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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 58°: 40° Week 52 Day 358 Wind: 9 mph Gusts 10 mph Nearest lightning: 947 miles away Active Fire: 280 miles away Risk of
Fire: Low Air Quality: Fair High clouds Sunshine |
Weekly Observations
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Andisop (Meterological
Fiddling Link 11-1/1/26 Drive Sober or Get Pulled
Over Link 14-1/5/26 Christmas Bird Count Week Link |
14-28 Halcyon Days 16-24 Posadas |
Daily Observations
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Christmas
Eve |
Egg
Nog Day |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
Flag continues to have warm weather for December. A storm might bring
some moisture on Christmas Day.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas Eve.
I’ve been watching 60 Minutes since it began. By not airing the
piece on the El Salvador prison, the CBS leadership has tarnished, of not destroyed
the great news magazine show. All of our media needs to back 60 Minutes
and not allow all of our news coming only with the approval of this administration.
‘Due Process’ is one of our founding fathers’ most essential rights.
Without it, my question is are we still a nation of laws?
Trump has paused offshore wind projects. This will cost many jobs and do
harm to our environment. No president should have a power that ignores Congress
and the elected officials to do his own bidding.
The Heritage Foundation developed the current playbook of this administration.
Now there are philosophical differences within the foundation. At least a dozen
leaders have left after antisemitism allegations. There are also philosophical
differences within Charlie Kirk’s organization. Will these differences destroy
either organization?
I keep having problems with my computer. I have been using Microsoft Edge
as my default browser. I changed the default to Chrome as I search for a way to
fix Edge. Currently I can’t open Edge, I can’t simply uninstall the browser, so
it just sits there in my tray…doing nothing but frustrating me.
Classic songs that unlock deep nostaligia…
“American Pie” weaves together
memory, loss, and cultural moments
“American Pie” doesn’t offer a single
emotion—it braids a dozen into one sprawling narrative. Its lyrics stretch
across eras, referencing milestones both personal and cultural.
Listeners often don’t catch every
reference, but the feeling carries: a strange blend of nostalgia, yearning, and
reflection. It became a communal time capsule, evoking the weight of youthful
freedom against the backdrop of things irrevocably changed.
Cities that changed their names…
Petrograd
→ Leningrad (Russia)
Before it
became Saint Petersburg again, the city had already changed once. In 1914,
during World War I, “Saint Petersburg” sounded too German, so it became
“Petrograd.” After Lenin’s death a decade later, it transformed again into
“Leningrad.” The new name was both tribute and propaganda, tying the city to
Soviet identity.
Each renaming reflected a power shift. Even buildings seemed to wear different
expressions with each era.
Random Thoughts…
A true buddy helps you in removing your mask and exposing
your actual self.
Your friend reflects yourself. Choose your friends carefully.
Is it because sand is found between the sea and the land why
it is named sand?
Why is a building called a building when it has already been
built?
Historic Events
563 Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes
1593 Storm hits the North Holland port of Texel: 40 ships are lost and about 500 seamen are killed [1]
1777 James Cook is the first documented European to visit Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island
1814 Treaty of
Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812 between the United States, the United
Kingdom and their allies
1818 Christmas carol
"Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St
Nicholas Parish Church in Oberndorf, Austria
1851 Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington and destroys 35,000 volumes
1877 Thomas Edison files for a patent for the cylinder phonograph
1893 Henry Ford completes
his first useful petrol / gasoline fueled engine
1901 Private
companies are allowed to use the word "postcard" in the US;
previously, they were labeled "Private Mailing Cards" and known as
"souvenir cards"
1930 Sukarno is sentenced
to four years in prison by Dutch colonial authorities in Bandung, Dutch East
Indies
1943 US
President FDR appoints
General Eisenhower as
Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
1948 First US
completely solar heated house is occupied in Dover, Massachusetts
1951 First opera commissioned for television - "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres on NBC with the NBC Opera Theater
1953 KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1973 District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government
1974 Former US
astronaut John Glenn is
elected to the US Senate representing Ohio
1999 Opening of St
Peter's Holy Door by Pope John Paul II in
preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Third Millennium
2001 Time Magazine
names New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani Person
of the Year for his leadership after the 9/11 terrorist attacks
Birthdays
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1940 American
immunologist (White House COVID-19 taskforce), born in Brooklyn, New York ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1946 American
Republican politician, US
Attorney General (2017-18) and Alabama Senator (1997-2017), born in
Selma, Alabama ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1957 President
of Afghanistan (2001-14), born in Kandahar, Afghanistan ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1958 American
general and National Security Advisor (2017), born in Middletown, Rhode
Island ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1959 American director ("Precious",
"Empire"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1971 Puerto
Rican singer (Menudo,1984-89;
solo - "Livin' la Vida Loca") and actor (General
Hospital, 1994-96), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1973 American author (Twilight
Saga), born in Hartford, Connecticut, ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1974 American
DJ (On Air; American Top 40), and television host (American
Idol, since 2002; Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve, since 2005; Live with
Kelly and Ryan, since 2017), born in Atlanta, Georgia ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1991 English
pop singer (One
Direction - "Story of My Life"; solo - "Just Hold On"),
and television personality, born in Doncaster, England |
Kit Carson(d.1868; @58, Abdominal
aortic aneurysm) American
frontiersman, Indian fighter and army officer, born in Madison County,
Kentucky ^^^^^^^^^^^ Johnny
Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy
Ann, born in Arcola, Illinois (d. 1939; @57, heart failure) ^^^^^^^^^^^ Howard Hughes(d.1976;
@70, kidney failure) American
reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator (Hughes
Aircraft), born in Humble, Texas ^^^^^^^^^^^ Ava Gardner(d.1990; @67, stroke) American actress (On the
Beach, Night of the Iguana), born in Grabtown, North Carolina ^^^^^^^^^^^ Clarence
Gilyard Jr, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger - "Trivette";
Matlock, 1989-93 - "Conrad"; Die Hard), and educator, born in Moses
Lake, Washington (d. 2022; @66, long illness) |
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