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Flagstaff Today 34°: 30° Week 47 Day 324 Wind - mph Gusts 3 mph Air Quality: Fair Overcast Active Fire: 213 miles away Risk of
Fire: Very Low Nearest lightning: 183 miles away Nov. Averages: Temps: 53°\25° Moisture: 4 Days
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Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
Thoughts for
the day
Another day of much needed moisture. Sometimes it’s rain, sometimes it’s
snow, sometimes it’s graupel. All is appreciated.
I am reminded, when I moved to my present place, the neighbor told me
that this was in the banana belt of Flagstaff. This area is always a few
degrees warmer than the Flagstaff Airport, where the temperature readings come
from. Over the years I smile about that as we are a tad warmer.
Trump’s lavish treatment of the Saudi Prince is very difficult to watch.
I get that times have changed, but Saudi Arabia has an abysmal record of human
rights, they chopped up a journalist and refuse to return his body to the
family, and they provided sanctuary to some of the 9-11 terrorists. The real
concern should be they have never apologized for their past actions.
Trump has the bill to release the Epstein files on his desk. I’m waiting
for the excuse he will use to slow down the release. Every pedophile should
face the music.
History that is not true…
Medieval
people thought the world was flat
Medieval
societies did think some pretty eyebrow-raising things. Widespread
beliefs included that evil spirits lived inside Brussels sprouts,
that cats were vessels for Satan, and that rubbing yourself with a
live chicken could cure plague. But 'flat Earth theory' – still
occasionally believed today – was old hat even before the beginning of the Dark
Ages.
Ancient
Greek mathematician Pythagoras was the first to argue that the world was
round in around 500 BC, with fellow countryman Aristotle confirming his
findings 150 years later. Fast-forward another century and Greek astronomer
Eratosthenes had measured Earth's circumference – and got it right
within a few miles.
We don't
know what Fred the feudal farmer thought about the shape of the Earth,
but, in the words of historian Jeffrey Burton Russell, "no educated
person in the history of Western civilization from the 3rd century BC onwards
believed that the Earth was flat".
There
is a replica of the Erdapfel – the oldest surviving globe
constructed by Martin Behaim in 1492. Fittingly, that's the same year Columbus
sailed for America, and perhaps the most prevailing part of this myth is
that he'd set out to prove the Earth was round. It's true that Columbus was
trying to reach East Asia, but he was solely seeking a new trade route.
Myths people still believe about
Native Americans…
Native Americans get unfair special privileges
The treaty rights and benefits of tribes are not
handouts; they are contracts between sovereign nations and the U.S. government.
Suppose you sell your house but retain the right to use the backyard garden. It
is not a privilege, but rather a matter of keeping a promise.
Despite these agreements, the Native Americans
are the most impoverished ethnic group in the United States. There are
those reservations where unemployment rates are up to 80 percent, and the life
expectancy of Native Americans is 5.5 years lower than the national average.
Hardly an “unfair advantage.”
Random Thoughts…
Firefly
is the opposite of waterfall.
Being an
air conditioning repair person must be hard because it’s hot when you arrive,
and as soon as it’s cooled down, you leave.
A group
of squid should be called a squad.
Your
future self is talking crap about you.
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