Jan 12

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Jan 12, 2019 Week: 01  \ Day: 12

86004 Today: H 43° \ L 14° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 59°[2002]   Record Low: -20°[1963]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Random Tidbits

Archaeological surveys show that cheese was being made from the milk of cows and goats in Mesopotamia before 6000 B.C.

Travelers from Asia are thought to have brought the art of cheese making to Europe, where the process was adapted and improved in European monasteries.

France was the first country to cultivate mushrooms, in the mid-17th century. From there, the practice spread to England and made its way to the United States in the 19th century.

Observances This Week

           

6-12

Home Office Safety and Security Week

National Folic Acid Awareness Week

Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week

National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

9-13

National Soccer Coaches of America Week

11-17

Cuckoo Dancing Week

Observances for Today

           

Eagle Day

Kiss A Ginger Day (Red Heads)

National Glazed Doughnut Day

National Hot Tea Day

National Marzipan Day

National Vision Board Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Our little retirement group had a lunch at Culvers, a new hamburger joint in town. Décor was nice, staff was very friendly. Food was a tad greasy to our old-er palates. Good conversation, good place, eatable food. I’m going back to try their frozen custard…that can’t be greasy.

No response on my recent email to my elected National officials regarding the shut-down. Guess they are all too busy digging in or getting ready to head home for the weekend.

After the second shut-down, the education side of the BIA figured out a way to do ‘forward-funding’ which means that schools are not affected by this shut-down. And since the 1980’s I always had a hard time why a principal was the only one at a school who was considered ‘essential’ and got to work while teachers were sent home. Now that this shut-down has broken all records I am finally learning that even ‘essential’ employees who must show up and work are NOT getting paid. Those early shut-downs, it turns out, were just a prelude for long term idiocy in 2019.Don’t the 45-supporters realize that with all these workers at home, the backlog is just piling up. In the end, the government workers will get their pay and have to figure out how to ‘catch-up’ on all the reports, inspections, concerns, etc. that were addressed while they sat at home. The ‘essential’ workers who are working for no pay are doing the job (or calling in sick) and hoping their coworkers will get back soon.

AZ, or at least PHX, are in national headlines…again. This time a comatose San Carlos Apache woman is in a care facility where she was raped 9 months ago and gave birth to a baby boy. While I am a liberal, I was shocked that the LA Times had an editorial, that was reprinted in our local paper, saying that collecting DNA from every male employee/contractor was unconstitutional. OK, fine. Collect DNA from every employee/contractor regardless of sexual identity and find out who did this despicable act.  

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1616 Brazilian city Belem (the entrance gate to the Amazon)

             founded by Captain Major Francisco Branco

1700’s

1773 First public museum established in north American

            colonies (Charlestown, SC)

1800’s

1896 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)

1900’s

1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef

            Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in

            a letter to the paper, Social Democrat

1952 University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student

1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded

1959 American record company Motown is founded by

            Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records

1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates

1976 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine

             Liberation Organization

1989 Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire

2000’s

2013 Beijing’s level of air pollution is declared to be at

            levels that are hazardous to human health

2017 US President Barack Obama in surprise presentation

            awards Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential

            Medal of Freedom

Birthdays Today

1628 Charles Perrault,

French author and fairy tale writer (Tales of Mother

Goose), born in Paris, France (d. 1703)@75

1876 Jack London,

American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild), born in

San Francisco (d. 1916)@40-dysentary

1893 Hermann Goering,

Nazi Party leader, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (1941-45)

and World War I fighter pilot ace, born in Rosenheim,

Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1946)@53-

suicide

1906 Tex Ritter,

American country singer (5 Star Jubilee, Wayward Wind),

born in Murvaul, Texas (d. 1974)@68-heart attack

1916 P. W. Botha,

President of South Africa (1984-89) and Prime Minister

(19778-84), born in Paul Roux, Orange Free State

Province, South Africa (d. 2006)@90

1923 Ira Hayes,

Pima Native American soldier, born in Sacaton, Arizona

(d. 1955)@32-exposure/alcohol poisoning

1926 Ray Price,

American country singer (Good Times), born in

Perryville, Texas (d. 2013)@87

1928 Ruth Brown,

American actress & singer sometimes known as the

"Queen of R&B" (So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes),

born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 2006)@78-stroke

1930 Glenn Yarborough,

American folk singer & guitarist (Limeliters-Honey &

Wine, Jubilee), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

(d. 2016)@86

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68- Rush Limbaugh,

American far right wing radio personality, born in Cape

Girardeau, Missouri

68-Kristie Alley,

actress (Cheers)

67- Ricky Van Shelton,

American country musician, born in Danville, Virginia

65- Howard Stern,

American radio personality & "Radio's Bad Boy" (WKRK,

WYSP, WJFK), born in Queens

55- Jeff Bezos,

American entrepreneur and founder of Amazon, born in

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Historical Obits Today

@89-2018 Keith Jackson,

American sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football,

college football)

@89-2017 William Peter Blatty,

American scriptwriter and author of The Exorcist

@85-1976 Agatha Christie,

British crime writer ("10 Little Indians")

@84-2002 Cyrus Vance,

57th U.S. Secretary of State (1977-80)

@53-2003 Maurice Gibb,

guitarist of the Bee Gees, dies of cardiac arrest

@42-1962 Ernie Kovacs,

comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash