Jul 6,
2021 Week: 28 Day: 187
Ave. Sky Cover: 40%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 86°\ 56°
Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 6mph
High risk
of fire
Active fire: 123mi. \
Lightning: 129mi.
Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days
w/moisture)
Today’s Quote
Random Tidbits
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After working out, it takes 5 hours for your body temperature to
return to normal.
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Children have more taste buds than adults.
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The eye makes movements 50 times every second.
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An ant’s sense of smell is stronger than a dog’s.
True Things
Relationship Goals
Henry Williams and
Tuhonsty Marie Smith of Milwaukee have been in a relationship for eight years,
but things haven't gone so well lately. When Williams returned home from work
on June 2, Smith wouldn't talk to him and was walking in circles. Williams had
told her a couple of weeks before that he was thinking of getting a divorce,
Yahoo! News reported. Later that evening, he went to bed and awoke with the
back of his head on fire, he told police. Williams grabbed his infant daughter
and ran to his parents' adjacent home, where they called 911. When police
arrived, Smith admitted to setting Williams' head on fire; she told them that
that morning, she had "started eating chicken wings and thought Henry
poisoned them." Smith was charged with arson of a building, domestic abuse
and other crimes and was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation. [Yahoo!
News, 6/10/2021]
Idioms Origins
Fetch
Gretchen, played by Lacey Chabert in Mean Girls tried to make
FETCH a happening word, ‘fetch’ meant cool or awesome, but lead mean girl
Regina George, would not let it happen. Fetch is probably the best movie word
that almost made it into the mainstream lexicon
Weekly Observations
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Tour de
France Link |
Thru 7/18 |
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Running of The Bulls (Spain) |
6-14 |
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National Unassisted Homebirth
Week |
1-7 |
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Freedom
Week Be Nice To New Jersey Week Nude Recreation Weekend Punxsutawney Groundhog Days |
4-10 |
Today’s Observations
|
National Fried Chicken Day Link Umbrella
Cover Day World Kissing Day…International Kissing Day |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
There was a nice monsoon rain yesterday…three different times. One
was a hard rain for about 45 minutes. Our high desert mountain town has gotten
almost ½ in. of moisture in the past few days.
I learned a lot watching 60 minutes last night. First, our compute-based
society was not, and still isn’t prepared for cyberattacks from within our
country or from outside our country. There will be continued attacks, more
ransomware, more problems are ahead. The expert says the only way to guarantee
you are protected is to shut down the internet, destroy all computers and
servers, and start over. Even then the protection will only last until the
hackers figure out the new systems. Scary.
I didn’t realize that Ken Burns had made over 40 documentaries
about American life. I have watched about 10, so I have many more to watch. He said
the hardest part is reviewing hundreds of thousands of clips and photos and
then narrowing it down to the very best. For ones I’ve seen, he did an
outstanding job. Thank You PBS for showing them.
I also watched the PBS July 4th in DC. I enjoyed it.
This morning I was reading that there is a controversy. It is America in 2021.
Vanessa Williams sang ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ which is also known as
the Black National Anthem. The controversy is that there is only one National Anthem
and her song simply divided America on our Independence Day. I agree that there
is only one National Anthem and I know that in 1776 most rich landowners had
slaves, took land, and killed Native Americans to expand land, and while they
said ‘All men are created equal’ they did not include women, Indigenous people,
or slaves. We are still working for the Ideal America, and that includes
teaching our children true history about the treatment of ‘others’ in this
country.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
Rephrase each item below as a pair of rhyming words
A building with open sides in Rio (each word has 3 syllables)
An established expert on sisterhood (each word has 4 syllables)
A refusal to accept the restoration of vigor (each word has 5
syllables)
Historical Events
1189 – Richard I “the Lionheart” acceded to the English throne.
1348 – Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull (rule) protecting the Jews
accused of having caused the Black Death.
1483 – Richard III was crowned King of England. Although he died in
1485, his body was lost until 2013. Because of that, many people consider him
the greatest ‘hide and seek’ champion of all time.
1535 – Sir (& Catholic Saint) Thomas More was executed for treason
against King Henry VIII.
1854 – The first convention of the United States Republican Party was
held in Jackson, Michigan.
1865 – The first issue of The Nation magazine was published.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on
Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 landed in New York, completing the
first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played in
Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4 –
2.
1942 – Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the “Secret Annex”
above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1947 – The AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet
Union.
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time, as
teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
2016 Chilcot Report, UK's Iraqi War Inquiry released; concludes Tony
Blair overstated case for war and was unpreparaed
2020 Zoonotic diseases, which jump from animals to humans, are
increasing due to unsustainable farming and climate change according to new
report by the UN
Birthdays Today
@97 – Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet (d.
1985)
@94 – Nancy Reagan, actress, 42nd First Lady (d. 2016)
@82 – Merv Griffin, American actor, talk show host, producer,
created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007)
@86 – Della Reese, American actress and singer (d. 2017)
86 – Dali Lama, religious leader
@83 – Ned Beatty, American actor (d. 2021)
76 – Burt Ward, American actor
75 – George W. Bush, 43rd President
75 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor, director, and screenwriter
@56 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter,guitarist (Bill
Haley & His Comets) (d. 1981; alcohol complications)
@47 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (died in 1954)
@45 – John Paul Jones, Scottish-American captain (d. 1792; interstitial
nephritis)
46 – 50 Cent, American rapper,
42 – Kevin Hart, American comedian, actor
Puzzles Answer
Brazilian pavilion sorority
authority rejuvenation repudiation
