Lesson Learned?

If the Iranian Internal Crisis has taught us anything, it is that Iran, like every other nation in the world, cannot be stereotyped into a nice little box. Not only are there several points of view, even the Mullahs are not standing as one. For those who still believe that Iran = Terrorists, let this be a lesson. The political leaders are not the people. Before a country is attacked, remember that the innocents are the civilian population. There are probably many who support the current government in Iran, but as we see, there are many who do not. It seems the more we learn about a country or culture, those with open minds learn that there are many sides to any story.

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Random Fact
The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

June is…
Adopt a Shelter Cat Month…Effective Communications Month…Gay & Lesbian Pride Month [National GLBT Month]…Great Outdoors Month…National Accordion Awareness Month…Rebuild Your Life Month…National Candy Month

Week of June 14
Flag Week
Men’s Health Week
Meet a Mate Week


June 19—170th day of the year…195 days remain in 2009

Juneteenth
World Sauntering Day
Palawan, Philippines: Feast of the Forest

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
1556
James VI of Scotland (1567-1625)/James I of England (1603-25)
1623
Blaise Pascal mathematician/physicist/religious writer
1896
Mrs Simpson [Bessie Wallis Warfield), Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897
Moses Horowitz--Moe Howard comedian (3 Stooges)
1902
Guy Lombardo London Ontario Canada, orch leader
1903
Henry Louis Gehrig 1st baseman (NY Yankees) "Iron Horse"
1914
Lester Flatt Earl Scrugg's partner
1945
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and the restoration of democracy in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma)
1947
Salman Rushdie novelist
1978
Garfield the Cat animated character "Big fat hairy deal"

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY…
240 –BC
Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth
1767
The Governor of Louisiana issues an order today. The order recognizes the CHITIMACHA Indians, and instructs the commander at Manchac to treat them with proper deference
1846
1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1910
Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1931
1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1934
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1940
"Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
1953
Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of passing nuclear weapons information to the Soviet Union, are executed
1961
Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain
1977
Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint

Word Puzzle from NPR Sunday Puzzler…1987

Every answer is a word or name with the accented syllable ‘knee’ [in any spelling]
EX: Household blinds Answer: Venetian

1. Swiss city famous for peace talks
2. One of Solumbus’s ships
3. Conductor Arturo
4. “Little” king of early comics
5. Lacking vitality
6. Japanese stock index
7. Actor who starred in “Schindler’s List”
8. Dictator Mussolini
9. Not this one or that one
10. Native of the South Seas

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Answers:
1. Geneva
2. Nina
3. Toscanini
4. Nemo
5. Anemic
6. Nickel
7. Nesson
8. Benito
9. Neither
10. Polynesian
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