Aug 28

 

Aug 28, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 240
Ave. Sky Cover:  15%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   81°\ 55° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 15mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 133mi. \ Lightning: 140mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Little League Week Link	19-29
Brake Safety Week Link	22-28
Paralympic Games	24-9/5
Be Kind To Humankind Week	25-31
International Bat Night North American Organic Brewers Days Link	28-29

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Bow Tie Day Cherry Turnovers Day Power Rangers Day Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day Red Wine Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

Where do you learn how to make ice cream? Sundae school

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Warm and sunny…very nice. Breeze is helping.

There are two ways to ‘get across town’ here. The fastest is I-40. The other way is through downtown with almost as many stoplights as street corners. I wanted to do some shopping across town. I-40 is repaving the entire 6 miles to get across town and only has one lane in each direction. This a main drag for big rigs 24/7. I took the downtown route. It took a little longer than I wanted but I’m sure it was still faster than I-40. Got what I needed and headed home.

The administration is saying there are 3 types of Americans in Afghanistan: those wanting to leave; those wanting to stay; those we don’t even know are there. There are also 3 types of Afghans: Cat 1 and Cat 2 refugees and vulnerable Afghans. The military is trying to get those out who want to get out. So far, they have brought out 110,600 Afghans and most of the Americans. The mission probably won’t be complete by the Aug 31 self-imposed deadline.

The AZ AG told Maricopa County to turn over all requested information to the ninja audit or be ready to lose $700million in funding…that is 1/3 of the county funding. Insanity reigns in AZ.

Insanity seems to reign in other places too. The FDA has issued its second, stronger warning for humans not to use any bovine de-wormer to treat or prevent COVID. This was necessary after Fox News and other right-wing outlets have said it works and told people where to get it.

 

Historical Events

 

1830 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1922 – The first radio ad took place on WEAF in NYC. It was a real estate commercial paid for by the Queensbosr Realty Corporation.

1955 – 14-year-old Emmett Till was beaten and killed for a reputed flirtatious comment to a white girl, in Money, Mississippi.

1963 – The March on Washington was attended by 250,000 people and where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I Have a Dream” speech.

2019 Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage

2020 Japanese tech company SkyDrive says it has completed the first manned test flight of a flying car

 

Birthdays Today

 

@81 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (died in 2012)

@78 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor (d. 1978; suicide)

78 – David Soul, American actor

@69 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991; cancer)

@66 – Roxie Roker, American actress (d. 1995; breast cancer)

63 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater

56 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter

52 – Jack Black, American comedic actor

52 – Jason Priestley, Canadian actor

@46 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun, saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)

38 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter

35 – Armie Hammer, American actor