9 Mar

 

Week 11  Day 67 Flag Today  55°/35°                             Wind 7 mph Gusts 7 mph

Active Fire: 495 miles away Risk of fire: High   Nearest Lightning: 571 miles away

Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine

Mar. Averages: Temps: 54°\24° Moisture: 12 days

Weekly Observations

8-14 Campfire USA Birthday Week Girl Scout Week Link ) National Procrastination Week

Teen Tech Week National Patient Safety Awareness Week

Daily Observations

Barbie Day Fill Our Staplers Day Get Over It Day Link Joe Franklin Day

Napping Day  National Urban Educator Day  Link Panic Day Link

Today’s Quote                                                                  

Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

It is a nice, sunny, warm winter day.

A day I’m happy that I don’t have to change my clocks. No DST in Flag is very nice. The one issue, many cable channels have programs I enjoy coming on an hour off.

Way too many former military leaders are saying the administration completely abandoned Americans when the US bombed Iran. The government told everyone, including former military, in the area to find a commercial flight knowing full well that ALL airports in the region were closed. Sad.

Many post WWII sitting presidents started armed conflicts without the approval of Congress. Trump is the only one to call it ‘war’, while all the others used the term ‘conflict’. In my opinion, that is simply semantics…each conflict cost many American lives. 

Common Saying’s Origin

Kangaroo court

"Kangaroo court" goes back to the 19th-century U.S. frontier days, when roaming judges tried legal cases. They were paid by the trial, and a kangaroo court refers to the image of them hopping from case to case to try as many as possible.

Grab the bull by its horns

To "grab the bull by its horns" means to confront something head-on, without delay. One theory has it originating in the American West, where an effective way for ranchers to catch and subdue a bull was to grab its horns and wrest it to the ground.

Full of beans

Meaning energetic, "full of beans" is thought to come from late-1800s horse racing, when horses would be fed beans to make them gassy in the belief that they would run faster. 

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Historic Events

 March in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

Top Secret

3D movies

Birthdays

Charles Gibson (83 years old), American television journalist (Good Morning America), born in Evanston, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Kimberly Guilfoyle (57 years old), American television personality (Fox News, 2006-18; The Five) and prosecutor, born in San Fransisco, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Emmanuel Lewis (55 years old), American actor (Webster), born in Brooklyn, New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Sunisa Lee (23 years old), American gymnast (All-round Olympic Gold 2021), born in St. Paul, Minnesota   φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512; @57) Italian explorer (America), born in Florence φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ John Evans, American physician, railroad promoter, founder of Mercy Hospital (Chicago), Northwestern University, and University of Denver, and politician (Territorial Governor of Colorado, 1862-65) who was implicated in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, born in Waynesville, Ohio (d. 1897; @83)  φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986; @96) Russian politician (Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1939-49, 1953-6), born in Kukarka, Russian Empire φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Will Geer [William Aughe Ghere], American actor (Salt of the Earth, The Waltons), born in Frankfort, Indiana (d. 1978; @76, respiratory failure) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Mickey Spillane [Frank Morrison Spillane], American mystery writer (I the Jury), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006; @86) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Carl Betz, American actor (The Donna Reed Show; Love of Life), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1978; @56, lung cancer) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968; @34, on training flight) Russian cosmonaut and 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1), born in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Marty Ingels, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015; @79, stroke) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Mickey Gilley, American nightclub owner (Urban Cowboy) and country singer ("Roomful of Roses"), born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 2022; @86)  φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (Addams Family (films); Kiss of the Spider Woman), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1994; @54, stroke) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Bobby Fischer (1943-2008; @64, kidney failure) American chess player (world champion 1972-75), born in Chicago, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Bobby Sands (1954-1981; @27, on hunger strike) Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison where he died, born in Newtownabbey, Northern Abbey   φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

 

…The End for today…