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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 35°: 14° Week 49 Day 339 Wind: 5 mph Gusts 10 mph Nearest lightning: 809 miles away Active Fire: 213 miles away Risk of
Fire: Very Low Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine |
Monthly Observations
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Operation Santa
Paws (1-17) |
Weekly Observations
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1-5 Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link 1-7 Cookie Cutter Week Link |
3-10 Clerc-Gallaudet Week Andisop (Meterological Fiddling Link |
Daily Observations
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AFL-CIO Day Link (1955) |
International Volunteer Day for
Economic & Social Development |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
A day filled with sunshine, still cold.
I’m debating a trip to Mexico for Christmas. I talked to my brother today
and the people who were going to rent the hacienda for Christmas had fizzled
out, so there was room. With only one direct airline available, United, from
Phoenix to Merida I still have a 4-hour layover in Houston. I’ll debate it for
a few days.
During the 1st Trump term and more prevalent in the second
term, I keep hearing ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. I almost never hear
‘lie’. I checked ye olde dictionary for help. The understanding is that both
words mean incorrect information. Add Mis- and it means without malice. Add Dis- and it means with malice. I’ll be paying
closer attention now as I better understand the difference.
I am baffled how the leadership of our country can continue to see one
bad person and then make a blanket negative comment to include all that ethnicity
to be just like that one bad person. In my years on earth, I have read about
numerous serial killers here in the US. I never thought ‘Well, that’s how all ___
people are. I guess many don’t have the education I was fortunate to achieve.
Wild West Myths that never happened…NEW
The West
Was a Lawless Free-for-All
The idea
of a lawless frontier is one of the most enduring myths. In truth, most
communities quickly established rules, elected officials, and enforced order,
according to David Graham on Medium.
Writers
and storytellers often exaggerated chaos to dramatize the frontier. In reality,
settlers valued stability and worked hard to create it. Many towns even had
newspapers and civic groups that reinforced community order.
Cities that changed their names…NEW
Constantinople
→ Istanbul (Turkey)
Few names
carry as much weight as Constantinople. For centuries, it was the jewel of
empires (first Byzantine, then Ottoman) where Europe and Asia touched across
water and history. But after the Ottoman Empire fell and the Republic of Turkey
was born in 1923, a new era needed a new identity. “Istanbul,” already the name
locals used in everyday speech, became official in 1930.
The change marked more than modernity; it signaled cultural independence. The
domes of Hagia Sophia and the call to prayer still filled the skyline, but now
they belonged to a city that had reclaimed its own name.
Random Thoughts…
Normally,
you empty your drink from the top, but when you use a straw, you empty it from
the bottom.
You’ve
never actually seen a full movie because you’re always blinking.
If a fly
loses its wings, is it now called a walk?
Watermelon
candy is often green, but with real watermelon, we
never eat the green part
Historic Events
Returns tomorrow
Birthdays
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Spanish
opera tenor (I
Lombardi, Three Tenors), born in Barcelona, Spain Jim
Plunkett (78 years old), American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback
(Heisman Trophy 1970, Stanford; Super Bowl 1980, 84 LA/Oakland Raiders), born
in San Jose, California American actress (Mars
Attacks!) and model, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey Margaret
Cho (57 years old), American actress and comedienne (Face/Off), born in San
Francisco, California Frankie
Muniz (40 years old), American actor (Malcolm in the Middle), born in
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey |
8th President of the United
States (Democrat: 1837-41), born in Kinderhook, New York George Armstrong Custer (d.1876 @36, killed at Little Big Horn Battle) United
States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the
American Indian Wars, born in New Rumley, Ohio Clyde
Cessna, American aviator and airplane manufacturer, born in Hawthorne,
Louisiana (d. 1954 @74) Walt Disney(d.1966 @65, cancer) American animator (Mickey
Mouse), producer and co-founder of the Walt Disney Company, born in Chicago,
Illinois American
politician (Senator-D/R-SC), longest-ever filibuster against Civil Rights
Act, born in Edgefield, South Carolina Otto
Preminger, Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director, producer
(Laura,; Advise & Consent; Anatomy of A Murder), and actor (Stalag 17),
born in Wiznitz, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986; @80) Little Richard [Richard Wayne Penniman](d.2020; @87) American
rock 'n' roll pioneer, piano player, singer-songwriter ("Tutti
Frutti", "Lucille"), and sometime preacher, born in Macon,
Georgia |
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