Feb 28, 2021 Week: 8 Day:59 Visibility:
10 miles
Local: H 48°\ L19 °\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Wind:
15mph/ Gusts: 7mph
Nearest Lightning: 896mi. Moderate Risk of Fire: Active
fire: 244mi
Record: 65°[1999] Record:
-16°[1962] Feb. Averages:
47°/19° (5 days with moisture)
Today’s
Quote
To
love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie
Swetchine
Random Tidbits
A little group called
NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases performance by 34 percent
and alertness by 54 percent. Pilots take advantage of NASA naps while planes
are on autopilot.
A Little Humor
What does a frog use to fish with?
A tad pole.
True Things
People tend to look at
this pandemic as a local crisis, but it is a global concern. And a global
debate. Just like in the United States, there are people around the world who
underestimate the seriousness of the threat and are reluctant to follow all of
the safety protocals. Like this woman in South Africa who was challenged when
she walked into a supermarket without a mask on. When management threatened to
throw her out she resorted to the only mask she had on her person. The one
between her legs.
The bizarre incident was
caught on camera at a Pick-n-Pay supermarket in South Africa. The shopper was
asked to put on a face covering by a security guard, but she claimed she didn't
have one. When the woman was warned that she would be refused service unless
she had a mask on, she removed her thong undies and put them on her face.
The video has since gone
viral.
You can clearly see the
woman reach under her dress and dig around a bit. A moment later out comes the
black thong which she deftly pulls over her head. Another female shopper
appears to congratulate her, saying "well done". It's impossible to
say whether this comment was made sarcastically, or if that's just how the
ladies roll in South Africa.
Back in December, South
African President Cyril Ramaphosa stressed that not wearing a face mask in
public is a criminal offence. The clip has sparked outrage online with many
blasting the woman for entering the shop without a face mask on. One person
commented: "We have a serious virus and (she thinks) a G-string will save
her. Come on grow up. What must your family think?"
It was not reported
whether the supermarket allowed the woman to shop with panties on her face.
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] |
17-4/3 |
|
National Pasty Week Cancelled |
28-3/6 |
Today’s Observations
Floral Design Day Link
Girl Scout Cookie Weekend: 26-28 Link On-line sales only!!!
Golden Globe Awards
National Chili Day
National Science Day
National Tooth Fairy Day Link Link
Public Sleeping Day
Rare Disease Day Link
US Snow Shoe Days: 26-28 Link Cancelled
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Cool off quite a bit last night. Very slowly warming up with a stiff
breeze.
After changing linens and cleaning the bathrooms, I decided it is a
good day to be lazy. That is what I’m doing.
It is extremely difficult to read about the slaughter in Ethiopia. Our
Focus/HLO visit there years ago was so enlightening. Almost every airport I
have visited since then I have met at least one Ethiopian as a shuttle driver
or other worker. They love their country. They also love the US. This is so
heartbreaking.
The news is telling us about CPAC, the Conservative Political Action
Conference. This year’s CPAC has people attending that believe the election was
stolen. A few believe that Trump will be inaugurated again in March. The
overall tone seems to be that Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and
will remain so. I understand that people can have different ideas and still be
friends. I am reminded everyday that some of my friends are conservative. They
except the election results and hope that Trump will run again in 2024. The
line between being conservative and being a Trump conservative has become very
blurred. I only hope the Republican Party can figure out what is going on within
their party and realize that things have to change.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Shoot at me a thousand times and I may still survive. But one scratch
from me and you will find your prospects take a dive. What am I?
Historical Events
1066 – Westminster Abbey opened
1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed on the order of conquistador
Hernán Cortés.
1784 – John Wesley chartered the first Methodist Church in the United
States. An Anglican, Wesley wanted a church structure for his followers after
the Anglican Church abandoned its American believers during the American
Revolution.
1827 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was incorporated. It was the
first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and
freight.
1854 – The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. It was
primarily anti-slavery people.
1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was
incorporated in New York, as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.
1922 – The United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt through a
Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1935 – Wallace Carothers discovered Nylon while working at DuPont.
1940 – Basketball was televised for the first time. The game was
Fordham University vs. University of Pittsburgh
1953 – Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances
H.C. Crick announced that they had found the double-helix structure of DNA, the
molecule containing human genes.
1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard were
offered for sale to the general public.
1983 – CBS sitcom M*A*S*H ended after 11 seasons, airing a special
two-and-a-half-hour episode watched by 77% of the television viewing audience.
1993 – Near Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, agents of the U.S. Treasury
Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) launch a raid
against the Branch Davidian compound. At least 80 people, including 22
children, were killed.
1996 – KISS reunited at the Grammys in full makeup and costume.
2002 – Sotheby’s auction house announced that Peter Paul Reubens was
the creator of the painting The Massacre of the Innocents, not Jan van den
Hoecke as previously believed.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church –
the first pope to do so since 1415.
2012 Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi,
at nearly 5ft tall
2018 700 illegal churches closed in Rwanda for being too noisy and
lacking building permits.
2019 Summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and US President Donald
Trump collapses without agreement
Birthdays Today
@93 – Linus Carl Pauling, American
chemist and biochemist (d. 1994)
90 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor
88 – Paul Krugman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize
laureate
73 – Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer
66 – Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, actor
@62 – Zero Mostel, American
actor, comedian (d. 1977; aneurism)
60 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress
@27 – Brian Jones, Stones
guitarist, songwriter, producer (d. 1969; misadventure)
Puzzle Answer
An eight-ball
