‘Tis the Season
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Dec
5, 2020 Week: 49 Day: 340 |
Local:
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48°\ L 19°\Average Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 10mph\Gusts: 13mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1191mi.; Active fire: 59mi |
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High Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 67°[1989] Record: -1°[1953] |
Nov
Averages: 44°/\17° (5
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
You're either part of
the solution or you're part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
Happiness is a path,
not a destination.
Random Tidbits
Teachers have an equal turnover rate to police
officers and less than child care workers, secretaries, and paralegals.
Teaching has a higher turnover rate than nursing and a far higher turnover than
"traditionally respected professions" such as law, engineering,
architecture, and academia.
A little humor
Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out
of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those
people cops.
True Things
The BBC reported that Police
Constable Simon Read of the Cambridgeshire Police will be the subject of a
misconduct hearing on Nov. 25 after being accused of switching prices on a box
of doughnuts in February. Read, shopping at a Tesco Extra store while on duty
and uniformed, allegedly selected a $13 box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and
replaced its barcode with one from the produce section that lowered the price
to 9 cents, then went through the self-checkout line. In papers filed before
the hearing, Read was said to bring "discredit upon the police service
... because a reasonable member of the public ... would be justifiably
appalled that a police officer had acted dishonestly and without
integrity."
San Juan, Puerto Rico, police
officer Fernando Leon Berdecia, 46, is accused of stealing $1,300 worth of
merchandise from a Home Depot on Nov. 16 while wearing his uniform. The
Associated Press reported Puerto Rico Police Chief Henry Escalera said Leon has
been suspended from the department, and a court date has been set for Dec. 2.
Observations This Week
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Cookie Cutter Week…………………………………. Clerc-Gallaudet Week…………………….
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1-7 Link 3-10 5-24 Link 5-11 Link 5-11 5-11 Link |
Observations for Today
AFL-CIO Day
Bathtub Party Day
Columbian International Day of The Reef Link
Day of the Ninja
International Ninja Day Link Photo Photo
International Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development
National Comfort Food Day
Repeal of Prohibition Day
Sachertorte Day Link
World Soil Day Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Another week going fast. I did my weekly shopping this morning, and
stopped for a quick haircut. I called and got an appointment for 30 minutes
after I called. Getting ready for Christmas. I also found some Russell Stover
Candy that was buy one/get one free. That was my mom’s favorite and was always around
the house during Christmas.
It is now official the Focus Tahiti trip will be in 2022. The price
went up but we will be safe. I’ll update the website tomorrow. I have to figure
out a positive way to put it on the site so everyone will know what is going
on.
I am disappointed that politics isn’t going to change that much.
Lincoln was right about pleasing people, so onward and upward. Not all picks
are going to make the left or the right or the middle happy. Just so we move in
a positive direction.
Not to be picky, but here goes. As the US is devasted by Covid, many
are jobless, homeless, and hungry, the House is busy passing new bills that
probably will never become law…the latest is one that caught my eye was the
bill to stop breeding and possession of ‘big’ cats…like lions, tigers, pumas….
I agree that it is a good bill, but shouldn’t they be working on helping desperate
Americans?
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
Which word in the dictionary is always spelled
incorrectly?
Historical Events
1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie held his first
sale/auction.
1955 – The Montgomery Bus Boycott began, led by E.D. Nixon and Rosa
Parks.
1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations merged to form the AFL – CIO.
1865 – The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, abolishing
slavery in the United States.
1948 – Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts premiered, the first major show
of it’s kind.
1958 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen
Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to
Edinburgh.
1969 – ARPANET (the first true internet) grew from ARPA (the U.S.
Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency) when it connected to
computer network nodes at four universities: the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA), the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, CA, U.C.
Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah.
1988 Federal grand jury indicts The PTL Club founder and Christian
evangelist Jim Bakker for fraud after he paid hush money to cover up an alleged
rape
2008 Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by
Russian and American scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II
2019 Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi,
announces articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump will be
drawn up for abuse of power
Birthdays Today
@100 – Strom Thurmond,
American politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (d. 2003)
@87 – Little Richard (Richard
Wayne Penniman), singer-songwriter,
pianist, actor (d. 2020)
@80 – Otto Preminger,
Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
@79 – Martin Van Buren,
American politician, 8th President (d. 1862)
@65 – Walt Disney,
American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founder of The Walt
Disney Company (d. 1966; lung cancer)
35 – Frankie Muniz, American
actor
Puzzle Answer
“Incorrectly”
Enjoy
the Holiday
