November 21, 2025

22 Nov

 

 


Flagstaff Today 36°: 29° Week 47 Day 326

Wind 4 mph Gusts 6 mph

Air Quality: Moderate Overcast

Active Fire: 213 miles away Risk of Fire: Very Low

Nearest lightning: 980 miles away

Nov. Averages: Temps: 53°\25° Moisture: 4 Days  ave. 1.6”

Weekly Observations

16-22

National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link

18-24

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week Link

20-26

National Farm-City Week

Dermatology Week: 21-24 Link

22-26

World Cocktail Championships Link

22-28

Church/State Separation Week 
GERD Awareness Week
Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle Week
Better Conversation Week:
22-29

National Bible Week 

Daily Observations

Do Dah Day (Pasadena)
Humane Society Day

Mother Goose Day
Stir Up Sunday

Today’s Quotes                                                             


Today’s Memes

 



Thoughts for the day

It looks like another day of moisture…and it also looks like it will be rain. No complaints.

JFK was killed on this day. I learned a good lesson Red Lake. Every year, in my morning bulletin I would ask staff to tell the students about where they were on this day. A young Mormon teacher came to my office and said she needed to apologize, but she couldn’t tell her students about where she was that day. I asked her why. She said, ‘I wasn’t born yet’.

The rhetoric must come down. Trump is calling for elected representative’s traitors. This is dangerous. This is unreasonable. This is not American. The Reps video gave information. Had I been asked, I probably wouldn’t have put it out. However, this is America. I my many years, I have not liked a lot of speech I have heard. Many times, I have spoken up about my disagreement. Never have I believed the speakers should be called traitors.

Last night on Cuomo, he suggested our current issues should not be seen as Right or Left but they should be seen as Right or Wrong. When I heard this is was ready to celebrate…it sounded so correct. Then I remembered the world is not black and white. Everyone, I’m sure, believe they are right when they say something. In today’s world, there are ‘facts’ that show every side is right. I don’t have a plan or even an idea of how to get us out of this political mess. I do believe that there is an answer somewhere without destroying the American system. 

History that is not true…

Gladiator contests were fought to the death

Two heavily armed fighters locked in a single battle before a crowd baying for blood – it can be hard to see how gladiatorial combat wouldn’t end in death. But the life of a gladiator was not always nasty, brutish, and short.

Too much death was bad for business: if you were going to put on a good show you needed fighters that were well-trained and well-equipped, and a high fatality rate meant a poor return for promoters and investors. Gladiators may have fought to wound rather than kill, and the fate of defeated fighters was left up to the crowds. A successful gladiator could become a celebrity – with portraits in public places and even product endorsements. 
Some modern estimates suggest that only one in 10 gladiatorial contests ended with death, and enough victories in the arena could earn an enslaved gladiator his freedom – symbolized by the bestowing of a wooden sword. It was Roman author Juvenal who famously wrote that "bread and circuses" were the only things necessary to keep the common people from revolt. And it’s hard to maintain a steady supply of circuses if you keep killing all the clowns.

Myths people still believe about Native Americans…

Native Americans are disappearing

The concept of vanishing Indians is fictitious. The Native American population increased from 5.2 million in 2010 to 9.7 million according to the 2020 census data. Young Native Americans are becoming doctors, lawyers, artists, and entrepreneurs, and sharing their cultures on platforms such as TikTok. 

Random Thoughts

“Spring Forward” would be a lot more popular if we moved the clocks ahead at 2 p.m. on a Monday.

Coffee makes you hyper, but coffee shops are intended to make you slow down and relax.

Alcohol is a depressant, but clubs and bars are designed for people to be lively and energetic.

Security at every level of the airport is high until you get to baggage claim. 

Historic Events

Click here for 22 November history

Birthdays

Scarlett Johansson, 41

Movie Actress


Jamie Campbell Bower, 37

Movie Actor


Dacre Montgomery, 31

Movie Actor


Jamie Lee Curtis, 67

Movie Actress


Mark Ruffalo, 58

Movie Actor


Katherine McNamara, 30

Movie Actress


Mads Mikkelsen, 60

Movie Actor


Billie Jean King, 82

Tennis Player


Richard Kind, 69

TV Actor


Julia Rehwald, 30

Movie Actress

 

 

Fusajiro Yamauchi (d.1940; @80)

Entrepreneur


Rodney Dangerfield (d. 2004 @82)

Movie Actor

 

The End for today…

           

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