Aug 22

 

Aug 22, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 234
Ave. Sky Cover:  10%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   75°\ 45° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 11mph
Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 273mi. \ Lightning: 231mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  


Weekly Observations

 

Minority Enterprise Development Week

18-24

National Little League Week Link

19-29    

Brake Safety Week Link

22-28  

 

Daily Oberservations

 

 

Bao Day

Be An Angel Day

Never Bean Better Day

Pecan Torte Day

Surgical Oncologist Day

Tooth Fairy Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 




 

 



 

 

A quick smile!

 

 

How can there be a national coin shortage?

Makes no cents

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Great weather. Enjoying my deck between laundry loads.

The Cardinals lost to the Chiefs last night. I’m hoping Broncos keep up their winning season tonight.

Monday morning quarterbacking is easy. Last week 60 Minutes had a story about the CDC and plane flights/cruise lines in the early days of the pandemic. Looking back, everyone blew it…the CDC, the government regulators, the airlines, the cruise lines. Passengers were airlifted off several cruise lines, flown around and eventually to Atlanta where the ‘walking sick’ were allowed to take flights throughout the US to get home. A few weeks before the airlifts I had been turned away from Tahiti.

The US has authorized 25,000 Afghans to seek refuge in the US. That seems like a very small number. I was working on my Masters in ESL as the Vietnam War ended. Back in 1975 the government authorized 100,000 SE Asians to seek refuge here. At that time there were recruiters at many universities seeking ESL teachers to go the west coast to work with these refugees. I had a good job with the Feds, but students in my classes headed out to help. There were lots of mistakes. One that comes to mind is that SE Asians were not segregated by country at these areas. Lots of fights broke out in ESL classrooms as Vietnamese were not friends with Cambodians, Laotians were not friends with either Vietnamese or Cambodians. Once they were separated, the program was very successful. Since I know that Afghans are loyal to their own tribe, I see similar problems ahead.

Some if this conflict could have been alleviated if the previous administration had acted humanly. It is coming out now that Trump wanted us out of Afghanistan. He announced a withdrawal some 3 years ago, but his underlings, like Stephan Miller, set up a huge bureaucracy to prevent those Afghans who assisted us over there would have a very hard time entering the US. Many in the Trump administration did not want brown people into the US, so they set rules that created a paperwork nightmare for any Afghan to actually live here. So sad.

 

Historical Events

 

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.

1851 – The first America’s Cup was won by the yacht ‘America’. America’s Cup is the oldest international sporting trophy

1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations

1945 – The Vietnam Conflict began.

1968 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress.

1989 –Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. He retired with 5,714 strikeouts.

2004 "The Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

2020 Fires burning in Northern California declared Major Disaster with LNU Lightning Complex Fire (341,243 acres) and SCU Lightning Complex Fire (339,968) among the 3 largest wildfires in state history

2020 Mexican COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000, world's third highest

 

Birthdays Today

 

@91 – Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer, screenwriter (d, 2012)

@80 – Valerie Harper, American actress (died in 2019)

@78 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (d. 2012; pneumonia)

@55 – Claude Debussy, French pianist, composer (d.1918; WWI bombing)

53 – Rich Lowry, American writer, magazine editor (National Review)

51 – Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef, author

48 – Kristen Wiig, American comedic actress

43 – James Corden, English actor, and television presenter

 

 

 

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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.