Wednesday 7/10/24
Celebrate:
Don't Step on a Bee Day
National Kitten Day
National Pina Colada Day
Pick Blueberries Day
Teddy Bear Picnic Day
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Shaboozey becomes the first Black male artist to simultaneously top Billboard's Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts with "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"
He is the second Black artist overall to achieve the feat – following Beyoncé with “Texas Hold ‘Em” earlier this year.
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President Biden continues to insist he's NOT backing down. But plenty of Democrats want him to. Even Stephen King and Michael Moore have joined that chorus.
And there's talk . . . which we probably don't have to take too seriously . . . that Taylor Swift will help choose his successor.
Supposedly, some big donors are circulating a memo proposing a plan to hold a month-long "blitz primary" featuring six candidates chosen by party delegates.
During that process, candidates will participate in weekly forums moderated by "various cultural icons," such as Michelle Obama, Oprah, and yes, Taylor.
That sounds about right for where our country is at this moment. We dumb!
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I really find our country embarrassing.
Growing efforts to criminalize providing minors with access to “inappropriate” books have led one small library to become “adults only.” Donnelly Public Library in Donnelly, Idaho, made the decision in response to the state’s so-called “Children’s School and Library Protection Act.” The law allows parents or guardians to file complaints about material they deem inappropriate (a term left undefined) for minors and requires school or public libraries to relocate the material where minors can’t access it.
The library explained on its Facebook page that the ambiguity of the new law, combined with the small size of the library (only 1,024 square feet), made it impossible to comply by relocating materials as the law required.
This is happening all over the country with these Overbroad and ambiguous laws.
The result is that all library patrons must now sign a “patron agreement,” only permitting children access to the library in the company of an adult, and requiring children who take part in the library’s after school programming (which is vital not only to the community, but to the library’s funding) to have parental waivers.
Even “16 and 17 year olds with drivers licenses can no longer freely access the young adult section without their guardians.”
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Why this show still exists..but....Season 21 of "The Bachelorette" kicked off Monday night. There's a lot more going on behind the scenes on these shows than you realize.
For instance -
Contestants bring their own clothes: Although the Bachelorette often gets to work with a wardrobe person.
There's a dress code: A lot of it has to do with avoiding patterns that clash on camera, like stripes, small checkers, big patterns, and solid whites.
But the weirdest thing:
Contestants don't normally eat on dates: Producers actually send food to their rooms BEFORE the date, so they're not hungry and don't eat the food that's put in front of them.
Because people don't look good eating, and the microphones pick up all the chewing sounds.
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"USA Today" did a big write-up on how a lot of Gen Z'ers are hitting the "TATTOO REGRET" stage of their life.
It's been trending on TikTok as we've gotten deeper into wedding season. A lot of brides are venting about how they didn't consider that their tattoos might clash with their wedding dress.
Regretting tattoos is obviously common, and not just with Gen Z. "USA Today" noted that Millennials had to come to terms years ago with their own "Harry Potter, Disney, and infinity sign tattoos." (And for Gen X, tramp stamps.)
You're more likely to hear about it now though, because Gen Z is the first generation to talk about EVERYTHING online.
A popular social media influencer (heavily tattooed) says older people warned her she'd regret it someday. She decided to talk about it on TikTok, because it's hard for some of her peers to admit, quote, "the older people were right."
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Heat stroke can hit anyone in summer, but DOGS have an even higher risk. They only have sweat glands in their feet, and their main way of cooling down is by panting. So it's easy for them to overheat.
According to the chief veterinarian at Petco, dogs with these four features are the most susceptible . . .
1. Flat faces. Dogs with short snouts tend to have narrow airways, so it's harder to breathe and pant.
2. Long hair. It's like wearing a sweater. So a summer haircut might be in order.
3. Young and old dogs. They're more at risk than dogs in the prime of their life.
4. Dogs that are overweight or have other preexisting conditions.
Even breeds without those features can get heat stroke. But she says the ones at the highest risk are bulldogs, boxers, pugs, Boston terriers, shih tzus, chow chows, huskies, and golden retrievers.
The top signs your dog is too hot are excessive panting, drooling, deep or rapid breathing, weakness, vomiting, and looking disoriented.
Here are her main tips for keeping your dog safe this summer . . .
1. Always have water available.
2. Don't leave them outside for too long, and make sure there's shade.
3. Don't walk them mid-day.
4. NEVER leave them in your car, even if it's parked in the shade.
I would add, watch out for the hot pavement of a road or sidewalk. Walk them in the grass.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Dozens of locations in the West and Pacific Northwest tied or broke previous heat records over the weekend and are expected to keep doing so into the week.
Even Portland Oregon broke daily record temperatures on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with temperatures in the 100s.
Tourists are still flocking to Death Valley amid the searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths. The hottest temperature recorded on Earth was 134 F in 1913 in Death Valley, but some experts dispute that and say the real record was 130 F, recorded there in 2021.
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