Sunday

♣ 7 March 2010--Week 10 of 2010: 66 days this year…299 remain ♣

♣ Two Quotes to think about…Today ♣

"If you continually give you will continually have."

~fortune cookie

"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.”

~Abraham Lincoln: (1809-1865); 16th U.S. President

♣ Free Ramblings ♣

Lincoln’s quote above got me thinking about today’s Republican Party. Lincoln, after all, was the party’s first President. Today’s Republicans don’t seem to believe in talking with other countries. They don’t even seem to want to talk to anyone who doesn’t agree with them. They certainly don’t seem to show any sympathy to those who are not in their social class. The current Democratic Party, much older than the GOP, still holds many of its founding beliefs. Times have certainly have changed and policy and principle in both parties has certainly changed with the times. I guess we can’t expect politicians today to really look out for their constituent’s best interests. Our country really needs leaders, not spinners. A friend of mine came to the US about 30 years ago, as a young businessman. I learned today that since his arrival until recently he had been a Republican. I guess it makes sense, a businessman who wanted to increase his wealth and who didn’t want a lot of government interference. Over the years, he married, had kids, and wanted them to live the American Dream. Then 911 changed all that. Anyway, for whatever reason, he found that many Americans no longer trusted him. He is now alert to the fact that many of the far right wing conservatives are not looking out for his best interest. I’m glad he feels comfortable talking about his change of heart. I know it was a difficult change for him.

I spent a few hours at the Flagstaff Pow Wow this afternoon. It was nice to hear the drums and see the dancers. I ran into a few Rez friends and that was good too. It will probably be even better tonight, but I am not a real Pow Wow person, more a few hours of dancing on occasion, rather than the old all nighter or a circuit runner.

The Pow Wow was inside, another reason I didn’t want to stay around too long during our great day. We made it to 50° and there was only a little breeze. A good day to spend some time outside since the snow is still expected tomorrow.

♣Random Fact: ♣

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.

♣Side Show Stories—♣

DERBY, England - Online bids for a British nuclear bunker dating back to the Cold War era are approaching $30,000 on eBay. The underground bunker, constructed in 1959 as a Royal Observer Corps post to monitor nuclear fallout, is advertised on eBay as a "rare opportunity the acquire a piece of Cold War history," The Telegraph on Sunday reported. Bidding for the Derbyshire, England, bunker reached $29,525 Monday after 39 bids. "The bunker is in a perfect location on farmland and offers the freedom of having your own land and bunker, but with the security of being on private land which is fenced and securely gated," the auction's description reads. Bidding closes on the property March 7.

♣ Puzzle ♣

Word Boxes are like miniature crossword puzzles, except that each word is filled in across AND down the grid. That is, the answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? To solve: draw a square that has 5 X 5 sections.

1 meeting of opposed forces (HINT: C - - - -)

2 weapon (HINT: - A - - -)

3 electro-negative element (HINT: - - I - -)

4 search (HINT: - - - U -)

5 the fifth was a Shakespeare subject (HINT: - - - - Y)

♣ Calendar Information ♣

• March’s Month Long Observances •

BIRTHSTONE: aquamarine and bloodstone (courage) FLOWER: Narcissus [daffodil, jonquil] (vanity)

National Cheerleading Safety Month • National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month • National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month • National Craft Month • National Ethics Awareness Month •National Eye Donor Month • National Frozen Food Month • National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month •National Kidney Month• National Nutrition Month • National Social Work Month • National Umbrella Month • National Women's History Month • Optimism Month • Play The Recorder Month • Poison Prevention Awareness Month • Red Cross Month • Save Your Vision Month • Sing With Your Child Month • Small Press Month •Spiritual Wellness Month • Women's History Month • Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month • Youth Art Month

• Observance Weeks in March•

6-21 •Iditarod Race

7-13 •Celebrate Your Name Week:

       •National Consumer Protection Week

       •National Words Matter Week

       •Save Your Vision Week

       •Telecommuter Appreciation Week

       •National Professional Pet Sitters Week

       •Read an E-Book Week

       •Teen Tech Week

• 4 March Observances—US/UN/World •

National Crown Roast Of Pork Day

Academy Awards

Daughters' and Sons' Day

National Be Heard Day

California : Burbank Day/Bird & Arbor Day (1849)

•4 March Observances—by country •

Laos : Veteran's Day

♣  Number One Songs in…

1946•Let It Snow - Vaughn Monroe

1954•Make Love to Me! - Jo Stafford

1962•Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler

1970•Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

1978•Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Waylon & Willie

1986•Living in America - James Brown

• Holy Mackerel: 1965 •Troopers with night sticks, shotguns and tear-gas grenades violently confronted 600 civil rights marchers during an attempted 50-mile march from Selma to the Alabama state capitol Montgomery.

• Born on this day •

     …The Arts

Authors, Artists and Composers

Anthony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), 80, photographer

Frantisek L Celakovsky, 1799, Czechoslovakian poet (national anthem, folk song)

Maurice Joseph Ravel, 1875, Cibourne France, composer (Boléro)

Entertainers in Cinema, Music, Theater, and TV

Willard Herman Scott, 76, weatherman (“The Today Show”), friend of centenarians

Daniel J. Travanti, 70, actor (“Hill Street Blues”)

Peter Wolf, 64, singer (J. Geils Band)

     …Athletes

Janet Guthrie, 72, former auto racer

Franco Harris, 60, Hall of Fame football player (Steelers)

Ivan Lendl, 50, former tennis player, (Ostrava, Czechoslovakia)

Lynn Swann, 58, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster

     …Business, Education

Michael Eisner, 68, media executive-Disney

     …Politics

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     …Science/Religion

Luther Burbank, 1849, naturalist: creator of new varieties of flowers, trees, edible fruits and vegetables

Tammy Faye (LaValley) Bakker, 1942, gospel singer/wife of Jim Bakker (PTL)

Joseph N Niépce, 1765, French inventor (photography)

•Today’s Obits •

Aristotle, 322BC, poet, natural causes @ 62

St Thomas Aquinas, 1274, Italian theologian, brain injury @ 48

Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, 1968, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), plane crash during training flight @ 31

Jacob K Javits, 1986, Senator-NY @ 81

Stanley Kubrick, 1999, author heart attack @ 70

Hinsdale Smith, 1959, developer of roll-down auto windows, @ 88

•What Happened on this Day •

     …The Arts

1939 •Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"

1955 •Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised

1955 •Comedienne Phyllis Diller made her debut at the Purple Onion

     …Athletics

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     …Business, Education

1911 •Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma CA, patents coin-operated locker

1933 •Game of "Monopoly" invented

1981 •1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death

1983 •TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV

     …Politics

1644 •Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies

1778 •Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay

1850 •Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850

1969 •Israel elects Golda Meir, to become the first female prime minister of Israel. Stanley Kubrick

1971 •Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire

1988 •IRA gang who were reported to have planted a 500lb car bomb near the British Governor's residence shot dead in Gibraltar.

     …Science/Religion

1876 •Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone

1996 •1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)

♣ANSWERS to puzzle ♣

CLASH

LANCE

ANION

SCOUR

HENRY

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