Sep 1,
2021 Week: 36 Day: 244
Ave.
Sky Cover: 80%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local
Temp: 68°\ 53° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 2mph
Today’s
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Monthly
Observations
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AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month Link September is Ripening of the Late Crops, Bini’ant’aatsoh
in Navajo |
Weekly
Observations
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Paralympic Games |
24-9/5 |
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US Open Tennis Championships |
30-9/12 |
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International Enthusiasm
Week |
1-7 |
Daily Observations
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Cherry Popover Day Emma Nutt Day Gyro Day No Rhyme or Reason Day |
Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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What ship has
2 mates but no captain? A relation-ship |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Last evening
there was just enough monsoon rain to dirty the windshield on my vehicle.
Today is much better as it has been an hour+ female rain. Nice! I spoke too soon.
Soon after typing this the clouds broke open for a male rain. I headed out early
for a needed haircut. I called and made an appointment yesterday. I arrived
at 8:50 about 10 minutes before they opened. I tried the door, and it was
open. I went in and my stylist said ‘we open at 9a’. I sat down, one lady was
ahead of me. She checked in the first lady, then asked for my name. I gave it
to her, and she said ‘Are you a walk-in?’ After explaining she said she has a
9am appointment but would take me now. She did, gave me another great haircut.
As I was leaving at 9:10, a lady came in…and she was the 9am appointment. Worked out quite well for all concerned. So glad I don’t
live in Ida’s path. Quite a lot of damage and it looks like no electricity
for a couple of months for many. The US can expect energy costs to rise due Ida. Now there is a
huge fire near Lake Tahoe. It is something like 17,500 acres. Lots of
evacuations. Tough on the tourist industry as well as the residents. Rachael Maddow
taught me some history last night about Afghanistan. The British invaded
Afghanistan in 1839, pulled out years later, invaded again in 1878, pulled
out again. Then when they invaded in 1919, they gave Afghanistan its
independence. The USSR invaded in 1979 and pulled out in 1969. The US invaded
in 2001 and pulled out in 2021. It looks to me that Afghanistan has a way of
winning against the most powerful invaders.
Lesson learned? The Dept. of
Education has cancelled some $9billion in student loans since Biden took
over. This is after 4 years of stalling by Betsy DeVos. This has helped
563,000 students who owed money to now defunct scam Universities. Great! |
Historical Events
1939 In the
"scoop of the century," Telegraph journalist Clare Hollingworth
becomes the first to report the outbreak of World War II
1983 – Korean
Airlines flight 007 was shot down over the Soviet Union with 269 onboard.
1982 The United
States Air Force Space Command is founded.1985 – The Titanic was discovered
about 350 miles southeast on Newfoundland, Canada
1999 – The German
government moved from Bonn to Berlin
2004 – The Beslan
school siege began with armed terrorists taking schoolchildren and school staff
hostage in North Ossetia, Russia. Three days later more than 385 people,
including many of the children, were killed.
2008 Spring
Temple Buddha statue of Vairocana Buddha, then the world's tallest statue at
128 meters (420 ft), completed in Zhaocun township, Henan, China
2015 Pope Francis
tells priests to pardon women who have had an abortion, in a letter released by
the Vatican
2018 Memorial
service for Senator John McCain at Washington National Cathedral with his
daughter Meghan McCain, Barack Obama and George W. Bush speaking
2019 Exhibition on
Christian Dior sets new attendance record of almost 595,000 in seven months on
closing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2020 Rare protests
in Mongolia against moves to teach school subjects in Mandarin instead of Mongolian
Birthdays Today
83 – Alan
Dershowitz, American lawyer, and author
82 – Lily Tomlin,
comedian
@74 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (d. 1950; heart attack)
75 – Barry
Gibb, English singer-songwriter
71 – ‘Doctor
Phil’ McGraw, American psychologist, author, talk show host
64 – Gloria
Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
@59 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 1993;
aneurism)
@45 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969; private plane crash)
25 – Zendaya
Maree Stoermer Coleman, American actress
