Aug 26, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 238
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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National Little League Week Link |
19-29 |
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Brake Safety Week Link |
22-28 |
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National Composites
Week Link |
23-27 |
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Paralympic Games |
24-9/5 |
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Be Kind To Humankind Week |
25-31 |
Daily Oberservations
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Cherry
Popsicle Day Dog
Appreciation Day Web-Mistress
Day Women’s
Equality Day |
Favorite Memes
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A
quick smile!
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A
car's weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel. |
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I
really enjoy a summer day that is warm, a slight breeze, a few bright white clouds,
and a deep blue sky. That’s what I have today.
The
Supreme Court has upheld the Trump policy “stay in Mexico” order. I get that, I
don’t like it, but the Supreme Court ruling stands.
Former
American soldiers who fought in Afghanistan have begun ‘Digital Dunkirk’ that
uses the internet machine to find and rescue those Afghans who helped us. They
believe that there are some 50,000 Afghans that need to be brought out safely.
If they fail, the US will have a permanent bad mark that will take decades, if
ever, to erase. It doesn’t have to be that way. We must save those people.
I
am also tired the of the media saying that the government refuses to provide
the number of Americans in Afghanistan. I have traveled to many countries
around the world. Your passport is checked and stamped at customs by the
visiting nation. The forms everyone fills out on the plane are for the country
you are visiting. Your passport is checked by US customs when you return. If
the media wants to know how many Americans are in Afghanistan, then ask the
Afghan Customs. Since the Taliban took over, it probably isn’t a viable source
of information. The only way I am aware of for the US to know where you are in
a foreign country is if you contact the Embassy and tell them. If the Taliban
wasn’t bad enough, now there is ISIS-K who preventing Afghans from leaving.
I find
it interesting that the medical community has developed a Monoclonal antibody treatment
that is saving many unvaccinated patients who are showing very early signs of
COVID. It seems to be saving many of the Delta patients who never got
vaccinated. Good for them.
Historical
Events
1346
Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English
longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle
1498 Michelangelo
is commissioned to carve the Pietà sculpture by French Cardinal Jean de
Bilhères
1682
English astronomer Edmond Halley first observes the comet named after him
1789 –
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the
National Constituent Assembly of France.
1873
First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb
of St. Louis, Missouri
1883 –
Krakatoa erupted in Indonesia. It created tidal waves that killed thousands of
people and was heard 3,000 miles away. It affected the atmosphere for years
afterward.
1939 –
The first televised baseball game was played between the Brooklyn Dodgers and
the Cincinnati Reds on WXBS in New York.
1996 US
President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift
in welfare policy
2019
Indonesian President Joko Widodo proposes moving the country's sinking and
over-crowded capital from Jakarta to the island of Borneo (Kalimantan)
Birthdays
Today
@101 – Katherine Johnson, mathematician at NASA
@87 – Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun, Catholic saint and
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
@76 – Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (d. 2011; cancer)
69
– Will Shortz, journalist; New York Times puzzle creator
51
– Melissa McCarthy, actor
41
– Macaulay Culkin, American actor
41
– Chris Pine, American actor
39
– John Mulaney, American comedian
