What I Heard This Week! 01-02-2020
Kentucky Fried Chicken recently released a fireplace log designed to create a “warm fried chicken-scented fire” when put on your hearth. Close your eyes and just imagine a crackling fire in your fireplace and your house smelling like fried chicken. When KFC sold these logs in 2018, the entire supply sold out online in three hours. This year they sold them at Walmart for $18.99 in a limited-time deal, where the retailer’s website stated that the log is less wasteful than burning actual fried chicken. I am so sorry that I didn’t get this information to you in time so you could purchase one for everyone on your Christmas list. Maybe next year. You can call and personally thank me if you want to.
The recall of hard-boiled eggs from Almark Foods has been expanded to include products sold directly to consumers. These include eggs sold in pillow and pouch packs, frozen and diced products, and protein kits with “best if used by” dates through March 2, 2020, that begin with the letter ‘G. For a full recall list of brands go to CR.org/food.
According to Wikipedia:“Impeachment in the United States is the process by which a legislature brings charges against a civil officer of government for crimes alleged to have been committed, analogous to the bringing of an indictment by a grand jury. Impeachment may occur at the federal level or the state level. The federal House of Representatives can impeach federal officials, including the president, and each state’s legislature can impeach state officials, including the governor, in accordance with their respective federal or state constitution.”
The House of Representatives passed two articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump, 73, over his alleged role in the Ukraine scandal, making him the third U.S. president in history to be impeached. According to World atlas, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only two U.S.presidents to have been impeached during their presidential tenures in the White House. A movement was made to impeach ex-President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal, but he resigned from office before facing trial.
1.Andrew Johnson was the country’s 17th president. The House of Representatives brought several impeachment charges against him, although the principal charge was that he had violated the Tenure of Office Act. The 1867 Tenure of Office Act required that the president obtain consent from the Senate before removing any Cabinet member or federal public official. This Act was specifically for individuals in positions that had previously required the Senate’s approval.
2.The second time Congress initiated an impeachment trial was in 1998 against Bill Clinton, the 42nd president. The House of Representatives brought charges against Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice. These charges emerged as a result of two events: Paula Jones’ sexual harassment lawsuit and Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky who served as a former White House Intern.
Tom Hanks has been granted honorary naturalization (citizenship) by the Greek government which is granted to people “who have provided exceptional services to the country or whose naturalization serves the public interest.” His wife, Rita Wilson, is of Greek and Bulgarian ancestry.
Women now outnumber men in medical school.
Mariah Carey’s original holiday classic, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” recently reached the No.1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 25 years after its release. Justin Bieber is coming to Houston July 2, at NRG Stadium, not Toyota Center, which means he’s expecting a big crowd. I will not be there.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Actor Bradley Cooper is 45. Actor Val Kilmer is 60. Former United Auto Workers union president Owen Bieber is 90. Actor Denzel Washingtonis 65. TV personality Gayle King is 65. Talk show host Seth Meyers is 46. Singer John Legend is 41. People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2019. Country singer Rose Lee Maphis is 97. Along with husband Joe, they were known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music and wrote, “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and (Loud, Loud Music).”
Talk show host Phil Donahue is 84. Actress Jane Fonda is 82. Actress Rita Moreno is 88. She still has tour dates scheduled.Actress Donna Mills is 79. Former US Secretary of State John Kerry is 76. Actor Hector Elizondo is 83. Country singer Red Steagall is 81.“Here We Go Again, Party Dolls and Wine, Freckles Brown, and Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music.” Former ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer is 74. Original Mouseketeer Tommy Cole is 78. Blues singer musician Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington is 76.
Pop singer Chad Stuart is 78. Chad and Jeremy. Chef Bobby Flay is 55.Actor Kirk Douglas is 103. Actor writer Buck Henry is 89. Actress Dame Judi Dench is 85. Actor Ronnie Schell is 88. Duke Slater in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Former Emperor Akihito of Japan is 86.Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Paul Hornung is 84. Actor Frederic Forrest is 83. Rock singer Eddie Vedder is 55. Pearl Jam. Former first lady of France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is 52.
NASCAR driver, Junior Johnson grew up on his family’s farm running moonshine through the hills of NC before turning to professional race car driving. He died recently at the age of 88. Ren Auberjonois, best known for his roles on Benson, and playing Father Mulcahy on M.A.S.H., has died at the age of 79. Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch during the last 50 years on Sesame Street, died recently at the age of 85.
Freeport LNG, Dow Chemical and BASF are sponsoring a Residential Electronics Recycling Day on Sat. January 11, 8-noon, at the Brazoria County Fairgrounds. It is so important to keep these items out of our landfill dump. Items accepted: computers, desktop printers, laptops, VCR’s, monitors, power cords/cables, stereo amplifiers, hard drives, cellular phones, iPAD’s and tablets, TV LCD/plasma, LED up to 50”, and TV’s CRT up to 27” without wooden cabinets. Write the date on your calendar & clean out your closet and drawers.
The owner of a daycare in Colorado Springs, along with her two employees, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor child abuse after police found a false wall in the daycare during a welfare check. Officers could hear noises but could not see any children at the facility. The false wall led to a basement where they found 26 children, all under the age of three. The same woman had 44 small children in an unlicensed daycare in 1998, and investigators had found her in a local park in 1991 with 23 children – nine more than she was supposed to have. Parents, it’s your job to pay attention.
‘We don’t save lives, God does. It’s our job to keep our patients entertained ‘til He makes up His mind.’ Dr. Red Duke
According to a new study from scientists at Rice University, the Gulf of Mexico’s coral reefs are suffering severely under the stress of global climate change and will experience irreversible damage without a huge reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, agriculture runoff and chemical pollution.Note: About 4 million years ago, Greenland had 30 percent less ice than today, and global seas were about 60 feet higher. The difference now is that our ‘future warmer Earth’ is man-made.
Former national security advisor John Bolton has a book deal said to be worth about $2 million. Bolton departed the White House in September because of numerous foreign policy disagreements with President Trump. $2 million!
My daughter needed to find a photograph of me in a dress that she planned to wear to an 80’s party in Houston. Yes, there is such a thing as an 80’s party and I just happened to still own the dress, plastic bagged and hanging in my closet for the past 31 years. I told her that nothing good happened in fashion in the 80’s. It’s velvet and taffeta, with big puffy sleeves and a huge bow that covered my rear end. She still wanted the picture to take with her to the party. I searched. And searched. And searched. Finally, we found the picture, but in the process of dragging out all those boxes, I came upon so many memories. Some super-good memories, and some that had been put totally out of my mind for many reasons. BUT I did find a picture that I had been wondering about. I think I mentioned it in this column once before. It’s a Polaroid picture of me and my siblings (Danielle, Gillian and Maury) standing in front of the TV during the first moon walk on July 20th, 1969. My uncle had sent me a Moon Racing Cam t-shirt from California, and I was wearing it proudly as pajamas. I decided to share the picture. When you finish this column, turn the page. It was the first time that humans had walked on another planet. Cool stuff.
My goal for 2020 is to accomplish the goals of 2019 which I should have done in 2018, because I promised them in 2017, and planned them in 2015. 😊
Due to the fires in Australia, an estimated 8,000 Koala bears have died along with 480 million other animals. The Koala is only found in the forests of Australia, they don’t move fast enough to get away, and up to 30 percent of their habitat has been destroyed. Around 7.4 million acres of land has burned in the past few months, with ten people killed and more than 800 homes destroyed. Fires continue as I write this. A heatwave has temperatures exceeding 104 and extreme winds are fueling 97 current fires. Prayers.
For the past 21 years, I have closed my office during the week of CHRISTmas. It is my belief that during this season, everyone needs time off to visit family either out of town, and/or visit with the family that you actually live with, but never have time to really sit, listen and have conversations with, because everyday duties and chores always seem to get in the way. This year was no different, so I am writing this column during our time off. My kids are home from school, we have had time to cook (chicken & dumplings, tomato basil soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, prime rib with mashed potatoes), fires in the firepit, and talked. We watched movies, reruns of Eddie Murphy as Mr. Rogers/Mr. Robinson on Saturday Night Live and listened to music. Both kids received new hammocks from Santa, so hanging from trees on the creek and reading has been a joy, along with finding a new bird in the wild. It was an Anhinga, a large, dark waterbird with a long tail (nicknamed water turkey) and a snake-like neck (also nicknamed a snakebird). We watched him/her for quite a while, swimming and going under water to find fish. As long as I have lived in South Texas, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these birds. OK, back to my original thought.
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Lisa
