Spring 2020 Starts Now –According to our server’s clock it is now 11:50 p.m., EDT, March 19, which means the vernal equinox just happened and Spring 2020 has begun.
Equinox is Latin for “equal night.” Days and nights are approximately equal everywhere and the Sun rises and sets due east and west, explains The Old Farmers Almanac. At the equinoxes, the tilt of Earth relative to the Sun is zero, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun.
Vernal comes from the Latin vernalis which means spring.
Trump Hears Truckers, Makes Wolf Reopen Stops — The Wolf administration in its not so brilliance closed rest stops on Pennsylvania’s interstates excepting the Turnpike.
As with the Turnpike, the indoor bathrooms will remain closed but each stop will have five portable toilets that will be sanitized daily along with two hand-washing stations.
Medical personnel have noted that the outdoor toilets are far more likely to spread the Wuhan virus, than the indoor ones.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Monday (March 16), sent home all toll booth operators. Motorists who don’t have E-ZPass will have their license automatically photographed and a bill for the toll sent to them. A man-made traffic snarl has just ended. Will the toll booth takers ever come back?
And Philly will not be enforcing its parking kiosks, meters or residential parking time limits.
If the trucker is resupplying the TP it could work out, maybe
Ayaskimew in the Montagnais tongue means she who laces snowshoes. It is where we get the word Eskimo from. At least according to some. Others say it comes from Algonquian word askamiciw which means “he eats it raw”.
Kung Flu Fighting — If you missed the just ended presidential Covid-19 update, a silly person pretending to be a journalist snippily asked President Trump about a report that someone in the White House referred to the disease as the Kung Flu. The President asked her who. She didn’t know. The President asked her to repeat the phrase. She got flustered. The president was Kung Flu fighting. His quips were fast as lightning. It was a little bit frightening. But he fought with expert timing.
Kung Flu master
And for what it’s worth, we never heard the phrase until the silly person pretending to be a journalist brought it up. We think she coined a new name for the disease which will come into common use.
GOP Sweeps Special Elections In Pa — Republicans, yesterday, March 17, won all three special elections for vacated State House seats leaving them with a 110-93 majority in that chamber.
Eric Davanzo, a union carpenter, won the the race in the solid Republican 8th District beating Democrat Robert Prah Jr. by 12 points (unofficially). Prah ran conservatively as a veteran, educator, volunteer firefighter and former mayor of Smithton. He still lost big. The district in Mercer and Butler counties had been been represented by Ted Nesbit who stepped down after winning a seat on the Mercer County Court of Common Pleas.
Minister in your faith William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-17-20
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge; And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness; And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity. For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Peter
