Aug 24

 

Aug 24, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 236
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   78°\ 46° Wind: 9mph\ Gusts: 18mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 361mi. \ Lightning: 163mi.
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  

National Composites Week  Link
National Safe at Home Week

World Water Week  
Link

 

23-27 

Paralympic Games

24-9/5

 

Daily Oberservations

 

 

Peach Pie Day

Pluto Demoted Day

Waffle Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 


 

 


 



 

A quick smile!

 

 

What do they call a cubic zirconia in Ireland?

A sham-rock

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Great warm day with a breeze. Couldn’t ask for more.

Pfizer vaccine is fully approved for those over 16. Trump got some ‘boos’ when he told his latest audience to get vaccinated. Wonder what the next excuse will be?

The media keeps saying that this Afghanistan war is the longest in US history. I wish they would add ‘foreign’ in their press releases. In the US, the military was at war with Indigenous nations much longer. East of the Mississippi the military fought from 1775-1842 (67 years) and West of the Mississippi the military fought from 1811-1924 (113 years). Indigenous Nations fought on the Great Plains for 60 years. It is strange to me that most History books have labeled all Indigenous people as ‘Indian.’ But when these same books write about the move west, they separate tribes and talk about small individual wars that didn’t last that long. Hmmm.

I have read how the previous administration brokered a deal with the Taliban to withdraw from Afghanistan. That deal led to the withdrawal happening right now. I just learned yesterday that deal was between the Taliban and the US and at no time was the Afghan government involved is the negotiations. Not under Trump; not under Biden. This says a lot about the US government’s faith in the Afghan government we were training. In the 20 years we were there, we never understood that the tribal regions ran the country and not any National government in Kabul or anywhere else. While most US citizens wanted us out of Afghanistan long ago, I doubt that most understood that the Afghan government we were supporting really had no power. The Taliban has announced the Aug 31 deadline is ‘a red line’. Sad!


Historical Events

1215 Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid

1349 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz, (Belgium)

1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces

1682 – William Penn received the area that is now the state of Delaware, and added it to his colony of Pennsylvania.

1847 Charlotte Brontë finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"

1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1932 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey.

1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose was banned from baseball ‘forever’ for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.

2011 Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of his illness

2015 Physicist Stephen Hawking presents a new theory on black holes at a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

2015 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people logged into Facebook

2019 US adventurer Victor Vescovo is the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole, in the Arctic

 

Birthdays Today

83 – Mason Williams, American guitarist, composer (Classical Gas)

@83 – Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2008)

@77 – Duke [Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola ] Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor and surfer (d. 1968; heart attack)

77 – Vince McMahon, American wrestler, promoter, co-founded WWE

@75 – Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (d. 2004; stroke)

66 – Mike Huckabee, American minister, politician

56 – Marlee Matlin, American actress

48 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor

44 – John Green, American author, and vlogger

40 – Chad Michael Murray, American model, actor


 

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