Aug 16

 

Aug 16, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 228

Ave. Sky Cover:  15%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   83°\ 52° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 10mph

Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 205mi. \ Lightning: 23mi.

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

Weekly Observations

 

National Environmental Services Week: Link	2-20
Elvis Week Link	11-17
National Aviation Week National Chef's Appreciation Week Link	15-21

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Airborne Day Bratwurst Day Roller Coaster Day Rum Day Tell a Joke Day (Joe Miller’s Day) Wave at Surveillance Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

  

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Great summer day…warm, slight breeze, couldn’t ask for more.

Sounds like the US has pulled out of Afghanistan. Yesterday the Embassy was burning and shredding documents and US flags. Today the Embassy is empty, while the Embassy staff is awaiting a flight at the airport. I sure hope the translators and locals who helped us are not forgotten or left behind.

Now Utah, near Salt Lake City, has a huge wildfire. 6000+ acres.

I must wonder when, if ever, the politicians will learn that American troops can’t just go into a country, and magically change their culture. We didn’t learn in Native American areas, or Vietnam. Neither did the US nor the USSR learn in Afghanistan. So sad.

Politicians are not all seeing. In FL, where mask mandates are illegal, 3 school teachers have died from COVID.

AZ Diamondbacks have entered the record books. While they are the lowest team for wins, a new pitcher, Tyler Gilbert, pitched a no hitter yesterday. He is the 4^th pitcher to have one in his 1^st MLB game. The others were in 1891, 1892, and 1953. Cool.

 

Historical Events

 

1501 Michelangelo awarded the contract to create his statue of David by the Overseers of the Office of Works (the Operai) of the Duomo, Florence's cathedral church

1880 The French state commissions sculptor Auguste Rodin for a large sculpted doorway 'The Gates of Hell' for the proposed Musée des Arts Décoratifs

1896 – Gold was found in Rabbit Creek, leading to the Great Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.

1908 The Committee of Union and Progress, 'The Young Turks', announces a program for reforms and respect for the rights of all within the Ottoman Empire, regardless of race or religion

1962 – Pete Best was discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr.

2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador

2018 Pope Francis and the Vatican issues statement in support of the 300 victims of "predator priests" in Pennsylvania

2020 Largest-ever demonstration in Belarus as 100,000 people gather in Minsk to protest against controversial election results and regime of Alexander Lukashenko

 

Birthdays Today

 

88 – Julie Newmar, American actress

@85 – Fess Parker, American actor (d. 2010)

@84 – Frank Gifford, football player, sportscaster (d. 2015)

@84 – Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)

@79 – Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010; heart attack)

68 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host

67 – James Cameron, Canadian director, producer and screenwriter

63 – Madonna, American singer-songwriter and actress

63 – Angela Bassett, American actress

61 – Timothy Hutton, American actor

@46 – T. E. Lawrence, British colonel, diplomat, writer, archaeologist (d. 1935; motorcycle accident)