This is Week 30 of 2010►Day 209 with 156 days left.
It is Day 99 of the BP Mess. Day 12 with no leaks.
FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
Media and politicians in all their infinite wisdom are headed for our state. Not for its beauty, not for its lifestyle. Only because of SB1070 which is set to go into effect on Thursday. Our non elected governor is ready. She expected the judge to rule this afternoon and had 14 Homeland Security SUV’s at the capitol building. I sure hope she informed the illegals not to cross while all those vehicles and agents were in Phoenix instead of protecting the border.
The Bureau school employees are heading back to work. I am so happy I am retired and don’t have to spend all those days on test scores, in-services, and other stuff that does so little to improve kids.
I was reminded of my rez education today. The Navajo talk about several kinds of rain. One is the male rain—hard, driving, usually big drops and lightning and thunder. One is female rain—quiet, slow falling rain that has time to soak in. We had a female rain this afternoon. It was so nice. I’m a little worried about the flood victims, as the rain lasted quite a while and had time to soak in but the flood area is very saturated and I doubt if much can soak in. We have had a light grey sky for about two hours and our neighborhood is beautiful. Ponderosas look so strong against that sky.
It was 77° for our high, and with only 35% humidity, it was a nice day. I added to my walk this morning, and went about 2 miles. The forest is so nice early in the day. With the forest at my back door, I could enjoy it as I watched the sun climb across the sky. I wasn’t out until about 7:30 this morning, so it wasn’t a sunrise walk. I did seem some small animals—rabbits, squirrels, and birds. Deeper into the forest I did see some old deer tracks, but no deer.
MY QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Ahmed Habib, Iraqi journalist: Keep your dreams closer to the fire of your heart than to the brilliance of the mind.
HOLY MACKEREL: 1933 The singing telegram was introduced on this day. The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honor of his 32nd birthday.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION
>Douglas MacArthur's mother use to send fawning letters to his army superiors suggesting that it was time for her son to be promoted to general.
>Stalin's son was captured during WWII, but Stalin rejected the German offer of prisoner exchange. His son Jacob died in a prison camp.
GREY MATTER PUZZLE 1
You have a barrel, filled to the top with water, which weighs 150 pounds. What can you add to the barrel in order to make it lighter?
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM
SAN FRANCISCO - Police in San Francisco said a mugger was arrested after stealing an iPhone while it was being used to demonstrate new GPS tracking software. David Kahn, chief executive officer of Covia Labs, said he gave his iPhone to an intern to walk around the block while he was demonstrating the real-time GPS tracking software Monday to potential clients at K/F Communications, the San Jose Mercury
News reported. "We kind of noticed while that was happening, boy, she was really starting to move pretty fast and she wasn't heading back toward the place," he said.
"Moments later she comes bursting into the office and said she'd just been mugged." Kahn said he used the software to track the thief's movements while the intern called 911.
"It was pretty exciting to realize what was going on and wondering if he had noticed," Kahn said. "Obviously if he had turned off the phone, that would have been it." Police said they recovered the phone and arrested Horatio Toure, 31, on suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen property about 9 minutes after the incident.
A LITTLE LAUGH
There were two good ol' boys from the South, who love to fish, and they wanted to do some ice fishing. They'd heard about it up in Canada, so they took off up there. The lake was frozen nicely. They stopped just before they got to the lake at a little bait shop and got all their tackle.
One of them said, "We're gonna need an ice pick." So they got that, and they took off.
In about two hours, one of them was back at the shop and said, "We're gonna need another dozen ice picks."
Well, the fellow in the shop wanted to ask some questions, but money is money, so he didn't. He sold him the picks, and the old boy left. In about an hour, he was back. Said, "We're gonna need all the ice picks you've got!"
The bait man couldn't stand it any longer. "By the way," he asked, "how are you fellows doing?"
"Not very well at all," he said. "We ain't even got the boat in the water yet."
GREY MATTER PUZZLE 2
You see me not but you know I am there. You can lose me or catch me without much care. Smell good or smell bad I am…
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
Winnie Mandela’s story: Click Here!
GREY MATTER PICTURE
This is a close up of what object?
SOME CALENDAR INFORMATION
► Weekly Observances ◄
25-31: National Salad Week
► Today’s Observances ◄
National Milk Chocolate Day
Joseph Lee Day-honors playgrounds (1937)
Volunteers of America founders day (1859)
Bermuda: Adm George Somers Day (1609)
San Marino: Fall of Facism Day (1943)
Peru: Independence Day, from Spain by General San Martin 1821
Faroe Islands in Norwegian Sea: Ólavsøka Eve (to honor St. Olaf)
► Hit Songs on this date ◄
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie Fats Waller in 1936
Surrender Perry Como in 1946
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You Elvis Presley in 1956
Wild Thing The Troggs in 1966
Kiss and Say Goodbye The Manhattans in 1976
Glory of Love Peter Cetera in 1986
Macarena [Bayside Boys Mix] Los Del Rio in 1996
► Born today ◄
…The Arts
Jim Davis, 65, cartoonist (“Garfield”), born Marion, IN
Helen Beatrix Potter, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit) , born in 1866 London, England
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Joe E Brown, comedian, born in 1892 Holgate, OH
Sally Struthers, 62, actress (“All in the Family”), born Portland, OR
Rudy (Hubert Prior) Vallee, singer, born in 1901 Island Pond, VT
…Athletics
Vida Blue, 61, major-league pitcher (Cy Young & AL MVP 1971) , born in Mansfield, LA
…Business & Education
Earl S Tupper, invented Tupperware, born in 1907 Berlin, NH
…Politics
William Warren (Bill) Bradley, 67, former US Senator, Hall of Fame basketball player, born Crystal City, MO
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady, born in 1929 Southampton, NY
…Science/Religion
Ballington Booth, founded Volunteers of America, born in 1859 Brighouse, England (parents founded Salvation Army)
► Obituaries today ◄
Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), stroke @ 65 in 1750
Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, unknown disease @ 36 in 1655
Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed @ 55 in 1540
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, Fr revolutionary guillotined @ 36 in 1794
► Events ◄
…The Arts
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
…Athletics
1933 NFL divides into 2, 5 team divisions
1984 23rd modern Olympic games open in Los Angeles
…Business & Education
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1977 1st oil flow through the Alaska pipeline
…Indigenous People
1862 Fort Bowie is established in the Apache Pass, in southeastern Arizona, by members of Brigadier General James Charlatan's California volunteers.
…Politics (US)
1868 14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to ex-slaves
1896 City of Miami incorporated
1931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1932 Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
1959 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
…Politics (outside US)
1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
…Science / Religion
1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1865 The American Dental Association proposed its first code of ethics.
GREY MATTER ANSWERS
…1
Holes!
…2
Air
…Photo
USB port on computer
TODAY’S PHOTO SHOT
Hvannhagi is a beautiful, uninhibited place north of Tvøroyri on the east coast of Suðuroy, Faroe Islands
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