Gasoline costs have been steadily coming down the previous yr. Nevertheless, they’ve a fluctuation issue that’s obscure.
Throughout the previous week, gasoline costs in Key West had been round $3.33 a gallon. Yesterday, $3.55 a gallon.
How does a 2o cent increase come about that swiftly? Even a ten cent one?
Bumped into a pricey buddy I’ve not seen in a couple of years. I used to be early to Publix the opposite morning after I heard “Louis!” It was Christine Cordone. Singer and artist. A girl of twin skills. She and husband Larry Smith have returned to their Key West house for the following a number of months. They’ve been going backwards and forwards lately between Larry’s Pennsylvania household and Key West.
It was good to see Christine once more. A uniquely great individual!
“Vintage” gathering has its worth! There are 4 pairs of Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. One went on public sale sale lately. Bought for $28 million! Wow! The footwear turned probably the most helpful piece of film memorabilia auctioned. Marilyn Monroe’s white costume blowing upward over a subway grate was beforehand highest. Nevertheless, its sale worth a meager $5.52 million.
The opposite three pairs of Dorothy’s footwear are within the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of American Historical past in Washington, D.C. and privately held. Two pair within the Smithsonian and one privately owned. I noticed a pair within the Smithsonian in a Washington go to a number of years in the past.
Man flew for the primary time this present day in 1903. The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville flew whereas Wilbur ran alongside the aircraft.
Baseball’s spitball pitch. Outlawed right this moment. Not so again when.
A spitball concerned the pitcher wetting the ball with a overseas substance. Typically, spit or petroleum. Such gave the pitcher sure management over the ball.
The spitball got here into being within the 1800’s. It was lastly banned in 1920. Nevertheless, there have been 17 pitchers who commonly threw a spitball again then. The ban didn’t apply to them. They had been permitted to proceed throwing it until they retired.
On this present day in 1957, the final episode of “The Nat King Cole Present” was aired on NBC. The present had been cancelled. It couldn’t get a nationwide sponsor. Why? One of many biggest singers of all time! Was it as a result of he was coloured?
Key West’s St. Mary’ Star of the Sea formally devoted its new highschool friday. A return for the highschool. St. Mary’s final one closed in 1986.
The latest faculty taking pictures in Madison, Wisconsin was by a scholar. A 15 yr outdated feminine. She killed a instructor and scholar and wounded 6 earlier than killing herself.
Confidence in U.S. courts has plummeted dramatically lately. Uncommon. Unusual and worrisome. The drop has been particularly deep for the reason that Dobbs case which eradicated a lady’s Constitutional proper to an abortion.
Prior to now 4 years, confidence within the courts has dropped 24 proportion factors from 55 % to 35.
Solely 35 % of People place confidence in our courtroom system right this moment!
Such a low quantity locations the U.S. in keeping with nations like Myanmar, Venezuela and Syria.
The man who killed the President of United Well being Care, the two individuals who tried to assassinate Trump, and the teenage woman in Madison who lately killed a instructor and fellow scholar weren’t immigrants. They had been People!
Trump cries immigrants are criminals! Lets begin itemizing them and their crimes. Evaluate them to these dedicated by People. Lets see if the “immigrants are felony” representations are right.
I shut with…..That is tuesday! Means The Grand for Blissful Hour with my buddy Steve Thompson. Hope it is going to be a distinct tuesday this week!
Get pleasure from your day!