15 Mar

 

15 March 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 11 Day 74 \ Ave. Sky Cover 70% \ Visibility 18 miles Flagstaff Today 64° \25°  Wind 4mph \ Gusts 12mph 
Air Quality: Moderate \ Low Moderate High Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 203mi \ Nearest Lightning 937mi
Mar. Averages for Flagstaff: 51° \ 23° \6 Days of moisture
Cloudy and sunny

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

  22-4/8
  Lent

  10-16
  Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
11-17
  Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
12-18
  Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link , Link
Teen Tech Week
13-17
  Native American Awareness Week Link
13-19
  International Brain Awareness Week Link

Daily Observations

  Brutus Day
Buzzards Day Link
Everything You Think is Wrong Day
Ides of March
International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter  Link
International Day to Combat Islamophobia
National VO Day (Voice Over)
National Shoe The World Day
Pears Helene Day

  Small Business Development Day  Link 
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Clouds are moving in, just awaiting expected rain.

Focus Travel is doing one final cruise before Ellie fully retires from the club. In October there will be a cruise from Montreal, Canada to Boston, Mass. I sent in my initial deposit and registration this morning. Ellie has been working on this for a few months and announced yesterday that there were enough people to make the trip. Sound like fun.

I wasn’t really following the bank collapse that closely as I know my money is in FDIC protected accounts. Yesterday, Elizabeth Warren had an interview that explained the mess quite simply. Here’s some history: FDR gave his very first fireside chat on the banking crisis. After declaring a banking holiday, he was stopping the run on the banks around the country. That was 90 years ago.   Biden made a similar speech on Monday. After the collapse of Enron and others Congress passed and Obama signed the Dodd-Frank regulations for banks. These regulations were meant for all banks and set up procedures to ensure that banks were not making very risky investments.  Many bank CEO’s claimed that ‘their’ bank should not be entangled with the regulations. Finally Congress stepped in and made some of the regulations only for ‘large’ banks. President Trump signed that legislation. The collapsed banks then began growing exponentially. Then some bank CEOs began to make more and more risky investments. Elizabeth Warren and others warned that removing the Dodd-Frank regulations would set up some banks to fail. Turns out, the warnings were right. Biden has said that no depositors will lose any money but did not rule out legal actions against those who were responsible. This is different than the Enron crash when responsible parties faced no legal action. Maybe Congress will recognize the error of their ways, or maybe not.

Enjoy…

Facts…

The average British postage stamp glue contains 5.9 calories per stamp, while the average US stamp glue contains about one-tenth of a calorie per stamp. 

More Slang origins…

Cat

Not exactly referring to a feline companion, in certain circles of artistic types and musicians, "cat" became a catch-all term for any kind of hip person.

Beauty in our 50 states…

34. Rhode Island

For such a tiny state, Rhode Island does relatively well for itself, on average. Lots of folks will joke that half of its area is made up of beaches, and they're honestly not too far off—Block Island has some lovely ones, and sea cliffs/bluffs there and in Newport add to the state's nautical charm. But it's got the deck stacked against it: There just isn't enough room in Rhode Island for anything truly grand, the Breakers aside. It's just a shame that nature didn’t build them.

Historical Events

44 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house, by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. #bewaretheidesofMarch
1820 – Maine became the 23rd US state
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the Russian throne.
March 15, 1956 – 1st appearance Robbie the Robot in Forbidden Planet, Film
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.

Birthdays Today

88 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
88 – Jimmy Swaggart, American pastor and television host
@87 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American lawyer and judge (d.2020)
“Every now and then it helps to be a little deaf…That advice has stood me in good stead. Not simply in dealing with my marriage, but in dealing with my colleagues.”– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
@86 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, businesswoman, philanthropist, founded General Foods (d.1973)
82 – Mike Love, American singer-songwriter, musician, Beach Boys
“I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won’t care, and some will vilify you.”– Mike Love
80 – Sly Stone [Sylvester Stewart], American singer-songwriter, musician, producer
“You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.”– Sly Stone
@78 – Andrew Jackson, general, 7th President of the United States (d.1845; TB)
“I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.”– Andrew Jackson
@73 – Saint Nicholas, Greek bishop and saint (d.343)
48 – Eva Longoria, American actress
48 – will.i.am [William James Adams Jr.], American rapper, producer
“There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option … But the answer is always there.”– will.i.am
33 – Siobhan Magnus, American singer-songwriter