Labor Day

Labor Day should be a holiday for all workers. Well, in today’s world, it seems that many many workers had to work today. Such a shame. Many were working to try and stay ahead of the game. Before I retired, I did usually put a couple of hours in at work on many holidays, for that exact reason. No interruptions, no crisis to deal with, just a time to catch up. My brother and his wife took off from the city on Friday and came back yesterday. Today they were both in the office, trying to get ready for tomorrow. It’s pretty amazing that we Americans take some of the shortest vacation time of any Western country. In these financial unsettled times, this is happening even more. The fear that someone else will be one step ahead. The fear that someone else is out to get our job or our money. This is much easier to see after retiring—on the outside looking in. Today was a day to honor our Labor Force. If they want to spend it working, it’s fine with me.

So I just enjoyed the day. Nowhere to rush to, nothing that had to be done. I had a nice talk with my brother, two different friends stopped by on the way back to the Rez after a weekend in Phoenix. It’s still over 100° down there, and I just don’t get the draw. Some from the Rez just seem to be drawn to the bright lights and the traffic.

I’ve been talking about how broke the state of AZ is. Today it was revealed that many charter schools have been getting tax free donations. These donations were set up for Private schools that get no state funding. The Charter Schools are fully funded by the state. Hmmm. The investigation shows about $600,000 of tax free donations may have been used. Sure sounds like a bunch of people dropped the ball.


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Random Facts…

Japanese and Chinese people die on the fourth of the month more often than any other dates. The reason may be that they are "scared to death" by the number four. The words four and death sound alike in both Chinese and Japanese.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.


Crazy Stuff in the News…

WICHITA, Kan. – Police in Kansas said two men attempting to steal landscaping rocks were foiled when the load shifted and their truck sank into the Arkansas River. Lt. Guy Schroeder said the brown Ford Explorer was backed up to the river next to the Keeper of the Plains sculpture in Wichita just before 1:20 a.m. Thursday while the men loaded limestone landscaping rocks into the truck, The Wichita Eagle reported. Schroeder said the load shifted once the men had 12 rocks inside, causing the truck to roll backward into the river. Investigators said an address linked to the truck is apparently in the process of front yard landscaping. Police said no arrests had been made, but they have identified a 45-year-old suspect.

September Month Long Observances

Apple Month…Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month…Children’s Good Manners Month…International People Skills Month…International Strategic Thinking Month…National Honey Month…National Preparedness Month…Pleasure Your Mate Month…Healthy Aging Month…National Hispanic Heritage Month…

Week of 7 Sep…

National Payroll Week
Suicide Prevention Week

8 Sep Observances…

251 days so far this year…114 days remain in 2009
International Literacy Day
World Physical Therapy Day
Fiestas de Santa Fe in New Mexico
*Macedonia: Independence day (from Yugoslavia, 1991)
*North Korea: National Day for founding of Democratic People’s Republic--1948
*Uganda: Republic formed



BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

…ARTS…
1841….. Antonin Dvorak composer
1897….. Jimmie Rodgers Mendoza Miss, country singer/singing brakeman

1922….. Sid Caesar Yonkers NY, comedian
1925….. Peter Sellers England, actor
1932….. Patsy Cline Va, country singer

…ATHLETICS…
1946….. L.C. Greenwood football: Pittsburgh Steelers
1930 Jeanette Altwegg England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1952)

…POLITICS…
1157….. Richard I [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England
1889….. Robert A Taft (Sen-R-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act)
1900….. Claude D Pepper (Rep-D-Fla), elderly advocate
1922….. Lyndon LaRouche American presidential candidate (1980)

…SCIENCE/Religion…
1588 Marin Mersenne France, mathematician/musician/philospher (Cartesian)

1918 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate


Events on this day…
1565….. 1st permanent European settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)

1883….. Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont
1892….. 1st appearance of "The Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)

1921….. 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)
1930….. 1st appearance of the comic strip "Blondie"
1955….. American firms are tooling up to manufacture the new synthetic material called polyurethane
1971….. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
1974….. Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes
1990….. Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Eliis Island, NYC

Holy Mackerel….
1858….. Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people

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Unusual Body Parts
(AWAD, May 19 - 26, 1997) This week's theme was "A Study in Scarlet",
words from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, not synonyms for 'sanguine'.

What word is being defined? Here are the words
Axilla canthus frenum glabella gular lunula uvula
1. The space between the eyebrows, just above the nose.
2. The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
3. Pertaining to the throat
4. The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.
5. The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
6. A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as of the tongue
7. The crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail

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Answers:
1. Glabella
2. Uvula
3. Gular
4. Canthus
5. Axilla
6. Frenum
7. lunula

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