would assume that after serving, they are given citizenship or at least move up in the line. That does not happen, but this does: Recently several former soldiers were convicted of a crime and had to serve jail time [marijuana possession or shoplifting]. Upon release from jail, they were deported.  They are returning to countries they have never lived in and usually don’t even speak the language. Things need to change.

 

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What goes up but never comes down?

 

Historical Events

 

1665 Great Plague of London: Samuel Pepys writes in his diary of houses marked with a red cross in London's Drury Lane, meaning somebody inside is infected with the plague and must be locked in for 40 days or until death

1753 British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament with royal assent from King George II (opens in 1759)

1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass, State of Kentucky

1776 – Richard Henry Lee presented the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress.

1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agreed in the Lyons-Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.

1914 – The Alliance was the first vessel to pass through the Panama Canal.

1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples

2012 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found under a pub in London

2020 Black Lives Matter Protests continue worldwide in large numbers, In Bristol England statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston pulled down

 

Birthdays Today

 

@85 – Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died in 1994)

@83 – Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet (died in 2000)

81 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor

@78 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (died in 1995)

69 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor

62 – Mike Pence, former VP

@61 – Beau Brummell, English fashion designer (d. 1840; syphilis)

@57 – Prince [Prince Rogers Nelson], American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor (d. 2016; OD)

@54 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (d. 1903; heart attack<?>)

33 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor

 

Puzzle Answer

 

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