Famous First Words: An act to protect all Persons... Civil Rights Act 1866
It's National Unicorn Day! Remember: Never play Leapfrog with a unicorn. / For breakfast unicorns eat Lucky Charms.
..........The cats get hip and holler, ooh-ooh man alive..........Carl Perkins …..Pink Pedal Pushers
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. --Paul Robeson
It is a beautiful Friday morning. The sun is shining in a cloudless blue sky. The temperature is cool (43°F) but promises more warmth as the sun climbs higher. There is little breeze to move the hanging willow branches that look like green Spanish moss. Even the big old pin oak is breaking out in a yellow foliage that looks like fuzzy baby hair. Yesterday's rain has made every blade of grass and flower stalk shine with its own unique green. Birds are flying in and out of trees. They are too busy to stop on the wire and talk or just take in the scene. But they do sing as they flutter about...several songs that neither fit together as a choir, nor descend into cacophony. The ground is wet and smells of spring and promise. I take several deep breaths of it to cheer my soul and renew my spirit. But, at last, I return indoors to sit at my computer, drink my doctored decaf and write to you.
Hope your weekend is so good it's mythical, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad a decision can it really be?
The unicorns that live next door to me call their dad Pop Corn. / Junior Unicorn wanted to join the school band and wear a uniform.
..........Two, four, six, eight, time to transubstantiate.........Tom Lehrer …..The Vatican Rag
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to the Civil Rights Act of 1866!
^ Any idea when the act actually became law?
^^ What basic rights did the law grant?
^^^ Care to guess what the full title of the bill was? (Note it's 23 words long so if you get any of them, you get points.)
^^^^ What aspect of US citizenship, as established in this act, has been the subject of debate in recent discussions about immigration?
^^^^^ How did it go?
Big Hello: Dydh da - Cornish https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: A really smart television would adjust the volume when you eat chips. --Submitted by #RHOZ
Max Picture of the Week: Max and the really, really long cast
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 42% of library users have a pen they "got” at the library. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Why are unicorn jokes so silly? They're uni-corny. / The criminal element in unicorn society usually ends up in unicourt.
..........Havin' some fun tonight..........Carl Perkins …..Long Tall Sally
Moonbeam: A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man. --Cynthia Nixon
Meditation Seed of the Week: What did you learn today (this week, at this event, from this)?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you feel like you're behind in life, just remember, Matt Gaetz didn't get a high school girlfriend until he was almost 40. --Submitted by rhb of ks
Week of the Week: National Library Week (4-10) --That ghost comes back to the library everyday and checks out more books because she goes through them so quickly. / The reason you can't find the book you need is because the last patron who had it shelved it himself to save the librarians a few steps.
Unicorns never horse around – they get right to the point. / Unicorn children ride unicycles to the park.
..........There's Sulfur, Californium and Fermium..........Tom Lehrer …..The Elements Song
^ The Act was passed by Congress in 1865 and vetoed by President Andrew Johnson. In April 1866 Congress again passed the bill to support the Thirteenth Amendment, and Johnson again vetoed it, but a two-thirds majority in each chamber overrode the veto to allow it to become law without presidential signature.
Almanac: It is Friday, April 9, 2021. The moon will be new on Sunday and is in Pisces. It is Appomattox Day, Jenkins Ear Day, National Cherish An Antique Day, National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, National Unicorn Day, and Winston Churchill Day. Because it is the second Friday it is also National Dive Bar Day.
Among those born on this day were Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821), Leopold II, King of Belgians (1835), Helena Lange (1848), Charles Holroyd (1861), Efrem Zimbalist (1889), Paul Robeson (1898), Ward Bond (1903), J William Fulbright (1905), Abraham Ribicoff (1910), Hugh Hefner (1926), Tom Lehrer (1928), Carl Perkins (1932), Paul Krassner (1932), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Avery Schreiber (1935), Gene Parsons (1944), Kenneth Cockrell (1950), Dennis Quaid (1954), and Cynthia Nixon (1966).
On April ninth Milan/Venice signed the Peace of Lode (1454), Spain/Netherlands signed the 12 Year Resistant Pace (1809), first public art exhibition opened (Paris, 1667), the first tax supported public library opened (NH, 1833), the National Gallery opened (London, 1838), the Civil Rights Bill passed over President Andrew Johnson's veto (1866), O'Casey's Shadow of a Gunman premiered (Dublin, 1923), Sacco & Vanzetti were sentenced to death (1927), O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed premiered (Pasadena, 1928), Bob Hope first appeared on television (1950), the Suez Canal was cleared for all shipping (1957), Martin Luther King, Jr was buried (Atlanta, 1968), Paul McCartney announced the official split of the Beatles (1970), Microsoft released MS-DOS 5.0 (1991), and the Endeavour (STS-59) was launched into orbit (1994).
Night Sky, 4/9: Vega, the bright "Summer Star," rises in the northeast late these evenings. Exactly where should you watch for it to come up? Spot the Big Dipper almost overhead in the northeast. Look at Mizar at the bend of its handle. If you can see Mizar's tiny, close companion Alcor (binoculars show it easily), follow a line from Mizar through Alcor all the way down to the horizon. That's where Vega will make its appearance. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Fagradalsfjall erupting in Iceland
This Week: Saturday, April 10 – Baby Massage Day & National Farm Animals Day & Slow Art Day
Sunday, April 11 – Barbershop Quartet Day & National Clean Up Your Pantry Day & National Pet Day
Night Sky, 4/11: By late evening the Sickle of Leo stands nearly vertical high in the south. Its bottom star is Regulus, the brightest of Leo. Leo himself is walking westward. The Sickle forms his front leg, chest, mane, and part of his head. Off to the left, a long right triangle forms his hind end and long tail.
Monday, April 12 – Big Wind Day & Walk On Your Wild Side Day & Day 1 of Ramadan
Tuesday, April 13 – Make Lunch Count Day & National Be Kind to Lawyers Day & Scrabble Day
Wednesday, April 14 – International Moment of Laughter Day & National Dolphin Day & National Guarding Day
Night Sky, 4/14: Jupiter and Saturn have been emerging into dawn view for the last month. Look for them low in the southeast about 60 to 40 minutes before your local sunrise time. Saturn is the higher of the two, but it's much dimmer. Find Jupiter some 12° to Saturn's lower left: roughly a fist at arm's length.
Thursday, April 15 – Jackie Robinson Day & Take a Wild Guess Day & World Art Day
Usually this is also Income Tax Day but due to the pandemic or whatever, 2021 Income Tax Day is May 17th
Lost Count of the Funniest Things I Read of the Week: Patience is the ability to let your light shine even after your fuse has blown. --Submitted by HPF
A unicorn with no horn is called a eunichorn. / After the storm my unicorn galloped somewhere over the rainbow.
..........Lace curtains blowing on a river's breeze.........Dennis Quaid …..Closer To You
^^ The Civil Rights Act of 1866 said that any citizen has the same right that a white citizen has to make and enforce contracts, sue and be sued, give evidence in court, and inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. Additionally, the act guaranteed to all citizens the "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and ... like punishment, pains, and penalties..." Persons who denied these rights on account of race or previous enslavement were guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction faced a fine not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My thoughts and prayers go out to anyone trying on summer clothes. --Submitted by INRITH
Moonbeam: For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up. --Paul Krassner
Late Night Snacks of the Week: “It is so blatantly racist that it’s been dubbed ‘Jim Crow 2.0.’ 2.0, really? Georgia’s passed so many voter-suppression measures, they’ve got to be up to at least Jim Crow Snow Leopard.” — STEPHEN COLBERT / Pence is thinking of naming his memoir Fifty Shade of White. — JIMMY FALLON / “And honestly you’ve got to feel for the G.O.P., because they spend so much time defending corporate interests, trying to cut corporate taxes, letting corporations do whatever they want, and then the corporations are just like, ‘Cool, now we have more money to pay Colin Kaepernick.’” — TREVOR NOAH / “Many of the fans were defiantly maskless. I like that adult men will go to a baseball stadium and wear a glove the whole game, for the one in 98,000 chance they might catch a foul ball. But a mask? No way, out of the question!” — JIMMY KIMMEL
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie auditioning to be the Cadbury Bunny
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: All right, Jon, here's your first question. When our robots rise up and murder us, they'll have good reason. Which of these is a job formerly done by a human that we now make a robot do - A, the Fidobot, a tiny robot that follows around dogs with little baggies, so you don't have to, B, the Mobot, a robot that painstakingly edits out all of Mo Rocca's thousands of wrong guesses on this show...or, C, the Robutt, a robotic rectum used to help doctors train to give exams? --Faith Salie Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me 7/38/18 ~~The answer was C: Robutt.
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III. --Paul Robeson
Enus the Unicorn displayed the produce from her garden with a unicornicopia. / Uriah Unicorn learned to play unicordian and joined a polka band.
..........We've all got our own funny moods...........Dennis Quaid …..If You Don't Know By Now
^^^ The full title is: An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights and liberties, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Some days the supply of available swear words are insufficient to meet my demands. --Submitted by cf of ??
Weird Word of the Week: Hodmandod – a snail From the Middle English dodden to make the top of something bare World Wide Words: Hodmandod
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Clean ink stains from a laminated surface. Spray the ink mark with Alberto VO5 Hair Spray and wipe clean. The acetone in hair spray removes permanent marker from a laminated surface. Alberto VO5® Hair Spray: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: This week's challenge comes from listener Greg VanMechelen, of Berkeley, Calif. Name something birds do. Put the last sound of this word at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically you'll name something else birds do. What are these things? NPR Sunday Puzzler 4/4/21
If you cross a unicorn and a cow you get horned beef. / There's a big Uno tournament in Unicorntown.
...........anyway you do..........Carl Perkins …..That's Alright, Mama
^^^^ With an incipit of "An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their vindication", the act declared that all people born in the United States who are not subject to any foreign power are entitled to be citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude. A similar provision (called the Citizenship Clause) was written a few months later into the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I went outside to check the garden. I felt something cold and wet on my arm. I looked down and saw a mosquito using a disinfectant wipe on me. --Submitted by FIFD Funny is as Funny does
Science Fiction Convention Joke of the Week: Star Trek conventions always give away a prize. The winner is determined by a hat draw from everyone who bought a convention ticket. It's called the enter prize.
Actual Science Convention Joke of the Week: At an Astrophysics Convention in Texas the lights went out. Immediately a debate started about whether this was the dark energy or a dark matter.
Today's Peace of History: Today's Peace of History, April 9, 1981: Members of the Bigstone Cree band of indigenous people ended a 250-mile march to the capital, Edmonton, to highlight their economic plight in northern Alberta, Canada.
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Chirp and perch.
Unicorns go to Unicornivals to ride the merry-go-round. / What's the difference between a unicorn and an honest politician? Nothing, they're both fictional characters.
..........spreading joy wherever he goes.........Tom Lehrer …..The Old Dope Peddler
^^^^^ The activities of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) undermined the act, meaning that it failed to immediately secure the civil rights of African Americans. While it has been de jure illegal in the U.S. to discriminate in employment and housing on the basis of race since 1866, federal penalties were not provided for until the second half of the 20th century (with the passage of related civil rights legislation), which meant remedies were left to the individuals involved: because those being discriminated against had limited or no access to legal assistance, this often left many victims of discrimination without recourse. There have been an increasing number of remedies provided under this act since the second half of the 20th century, including the landmark Jones v. Mayer and Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. decisions in 1968
Recreating Famous Painting With Anything You Can Find of the Week:
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Welcome to spring where no matter what jacket you pick, you're wrong. --Submitted by INRITH
Today's Second Peace of History: Today's Peace of History, April 9, 1947: The first freedom ride, the "Journey of Reconciliation," left Washington, D.C. to travel through four states of the upper South.In response to a Supreme Court decision (Morgan v. Virginia) outlawing segregation on interstate busses, the group of both black and white Americans rode together despite “Jim Crow” state laws making it illegal.
You can tell if unicorns have been in your refrigerator, there's glitter in the jello. / Unicorns love to run mare-athons.
..........It don't take much lookin' to see what I got..........Carl Perkins …..Glad All Over
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle April 9, 2021, Mythic ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith, dovedrop@gmail.com Lawrence, KS.
Moonbeam: With George McGovern we wouldn’t have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago. --Abraham Ribicoff
Cost of War:
As of 4/8/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,119,753,837,761.
As of 4/1/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,117,779,298,200.
As of 4/8/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,029,531,826,443.
As of 4/1/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,028,189,758,197.
As of 4/8/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $843,925,822,496.
As of 4/1/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $842,238,469,911.
As of 4/8/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $347,437,700,118.
As of 4/1/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $347,054,181,432.
As of 4/8/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,340,649,014,396.
As of 4/1/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,335,262,354,516.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
We must join with tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility. --Paul Robeson
Famous Last Words: Men Forget! --(Caligula) Eugene O'Neill, Lazarus Laughed
..........When Alabama gets the bomb.........Tom Lehrer …..Who's Next
What's black and white and eats like a unicorn? A Zebra. / A Unicorn is just a horse with a point of view. --Ron Sexsmith
May Peace stick with you like glitter
And Joy come to you in a rainbow of colors
prairie mama
christine
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