Aug 22, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 234
Ave. Sky Cover: 10%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 75°\ 45° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 11mph
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Minority
Enterprise Development Week |
18-24 |
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National Little League Week Link |
19-29 |
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Brake Safety Week Link |
22-28 |
Daily Oberservations
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Be
An Angel Day Never
Bean Better Day Pecan
Torte Day Surgical
Oncologist Day Tooth
Fairy Day |
Favorite Memes
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A
quick smile!
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How
can there be a national coin shortage? Makes
no cents |
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Great
weather. Enjoying my deck between laundry loads.
The
Cardinals lost to the Chiefs last night. I’m hoping Broncos keep up their
winning season tonight.
Monday
morning quarterbacking is easy. Last week 60 Minutes had a story about
the CDC and plane flights/cruise lines in the early days of the pandemic. Looking
back, everyone blew it…the CDC, the government regulators, the airlines, the
cruise lines. Passengers were airlifted off several cruise lines, flown around
and eventually to Atlanta where the ‘walking sick’ were allowed to take flights
throughout the US to get home. A few weeks before the airlifts I had been turned
away from Tahiti.
The
US has authorized 25,000 Afghans to seek refuge in the US. That seems like a
very small number. I was working on my Masters in ESL as the Vietnam War ended.
Back in 1975 the government authorized 100,000 SE Asians to seek refuge here. At
that time there were recruiters at many universities seeking ESL teachers to go
the west coast to work with these refugees. I had a good job with the Feds, but
students in my classes headed out to help. There were lots of mistakes. One
that comes to mind is that SE Asians were not segregated by country at these
areas. Lots of fights broke out in ESL classrooms as Vietnamese were not
friends with Cambodians, Laotians were not friends with either Vietnamese or
Cambodians. Once they were separated, the program was very successful. Since I
know that Afghans are loyal to their own tribe, I see similar problems ahead.
Some
if this conflict could have been alleviated if the previous administration had
acted humanly. It is coming out now that Trump wanted us out of Afghanistan. He
announced a withdrawal some 3 years ago, but his underlings, like Stephan
Miller, set up a huge bureaucracy to prevent those Afghans who assisted us over
there would have a very hard time entering the US. Many in the Trump
administration did not want brown people into the US, so they set rules that
created a paperwork nightmare for any Afghan to actually live here. So sad.
Historical
Events
1485 Battle
of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during
last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English
monarch to die in battle.
1851 –
The first America’s Cup was won by the yacht ‘America’. America’s Cup is the
oldest international sporting trophy
1902 US
President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1864
First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the
Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations
1945 –
The Vietnam Conflict began.
1968
1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a
Eucharistic congress.
1989 –Nolan
Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball
pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. He retired with 5,714 strikeouts.
2004 "The
Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two paintings by
Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
2020
Fires burning in Northern California declared Major Disaster with LNU Lightning
Complex Fire (341,243 acres) and SCU Lightning Complex Fire (339,968) among the
3 largest wildfires in state history
2020
Mexican COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000, world's third highest
Birthdays
Today
@91 – Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer, screenwriter (d, 2012)
@80 – Valerie Harper, American actress (died in 2019)
@78 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (d. 2012; pneumonia)
@55 – Claude Debussy, French pianist, composer (d.1918; WWI bombing)
53
– Rich Lowry, American writer, magazine editor (National Review)
51
– Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef, author
48
– Kristen Wiig, American comedic actress
43
– James Corden, English actor, and television presenter
