Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
Legend holds that a runner arrived in Athens with news of the Greek victory at Marathon today (490 BCE). Also, Henry Hudson began exploring the river in New York that now bears his name (1609), Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning (1846), Switzerland became a Federal state (1848), 426 passengers and crew died as the SS Central America sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina with an estimated 15 tons in gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush (1857), the District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia was founded (1874), Arbroath defeated Bon Accord 36-0, a world record scoreline for professional soccer (1885), Salisbury, Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe, was founded (1890), the Newport Transporter Bridge opened in Newport, South Wales (1906), Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 premiered in Munich with a 171-member orchestra and a chorus of 852 singers (1910), Wilfred Rhodes ended his 1110-game first-class cricket career (1930), 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat and three friends found the famous cave paintings of Lascaux, France, on the same day 51 people died in an explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey (1940), residents of Flatwoods, West Virginia reported strange occurrences including a monster sighting (1952), Rep. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1953), Jack Kilby demonstrated the first integrated circuit (1958), Bonanza premiered as the first network television program in color, on the same day the Soviet Union launched Lunik II toward the Moon (1959), the African and Malagasy Union was founded (1961), Utah’s Canyonlands National Park was designated (1964), anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was killed in the custody of South African police (1977), a magnitude 8.1 earthquake rocked Indonesia (1979), a coup d’รฉtat began three years of military rule in Turkey (1980), terrorists of the Boricua Popular Army stole $7 million at a Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut (1983), Dwight Gooden’s 246th strikeout broke Herb Score’s three decade-old rookie record en route to a total of 276 for the season (1984), 45 people died as Category 3 Hurricane Gilbert swept Jamaica (1988), the signing of the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany paved the way for German reunification (1990), Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, along with Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a U.S. spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space, launched aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor (1992), Frank Eugene Corder crashed a single-engine Cessna onto the south lawn of the White House, striking the West Wing and killing himself (1994), Indonesia agreed to allow international peacekeepers into East Timor (1999), the UN lifted sanctions as Libya accepted responsibility for the Pan Am 103 bombing and agreed to compensate the victims (2003), Hong Kong Disneyland opened (2005), former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was convicted of plunder (2007), and 25 people died when a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train collided in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles (2008). And the 9/11 Memorial opened to the public (2011).
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Good morning! ::hugggggs::
Yesterday on Campus
Morning Feature – Winning Progressive with Syria, Saber Rattling, and Diplomatic Solutions
Furthermore! – The Squirrel with Tribalism and You
Midday Matinee – addisnana with Random Acts of Kindness
Campus Question – Should anyone read too much into the low-turnout Colorado recall elections?
Today on Campus
Morning Feature – Winning Progressive with Some Unsolicited Advice for the Washington Postโs New Owner
Furthermore! – The Squirrel with What the Feck Is Wrong with a Pivot?
Noontime News at noon
Midday Matinee – triciawyse with Fursdai Furries
Campus Question at 6pm ET
Crissie asked me to let everyone know she had to race out. She’ll be back around mid afternoon to reply here. ๐
Gotta hop, but thought you’d like this
In line at a deli yesterday the customer in front of me seemed to be a friend of the young woman behind the counter. The deli counter person was lamenting the fact that she needs to get health insurance, too many things going on with her health , etc, etc
I order my Turkey sandwich and ask if her if she can wait until 10/1 to explore insurances. (Lots of marketing going on for folks to sign up NOW). She says yes, but why. So I explain the exchanges to her, can comparison shop for health care, explain 5 levels of plans, can choose what best serves you, no pre-existing exclusions. I give her a website to check out. (How nerdy of me, a health care website in my head.) She thanks me profusely.
Brought to you by your friendly Obamabot. I’ll check back in with a “I love Obamacare” bumpersticker.
She had no clue about the ACA and what NYS is doing and what it meant for someone like her.
Was her name Fred? ๐
Nice work Mike!
Great job, Mike!!! Thanks for stepping up to bat. ๐ You made that lady’s day, I’m sure.
Way to go Mike! Way to go!
Minnesota Public Radio has been doing an hour a day with experts on MNSure and are taking lots of caller questions. One thing I found very interesting. Young women want information and will talk with doctors or use the web. Young men want info from their moms and/or girlfriends.
One young man yesterday thought he had to pay up front and not get the subsidies until the next year’s taxes. That is incorrect and the experts let it go so I went to the MPR Facebook page and asked that the experts go back and fix the info. They read my comment on air and the experts did say you got the subsidy every month before you paid the premium.
Great job, addisnana! Great job. ๐ WTG!
Good morning!
Clouds and 73 degrees, rain “in the area,” but not here. Oooooh….. We’d planned to visit Gas Girl et al, but her dentist was able to get her an appointment for a sore tooth, so worked in the garden yesterday morning. Re-sowed spinach, lettuce, and radishes in the new raised bed. Stuff isn’t sprouting in there, I am blaming the heat….
Started the process for making potato salad later in the PM. Went to a work session for our church float, will have to finish this morning. On arrival home, worked on the potato salad. It’s a “cold” type. I think it still needs a little something…. Has boiled potatoes, eggs, diced onions, and home made bacon bits, salt and pepper right now. I think some fresh finely diced peppers from the garden will help. Mebbe one or two each red, green, and yellow? The food pantry training session/meal is this evening. What say ye?
Have a decent day!
Best, G
I always add a little mustard powder for zing. ๐ The peppers sound great.
Sorry your garden isn’t sprouting and I’m sure it’s the heat. It’s been really extreme. Are you cooling down any yet?
Not yet…..
There’s 2 tablespoons of mustard in there now.
Book delivered late yesterday. Ahhhh! ๐ A breather, though not a long one. Already have another heap on the desk, but nothing that must be done yesterday. Not yet, anyway.
Eldest son is flying in this afternoon. I’m looking forward to his visit even though he’ll have to work his way through most of it. I guess I shouldn’t complain about telecommuting since if he couldn’t he’d have had to cancel his visit. He’s on a rush project, too.
Otherwise, all is fine in Winter’s World. Hah! I tell myself life is like a tennis match. I seldom get the serve, but those balls keep coming at me and I have to bat them back.
Hope everyone is doing well! Hugggs and good morning!
I like the visual of the tennis match. Some days it feels like the automatic serving machine is cranked up to high. Hitting the ball back is one idea and ducking is another.
Hugs back and enjoy your son’s visit.
There are a lot of balls I wish I could duck, for sure. ๐
I’m staying out of this one….. ๐
Gotta run….
Hugggs and Adios!
Good Morning. I have one little squirrel who seems to like my camp site. He crawls in the small Weber grill and eats the grease drippings. He spent quite a while yesterday trying to get a 3″ tomato off into the woods. The tomato is bigger than he is. He can get some in his mouth and then the rest falls away. He can’t pick it up with his front paws. He got it over to the rocks that edge the site. Moving it over the rocks defeated him. After all his hard work, he ran to hide and a Raven came in and took away his tomato. I may have to help out by putting a cherry tomato on the ground for him. Great entertainment. I did have my cell phone and my attempts at photos are a blurry mess.
All that work and the raven got the fruit. Man. Nice of you to think of putting a cherry tomato out for the squirrel though. Very generous.
I wish I could have seen it. ๐ It must have been a lot of fun to watch.
The New York Times has an op.ed. piece by Vladimir Putin. Can you imagine Tass publishing a similar piece by Obama?
No….
IMO, Putin is the head of a very large, nuclear armed, mafia crime family.