Post by theflyinghorse on Apr 1, 2010 6:41:19 GMT -7
:)Good morning my friends from Tuxy and me. It's the 91st day of 2010 and there are 274 days left to the year.
Today in the Finger Lakes region, New York, it's fair and 38ºF (feels like 32ºF). Today it is supposed to be sunny with some clouds changing to partly cloudy tonight.
It's supposed to become only partly cloudy today and tonight. The high today---70ºF so I guess they were right. Temps may push for 80ºF by Saturday.
???Today in History:
1789--the US House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York City with Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania the first speaker.
1853--Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first US city to pay its firefighters a salary.
1918--Great Britain's Royal Air Force was established.
1933--Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
1939--the US recognized the government of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spain, the same day Franco went on radio to declare victory in the Spanish Civil War.
1945--American forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa.
1946--tidal waves struck the Hawaiian islands, resulting in more than 170 deaths.
1960--the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral. (TIROS is Television Infrared Observation Satellite)
1970--Pres. Nixon signed a bill banning cigarette advertising on radio & TV.
1984--singer Marvin Gaye, age 44, was shot to death by his father. (He pleaded guilty of manslaughter and received probation).
1987--Pres. Reagan in a major speech in Philadelphia, Pa. told doctors, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1999--a New Jersey man was arrested and charged with origination the "Melissa" e-mail virus that infected more than 1 million computers worldwide.
2001--former Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour armed standoff with police at his Belgrade villa.
2008--The Pentagon made public a legal memo dated 14 Mar 2003, that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that Pres. Bush's wartime authority trumped any international ban on torture.
Six major world powers agreed to begin putting together proposed new sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program after China dropped its opposition. Secretary of State Clinton said the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany (known as the P5-plus-one) were unified. China's changer of position improves the chances for passing a resolution aimed at pressuring Iran to scale back its nuclear ambitions (Tehran insists they are limited to developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes). Haven't we gone this road with Iran before?
Mexican Drug War--dozens of gunmen mounted an apparently coordinated attack on two army garrisons in northern Mexico resulting in the death of 18 attackers. The attempt to blockade soldiers inside their bases is a serious escalation of the hostilities with cartel gunmen attacking in unit-size forces with hand grenades and assault rifles in bulletproof vehicles. The troops also wounded two and captured seven with only one soldier suffering slight injuries. They also seized 54 assault rifles, 61 hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, 8 homemade explosive devices and 6 bulletproof vehicles. It sounds as if the army won this round.
Repudiating the Bush administration's now-defunct terrorist surveillance effort, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the government illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, an Islamic charity, and two American lawyers without a search warrant. In June, the judge had tossed out more than three dozen lawsuits against the nation's telecommunications companies for allegedly taking part in the program. So with a new administration in charge, our rights are once ore taking priority. Thank you, Judge Walker.
Thought for Today:
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness." --Sacha Guitry, French actor-writer-director (1885-1957)
Have a terrific Thursday everyone (and that's not an April Fool!!)
Today in the Finger Lakes region, New York, it's fair and 38ºF (feels like 32ºF). Today it is supposed to be sunny with some clouds changing to partly cloudy tonight.
It's supposed to become only partly cloudy today and tonight. The high today---70ºF so I guess they were right. Temps may push for 80ºF by Saturday.
???Today in History:
1789--the US House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York City with Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania the first speaker.
1853--Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first US city to pay its firefighters a salary.
1918--Great Britain's Royal Air Force was established.
1933--Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
1939--the US recognized the government of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spain, the same day Franco went on radio to declare victory in the Spanish Civil War.
1945--American forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa.
1946--tidal waves struck the Hawaiian islands, resulting in more than 170 deaths.
1960--the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral. (TIROS is Television Infrared Observation Satellite)
1970--Pres. Nixon signed a bill banning cigarette advertising on radio & TV.
1984--singer Marvin Gaye, age 44, was shot to death by his father. (He pleaded guilty of manslaughter and received probation).
1987--Pres. Reagan in a major speech in Philadelphia, Pa. told doctors, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1999--a New Jersey man was arrested and charged with origination the "Melissa" e-mail virus that infected more than 1 million computers worldwide.
2001--former Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour armed standoff with police at his Belgrade villa.
2008--The Pentagon made public a legal memo dated 14 Mar 2003, that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that Pres. Bush's wartime authority trumped any international ban on torture.
Six major world powers agreed to begin putting together proposed new sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program after China dropped its opposition. Secretary of State Clinton said the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany (known as the P5-plus-one) were unified. China's changer of position improves the chances for passing a resolution aimed at pressuring Iran to scale back its nuclear ambitions (Tehran insists they are limited to developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes). Haven't we gone this road with Iran before?
Mexican Drug War--dozens of gunmen mounted an apparently coordinated attack on two army garrisons in northern Mexico resulting in the death of 18 attackers. The attempt to blockade soldiers inside their bases is a serious escalation of the hostilities with cartel gunmen attacking in unit-size forces with hand grenades and assault rifles in bulletproof vehicles. The troops also wounded two and captured seven with only one soldier suffering slight injuries. They also seized 54 assault rifles, 61 hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, 8 homemade explosive devices and 6 bulletproof vehicles. It sounds as if the army won this round.
Repudiating the Bush administration's now-defunct terrorist surveillance effort, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the government illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, an Islamic charity, and two American lawyers without a search warrant. In June, the judge had tossed out more than three dozen lawsuits against the nation's telecommunications companies for allegedly taking part in the program. So with a new administration in charge, our rights are once ore taking priority. Thank you, Judge Walker.
Thought for Today:
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness." --Sacha Guitry, French actor-writer-director (1885-1957)
Have a terrific Thursday everyone (and that's not an April Fool!!)