Oct 18

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Oct  18, 2018 Week: 42 \ Day: 291

86004 Today: H 40° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 5 mi

Record High: 78°[1921]   Record Low: 10° [1971]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

When we ask for advice,

we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Saul Bellow

Harper’s Index

            11

            Factor by which the largest pension in Oregon      

  is greater than the average Oregon household income

Observances This Week

12-20

Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link

14-20
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week 
Drink Local Wine Week
Earth Science Week Link 
Emergency Nurses Week
National Chestnut Week  
International Infection Prevention Week Link
Mediation Week Link 
National Food Bank Week
Veterinary Technicians Week Link

15-19

Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week  Link
International Dyslexia Association Reading Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week  Link
National Health Education Week  Link
National Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety Week 
YWCA Week Without Violence Link 

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

Observances for Today

Conflict Resolution Day Link 
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Get Smart About Credit Day )
Hard Boiled Guy/Girl Day Link
International Credit Union Day  Link
International Necktie Day  Link
Meatloaf Appreciation Day  Link
National Chocolate Cupcake Day
Newpaper Comic Strip Appreciation Day
No Beard Day

Spirit Day Link   
World Menopause Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1648 1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)

1685 French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants

1700’s                                         

1767 Mason Dixon line, the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania agreed upon

1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.

1776 In a bar decorated with bird tail in Elmsford, New York, a customer requests a glassful of “those cock tails” from bartender Betsy Flanagan

1800’s                                         

1878 Edison makes electricity available for household use

1898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico

1900’s                                         

1910 E. M. Forster publishes novel "Howards End"

1952 Date of the first Mad Magazine issue

1954 Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.

1955 Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete

1968 Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, largest permanent big top in the world

2000’s                                         

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.

2017 US congresswoman Frederica Wilson says President Donald Trump said to bereaved army family of Sgt. La David Johnson "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway"

My Rambling Thoughts

A day of clouds and rain. Yeah, it was snowing yesterday, but “that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone.” Such strange weather we have.

I am getting an average of 5 landline phone calls a day and 2 cell phone calls regarding the election. No way to stop them as they are from different numbers. I don’t answer them, but they just call back. No human nor any way to stop the calls. I have changed my phone so that it goes to the answering machine after 2 rings. Only a few real humans call the landline and they always leave a message.

I am learning a very important international lesson. The United States government does little when a legal permanent resident of the US with 3 American-citizen children disappears in a foreign land, we talk to the government where it happened and to the government that is accused. That is enough. It ain’t an American citizen and it ain’t on our land. Them people will do a great job of investigating. A lesson I never thought I would have to learn.

Congrats to Colorado for being named by DHS as the ‘safest’ state to vote…that is about voter fraud. Nice to see my birth state is so far ahead of my current state.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90→Chuck Berry [Charles Andersen],

guitarist and singer-songwriter (Roll over Beethoven), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2017)

80’s

@85→Leo G. Carroll,

English actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), born in Weedon (d. 1972)

@80→Pierre Trudeau,

15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2000)

80→Dawn Wells,

American actress (Gilligan’s Island)

70’s

@71→Peter Boyle,

American actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond), born in Norristown, PA (d. 2006) heart disease

@71→George C. Scott,

American actor and director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove), born in Wise, Virginia (d. 1999) aneurysm

60’s

67→Pam Dawber,

actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam), born in Detroit, Michigan

50’s

58→Jean-Claude Van Damme,

Belgian actor (Double Impact, Kickboxer, No Retreat), born in Brussels, Belgium

57→Wynton Marsalis,

jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

@56→Erin Moran,

American actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi), born in Burbank, California (d. 2017) carcinoma

40’s

@49→Laura Nyro,

singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming, Stoney End), born in The Bronx, (d. 1997) ovarian cancer

30’s

39→Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr],

American pop and R&B singer and songwriter, born in Camden, Arkansas

@35→Inger Stevens,

actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1970) OD

34→Lindsey Vonn,

American alpine skier

31→Zac Efron,

American actor (High School Musical, 17 Again), born in San Luis Obispo, California

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@99→1966 Sebastian S. Kresge,

American merchant and philanthropist (Kmart)

@97→1982 Bess Truman,

1st lady (1945-53)

80’s

@84→1931 Thomas Edison,

American inventor (lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera)

70’s

@79→1871 Charles Babbage,

English mathematician/inventor (calculator), renal failure

60’s

@60→1973 Walt Kelly,

American cartoonist and animator (Pogo), diabetes complications

20’s

@29→1676 Nathaniel Bacon,

rallied against Virginian government, killed

@26→1984 Jon-Erik Hexum,

actor (Bear), gun loaded with blanks