Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 26 Day: 173 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff
Today 82° \42°
Wind: 5mph \ Gusts: 16mph Air
Quality: FAIR
Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ Nearest
Lightning: 160mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Warm summer
day with a slight breeze.
The Pipeline
fire is now 60% contained; the Haywire Combined fire is now 45% contained.
I got a new
credit card in the mail to replace the one that expired at the end of May. I
pulled it out to register it. I only use this card to pay my cable bill. The
card said simply use the card at any purchase location with the symbol pointed
to the screen. Great, I don’t use it at stores. It was a federal holiday, so I
called this morning and got it updated. Then I went to the cable TV site to
update the card. After putting in the new expiration date, the screen says it
will take up to 60 days to update your information. First the cable guy says he
can update it for a $1 charge. I started laughing and said I had never heard of
such a thing. He said I will charge your account then I will delete the charge.
He then checked and said everything was up to date, was I interested in a
promotion. I said sure. He then said they had a promotion that would reduce my
bill by $35 with no change in service. I agreed. Then he said OK, I deducted
the $35 and the $1. I’m waiting until tomorrow, when the cable bill is paid to
see if all that is true.
There are
two US citizens in prison in Ukraine. They are former US soldiers who went on
their own dime to help teach the people how to use the US weapons. They were
arrested and Russia announced that they will face the death penalty and that
since they are American citizens and not US soldiers the Geneva Convention of
POW’s does not apply. WOW!
Rusty
Bowers, AZ chair, was deliberate in his testimony at the Jan 6th
hearing….clearly Mormon in faith and true to the constitution. Then even more compelling
was the Georgia poll worker who were targeted by Trump in a tweet and the aftermath…stunning
and unacceptable.
Finally, an
amazing thing: Bears Ears National Monument will now be administered by Federal
Government AND 5 tribes…Hopi, Navajo, Ute Mtn tribe, Ute tribe of Unitas & Ouray
Reservation and Zuni Pueblo. This is the first time Indigenous tribes have
been able to have a say in a National Monument. WOW!
Favorite Memes
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Earth’s Secrets
Seas Could
Rise 2.5 Feet By 2100
"We are
headed toward a two-foot sea level rise by the end of this century,"
climate scientist Tapio Schneider of Caltech tells Popular Mechanics.
"Consequences from a one- to two-foot sea level rise could mean severe
threats to low-lying island nations, loss of narrow, shallow beaches, and a
demise of marine ecosystems."
US Flag Myths
Myth #4:
Red, white and blue have official meanings
The colors
of the flag were not assigned any official meaning when the first flag was
adopted in 1777. The traditional meanings assigned to the colors may have
arisen five years later, in 1782, when Charles Thompson, the secretary of the
Continental Congress, waxed poetic about the colors in the Great Seal of the
United States, which he helped design. Thompson described the red in the seal
as representing hardiness and valor; the white, purity and innocence; and the
blue, vigilance, perseverance and justice.
As for the
origin of the red-white-and-blue color scheme, it's likely no coincidence that
the British flag bore the same three colors.
Historical Events
Ë 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forced
Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center
of the Universe.
Ë 1870 – US Congress created the United
States Department of Justice.
Ë 1937 – Joe Louis won the world
heavyweight boxing title when he defeated Jim Braddock.
Ë 1942 – Pledge of Allegiance was formally
adopted by Congress.
Ë 1950 – The publication Red Channels: The
Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television listed many suspected
communists in American media, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena
Horne, Pete Seeger, Artie Shaw, and Orson Welles.
Ë 1969 – Cleveland, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River
caught fire.
Ë 1978 – Pluto’s Moon Charon was discovered
by James W. Christy, at the Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Ë 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled
in Berlin, a sign of the ending of The Cold War.
Ë 2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announced
that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film.
Birthdays Today
86
– Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter and actor
74
– Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter,
73
– Meryl Streep, American actress
73
– Elizabeth Warren, politician
70
– Graham Greene, Canadian/ Oneida character actor
69
– Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter
64
– Bruce Campbell, American actor
49
– Carson Daly, American radio, television host
@31 – John Dillinger, American criminal (d. 1934; shot)
@22 – Freddie Prinze, American actor (d. 1977; suicide)
