27 Oct

 

27 October 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 44 Day 300 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 59° \26° 
Wind 3mph \ Gusts 15mph  Air Quality: Fair       High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 264mi \ Nearest Lightning 371mi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

23-29 Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link Kids Care Week National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link National Massage Therapy Week Link National Respiratory Care Week Link Pastoral Care Week   Link Pro Bono Week   Link

24-31 Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

24-11/11 World Origami Days

25-31 International Magic Week

Daily Observations

American Beer Day
Birth of Baha'u'Llah [Baháʼí Faith]
Black Cat Day Link
Cranky Co-workers Day
Navy Day  Link
Potato Day
Read for The Record Day  Link
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It’s a chilly day.

I remember a time, not so long ago, that when the Feds said something, people listened and obeyed. Not happening in AZ these days. Our Governor put up a bunch of storage containers at the border to stop trafficking. The Feds said, ‘you can’t do that’, the courts agreed. Gov. Ducey didn’t. He has just ordered as many as 2700 more containers to put in another area to protect all of America. This is even more disturbing because AZ has Republicans on the ballot for Gov, Sec. of State, US Senate, and House seats who agree with Ducey. The Republican running for Governor says that ‘on day one, hour one, I will declare an invasion (Article 1 Section 10) and invoke the US constitution to stop the illegal immigrants. She has also suggested removing the Federal government from AZ citizen’s lives.

Remembering the Waukesha Christmas Parade where a man drove his SUV into the parade and killed 6. He was just found guilty of many counts of homicide.

Favorite Memes

Best Instrumentals

"Apache" by Various artists (1960)

Several artists have covered or sampled this popular track written by Englishman Jerry Lordan and made famous by The Shadows in 1960. It was in the early 1970s that the version by the Incredible Bongo Band became a hip-hop anthem. Almost a decade later, the Sugarhill Gang turned it into a dance-party staple for group and line dancers around the world. 

Humor…

“I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.” Tommy Cooper

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“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” Groucho Marx

Historical Events

1275 – Amsterdam, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was founded.
1682 – The City of Philadelphia was founded in Pennsylvania.
1787 – The First Federalist Papers were published in New York City.
1954 – The “Walt Disney” program premiered on ABC. It was later called “Disneyland“, then “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color“.
1955 – Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean was released. It premiered the night before, at the Astor Theater in New York.
1966 – It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown aired for the first time (on CBS)
1997 – Stock markets around the world crashed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 554.26 points (7.18%) to 7,161.15.
2004 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years.

Birthdays Today

@97 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, and singer (d. 2018)
@91 – Ruby Dee, American actress (d. 2014)
83 – John Cleese, English comedic actor, Monty Python
“Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.”– John Cleese
80 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
“At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.”– Lee Greenwood
@73 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter, and sculptor (d. 1997)
“There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
– Roy Lichtenstein
72 – Fran Lebowitz, American author
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”– Fran Lebowitz
71 – Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
64 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter, Duran Duran
@63 – Isaac Singer, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875)
@61 – John Gotti, American mob boss (d. 2002; cancer)
@60 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919; blood clot)
@57 – Nicolo Paganini, Italian violin virtuoso (d. 1840; internal hemorrhaging)
@48 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015; OD)
“Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course, points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that’s why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that’s kind of the beauty of it.”– Scott Weiland
@39 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, playwright (d. 1953; lung disease)
“Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.”– Dylan Thomas
38 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
“I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.”– Kelly Osbourne
@30 – Sylvia Plath, poet (d. 1963; suicide)