Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 24 Day: 160 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 10% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff
Today 85° \52°
Wind: 7mph \ Gusts: 15mph
Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ Nearest
Lightning: 211mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Heat wave
continues at 7000’. I don’t remember it being this hot for this long in June.
We need moisture for the forest…and soon.
I headed out
this morning for a much-needed haircut. As my hair thins on top, it keeps
getting thicker and heavier on the back and sides. Crazy.
I am so
tired of this crazy gun debate. My grandfather was a hunter, my dad was a
hunter, I was a hunter. We all took gun safety courses. Alcohol was never
allowed in a gun-hunting camp. Our guns were locked up with the ammunition and
bolts locked up in a different room. The only person I knew who that was shot
was a grown neighbor’s son who was in his 20’s and practicing quick draw when
he shot himself in the leg. The uninformed congressman who stated that his constituents
used assault rifles to kill prairie dogs knows not of what he speaks. One assault
rifle bullet hitting a prairie dog would blow it up and make it unrecognizable.
Listening to the 2nd Amendment people are cherry-picking the
amendment…they always leave out the part about a ‘well-regulated militia’. Some
of the children killed in Texas were only identified by their shoes, as that
was all that was identifiable.
I heard an
interesting discussion this morning: Should photos of the children killed in
Texas be released so that people could actually see the devastation. Of course,
parents are against the release of the photos…they want to remember their
children when they were alive. Another group said that the photos should be
seen by the legislators who are blocking gun regulation. I believe the legislators
should have to see the photos and videos of gun violence. I believe they just
don’t get the devastation these crazy people are making. It is time to protect the innocent.
Favorite Memes
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Everyday Phrases
with a Dark Meaning
Crocodile
tears
This is a
popular phrase usually used to describe false sorrow and faking an emotional
response. But the whole phrase is based on a medieval myth.
People back
then believed that crocodiles actually cried tears of sadness while they killed
and ate their prey.
Riddle of the Day
v Which
word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
v Hard riddles obsess over wordplay and
word games. This one has such an easy answer that it trips you up by getting
you to think in a complex way. Some riddles require that. Not this one.
Answer:
“Incorrectly.”
Historical Events
Ë 1650 – The Harvard Corporation, one of
the two administrative boards of Harvard, was established. It was the first
legal corporation in the Americas.
Ë 1856 – 500 Mormons left Iowa City, Iowa,
and headed west for Salt Lake City.
Ë 1902 – Horn & Hardart opened the
first restaurant with vending machine service at the Automat Restaurant at 818
Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ë 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigned as
Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United
States’ handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
Ë 1934
– Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.
Ë 1954 – Joseph Welch, special counsel for
the United States Army, called out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the
Army-McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You’ve done enough.
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of
decency?”
Ë 1959 – The first nuclear-powered
ballistic missile submarine, the USS George Washington was launched.
Ë 1973 – Secretariat won the US Triple Crown
(The Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes).
Birthdays Today
@94 – Les Paul, American guitarist, songwriter (d. 2009)
@93 – Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor (d, 2021)
@73 – Cole Porter, American composer, songwriter (d. 1964;
kidney failure)
@67 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer,businessman (d.
1835)
61
– Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor
59
– Johnny Depp, American actor
@52 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725; bladder failure)
41
– Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
