Famous
First Words: Conserving the Nature of America ...US
Fish & Wildlife Service website
It
is National Meteor Watch Day ! A Meteor Shower? Thank goodness it
isn't a meteor blizzard. / Without Jupiter cleaning out the early
solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions.
We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would
probably be a gigantic create if it wasn't for Jupiter. --Michio
Kaku
..........Fish
got to swim, birds got to fly.........Lena Horne …..Can't Help
Lovin' That Man
We
are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each
other, when we celebrate our diversity … and together tear down the
mighty walls of injustice. --Cynthia McKinney, American politician
and activist.
It
is a damp Friday morning. Puck has to jump over a small puddle that
accumulated by the garage door and refuses to come into the yard from
the driveway lest he get his feet week. The sky is complete overcast
with not very exciting looking clouds. Every surface is wet, some
with dampness some with standing water. The light breeze blows warm
air and then mist from the moisture that is everywhere. Cars passing
by squish with the sound of speed on watered pavement and are gone.
The world smells of dampness, of wet cement, wet soil, wet dog.
Hope
your weekend showers you with fun, ePistliers..
PreQuel
to the weather report aka coffee review aka morning mediation: It is
Thursday evening near 9 pm. On Wednesday morning some
out-of-town-company or other bought our not quite local internet
provider (WOW) who had been purchased from Knowlogy also out of town
who bought if from Sunflower which was – more or less actually
local. Our house has not had internet access since that transfer of
ownership. I have just returned from the library where I discovered
that my Ipad will not let me edit my website and the I-Pad didn't
(couldn't..wouldn't) access my group contacts in gmail so I had to
key in 170 names just to let my calendar folks know I couldn't send
them an update this week. RRRRRRRRRRR. Ergo: this ePistle –
originally called the tEktite ePistle – will go out first chance I
get under the title “vEry, vEry, lAte ePistle. ~~I'll try to
remember to update Cost of War before I send it...if not, we'll catch
up next week.
Tektites
– (from the Greek tektos, molten) ...not themselves meteorites, but
rather natural glass objects that were formed by the impacts of large
meteorites on Earth's surface.
May
Peace Prevail on Earth of the Week: Albanian
Don't
sell them short, meteors mean to make an impact. / I would rather be
a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy
and permanent planet. --Jack London
..........I
don't want you, but I need you.........The Supremes …..You've
Really Got a Hold on Me
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday, N.O.W.
^
Any idea who wrote the original NOW Statement of Purpose in 1966?
^^
Can you name any of the original officers?
^^^
What were the issues on the table at NOW's second conference in 1967?
^^^^
What was the focus of NOW's 1968 boycott of Colgate-Palmolive
products?
^^^^^
Currently, about how many members does NOW have?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
The average librarian's cardigan conceals two pencils, one flask, and
one emergency kitten.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Moonbeam:
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
--John Gay
When
there's a meteor shower, Chuck Norris grabs a bar of soap. / Sure,
meteor showers are incredible for the observer; but they're hell on
meteors.
..........My
mama done tol' me, son!........Buddy Rich & Mel Torme …..Blues
in the Night
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Hau – Lakota Sioux
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
OzCon International: The Winkie Conference: June 30 – July 2,
Portland OR. ...we will be celebrating L. Frank Baum's eleventh Oz
book, The Lost Princess of Oz... http://www.ozconinternational.com/
In
America you find meteors; in Russian meteors find you. / What's a
meteor's favorite computer key? The space bar, of course.
..........the
blues walked in and met me.........Lena Horne …..Stormy Weather
Almanac:It
is Friday, June 30, 2017. The moon is first quarter today and is in
Libra. The United Nations has designated this as International
Asteroid Day. It is Leap Second Time Adjustment Day,
National Meteor Watch Day, NOW (National Organization For Women) Day,
and Social Media Day. In Guatemala it is Revolution Day (1871) and
in Mongolia it is Constitution Day. Rwanda & Burundi both
celebrate Independence Day (1962) as does Zaire (1960). Because it
is the last Friday it is also Drive Your Corvette to Work Day.
Among
those born on this day were John Gay (1685), Elizabeth Kortright
Monroe (1768), William Wheeler (1819), Wilfrid Pelletier (1896),
David Wayne (1916), Buddy Rich and Lena Horne (1917), Susan Hayward
(1918), Harry Blackstone Jr (1934), Florence Ballard (Supremes,
1943), and Mike Tyson (1966).
On
June thirtieth St. Marcellinus became pope (296), Pope Benedict XIV
outlawed traffic in alms (1741), congress created the Indian
Territory (now Oklahoma, 1834), the first female law student
graduated (1870), the Excelsior diamond was discovered (1893), Korea
declared independence from China (1894), Astroid #504 Cora was
discovered (1902), a giant fireball impacted Central Siberia (1908),
the Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were both
adopted (1906), Gandhi was first arrested (South Africa, 1914), Gone
with the Wind
was published and the 40 hour work week was made law (1936), the US
Fish & Wildlife Service was established (1940), the New Orleans
mint ceased operation (1942), NAACP began at attack on school
segregation and discrimination (1951), Zaire gained independence
(1960), Rwanda & Burundi became independent (1962), Robert
Lawrence Jr was named the first black astronaut (1967), Spain ceded
Ifni to Morocco (1969), the first game was played in Cincinati's
Riverfront Stadium (1970), the remaining hostages were released from
Beirut (1985), and the New York State legislature passed the Staten
Island Seccession Bill (1989).
Night
Sky, 6/30:
First-quarter Moon (exact at 8:51 p.m. EDT). The "star"
left of the moon is Jupiter.
This
Week: Saturday, July 1 – Canada
Day & International Cherry Pit Spitting Day
Night
Sky, 7/1: The Moon this evening forms a broad triangle with
Jupiter and Spica in the southwest.
Sunday,
July 2 – World UFO Day
Monday,
July 3 – International Plastic Bag Free Day ...Earth at
aphelion
Night
Sky, 7/3: Neptune and Venus are visible in the morning skies.
Dog Days begin.
Tuesday,
July 4 – US Independence Day & Indivisible Day
Wednesday,
July 5 – Bikini Day & Works Without Your Hands Day
Night
Sky, 7/5: Mercury, Mars, and Saturn are all visible in the
evening skies. Venus is currently out of sight.
Thursday,
July 6 – International Kissing Day aka World Kiss Day
Spacemen
add more protein to their diets by making them meteor. / The aliens
can park on the Parking Meteor.
..........
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.........Buddy Rich …..The
Beat Goes On
^^
The original NOW officers includied Kathryn (Kay) Clarenbach as Chair
of the Board, Betty Friedan as President, Aileen Hernandez—who had
announced her impending resignation from the EEOC—in absentia as
Executive Vice President, Richard Graham as Vice President, and
Caroline Davis as Secretary/Treasurer.
Funniest
thing I Read of the Week: It's a good day to override some
vetoes. --Boog Highberger
Moonbeam:
Nothing I do can't be done by a ten year old – with fifteen years
practice. --Harry Blackstone Jr
Late
Night Snacks: President Drumpf’s son-in-law
Jared Kushner is in the Middle East to broker an historic peace
between Israel and the Palestinians. Kushner thinks real progress
will start once both sides stop laughing. --Conan O'Brien / There
was a special election in Georgia last night to fill a vacant
congressional seat and Republican Karen Handel defeated the Democrat
Jon Ossoff. Now, I have a question about the American political
process. When is there NOT an election? There is ALWAYS an election
here. You LOVE elections. The only thing you love more than elections
is moaning about the outcome of elections. --James Corden /
Yesterday, White House officials said Russia targeted election
systems in 21 states last year. Drumpf was furious. He said, “I
paid for all 50.” --Jimmy Fallon / Qatar Airways today was named
“Airline of the Year” at the Paris Air Show. While United was
named “Heavyweight Champion” by the WWE. --Seth Meyers / This
morning Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell showed us a draft of
his top-secret new healthcare legislation. They opened the vault,
they laid the bill out on a table, rubbed lemon juice all over it,
and the text magically appeared for all to see. And wouldn’t you
know it, the bill includes a big tax cut for rich people. So unless
you just got drafted by an NBA team, it’s not great news. --Jimmy
Kimmel / The temperature is so high in Phoenix, Arizona, that flights
are being canceled because it’s too hot for planes. Because at
higher temperatures, the air has a lower density, which reduces how
much lift is generated. Scientists first realized this was a problem
when they saw birds taking the bus north for summer. --Stephen
Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks: What's the difference between a ghost
and a congressman? Ghosts show up... Ghosts are transparent...
--Ophira Eisenberg Ask Me Another / We
owe an apology to the Church of Satan. Last week, we said they had
condemned President Trump. In fact, all they had done was they put
out a statement saying contrary to Internet rumor, that that weird
orb that Trump put his hands on in Saudi Arabia, that was not, I
repeat, not a satanic ritual. They cleared that up. So we're sorry
to the Church of Satan. We should have known. They are Satanists.
They're not going to condemn Donald Trump. At worst, they just
consider him an amateur. --Peter Sagal
Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me
Freedom
is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
--A Philip Randolph, African-American civil rights campaigner.2
I'm
glad that meteor game along. Dinosaurs were becoming too mainstream.
/ Meteor Shower – some people call it Russian Snow.
..........She
never bothers with people she'd hate.........Lena Horne …..The
Lady Is a Tramp
^^^
1967...at its second national conference, NOW adopted 1)passage of
the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 2)the repeal of all abortion laws,
and 3)publicly-funded child care in a “Bill of Rights for Women.”
NOW is the first national organization to endorse the legalization of
abortion.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The Excelsior Diamond was the largest known
diamond in the world from 1893 until 1905 when the larger Cullinan
Diamond was found. The Excelsior was blue-white in tint and weighed
971 old carats or 995.2 metric carats. It was cut into 20 stones
weighing from 13 to 68 carats each. Click
here for a picture
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I survived another meeting
that should have been an email. --submitted by
Weird
Word of the Week:
Ooglification - It refers to a supposed process by which an oo
sound is substituted for another vowel, either to turn a regular
English word into slang or to make a slang word even more slangy. It
was invented about 30 years ago by Roger Wescott, who was then
Professor of Linguistics at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
It appeared in a little article in the linguistic magazine Verbatim
under the title Ooglification
in American English Slang.
He claimed to have derived the word as an expansion of the American
slang oogly,
meaning extremely unattractive.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oog1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Clean an oven. To scrub baked-on food and grease from inside an oven,
mix two tablespoons Tang and one cup of water, apply the orange
solution to the inside of the oven, and scrub with a nylon brush or
non-abrasive scrubbing pad. The citric acid in the Tang miraculously
cuts through he grease and grime.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tang.html
...........Let
it shine all over me.........The Supremes …..Hang On, Sloopy
^^^^
1968...NOW boycott Colgate-Palmolive products, and demonstrated for 5
days in front of the company’s headquarters, protesting company
rules that kept women out of top-paying jobs with a prohibition
against lifting more than 35 pounds.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Laughable – so ludicrous as
to be amusing. The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene I:
Salarino: that they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, though
Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Week
of the Week: National Unassisted
Homebirth Week (July 1-7) – I am planning a home birth so awesome,
Morgan Freeman will narrate it.
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck ghost dancing in the case of the Ectoplasmic
Elkhound.
Moon
rocks make better stone soup because they're a little meteor. /
Meteor Shower? Ain't nobody got time for that.
..........Watching
clouds drifting by.........Buddy Rich …..I'm Always Chasing
Rainbows
^^^^^
NOW is the largest feminist organization in the nation, with more
than 500,000 contributing members. NOW has more than 500 local and
campus affiliates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
These affiliates include chapters and Campus Action Networks.
Month
of the Week: July is National Honey
Month –
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Port Mahon Road, Delaware. ...a very scenic coastal drive located at
the mouth of the Mahon River, in Kent County. The surface of the
road is gravel (or old asphalt in very bad conditions). This is a
maintained road where a high clearance 2WD vehicle is able to travel
safely at low speeds on long dry straight-of-ways, without losing
control due to wash boarding, ruts, or dips. The road extends nearly
four miles from Delaware Route 9 toward the remains of an old fish
factory and adjacent piers along the western side of the Delaware
Bay. Images
Today's
Peace of History: June 30, 1966: Gis, known
as the Fort Hood Three ( Army Privates James Johnson, Dennis Mora,
and David Samas) refused to be sent to Vietnam. All were members of
the 142nd Signal Battalion, 2nd Armored Division stationed at Fort
Hood, Texas. The three were from working-class families, and had
denounced the war as “immoral, illegal and unjust.” They were
arrested, court-martialed and imprisoned. The Pentagon reported
503,926 “incidents of desertion” between 1966 and 1971.
Every
night looks like a meteor shower if you shake your head fast enough.
/ If a meteorite hits a planet what do they call the ones that miss?
Metiowrongs
..........who
knows the fear of losing someone dear.........The Supremes …..Ask
Any Girl
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
I keep hitting the space bar but I'm still on earth. --Submitted by
mj of ks
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle June 30, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
It's
All In Your Mind, You Know.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Moonbeam:
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. --Mike
Tyson
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 6/29/17: $775,362,342,908.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 6/22/17: $775,362,342,908.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 6/29/17:
$820,592,987,320.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 6/22/17:
$820,592,987,320.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 6/29/17: $15,548,837,046.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 6/22/17: $15,548,837,046.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 6/29/17:
$152,711,019,975.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 6/22/17:
$152,711,019,975.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 6/29/17:
$1,769,020,459,119.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 6/22/17:
$1,769,020,459,119.
The
candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue
from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured,
who were kidnapped, who “disappeared”. That's what the candle is
for. --Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International.
..........Now
in a cottage built of lilac and laughter.........Lena Horne …..Polk
Dots & Moonbeams
A
meteorologist informs you months in advance of a meteor shower,
forgets to tell you that the forecast is cloudy and rainy.
Famous
Last Words: That no additional compensation shall be allowed
for such services. --An Act to Regulate Trade & Intercourse
with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers aka
Indian Intercourse Act of 1834.
May
Peace be your bolide
And
Joy be your fireball
prairie
mama
christine
There
is no last laugh today due to the Wondrous WOW Internet Provider
Meltdown of '17.
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