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The Tuesday before Turkey Day
Today is the 3rd day of the 47th week, the 21st day of the 11th month, the 325th day of 2017 [there are 33 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)
- False Confession Day
- National Entrepreneurship Day
- National Gingerbread Day
- National Red Mitten Day
- National Stuffing Day
- Pumpkin Pie Day
- World Hello Day
- World Television Day
On this day:
164 BC – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. Hanukkah 2017 will begin in the evening of Tuesday, December 12 and ends in the evening of Wednesday, December 20
1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1995 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
Today -- NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 33 mins 37 secs of light-travel time and Voyager II is 16 hrs 08 mins 45 secs of light-travel time from Earth
There are things that I really really really don’t want to read about. Like the latest sex scandals as the powerful are called out for their antics. Seriously folks, you are surprised that power corrupts? Or about tax reform – the rich are making sure that they stay rich by tromping down on everyone else. The latest antics of the administration, whether it is about the latest tweet storm or politicizing the Census Bureau or gutting rights in the name of “national security” or any of the maneuvers that foretell the powerful wanting to make sure they stay in power. Anything defending the way the US handles gums. Seriously, one could start suffering from PTSD from just staying up-to-date on current events. How can we possibly influence this deluge of …. [insert profanity or potty word of your choice here]?
While I am a firm believer in cultivating your own patch of the world – as Goethe famously said “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean” -- I am also torn by my civic duty, the need to speak up for what is right and just. We can’t just sit back and let others carry the load or let the forces of intolerance and hatred win!
And so another blog post ends indeterminately, sounding just vaguely bewildered by everything that is happening as I feel.
I’m going back to my 2nd Life….
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