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Carol H Tucker
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living with generalized angst
Today is the 5th day of the 2nd week, the 11th day of the 1st month, the 11th day of 2018 [with only 347 shopping days until Christmas and only 81 shopping days until my birthday], and:
- Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day – in 1964 the Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., published the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts
- Healthy Weight, Healthy Look Day
- Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
- National Hot Toddy Day
- National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
- National Milk Day
- National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day
- Secret Pal Day
On this day in ...
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
630 – The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city of Mecca; the Quresh gave ground after losing twelve men and Muslim losses were two warriors Muhammad declared, "Allah has made Mecca a sanctuary since the day He created the Heavens and the Earth, and it will remain a sanctuary by virtue of the sanctity Allah has bestowed on it until the Day of Resurrection"
1569 – First recorded lottery in England, chartered by Queen Elizabeth I and designed to raise money for the "reparation of the havens and strength of the Realme, and towardes such other publique good workes". It is not the first -- there are recorded signs of a lottery in the form of keno slips from the Chinese Han Dynasty between 205 and 187 BC; they are believed to have helped to finance major government projects like the Great Wall of China. The first recorded Italian lottery was held on 9 January 1449 in Milan.
1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1909 - The US and Canada (with the British in attendance) set up the International Joint Commission under the Boundary Waters Treaty; agree to submit major fishery and boundary disputes to World Court; also agree to work to prevent pollution of the Great Lakes.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1973 - Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule
1996 – STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
Quote of the day:
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
~ Charles Spurgeon, English Particular Baptist preacher
One thing that I have noticed since the election back in November 2016, is that I have an unfocused feeling of genuine dread, a feeling that has only been acerbated by the events of the past year to the point where I actually have to ignore the daily news at times in order to stay on an even keel. A person who has been very happy with the current state of the US government noted my depressed demeanor and snapped at me the day after the election “We put up with Obama for eight years, give him a chance.” It makes me wonder about my fellow citizens – was I completely oblivious to this problem? Was it really that jarring to be under a Democrat and fairly liberal President when the Republicans controlled the Congress for 75% of the time? I don’t recall being this perturbed about the trends of things under any other administration, not even Ronald Reagan and I honestly despised him in addition to disagreeing with him or Bill Clinton who I just plain didn’t like. Why is this so different? The whole brouhaha about “alternative facts” and “fake news” doesn’t upset me that much – after all, revisionist history had long ago convinced me that not only is history written by the victors, it is totally dependent on the perception of the person viewing it. No, I can pinpoint the exact moment when the angst started – it was back during the debates between DJT and HRCwhen he refused to say that he would concede if defeated. At that moment, I became afraid that no convention, tradition, or even law would restrain either the man or his movement, and that all would be subject to his whims and perceptions.
Nothing that has happened since then has ameliorated my perception or assuaged the concern, I just have to deal with it and not let it weigh me down....
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