May 3, 2021
Week: 18 Day: 123
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover:5 % |
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Local:
H 72°\ L 32° |
Nearest Lightning: 206mi. |
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Wind:
7mph/ Gusts: 16 mph |
EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 132 mi |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
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Today’s Quote
Change
your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
~Simone
de Beauvoir
Humor
An Arkansas state trooper
pulls over a pickup truck on I-40.
He says to the driver,
“Got any ID?”
The driver asks, “‘Bout
what?”
Real Cities
What Cheer, Iowa
50268 is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. It is a former coal
town, and from the 1870s to the early 1900s was one of the major coal-producing
centers of Iowa. Its greatest recorded population was 3,246, in the 1890
census. Since the 1910s, the population has fallen to 646 in the 2010 census.
True Things
Sweet
Revenge
Concord,
North Carolina, police say they have not determined a motive for an April 2
incident in which Lacy Cordell Gentry, 32, allegedly drove his car through the
front doors of the Walmart he had recently been fired from, destroying displays
but avoiding injuring any shoppers. "If you take a car through a Walmart,
there's going to be a lot of damage," one officer told local media. The
New York Daily News reported that Gentry was taken into custody and faces
multiple charges. [NY Daily News, 4/5/2021]
Monthly Observations
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Better Hearing & Speech
Month Link |
Weekly Observations
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Ramadan |
Thru 5/11 |
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International
Wildlife Film Week Link |
Thru
5/15 |
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National Playground Safety Week
Link |
Thru
30 |
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Choose Privacy Week: Link |
1-7 |
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Be Kind To Animals Week |
2-8 |
Today’s Observations
Chocolate Custard Day
Melanoma Monday
National Chocolate Custard Day
National Raspberry Popover Day
National Raspberry Tart Day
National Textiles Day Link
National Two Different Colored Shoes Day
Paranormal Day
Public Radio Day
SAN (Storage Area Network) Architect Day Link
Sun Day
Two Different Colored Shoes Day
Wild Koala Day Link
World Press Freedom
Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Nice weather Sunday with
a little wind. Nice walk around the neighborhood.
Last night I finished the
special on Sesame Street from last week. A great history of how that program
has taught children difficult subjects for 50 years.
So many people have
listened to the fringe that they are not getting the vaccine. They believe it
has the ‘Bill Gates tracker’, or that ‘there is no virus’, or that hugging someone
who took the vaccine will give you the non-existent virus. It is hard to keep
up. Now states are looking at offering either a big carrot or a bigger stick to
get people to get the vaccine. One bar is offering ‘a shot for a shot’ where
you get the shot at the bar, then get a free shot of choice from the bartender.
Some municipalities are planning fines [about $250] if you are attending an
event and can’t prove you got the shot. It is hard for me to believe that people
don’t want to protect themselves, their family and their neighbors.
I am all for leaving
Afghanistan with our troops. I only hope that we help the friendlies in
Afghanistan and allow them to come to the US. We did it in Vietnam, and laws
need to change as right now, they can’t come here.
Big news in Flagstaff: in
2025 we will have a new hospital complex that will include a new hospital, new medical
office space for doctors, a new rehab center, and a couple of hotels. It is on the
very far west side of town, about 5 miles from the current hospital. It is
certainly an infrastructure plan for the future. And it is being done with
hospital corporation money.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
82. What coat goes on
wet?
Historical Events
1375 BC -The first
recorded eclipse occurred, noted in the area now known as Syria.
1802 – Washington,
District of Columbia. was incorporated as a city.
1937 – Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1952 – The Kentucky Derby
was televised nationally for the first time, on CBS.
1952 – Flying US Air
Force C-47, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher, and Lieutenant Colonel
William P. Benedict became the first to land a plane on the North Pole.
1960 – The Anne Frank
House museum opened in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1977 – British journalist
David Frost interviewed former President Richard Nixon.
1980 – 13-year-old Cari
Lightner of Fair Oaks, California, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Her
mother, Candy Lightner, later founded the organization Mothers Against Drunk
Driving (MADD)
1986 – 54-year-old Willie
Shoemaker, riding 18:1shot Ferdinand, became the oldest jockey ever to win the
Kentucky Derby.
2003 – New Hampshire’s
famous Old Man of the Mountain collapsed.
2007 – Nearly 4-year-old
Madeleine McCann of Rothley, England, disappeared during a family vacation at a
resort in southern Portugal.
2013 Aorun zhaoi, a
Theropod dinosaur, dating from 161 million years ago, is discovered in China
2020 US Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo says China responsible for the spread and severity of
COVID-19 and should be held accountable
2020 Investor Warren
Buffett dumps his holdings in four major US airlines saying "the world has
changed" for aviation, reflecting an increasingly bleak outlook for the
industry
Birthdays Today
@94 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, activist
(d. 2014)
87 – Frankie Valli,
American singer
86 – Ron Popeil, American
businessman, founded the Ronco Company
@80 – Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
@74 – Harry Lillis Bing Crosby Jr., American singer, actor (d. 1977; heart attack)
@73 – James Brown, singer-songwriter, performer, actor (d. 2006;
heart failure)
@67 – Sugar Ray Robinson [Walker Smith Jr.], boxer (d. 1989; Alzheimer’s)
@52 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d.2000; liver cancer)
46 – Dule Hill, actor
Puzzle Answer
A coat of paint
