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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 4th day of the 1st week, the 4th day of the 1st month, the 4th day of 2017, and:
- Dimpled Chad Day [thank you Florida]
- Earth at Perihelion -- Distance from the Sun's center to Earth's center was 147,100,998 km (91,404,322 mi) at 9:17 am EST today
- Free Flower Basket Day [no one brought me flowers tho]
- Independence Day -- Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.
- National Spaghetti Day
- National Trivia Day
- Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)
- Pop Music Chart Day
- Tom Thumb Day
- World Braille Day
- World Hypnotism Day
- The eleventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
ON THIS DAY: In 46 BC Julius Caesar defeated Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. In 1847 Samuel Colt sold his first revolver pistol to the United States government. In 1854 the McDonald Islands were discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. In 1863 the New Apostolic Church was established in Hamburg, Germany. In 1865 the New York Stock Exchange opened its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City. In 1903 Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island; the Edison film company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death [SRSLY?]. In 1912 the Scout Association was incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter. In 1958 Sputnik 1 fell to Earth from orbit. In 1959 Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon. In 2004 Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC. In 2010 Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper, the 2,717-foot gleaming glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa.
Sometimes we talk politics in the office – yeah, I know, you aren’t supposed to. We also talk religion and race sometimes too, but I will admit that we do so rather carefully. Don’t want HR getting complaints!
This is an office of six individuals – of varying races, creeds and ages spanning over four decades -- all lacking in love or even respect for the incoming President. One of us was talking about the inauguration, and how they planned to stake out a spot on the parade route just so they could make a fuss, showing DJT just how much they loathed him. Made me stop and think about the comment I have read and heard often since the election in different variations: “we put up with Obama for eight years so you can put up with Trump for at least four” and realize there was [or is rather] a huge segment of our country who felt just this strongly about him as my coworker feels about DJT. Made me look at the purpose of the Woman’s March and other protests – they don’t seem to be protesting to change something [like we were doing back in the day when we wanted out of Nam or were for civil rights], they just want to make their opposition to what is happening known, and to scream defiance at change. IMSNHO, FWIIW: And I have to conclude that nothing is going to get done in opposing the agenda of the 1%, the agenda of old rich white male Uncle Moneybags, until we start talking in a normal tone of voice and actually listening to the concerns of local voters no matter who they voted for in this past election. The UK faces the same challenge in dealing with Brexit – and how both countries navigate this will determine the shape of things to come for many years. For now? we are fighting battles over the welfare of the worker VS the welfare of the privileged that we thought had been decided at the turn of LAST century. And we are left wondering if we have learned nothing about the value of an individual life and how we are all better together.
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