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Week: 7 Day: 43 |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Visibility: 10 miles |
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Local Temp:
58°\ 22° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 5mph |
High risk of
fire Active fire: 200mi.
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Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days
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Today’s Quote
“Let us have
faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do
our duty as we
understand it.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Weekly Observations
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4-20 |
Winter Olympics XXIV |
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6-12 |
Burn Awareness Week Link Children's Authors & Illustrators Week Tinnitus Awareness Week Link |
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6-13 |
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week |
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7-13 |
Children's Mental Health Week Link |
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7-14 |
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link |
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7-12 |
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend |
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7-14 |
Risk Awareness Week |
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8-14 |
Love Makes the World Go Round; but Laughter Keeps Us From
Getting Dizzy Week |
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11-20 |
Date (Fruit) Week |
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12-19 |
National Entrepreneurship Week Link |
Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice warm
day with very little wind. Nice!
The weirdness
continues. Canadian truckers and others continue to block roads and demand
freedom from Covid. Now their protest is preventing traffic of goods…like auto
parts…are causing the major car makers to slow and/or stop production because they
don’t have the parts. Who knew we got auto parts from Canada to make cars in
the US? To add to the this the DHS has
issued warnings that these protests could also make it to the Super Bowl festivities
and the State of the Union address. I’m all for ending Covid. I just don’t see
how blocking roads and shipments is going to stop the virus. I do see how it
will increase inflation and hurt Americans with jobs in the auto industry.
The Olympics
just keep having some great moments. Some great events yesterday.
When I get
up around 7am, I head to my computer and turn on GMA for the news. That’s when
I heard that 9 police officers from Phoenix were shot around 3am while
responding to a domestic disturbance. Luckily, all the police are expected to
survive, and a 6-month-old child who was being held in the house was not injured.
The suspect is dead. Tragic. Reports say this is the worst officer shooting
incident in AZ history.
Favorite Memes
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Stop the steal  |
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A bit of Humor
There seems
to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things
difficult. Warren Buffett
Trivia
Question:
Who is the mascot for the fast-food chain, KFC?
Question:
Which film series stars Johnny Depp as pirate Jack Sparrow?
Question:
What is the name of the fastest land animal?
Question:
The following is a line from which 1970's film 'you talkin to me'?"
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
Colonel Sanders
Answer 2:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Answer 3:
Cheetah
Answer 4:
Taxi Driver
Historical Events
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1733 – James
Oglethorpe founded Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by
settling at Savannah.
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1870 – Women
were granted the right to vote in the Utah Territory.
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1879 – The
first artificial ice rink opened in Madison Square Garden in NYC.
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1909 – The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded
by W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida Wells-Barnett and others.
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1999 – The
US Senate acquitted President Bill Clinton after he was impeached by the US
House of Representatives.
W
2004 – The
city and county of San Francisco began to issue a marriage license to same-sex
couples
Birthdays Today
88 – Bill Russell,
basketball legend
84 – Judy Blume,
American author
@73 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist
(d. 1882; heart attack)
@72 – Lorne Greene, Canadian-American actor (d. 1987;
pneumonia)
66 – Arsenio Hall,
American comedic actor and talk show host
@56 – Abraham Lincoln, American politician, 16th (assassinated
1865)
54 – Josh Brolin,
American actor
54 – Chynna
Phillips, American singer
49 – Tara Strong,
Canadian voice actress
42 – Christina
Ricci, American actress
