Mar 24, 2021 Week: 13 Day: 83 Visibility: 1/5 miles
Local: H 41°\
L 24° Ave.
Sky Cover: 95%
Wind: 3mph/ Gusts:
11mph Nearest
Lightning: 951mi.
Low Risk of Fire: Active fire: 295mi
Record: 70°[1956] Record: 0°[1904]
Mar.
Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
Truth is strong, and
sometime or other will prevail.
~Mary Astell
Random Tidbits
While brisk walking helps
reduce body fat, lower blood pressure, and increase high-density lipoprotein,
the United States walks the least of any industrialized nation. The average
Australian takes 9,695 steps per day (just a few short of the ideal 10,000),
and the average American just 5,117.
A Little Something to Think About
If tomb is pronounced ‘toom’ and womb is pronounced ‘woom’, shouldn’t
bomb be pronounced ‘boom’?
If you sue a parsley farmer, do you hope to garnish her wages?
Weekly Observations
|
Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
|
Passiontide |
21-4/3 |
|
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link |
20-4/10 |
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American Chocolate Week Link |
21-27 |
|
Wellderly Week |
21-28 |
Today’s Observations
Cocktail Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day Link
National Education and Sharing Day Link
National Equal Pay Day Link
International Day for the Right to
the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of
Victims Link
World Tuberculosis Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
It has been snowing hard since I got up. Not much is sticking ‘cause
it is ‘warm’. Spring always brings surprises. No walk today as I couldn’t see
that well through the falling snow. Even with this snow, the state Forest
Service to plan for a ‘very active’ fire season around here. Not good news.
The CU Men’s BBall team showed up for game 2 put didn’t play well.
That ends their tournament hopes for this year.
While I was watching the game on TNT, there was a news crawl about the
shooting. I switched to CNN. During the pandemic, the mass shootings were
almost non-existent. Now that things are opening back up the shootings are
starting up again. Two in a week is unacceptable. I grew up shopping at the
King’s at Lakeside. Down here the Kroger brand is carried by Fry’s. No one
living in America should be afraid to go to a spa or to a grocery store for
fear some deranged person might show up and start killing. My condolences to
the families and friends of the TEN people killed. I own 2 hunting rifles from
my grandfather and a .22 pistol from my dad. I do not need, and have never
needed, as assault rifle for any reason. I don’t believe anyone needs that kind
of weapon for any reason except to fight in a war while in the military. The time
to stop the ownership of assault rifles has long passed. Congress needs to do
its job of protecting innocent Americans and stop using the 2nd
Amendment as a reason to stop their sale and/or ownership. No founding father
of this nation would ever suggest that mass killings of innocent citizens was
the reason for the 2nd Amendment.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Three men are lined up behind each other. The tallest man is in the
back and can see the heads of the two in front of him; the middle man can see
the one man in front of him; the man in front can’t see anyone. They are
blindfolded and hats are placed on their heads, picked from three black hats
and two white hats. The extra two hats are hidden and the blindfolds removed.
The tallest man is asked if he knows what color hat he’s wearing; he doesn’t.
The middle man is asked if he knows; he doesn’t. But the man in front, who
can’t see anyone, says he knows. How does he know, and what color hat is he
wearing?
Historical Events
1707 – The Acts of Union
1707 was signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and
Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1765 – The Kingdom of
Great Britain passed the Quartering Act, which required homes in the Thirteen
Colonies to house British troops.
1882 – Robert Koch
announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium
responsible for tuberculosis.
1940 – The first
religious service was shown on NBC in New York. The first was a Protestant
Easter Service, and a Catholic Mass was shown after that.
1955 – Tennessee
Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened in New York.
March 24, 1958, Elvis
Presley was inducted into the US Army, serial #53310761.
1989 – The Exxon Valdez,
captained by Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood, hit Prince William Sound, spilling
11,000,000 gallons of Alaskan crude oil.
1997 Australian
parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law.
1998 Jonesboro massacre:
Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside
Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
2012 African Union
deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph
Kony.
2015 The Opportunity
rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon.
2017 US President Donald
Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Obamacare
after internal opposition.
2020 Indian PM Narendra
Modi orders a 21 day lockdown for world's second most populous country of 1.3
billion people to deal with COVID-19
Birthdays Today
@95 – Joseph Barbera, American animator,
producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)
91 – Bob Mackie, American
fashion designer
@74 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998;
bone-marrow cancer)
@70 – Ub Iwerks, American animator,
co-created Mickey Mouse (d.1971; heart attack)
70 – Tommy Hilfiger,
American fashion designer, founded Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
68 – Louie Anderson,
American actor and comedian
@52 – Harry Houdini [Erik Weis], Hungarian-Jewish American
magician,actor (d.1926; peritonitis)
@50 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980;
cancer/heart failure)
48 – Jim Parsons,
American actor
45 – Peyton Manning,
American football player
@25 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934;
shot)
Puzzle Answer
Black. The man in front knew he and the middle man aren’t both wearing
white hats or the man in the back would have known he had a black hat (since
there are only two white hats). The man in front also knows the middle man
didn’t see him with a white hat because if he did, based on the tallest man’s
answer, the middle man would have known he himself was wearing a black hat. So,
the man in front knows his hat must be black.
