23 July

23 July 2023

Flagstaff Almanac
Week 30 Day 204 Ave. Sky Cover 10%\ Visibility  17mi. Flagstaff Today  92° \ 58° 
Wind  5mph \ Gusts  17mph  Nearest active fire: 17miles Nearest Lightning:  1001mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 2 days
Risk of fire: Extreme July Averages: Temps 82° \ 51° Moisture 8 Days
Sunshine  Red Flag Warning High Heat Warning

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

17-23 Beach Volleyball Days 18-25 Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

20-23 Comic Con International 21-31 National Moth Week 23-29 Women in Baseball Week

Daily Observations

Auntie's Day Body Painting Day  Link  Gorgeous Grandma Day Hot Enough For Ya Day  Gorgeous Grandma Day Hot Enough For Ya Day Link National Parents Day National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

NYC Body Painting Day Link Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day Sprinkle Day World Day for Grandparents and The Elderly Link  Yada, Yada, Yada Day

Today’s Thoughts

 In case anyone is wondering, it is still over 90° every day here at 7000’

My dad was born this day in 1914. He had a good life, a loving wife, 2 spectacular kids, a good job, a great retirement and so much more. He lived to be 80 and is still missed today.

Our discussion group is meeting tonight to discuss Economic Warfare. The articles were informative as to how it effects governments, countries, and the everyday people. Like with all warfare, this usually hurts the ‘common folk’ more than the leaders or the government.

From the time I was growing up during Vietnam until today, I never understood a couple of things: Why do the common people have to suffer for the deeds leaders that they do not support. Knowing how the military trains its soldiers, how can people hate the soldiers who are just doing as they are told. Certainly the leaders should be punished.

Times are a changin’. Back in the day, the BIA would visit homes and bring youngsters to a boarding school where they would stay throughout the school year. Many boys would have traditional hair styles (the Navajo Bun) and dorms would cut their hair to a buzz cut. It was traumatic to say the least. Looking on Facebook, most of the Chapter Houses are providing free haircuts to school age kids. That is a huge shift in tradition, and kinda sad.

Enjoy

Hoaxes…

"Unsinkable!"

When RMS Titanic was launched on May 31, 1911, shipbuilders Harland and Wollf never claimed the liner was unsinkable. However, when White Star Line officials were informed that the liner was in trouble after striking an iceberg on April 15, 1912, during her maiden voyage, White Star Line Vice President P.A.S. Franklin allegedly announced: "We place absolute confidence in the Titanic. We believe the boat is unsinkable." More than 1,500 people died when the ship eventually went under.

True Conspiracy Theories…

The Manhattan Project

The top-secret US government project to develop the first atomic bomb was kept hidden from the public until after the bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945.

Random Trivia…

Andrew Jackson had a pet parrot. And he taught his parrot, Polly, to curse like a sailor. There is even one legend that the parrot had to be taken out of Jackson's funeral for its proclivity for profanity!

Historic Events

• 1827 – Francis Lieber, opened the first swimming school in the United States at the Boston Gymnasium.
• 1962 – Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1972 – The United States launched Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
• 1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp was discovered, and visible from Earth the following year.
• 2015 – NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, possibly an Earth-like planet.

Birthdays with some quotes

 

@83	Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”	(d. 1975)
@81	Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and television personality	(d. 1975)
@81	Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster “If I had my career to play over, one thing I’d do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.”	(d. 1999)
@79	Don Imus, American radio host “I regret the times I’ve been mean to people… It’s fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don’t deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don’t do it anymore.	(d. 2019)
73	Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter
@70	Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter “If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world, and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive.”	(d. 1959; uremia)
62	Woody Harrelson, American actor
61	Eriq La Salle, American actor
58	Slash (Saul Hudson), English-American guitarist and songwriter	(d. 1991; brain cancer)
@57	Bert Convy, American actor and game show host
53	Charisma Carpenter, American actress
52	Alison Krauss, American singer-songwriter and fiddler “There are so many great songs yet to sing.”
@46	Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor	(d. 2014; OD)
43	Michelle Williams, American singer-songwriter
41	Paul Wesley, American actor
34	Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
27	Alexandra Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian

 

…The End for today…

  

22 July

 

22 July 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 29 Day 203 Ave. Sky Cover 30%\ Visibility  27mi. Flagstaff Today  90° \ 57° 
Wind  4mph \ Gusts  10mph  Nearest active fire: 17miles Nearest Lightning:  16mi
Air Quality:      Moisture Days this month: 1 days
Risk of fire: Extreme July Averages: Temps 82° \ 51° Moisture 8 Days
Sunshine  High Heat Warning

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

1-24 Tour de France  16-22 Captive Nations Week Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Hemp History Week National Independent Retailers Week National Zoo Keeper Week 17-23 Beach Volleyball Days 18-25 Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

19-22 National Baby Food Week  20-22 Family Golf Week Hemingway Look-Alike Days 20-23 Comic Con International 21-12 National Parenting Gifted Children Week    21-31 National Moth Week

Daily Observations

Be A Good Teammate Day Casual Pi Day  Fragile X Awareness Day Hammock Day Lion’s Share Day National Day of the Cowboy  Link   National Day of Lament  Link

National Mango Day Link National Penuche Fudge Day National Ratcatcher’s Day (Pied Piper of Hamelin) Pi Approximation Day (22/7) Rat-catchers Day Spooners Day Summer Leisure Day

Today’s Thoughts

And the heat wave continues. Ready for some moisture. About 1:30 this afternoon the breeze picked up, then the clouds came in, then the thunder started. By 2pm it had cooled off to 79° and our parched land was getting sprinkles. Hope the monsoon sticks around for a while.

I had a good checkup with my PCP this morning. My Bell’s Palsy may have been the rhino virus or it may have been the two dose Shingles vaccine about a month before I got the Bell’s. Dr. says we will never know which. I stopped at Dunkin’ and brought the Dr. Office staff a dozen donuts. They have been so good during this time, always fitting me in when I call. They were very appreciative.

Flagstaff residents have a not-to-good relationship with land developers. There are way too many multi-story apartments since the University is trying to get out of the dorm business. I saw this on Facebook: Developers is pronounced Devil Lopers.

RFK, Jr. certainly has name recognition. His recent Congressional testimony was off the rails.  He denied ever saying things that can be easily found on tape. He has conspiracy theories long debunked and now he claims he never said any of that. We don’t need a liar in the White House again.

The Feds are investigating Texas as it appears they are putting razor-wire a little under the water on the river that the illegals use to enter the US. Sad commentary on humanity.  

Tony Bennett gave us some great music. RIP at 96.

Enjoy

 

Hoaxes…NEW

The largest Ponzi scheme in world history

In a case that shook world stock markets to their core, investment adviser and financier Bernie Madoff confessed to the largest Ponzi scheme in world history, and the largest financial fraud in US history. Madoff's criminal activities defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars. In 2009, the disgraced financier was sentenced to 150 years in prison, where he died in April 2021.

True Conspiracy Theories…

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident

The 1964 attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin was used as a pretext for US involvement in the Vietnam War. Declassified documents later revealed that the attack never happened.

Random Trivia…

President Zachary Taylor died from a cherry overdose! Zachary Taylor passed away after eating way too many cherries and drinking milk at a Fourth of July party in 1850. He died on July 9th from gastroenteritis. The acid in cherries, along with the milk, is believed to have caused this.

Historic Events

• 1342 – The St. Mary Magdalene’s flood in central Europe killed thousands of people.
• 1376 (?) The Pied Piper of Hamelin musically took the children from the town when they refused to pay a debt. It may have happened in 1284. It probably never happened.
• 1587 – The second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. #croatoan

Birthdays with some quotes

 

@104	– Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist “Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?”	(d. 1995)
@98	Bob Dole, American soldier and politician	(d. 2021)
91	Tom Robbins, American novelist
@91	Orson Bean, American actor	(d. 2020)
@84	Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher “No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”	(d. 1967)
@82	– Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer “Be the designer of your own destiny.”	(d. 2014)
82	George Clinton, American singer-songwriter and producer
@80	Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host “Have you ever met a successful person who wasn’t restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go… and that’s one of the reasons they’re successful.”	(d. 2020)
80	Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician
80	Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter
77	Danny Glover, American actor
76	Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter “Wouldn’t this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?
74	Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
75	S.E. Hinton, American author “If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that’s one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is ‘Just do it!’ Don’t think about it, don’t agonize… sit down and write.”
68	Willem Dafoe, American actor
@66	Amy Vanderbilt, American author “When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives	(d. 1974; fall, suicide<?>)
63	John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor
59	David Spade, American actor
51	Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
50	Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter “I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.”
31	Selena Gomez, American singer and actress “Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don’t be someone else just be yourself.”

 

…The End for today…