Oct 30

 

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Oct 30, 2020  Week: 44 Day: 304    

Local:  H 59°\ L 26°\Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  10mph                       

Nearest lightning:  1224mi.; active fire:  59mi

high Risk of Fire          

Visibility:  10mi

Record: 72°[1934]   Record: -2°[1971]              

Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days with moisture)

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Today’s  Quote

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

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Random Tidbits

 Studies show that breast-fed babies have lower levels of cholesterol as adults. Additionally, breast milk is rich in healthy cholesterol and fats, which help prevent adult heart and central nervous system diseases.

 

A little humor

Why did the dentist make a poor date for the manicurist?

They fought tooth and nail!

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True Things

 The Weirdo-American Community

An unnamed 28-year-old man in search of a voluntary castration found himself drawn to a website offering such services, which led him to travel from Virginia to a cabin in the woods of Poteau, Okla. There, on Oct. 12, Bob Lee Allen, 53, and Thomas Evans Gates, 42, allegedly relieved the victim of his testicles during a two-hour surgery, The Oklahoman reported. Allen told the victim that he has "a freezer of body parts" and that "he was going to consume the parts and laughed and said that he was a cannibal," an affidavit said. The day following the operation, Allen took the victim to the hospital because he was bleeding badly, but cautioned him to say "he done it to himself." The hospital contacted police, and investigators searched the property, finding suspected body parts in a deep freeze. Allen and Gates were charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors, including conspiracy to commit unlicensed surgery and failure to bury the body parts.

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Observations This Week

Red Ribbon Week: 23-31  Link  

Kids Care Week: 25-31 

Disarmament Week: 24-30

National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: 25-31 Link  

Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week: 24-31

National Massage Therapy Week: 25-31 Link  

World Origami Days: 24-11/11

National Respiratory Care Week: 25-31 Link 

Asexuality Week: 25-31 Link

Pastoral Care Week: 25-31 Link  

International Magic Week: 25-31

Pro Bono Week: 25-31  Link

Give Wildlife a Brake! Week: 25-31  Link

Sherlock Holmes Weekend: 30-11/1  LINK October event is cancelled.

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Observations for Today

Checklist Day

Nat’l Bread Sticks Day 

Create A Great Funeral Day Link

Nat’l Candy Corn Day  Link

Devil's Night or Mischief Night

Nat’l Pharmacy Buyer Day  Link 

Frankenstein Friday

National Publicist Day  Link

Haunted Refrigerator Night

Rabi'-al-Awwal Link

Internat’l Bandanna Day Link  

Speak Up For Service Day  Link

Mischief Night

World Audio Drama Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Warming up but a chilly wind remains.

Pence will be coming to Flag Airport for a rally tomorrow. I won’t be going.

Gallaudet University is world famous as a premier school for the deaf. It is a private University and gets 2/3 of its funding from the US Gov’t. I worked with several grads as they worked for the AZ school for the Deaf and Blind, which is where Navajo students needing their service attended. Now former employees of the University have filed a lawsuit claiming discrimination in hiring and promoting at the school. Sad.

The census ended early and now the lawsuits begin. Advocacy groups are now charging that many census takers filed false data, at their supervisor’s order, so that there would be a 99.9% count. I minority neighborhoods, workers would knock and if no answer, they would ‘guess’ how many were living in the residence and guess the answers of all the questions. What a disgrace to the citizens of our country.

Sen. McSally is an appointed Senator, not an elected one. Our governor appointed her to fulfill McCain’s seat. She had lost the election for the other seat just before here appointment. She has basically been a lap dog for Trump. She is in a tight battle against John Kelly, husband of the wounded Rep. from Tucson. So when in Tucson, Trump made fun of McSally while calling her to the podium to support him. Insane for sure.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What gets broken without being held?

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Historical Events

1629 King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath

1868 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress

1873 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City)

1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color barrier.

1938 (fiction) an alien spacecraft landed in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, War of the Worlds, Radio Broadcast

1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), later becoming the World Trade Organization (WTO), was founded.

1952 Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas

1953 Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square as part of de-Stalinization efforts

1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time

1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and champion George Foreman took place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali won by knockout, knocking Foreman down just before the end of the eighth round.

1987 – NEC released the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, in Japan. It was later sold around the world under the name TurboGrafx-16.

2017 President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort and associate Rick Gates are indicted on fraud charges, advisor George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the FBI

2018 WWF conservation group says "exploding human consumption" has caused a 60% decline in all wildlife between 1970 and 2014

2019 Twitter head Jack Dorsey announces it will no longer take political ads

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Birthdays Today

 

@90 – John Adams, American lawyer politician, 2nd President (d. 1826)
@88 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
81 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter

@80 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder (d. 1972)

75 – Henry Winkler, American actor

39 – Ivanka Trump, American model, and businesswoman

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Puzzle Answer

A promise.

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