HOT

This has to be the hottest day in Flag this year. My deck was 90° and there was no breeze to cool things off. Needless to day, I didn’t set up the deck in that kind of heat.

I forgot that today was the opening ceremony for a replica of the Vietnam Wall here in Flagstaff. It is here through the weekend. I’ll make it tomorrow. Martha, my bag piping friend, and some other pipers and drummers played. I had planned to go, but didn’t put it on my calendar, so I just spaced it.

I was shocked today when the report on Bush’s spying on the American public. The spying didn’t shock. What did shock me was that with all this evidence, they probably won’t prosecute. Our constitution was ignored, and no one wants to prosecute. No wonder so many in the world wonder about our form of democracy.

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Random Fact
In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!

July is…

…Air Conditioning Appreciation Month…Blueberries Month…Cell Phone Courtesy Month…Family Reunion Month…Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month…Nat’l Doghouse Repair Month…Nat’l Grilling, Nat’l Hot Dog, Nat’l Horseradish, and Nat’l Ice Cream Month…Smart Irrigation Month…Social Wellness Month…Tour de France Month…Women’s Motorcycle Month…

Week of July 10
International Chicken Wing Week

July 11—192 days so far this year…173 days remain in 2009

World Population Day
*Ireland: National Commemoration Day
*Mongolia: First day of Naadam [Festival of the 3 games of men]
*Northern Ireland: Bonfire Night
*People’s Republic of China: National Maritime Day


BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
1274
Robert the Bruce Scotland, King
1767
John Quincy Adams Braintree, Mass, 6th Pres
1899
E.B. White writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style)
1915
Yul Brynner Sakhalin Is Japan, actor
1934
Giorgio Armani fashion designer
1953
Leon Spinks US, heavyweight boxing champ



IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY…
1766
Olaudah Equiano, author of one of the first autobiographical slave narratives, buys his freedom from slavery in the West Indies.
1798
US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
1804
VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
1812
US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1905
W.E.B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter and other black leaders meet in Niagara Falls, where they found the Niagara Movement to demand full citizenship rights for black Americans
1934
FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
1955
President Eisenhower signed a bill requiring use of the inscription 'In God We Trust' on all paper money.
1967
Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1987
Today for the first time in history the worlds population exceeded 5 billion
1991
Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii

Word Puzzle from NPR Sunday Puzzler…1987

Each answer here is a familiar word or phrase that begins with the syllable ‘toe’ in any spelling

EX: High Protein food
Answers: tofu

1. Old Roman robe
2. Neighbor of Ghana
3. Japanese general in WWII
4. Answer #3’s capital
5. Theater awary
6. Indian post
7. Completely wreck
8. Fancy garden work
9. Oscar-winning actress for “My Cousin Vinny”
10. November birthstone
• Bonus: Holy parchment

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Answers:
1. Toga
2. Togo
3. Tojo
4. Toyko
5. Tony
6. Totem
7. Total
8. Topiary
9. [Marisa] Tomei
10. Topaz
* Bonus: Torah
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