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Jun 12, 2020 Week: 24 Day: 164
86004: H 84° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 9mph\Gusts:
15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest
lightning: 195mi.; Nearest active
fire: 137mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Fire Weather Watch
Record High: 91°[1918]
Record Low: 27°[1976]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier."
-Mother Teresa
Random
Tidbits
About
two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six
feet deep. Most shark attacks occur less than 100 feet from the shore. Shark
attacks happen all over the world, but mainly around popular beaches in North
America (especially Florida and Hawaii), Australia, and South Africa.
For
every human killed by a shark, humans kill a million sharks.
Have
a smile
True
conversations while flying
Naturally, the ground control
communications frequency fell terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US
Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate ground controller in her
current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out around Gatwick was
definitely running high. Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed
his microphone, asking:
"Wasn't I married to you once?
Observations
This Week
International Clothesline
Week: 6-13
National
Lemonade Days: 6-13 Link August due to COVID-19
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 7-13
Black Single Parents Week: 7-13
Community
Health Improvement Week (CHI): 7-13 Link
End Mountain Top Removal Week: 7-13 Link
Nat'l
Automotive Service Professionals Week: 7-13
National Business Etiquette Week: 7-13
National Headache Awareness Week: 7-13 Link
Pet Appreciation Week: 7-13 Link
Duct Tape
Days: 11-13 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
Superman Days: 11-14 Link
Observations for Today
Banana Split Days: Thru-13 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
Crowded Nest Awareness Day
International
Falafel Day
National
Peanut Butter Cookie Day Link
Poultry Days-14 Link
Red Rose Day
Superman
Day Link
Victims of Orlando, Florida Attack Day Link
World Day Against Child Labor Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Warming up to be a very warm summer
day. Headed out early to water Andy’s outdoor plants. My doors and windows are
open which gives me a nice breeze.
One more point on the defund police
movement. 911 already deals with fires, by sending fire trucks, heart attacks
by sending ambulances. There is little reason properly funded mental health professionals
couldn’t also be sent to certain incidents.
This is real news: Trump’s re-election
campaign sent a ‘cease and desist’ order to CNN over a poll that shows Biden
ahead of Trump. They seem to believe that if the voters don’t hear it, it won’t
be true.
Did AZ open too soon? Until June 3 the
highest day of new cases was 581; on June 3 the number of new cases was 1579.
Every map on TV now has AZ as bright red, and it is not because of our temperatures.
About a week ago I read the North and
South Korea peace discussions were falling apart. At that time there was no
reason given. Then yesterday it was revealed that North Korean defectors in
South Korea were launching balloons filled with plastic pamphlets that were disparaging
to Kim Jung Un. Over the past few weeks millions of these balloons have be sent
over N. Korea. These defectors are also filling plastic bottles with dry rice
and putting them in the ocean where the currents should carry them to N. Korean
beaches, claiming that N. Koreans are starving every day. Some of these bottles
are washing up on S. Korean beaches and the rice is moldy and ruined. No one
knows why this happened.
Answer
at the bottom of the page
I can be quick and then I’m
deadly,
I am a rock, shell and bone
medley.
If I was made into a man,
I’d make people dream,
I gather in my millions by
ocean, sea and stream.
What am I?
1790 - A 'Red Globe' was being reported by
many people, flying over France.
1849 - A gas mask "inhaler or lung
protector" was patented (#X006529) by Lewis Phectic Haslett of Louisville,
Ky.
1899
(Tornado) New Richmond, Wisconsin
1906 - Sound movies were patented
(#823,022) by John Ballance.
1913 - John Randolph Bray exhibited the
first animated cartoon, a movie called The Artist's Dream (aka The
Dachsund) in which a dog ate sausages until he exploded.
1939 -
The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York.
1942 - Anne Frank received a diary for her
thirteenth birthday.
1964 -
Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in
prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 - The US Supreme Court in Loving v.
Virginia declared all US state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be
unconstitutional.
1972 - Fast food restaurant chain Popeyes was
founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
1979 - Cyclist Bryan Allen flew the
Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel, it was powered solely by human
power.
1987 -
"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
- Ronald Reagan, referring to the Berlin Wall.
1994 -
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los
Angeles, California.
1997 -
Queen Elizabeth II reopened the Globe Theatre in London.
2007 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian
novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation
for his humanitarian work by President Putin
2013 Russia passes a law banning gay
propaganda
2015 Zimbabwe discards its own currency,
offering an exchange of $1 for 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars
2016 Gunman claiming allegiance to the
Islamic State opens fire at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49,
injuring 53 - worst mass shooting in the US
2018 Singapore Summit between North Korean
leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump
2019 Earliest evidence of humans smoking
cannabis discovered in 2,500-year-old grave in Pamir Mountains, China,
published in "Science Advances"
2019 Violent protests in Hong Kong as tens
of thousands of protesters block and try to storm government buildings to stop
extradition law
2019 Same-sex marriage approved by
Ecuador's Constitutional Court in landmark ruling
@94-41st US President George
HW Bush (d. 2018)
@87-Actor/Singer Jim
Nabors (d. 2017)
57- Actor Tim DeKay
@15-Diaryist Anne Frank (d. 1945)
Puzzle Answer
Sand
