Oct 13

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Oct  13, 2018 Week: 41 \ Day: 286

86004 Today: H 54° \ L 41° \ Average Sky Cover: 70% 

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 79°[1950]   Record Low: 12°[1969]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Ernst Fischer

Harper’s Index

            3

            Percentage of Amercians who consider themselves

            members of ‘Alt-right’

            5

            Percentage who never heard of the ‘alt-right’

Observances This Week

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
National Physicians Assistant Week

7-13

4-H Week Link  
Death Penalty Focus Week

Fire Prevention Week Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Great Books Week 
International Post Card Week Link   
Mental Illness Awareness Week  
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week
Teen Read Week

8-13

Health Information and Technology Week Link
National School Lunch Week

9-14
World Rainforest Week Link  

10-17

Take Your Medicine Americans Week

12-20

Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link

           

Observances for Today

Columbus Day  LINK  Link
Day of the Six Billion Link
Drink Local Wine Day
Free Thought Day
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
National Family Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day) Link  
National Farmer's Day  Link
National M&M Day

National Peanut Festival

National Pumpkin Festival

Yorkshire Pudding Day

National Savings Day Link
Spanish Language Day Link
Stem Cell Awareness Day  Link
World Arthritis Day Link
World Egg Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1792 "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published and edited by Robert Thomas

1792 Cornerstone laid for the Executive Mansion (White House) in Washington

1800’s                                         

1864 Battle of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (Mosby's Raid)

1885 The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

1900’s                                         

1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration

1903 Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" premieres in NYC

1923 Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital

1947 "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres

1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe

2000’s                                         

2017 Archaeologists announce the discovery of Arabic characters "Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes from a grave in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden

2017 Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island, Eastern Russia

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday Mary and I tried out a new-to-us lunch place. It is a hole in the wall sandwich place with very good food.

Got to the Physical Therapy place at 8a to have my staples removed. (My appointment was not until 8:45, but had to fill out more forms) I am so ready for this little nuisance to be over. The PT lady was very interested in my trip. She is 57 but can’t retire because health insurance would cost her $600/mo. Hmmm. Looks good, got steri-stips and an elastic sleeve to wear till next Thursday. I can shower without the sleeve, so all is good.

Politics is so dirty. Some Young Republicans from our local University went to local campaign headquarters of the current US Rep who is a Dem. They wanted to donate $39.69 to his campaign and get a receipt that is was donated by the Communist Party of AZ. They got busted when the Dem. campaign manager went to the Republican Party headquarters and found the two guys volunteering there. The donation was returned. No word yet on and legal action.  Turns out it is a Federal crime to impersonate someone else when making a campaign donation for any national office. OOPS.

Can’t figure out what was going on at the WH yesterday. Kayne West…really?!? There are no boundaries from either 45 or Kanye.

Western Navajo Fair is happening this weekend. It’s been around 50 years and I spent a lot of time at many of the fairs. Not headed up this weekend and the traffic is always a mess.

Having lived in rural reservation sites for decades, I am more than disappointed that the Supreme Court ruled that voters in ND must have a street address in order to vote. My great aunt & great uncle picked up mail at the local post office for decades because they lived on a ranch about 8 miles from town. I used a PO Box all my time on the Rez. Only Shonto and Tuba residences even had a street name. And I don’t even want to start on the Georgia Sec of State who is running for governor and had thousands of registrations held up, possibly preventing voting in Nov. Or the Texas county that told students to register with one of two addresses if they lived on campus, then put them in two different precincts, then said they weren’t properly registered.This is all wrong on so many levels

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87►Margaret Thatcher, 

British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1979-90), born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England (d. 2013)

70’s

77►Paul Simon, 

American singer and actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony), born in Newark, New Jersey

72►Demond Wilson, 

American actor (Sanford & Son, Baby I'm Back), born in Valdosta, Georgia

@71►Arna Bontemps, American poet (100 years of negro freedom), born in Alexandria, Louisiana (d. 1973) heart attack

@70±►Jacques de Molay, 

French last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, born in Molay, Haute-Saône, France (d. 1314)

70►Sammy Hagar, 

rocker

60’s

@68►Burr Tillstrom, 

puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), born in Chicago, (d. 1985)

50’s

59►Marie Osmond, American singer and actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts), born in Ogden, Utah

40’s

47►Sacha Baron Cohen, 

British comedian and actor (Ali G, Borat), born in London, England

@40►Lenny Bruce [Leonard Schneider], 

American comedian, arrested on obsenity, born in Mineola, New York (d. 1966) OD

30’s

32►Chris Carter, 

American television producer (The X-Files), born in Bellflower, California

20’s

25►Tiffany Trump, 

daughter of Donald Trump & Marla Maples, born in West Palm Beach, Florida

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86►1945 Milton S. Hershey, 

American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company)

@82►2009 Al Martino [Jasper Cini], 

American singer and actor (Here in My Heart, The Godfather)

70’s

@77►1996 Beryl Reid, 

British actress (The Killing of Sister George, Smiley's People), pneumonia

@73►1974 Ed Sullivan, 

TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), esophageal cancer

60’s

@67►1905 Henry Irving [John Brodribb], 

British Victorian actor, 1st actor to receive a knighthood (knighted 1895) stroke

@66►2002 Stephen E. Ambrose, 

American historian (Band of Brothers), lung cancer

@62►1968 Bea Benaderet, 

actress (Petticoat Junction), lung cancer

40’s

@43►1938 E.C. Segar, 

American cartoonist (Popeye) leukemia