Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 26 Day: 175 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 70% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff
Today 78° \45°
Wind: 5mph \ Gusts: 14mph Air
Quality: Moderate
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ Nearest
Lightning: 1mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Cloudy with
a good chance for a nice monsoon rain. So happy that the monsoon arrived about
a week early this year. We had nice rainstorms today. Not lot of total rain,
but nice to have it. We need moisture to help with the fires. There are still
700+ firefighters on our two fires. Pipeline is about 70% contained, Haywire
Compound is about 40% contained.
I was saddened
to see that the Hong Kong Jumbo Floating Restaurant has capsized and sank
in 1000’ of water. It was a beautiful site for sure. Thankfully no one was lost
or injured.
I am not
happy about gas prices…but am against a tax holiday of 90 days to help lower
gas prices. Our country needs the $10billion that will be lost and that is not
a drop in the bucket. The 18 cents a gallon on gas and 24 cents a gallon on
diesel IS a drop in the bucket when gas is close to $5/gallon. Bad move Mr.
President.
I am still
trying to digest the most recent Supreme Court decision that overturned a 100+
year-old law in NY on concealed weapons. From my point-of-view the Supreme
Court majority seems to see nothing wrong with every American carrying a weapon
anywhere they please…including church, big venues for sports and concerts, school
campuses. I don’t believe this was an idea of our founding fathers.
Favorite Memes
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Earth’s Secrets
The Planet
Is 10,000 Times Older Than Humans
"Planet
Earth has an estimated age of 4.5 billion years," Jeremiah P. Ostricker, a
senior research scholar at Princeton University, tells Popular Mechanics.
"Homo Sapiens has been around for at most 450,000 years, that is 1/10,000
the age of the planet. And then, more recently, we spread over the whole globe
in 1/100,000 of the age of the planet."
US Flag Myths
Myth #2: The
flag has always had stars and stripes
America's
earliest flags did not have stars and stripes. A flag used in 1775, for
example, did have stripes, but it displayed the British Union Jack crosses in
the canton, the top left corner of the flag that's also known as the union. The
primary use of a national flag at that time was for naval ships to be able to
recognize each other.
Congress
didn't adopt the flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes as the official U.S. flag
until 1777.
Historical Events
Ë 1374 – An early morning, a sudden
outbreak of ‘St. Vitas’s Dance’ caused people in the streets of Aachen,
Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch
uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.
Ë 1873 – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
received a patent (#140,245) for a self-pasting Scrapbook.
Ë 1916 – Mary Pickford became the first
female film star to sign a million-dollar contract (with Adolph
Zukor/Paramount).
Ë 1949 – The first television western,
Hopalong Cassidy, aired on NBC, starring William Boyd.
Ë 1950 – In South Africa, the Group Areas
Act was passed, formally segregating races (Apartheid).
Ë 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S.
Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
Ë 1997 – US Air Force officials released a
231-page report dismissing all of the claims of an alien spacecraft crash in
Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
Ë 2004 – In New York, capital punishment
was declared unconstitutional.
Birthdays Today
@96 – Al Molinaro, American character actor (d. 2015)
@87 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died in 1983)
78
– Jeff Beck, English guitarist
@75 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (assembly line) (d.
1864)
75
– Mick Fleetwood, English-American drummer
76
– Robert Reich, American economist and politician
@72 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, journalist (d. 1914)
