This is Week 45 of 2010►Day 311 with 54 days left.
Flagstaff Weather: H—66°; L—31°; RH—30%; —clear sky and wind— 5 mph
QUOTE FOR THE DAY—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
We had another great weather day, so hard to believe that it is November. I am certainly not complaining, just a little stunned.
Many people are setting their clocks back tonight. AZ doesn’t change it’s clocks, unless you live on Navajo. I think it has something to do with the belief that changing clocks is an invitation for the devil and the liberals to take over the state. After all, we refused to go on Daylight time when a President ordered DST to save energy, then when another President and another congress lengthened DST we refused again. So I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when 1070 was passed as it was just seen by the state as another way Washingdoon was telling AZ what to do. So to all you out there who have to change your clocks twice a year, join us. Don’t change your clocks again, get your state legislature to pass a law to stop this radical liberal idea. What you say? You like warm summer evenings with some extra light? Well, do like the City of Flagstaff does. While everyone else in the country is busy changing their clocks, they just change their alarm clocks. Normal working in the winter is 8-4:30, but in the summer it’s 7-3:30. So you just go to work an hour early, get off an hour early, and stand proud that you don’t let Washingdoon tell you what time it is. We have been refusing DST for decades and it makes us feel so good and so very powerful.
The Breeder’s Cup was Zenyatta’s last race. She came in second—by a nose. She will go down in history with a 19-1 record. She has been an amazing runner. The horse racing world has seen a great horse have a great run. When a male horse retires, they command a huge stud fee for most of the rest of their life. I wonder what happens with a female like Zenyatta? She has retired once before and came out of retirement for this year’s racing season. Like many other athletes, retirement doesn’t always fill the bill. Time will tell what she will do. I hope she finds something to occupy her time that she enjoys. Maybe just a morning workout, a Guinness, lunch, a nice walk, another Guinness and spend some time with all the boys she has beaten in her races. Just saying…
The media is trying to keep the election in the news. Alaska won’t know for months who their senator will be. History may be made since the current senator up there ran as a write-in and each ballot with a write-in has to be hand counted by a human. AZ has to count some huge number of ballots yet to count. They are saying that there are almost 300K mail-in ballots that were mailed on the last day or simply dropped off at the polling place and also some 90K that were ‘provisional’. AZ allows people to vote on election day even if their name is not in the book or the voter doesn’t have proper ID. Each of those ballots has to be human verified to be sure the person only voted once, that the person is a registered voter, and who knows what else. So while we don’t change our clocks, we still take a long time to verify our election results.
HOLY MACKEREL: 1990»Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
JEOPARDY PUZZLE—(1984 games)(answers below)--Science
$200- Fahrenheit equivalent to 0º Centigrade
$400- You might have to put F. Lee Bailey on one to admit he had a show about one
$600- The science which deals with the motion & behavior of bullets
$800- What you're "stuck with" boiling down collagen, softening it with hot water & letting it swell
$1000- In 1808, this metalsmith made copper plates for a Fulton steamboat boiler
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION—Candy
»Candy corn was invented in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy and is produced today by the Jelly Belly Candy Company. An estimated 35 million pounds of candy corn will be produced this year.
»Recorded history traces several types of actual candy to the Egyptians 3,500 years ago. Boiled candies were popularized in 17th century Europe. By the mid-1800s, more than 380 American factories were producing candy.
»Hershey's Kisses hit the scene in 1907 and have been on candy shelves ever since with a brief interruption from 1942 to 1949 due to the rationing of silver foil during WWII.
»Lollipops were first made in New Haven, Connecticut in 1908 by George Smith. They were named after a race horse of the time, Lolly Pop.
»"Trick or Treat for UNICEF" started 1950 in Philadelphia. A group of young trick-or-treaters, accompanied by their pastor, collected $17 for children-in-need overseas. The money was sent to UNICEF and an American tradition was born.
»Originally introduced in 1929 by Frank and Ethel Mars, the Snickers bar was named after their family horse. The original Snickers bars were sold for a nickel.
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM
LINCOLN, NE - Police in Nebraska said they cited a drunken driving suspect who was dressed as a Breathalyzer for a Halloween party. Lincoln police said Matthew Nieveen, 19, received citations for second-offense driving under the influence, being a minor in possession of alcohol, an open container violation and negligent driving after he was pulled over early Monday while on his way home from a party, the Lincoln Journal Star reported Thursday. Officers said Nieveen, who was dressed as an alcohol breath tester, had slurred speech and had a bottle of vodka, several cans of beer and a half-full bottle of vodka mixed with Mountain Dew in the trunk of his 1992 Ford F-150. Nieveen's blood alcohol content was measured at more than twice the .08 legal limit for driving, police said.
A LITTLE LAUGH
When the famous politician and orator William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was a young man, he went to the home of the father of his prospective wife to ask him for her hand in marriage. Bryan was determined to impress the father by quoting from the Bible, and he chose Proverbs 18:22: "He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the LORD."
Bryan was unnerved when the father replied by quoting Paul: "So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better." (1 Corinthians 7:38)
Bryan, never at a loss for words, said: "Yes, but Paul had no wife and Solomon had 700. Therefore, I believe Solomon ought to be the better judge as to marriage."
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
Two great interviews with Mary Robinson First click Here! Second-Click Here!
GREY MATTER PICTURE
This is a close up of what object?
SOME CALENDAR INFORMATION
¤ Weekly Observances ¤
Ending today: 1-7: Intimate Apparel Market Week, Give Wildlife A Break Week, National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week, Give Wildlife A Break Week, National Patient Accessibility Week, World Communication Week
Beginning today: 7-13:
National Nurse Practioner's Week,
Pursuit of Happiness Week,
National Rad Tech Week ,
Fraud Awareness Week,
Dear Santa Letter Week,
National Young Reader's Week,
World Kindness Week
14-20: American Education Week, Geography Awareness Week, National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week, National Global Entrepreneurship Week
19-25:National Farm-City Week
21-28: National Bible Week, National Family Week, National Game & Puzzle Week, National Teens Don't Text and Drive Week, Better Conversation Week, Church/State Separation Week
¤ Today’s Observances ¤
National Bittersweet Chocolate W/ Almonds Day
Daylight Saving Time ends
Fala Day: honoring FDR’s Scottish terrier
International Tongue Twister Day Danny Kaye Tongue Twisters
Zero Tasking Day
Mexico: National Railway Memorial Day (1907)
Northern Catalonia: National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees
USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Mongolia: October Revolution Day (1917)
¤ Top 10 songs of 1963 ¤
Click on Song Title to see and hear the original
¤ Today’s Births ¤
╬ THE ARTS
Dee (Delectus) Clark, singer: Just Keep It Up, Raindrops, Ride a Wild Horse—in 1938
Albert Camus, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957)—in 1913 in Algeria
Al Hirt, musician: trumpet: Java, Sugar Lips, Flight of the Bumble Bee as theme song for TV’s The Green Hornet—in 1922
Joni Mitchell, 67, singer, songwriter, born Roberta Joan Anderson
Johnny Rivers, 68, singer (“Poor Side of Town,” “Secret Agent Man”), born John Ramistella
Joan Sutherland, singer: opera soprano—in 1926
Mary Travers, singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), in 1937
♦♦Actors♦♦
Dean Jagger, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry)—in 1903
Rio Ferdinand, 32, soccer player
Billy Graham, 92, evangelist, born William Franklin Graham
Keith Lockhart, 51, Boston Pops conductor
Jeremy London, 38, actor (“I’ll Fly Away,” “Party of Five”)
Barry Newman, 72, actor (“Petrocelli,” Vanishing Point)
Dana Plato, actress: Diff’rent Strokes—in 1938
╬ ATHLETICS
Kris Benson, 36, baseball: Diamondbacks, Pirates, Mets, Rangers
Andy Houston, 40, NASCAR driver
╬ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/writer of Islamic Spain—in 994
╬ POLITICS
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╬ SCIENCE & RELIGION
Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911)—in 1867
Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher—in 1883
¤ Today’s Obituaries ¤
Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by proslavery mob @ 35 in 1837
Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), flu epidemic @63 in 1573
Steve McQueen, actor, cancer @ 50 in 1980
Eleanor Roosevelt, Former 1st Lady, anemia/TB @ 78 in 1962
Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ, @ 80 in 1978
¤ Today’s Events ¤
╬ THE ARTS
1786»The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as theStoughton Musical Society.
╬ ATHLETICS
1933»Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1991»Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from Lakers
╬ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1865»London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
1876»Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD in US college (Yale)
1876»The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook of New York City
1908»Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1946»A coin-operated television receiver was displayed in New York City.
╬ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1519»According to some sources, Spaniards have their first view of Tenochtitlán
╬ POLITICS (US)
1811»Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
1874»1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast
1893»Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1942»1st US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1967»Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967»LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1983»Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1989»Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (D-Va)
1989»NYC elects its 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman)
--Presidents elected
1820»James Monroe, the 5th President of U.S., was reelected.
1848»General Zachary Taylor emerged as a hero of the Mexican War (1846-1948) and was nominated as the presidential candidate at the Whig convention in June 1848. He defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, and was elected the 12th President
1876»President Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory-19th President
1916»Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President—28th
1917»British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks
1944»FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1972»President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
╬ POLITICS (International)
1775»Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1875»Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equatorial Africa
╬ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1805»Lewis & Clark 1st sight Pacific Ocean
GREY MATTER ANSWERS
↔ JEOPARDY
$200- Fahrenheit equivalent to 0º Centigrade
What is 32°--freezing point
$400- You might have to put F. Lee Bailey on one to admit he had a show about one
What is a lie detector?
$600- The science which deals with the motion & behavior of bullets
What is ballistics?
$800- What you're "stuck with" boiling down collagen, softening it with hot water & letting it swell
What is glue?
$1000- In 1808, this metalsmith made copper plates for a Fulton steamboat boiler
Who is Paul Revere?
↔ PICTURE
A purple crayon
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