‘Tis the Season
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Dec
2, 2020 Week: 49 Day: 337 |
Local:
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50°\ L 19°\Average Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 8mph\Gusts: 13mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1521mi.; Active fire: 59mi |
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High Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 62°[1946] Record: -5°[1991] |
Nov
Averages: 44°/\17° (5
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
If you don't know
where you are going,
you might wind up
someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Random Tidbits
Haute
Joaillerie Watch from Chopard
While it looks more like a glittery mess than anything useful for telling time,
this diamond studded watch struck somebody's fancy for $25 million.
A little humor
I had my patience tested. I'm negative.
True Things
Kimberly Ragsdale's apparent plan
to get free food at a Chick-Fil-A in Rockmart, Georgia, ended in her arrest on
charges of impersonating a public officer on Nov. 5. According to police,
Ragsdale, 47, of Dallas, had repeatedly visited the restaurant, telling workers
she was an FBI agent and threatening to arrest them if they didn't serve her a
complimentary meal. Ragsdale continued her charade, the Associated Press
reported, telling arresting officers her credentials were electronic and
talking "into her shirt like she was talking into a radio," the
arrest report noted. Rockmart Police Chief Randy Turner said in a statement to
news outlets, "You will not hear a real officer demand a meal anywhere."
Observations This Month
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Nat’l Drunk & Drugged
Driving (3D) Prevention Month |
Observations This Week
Cookie Cutter Week: 1-7 Link
Observations for Today
Feast of St. Bibiana
International
Day for the Abolition of Slavery Day
National Fritters Day
National Mutt Day Link
Safety
Razor Day
Special
Education Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Cooler temps have arrived, especially at night. All good.
My KN95 masks arrived last evening. Ready for travel. They were
delivered sometime after 5p when I closed my living room blinds. I checked the
internet this morning and it said they were delivered at 8:25pEST. I went
downstairs and the box was sitting on the front porch. I would have been
happier if the delivery guy had knocked on the door or pushed the doorbell.
Covid doesn’t mix with any gatherings anywhere. Football is trying to
fix that, but not on the field. The SF mayor shut down all sports in the
county…so the 49er’s started looking for another place to play. Sadly, they
picked the Phoenix Stadium, home of the Cards. They will play at least 2 games
there, at very odd times. This is insanity.
I’m confused…the schools are closed, but many casinos are open. Why?
Does it have something to do with money or are casinos somehow immune to the
virus?
The new season of Live with Lisa Ling on CNN Sunday night is
back for a new season. It is a great show and worth a watch. The first show was
a Boy’s Catholic Private High School spending time at a local prison while
inmates and students studied Hamlet. Both prisoners and students learned
a whole lot more than the play.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
How can the number four be half of five?
Historical Events
1697 – St Paul’s Cathedral was consecrated in London.
1763 – Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island.
1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned
himself Emperor of the French.
1816 – The first US savings bank, the Philadelphia Savings Fund
Society (PSFS), opened for business.
1823 – US President James Monroe introduced the Monroe Doctrine.
1859 – Abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his raid on
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1901 – King Camp Gillette patented (US #775134A) his safety razor.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company unveiled its second mass production
model, the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport opened. It was renamed LaGuardia
Airport, after the mayor who pushed it for construction, in 1953.
1942 – Enrico Fermi produced the first nuclear chain reaction, below
Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.
1954 – The US Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what
it called “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”
He was looking for communists within the government.
1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), proposed by
President Richard Nixon, began operating. William Ruckelshaus was the first
director.
1971 – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) formed as a federation from the
seven emirates of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah,
and Umm al-Quwain.
1982 – University of Utah Medical Center performed the first implant
of a permanent artificial heart in Barney Clark, designed by Robert Jarvik The
Jarvik-7. It expended Barney’s life by 16 weeks.
1983 – The epic (nearly 14 minutes long) music video for Michael
Jackson’s Thriller premiered.
1993 – Drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by police forces in
Medellin, Colombia.
2001 – Enron filed for bankruptcy.
2009 – Nidal Hasan with thirty-two counts of attempted premeditated
murder at the Fort Hood shooting spree on November 5th. There has been a lot of
debate on whether it was an act of terrorism or ‘ workplace violence.’
2013 China launches its first moon rover mission
2014 Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a
"threat to mankind" and spell the end of the human race
2014 The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than
1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because
of a lack of funds
2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clash with police as they try
to surround the government's headquarters in some of the worst violence since
the protests began
2018 Israeli police recommend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
his wife be charged with fraud and bribery
Birthdays Today
@85 – Alexander Haig,
American politician, 59th Secretary of State (d.2010)
70 – Paul Watson,
Canadian activist, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
@62 -- Hernando Cortés,explorer
(d. 1547; dysentary)
@53 – Maria Callas,
American singer (d. 1977; heart attack)
52 – Lucy Liu, American
actress
@50 – Gianni Versace,
Italian fashion designer, (d. 1997; shot)
47 – Monica Seles,
Serbian/ American tennis player
39 – Britney Spears,
American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
@31 – Georges Seurat,
French painter (d. 1891; diptheria<?>)
Puzzle Answer
IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is “half”
(two letters) of the word five.
Enjoy
the Holiday
