Sep 5

 

Sep 5, 2021 Week: 36 Day: 248
Ave. Sky Cover:  25%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:  77 °\ 48° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 5mph
High risk of fire Active fire:225 mi. \ Lightning: 179mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

 

Library Card Sign-up Month (World) Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month Link Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December) Mold Awareness Month National Americana Month  Link National Bake & Decorate Month National Be A Food Hero Month National Campus Safety Awareness Month Link National Cheese Month  Link National Chicken Month Link National Child Awareness Month Link National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Link National Chiari Awareness Month  Link  Link National Coupon Month National Disease Literacy Month Link National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month National Food Safety Education Month  Link National Family Meals Month Link National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June) National Guide Dog Month Link National Head Lice Prevention Month National Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15-10/15) National Home Furnishings Month National Honey Month Link National Infant Mortality Awareness Month Link National Mulled Cider Month Link National Mushroom Month Link

 

Weekly Observations

 

Paralympic Games	24-9/5
US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Enthusiasm Week National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link Self-University Week Link	1-7
Chuckwagon Races Golden Onion Week	2-5
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link	3-7
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
Shetland Wool Week: Cancelled	4-5
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11

 

Daily Observations

 

Be Late for Something Day Cheese Pizza Day Birthday of Clifford the Big Red Dog, Pluto the dog

 

Favorite Memes

 

	Flagstaff has more grocery stores than that.

 

A quick smile!

 

Doctor to patient do you smoke? Patient: Yes. Doctor: Cigarettes, Cigars, Vapes? Patient: Mostly Brisket, and Pork."   Riddle of the Day What's the difference between a jeweler & a jailer? A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Nice Saturday to begin the Labor Day Weekend. Warm, slight breeze, lots to do in town. I went to an outdoor Art Show downtown. Lots of nice stuff. Met a few friends from the Rez as I wandered around. Might even go back tomorrow. While watching the news I heard a reporter make a statement I had to check on the internet machine. He was right. WOW! I did not know that the main language in Afghanistan…Dari… is the same language as Iraq’s Farsi. Turns out it is like the difference between American English and British English.  I sure hope those who are vetting people into this country know this. In Tucson, a school principal was confronted by a father and two other men when his son was told the son had to quarantine after being exposed to Covid. The female principal tried to explain, but the group had zip ties they were waving around saying they were going to do a ‘citizen’s arrest’. Police were finally called, the men were charged with trespassing and interfering with public education. They left. This is crazy. The Dept of Interior now requires all staff in the schools they fund to be vaccinated. It isn’t clear if the unvaccinated can simply take a covid test.  Turns out that is only for Bureau operated schools. The grant and contract schools who run on Federal funds are under the tribal laws…so each tribe will decide about vaccines. It is very confusing, as usual.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead

1774 – The First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia, PA.

1881 – Michigan’s Great Fire of 1881 killed at least 125 people. It was the first disaster that the American Red Cross assisted with.

1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC1914 – Babe Ruth hit his first professional Home Run.

1957 "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac is published by Viking Press in New York

1972 – 11 members of the Israeli Olympic Team were assassinated at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany.

11 Israeli Olympians and their coaches were murdered in the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany, on Tuesday, September 5, 1972, in a terrorist attack by a group called Black September. Israeli athletes, coaches and other members of the Israeli Olympic team entered the Olympic village in Munich, West Germany, to take control of a building where 13 Israeli hostages were held by Arab terrorists, while two others were killed.

In total, 11 Israeli hostages were killed, along with five terrorists and a German policeman, in an extensive firefight that began at 11 PM and lasted until 1: 30 AM.

1975 – Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford.

September 5 Birthday (fictional) Clifford the Big Red Dog, Book/Cartoon

2019 New theory the Loss Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found

 

Birthdays Today

 

92 – Bob Newhart, American comedian, and actor

@85 – Jack Valenti, businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (d. 2007)

82 – George Lazenby, Australian actor, James Bond #2

@82 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (d. 1980)

81 – Raquel Welch, American actress, and sex symbol

@77 – Darryl F. Zanuck, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 1979; pneumonia)

70 – Michael Keaton, American actor

48 – Rose McGowan, American actress

@45 – Freddie Mercury, singer (d. 1991)

@34 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882; shot by Robert Ford)