21 Apr

 

Week 17  Day 112 Flag Today  73°/35° Wind 3mph Gusts 5mph Active Fire:  132 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 372 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Apr. Averages: Temps: 60°\27° Moisture:  3 Days

Weekly Observations

15-21 National Volunteer Week: 18-24 Cleaning For A Reason Week Consumer Awareness Week National Karaoke Week 18-23 Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week 20-21 Global Youth Service Days 20-25  International Wildlife Film Week: Link 20-27 National Dance Week: Link  20-28 National Park Week Link  21-27 Administrative Professionals Week) Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link  Chemists Celebrate Earth Week Fibroid Awareness Week

21-27 National Crime Victims Rights Week Link National Infertility Awareness Week Link National Karaoke Week National Paperboard Packaging Week National Pediatric Transplant Week National Pet ID Week Link  Link National Princess Week  Link  Numismatic Week ( National Coin Week)   Numismatic Week ( National Coin Week)   Link  Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link Sky Awareness Week 21-28 National African Violet Week 21-5/2 Festival of Ridvan

Daily Observations

Bulldogs are Beautiful Day   Link  Link Chocolate-Covered Cashew Truffle Day International Hemp Day  Link Kindergarten Day National Chocolate-Covered

Cashews Day  Link National Pet CBD Day  Link National Surprise Drug Test Day  Link  National Rendering Day  Link National Yellow Bat Day   Link Record Store Day World Creativity and Innovation Day

Today’s Quote                                                        Today’s Meme

"You cannot change what you are, only what you do." — Philip Pullman

Today’s Thoughts

There may be some showers today. Some of those clouds are dark and look like rain.

The Olympic torch has been lit and is now headed for Paris. Can’ wait.

Every 3 months I get a shot to prevent my prostate cancer from returning. I got another one yesterday…this time in the arm. The others have been in the butt. It must be working as I didn’t have to get up during the night to pee.

Did you Know?

 

 Did you know…part 2

Franklin D. Roosevelt Ordered A Hidden Anti-Gay Investigation In The Navy

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy and hoping to advance his political career, he thought of a purification program. He wanted to clean the Newport Navy of any LGBTQ+ individuals - or inverts, as non-heterosexual people were called back then. He went with a request to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to start an undercover investigation in the US Navy. When refused, Roosevelt did so anyway. 

Undercover operatives infiltrated the Navy to get close to the serving men and cadets who were gay, or otherwise effeminate. They were encouraged to get sexually involved with such men so they could be caught and charged with vice (homosexuality) and depravity (homosexual acts).

The undercover operatives were legally protected, but the men they entrapped were stripped of rank and convicted. This has gone down in history as the Newport Sex Scandal of 1919.

Historic Events

·         753 BC – Romulus and his twin brother Remus founded Rome.

·         1918 – ‘Red Baron’ Manfred von Richthofen was shot down and killed during the battle of Somme.

·         1934 – The “Surgeon’s Photograph“, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, was published in the Daily Mail.

·         1962 – The Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opened.

Birthdays with some quotes

91 – Elaine May, American comedic actress 77 – Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter and actor “When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.” 75 – Patti LuPone, American actress and singer “I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.” 73- Tony Danza (Anthony Salvatore Iadanza), TV actor 66 – Andie MacDowell, American model and actress 66 – Michael Zarnock, American author 65 – Tim Jacobus, American illustrator and painter 54 – Nicole Sullivan, American comedic actress “Once you’re able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.” 45 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor “The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you’re in control of your own fate. And you’re not, really.”

@96 – Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms (d. 2022) @91 – John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist/author (d. 1914; pneumonia) “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” @86 – Anthony Quinn (Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca), Mexican-American actor (d. 2001) @64 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist screenwriter (d. 1987; pneumonia) @56 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920; pneumonia)

 

…The End for today…