Jul 22

 

 

 

Jul  22, 2021 Week: 30 Day: 203

Ave. Sky Cover: 60%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  81°\ 58° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 5mph

Low risk of fire Active fire: 70mi. \ Lightning: 6mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

There are several types of vegetarians. The strictest type is vegans. Vegans avoid not only meat but also all animal products. There is a debate within the vegan community about whether honey is appropriate for a vegan diet. For example, the Vegan Society and the American Vegan Society do not consider honey appropriate because it comes from an animal.

 

True Things

 

-- Vincent Vinny Marks, 27, of Plaquemine, Louisiana, picked the wrong guy to pull over as he impersonated a police officer on June 10. Law & Crime reported that an off-duty sheriff's deputy was driving that day when the vehicle behind him began "flashing his headlights continuously." The deputy pulled into a convenience store parking lot, followed by Marks, who approached his car, presented a badge and "represented himself as being a police officer." Unfortunately, the off-duty officer recognized Marks from a domestic incident that he had responded to earlier in the year. The Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office launched an investigation, and Marks was arrested on June 28 for false personation of a peace officer. [Law & Crime, 6/30/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

White Elephant

A seemly great, but an ultimately useless gift. The phrase started from the historic practice of the King of Siam (now Thailand) giving rare albino elephants to lessor patrons and frenemies who had displeased him so that they might be financially ruined by the animals’ upkeep costs.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Hemp History Week Link National Moth Week Link	17-23
Captive Nations Week Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link  National Independent Retailers Week Link   National Zoo Keeper Week Link	18-24
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week	18-25
International Lace Week  Link	19-23
National Baby Food Week Link	21-24
Comic Con International	22-25
Hemingway Look-Alike Days Link	22-24

 

Today’s Observations

 

Casual Pi Day (22/7) Fragile X Awareness Day Hammock Day Mango day National Refreshment Day  Link   Pi Approximation Day Rat-catcher's Day (for Pied Piper) Spooners (Spoonerism) Day Summer Leisure Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another day with Monsoon rain. Lightning is already close. Hoping for no flooding from the burn areas. TV just announced flash flooding imminent in a small part of Flagstaff. Scary.

Politics: Nancy Pelosi has vetoed two Republicans from the committee to investigate January 6. There is lots of backlash as this is the first time in American history that this has happened. As a voting citizen, I just want to know who screwed up on Jan. 6^th to allow the protesters to do it. I don’t care if they claim to be Republican, Independent, Democrat, or Martian. I just want trueful answers. I know it is 2021 and that is virtually impossible, but that is what I want.

I read yesterday that the huge fires in Oregon are creating their own weather. Scary for sure.

The Suns lost to the Bucks last night. The last time the Bucks were Champions, Kareem was playing on their team…way back in 1971. I know the Suns will be back. Also the Buck’s coach is from Holbrook AZ.

The Havana Syndrome was identified when State Dept. officials on duty at the US Embassy in Havana began having issues with headaches and nausea. Now that syndrome moves to other embassies, we still don’t know how it occurs. Now there is an ‘incident’ at the US embassy in Vienna. Hope there is a solution soon.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Comm ¢¢

SELL       BUY

 

 

Historical Events

 

1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company named an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.

1893 – Katharine Lee Bates wrote America The Beautiful after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1933 – Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world, traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in seven days, 18 hours, and 45 minutes.

1934 – In front of Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger was shot and killed by FBI agents.

1962 – Mariner 1 spacecraft flew off course several minutes after launch and had to be destroyed by remote control.

1996- The Daily Show premiered on Comedy Central

2011 – Norway was the location of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast that targeted government buildings in central Oslo(killing 8 and injuring 209), the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya, killing 69 and injuring 110.

2015 'Oldest' Qur'an fragments discovered in collection of Birmingham University, radiocarbon testing dates to AD568 - AD645

2019 US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week "I just don't want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth"

 

Birthdays Today

 

@104 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (died in 1995)

98 – Bob Dole, American soldier and politician

@91 – Orson Bean [Dallas Frederick Burrows], American actor (d. 2020)

89 – Tom Robbins, American novelist

@82 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)

@80 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host (d. 2020)

78 – Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter

75 – Danny Glover, American actor

74 – Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter

@66 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974; fall from 2^nd floor)

66 – Willem Dafoe, American actor

57 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor

57 – David Spade, American actor

49 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor

29 – Selena Gomez, American singer and actress

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Common sense                                                      Buy low; sell high