Famous First Words: I will be brief. --LBJ's speech introducing the War on Poverty
Beware the Ides of March! It has been 2068 years since Caesar failed to beware. I read that his dying words were, “Name a salad after me”. / Oh remember to leave milk and cookies out from Brutus tonight.
..........Driving that train, high on cocaine.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Casey Jones
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. --Andrew Jackson
This Friday morning, I went to the doctor who set up an x-ray of my hip so hopefully, we can alleviate some of this pain when I walk. Other than that, I'm still alive and doing well. My Ides of March began yesterday afternoon when I sat down to proof the ePistle and discovered that I had used the May 15th almanac page instead of March 15th. The Caesar jokes were already in place. Whew! But the almanac section and the moonbeams and trivia questions had to be changed. So, if you come across something that you are sure happened in May. My bad. The weather here is perfect: cloudless blue sky, 11 mph wind to make the willow switches (now yellow with new growth) dance and the birds sing. Hope your morning is pleasant too, my loves.
Wishing you more fun this weekend that you can process, ePistliers.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. --Douglas Adams
People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups. / So, the plan is we walk in, stab him, and the rest, as they say, is history.
….......Please don't dominate the rap, Jack, if you got nothin' new to say.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..New Speedway Boogie
Trivia Questions: Happy Buzzard's Day
- ^ What is the favored habitat of buzzards?
- ^^ Do buzzards have good eyesight?
- ^^^ Does eating infected animals harm buzzards?
- ^^^^ What other names do buzzards go by? **
- ^^^^^ How did the turkey buzzard get its name?
** Because Merriam-Webster says it's okay now...to end a sentence with a preposition
Big Hello: Kia ora - Māori https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Edam is the only cheese made backwards. --Submitted by FNOG
Image of the Week: Lawrence, Kansas has 16 Peace Poles. This one is in South Park. (The bottom half is bee trails or maybe insects generally. It has a section with dog and cat prints and at the dedication the lady who talked about that brought a dog on a leash who peed on the pole while she talked. The crowd loved it. We felt it was a mark of approval from the pet world.)
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: Unlike their book collection, 39% of librarian organize their liquor cabinet by color. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
No, what Caesar actually said as he was dying was, “It was a joke. Can't anyone take a joke anymore?” / The Roman Empire was cut in half by pair of Caesars.
..........Old like a rum drinking demon at tea.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Doin' That Rag
Conspiracy Theory of the Week: The moon landing was faked. Denialism was first popularized by a 1976 Bill Kaysing's book called We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle. A 2019 IPSOS poll found that 11% of American millennials believe the moon landing were faked.
Puzzle of the Week: Take the last name of a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Remove the middle three letters and duplicate the last two letters to get the first name of a different Nobel Peace Prize winner. What are those two names? ---NPR Sunday Puzzle 3/9/24
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Think I'll be like a cat today and slowly push all my problems onto the floor. --Submitted by High Church Coyote
The whole Ides thing would have inspired cooler art if the senators had stabbed Caesar with light sabers. / Sure, friends murder each other all the time.
..........And my tunes were played on a harp unstrung.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Ripple
^ Buzzards live in woodlands near open fields.
Almanac:
It is Friday March 15, 2024. The moon will enter the first quarter on
Sunday (3/17) and is in Gemini. It is Buzzard's
Day, Everything You Think Is Wrong Day, Brutus Day aka Ides of March,
True Confessions Day, World Consumer Rights Day, and Freedom of
Information Day. In Maine it is
Admission Day (1820) and Tennessee celebrates Andrew Jackson's
Birthday (1767).
Among
those born on this day were Hadrian (76), Andrew Jackson (1767),
Harold L. Ickes (1874), Harry James (1916), Roy Clark (1933), Jimmy
Lee Swaggart (1936), Judd Hirsch (1935), Phil Lesh (Chapman, 1940),
Mike Love (Beach Boys, 1941), Ry Cooder (1947) and Fabio (Lanzoni,
1961).
On March fifteenth Maine was admitted as the 23rd state (1820), the first Black newspaper was published (Freedom's Journal, 1827), the University of Toronto was chartered (1827), Louisiana became the first state of create a Health Board (1855), Finland gave women the right to vote (1907), the first presidential press conference was held (Wilson , 1913), Chicago established the first blood bank (1937), NC opened the first contraceptive clinic (1937), Billboard printed its first album list (1945), NYC hired an official "rainmaker" (1950), CBS Morning Show premiered (Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar, 1954), the Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve became the world's first underwater park (1960), LBJ declared War on Poverty (1964), and Liz Taylor married Richard Burton (1964),
Night Sky, 3/15: The Big Dipper glitters softly high in the northeast these evenings, standing on its handle. You probably know that the two stars forming the front of the Dipper's bowl (currently on top) are the Pointers; they point to Polaris, currently to their left or lower left. And, you may know that if you follow the curve of the Dipper's handle out and around by a little more than a Dipper length, you'll arc to Arcturus, now rising in the east.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: The grandma, the grandkids, and the food coloring
Extra Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: TikTok can avoid getting banned by simply renaming itself “Guns”. --Submitted by 98%
This Week: Saturday, March 16 – Black Press Day & Lips Appreciation Day & National Panda Day
Sunday, March 17 – Campfire Day & National Slime Day & St Patrick's Day
Night Sky, 3/17: But did you know that if you follow the Dipper's Pointers backward the opposite way, you'll land in Leo? Draw a line diagonally across the Dipper's bowl from where the handle is attached, continue far on, and you'll go to Gemini.
Monday, March 18 – Awkward Moments Day & National Biodiesel Day
Tuesday, March 19 – International Read To Me Day & Ostara & Raspberry Day
Wednesday, March 20 – Alien Abduction Day & Snowman Burning Day & World Frog Day
Night Sky, 3/20: And look at the two stars forming the open top of the Dipper's bowl. Follow this line past the bowl's lip far across the sky, and you cruise to Capella.
Thursday, March 21 – World Poetry Day & World Puppetry Day
You know, Brutus' mother cautioned him against running with Caesars. / You are mistaken. Caesar didn't want to the emperor he wanted to be Umpire of the Roman Empire.
..........Listen to the river sing sweet songs.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Brokedown Palace
^^ Buzzards can see small prey from high in the sky. They have very good eyesight.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Thank God winter is finally over, and we can kick back and enjoy tornado season. --Submitted by RHOZ
Moonbeam: The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. --Jimmy Swaggart
Blasphemy of the Week: Arrogance is asking a god who wouldn't stop the Holocaust to find your car keys. --Ricky Gervais
Video of the Week: A very “camp” video of Fabio and some woman eating chicken: Click Here
If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning. --Andrew Jackson
Senator Katie Britt claimed she thought Caesar was a cake made to look like Caesar. She may be telling the truth, Caesar did shout, “I'm not a cake”. / Julius was known as the first holey Roman Emperor.
..........'Cause when life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Uncle John's Band
^^^ About 50 years ago, rabbits in England became infected with a virous. Many of them died leaving less food for buzzards. Many buzzards died but not from the virus.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: We did it! Daylight is saved.
Weird Word of the Week: Abatjour – a device for deflecting daylight downward as it enters a window or it can be a skylight Abat-jour Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Dragon of the Week: Enough edible dragons – Dragon Lamp
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Clean diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. Simply soak the gems in Canada Dry Club Soda. Canada Dry®: Wacky Uses
Really, it was just the senator's way to unfriending Caesar. / I suppose celebrating the Ides of March by ordering Little Caesar's Pizza is appropriate. / Caesar left Brutus, all his trust issues.
...........Jump like a Willys in four-wheel drive.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Sugar Magnolia
^^^ Vultures are in a category of scavenging birds of prey (or raptors) that feed exclusively on carrion. This means that vultures only feed on the decaying carcasses of dead animals. Vultures in the United States are a critical part of the ecosystem and clean up carrion, which helps control disease spread. Vultures are also essential for nutrient recycling, returning nutrients from carcasses back into the ecosystem.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I never needed a mood ring. I had a face. --Judy Brynds --Submitted by sj of ks
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: GalaxyCon Richmond 2024 (15-17, Richmond, VA) Festival of Fandom GalaxyCon Richmond
Actual Science Conference of the Week: Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference (14-16, Washington, DC) Enhance your science communication skills... ERN: Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (emerging-researchers.org)
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Nelson MANDELA -->MALALA Yousafzai
If I had a denarius for every misquote and misattributed meme about me on the internet, I'd have been able to invade Gaul without raising taxes. --Julius Caesar / By the way, any salad is a Caesar salad if you use 23 knives.
..........Set out runnin' but I take my time.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Friend of the Devil
^^^^^ Turkey Vultures (Cathartes aura) are named for their red, featherless heads that bear resemblance to wild turkeys. Turkey vultures have a six-foot wingspan and weigh between 3.5 and 5 pounds.
Discussion Topic of the Week: If you are choosing between the lesser of two evils, how easy is it to forget you chose evil?
Quote of the Week: If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. --Julius Caesar
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Living with a dog consists of 90% following each other around, watching each other potty, and wondering what the other has in their mouth. --Submitted by INRITH
Today's Peace of History, March 15, 1963: Students from South Carolina State and Claflin College organized to integrate the lunch counter at Kresge 5& 10 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Though their efforts were disciplined and peaceful, 400 were attacked by police then herded behind fences in the largest mass arrest of the civil rights movement.
Caesar's tragic death is further proof that knife crime has spun out of control on the streets of Rome! / What Caesar didn't understand was that all politics are local.
.........Walk into splintered sunlight..........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Box of Rain
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, March 15, 2024, Ide_ish ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS.
Moonbeam: Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. --Hadrian
Cost of War:
- As of 03/14/24 State Department Costs: $231,116,374,112.
- As of 03/07/24 State Department Costs: $230,603,743,800.
- As of 03/14/24 Interest on War Debt: $1,204,775,154,572.
- As of 03/07/24 Interest on War Debt: $1,203,203,673,241.
- As of 03/14/24 Homeland Security: $1,162,801,480,323.
- As of 03/07/24 Homeland Security: $1,162,190,357,489.
- As of 03/14/24 Veterans Care: $3,557,766,084,098.
- As of 03/07/24 Veterans Care: $3,545,854,708,930.
- As of 03/14/24 Military Costs: $3,074,422,065,453.
- As of 03/07/24 Military Costs: $3,073,229,010,119.
- As of 03/14/24 Total Cost of Wars: $9,230,933,061,289.
- As of 03/07/24 Total Cost of Wars: $9,215,084,778,555.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. --Andrew Jackson
Famous Last Words: Oh, no, not again! -The pot of petunias. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
..........One of these day, you know, I've gotta get going.........Grateful Day with Phil Lesh …..Truckin'
Start the Ides with a doughnut. In face, eat two, Brute. / This Ides of March, remember NOT to stab anyone in groups. Keep a 1 meter distance. Longswords only.
May Peace give you grace
And Joy give you patience
prairie mama
christine
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