Listen to the Scotsman

Summer has sure arrived in Flagstaff. Windows are now open until fall. It was 80° with a nice cooling breeze coming in about 3pm. With the clouds bringing in the 25% relative humidity, it was a pleasant day.

It is a shame that more don’t remember Scotsman Sir Walter Scott. Especially the SC governor. First he disappears for about a week. No one claims to know where he is, but no one seems concerned about his absence from the state. Ah, we all knew there was more to the story. Then finally his staff said he was out hiking the Appalachian Trail. That’s a 2100+ mile marked trail from Maine to Georgia. It probably doesn’t have a lot of cell phone service. He missed Father’s Day with his kids and his family. Then he got off a plane from Buenos Aires. This huge city is not near the American Appalachian Trail. He said he had thought about hiking, but at the last minute decided to go to Argentina. Somehow he found a road, in Buenos Aires that has a costal drive. No maps show such a road, no Argentineans know of such a road. Then he held a news conference and admitted an affair with a woman from Argentina. Then some emails came out that were very personal. He says he and his wife are not legally separated, but his wife said she kicked him out two weeks ago. While this part of the story is really not news—just fodder. Some other odd facts are: he called for Clinton to resign during the Monica thing, he has always run for his various offices on Christian values, he works against Gay marriage because he believes it is a sin. Sir Walter had it right: “Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.”

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Random Fact

If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.

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 25
National Watermelon Seed Spitting Week

June 25—176 days so far this year…189 days remain in 2009
National Handshake Day
National Catfish Day
*Mozambique: Independence Day
*Oglala Sioux: Victory Day--Tribal offices closed

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
1852
Antonio Gaud¡ Spanish architect (Sagrada Familia, Barcelona)
1865
Robert Henri US painter, leader of the Ashcan school
1903
George Orwell England, satirist/author (Animal Farm, 1984)
1925
June Lockhart NYC, actr (Lassie)
1945
Carly Simon NYC, singer
1949
Jimmie Walker Bronx NY, comedian

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY…
1630
Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1638
A lunar eclipse becomes the 1st astronomical event recorded in US
1835
1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1876
Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn
1938
Problems with Native American Indian Businesses using The Swastika which is an Indian symbol of good luck and predates the modern world including the use of the swastika buy the Nazi Party in Germany is causing those Indian businesses to stop displaying the sign due to people believing it stands for the Nazis.
1961
Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1962
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5 to 4) that prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment to the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state.
1981
Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
2005
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wins a landslide victory in Iran's presidential poll. Mr Ahmadinejad is a conservative hard liner and believes that Israel does not have rights in the Middle East. Because of this the world will be watching for further signs of tension in the area.
1998
Windows 98 was released. Microsoft used the slogan, “Works better. Plays better.”

Word Puzzle from NPR Sunday Puzzler…1987

Anagram the statements to complete the last names of these famous people.

EX: Jack “I LACK SUN” Answer: Nicklaus

1. Rush “I HUG LAMB”
2. Rocky “I CAN ROAM”
3. Dianne “I NET FINES”
4. Rodney “I FLED CARDEN”
5. Dwight “I SEE HER NOW”
6. Thomas “I GO BUG SHARON”
7. Richard “I BLAME RANCH”
8. Roman “I SANK P.L.O.”
9. Leonardo “I DO A CRIP”
10. Oscar “I MET SHERMAN”
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Answers:
1. LIMBAUGH
2. MARCIANO
3. REINSTEIN
4. BANGERFILED
5. EISENHOWER
6. GAINSBOROUGH
7. CHAMBERLAIN
8. POLANSKI
9. DiCaprio
10. HAMMERSTEIN
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