Jan 23

 

2021…at last

Jan  23, 2021  Week: 3  Day: 23	Local:  H 40°\ L 31°\Ave. Sky Cover: 80%
Wind:  7 mph\Gusts:  14mph	Today’s Ave. Temp.: H 45°\ L 20°
Nearest lightning:1636mi.; Active fire:  59mi	Very Low Risk of Fire           Visibility:  10mi
Record: 61°[1970]   Record: -15°[1937]	Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

The earth laughs in flowers.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random Tidbits

In the early 1900s, black people began to protest the Jim Crow laws that southern states were implementing to enforce segregation. Several African-American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells joined together to found the NAACP in 1909. Another leader, Booker T. Washington, helped to form schools to educate African-Americans in order to improve their status in society.

The civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was illegal in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Federal troops were brought in to Little Rock, Arkansas to allow the Little Rock Nine to attend a previously all white high school.

A Little Humor

If You Take A Mime To Court- Is It Still Called A Hearing?

True Things

Swan crashes into woman's bathroom

Animal rescuers in Britain said a swan crashed through a window into a woman's bathroom just moments after she had left for another room. Animal rescue inspector Keith Ellis, who responded to the scene to collect the swan, said it was a highly unusual incident. "I have seen them crash-land on to busy roads thinking they are rivers but nothing like this. It is so bizarre," Ellis said. He said the swan underwent surgery at a local veterinary practice and is now recovering Ellis said the swan will be released back into the wild once it is back to full health. Ellis said it was lucky that the bathroom was unoccupied. "The lady was so lucky when this happened as she had just been in the bathroom," he said. "Had she still been there when this swan crashed through the window, I am sure the glass shattering and the impact of the bird hitting her would have caused serious injury." P.I. Staker was unavailable for comment.

Interesting facts about AZ

Ø The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought at Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak in Pinal County

Ø There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.

Ø Wyatt Earp was neither the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at the O..K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal.

Weekly Observations

International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link	16-24
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week Healthy Weight Week Hunt For Happiness Week National Activity Professionals Week National Handwriting Analysis Week	17-23
Sugar Awareness Week No Name Calling Week Link Week of Christian Unity	18-23

 

Today’s Observations

Belly Laugh Day

Eagle Day
Eskimo Pie Day

‘Just Do It’ Day

Local Quilt Shop Day
Measure Your Feet Day

National Compliment Day

National Handwriting Day  Link
National Lobster Day

National Peanut Butter Day

National Pie Day Link  Link  
National Rhubarb Pie Day

Paul Pitcher Day  Link
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Headed out early for a sonogram blood draw. The hospital hadn’t received one of the orders, so that took time and phone calls. Then the machine was busy. Finally got a draw, but the tech said it was one of the hardest she had seen in quite a while. Total time from arriving to leaving the hospital parking lot was 2 hours.

I have to say I am enjoying the many memes of Bernie that are throughout social media. Bernie and his mittens have made quite a hit.

In 2007 AZ passed a law to allow voters to sign up for permanent mail-in voting. While AZ voted for Biden, the state legislature is still very Republican. So, the Republicans have introduced a bill to abolish permanent mail-in voting. And if that bill fails, another bill was introduced to require a notary public stamp would be required on the envelope. Hmmm

A Republican House member tried to enter the House Chambers with a firearm, even though it is against House Rules, made by the House members themselves. He was upset that the House had put in a metal detector just before entering the House Chambers. Other Republicans simply walk around the detector and get the ‘wand’ to check them. Silly.

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

How can a man who shaves several times a day still sport a long beard?

Historical Events

41 – Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated.

1848 – Gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, Coloma, California by James W. Marshall.

1899 – The US patent (#618128) for a rubber ‘safety heel’ was issued to Humphrey O’Sullivan

1922 – The ‘Eskimo Pie’, an ice cream center covered in chocolate, was patented (#1404539) by Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa.

1935 – The 1st beer in a can – ‘Krueger Cream Ale’ was sold by the Kruger Brewing Company.

1950 – A microwave oven patent (#2495429) was issued to Percy LeBaron Spencer under the title ‘Method of Treating Foodstuffs’.

1984 -- The Apple Macintosh was released.

2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially began operation.

1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba.

2001 The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.

2015 Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is crowned King of Saudi Arabia, on the death of this half-brother King Abdullah.

2016 Category 5 blizzard delivers record 3ft of snow to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US, killing 55 and incurring estimated $500m - $3bn economic losses.

2016 8 museum workers from Egyptian Museum, Cairo referred for prosecution for reattaching Tutankhamun's beard with inappropriate glue.

2019 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disinvites President Donald Trump from making a State of the Union address in Congress citing government shutdown

2020 Voice of a 3,000 year old Egyptian priest recreated by scientists 3D printing his vocal tract published in "Scientific Reports"

2020 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp marked by an international forum in Jerusalem, Israel.

Birthdays Today

@95 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012)

@91 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded Oral Roberts University, Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (d. 2009)

82 – Ray Stevens, American singer-songwriter

80 – Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter

@75 – Edith Wharton, American novelist, short-story writer (d. 1937; stroke)

70 – Chesley Sullenberger, pilot

70 – Yakov Smirnoff [Yakov Naumovich Pokhis], Ukrainian-American comedian, actor

@56 – John Hancock, politician

53 – Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast

@33 – John Belushi, American comedic actor (d. 1982; OD)

 

Puzzle Answer

The man is a barber.