Mar 15, 2021 Week: 12 Day: 74 Visibility: 10 miles
Local: H 47°\
L 20°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Wind: 15mph/ Gusts:
25mph
Nearest
Lightning: 564mi. Low Risk of Fire: Active
fire: 545mi
Record: 72°[2007] Record: -3°[1962] Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
I will preach with my brush.
~Henry Ossawa Tanner
Random Tidbits
Houses can host many
common dream symbols, but the building as a whole represents your inner psyche.
Each room or floor can symbolize different emotions, memories, and
interpretations of meaningful events.
A Little Something to Think About
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of boot be
beeth?
If the plural of goose is geese, shouldn’t the plural of moose be
meese?
If he plural of index is indices, shouldn’t the plural of Kleenex be
Kleenicies?
True Things
Nicholas Carretta, 47, of
Oakland, claims in court papers that the company sent him "multiple
unsolicited, obscene and harmful packages" over the course of 18 months.
Starting as far back as
2019 Carretta has received a chocolate penis, a spring-loaded glitter bomb that
blew up in his face, and a packaged addressed to "Fat Midget" that
contained chocolate imitation feces, the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit alleges
assault, battery, infliction of emotional distress, negligence and conspiracy.
Carretta is seeking damages of $75,000, along with court fees and post-judgment
interest.
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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Women of Aviation Worldwide Week |
7-14 |
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Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign |
11-17 |
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World Rattlesnake Roundup |
12-14 |
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Campfire USA
Birthday Week Teen Tech Week |
14-20 |
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Native American
Awareness Week Link |
15-19 |
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Act Happy Week |
15-21 |
Today’s Observations
Brutus Day
Buzzards Day
Everything You Think is Wrong Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Ides of March
International Day of Action Against Canadian
Seal Slaughter Link
Napping Day
National VO Day
National Peanut Lovers’ Day
National Shoe The World Day
True Confessions Day
Well-Elderly or Wellderly Day
World Consumer Rights Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
The day started off very windy…gusts up to 35mph. and the wind was
very chilly. Not a day for a walk. It looks like our snowstorm has left the area.
Seeing all the pictures from the Denver area, I am glad it is not hitting here
that hard.
Burger King launched a new campaign to get more female chefs. The full-page
ad stated: A woman’s place is in the kitchen! It did not go over very
well. Had people read the smaller print they would have learned a whole lot.
We all know the downside of this horrific pandemic. But for some,
there has been an upside: Statistics show the top 10% are currently living
their best lives. Jeff Bezos of Amazon made $34million in the month of January
2021. Over the past year, Amazon stock price has risen 70% as most of us needed
on-line delivery options. I don’t think I am the only one who feels that the
top 10% need to pay some of that forward.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
This one could also fall in the lying/truth category. A man is caught
on the king’s property. He is brought before the king to be punished. The king
says, “You must give me a statement. If it is true, you will be killed by
lions. If it is false, you will be killed by trampling of wild buffalo. If I
can’t figure it out, I’ll have to let you go.” Sure enough, the man was
released. What was the man’s statement?
Historical Events
1545 – First meeting of
the Council of Trent, the ‘Counter-Reformation’.
1806 – A chondrite
meteorite, carrying carbon-based, organic chemicals, was identified for the
first time. Found outside Alais, France, the organic chemicals it carried
suggested the possibility of life on whatever body was the source, somewhere
out in space.
1906 – Rolls-Royce
Limited was incorporated.
1956 – My Fair Lady
debuted on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
1922 – Fuad I became King
of Egypt.
1928 Benito Mussolini
modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1939 Adolf Hitler summons
Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the
impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates.
1939 Reneging on his
pledge in the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex
Czechoslovakia.
1940 Hermann Goering says
100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest.
1946 British Prime
Minister Clement Attlee agrees with India's right to independence.
1960 National Observatory
at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated.
1928 Benito Mussolini
modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1939 Adolf Hitler summons
Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the
impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates.
1939 Reneging on his
pledge in the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex
Czechoslovakia.
1940 Hermann Goering says
100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest.
1946 British Prime
Minister Clement Attlee agrees with India's right to independence.
1960 National Observatory
at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1968 US Mint stops buying
& selling gold
1971 Chatrooms make their
debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
1982 Nicaragua suspends
their citizens rights for 30 days.
1984 Tanzania adopts
constitution.
1985 The first Internet
domain name, symbolics.com is registered.
1989 US Department of
Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position.
2017 French fashion house
Givenchy appoints it first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller
2018 Toy chain Toys R Us
announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy.
2019 Climate change
strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish
teenager Greta Thunberg.
2020 US Federal Reserve
slashes interest rates to near zero to support the economy during the COVID-19
pandemic.
Birthdays Today
@87 – Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, American lawyer and judge (d. 2020)
@86 – Marjorie Merriweather
Post, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods (d.
1973)
86 – Judd Hirsch,
American actor
80 – Mike Love, American
singer-songwriter and musician, Beach Boys
@78 – Andrew Jackson,
American general and politician, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
78 – Sly Stone [Sylvester Stewart], American
singer-songwriter, musician
@73 – Saint Nicholas,
Greek bishop and saint (d. 343)
46 – Eva Longoria,
American actress
45 – will.i.am, American
rapper and producer
Puzzle Answer
“I will be killed by trampling of wild buffalo.” This stumped the king
because if it’s true, he’ll be killed by lions, which would render the
statement not true. If it’s a lie, he’d be killed by wild buffalo, which would
make it a truth. Since the king had no solution, he had to let the man go.
