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Jun 8, 2021 Week: 24
Day: 159 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 40% |
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Local: H 79°\ L 43° |
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Wind: 9mph/ Gusts: 15mph |
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EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 133mi Nearest Lightning: 376mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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Well done is better
than well said. Benjamin Franklin |
Random Tidbits
Only 2% of Earth
population naturally has green eyes.
Having bridesmaids in a
wedding wasn’t originally for moral support. They were intended to confuse evil
spirits or those who wished to harm the bride.
Humor
A tough old Badlands
rancher once told his grandson that the secret to long life was to sprinkle a
little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did this
religiously, and he lived to be 93. When he died, he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren,
35 great-grandchildren … and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.
Real Cities
Booger Hole, West Virginia is an unincorporated community in northern
Clay County, West Virginia. It is in the Rush Fork Valley, near the town of
Ivydale.
In 1917, the community was subjected to "about a dozen"
murders during a short period of time. A special grand jury was convened to
investigate the incidents, and the community itself formed what they referred
to as a "mob", posting notices threatening to "get bloodhounds
and detectives and run [the murderer] to the ends of the earth." Although
folklore has it that the community's name derived from this violence –
"booger" being a local usage for the "boogieman" – a
contemporary press account clearly shows that the community was already called
"Booger Hole" at the time of the murders.
True Things
Oops!
Federal Judge Jesse M.
Furman ruled in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Feb. 16 that Citigroup could
not expect to receive repayment of nearly $500 million of the $900 million it
mistakenly wired to a group of lenders last year after a contractor checked the
wrong box on a digital payment form. Intending to make only an interest payment
to the lenders on behalf of its client Revlon, Citi instead wired payment in
full for the entire loan, and after realizing its error, asked for the money
back, but some of the lenders refused, according to The New York Times. Judge
Furman found that the lenders were justified in assuming the payment had been
intentional. "To believe that Citibank, one of the most sophisticated
financial institutions in the world, had made a mistake ... to the tune of
nearly $1 billion, would have been borderline irrational," he said in his
ruling. Citi vowed to appeal. [New York Times, 2/16/2021]
Weekly Observations
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National
Marina Days Link |
5/31-6/9 |
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International Clothesline Week |
5-12 |
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National Lemonade Days Link |
5-13 |
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Bedbug Awareness Week Link |
6-12 |
Today’s Observations
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Ghostbusters
Day Link National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness
Day Link Upsy
Daisy Day |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Cloudy with no hint of moisture
in the whole week. Sad. The FBI has assisted in
recovering the millions that Colonial Pipeline paid to stop the ransomware
issue. Good for them. Great news to start the week. Now it’s time for the
far-right to acknowledge this. It sure would be nice if gas prices would go
down now. I had a quick appointment with
the eye doc to talk about my field of vision test a few months ago. All good.
Yeah! Mary is returning to Oregon
this week for the memorial service for her brother who passed a few weeks
ago. No lunch with our retiree group this week. News I didn’t know: There is an
Aluminum shortage to make AZ license plates. Those who ordered new plates or
specialty plates after May 20th will start receiving said plates
after June 14th. In the meantime, they will get paperwork to keep
in their vehicle to show they have ordered correct plates. |
Daily Riddle
Answer: bottom of the page
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat and didn’t
get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
Historical Events
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments (Bill of
Rights) to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1905 US President Theodore Roosevelt sends
identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end
hostilities, offering his personal services
1912 – Universal Pictures was founded by Carl Laemmle.
1937 World's largest
flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1938 Gert Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an
unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by
Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa1949 –
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia
v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to
serve black patrons.
1960 Argentine government demands release of
Adolf Eichmann
1996 Revival of the legendary procession of Lady Godiva (Godgifu)
naked through Coventry, England
2017 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that
US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"
2018 World's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000
trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
2020 Former
astronaut Kathy Sullivan is the first woman to reach deepest point of the ocean
- Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. Formerly the first American woman to
spacewalk.
2020 Lockdowns for COVID-19 in Europe saved 3 million lives according
to study by Imperial College London
Birthdays Today
@92 – Jerry Stiller,
American comedic actor (d. 2020)
@92 – Barbara Bush,
1st Lady (d. 2018)
@91 – Frank Lloyd
Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
85 – James Darren [James William
Ercolani ], American
actor, singer
@81 – Joan Rivers,
American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)
81 – Nancy Sinatra, singer
70 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter
64 – Scott Adams, American author and illustrator, Dilbert creator
63 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, screenwriter
44 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer
Puzzle Answer
He was bald.
