Jun 21

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 26 Day: 172 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 75° \35° 
Wind: 10mph \ Gusts: 15mph  Air Quality: Moderdate
Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ Nearest Lightning: 244mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

16-23  National Nursing Assistants Week   Link

17-23   National Week of Making Link

17-30   National Little League Week: Link

19-25   Animal Rights Awareness Week: Link Link Greencare For Troops Awareness Week National Play Catch Week Carpenter Ant Awareness Week Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link   Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link  Universal Father's Week National Mosquito Control Awareness Week

20-26   National Pollinator Week: Link  National Insect Week

20-25  Old Time Fiddlers Week

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Blue sky and calm day. Fire continues out of town.

It is a Federal holiday, so I am staying home, cleaning, catching up on mail. I worked for the Federal government and still believe that a Federal holiday should be a holiday. Also, I wonder how many businesses are paying Holiday pay for today…my guess…not too many. I’m sure most stores would say that they are open because that helps the bottom line, and that paying holiday pay does not help the bottom line.

Correction: A reader pointed out that yesterdays Hilary Clinton’s quote should have been attributed to John Wesley. I’ll check my quotes more closely.

Favorite Memes

Earth’s Secrets

Earthquake Weather Is a Myth

"Each culture has its own version of 'earthquake weather' to rationalize when and where an earthquake will hit," seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones of Caltech tells Popular Mechanics. "Earthquakes are below the surface and need a constant fault to happen and this has nothing to do with weather."

US Flag Myths

Myth #5: It's against the law to burn the American flag

In the landmark case Texas v. Johnson in 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that desecrating the American flag is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. Defendant Gregory Lee Johnson had burned a flag in an act of protest at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. Prior to that ruling it was, indeed, illegal to burn the flag.

Subsequent efforts on the judicial and legislative fronts to make flag burning illegal again have failed. 

Historical Events

Ë  1788 – New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
Ë 1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent (#X008277) for his grain reaping machine,
Ë 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, were hanged in Pennsylvania prisons, in Schuylkill County and Carbon County.
Ë 1893 – The first Ferris wheel premiered at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition and could hold up to 2000 people on 36 cars and was 264 feet tall.
Ë 1913 – The first successful parachute jump from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18, over Griffith Field, Los Angeles, California.
Ë 2006 – Pluto’s recently discovered moons were officially named Nix and Hydra.

Birthdays Today

@89 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
@88 – Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)
75 – Meredith Baxter, American actress
57 – Lana Wachowski, American director, producer, screenwriter
@43 – Judy Holliday, American comedic actress, singer (d. 1965; throat cancer)
43 – Chris Pratt, American actor
41 – Prince William, royalty
25 – Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter