Aug 27

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Aug. 27, 2019 Week: 35  Day: 239

86004:   H 86° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Nearest wildfire:  27mi.  Nearest lightning:  814mi

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  5mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[1994]   Record Low: 36°[1978]

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm,

you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Vince Lombardi

Random Tidbits

The U.S. government borrows approximately $5 billion every business day.

The U.S. government pays more than $1 billion each day just on interest on its debt

In 2008, U.S. households lost an estimated 18% of their net worth, equaling approximately an $11.2 trillion loss. This collapse was the largest since the Federal Reserve began tracking household wealth after WWII.

Observances This Week

24-9/1

Chuckwagon Races: 24-9/1 

25-31 Be Kind To Humankind Week  World Water Week  Link

National Composites Week Link

 National Safe at Home Week

Observances for Today

Just Because Day

Global Forgiveness Day

National Burger Day

National Pots de Creme Day

The Duchess Who Wasn't Day

My Rambling Thoughts

I headed out early to do some needed shopping. Got it done and home in record time. It’s another warm day with 20% humidity, making it feel a lot warmer in this dry climate.

Maricopa County (think Phoenix) made Nat’l news again. Joe Arpaio, the 87-year-old former sheriff who was pardoned by the President for being unfair to Brown people and who started a tent city for inmates that were forced to wear pink underwear, has now decided he will run again in 2020. He lost last time after a 34 year reign. Only in AZ. That county is very conservative and Ol’ Joe may have a chance.

I wrote about Cyber technology yesterday and said it was scary. Then, last night on 60 Minutes, they had a piece on Cyber-crime. They were reporting on the number of cities in the US that have had their computer servers infected and then encrypted. The only way to get their data back is to pay the hackers around $80,000. The good guys say they keep the amount that low, because they figure every city will pay that much to get their data back. Other victims include hospitals where they can’t access patient records. Their fear is that computer machines that keep patients alive could be hacked also. One hospital waited 2 weeks to pay, after they had to create 10,000 sheets of paper records on their current patients.

G-7 is over and no major gaffes. Nice. He skipped the climate change session. And our leader didn’t even mention nuking hurricanes that are off shore. Probably good he skipped the climate change stuff.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

A woman was in court for killing her husband. She said she wasn’t guilty and that she dearly missed him. In the closing statement, the woman’s lawyer stands up and says, “Her husband was just missing. Everyone look at the doors. He’s going to walk through them in about 30 seconds.”

The entire jury stares at the doors waiting for waiting for this woman’s husband to walk through the doors. The lawyer and the woman stare at the jury.

The lawyer concludes by saying, “See! If you were so sure she killed her husband, you wouldn’t be watching that door!”

The jury immediately gave a guilty verdict. Why?

Historical Events

410 - The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ended after three days.

1813 - French Emperor Napoleon I defeated a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.

1859 - Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

1893 - Sea Islands Hurricane, Georgia, South Carolina.

1939 - First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft, in Germany.

1955 - The first copy of the Guinness Book of Records was issued.

1962 - The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission was launched to Venus by NASA.

1967 - Beatles manager Brian Epstein died of an accidental Carbitral overdose.

1988 - #1 Hit: George Michael - Monkey

1994 - #1 Hit: Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You

2003 - The first 6-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convened to find a resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

2003 - Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing just 34,646,418 miles away.

2011 - #1 Hit: Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)

2011 - (Hurricane) Irene struck the United States east coast, killing 47 people.

Birthdays Today

Martha Raye, comic actor, singer  

(d. 1994 @78 pneumonia)

GW Bailey, character actor (M*A*S*H movie, Police Academy) (75)

Barbara Bach, actor [Bond girl] (71)

Pee Wee Herman [Paul Rubens], actor (67)

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36^th US President

(d. 1973 @ 64; heart attack)

Tom Ford, fashion designer (58)

Chandra Wilson, actor (Grey’s Anatomy] (50)

Ma$e [Mason Durell Betha], rapper (44)

Puzzle answer:

The woman was watching the jury and not the doors because she knew that her husband wouldn’t walk through them because she had killed him. If she has really missed him like she said, she would have been watching the doors.