Aug 24, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 236
Ave. Sky Cover: 5%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 78°\ 46° Wind: 9mph\ Gusts: 18mph
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Minority
Enterprise Development Week |
18-24 |
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National Little League Week Link |
19-29 |
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Brake Safety Week Link |
22-28 |
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National
Composites Week Link |
23-27 |
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Paralympic Games |
24-9/5 |
Daily Oberservations
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Peach
Pie Day Pluto
Demoted Day Waffle
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Favorite Memes
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A
quick smile!
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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
