Famous First Words: RESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon... Articles of Impeachment 1974
Happy Birthday, Medicare !! My meds: This one is for a good night's sleep and this one is for the headaches I get trying to understand the medicare drug plan. / Medicare Advice: Get sick now, before the republicans take away Medicare.
..........Honey in the mornin', honey in the evenin', honey at suppertime.........McGuire Sisters …..Sugartime
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. --Thorstein Veblen
It is a muggy Friday morning (81°, 75% RH). The sky is crisscrossed with thin lines of clouds that are most likely decaying jet trails. Sunlight brightens everything it touches. Birds flit about and call to one another and rabbits run ahead of us and hide under cars. Puck barks at a couple and then gives it up for smelling grass and every piece of litter than he passes. There is little wind to cool the brow or kiss the cheek. Earth smells of dryness and heat. We walk to the end of the block, but Puck does not wade into the weeds in the park. Instead, he turns around and heads back home. Once we stop and bark at a phantom in a neighbor's yard. Nothing moves there. We step into coolness. The new air conditioner has tamed the 48 hours of warmth that built up. Ahh. I doctor my decaf and sit down at my computer. Puck lies down at my feet. A long warm gulp of coffee slides down my throat and I am ready to write to you.
Hope your weekend is friendly and then some, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: What if UFOs are just billionaires from other planets? --Submitted by mh
I'm so sorry, but Medicare will only pay to cut out 98% of your tumor. If you want me to remove it all, I'll need to run your credit card for the difference. / Play Prescription Drug Twister –-The fun new Medicare game.
..........You share my reverie.........Paul Anka …..You Are My Destiny
Trivia Questions: Happy Anniversary to Richard Nixon's Impeachment. A Memory Quiz
^ Who was “Deep Throat” really?
^^ Who first said the famous line: “What did the president know and when did he know it”?
^^^ What event became known as the Saturday Night Massacre?
^^^^ Who let it slip to senate investigators that Nixon recorded everything?
^^^^^ In what year did Ford pardon Nixon?
Big Hello: Ola- Extremaduran (Extremaduran is a Romance language spoken in western Spanish, mainly in the autonomous community of Extremadura, and in neighboring parts of Salamanca, Toledo, Ciudad Real, Córdoba and Huelva. It is also spoken in Barrancos in Portugal. ttps://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Last night my roommate asked me if I'd seen the dog bowl. I said I didn't know he could. --Submitted by rk of ks
Max Picture of the Week: Max, the Pink Dragon ...in a red mask …taking a taxi
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: In libraries, the only thing we have to fear is the Chair of the library party planning committee https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
With Medicare, every member has a preexisting condition. / Marilyn is the most popular resident at Pioneer Ridge Assisted Living. She's the only one who figured out how the Medicare Drug Plan works.
..........May the bluebird sing your song.........McGuire Sisters …..May You Always
Moonbeam: Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. --Emily Brontë
Meditation Seed of the Week: Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as 4's?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I guess we should retire the expression “avoid it like the plague” given how little effort people put into avoiding an actual plague. --Submitted by ss of kc
Worthless Fact of the Week: Anita Bryant's granddaughter is marrying a woman. Just thought you might want to know. --Submitted by jm of ks ~~I checked this one out and apparently this is true. The Advocate, a very reputable magazine confirms it.
Week of the Week: Quilt Odyssey Week (29-31) --I just spent two hours organizing my stockpile of fabric. I think I'll reward myself with a trip to the yardgoods store. / If I clean the house, it just gets dirty again. But if I make a quilt, it stays made. I love that.
John Doe, Nursing Home Resident...cause of death: Deep government cuts allowed to fester and become gangrenous due to neglect. / It was recently discovered that the hieroglyphs in King Tut's tomb were actually Egypt's medicare drug plan.
..........You're the maximum, most.........Edd Byrns …..Kookie Lend Me Your Comb
^Deep Throat was W Mark Felt, Sr. At the time he was Associate Director of the FBI. His identity was finally disclosed in a Vanity Fair article in 2005.
Almanac: It is Friday, July 30, 2021. The moon will be in the third quarter tomorrow and is in Taurus. It is Cheesecake Day, Father-In-Law Day, Friendship Day aka International Day of Friendship, Health Care Now! (Medicare's Birthday, 1965), National Chicken and Waffles Day, National Share A Hug Day, National Whistleblowers Appreciation Day, Paperback Book Day, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, and System Administrator Appreciation Day. In Cuba it is the Day of Martyrs of the Revolution, and in France it is Marseillaise Day (1792). In Virginia it is Crater Day (1864) and Gilroy, CA celebrates at the Garlic Festival all weekend. Because it is the last Friday in July it is also National Get Gnarly Day and National Talk in An Elevator Day.
Among those born on this day were Giorgio Vasari (1511), Emily Brontë (1818), James Edward Kelly (1855), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Henry Ford (1863), Vladimir Zworykin (1889), Casey Stengel (1890), Henry Moore (1898), William Gass (1924), Christine McGuire (McGuire Sisters, 1929), Edd Kookie Byrnes (1933), Eleanor Smeal (1939), Paul Anka (1941), David Sanborn (1945), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), and Delta Burke (1956).
On July thirith Virginia formed the House of Burgesses (1619), the City of Baltimore was founded (1729), slaves took over the Amistad (1839), the US yacht club was organized was authorized (1844), the second Balkan War came to an end (1913), The Women's Navy Auxiliary Agency (WAVES, 1942) , the House of Representatives recommended 3 articles of impeachment against Nixon (1974), and Jimmy Hoffas was last seen (1975).
Night Sky, 7/30: As summer progresses, Arcturus moves down the western side of the evening sky. Arcturus forms the bottom point of the Kite of Bootes. The Kite, rather narrow, extends upper right from Arcturus by 23°, about two fists at arm's length. The lower right side of the kite is dented inward, as if some celestial intruder once banged into it. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Momiji Nishiya, 13 years old, won gold in women's street skateboarding.
This Week: Saturday, July 31 – International Slumber Party Night & National Mutt Day & Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day
Sunday, August 1 – Girlfriend's Day & Lammas Day aka Loafmass aka Lughnasa & National Mah Jongg Day
Night Sky, 8/1: Saturn is in opposition. Do you already notice that Saturn's rings are distinctly brighter, compared to Saturn's globe, than they usually are? This Seeliger effect is caused by the solid ring particles backscattering sunlight to us when the Sun is almost directly behind us. The dusty surfaces of the Moon and Mars do this too, but Saturn's clouds do not.
Monday, August 2 – Assistance Dog Day & National Coloring Book Day & Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day
Tuesday, August 3 – Friendship Day & National Night Out
Wednesday, August 4 – Single Working Women's Day & Social Security Day
Night Sky, 8/4: Venus (magnitude –3.9) continues to shine low in the west during twilight. It sets around twilight's end. Mars is disappearing from sight deep in the sunset, lower right of Venus
Thursday, August 5 – National Oyster Day & National Underwear Day
Actually, the stress caused by trying to figure out Medicare is not covered by Medicare. / Medicare – providing insurance to the elderly without losing one cent for big pharm.
..........People say that love's a game.........Paul Anka …..Put Your Head On My Shoulder
^^ The big question was posed by Senator Howard Baker, Jr. of Tennessee who was vice chair of the senate select committee on presidential campaign activities.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The fastest land mammal is a toddler who has been asked, “What's in your mouth?”.
Moonbeam: Just think – guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't. --Eleanor Smeal
Video of the Week: There is a Beatles song (Your Mother Should Know) with the lyric “was a hit before your mother was born): Here's Collins & Harlan singing When That Midnight Choo, Choo Leaves For Alabam” which was a hit in 1913: Collins and Harlan "When That Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam'" (Irving Berlin song) 1912 - YouTube
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie in gray, Max in water wings, Dad in euphoria
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: The whole thing lasted 11 minutes or as an Amazon worker knows three lunch breaks. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 7/24/21
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. --Thorstein Veblen
How many doctors does it take to charge a light bulb? Three 1 to find a bulb specialist. 1 to find a bulb installation specialist, and one to bill it all to medicare. / It's an experimental drug. We're still testing to see how much customers will pay for it.
..........Hustling, bustling, buzzing around.........McGuire Sisters …..Muskrat Ramble
^^^ The events surrounding President Nixon ordering the firing of Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, became known as the Saturday Night Massacre.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Did you know? By replacing your potato chips with grapefruit as a snack you can lose up to 90% of what little joy you still have left in your life. --Submitted by INRITH
Weird Word of the Week: Urtication – flogging with nettles – both the erotic stimulation and the folk remedy. World Wide Words: Urtication
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Polish jewelry. Drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes. Alka-Seltzer®: Wacky Uses
Puzzle of the Week: Last week's challenge: From Joseph Young, of St. Cloud, Minn., who conducts the blog "Puzzleria." Take the name of a flower that has a common girl's name in consecutive letters inside it. Remove that name, and the remaining letters, in order, sound like another girl's name. What flower is it? NPR Puzzle Sunday 7/25/21
We've run every test we could think of and the results show that you are at the annual Medicare limit. / Have you heard about the new Medicare Drug Plan called Plan C? Medicare gives you $30 for a bus ticket to Canada.
...........You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss.........Edd Byrnes …..You're The Top
^^^^ Alexander Butterfield, a white house aide, mentioned the white house taping system, which had been installed in 1971, during televised Senate Watergate Committee testimony.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Picking up this tiny piece of paper would take 1 second, but instead I am going to run over it 100 times with the vacuum at different angles. --Submitted by RHOZ
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Diversicon 28 (30-1, Plymouth,MN) --The Roaring 20s Diversicon
Actual Science Conference of the Week: 48th Annual Review of Progress in in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation: (28-30, Online event) --to provide an interface between research and early engineering
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Amaryllis — Mary, Alice
Medicare wishes to remind you that you are deliberately putting yourself at risk of ill health by being over 65. / Unfortunately, Medicare Part D does not cover Costrophobia relief medicines.
..........Oh, how can I tell them.........Paul Anka …..Puppy Love
^^^^^ President Ford pardoned Nixon on September 8, 1974 with Proclamation 4311.
My Own Writing of the Week: For several encounters Odysseus and I made jokes about Redi-whip® and the marvels of its sweet nothingness in proximity to certain parts of the anatomy. Then one afternoon as I was laying in bed, nearly napping, I felt something swoop down my back, hissing and spitting liquid. I screamed. Moral: Redi-Whip® - Yes! Surprise - No! --From: Always Surrender: Memories, observations, micro-stories, fantasies, and lies from my life as an insurgent in the sexual revolution
Extreme Topiary of the Week: Share A Hug Day
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. --Anne Lamott
Today's Peace of History, July 30, 1996: Four Ploughshares activists in Liverpool, England, were acquitted of all charges (illegal entry and criminal damage) on the basis of their having prevented a greater crime, after having extensively damaged an F-16 Hawk fighter jet to be sold to the Indonesian government for use in its genocidal occupation of East Timor.
According to our records, you had the same illness 200 years ago in a previous life. That qualifies as a preexisting condition. / Medicare Part D – US cure for opioid addiction.
..........Meets an old immovable object like me.........McGuire Sisters …..Something's Gotta Give
Son of Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Why read dystopian fiction when you can just pay attention? --Submitted by MMS
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle July 30, 2021, Insured ePistle Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: She burned too bright for this world. --Emily Brontë
Cost of War:
As of 7/29/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,151,339,326,601.
As of 7/22/21 Military Costs of War since 2001: $3,149,388,895,676.
As of 7/29/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,050,997,516,204.
As of 7/22/21 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,049,671,999,548.
As of 7/29/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $870,911,081,141.
As of 7/22/21 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $869,244,719,365.
As of 7/29/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $353,570.681,893.
As of 7/22/21 Veterans Care since 2001: $353,191.959,725.
As of 7/29/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,426,819,368,398.
As of 7/22/21 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $5,421,499,186,957.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
The abjectly poor, and all those persons whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today. --Thorstein Veblen
Famous Last Words: It evens itself out. --Casey Stengel
..........Remembering all those little things.........Paul Anka …..My Heart Sings
Medicare Blues: There were ten in bed and the little one said, “These Medicare cuts are ridiculous”. / After a lecture on the general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein said to his audience, “But don't ask me to explain Medicare Part D”.
May Peace refresh your body
And Joy restore your soul
prairie mama
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