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Aug 28, 2017 Week: 35 \ Day: 240
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 19mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 89°[1948] Record Low: 33°[1920]
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Quote of the Day
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Observances Today
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day
National Bow Tie Day Link
Pony Express Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercials Day
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Observances This Week
25-31
Be Kind To Humankind Week
26-9/3
Chuck wagon Races
World Water Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
1565 Oldest city in the US established - St Augustine Florida
1700’s
★1789 William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1800’s
★1864 The first Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations.
1900’s
1907 United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1917 Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
★1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
1957 US Senator James Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1963 200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil rights in Washington, D.C.
1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
★1968 MP Gerry Fitt, tables House of Commons motion criticising Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom"
1973 "Monster Mash" goes gold
1982 The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
★1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
★1995 Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdul Mohsen al-Medej announces that his country will increase its oil production capacity to as much as 3.5 million barrels per day by 2005
★1998 Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2000’s
★2003 An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.
★2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons
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My Rambling Thoughts
I had a great lunch for a discussion group member who was turning 75. About 30 people. Six of us were from the discussion group. Met some very interesting people. One lady works at a tourist shop in Williams. Great stories of her customers from around the world. Another lady was a teacher at TC Public School. She started the year I retired and stayed 10 years. Shared great stories and our enjoyable times in TC. It was a great time. The birthday girl’s husband arranged everything. He didn’t mention anything about gifts. I brought a plant. Most people brought something. We ordered off the menu and that’s when we discovered that the host was paying the entire bill. Another nice surprise. The bill had to be close to $500 + tip. Very enjoyable.
45 is a master manipulator. His Friday night news dump set off several firestorms. The biggest against Sheriff Joe Arpaio from the Phx area. I have several Navajo friends who have children living in the Phoenix area. A few years ago Arpaio was stopping ‘brown’ people as possible illegal immigrants. The kids living there were either going to school or working in full-time positions. During this time they all carried their census cards with them at all times. The census card is given to enrolled members to prove their Indian-ness. All AZ tribes have some form of this card. In the world before the crackdown, that card was kept in a safe place at home with birth certificates, etc. If they were stopped for being brown, the census card would get them released. Latinos were carrying their birth certificate. The crackdown policy ended up in a Federal court as a misdemeanor. Arpaio asked for a jury trial. The fed court said no, it was too expensive for a misdemeanor. The judge ruled that the sheriff was guilty of not following a court order to stop the crackdown. He would have been sentenced in October. Arpaio was in the process of appealing the conviction. In a precedent setting move, 45 pardoned him BEFORE he was even sentenced and BEFORE any appeals were decided and BEFORE the mighty sheriff showed any remorse.
Hurricane Harvey took up most of the news. The pardon sucked up the rest. The same dump clarified the ban on Transgenders in the military. Not much news about that, yet. Trump aide Gorka left the WH staff but no one seems to know if he resigned or was fired. No news on that.
While the Harvey news is not good, it is not as bad as expected. But it will be around for about another week. First responders are telling those who didn’t evacuate should put their SS# on their arm. Scary and very creepy.
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Bizarre News
Police in Germany announced they seized about 5,000 ecstasy tablets modeled after the head of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Osnabrueck Police said they searched a car during a traffic stop about 9 p.m. Saturday and discovered the approximately $12,900 worth of ecstasy tablets, which bore the image of Trump's face on one side and his name on the opposite side.
Police said they also seized a large amount of cash from the vehicle, which was registered in Austria.
The driver, a 51-year-old man, and his 17-year-old son were detained and are expected to be charged with drug trafficking, police said.
Police said the pair had been coming from Amsterdam, where the drugs are believed to have been produced.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@82- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
German social philosopher (Faust), born in Frankfurt
(d. 1832)
@82- Leo Tolstoy,
author (War and Peace)
(d. 1910)
@81- Ben Gazzara,
American actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2012)
70’s
@76- Jack Kirby,
American cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Capt America), born in NYC, New York
(d. 1994)
74- David Soul, [Solberg]
actor (Starsky & Hutch), born in Chicago, Illinois
60’s
@69- Nancy Kulp,
American actress (Miss Hathaway in Beverly Hillbillies), born in Harrisburg, PA
(d. 1991)
63- Scott Hamilton,
ice skater (Olympic gold 1984), born in Toledo, Ohio
50’s
52- Shania Twain,
Canadian singer (You're Still the One), born in Windsor Ontario
40’s
48- Jason Priestley,
actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
48- Jack Black,
American actor (High Fidelity, Kung Fu Panda), comedian and singer (Tenacious D), born in Santa Monica, California
@46- Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton,
1st American Catholic saint (1975), born in NYC, New York
(d. 1821)
30’s
35- Le Ann Rimes,
country singer (Blue, Holiday in Your Heart)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@88-1985
Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus),
@83-1805 Alexander Carlyle,
Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770)
@81-1987 John Huston,
US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon)
@81-1903 Frederick Law Olmsted,
American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park)
70’s
@78-1967 Charles Darrow,
US inventor of Monopoly
@70-1784 Junipero Serra,
Spanish missionary priest who founded the 1st missions in California
Teen’s
@14-1955 Emmett Till,
kidnapped & lynched
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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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