Sep 6,
2021 Week: 37 Day: 249
Ave.
Sky Cover: 5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local
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Today’s
Quote
Monthly
Observations
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National Organic Harvest
Month Link |
Weekly
Observations
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US Open Tennis Championships |
30-9/12 |
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International Enthusiasm
Week |
1-7 |
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Drive Sober or Get Pulled
Over Link |
3-7 |
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International
Air Ambulance Week Link |
4-12 |
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Substitute Teacher
Appreciation Week |
5-11 |
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National Payroll Week |
6-10 |
Daily Observations
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Coffee Ice Cream Day Fight Procrastination Day Read a Book Day |
Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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How do you
dress up a pig? With a hog-tie |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Great Sunday,
time for some deck time. I got a
toothache last night…first one in decades. I just enough to be irritating. I’ll
call the dentist in the morning. I’m sure his office doesn’t observe Labor
Day. Hopefully it is not anything major. I’ve been
following the Texas Abortion debate. As always, I am conflicted. As an adoptee
I’m glad my birth mother didn’t choose abortion. As a human, I believe it is
the woman’s right to choose. I also wish the father had some say. The problems
I see with the new Texas law: There are no exceptions for rape or incest. The
six-week part is unfair, as most women don’t know they are even pregnant that
early. The worst part is that ordinary citizens now can get paid about $10,000
for reporting anyone involved in an illegal abortion…the person who drove the
lady to the clinic, the clinic staff, or anyone else with knowledge of the
abortion. Seems very vigilante to me. I am also
bothered by the anti-abortion people who demand that every fetus be carried
to term. They offer no solutions to the issues around raising that newborn to
adulthood. They haven’t pushed for laws that help the unwed mother, they
haven’t made adoption easier, they haven’t offered assistance to the new
mother and child. The battle cry
of the anti-vaxxers is ‘my body, my choice’. Many of those same people do not
say that, or anything like that, when talking about abortion. That seems very
hypocritical to me. |
Historical Events
1628 – Puritans
settled in Salem which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1651 King Charles II
of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing
the Battle of Worcester
1666 After St Paul's
Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, the Great
Fire of London is finally extinguished.
1839 Cherokee Nation
unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma
1899 Carnation
processes its first can of evaporated milk
1901 US President
William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the
Pan-American Exposition in New York
1916 1st true
supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in
Memphis, Tennessee
1916 – The first
self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by
Clarence Saunders.
1991 – The Baltic
states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, were recognized as independent by the
Soviet government.
Other countries
recognized them on September 2.
1995 – Cal Ripken,
Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a
record that had stood for 56 years.
The final record
was set in 1998 by him, with 2,632 games.
1995 Senate Ethics
committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
1997 Funeral of
Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London
2017 Catalonia's
parliament passes law to allow referendum on independence from Spain
Birthdays Today
84 – Jo Anne
Worley, American comedic actress
78 – Roger
Waters, English singer-songwriter, Pink Floyd
77 – Swoosie
Kurtz, American actress
@74 – Jane Addams, American sociologist, author, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1935)
74 – Jane
Curtin, American comedic actress
63 – Jeff
Foxworthy, American comedian
59 – Chris
Christie, American politician
57 – Rosie
Perez, American actress
43 – Foxy
Brown, American rapper
