Jul 14

 

 

 

Jul  14, 2021 Week: 29 Day: 195

Ave. Sky Cover: 40%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  91°\ 58°

Wind: 0mph\ Gusts: 3mph

Moderate risk of fire

Active fire: 28mi. \ Lightning: 8mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 


 

Random Tidbits

 

The hard shell taco is not a Mexican invention. This is a north of the border food made popular by Taco Bell.

A day on Venus lasts longer than a year, it is 243 Earth days.

 

True Things

 

What's in a Name?

The Smoking Gun reported that on June 18, a woman in St. Petersburg, Florida, was arrested after allegedly drunkenly slamming her car into a tree, a Taco Bell sign and the store's water meter, and then leaving the scene. The appropriately named Kanisha Booze, 34, is an employee at the Taco Bell. Police said Booze had "bloodshot, watery eyes, a dazed and blank expression on her face and an odor of an alcoholic beverage on her breath." [Smoking Gun, 6/21/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Paint The Town Red

Although typically an American expression, the phrase has its roots in Melton Mowbray, England. The drinking of adult beverages was probably involved. In 1837, ‘The Mad’ Marquis of Waterford and his friends are said to have created some turbulence in the Leicestershire town, painting the town’s toll-bar and several buildings red. The thing is, it was never reported as such. The first recording of ‘painting the town red’ was in an 1884 edition of The Boston Journal. Chances are, some 50 years after Melton Mowbray event, a young, educated, partier referred to the old story of the Mad Marquis.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link

Thru 7/18

Running of The Bulls (Spain)

6-14

Creative Maladjustment Week Link

7-14 

 Family Golf Week Link

National Farriers Week

National Vodka Week Link

National Therapeutic Recreation Week Link

Operation Safe Driver Week Link

 

 

11-17  

National Ventriloquism Week Link

14-17  

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Bastille Day

International Nude Day Link
National Grand Marnier Day

National Macaroni and Cheese Day Link
National Nude Day

Pandemonium Day

Shark Awareness Day Link
Victims of The Nice, France Attack Day 
Link

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Yesterday the monsoon downpour that cooled us off by 10° in 5 minutes. Then there was a nice breeze all night. There was a lightning strike on our mountain, and the fire was put out quickly by the Forest Service. Thank you. The sky was very hazy this morning, before the monsoon. It is smoke from Oregon.

The HOA appears to be adding more parking across from the commons area. I’m sure the people on that side are happy.

The Monsoon is dumping more rain and some pea sized hail this afternoon. Clouds are dark, and rain is falling on the mountain. I got my first ‘dangerous thunderstorm warning’ of the year. Good news for all.

After being closed for well over a year due to Covid, the Navajo casino about 15 miles out of Flag is now partially open. They are on shorter hours and have capacity rules.

After all the closures and jobs lost, Flag and the reservation are advertising for workers in many low-paying jobs.  Sadly, many can’t live in Flag due to the cost of living. We are infamously known as ‘Poverty with a View’.

Biden is nominating former conservative Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) to be Ambassador to Turkey.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

 

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Historical Events

 

1789 – Bastille Day. Tens of thousands of the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille, the Paris fortress used as a prison to hold political prisoners, and released the seven prisoners inside at the onset of the French Revolution.

1791 – The Priestley Riots drove Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution and religious dissenter, out of Birmingham, England.

1798 – The Sedition Act became law in the United States, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

1853 – Opening of the first major US World’s Fair – the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.

1874 – The ‘Little Chicago Fire’ of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20. The October 10, 1871 ‘Great Chicago Fire’ was bigger.

1881 – Billy the Kid was shot and killed by frenemy Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers, landed his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House.

1933 – Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties were outlawed except the Nazi Party.

1933 – The Nazi eugenics plan began with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, which called for the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffered from alleged genetic disorders.

1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

1960 – Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.

1969 – The United States’ $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills were officially withdrawn from circulation.

2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, caused a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

2015 – NASA’s New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, completing the initial survey of the Solar System.

2015 Harper Lee's 2nd novel "Go Set A Watchman", an early 1957 version of "To Kill A Mocking Bird" goes on sale in 70 countries

2019 US President Donald Trump ignites racial controversy by tweeting four Democrat women of color "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came"

2020 New study shows Andean condor, world's heaviest bird, can fly for 5 hours without flapping its wings (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

 

Birthdays Today

 

@93 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th President (d. 2006)

@89 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, screenwriter (d. 2007)

89 – Roosevelt ‘Rosey’ Grier, American football player, actor

@84 – Tom Carvel, Greek-American businessman, founded Carvel (d. 1990)

@71 – Kate M. Gordon, American suffragette (d. 1931)

69 – Joel Silver, American actor, producer, co-founded Dark Castle Entertainment

@68 – John Chancellor, American journalist (d. 1996; stomach cancer)

61 -- Jane Lynch, actor, game show host

@56 – Jerry Rubin, American activist and businessman (d. 1994; heart attack)

@55 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1967; Hunnington’s)

33 – Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Growing Old                                                            Pie in the face

 

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