Ø TODAY’s “Geez”:
· 1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
· 1975 - 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
Ø Free Rambling Thoughts…
A hot day in Flag, but only a ‘fire warning’ and not a red flag day. We even had some clouds throughout the day. Can the monsoons be far behind? Yeah, afraid so, there was only 11% humidity.
Tomorrow I have an appointment with Social Security. As I have said before, I worked from 16 years old on. I paid into Social Security before I went to work for the Feds. I didn’t work outside the government when I was a year round employee, but when that all changed, and I was furloughed during the summer, I worked for NAU and Uof Phoenix when I was on furlough, or on weekends when I was not being paid by the government. More than once I took Leave Without Pay for a couple of hours on Friday so I could get to the class. I have a good pension from the government, but I was forced to pay into the SS system when I worked outside the government. I certainly have the necessary quarters for my SS money, although it was never going to be that much. According to the paperwork I get from SS every year, I should get about $350/month at 62, $450 waiting until 66 and $600 waiting until I am 70. Now I find out that my SS check will be decreased by about 40% because I am a Civil Service Retiree. This is happening because of a law that passed in 2005. The two systems are not financially connected. I will get more info tomorrow and the lady who set up my appointment said she realized that people get angry, but will give me an explanation of why. I feel a little guilty taking it, since I know the system is going broke, and many people need that money more than I do. I remember back to when I was first furloughed during the summer. As a furloughed employee I was eligible for Unemployment. I didn’t want to take it. My very fiscally conservative father sat me down and said that I had paid into it and I should take it. I found out that it got me through that summer, but when income tax came around, all that money for 12 weeks did not have taxes taken out, so I had to pay taxes at the other end. It bumped me up to a new tax category and was not worth the hassle. So it seems that the SS pot of gold at retirement does have drawbacks. My next issue will be when I reach 65 and become a Medicare person. I’m sure that too will have problems.
Ø Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post) TV Cop Shows
1. Who played an FBI agent in Twin Peaks before moving to The X Files?
2. In which country was Prisoner: Cell Block H set?
3. Which show featured private eye Jim Rockford?
4. Who was Cagney's female colleague?
5. How was Ken Hutchinson known is the 70s series with David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser?
6. Which day of the week was the last name of Dragnet's Joe?
7. Which unmarried female detective was created by Agatha Christie?
8. In The A Team which member was known only by his initial?
9. Which spicy first name did Police Woman Anderson have in the series?
10. The outdoor scenes of Hill Street Blues were filmed in which city?
11. Who called people Pussycat?
12. What was the name of the series about the wife of Colombo?
13. After success with The Streets of San Francisco Karl Malden made ads for which credit card?
Ø Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
Ø Hmmmmm…
· In Oklahoma, date the legislature approved a referendum to ban judges from using Shari’ah law in their decisions: 5/24/10 (Muslims are 0.81% of the state’s population)
Ø Somewhat Useless Information…
· Soviet cosmonauts were issued pieces of ginseng to take along on missions into space as a preventative against possible ailments.
· Both Native Americans and early colonists used ginseng for a variety of medical purposes. Colonists ground it into tea to help digestion, for example.
Ø Yeah, It Really Happened…
Miami, FL Several people were fishing over the weekend just off Florida's Atlantic coast when they pulled up a 23-foot-long squid.
They say they were fishing about 12 miles offshore from Port Salerno when they saw the squid, WPTV reported.
"We pulled up... thought it was something to fish on, a pallet or something like that. We looked at it, all three of us were like 'holy mackerel,' " Robert Benz told WPTV.
The squid’s body is about 11 feet long, and its tentacles were so long, it barely fit into the 23-foot-long boat.
“Nobody believes a fisherman," said Benz. "It didn't seem it had been dead long, the tentacles were still moving and it was sticking to you when we got it in.
Ellie Van Os, Director of Education and Exhibits at the Florida Oceanographic Society, said such a find is not common. "It's foreign to imagine that there's an animal with 8 arms and 2 tentacles that are twice as long as the arms and their mouth is in the middle of their arms ... and big eyes."
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission took the squid to a facility in St. Petersburg for a necropsy.
Ø Guffaw…or at least smile…
A woman who died found herself standing outside the Pearly Gates, being greeted by St. Peter.
She asked him, "Oh, is this place what I really think it is? It's so beautiful.
Did I really make it to heaven?"
To which St. Peter replied, "Yes, my dear, these are the Gates to Heaven. But you must do one more thing before you can enter." The woman was very excited, and asked of St. Peter what she must do to pass through the gates. "Spell a word," St. Peter replied. "What word?" she asked.
"Any word," answered St. Peter. "It's your choice." The woman promptly replied, "Then the word I will spell is love. L-o-v-e."
St. Peter congratulated her on her good fortune to have made it to Heaven, and asked her if she would mind taking his place at the gates for a few minutes while he went to the bathroom.
"I'd be honored," she said, "but what should I do if someone comes while you are gone?"
St. Peter reassured her, and instructed the woman to simply have any newcomers to the Pearly Gates to spell a word as she had done.
So the woman is left sitting in St. Peter's chair and watching the beautiful angels soaring around her when a man approaches the gates. She realizes it is her loser husband.
"What happened?" she cried, "Why are you here?"
Her husband stared at her for a moment, then said, "I was so drunk when I left your funeral, I was in an accident. And now I am here? Did I really make it to Heaven?"
To which the woman replied, "Not yet. You must spell a word first."
"What word?" he asked.
The woman responded, "Czechoslovakia."
Ø Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Joel Siegel's Interview with George Harrison
Joel Siegel Tribute
Ø Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
26-7/2
· National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
· National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
· Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Ø TODAY IS
· Camera Day
· Isra Al Mi'Raj (Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad - Islam)
· Seychelles: Independence Day (1976 from UK: an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean)
Ø Today’s Events:
… IN ARTS
▬
… IN ATHLETICS
1957 - 12th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
… IN BUSINESS
1858 - Great fire in London harbor
1863 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
… IN EDUCATION
1926 - Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
… FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1704 - The same force of 50 South Carolinians and 1,000 Creeks which attacked the Mission of San Pedro y San Pable in Patale on June 23rd, attack the Spanish San Damian de Cupahica Mission, near modern day Tallahassee, Florida
1794 - Approximately 2000 Indians, including Chief Little Turtle, and British and French Rangers have surrounded Fort Recovery on the Ohio-Indiana border. Major William McMahon, and 150 soldiers man the fort. When McMahon, and 90 men, not knowing of the force surrounding them, attempt to leave, they are attacked. McMahon returns to the fort. After 2 days of heavy fighting, the Indians will give up the fight, and leave.
… IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1377 - French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
… IN RELIGION
1755 - 515 prominent Filipinos baptized as Catholic
1969 - 1st Jewish worship service at White House
… IN SCIENCE
1904 - 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
2008 - Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.
… IN US POLITICS
1776 - Virginia state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1891 - National Forest Service organized
1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1956 - Federal interstate highway system act signed
1966 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
… ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS
Robert Evans, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown) turns 81
…ATHLETES
Pepper Johnson, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Cleve Browns) turns 47
1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer
…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Gary Busey, actor turns 67
1907 - Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan)
Amanda Donohoe actor turns 49
1901 - Nelson Eddy, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
Richard Lewis comedian turns 64
… ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher
…POLITICIANS
1941 - Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist
Fred Grandy, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1986- )/actor (Love Boat) turns 63
1876 - Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a gov (Wyoming, 1925-27)
…SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861 - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
1911 - Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
Ø Today’s Obits:
1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies), dies of heart attack at 46
1852 - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress dies of lung cancer at 74
1978 - Bob Crane, actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered in Scottsdale, AZ at 59
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress dies at 97
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34
2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic dies of colon cancer at 64
1995 - Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75
Ø ANSWERS:
Ø Trivia Quiz
1. Who played an FBI agent in Twin Peaks before moving to The X Files?
David Duchovny
2. In which country was Prisoner: Cell Block H set?
Australia
3. Which show featured private eye Jim Rockford?
The Rockford Files
4. Who was Cagney's female colleague?
Lacey
5. How was Ken Hutchinson known is the 70s series with David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser?
Hutch
6. Which day of the week was the last name of Dragnet's Joe?
Friday
7. Which unmarried female detective was created by Agatha Christie?
Miss Marple
8. In The A Team which member was known only by his initial?
Mr. T
9. Which spicy first name did Police Woman Anderson have in the series?
Pepper
10. The outdoor scenes of Hill Street Blues were filmed in which city?
Chicago
11. Who called people Pussycat?
Kojak
12. What was the name of the series about the wife of Colombo?
Mrs. Columbo
13. After success with The streets of San Francisco Karl Malden made ads for which credit card?
American Express
Ø Close Up Picture
Ø …AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW
