Aug 30

 

Aug 30, 2021 Week: 36 Day: 242
Ave. Sky Cover:  15%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   84°\ 52° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 6mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 293mi. \ Lightning: 92mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

Paralympic Games	24-9/5
Be Kind To Humankind Week	25-31
International Bat Night North American Organic Brewers Days Link	28-29
US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Beach Day Frankenstein Day Grief Awareness Day Marshmallow Toasting Day Toasted Marshmallow Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What is the opposite of a croissant? A happy uncle

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A warm day with hopes the monsoon comes back later today. Yesterday’s shower was very nice

Last night’s discussion group went very well. Lots of participation made it much easier to present. The plan to arbitrarily draw country boundaries by the British at the height of their empire show that no matter how good the intentions, it just didn’t work. Fighting groups are still fighting based on a history of tribal like disagreements, many based on religion. So difficult to comprehend.

The National Religious Broadcasters, an evangelical nonprofit, has fired its Senior VP of Communications. The issue is that he went on CNN and encouraged people to get the vaccine. I guess he is lucky that he wasn’t stoned to death or burned at the stake as a heretic. I guess that is progress.

I watched the solemn moment when the 13 military coffins returned to the US. So very sad.

 

Historical Events

 

70 – Titus ended the siege of Jerusalem after destroying The Second Temple.

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products

1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1984 – The Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-41-D) takes off on its maiden voyage.

1993 150,000,000th visitor to Eiffel Tower

2020 India reports world's highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases at 78,761

 

Birthdays Today

 

@53 – Mary Shelley, English novelist, and playwright, Frankenstein (d, 1851; brain tumor?)

@94 – Shirley Booth [Marjory Ford], American actress (d. 1992)

91 – Warren Buffett, American businessman, philanthropist

@83 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d.1991)

@83 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)

@80 – Geoffrey Beene [Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr.], fashion designer (d.  2004)

@72 – Peggy Lipton, model, actress [Mod Squad] (d. 2019; cancer)

73 – Lewis Black, American comedian, and author

@65 – John Phillips, singer-songwriter [Mamas & Papas] (d. 2001; heart failure)

58 – Michael Chiklis, actor

49 – Cameron Diaz, actress

48 – Lisa Ling, journalist, author