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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 23/ Day: 159 Today: H 85°…L 44°
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 20mph Ave. humidity: 27%
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
"Smothers Brothers comedy Hour,"
last airs on CBS-TV…1969
1st parking meters are invented…1936
Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100,
& held in jail until 4 PM…1921
Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"…1942
Italy invaded by Attila the Hun…452
James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of
Rights in the U.S. House of
Representatives…1789
Siam changes name to Thailand…1949
Tennessee votes to secede from the Union…1861
Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of
Quebec…1824
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Another hot one here in Flag with only a few dark clouds and no moisture. Forest is very dry and we are hearing of daily campfires…even though they are banned. Idiots are everywhere. No damage and we all hope it stays that way. So glad I live at the base of the mountain to get a nice breeze most of the day.I’m still not buying Obama’s story that the government needs a second warrant to listen to my phone conversations or to read my emails. According to some sources this secret court that approves the collection of all this data has never turned down a request that it has been given. I am not now, nor have I ever participated in any illegal acts in my emails or conversations. I just don’t like the idea that anybody can read or listen to my conversations without my knowledge. If a phone call is going to be recorded, I hear that warning before the conversation begins. ‘This call may be recorded for training purposes’. Someday we will be hearing ‘This call is being recorded to insure that you are not a terrorist.’ I still remember the discussion when Obama was elected and the Feds didn’t want him using his Blackberry for texting since the phone might not be secure. Now we find that Obama has made all our phones insecure from government intrusion…and without our knowledge. While all this intrusion may be necessary for security, I believe that the government should have told us they were doing this. It would have been an interesting debate, and would have caused at least a pause from terrorists when they made their plans through emails, texts, or voice. I saw a great post today with someone calling the NSA and telling them that they had accidently deleted an email from April 2009 and asking the NSA to find it and resend it to her.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
An Army sergeant is surrounded by the enemy and he's the only American left.He finds an old lamp in front of him and rubs it. Out pops a genie. The genie grants him one wish, with a catch. He says, "Whatever you wish for, each insurgent will get two of the same thing."The sergeant ponders a while and thinks:"If I get a gernade they get two. If I get a rifle they get two!" He then rubs the bottle again and out pops the genie."Well," the genie asks "have you made up your mind?"What did the Sergeant ask for to help him get away?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Pounds by which the average American’s self-reported ‘ideal weight’ has increased since 1990: 13
- Chances that an average American ate at McDonald’s yesterday: 1 in 12
Picture of the Day: Recent Canadian Cruise
Unusual Fact of the Day
Ian Murphy is the king of the old-school computer hackers. In 1981, he and three accomplices broke into the AT&T phone system and changed its internal clocks so that customers would get midnight discounts in midday, while late-night callers got stuck with outrageous bills. For the incident, Murphy became the first hacker to be charged with a computer crime.Joke-of-the-day
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops.
Now you know why they call it a workstation!
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
MEN VS. WOMEN
Women tend to act smarter than they really are at work and dumber than they really are at home. Men tend to act just the opposite.
Yeah, It Really Happened
He is Heath Campbell, the New Jersey Nazi. He has popped up in the news once or twice, mostly because of what he named his children. His daughter is JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and his son is Adolf Hitler Campbell.After state welfare officials took his children away from him suspected child abuse, Campbell showed up for a Family Court hearing wearing a full Nazi uniform and a Hitler mustache.Campbell was accompanied to court by a woman wearing a costume with a swastika on its sleeve and a Nazi Iron Eagle.When asked if wearing the Nazi uniform would hurt him in the eyes of the Family Court judge, Campbell told a TV reporter, "Well, if they're good judges, and they're good people, they'll look within and not what's on the outside."And what is on the inside is a nut-job who wears a Nazi uniform to court.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.
- Based on a US Justice Department study conducted between 1992 and 1996, workplace violence troubles 1.7 million Americans a year. Number of workers attacked or threatened per thousand: Police officers: 306, Private security guards: 218, Taxi drivers: 184, Prison guards: 117, Bartenders: 91, Mental health professionals: 80, Gas station attendants: 79.
- Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
- For drinking, washing, etc., an average American uses 168 gallons of water per day. The average American residence uses 107,000 gallons per year.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
1-8
Black Single
Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week
International
Clothesline Week
National Business
Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Sun
Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week
Great American
Brass Band Week
Superman Days
8-16
8-16
Jim Thorpe Native
American Games
Men's Health Week
Men's Health Week
National
Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Flag Week
National Flag Week
Today Is
·
Banana Split Days
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Belmont Stakes
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International Young Eagles Day
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Name Your
Poison Day
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National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day
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Upsy Daisy Day
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Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in
Public Day
·
World Oceans Day
Today’s Events through History
"Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC
TV…1948
1st Civil Rights Act passes…1866
Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of
Austria…1986
Cable Cars begin service in LA…1889
Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr
Hall, NYC)…1786
Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott
O'Grady is rescued by U.S.
Marines in Bosnia…1995
James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin
Luther King Jr, captured…1968
Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins
8-month eruption…1783
Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave
Vietnam by end of August…1969
Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout
game…1977
Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by
Supreme Court…1953
US troops ordered to fight offensively in
Vietnam…1965
World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical
Garden, 12' calla lily…1937
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Barbara Bush, 1st lady is 88
Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], comedienne (Late
Show, Hollywood Sq) is 80
Jerry Stiller, comedian is 84
In their 70’s
Nancy Sinatra, singer (Boots are Made for
Walkin') is 73
William Calley, American war criminal is 70
In their 50’s
Keenan Ivory Wayans, comedian (In Living
Color) is 55
In their 40’s
Julianna Margulies, actress (Carol
Hathaway-ER) is 47
David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor is 44
In their 30’s
Kanye West, recording artist, record producer,
film director is 36
Remembered
for being born today
Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France,
discoverer (4 moons of Saturn) [1625-1712]
George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy
Hour, Pearl Bailey Show) [1923-1995]
Ida Saxton McKinley, 1st lady [1847-1907]
Suharto, general/president Indonesia [1921-2008]
Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins,
NFLer/Supreme Court Justice [1917-2002]
Today’s Historical Obits
Cochise [K'uu-ch'ish "oak"],
Apache leader…cancer…1874…at 69ish
Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th president…dropsy…1845…at
78
William F Jenkins [Murray Leinster], author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)…1975…at 78
Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran)-(according
to tradition)…632…at 63
Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common
Sense)…1809…at 72
Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days)…lung
cancer…1969…at 57
Answer: Brain
Teasers
One
Glass Eye
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel
free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet
sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned
that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there,
many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events
occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be
totally accurate.
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