Sep 17

 

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Sep 17, 2020  Week: 38  Day: 261                  Local:   H 81° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  16mph                         Nearest lightning:  482mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: 88°[1956]   Record: 27°[1903]                  Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"When everything seems to be going against you,

remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

-Henry Ford

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Random Tidbits

Chew the fat

Originally a sailor’s term, this phrase refers to the days before refrigeration when ships carried food that wouldn’t spoil. One of them was salted pork skin, which consisted largely of fat. Sailors would only eat it if all other food was gone… and they often complained as they did. This idle chatter became known as “chewing the fat.”

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A little humor

From Actual Medical Records

The patient will need disposition, and therefore we will get Dr. Blank to dispose of him.

Healthy-appearing, decrepit 69-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

The patient has no past history of suicides.

The patient expired on the floor uneventfully.

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True Things

 After taking a sex toy from a shelf at a Florida adult novelty store, a woman removed her clothes and began using the device inside the business, police charge. A Fort Pierce officer was dispatched to the Lion's Den Adult Superstore "in reference to a disturbance," according to an arrest affidavit. En route to the business, a dispatcher noted that "there was a female in the store wearing a purple shirt and had on no pants." A worker explained that the masturbating suspect had removed a sex toy from the packaging and was now fully nude. The woman, the worked added, had disappeared into a stock room with the sex toy. When he entered the stock room, the officer found Theresa Stanley, 36, "sitting in an office chair with her feet up on the table." Stanley had a pink colored sex toy in her hand and was using the device in a "masturbatory manner." Right after the cop appeared, Stanley stopped making use of the sex toy and dropped it on the ground. She is being held in lieu of $1500 bond.

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Observations This Week

Balance Awareness Week: 13-19 Link   
International Housekeepers Week: 13-19  Link
Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week: 13-19 Link
National Assisted Living Week: 13-19   
National Security Officer Appreciation Week: 13-19 
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week: 13-19   Link
Line Dance Week: 14-19  
National Guitar Flat-Picking Days: 16-20  Link (Virtual)
Constitution Week: 17-23
Hummingbird Celebration: 17-20 Link

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Observations for Today

AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Day Link (Virtual)
National Ask An Atheist Day Link 
National PawPaw Day 
National Professional House Cleaners Day  Link
National Teach Ag Day Link 
Citizenship Day

Constitution Day Link
International Country Music Day Link
National Apple Dumpling Day

National Monte Cristo Day Link
National Professional House Cleaners Day
National Table Shuffleboard Day
Time's Up Day
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Midweek and suddenly my Office programs don’t work…again. It took the tech 2 full hours to fix it, but he did, and it works. I thought I would be saving time and money to get Office online. I was wrong on both counts, but now I’m stuck with monthly fixes and my one year subscription isn’t up until June 2021.

Fires and hurricanes are big news. For the fires, while our little town is still having hazy days, it turns out the smoke has made it to NYC and it is believed that in a few days, Europe will also have the CA/CO fire’s smoke in their atmosphere. I’m watching closely as the storm surge of Sally hits many in the Gulf and beyond. So tough to add this to Covid.

When will ICE release the truth? A detained female in a Texas detention center reported sexual abuse. She was deported back to drug cartels who had threatened her. DOJ let it happen, said she could have tele-interviews. Then there is the Georgia detention center where there appears to have been widespread unwarranted hysterectomies on young women during detention. This inhumane treatment must be stopped.

Mexico is having problems. While in office, President Calderon bought a new business plane…for a mere $215million. Delivery came in President Nieto’s term and he didn’t use it. Then it was President Obrado. He tried to sell it, but there were no buyers at that price. He set up a lottery @ USD$25 tickets where the winner would get the plane. Then it was learned that the cost of upkeep was about USD$1million/year. Then the lottery changed to a $1million peso prize with extra money going to the Health Care System for COVID. The lottery is still open, so time will tell if this time it works.

In good news, Bahrain has joined UAE to have diplomatic relations with Israel. This is a big step toward peace and the Trump Administration gets credit. Hoping that the administration can continue to work on bringing peace to the Middle East.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?

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Historical Events

1849 – Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland.

1859 – Joshua Norton declared himself “Emperor of these United States” and subsequently “Protector of Mexico”, renaming himself Norton!

1908 – Thomas Selfridge, a passenger in a plane piloted by Orville Wright, became the first airplane fatality when the craft crashed.

1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain

1947 – Jackie Robinson was named Rookie of Year by The Sporting News.

1954 "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding is published by Faber and Faber in London

1964 – Bewitched premiered on ABC.

1965 – The Wild, Wild West, and Hogan’s Heroes premiered on CBS.

1967 – Mission Impossible premiered on CBS.

1967 – The Doors appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and perform “Light My Fire”. Sullivan had requested that the line “Girl we couldn’t get much higher” be changed for the show, but Jim Morrison performed it the way it was written. The Doors never appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show again.

1972 – The first episode of M.A.S.H. aired on CBS.

1976 – NASA publicly unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California.

1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel

1980 Polish workers under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa found the Solidarity movement at the Gdańsk Shipyard

1983 – Vanessa Williams was crowned Miss America 1984.

1987 Pope John Paul II arrives in San Francisco, meets with AIDS patients, and embraces an AIDS infected child

1996- The O.J. Simpson civil trial began

2011 – The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park, New York City

2019 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”

 

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Birthdays Today

@87 – Warren E. Burger, American lawyer, and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (died in 1995)

@84 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)

@73 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005; uterine cancer)

@70 – Roddy McDowall, English-American actor (d. 1998; lung cancer)

67 – Rita Rudner, American comedian

58 – Baz [Mark Anthony] Luhrmann, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter

55 – Kyle Chandler, American actor

@54 – John Ritter, actor (d. 2003; heart issues)

@41 -- Nick Cordero, stage actor (d. 2020; COVID)

@29 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1953)

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Puzzle Answer

His son

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