Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of thirty-nine. Sunrise is 6:42 and sunset 5:34, for 10h 52m 05s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked if readers thought that there should be a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, and a vote on that nominee, this year. Slightly over fifty-five percent thought that there should be (55.56%), and about forty-four percent (44.44%) thought that there shouldn’t be.
Here’s schedule of posts for the week ahead, with other posts possible (if there are changes to these scheduled posts I’ll explain why):
- Today: DB, a post about asking questions, evening post
- Monday: DB, weekly music post, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN post, evening post
- Tuesday: DB, weekly education post, evening post
- Wednesday: DB, weekly film post, evening post
- Thursday: DB, a restaurant review, evening post
- Friday: DB, weekly poll, weekly catblogging
- Saturday: DB, weekly Animation post, evening post
Zither Filmography has a video online of he sun hitting Yosemite’s Horsetail Fall:
Shoot yesterday 2/15/2016. One of the most stunning moments in Yosemite National Park. We hiked about an hour from Southside Dr to a high plateau where you have full view of the tunnel from Village perspective.The setting sun hits Horsetail Fall at just the right angle to illuminate the upper reaches of the waterfall. And when conditions are perfect, Horsetail Fall glows from white to gold, red in the peak, then fade out quickly in 20 minutes.
On this day in 1972, Nixon arrives in China:
Occurring from February 21 to 28, 1972, the visit allowed the American public to view images of China for the first time in over two decades. Throughout the week the President and his most senior advisers engaged in substantive discussions with the PRC, including a meeting with ChairmanMao Zedong, while First Lady Pat Nixon toured schools, factories and hospitals in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou with the large American press corps in tow. Nixon dubbed the visit “the week that changed the world.”
The repercussions of the Nixon visit were vast, and included a significant shift in the Cold War balance, pitting the PRC with the U.S. against the Soviet Union. “Nixon going to China” has since become a metaphor for an unexpected or uncharacteristic action by a politician.
On this day in 1918, the Wisconsin Assembly declines to denounce Fighting Bob:
1918 – Denunciation of LaFollette rejected by Assembly
On this day, a move to denounce Sen. Robert LaFollette and the nine Wisconsin congressmen who refused to support World War I failed in the State Assembly, by a vote of 76-15. Calling LaFollette “disloyal,” the amendment’s originator, Democrat John F. Donnelly, insisted that LaFollette’s position did not reflect “the sentiment of the people of Wisconsin. We should not lack the courage to condemn his actions.” Reflecting the majority opinion, Assemblyman Charles F. Hart retorted that “The Wisconsin State Legislature went on record by passing a resolution telling the President that the people of this state did not want war. Now we are condemning them for doing that which we asked them to do.” [Source: Capital Times 2/21/1918, p.1]