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Daily Archives: 7/10/2016
Food for Thought – 10 July 2016
The Name Game #446
Slept in a bit this morning. When I rolled out of bed at 0815, it was already eighty-three degrees. Walked out into what felt like a steam bath to retrieve the paper.
Looking past a front page of “Can’t We All Get Along” stories over breakfast, I come to the birth announcements. Again, it’s the big hospital across the river, and this week they give us thirty-one new babies. Breaks down to seventeen that we called ‘bastards’ not too long ago, and five new mommies decided that daddy’s name is optional.
Let’s watch civilization circle the drain, shall we?
Deandre(!) S. & Camilla R. give us a son, little Jhaiden Dion.
Miss Taronda(!) D. brings her son Tashawn.
Gene & JaVan(!) P. do a daughter, Skylar LaShawn, ‘shawn’ being the Syllable of the Week.
Miss Cheyenne T. keeps up the American Indian theme with her son, little Lucien Tye Dakota.
Luke & Katelynn D. give their son a royal start, tagging him with Barron Joseph. Of course that could be a reference to the business magazine, but I’m not betting that way.
Another triple shows up as Lloyd & Cayla F. give us little Easton Raymond Herschel.
Jacob & Amber T. give their son a random last name for a first name, Parker John. Or perhaps they’re angling him towards a lucrative career as a valet attendant at a local casino.
Jeffrey & Katie D. give their son one of those manly single-syllable first names, Beau Ryan.
Devin M. & Marietta G. tag their son with Cash Trey. Really? Gonna have a little sister named ‘Flore Safe’?
Jonathan D. & JaKiea(!!) C. do a son up with Kayson Malik.
And that’s the end of today’s list.
Today in History – July 10
1040 – Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes. Now THAT’S a tax protest I can appreciate.
1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants. There’s a lesson here, peasants.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” In a few years, Louis is dead and we’re at war with the people who killed him.
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1892 – First concrete-paved street built in Bellefountaine, Ohio. The next day two guys are jack-hammering holes in it while nine others stand around watching.
1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. Suck it up, people!
1936 – A heat wave sets temperature records in West Virginia, 112, Pennsylvania, 111, New Jersey, 110 and Maryland, 109. Damn those SUV’s!
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France as French alert status changes from ‘surrender’ to ‘collaborate’.
1943 – World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign. Three months later Italy surrenders but the German forces in the country fight fiercely on until the late spring of 1945. Italy lasted longer after the Allied invasion than France did after the Germans invaded.
1951 – Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin. They’re still going on today at Panmunjom.
1962 – Telstar, the world’s first active communications satellite, is launched into orbit. It was a big deal then. Now, it’s a yawner, with homes all over the place having satellite receiving dishes.
1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents, proving the supremacy of the French special forces over a bunch of smelly hippies. It is also France’s biggest naval victory in the twentieth century.
1985 – Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke. They don’t. What they sell is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup instead of the cane sugar of the “Old Coke”, unless you buy kosher or Mexican imports.
1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos. Michael Jackson paid more than that for ONE…
2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage. Everybody’s like “Awwww, poor Florida…” Until a month later when Katrina hits the Gulf Coast, then Rita hits… Bad year for hurricanes, was 2005.