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Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"Summer is the annual permission slip to be
lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and
count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds." — Regina Brett |
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Today’s Thoughts
I had a weird incident
the other day and I’m still trying to understand it. When I worked at Red Lake,
we were like a family. I knew the staff and their families. In my 15 years
there I watched many of their children grow up and graduate. My secretary is
one who I have remained in contact with on Facebook. After writing but before
posting the blog about my friend KB, I got a friend request from one of my former
secretary’s son who is now in his late 40’s. I accepted it and got a message
from in right away. He was asking about what I knew about end-stage kidney
disease. I said I didn’t know much. He said he has been on dialysis for the
past 5 years. He gets his treatments in Flagstaff, so I doubt he knows KB. This
seems very weird since KB is in hospice for the same thing, I haven’t seen or
heard from my former secretary’s son since I left Red Lake and had posted nothing
about KB. Mystery remains.
The Supreme Court
seems to be side-stepping several big issues for Americans. For all the negative
publicity the court has been receiving, this is not helping their importance to
our country.
1964 was 60 years ago…
The Warren
Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy concludes
Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone
1. President John F.
Kennedy is shot and killed on November 22nd, 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas
by Lee Harvey Oswald.
2. On November 29th,
1963, only a week after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,
President Lyndon B. Johnson creates the President's Commission on the
Assassination of President Kennedy.
3. Chief Justice
Earl Warren is appointed to head the commission and they were tasked with
investigating the death of President Kennedy.
4. The Warren
Commission, as it was called, spent nearly a whole year traveling to Dallas,
listening to witnesses, examining government reports and looking into the
alleged shooter's background.
5. On September
24th, the report was presented to President Johnson and then on September 27th,
1964 it was released to the public.
6. The report
concluded that the gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone with an unknown motive
in assassinating President Kennedy and the Jack Ruby had acted alone in his
murder of the suspect Oswald.
7. It was also
reported that the Secret Service had not made adequate preparations for the
president's Dallas visit.
8. The results
proved to be somewhat controversial as there was some conflicting evidence and
many people believed in different conspiracy theories surrounding the
assassination such as there were multiple shooters involved or that foreign
governments arranged the assassination.
Origin of common phrases
Have a conniption
To "have a conniption" is to throw a
fit or tantrum. It comes from the South, where some think it's a version of the
word corruption, as in someone being corrupted by the devil.
Historic Events
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1838 – The
Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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1855 – Sigma Chi
fraternity is founded in North America.
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1894 – Labor Day
became an official US holiday.
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2007 - Apple Inc.
releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone
Birthdays with some quotes
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98 –
Mel Brooks, comedian, director 86 –
John Byner, American comedic actor 76 –
Kathy Bates, American actress “I
want to be defined by my own essence.” 63 –
John Elway, Bronco QB 58 –
John Cusack, American actor 53 –
Elon Musk, South African-born American businessman “Failure
is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” 39 –
Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter 35 –
Markiplier (Mark Edward Fischbach), American internet personality |
@87
– John Wesley, English cleric, theologian (d. 1791) “Condemn
no man for not thinking as you think. Let everyone enjoy the full and free
liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment since
every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in
any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor
persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love
will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.” @77
– Richard Rodgers, American playwright, composer (d. 1979; cancer) @73
– Pat Morita, Japanese-American character actor (d. 2005) “I
don’t know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a
corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.” @62
– Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, diplomat (d. 1640; heart failure) “Every
child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the
spirit through plague and a soul’s own wretchedness.” @42
– Gilda Radner, American comedic actress (d. 1989; cancer) |
…The End for today…
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