Aug 15

 

Aug 15, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 227
Ave. Sky Cover:  20%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   80°\ 58° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 7mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 285mi. \ Lightning: 258mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Environmental Services Week: Link	2-20
Sturgis Rally: Link	6-15
Safe and Sound Week Link US Amateur Golf Week	9-15
Elvis Week Link	11-17
National Hobo Week Link	12-15
National Aviation Week National Chef's Appreciation Week Link	15-21

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 Nice summer day. Looks like no monsoon today.

Cards win against Cowboys in preseason, very sloppy game.

Haiti can’t seem to catch a break. Hurricane, assassination, and today another earthquake. They certainly need help.

The US needs to do much more and much faster to help Americans and Afghans who helped us. Those Afghans helped us for almost 20 years and are now certainly on the Taliban hit list. This is a bad mark for the US and for the Biden Administration. What a mostly preventable mess.

When I first came to Flagstaff, almost 50 years ago, the local paper had an article about what to call residents of Flagstaff. Now, 50 years later, the question and many polls later, there is  still no one answer. Here are the most popular: Flagstaffer, Flagstonian, Flagstaff resident, Flagstaffian. Since there is no end in site to this debate, just call me lucky to live here.

 

Historical Events

1635 1st recorded north American hurricane hits the Plymouth Colony

1824 Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS)

1900 The Boxer Rebellion: In China, the Empress, her family, and court retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to quell the rebellion

1914 The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads

1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends

1960 Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France

1971 US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents

1994 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan

2008 Lee Berger and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa

2017 Barack Obama's tweet "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." in response to Charlottesville violence becomes most-liked tweet ever

2019 Israel bars US Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering for supporting Palestinian-led boycott movement

 

Birthdays Today

 

@92 – Phyllis Schlafly, right-wing crusader, (d. 2016)

@91 – Julia Child, chef (d. 2004)

83 – Maxine Waters, American politician (Rep-D-California)

83 – Stephen Breyer, Justice of the Supreme Court

@71 – Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, poet (The Lady of the Lake, Rob Roy) (d. 1832; stroke)

57 – Melinda French Gates, American philanthropist, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

@51 – Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader, Emperor of the French (d. 1851)

49 – Ben Affleck, actor