Aug 13

 

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Aug 13, 2020 Week: 33 Day: 226

86004:   H 85° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  6mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  145mi.; Nearest active fire:  59mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 90°[2002]   Record Low: 39°[1999]

Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success

is more important than any other one thing."

-Abraham Lincoln

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Random Tidbits

 Hyperinflation is a situation where the price increases are so out of control that the concept of inflation is meaningless.

The post-WWII hyperinflation of Hungary holds the record for the most rapid monthly inflation increase ever: 41,900,000,000,000,000 percent for July 1946, which means prices doubled every 13.5 hours.

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A little humor

How do you know when you’re staying in a Mississippi hotel? When you call the front desk and say, “I’ve gotta leak in my sink,” and the person at the front desk says, “Go ahead.”

Four women are driving across the country together, each one from a different state: Idaho, Nebraska, Montana, and California. Shortly after the trip begins, the woman from Idaho pulls potatoes from her bag and throws them out the window. “What are you doing?” asks the Nebraskan.

“We have so many of these things in Idaho, I’m sick of looking at them.”

A moment later, the gal from Nebraska pulls ears of corn from her bag and tosses them from the window. “What are you doing?” asks the gal from Montana.

“We have so many of these things in Nebraska, I’m sick of looking at them.”

Inspired, the Montanan opens the car door and kicks the Californian out.

*BONUS

How is it that the caveman survived the asteroid that made dinosaurs extinct?

Social Distancing…They stayed 65 million years apart.

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State Name Origins

There are several theories of how America's youngest state got its name. One theory maintains that "Hawai'i" is derived from the word "owhyhee," which means homeland in native Hawaiian. Another theory postulates that the name comes from a combination of the words "Hawa" and "ii" and means a small or new homeland. Still another belief is that the name originates from the Polynesian Hawaii Loa, who discovered the islands, according to an ancient local legend.

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Observations This Week

Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link 
Elvis Week: 8-16 Link
Assistance Dog Week: 9-15  Link  Link 
Perseid Meteor Showers: 9-13
National Motorcycle Week: 9-16 Link 
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 9-16 Link 
National Resurrect Romance Week:9-16 
Weird Contest Week: 9-16 
Safe and Sound Week: 10-16 Link
US Amateur Golf Week: 10-16
Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico  Aug10-20, 1680

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Observations for Today

International Left-Handers Day Link
National Filet Mignon Day

National Prosecco Day  Link

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My Rambling Thoughts

Here it is mid-week. Can’t believe I am looking forward to Friday shopping. After my walk, I got in my ride and just cruised around town for some new scenery. I did not get out, just drove around about 30 minutes.

Last week it was reported that gun sales increased by 80% compared to last July. Now TSA has seen an increase in loaded guns at TSA checkpoints. The increase is now 15.3 loaded guns/one million passengers. Don’t forget, air travel is down over 70%. Wow!

A police chief in Marion County, FL, has issued a new order: No one will wear a mask in our buildings. This includes employees, vendors, and visitors. His reasoning, for every medical person that tells you to wear a mask, I can find who says they do no good.

Sec. of Education DeVos has never been one of my favorites. She is not helping public schools and goes out of her way to help Charter and Private Schools. She is stonewalling on student debt forgiveness. Now it is reported that she is the only Secretary in the administration to have 24/7 security since her conformation. That has cost taxpayers $25million so far. Also, she will not provide guidance for schools to open safely. She has been working from her home in Michigan for months. How is this helping America?

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat.

What am I?

*Bonus

A boy and the doctor are fishing. The boy is the doctor’s son, but the doctor is not the boy’s father.

Who is the doctor?

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Historical Events

1521 – Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes captured Aztec leader Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

1918 – Opha Mae Johnson was the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.

1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released in theaters.

1961 – East Germany closed the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin with the Berlin Wall.

1965 – Jefferson Airplane made their first professional appearance at the Matrix Club in San Francisco.

1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts were released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York, New York.

1997 – South Park aired for the first time on Comedy Central.

2013 – Google Incorporated suffered an outage for five minutes. All of its services, including Google Search, YouTube and Google Drive, experienced this outage. During that brief time window, the world’s Internet traffic dropped by 40%.

2015 Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion

2015 US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting La Coiffeuse, stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001

2019 Measles cases have tripled worldwide in 2019 according to WHO with 364,808 reported against vs 129,239 in 2018

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Birthdays Today

@90 – Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, 15th President of Cuba (d. 2016)

@84 – Ben Hogan, American golfer, and sportscaster (d. 1997)

@80 – Alfred Hitchcock, British director and cameo performer (d. 1980)

@76 – Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (d. 2007; cardiac arrest)

@72 – Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967; pneumonia)

@66 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter (d. 1926; anemia)

61 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor, and DJ

@58 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007; prostate cancer)

@57 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented a television (d. 1946; stroke)

38 – Sarah Huckabee Sanders, American political consultant

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Puzzle Answer

A kitten

*Bonus

The boy’s mother.

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