This is Week 47 of 2010►Day 329 with 36 days remaining
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TODAY’S QUOTE—Unknown
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”
FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
It looks like Flag is having a cold, white Thanksgiving. If not, it is probably too late to thaw a turkey. I sure hope everyone is ready for Thanksgiving. For 35 years I went to Thanksgiving dinner on the Rez. We had a great meal with turkey and all the fixins. I always brought a huge fruit salad with coconut, whipped cream—the real stuff, and a whole bunch of Maraschino cherries on top. My Montana Aunt had made it frequently on the ranch. I tried to use fresh fruit, but that isn’t always possible at the end of November. When I retired, I started going to Thanksgiving with some friends in Flagstaff. Thanks to the Pillsbury Dough Boy, I found that I could bake a pie which doesn’t require making the crust. I have tried to make pie crust, but I am missing the pie crust genes. I’m sure it takes at least a few genes, since I am probably missing some other ones and seem to do quite well with my life. Today I made a blueberry pie and a pumpkin one. After sticking them in the oven, I always wonder why I don’t do this more often. Laying out the already rolled out crust is simple. Making the fresh pie filling is simple. Pouring the filling into the piecrust is easy. Even putting another premade crust on top of the blueberry filling and doing something called crimping is not all that hard. Changing the heat on the oven isn’t even hard. Then timing the pies baking time is fairly easy. Then the timer rings and the blueberry pie is perfect. The pumpkin pie is still very soupy. Now I remember why I don’t make pumpkin pies. Set the timer for 10 minutes more and check it. Then 7 more minutes and check it. Then 5 more minutes and check it. Then 5 more minutes and it is almost done. Five more minutes and it is ready. All that time I have to stay near the oven, just to check to be sure it isn’t done. I am much to ADD to stay in one place for that long and much too paranoid to leave the kitchen. We have dryers for our clothes that automatically know when the clothes are dry and cools down to prevent wrinkles or something and then shuts off. Why hasn’t someone invented an oven that knows when the pie is done and just shuts off and cools down the pie? I’m sure it would be a big seller for working people. Throw the unbaked pie in the oven, push a few buttons, go to work and come home to find a nicely baked pie in the oven ready to eat. If they can make an oven that cleans itself—through very high heat, they should be able to make one with a blower that cools everything down slowly. Maybe they will have one next Christmas.
Holy crap. What a mess in Korea. Who is the leader of North Korea—the father or the son? Why did the decide to send missiles into S. Korea? Why is S. Korea so understanding when the N. Koreans haven’t apologized? Sumthin big is a brewing over there. There is more here than what the US Media is reporting. There sure is a lot of posturing on both sides. The really scary part is that the western world is siding with S. Korea and making their own line in the sand. Of course, China hasn’t stepped in yet. I keep being haunted by the Chinese Internet business man that said America talks and talks and does nothing, China just does it. He was talking about business and financial issues, but he could have just as easily been talking about global politics. S Korea provides our big box stores with lots of merchandise. N. Korea provides us with little information and lots of headaches. I sure hope that somebody, from somewhere, will be able to sit down with involved parties and work out a sensible dialogue with real solutions. Maybe that person will find out who is leading N Korea and that the leader is not really crazy. LOL--just heard a clip of a radio show where Sara Palin was talking about our North Korean Allies. She did change to South Korea a couple of sentences later, but never said her slip happened. My guess, her handleres were holding up signs with the word SOUTH.
The Media loses again. For the last few weeks there have been many too many stories about National Opt Out Day. Well, today was the day, and less than 1% of those flying joined in. I do not want to be patted down but more importantly I don’t want to be blown up when I am on a plane. I did hear that some were suggesting that the Opt Out leadership should be charged with terrorism. Had their plan worked, I might have agreed. Completely or almost completely closing down an airport so they could do pat downs would have led to way too much chaos. Stressed passengers are not a happy lot to begin with. Airport officials seemed to have several back up plans if the thing had panned out…now that is good security. My brother and his wife flew to Miami yesterday, with their cat. All went well, no long lines, no hassle at security. Everyone I know who has already flown say they were just fine with security. I need to keep remembering that we don’t have to live in fear.
HOLY MACKEREL: 1894 A group of nineteen Hopi "hostiles" are placed under arrest by the army for interfering with "friendly" Hopi Indian activities on their Arizona reservation. The nineteen prisoners will be held in Alcatraz prison in California from January 3, 1895 to August 7, 1895
JEOPARDY PUZZLE—(SuperJeopardy Answers) from 1990 AMERICAN REVOLUTION
During the winter of 1777, Washington reorganized his army at this site
At the end of the Revolution currency was so worthless, "not worth" 1 of these became a common phrase
The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred on this hill
This brother of explorer William Clark used his own money to feed & pay his soldiers
The Americans took nearly 6,000 prisoners at this N.Y. State battle, called a turning point in the war
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION—
Fred and Wilma Flintstone, on the animated cartoon series The Flintstones (1960-1966), were the first couple to be seen together sharing a bed on prime time TV.
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The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981. ***
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM
FAYETTEVILLE, NC — A North Carolina man faced criminal charges after police say he posed as a health professional and got involved with patients at a hospital emergency room.
Daniel Ray Stewart, 24, was charged with three misdemeanor counts of impersonating a doctor, multiple media organizations reported Wednesday.
Stewart posed as a visiting medical resident seeking training and camped out in the emergency room of Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. Stewart said he was at it for two weeks in October before a physician assistant noticed he was not wearing a badge in the emergency department.
"There was no direct patient care involved," Stewart said. "If something was wrong, (the hospital) should've let me know ... instead of going to the police."
The hospital said Stewart was shadowing doctors and nurses and was never alone with a patient. Stewart is "a troubled young man with a history of impersonation, or similar activity," hospital spokesman Vince Benbenek said in a statement.
Stewart said he has a medical degree from the University of Tennessee, but the school has no record of him being enrolled, the Fayetteville Observer reported.
"My job is to observe and be a helping hand if needed and to further medical assessment," Stewart told WTVD-TV.
Police spokesman Lt. Chris Davis declined to discuss the case.
The hospital has launched an internal investigation to determine how many patients Stewart may have come in contact with.
A LITTLE LAUGH
Sitting in the first row of coach class during a lengthy flight, my wife and I were able to hear a flight attendant as he pushed a wine cart down the aisle in the first-class section. "Would you care for chardonnay or burgundy?" he asked the high-paying passengers.
A few minutes later the attendant opened the curtain between the two sections, offered wine to one final first-class patron, then wheeled the same cart forward to our aisle.
"Excuse me," he said, looking down at us, "would you care for a glass of wine? We have white and red."
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’—Just for Thanksgiving!
UP CLOSE PICTURE
This is a close up of what object?
CALENDAR INFORMATION
♦ Weekly Observances ♦
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 Parfait Day
International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day
Shopping Reminder Day
Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day
Indonesia: Teacher's Day or Hari Guru
Surinam: Independence Day (1975 from Neterlands)
Thailand: Vajiravudh Day (Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua was sixth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri, ruling from 1910 until his death in 1925: known for efforts to create and promote Siamese nationalism)
UK: University of Oxford: OXmas (Christmas in Oxford. As the Oxford academic term finishes around the first of December, the OXmas season is approximately a month earlier than Christmas, but shares all the same festivities and traditions.)
US: Thanksgiving Day
US: Turkey-free Thanksgiving
♫ One Hit Wonders—19__’s ♫
Click on Song Title to see and hear the original
♦Today’s Births♦
╥ THE ARTS
Amy Grant, 50, Christian singer
Percy Sledge, 70, singer: When a Man Loves a Woman…
Christina Applegate, 39, actress (Anchorman, “Samantha Who?,” “Married … with Children”)
Jill Hennessy, 41, actress (“Crossing Jordan,” “Law & Order”)
1925 Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage)
John Larroquette, 63, actor (Emmy for “Night Court”)
1920 Ricardo Montalban, actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)
╥ ATHLETICS
Cris Carter, 45, football (Eagles, Vikings, Dolphins)
Bucky Dent, 59, baseball player and manager, born Russell Earl O’Dey (White Sox, Yankees, Royals, Rangers)
1914 Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak)
Joe Jackson Gibbs, 70, Hall of Fame football coach, sportscaster, 3 super bowl wins
Bernie Joseph Kosar Jr, 47, football (Browns, Cowboys, Dolphins)
╥ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1835 Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist/library builder
1960 John F Kennedy Jr, lawyer, son of JFK
1893 Robert Ripley, illustrator (Believe it or Not)
╥ POLITICS
1846 Carrie Nation, scourge of barkeepers & drinkers
Ben Stein, 66, actor, journalist, former speechwriter
╥ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1881 Pope John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
♦Today’s Obituaries♦
Jack Albertson, actor (Chico & the Man), @ 74 in 1981
Robert Coote, character actor, heart attack @ 73 in 1982
Thomas A Hendricks, 21st VP, in his sleep @ 66, 8 months after taking office in 1885
U Thant, UN Secretary-General (1961-72), cancer @ 65, in 1974
♦Today’s Events♦
╥ THE ARTS
1949 Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer appeared on the music charts and became THE musical hit of the Christmas season. Although Gene Autry’s rendition is the most popular, 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly 20,000,000 copies sold.
╥ ATHLETICS
1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
╥ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1715 This was a big day for one Thomas Masters, who became the first American to be granted an English patent. Tom was the first to master the fine art of cleaning and curing Indian corn.
1834 Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1837 William Crompton of Taunton, MA patented the silk, power loom.
1884 Swiss-born scientist John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis, MO came up with a nifty idea that earned him a patent this day: evaporated milk—a necessary ingredient for Pumpkin Pie
1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates
╥ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1712 The Commander in Chief of the Carolinas' militia, Colonel Pollock meets with Chief Tom Blunt. The Chief did not participate in the original attacks of the Tuscarora War.
╥ POLITICS (US)
1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
╥ POLITICS (International)
1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1999 Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube off the coast near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
╥ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1357 Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1766 Pope Clement XIII warns On the dangers of anti-Christian writings
1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1984 William Schroeder became the second recipient of an artificial heart, undergoing surgery at Louisville’s Humana Hospital.
ANSWERS
∞ JEOPARDY
During the winter of 1777, Washington reorganized his army at this site
What is Valley Forge?
At the end of the Revolution currency was so worthless, "not worth" 1 of these became a common phrase
What is ‘not worth a Continental’?
The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred on this hill
What is Breed’s Hill?
This brother of explorer William Clark used his own money to feed & pay his soldiers
Who was George Rogers Clark?
The Americans took nearly 6,000 prisoners at this N.Y. State battle, called a turning point in the war
What is Battle of Saratoga?
∞ PICTURE
Lava Rock
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