Famous
First Words: By the act of June 2... Indian Citizenship
Act 1924
Happy
Doughnut Day aka Donut Day. Gertrude decided to become a pastry
psychologist when she found out how many doughnuts feel empty inside.
/ Republicans could begin a cycle of growth in this bad economy by
opening a Krispy Kreme across the street from Chris Christie.
..........This
time it's different.........Marvin Hamlisch …..I Finally Found
Someone
The
good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is
secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. --Jane
Adamms
It
is a beautiful Friday morning. The pale blue of the sky is only
barely smudged by very pale, very thin, very high, nearly transparent
clouds. The temperature (65°F) is perfect; there is little breeze
to affect a chill. Puck is quiet and sits by my feet; Pax has not
shown himself yet this morning. But birds and their song are
everywhere; it calls from the little wood across the street, and the
backyards a block west. A sparrow is hopping along the bottom fence
rail drinking drops of water from the grass. A redheaded woodpecker
notices the suet cage is empty and looks over at me; alas, I have no
suet about my person. Under the birdsong is the distant sound of
wheels and motors carrying people off to work. Puck barks a “have
a good day” to Kirsten as she swoops by on her bike, “Oh, and, by
the way, don't come in this yard with that thing”. We linger, Puck
and I, in the calm, cool morning watching the rising sun reveal
thousands of dew diamonds across the law and even in the tree leaves,
jewels spread by the fairies that arrive daily on cottonwood seed
chariots. The sound of a neighbor rolling trash cans to the curb,
brings us back from that fantasy and we return inside to the smell of
brewing coffee. Puck retreats to his closet bed and I sip warm, sweet
tartness and think of you. Sigh!
Hope
your weekend has sprinkles on it, ePistliers.
Nothing
tastes as good as skinny feels...except donuts. Donuts taste like
skinny can go play in traffic. / All it takes is one Dunkin' Donuts
staffer to reach over the counter and dole out a manners lesson to
tilt the universe back to normal. --John McClellan
..........Bound
for a star with fiery oceans ….......Rolling Stones …..2000
Light Years From Home
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday, Wild Bill !
^
Besides being a character in a Broadway Musical what other jobs did
Bill do in the “American Old West”?
^^
Any idea where was he born and raised?
^^^
Which side did Bill work for during the American Civil War?
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In which Kansas town was Bill the law?
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Know how he died?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
16% of librarians are really just a cat in disguise.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Rant
of the Week: Actually not a rant, an
observation. The news media either ignored or didn't understand
Putin offer to tell them what was said in the oval office meeting
with the ambassador and those other guys. Russia knew more about
what went on in the US government than the citizens or the congress
did. What an incredible dig. What an insult. And it continues to
happen. Russia has released pictures from some meeting that people
have already denied existed. It's right up there with we think
Jared tried to use a private server, a Russian private server, on the
say so of people who without permission read the mail of people who
knew the mail was being read and might have written anything useful
to themselves. They're all spies they may not know how to do
anything except lie...both sides.
Moonbeam:
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
--Marquis de Sade
The
doughnut visited the dentist because he need a chocolate filling? / I
would win any dunking contest if it involved donuts.
..........Taking
just one more chance.........Marvin Hamlisch …..Just For Tonight
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Rojbash – Kurdish (Kurmanji) means Good Day
Week
of the Week: June 1-4 is Milk Week
(Apparently, since milk week is only 4 day long, milk doesn't help
one count to 7) – How do you make a milkshake? Give the cow a pogo
stick. / That cow was so forgetful she gave milk of amnesia.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
LexiCon June 2-4, Taupō, New Zealand. It's a fan-run event for
everyone who loves science fiction and fantasy enough to take a 14
hour flight. We can’t wait! http://www.lexicon.cons.nz/
Knock,
Knock / Who's there? / Doughnut / Doughnut who? / Doughnut forget to
close the door. // The only circle of trust you need is a doughnut.
..........The
lady then she covered me in roses.........Rolling Stones …..Honky
Tonk Woman
^
Bill was known for his
work across the frontier as a drover, wagon master, soldier, spy,
scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor.
Almanac:
It is Friday, June 2, 2017. The moon was first quarter yesterday and
is in Virgo. It is Wear Orange for Gun Violence Awareness Day, Leave
the Office Early Day, National Bubba Day, National Gun Violence
Awareness Day, and Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North
American Day. Because it is first Friday it is Hug Your Cat Day and
Doughnut Day aka Donut Day.
Among
those born on this day were Henry VIII (1491), Marquis de Sade
(1740), St. Pius X (1835), Thomas Hardy
(1840), Edward Elgar (1857), Hedda Hopper (1890), Michael Todd
(1901), Johnny Weissmuller (1904), Sally Kellerman (1936),
Constantine II (1940), Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones, 1941), Stacy
Keach (1941), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Jerry Mathers (1948), and Dana
Carvey (1955).
On
June second Rome was sacked by Vandals (455),
the fifth national black convention opened (NYC, 1834), Maine passed
the first alcohol prohibition law (1851), Gibbs patented the
chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine (1857), the comet Donati
was recorded as being first seen (1858), in San Francisco ground was
broken for the first cable railroad (1873), the "El" opened
in Chicago (1883), Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom (1886),
the US observed a day of fasting to protest lynchings (1899), the US
granted citizenship to Native Americans (1924), Lou Gehrig began his
2,130 consecutive game streak (1925), and Queen Elizabeth II was
coronated (1953).
Night
Sky, 6/2: The moon, Jupiter, and Spica form a gently curving
arc this evening.
This
Week: Saturday, June 3 –
Drawing Day, Wicket World of Croquet Day, & National Prairie Day
Night
Sky, 6/3: A double shadow-transit occurs on
Jupiter tonight, both Io and Ganymede cast their tiny black shadows
onto Jupiter's face. And then Jupiter's Great Red Spot transits the
planet's central meridian around 12:55 am EDT (9:55 pm PDT). Quite a
telescopic night for this group of objects.
Sunday,
June 4 – Old Maid's Day and Audacity to Hope Day
Monday,
June 5 – National Moonshine Day, Hot Air Balloon Day, &
World Environment Day
Night
Sky, 6/5: Just a week and a half ago, the Big Dipper was
floating horizontally in late twilight an hour after sunset. Now it's
angled diagonally. Another week and a half and it will be hanging
straight down by its handle!
Tuesday,
June 6 – National Higher Education Day, Yo-yo Day, and
Atheists Pride Day
Wednesday,
June 7 – Boone Day and National Tailors Day
Night
Sky, 6/7:
High
hopes for a relative newcomer to the comet scene, Johnson (C/2015
V2), which may peak around magnitude +6.5 in early June as it
slides down the eastern side of Boötes high in the southern sky
before the mosquitoes return. Currently at magnitude +11.5, 1′ in
diameter and moderately condensed, this comet is warming up for its
spring performance in the morning sky. An 8-incher should coax it
into view using magnifications of 100× and higher.
Thursday,
June 8 – Upsy Daisy Day & World Oceans Day
..........Makes
me feel sad for the rest.........Marvin Hamlisch …..Nobody Does It
Better
^^
Hickok
was born and raised on a farm in northern Illinois, at a time when
lawlessness and vigilante activity was rampant because of the
influence of the "Banditti
of the Prairie".
Funniest
thing I read of the Week: With physical assaults on reporters
now among their elected reps' credentials, I'm gonna have to start to
call them “Rethuglicans”. --George Takei
Moonbeam:
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation
piece. --Hedda Hopper
Late
Night Snacks: Now, I don't know about you, but
I've got a little extra pep in my step tonight because Donald Drumpf
has left the country. Breathing a little easier. Federal judges, now
would be a good time to reinstate that travel ban. --Stephen Colbert
/ Today, Mark Zuckerberg — who dropped out of Harvard University
after his sophomore year — gave a commencement speech to Harvard’s
graduating class. Zuckerberg began the speech with, “Hello,
suckers.” --Conan O'Brien / A new study from Harvard says you can
reduce the risk of a potentially fatal heart condition by eating six
bars of chocolate a week. Yeah. It reduces the chance of a heart
attack because once you give up being in shape, you have way less
stress. --James Corden / A college student in Florida is accused of
breaking into a building and changing his grade from an “F” to a
“B.” His parents were like, “Really, you can't even get an 'A'
when you're cheating?” --Jimmy Fallon / A new report recommends
that couples who live together should do chores together. And for
some couples, everything they do together is a chore. --Seth Meyers /
So this budget makes huge promises that it can’t possibly deliver.
It could leave millions of Americans without necessary services like
healthcare or even food. It’s basically the Fyre Festival of
budgets. --Jimmy Kimmel
Not
So Late Night Snack: ...on the picture
of the Trumps with the Pope... That look that
said Jesus had it easy.
--Adam Felber / Seriously Here's a man who had no trouble giving up
sex for his entire life but spending 10 minutes with Donald Trump is
like too much. take this cup from me. --Peter Segal Wait,
Wait Don't Tell Me
To
build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build
a world of justice, we must be just. --Dag Hammarskjold
..........Don't
question why she needs to be so free..........Rolling Stones …..Ruby
Tuesday
^^^
Wild Bill fought and spied for the Union Army during the Civil War
and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, actor, and
professional gambler.
Worthless
Facts of the Week: From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in
the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were
black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people
lynched. These numbers seem large, but it is known that not all
of the lynchings were ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 people
lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only
27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the
blacks or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: People who ask me
what I'm doing tomorrow probably assume that I even know what day of
the week it is. --Submitted by sb of ar
Weird
Word of the Week:
Kettling – Demonstrators are kettled by herding them into a limited
area and stopping them from leaving. From the G20 summit in London,
2009. http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ket1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products: Clean mineral deposits from the
heating element inside a coffeemaker. Fill the coffee pot with
water, dissolve two tablespoons Tang in the water, and pour the
orange drink into the water tank. Place a coffee filter in the
basket, put the coffee pot in place, and run the machine through its
cycle. The citric acid in the Tang dissolves the mineral build-up.
Run fresh water thought the machine twice to get rind of any Tang
residue, and then wash the coffee pot with soapy water and rinse
clean.
In
Jamaican you call a donut cinna, mon.
/ I bought a plain cake doughnut at Dunkin Donuts and by the length
of the receipt I think I may have also bought a Dunkin Donuts
franchise. --Dan Regan
...........That's
what I'm saying right now.........Marvin Hamlisch …..Fill In The
Words
^^^^
In April 1871, Hickok became marshal of Abilene, KS.
John Wesley Hardin, a well-known gunfighter, who was known to have
killed at least 27 men. In his autobiography, Hardin made the
unlikely claim that while surrendering his guns to the lawman due to
a local ordinance, he had once disarmed Town Marshal "Wild Bill"
Hickok with the use of "the road agent's spin."
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Impartial – treating all
rivals or disputants equally; fair and just. King Henry IV, Part
II Act V, Scene II Lord
Chief-Justice: Led by the impartial conduct of my soul...
Amazing
Thing of the Week: I finally made it to
the new Bloch Galleries at the Atkins-Nelson Museum in KC. The art
is superb...it is also varied enough that in parts it is also
stunning, breathtaking, pretty, etc. The galleries are another
story. I arrived a few minutes after they opened on a Wednesday
morning. You wouldn't think that wouldn't be a particularly busy
time at a museum, but you'd be wrong. There were even 2 groups (of
ten or so each) being escorted and artsplained. Since I wasn't
looking for or at anything in particular I could wander in no order
and go around groups of people. But by the end of my visit, it was
nearly impossible to “do the routine”, (for me that's up
close/out a ways/read the label/out again) was nearly impossible for
all of the paintings. If you stepped back, somebody stepped between
you and the art. I am assuming it is because they are still new and
that eventually one could go, at least at off hours, and it will be
less crowded. They put a nice couch in front of Water Lilies but it
is a little too close to see the big picture and yet so far away that
people get between. That being said, I loved it. I saw patterns I
hadn't noticed before...about edges. There was a Feininger, for
instance. I have owed several posters of his painting and here was a
beautiful original. (Cubists sometimes have more edges than anything
else in a painting.) Manet's White Lilacs was profoundly beautiful
and that clown figure was wonderfully sassy whoever painted it. I
recommend the experience.
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck discussing methodology with a fly in the
case of the Buzzing Beagle.
If
I ever order a doughnut without chocolate glaze, you'll know I've
been kidnapped and I'm signaling you. / In moments of doubt, trust
your gut, hug your pet, and eat a doughnut.
..........you
get what you need..........Rolling Stones …..You Can't Always Get
What You Want
^^^^^
In 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker
in a saloon in Deadwood in the Dakota Territory by Jack McCall, an
unsuccessful gambler. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at
the time of his death (including the ace of spades, the ace of clubs,
the eight of spades and the eight of clubs) has become known as the
dead man's hand.
Month
of the Week: June is Dairy Month. –
When chewing your cud, remember, there's no fat, no calories, no
cholesterol, and no taste!
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State:
Whitaker Point Trail (Hawksbill Crag) Arkansas – the natural state.
Whitaker Point Trail (Hawksbill Crag) is a 2.7 mile lightly
trafficked out and back trail located near Deer, Arkansas that
features a waterfall and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a
number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are
also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/arkansas/whitaker-point-trail-hawksbill-crag
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Lord, Give me
patience....because if you give me strength, I'm gonna need bail
money to go with it. --Submitted by sb of ar
Today's
Peace of History, June
2, 1952: The US
Supreme court ruled illegal President Truman's order two months
earlier for the Army to seize the nation's steel mills in order to
avert a strike during the Korean war.
Knock,
Knock / Who's there? / Doughnut / Doughnut who? / Doughnot tell me
another one of these knock, knock jokes. / I choked on a carrot this
afternoon and all I could think was “I bet a donut wouldn't have
done this to me”.
..........Pleased
to meet you.........Rolling Stones …..Sympathy For The Devil
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle June 2, 2017. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
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Tag Line Here.
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
Moonbeam:
Time changes everything except something within us which is always
surprised by change. --Thomas Hardy
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 6/1/17: $773,344,615,017.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 5/25/17: $772,680,670,859.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 6/1/17:
$820,534,017,405.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 5/25/17:
$820,514,612,016.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 6/1/17: $15,238,700,284.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 5/25/17: $15,136,661,998.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 6/1/17:
$150,985,378,902.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 5/25/17:
$150,417,264,807.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 6/1/17: $1,76,806,625,135.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 5/25/17:
$1,763,420,133,208.
One
who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.
--Albert Einstein
..........Magic
carpet please, carry me away.........Marvin Hamlisch …..Disneyland
Whatever
sprinkles you donut, ePistliers ...and the doughnut just stood
there with a glazed expression.
May
Peace be your glaze
And
Joy be your filling
prairie
mama
christine
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