Clocks Fall back one hour on Sunday, 11-3-24
November 3, 2024
The most Popular Posts of the past seven days.
Oct 27, 2024
Rain (Please????)
October is traditionally a very dry month in Montgomery, and as we reach the last days of that month here in 2024, it appears we will live up to that pattern, with zero inches of rain in Montgomery.
That rainfall on the left was in July.
We really need a good soaking now, at the end of October!
Oct 26, 2024
November Date to red letter on your calendar!
Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson to Host Alabama Frontier Days Montgomery – The Alabama Historical Commission (AHC) invites you to its annual Alabama Frontier Days event
on November 6-9, from 9:00 am – 4:00pm, at Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson in Wetumpka, AL.
Celebrated as one of Alabama’s largest and most authentic living history events, Alabama Frontier Days brings the 18th century frontier to vivid life. This event focuses on the South as it transitioned from Creek Indian lands to military forts and civilian homesteads from 1700 to 1820. Using Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson as a historical backdrop, the public can experience living historians who will bring the fort to life through military reenactments with booming cannon fire and captivating demonstrations of frontier crafts and trades. "Alabama Frontier Days is the keystone event for Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Park and is the largest education based living history program in the state,” said Calvin Chappelle, site director of Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson. “The wonderful thing about this event is that it takes what students have read about or studied in the classroom and brings it to life in a beautiful outdoor setting."
This snapshot of frontier life includes Creek Indians, French soldiers and their families, British traders who lived among the Creeks and American soldiers who fought in Andrew Jackson’s army during the Creek War. There will be period entertainment featuring an eighteenth-century magician, merchants, strolling balladeers, and musicians. AHC Executive Director Lisa D. Jones said, “Alabama Frontier Days is a signature event for AHC. Each year, we welcome thousands of school children who come away with an enhanced understanding of what life was like three hundred years ago. We’ve been proud to continue this educational outreach for more than two decades.”
Alabama Frontier Days admission is $15 for adults and $10 for children (ages 6-18 years). The Saturday ‘Family Day’ is a terrific opportunity for families to experience the forts together and learn more about the rich history on site. Food and retail vendors will be available.
Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson was declared a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1961 and was acquired by the AHC in 1971.
About the Alabama Historical Commission
Located in historic downtown Montgomery at 468 S. Perry Street, the Alabama Historical Commission is the state historic preservation agency
for Alabama. The agency was created by an act of the state legislature in 1966 with a mission to protect, preserve and interpret Alabama’s
historic places. AHC works to accomplish its mission through two fields of endeavor: Preservation and promotion of state-owned historic sites as
public attractions; and statewide programs to assist people, groups, towns, and cities with local preservation activities. For a complete list of
programs and properties owned and operated by the AHC, hours of operation, and admission fees please visit ahc.alabama.gov
NY Times endorsement for President
"The Only Patriotic Choice for President."
(Hint: it's NOT tRump.)
Oct 25, 2024
From a NY Times editorial column
Times column HERE
"Trump, meanwhile, stands before his MAGA crowds and spews nonstop lies, ominous threats, impossible promises and utter gibberish. His rhetoric is dismissed, or looked past, without first being interrogated.
Imagine if Harris were promising to end the war in Gaza on her first day in office but wouldn’t say how. Imagine if she were proposing a tariffs-based economic plan that economists say would destabilize the world economy and cost the average family $4,000 a year in higher prices. Imagine if she were promising a “bloody” campaign to uproot and deport millions of undocumented migrants who are gainfully employed and paying taxes. And imagine if Harris were vowing to use the military to go after her political opponents, as Trump repeatedly pledges."
Alabama Bankruptcies
"Bankruptcy petitions for consumers and businesses are on the rise. There was a 5% increase in total bankruptcy filings in July 2019 from the previous month, the American Bankruptcy Institute said this week. There were 64,283 bankruptcy filings, up from 62,241 for the same period last year.
There were 452,797 filings in the first seven months of 2019, up from 450,568 during the same period last year. There were roughly 1,000 more consumer bankruptcies at this point this year, compared to the same point last year, the organization added.
The recent bankruptcy data shows many consumer and corporate filings last month were coming, from southern states.
Alabama had the highest per capita rate, with 5.61 filings per 1,000 people, followed by Tennessee (5.39) and Georgia (4.31), Mississippi (4.25) and Nevada (3.79)."
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
More Closings
There are three Denny's in Alabama (there used to be more!)...now the company is closing about 50 of their locations this year and 100 next year. No list of where the closings will take place!
The existing locations in Alabama are in Hope Hull, Cullman and Dothan.
Near Drought Conditons
Parts of Dallas County are approaching drought conditions
Here's what that means:
| D2 | Burn bans begin |
| Crops are damaged, especially dryland corn | |
| Hydroelectric power decreases; navigation is limited | |
| Large cracks appear in foundations of homes | |
| Large surface water levels drop; agricultural ponds and streams have dried up | |
| Saltwater intrusion occurs in rivers and bays; saltwater wildlife migrate upstream |
Bookmark this government website
Oct 19, 2024
Earliest 1st Freeze in Montgomery (in 2022)
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Montgomery Freeze Facts
- Earliest first freeze - October 19th, 2022
- Latest first freeze – January 31, 1932
- Average date of first freeze - November 18th
- Earliest last freeze – December 28th, 1879
- Latest last freeze – April 13th, 1940
- Average date of last freeze - March 8th
Coldest Temperature ever: -5 on February 13th, 1899
Coldest Maximum Temperature ever: 18 on January 9th, 1886
Tomorrow's forecast low of 38 degrees is the closest to freezing in Montgomery...for the moment!
Oct 16, 2024
Feds 1, Alabama Secretery of State 0
(from an AL.COM story)
"Alabama has three days to restore active voting status for thousands of people who were purged from the state’s voter rolls, a federal judge ruled today.
U.S. District Judge Anna M. Manasco today issued an order instructing Secretary of State Wes Allen to send letters to everyone who was wrongly deemed ineligible, notifying them of their legal right to vote in the Nov. 5 election."
(No immediate comment from SOS Allen)
Name change
“The IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl”
Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?
"Camilla Bowl" no more.
Buy a Tesla----and guess what!
---Help elect Trump!
Oct 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk gave around $75 million to his pro-Donald Trump spending group in the span of three months, federal disclosures showed on Tuesday, underscoring how the billionaire has become crucial to the Republican candidate's efforts to win the Nov. 5 presidential election.
TESLA = TRUMP
Reminder
From a N.Y. Times column today:
Trump’s history of racist comments and actions is long and deep. In 1989, famously, Trump paid $85,000 for full-page ads in four New York newspapers calling on authorities to severely punish the Central Park Five, Black and Latino teenagers accused of rape and assault but later exonerated. “They should be forced to suffer, and when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” the ads declared. More recently, he and his running mate, JD Vance, have caused havoc claiming that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their neighbors’ pet cats.
FULL COLUMN HERE.
Bloomberg Hyundai Story
The factory and its popular models have propelled the South Korea automaker and its affiliate Kia into the No. 4 spot in US sales for the first time in 2023, surpassing Jeep and Ram owner Stellantis NV. Its high levels of output, close-knit supply chain and low labor costs have buoyed Hyundai Motor Co.’s profit margins, which are among the best in the global auto industry.
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But this crown jewel has been tarnished by its low wages, a major engine recall and lingering fallout from the use of child labor in its local supply chain. And Hyundai’s future success in the US will rely less on its Alabama operation as it plans a rapid shift to electric vehicles despite uncertain demand and government support given the potential return to power of former President Donald Trump.
“Hyundai has to be careful not to grow too fast for its own good,” said Sung Hwan Cho, a former executive vice president at the carmaker and current president of the International Organization for Standardization. “A stalk that sprouts too quickly will tumble over.”
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Like many other foreign automakers, Hyundai has based its manufacturing in southern states with low wages and rates of unionization. The Georgia facility will make a number of electrics for both the Hyundai and Kia brands, while the Alabama plant will continue to produce a single EV.
The Montgomery facility, which has become a model for other factories around the world, boasts one of the lowest ratios of workers per vehicle anywhere — about half that of its mother plant in South Korea. During a recent visit by Bloomberg, robots abounded and few workers were visible outside the confines of the final assembly line.
‘Birthplace of Productivity’
Hyundai proudly calls Montgomery “the birthplace of high productivity.” Nearly 500 robots are used on its assembly lines, speeding up production to one vehicle every 16 hours. That’s faster than the industry average, which can take up to 35 hours, according to JVIS-USA LLC.
FULL STORY HERE.
Oct 15, 2024
Happy 80th!
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Today is Kay Ivey's Birthday.
She begins her 80th year today.
She is the oldest Governor in America.
Oct 14, 2024
True Value (no More)
Reasons NOT to celebrate Columbus Day?
(Maybe it should be called Atrocity Day?)
The controversial Italian explorer became infamous because of the way he treated Indigenous people.
The explorer is said to have done the following to Indigenous people, according to the History Channel:
- Used violence and slavery
- Introduce and spread new diseases
- Attempt to convert them to Christianity
Critics of the current federal holiday point out that Columbus also committed several crimes against humanity when he reached the Western Hemisphere. Here are some examples of those atrocities, as compiled by Philadelphia Magazine:
- Columbus cut off the hands of approximately 10,000 natives in Haiti and the Dominican Republic because they failed to provide gold every three months.
- Columbus cut off the legs of native children who tried to run from them.
- He aided in sex trafficking nine and ten-year-old girls.
Sources include an article in The Montgomery Advertiser HERE.
Oct 13, 2024
TicTok
In fact, TikTok’s documents showed it went so far as to tweak its algorithm to reduce the visibility of people it deemed not very attractive and “took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their Young Users,” the Kentucky authorities wrote in the previously redacted documents.
I guess I know where I'll fall in their algorithm 😕.
Oct 12, 2024
The Jupiter Squeeze
SOURCE: https://www.space.com/jupiter-great-red-spot-squeezed-hubble-telescope
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble Telescope finds — and nobody knows why (video)
Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot has been under constant observation since the 19th century, but this new development is unprecedented.
Half A Century Ago on Dexter Avenue
Oct 12, 2024
50 years ago
On Saturday, October 12, 1974---- a group of heavily armed men, later identified as Black Muslims, shot to death a retired city policeman in a bizarre outbreak of violence on Dexter Avenue. Then three members of the group took over radio station WAPX where they exchanged gunfire with police for more than two hours while pleading for “our brothers to come join us in the revolution."
Jimmy Carter (no, not the former President) was a young reporter with a camera at the time...you can watch the film he shot, and hear his commentary HERE.
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