Feb 7

 

 

Feb  7, 2021  Week: 6  Day: 38	Local:  H 49°\ L 23°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  10mph	Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  223mi
Nearest lightning:  1608mi.	Record: 66°[1963] Record:-18°[1903]
Visibility:  10mi	Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

Random Tidbits

Since 2015, marijuana has become the fastest growing industry in the U.S. If marijuana becomes legal in all 50 states, the industry will become larger than the organic food market.

A Little Humor

What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing ‘k’ instead of ‘ok’?

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Q What do you call a crazy judge? Judge-mental

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Someone stole my bike- so I called the cops, and they found the thief. He was arrested for peddling stolen goods.

True Things

Most recently a man was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by three women who collected his semen in a cooler and stealing it before abandoning their victim. This method seems to be part of a growing trend.

The 33-year-old man gave the women directions when they pulled up in a black BMW. Suddenly, one of the women armed with a gun got out and forced him into the back of the car.

The trio then drove him over a hundred miles away and fondled him in the back of the car but he did not become aroused, so they forced him to drink an 'unknown substance' from a bottle to aid him.

They then raped the man repeatedly and collected his semen in plastic bags, placing them in a cooler.

The man was then kicked out of the car while the women made off with the stolen sperm.

The exact same method is being used by women in Gauteng, South Africa, who are also forcing men to drink from a bottle and stealing their semen but no arrests have been made.

Constable Mncedi Mbombo said, "They then forced him to drink an unknown substance from a bottle. This got him aroused quickly even though he was still scared and didn't want to have sex.

Weekly Observations

Sundance Film Festival	28-2/7
African Heritage & Health Week: Children's Mental Health Week   Link  Tinnitus Awareness Week  Link   Women's Heart Week	1-7
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week National Stationery Week: Cancelled Publicity for Profit Week	2-8
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend	7-12
Burn Awareness Week  Link   Children's Authors & Illustrators Week	7-13
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week  Link National Marriage Week  Link  Link Risk Awareness Week	7-14

 

Today’s Observations

African Travel Day

Ballet Day
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Digital Learning Day
Dry Bean Day: 6-8 Link  Cancelled
e-Day  (math) Link
Kahlua Day

Laura Ingalls Wilder Day
Man Day 
National Fettuccine Alfredo Day

National Periodic Table Day  Link
National Protein Day

National Retro Day

National Strawberry Day

No-Brainer Day

Popcorn Day  Link 
Send a Card to a Friend Day
Superbowl Sunday -Super Bowl LV (55)
Wave All you Fingers at Your Neighbor Day

Who Shall I Be Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Even the shady area snow is melting. Sky is blue. It’s a nice day.

Fox dropped Lou Dobbs. It was their highest rated show. Guess that $1billion lawsuit may have consequences. They cancelled his program, that had been very Pro-Trump, but didn’t fire him. He still gets his paycheck. Some are suggesting this will prevent another network from picking him up. Hmmm

As most of you know, Africa is my go-to continent. The show Into the Wild, with Jack Hanna, has many programs on Africa. This morning there were two. My favorite one was in Tanzania. Lots of hippos, crocs, and other wildlife. What is the most deadly animal in Africa? It’s the hippo. It has the strongest bite of any animal on land and is second to the Whale in the ocean.

I will be watching Super Bowl LV tomorrow…alone. I usually have a few friends over, but this year it ain’t happening. On Monday, I have an eye appointment and a phlebotomy so probably won’t be posting a blog. The blood draw is at the hospital with ultra-sound, so may go very fast.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

What is harder to catch the faster you run?

Historical Events

1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.

1783 Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months.

1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president".

1845 The Portland Vase, thought to date to the 1st century BC is shattered into more than 80 pieces by a drunken visitor to the British Museum.

1894 The Cripple Creek miners' strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

1907 The Mud March, first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

1936 A flag is authorized for US Vice President.

1950 United States formally recognizes the State of Vietnam as the legitimate government of Vietnam, with Bảo Đại as leader.

1959 Fidel Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution.

1962 US President JFK begins blockade of Cuba banning all Cuban imports and exports.

1970 LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause

1986 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France: Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti

1999 – Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes. (almost 10 days)

2013 Azerbaijan launches its first satellite, Azerspace-1

2018 DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK's oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes.

2018 All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeast foothills of the Himalayas, according to DNA study published in "Nature"

Birthdays Today

@90 –Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (d. 1957)

@82 –John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (founded Deere & Company), (d. 1886)

@65 – [Harry] Sinclair Lewis, American writer and social critic (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930), (d. 1951; alcoholism)

@58 – Charles Dickens, author (d. 1870; strokes)

55 – Chris Rock, actor, comedian

47 – Steve Nash, Basketball player

43 – Ashton Kutcher, TV actor

Puzzle Answer

Your breath.

 

Feb 6

 

 

Feb  6, 2021  Week: 5  Day: 37	Local:  H 49°\ L 18°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  8mph	Low Risk of Fire           Active fire:  308mi
Nearest lightning:  954mi.	Record: 65°[1963]Record: -21°[1899]
Visibility:  10mi	Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Random Tidbits

The word 'canvas' is related to the word 'cannabis.' Historically, canvases were made of hemp.

Both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grew hemp on their plantations. The British crown even ordered the colonists to grow the plant.

A Little Humor

Q Why couldn’t the pony sing? It was a little hoarse!

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I looked outside my window and saw a guy taking my gate. I was going to tell him something but I thought he might take a fence

Monthly Observations

 

Pet Dental Health Month Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month Relationship Wellness Month Responsible Pet Owner's Month  Link Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month Spay/Neuter Awareness Month Spunky Old Broads Month Sweet Potato Month (see also November) Wise Health Care Consumer Month Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month Youth Leadership Month

 

Weekly Observations

Sundance Film Festival	28-2/7
Catholic Schools Week	31-2/6
Meat Week	31-2/6
Cordova Ice Worm Days: Link	1-6
African Heritage & Health Week: Children's Mental Health Week   Link  Tinnitus Awareness Week  Link   Women's Heart Week	1-7
American Camp Week	2-4
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week National Stationery Week: Cancelled Publicity for Profit Week	2-8

 

Today’s Observations

Barber Day  

Bob Marley Day (Jamaica and Ethiopia)

Canadian Maple Syrup Day Link
Dry Bean Day: 6-8 Link  Cancelled
Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day 

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Link
International Frozen Yogurt Day Link
Lame Duck Day

National Chopsticks Day

National Ice Cream For Breakfast Day   Link 
National Play Outside Day Link 
Pay a Compliment Day

Play Monopoly Day  Link 
Take Your Child To The Library Day 
World Play Your Ukulele Day   Cancelled

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Blue sky, little wind…a great day here at 7000’

All the vehicle windshields were covered with frost this morning. I was sitting in my office this morning as people headed for work. Five vehicles backed out of their parking spaces and started driving down the parking lot, then stopped, in the middle of the road, got out and scraped their windshields. It was about 25 degrees and it was like these drivers thought that a few seconds on sunlight would melt the frost. One guy even got out, poured a bottle of water on his windshield. It froze…duh. Then he turned on his wipers and proceeded to pour another bottle The water froze. So he got another bottle of water, turned on his wipers and poured away. After the third bottle of water with the wipers running, he could see enough to drive off.  I was dumbfounded.

I’m not surprised that Rep. Greene is now Representative in name only. This is going to haunt Congress for quite a time. Her tweet this morning shows she learned little from this exercise.

I heard on the local NPR radio station that a new vaccine schedule would be released at 12N to sign up for a vaccine. I’ve been on the site about 45 minutes, refreshing every few minutes, and no new dates have been released. Finally, one day opened on Feb. 21. I clicked on it and it said no registration is available at this time, so keep checking back. I’m sure they will explain the problem within the next few years.

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?

Historical Events

60 – The earliest known reference to a single day of the week (Sunday) in Pompeii.

1788 – Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.

1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore.

1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society left New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.

1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.

1891 – The Dalton Gang’s first attempt at train robbery failed. Bob, Grat, and Bill Dalton unsuccessfully tried to rob a Southern Pacific train near Alila, California.

1919 – The American Legion was founded.

1926 – The National Football League (NFL) adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.

1933 – The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect, making the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.

1937 – John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men was published.

1952 – Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the British throne.

1959 – The first patent for an integrated circuit (computer chip) was filed by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments.

1959 – At Cape Canaveral, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile.

1971 – Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon. He said it went for “miles and miles.”

1985 – The French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted its first new product in 123 years. The new items were water with a twist of lemon, lime, or orange.

1998 – Washington National Airport was renamed the Ronald Reagan National Airport.

2000 – First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.

2018 Elon Musk's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket.

2019 US President Donald Trump makes presidential State of Union address to Congress a week later than usual due to government shutdown.

2020 US astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest continuous spaceflight by a female astronaut after 328 days on the International Space Station, landing in Kazakhstan.

2020 Antarctica records high temperature of 64.9 F / 18.2 C at Esperanza, Argentina’s research station.

Birthdays Today

@99 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (d. 2016)

@93 – Ronald Reagan, actor, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)

@83 – Mary Leakey, English paleoanthropologist (d. 1996)

@80 – Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician (d. 1836)

82 – Mike Farrell, American actor and activist

81 – Tom Brokaw, American journalist

78 – Fabian Forte, American actor and singer

@65 – Natalie Cole, American singer-songwriter (d.2015; heart failure)

59 – Axl Rose [William Bruce Rose Jr.; raised William Bruce Bailey], singer-songwriter

@53 – George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth, Jr., baseball player and coach (d. 1948; cancer)

@36 – Bob Marley, regae singer (d. 1981; cancer)

@33 – Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945; suicide)

Puzzle Answer

Heroine