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Everyone must of had a rough Saturday night. Lazy gits! Got about a half inch of rain overnight. More forecast for today. Clear skies right now and 68F with a high of 82F. I finished cleaning the rest of my screens and windows outside yesterday, along with finishing up washing the vinyl siding. Going to take it easy today. My body is telling me to very loudly. Oh and Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there, and to the sons who aren't dads yet, don't forget your dad today!

United States Rubber Company Ad - June 1944 1940: FDR appoints former Republicans to counter isolationists: Henry Stimson as Secretary of Army Frank Knox as Secretary of Navy They join Hull, Morgenthau, and Hopkins as the "war cabinet". 1940: Both Houses of Parliament meet in secret session to discuss Home Defense. 1940: German troops capture Lyons and the vital port of Brest in Brittany. French envoys drive behind German lines to receive armistice terms. Italian forces begins an offensive along the Riviera coast into France. *Joan Winfield 1940: The RAF bomb Rouen airfield. 1940: The German heavy cruiser Gneisenau is damaged by a torpedo from the British submarine Clyde. 1941: President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress, denounces the sinking of the American merchant ship Robin Moor by U-69 as 'an act of piracy'. 1941: The U.S. Army Air Forces is established, replacing the Army Air Corps. Joan Winfield 1942: Fort Lenin in Sevastopol falls to the Germans. 1942: Declaring that "icicles sprouted in Hell today," the director of the Erie Railroad announces the company will pay its shareholders a dividend for the first time in seventy years. The fifty-cents-a-share payoff is possible largely because of profits earned from transporting troops and war material. 1943: The RAF institutes ‘shuttle bombing’ runs, with planes leaving England, bombing Germany, reloading in North Africa, bombing Italy and the returning to England begin, with 60 RAF bombers attacking the radar works at Friedrichshafen. 1943: The British announce a five-day U-boat attack on the Atlantic convoys and claim that 97% of ships survived. Joan Winfield 1944: U.S. troops attack the outer defenses of Cherbourg. 1944: Eighth Army take Perugia as its advance North continues. 1944: The Red Army captures Viipuri on the Soviet-Finnish border. United States Labor Department Poster 1944: The Japanese retreat from Imphal in Manipur towards the Burmese frontier. 1944: Vice Admiral Marc Mitchner, commander of the U.S. Task Force 58, orders all lights on his ships turned on to help guide his carrier-based pilots back from the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The greatest aircraft carrier duel. 1945: Australians troops land at Lutong on Sarawak and gain 25 miles to the Seria oilfields. Joan Winfield *Joan Winfield was born Joan MacGillicuddy Lucas in Melbourne, Australia, and both she and her sister Mauricette (later Dale Melbourne) were musical prodigies. At the age of 13, with her sister accompanying her on piano, Joan defeated challengers more than three times her age to be awarded "Best Violinist of Australia." Two years later, the MacGillicuddy family moved to London, where at fourteen Joan auditioned and was accepted for the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a monologue from Romeo and Juliet. She always said that the highlight of her time at RADA was being directed by George Bernard Shaw in his play Back to Methuselah. On a trip to New York, Joan was approached at a cocktail party by a talent scout from Warner Brothers Studio, and a screen test landed her a seven-year contract. When Joan was introduced to her new boss Jack Warner, he said that her last name would not fit on a marquee, and gave her the character name from a recent Bette Davis film. Thus she became Joan Winfield. In her time at the studio Joan worked in several of Bette Davis' films, her favorite role being that of Lucy, the maid who knows too much in "A Stolen Life" (1946). On a forgettable film called "The Gorilla Man" (1943) she met John Meredyth Lucas, then working on the show as a script supervisor. They married in 1951, and had three children, Elizabeth, Victoria and Michael. Joan would go on to appear in 39 films from 1941 - 1957. After her marriage she acted in fewer films, and devoted her time to charity work. For many years she was on the Board of Directors of SHARE, an organization that works to assist children with developmental disabilities. Joan died of cancer on June 16, 1978 in Van Nuys, California.

Bol dies after battle with the disease Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a condition that caused him to lose patches of skin. Bol died at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville, where he was being treated for severe kidney trouble and a painful skin condition, Tom Prichard, executive director of the group Sudan Sunrise, said in an e-mail. Prichard said the skin around Bol's mouth was so sore that he went 11 days without eating and could barely talk. Prichard said it's believed that Bol contracted the skin disease as a reaction to kidney medication he took while in Africa. To nice of a man to die so young and so painfully. RIP Manute.

Interesting way of protecting oneself from the evil huns. Now she may have been protecting her wee son by telling you about the can of pepper, since that didn't sound to scary, but the leaflet really said to "pepper the bloody kraut bastard with buckshot through the door". Just sayin'.

Whiz is like both of our cats. Sleeps 22 hours out of 24. Eat, pee and crap the rest of the time.

Morning. Received 3 inches of rain yesterday afternoon/last night, along with hail and 70mph winds. Many trees down, some houses damaged in the area. Flash flooding and many people dealing with water in their basements this morning. Up to just over 7 inches of rain now for the month of June. A reprieve from the rain today. More tomorrow though Wednesday. We have clear skies, 63F and a high of 82F forecast for today.

General Motors Ad - June 1944 1940: ‘If invaders come’ leaflet is issued by Ministry of Information to all households. The British Jockey Club announces no more racing until further notice. 1940: The Germans invite the French to send a representative to discuss armistice terms as their troops reach River Loire, advance on Lyons, capture Strasbourg, Brest and Tours. Rommel takes Cherbourg. *Jeff Donnell 1940: More than 100 German bombers make raids over Britain. 1940: French ships seek refuge in British ports. Jeff Donnell 1941: Germany and Italy expel US consular officials in retaliation for American moves. 1941: The Russians order a black-out of all major cities and towns near the border. However, they still do not allow their troops to take up battle positions, in spite of information given by two German deserters of an imminent attack. Jeff Donnell 1942: Churchill and Roosevelt meet to discuss the number of conflicting offensive plans which might be launched against Germany in 1942. The main ones were 'Rutter', a 24-hour cross Channel raid on Dieppe. 'Sledgehammer' using six division to establish a lodgement on the French coast at Cherbourg and 'Jupiter' which called for a lodgement in northern Norway. Discussion were also had on the up and coming operation 'Gymnast', which was the proposed Anglo-American landing in French North Africa later in the year. 1942: Plans for the offensive in to the Caucasus are captured by the Russians when a staff officer from the 23rd Panzer Division is shot down. Against all order, he was carrying the plans on his person. 40th Panzer Corps commander, General Stumme and his chief of staff are immediately sacked and imprisoned on Hitlers express orders. No changes were made to the plan as although the Russians considered them authentic, they believed that it was only a subsidiary thrust and that the main objective was still Moscow, which suited the Germans. Jeff Donnell 1942: Rommel launches a surprise attack from the southeast against Tobruk. This throws the garrison into confusion which allows German troops to breach the outer defenses. 1943: RAF carries out a raid on the Schneider armaments works at Le Creusot. Jeff Donnell 1943: Goebbels declares Berlin to be Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews). 1944: A violent storm in the English Channel wrecks the U.S. Mulberry Harbor at St. Laurent (Omaha Beach). 20 allied divisions now oppose 16 German in Normandy. Jeff Donnell 1944: The Air Ministry release the first official details of the V1s (range 150 miles, speed 300-350 mph, 2,000lb bomb) as AA gunners start calling them ‘Doodlebugs’. Lt. (jg) Alexander Vraciu signals six "Judy" kills, which he accomplished in less than eight minutes, despite a malfunctioning supercharger, during the now famed "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot". Note how the horizontal stabilizer of the Hellcat is being used as an impromptu table for his flight gear. When he landed, the Lexington's ordnancemen discovered that he had used a total of only 360 rounds of ammunition, which works out to less than a five-second burst per "kill." 1944: U.S. Navy carrier-based planes shatter the remaining Japanese carrier forces in the "Battle of the Marianas". Also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot," Americans shoot down 402 Japanese planes while only losing 20. Lt. (jg) Alexander Vraciu in his Grumman F6F after the "Mission Beyond Darkness" during the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 20, 1944), in which he was escorting bombers in an attack on the Japanese Mobile Fleet, he downed his 19th victim, making him the #1 Navy Ace by a considerable margin (a position he would hold for four months). 1945: The Australians are now in control of both sides of the Brunei Bay entrance. *A reliable featured player and occasional co-star, actress Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boy's reformatory in South Windham, Maine on July 10, 1921. The youngest of two daughters, her father (Howard) was a penologist and mother (Mildred) a schoolteacher. Raised in Maryland, she took piano and dance lessons while growing up. It was during her upbringing that she fixated on the popular "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon strip and gave herself the nickname "Jeff". Studying at one time at the Yale School of Drama and performing briefly in summer stock, Jeff met her first husband, Bill Anderson, a drama teacher from her old Boston alma mater Leland Powers Drama School, and quickly married him at the young age of 19. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire. Almost immediately she was noticed in a play there by a Columbia Studios talent scout and was signed. Whisked to Los Angeles, Jeff made her first appearance in the war-era movie "My Sister Eileen" (1942) while husband Bill was hired on as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious, tomboyish quality that worked comfortably in unchallenging "B" escapism -- usually the breezy girlfriend or spirited bobbysoxer. Typical of her movie load at the time were the fun but innocuous "Doughboys in Ireland" (1943), "What's Buzzin', Cousin?" (1943), "Nine Girls" (1944), "A Thousand and One Nights" (1945), "Carolina Blues" (1944) and "Eadie Was a Lady" (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that prominently featured Ken Curtis (Festus of "Gunsmoke"). On a rare occasion, Jeff found herself in "A" pictures, most notably the Bogart film noir classic "In a Lonely Place" (1950), but more often than not she played the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Unable to break away from her established "B" ranking, she later tried a move to RKO Studios (1949) but fared no better or worse. She did make a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts. Long separated from and finally divorcing her first husband in 1953 (they had one son, Michael, and an adopted daughter, Sarah Jane), she married actor Aldo Ray, who was an up-and-rising film star at the time, in 1954 but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems. She also suffered a miscarriage during that marriage. Jeff went on to marry and divorce two more times. As the 1950s rolled on she earned steady work on TV bringing to life comedian George Gobel's often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom "The George Gobel Show" (1954) for four seasons. She also had the opportunity to play Gidget's mom in a couple of the popular lightweight movies of the early 1960s -- "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" (1961) and "Gidget Goes to Rome" (1963). She also appeared as "Cornelia," (Cornelia Fort), a flying instructor in "Tora, Tora, Tora" (1970). Most daytime fans will remember Jeff's long-running stint on the soap drama "General Hospital" (1963) as Stella Fields, the Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years (including a serious bout with Addison's disease), Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep on April 11, 1988 at age 66. Her sudden absence from "General Hospital", on which she had a recurring role as the Quartermaines' housekeeper at the time of her death, was explained away by the writers as her character having won the lottery and quit her job.

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LMAO!!!

What Top Cat said. Oh and screw soccer.

A man came home from work, sat down in his favorite chair, turned on the TV, and said to his wife, "Quick, bring me a beer before it starts." She looked a little puzzled, but brought him a beer. When he finished it, he said, "Quick, bring me another beer. It's gonna start." This time she looked a little angry, but brought him a beer. When it was gone, he said, "Quick, another beer before it starts." That's it!" She blows her top, "You asshole! You waltz in here, flop your fat ass down, don't even say hello to me and then expect me to run around like your slave. Don't you realize that I cook and clean and wash and iron all day long?" The husband sighed. " Oh shit, it's started."

Morning. Another inch of rain overnight. 65F and muggy. High of 89F and more rain this afternoon.

Shell Aviation Fuels Ad - June 1944 1940: French Army in general retreat as German troops capture Le Mans and Cherbourg. The garrisons of Belfort, Metz and Dijon surrender. Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich to discuss French request for peace. General de Gaulle forms the French National Committee in London and vows to continue the war on the side of Britain, saying that ‘France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.’ 1940: Churchill speaks to Commons: ‘let us so bear ourselves that . . . men will still say, "This was their finest hour".’ *Mara Corday 1940: German planes raid Thames Estuary and East Coast. 1940: Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich. Mara Corday 1941: British press give details of development of ‘radio location’ (radar) and its use in Battle of Britain. 1941: Free French troops occupy Damascus in Syria. Germany and Turkey sign a ten-year non-aggression pact. Mara Corday 1942: The British Eighth Army evacuates Sidi Rezegh and El Adem. 1942: Germans announce the killing of Heydrich’s assassins, just two hours after ultimatum demanding information expired. German troops seize Fort Maxim Gorky in Sevastopol, digging out Russian naval infantry (in their black Sailor hats) with flame-throwers. Mara Corday 1943: Field Marshal Wavell is to become the Viceroy of India, with General Auchinleck becoming the C in C of India. A new East Asia Command is to be established. 1943: ‘Radar’ (Radio Detection and Ranging) becomes the official term for ‘Radiolocation’. Mara Corday 1944: The US First Army cuts off and isolates the German forces defending Cherbourg. 1944: The Eighth Army take Assisi. 1944: The British 2nd Division manages to advance 14 miles towards Imphal. Mara Corday 1945: Eisenhower arrives in Washington to a hero’s welcome. 1945: British demobilization begins. Mara Corday 1945: Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao in the Philippines. 1945: The USAAF begins the fireblitzing of 58 smaller Japanese cities. 1945: Truman approves OPERATION DOWNFALL with the JCS predicting 200,000 US casualties. Mara Corday *Mara Corday was born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California. She is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and a 1950s cult figure. Wanting a career in films, Mara Corday came to Hollywood while still in her teens and found work as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. Her physical beauty brought jobs as a photographer's model that led to a bit part as a showgirl in the 1951 film "Two Tickets to Broadway". She signed on as a Universal International Pictures (UI) contract player where she met actor Clint Eastwood with whom she would remain lifelong friends. With UI, Corday was given small roles in various B-movies and television series. In 1954 on the set of Playgirl she met actor Richard Long. Following the death of Long's wife, the two began dating and married in 1957. Her roles were small until 1955 when she was cast opposite John Agar in "Tarantula", a Sci-Fi B-movie that proved a modest success. She had another successful co-starring role in that genre "The Black Scorpion" (1957) as well as in a number of Western films. Respected film critic Leonard Maltin said that Mara Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit." Mara Corday appeared as a pinup girl in numerous men's magazines during the 1950s and was the Playmate of the October 1958 issue of Playboy, together with famous model and showgirl Pat Sheehan. In 1956, she had a recurring role in the ABC television series "Combat Sergeant". From 1959 to early 1961, Corday worked exclusively doing guest spots on various television series. She then gave up her career to devote her time to raising a family. During her seventeen-year marriage to Richard Long she had three children. A few years after her husband's passing in 1974, Corday's friend Clint Eastwood offered her a chance to return to filmmaking with a role in his 1977 film "The Gauntlet". She acted with him again in "Sudden Impact" (1983), "Pink Cadillac" (1989), and in her last film, 1990s "The Rookie". TRIVIA: Measurements: 35-23-34 Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mother of actress Valerie Long, Carey Long and Gregory Long.

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Morning. Clear and 62F. Winds have switched to out of the south, so humidity going up, chance of storms with heavy rains later this morning/this afternoon. High of a muggy 87F.

Fisher Body Ad - June 1944 1940: Liner Lancastria, with 3,000 British troops aboard, bombed and sunk at St. Nazaire, in North West France. 1940: German troops cross the Loire near Orleans. Petain orders French to stop fighting and sues for ‘honourable’ peace terms. Churchill broadcasts to the nation, saying the British will defend their island home and fight on until the curse of Hitler is removed. Unemployment in Britain falls 114,000 in May to new low of 767,000. *Mary Carlisle 1940: The USSR announces that Estonia and Latvia have agreed to the free passage of troops and to the formation of new governments. 1941: Rommel beats back the British attack at Sollum. ‘Operation Battleaxe’ fails with 1,000 British casualties and 100 tanks lost. Mary Carlisle 1942: The Eighth Army's withdrawal reaches the Egyptian frontier, leaving behind a garrison of some 30,000 troops at Tobruk, which is now again under siege. 1942: Yank a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication. Mary Carlisle 1943: The British battleships Valiant and Warspite are transferred from Scapa Flow to Oran and Alexandria in North Africa in preparation for Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. Mary Carlisle 1944: General de Lattre de Tassigny’s Free French land on Elba and complete its capture in just two days. 1944: German troops evacuate the island of Elba off the west coast of Italy. Mary Carlisle *Mary Carlisle was born February 3, 1912, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the standard prototype of the porcelain-pretty collegiate and starry-eyed romantic interest in a host of Depression-era films and although her name may not ring a bell to most, Mary Carlisle enjoyed a fairly solid decade in the cinematic limelight. The 5' 1", blue-eyed blonde was brought to Hollywood in 1916, at age 4, by her mother after her father passed away. The story goes that the attractive 14-year-old and her mother were having lunch at the Universal commissary when she was noticed by producer Carl Laemmle Jr. who immediately gave her a screen test. Her age was a hindering factor, however, and Mary instead completed her high school studies before moving into the acting arena. An uncle connected to MGM helped give the young hopeful her break into the movies as a singer/dancer a few years later. Mary started out typically as an extra and bit player in such films as "Madam Satan" (1930), "The Great Lover" (1931) and in "Grand Hotel" (1932) in which she played a honeymooner. The glamorous, vibrant beauty's career was given a build-up as a "Wampas Baby Star" in 1933 and soon she began finding work in films playing stylish, well-mannered young co-eds. Although she performed in a number of lightweight pictures such as "Night Court" (1932) with Anita Page, "Murder in the Private Car" (1934) starring Charles Ruggles and "It's in the Air" (1935) toplining Jack Benny, she is perhaps best remembered as a breezy co-star to Bing Crosby in three of his earlier, lightweight 30s musicals: "College Humor" (1933), "Double or Nothing" (1937) and "Dr. Rhythm" (1938). In the last picture mentioned she is the lovely focus of his song "My Heart Is Taking Lessons". Her participation in weightier material such as "Kind Lady" (1935), was often overshadowed by her even weightier co-stars - in this case Basil Rathbone and Aline MacMahon. Disappointed with the momentum of her career and her inability to extricate herself from the picture-pretty, paragon-of-virtue stereotype, Mary traveled and lived in to London for a time in the late 30s. Following her damsel-in-distress role in the horror opus "Dead Men Walk" (1943) with George Zucco and Dwight Frye, Mary retired from the screen prompted by her marriage to James Blakeley, a flying supervisor, the year before. The Beverly Hills couple had one son. Her husband, a former actor who also appeared in 30s musicals with Crosby as a dapper second lead (Two for Tonight (1935)), later became an important executive (producer, editor, etc) at Twentieth Century-Fox. In later years Mary managed an Elizabeth Arden Salon in Beverly Hills. Recently receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, her husband, who wrote an autobiography entitled "Wide-Eyed in Babylon" in 1974, passed away in 2007.

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Morning. Clear skies, wind from the west, and 58F with lower humidity. This is our one day reprieve, until the rain and mugginess returns tomorrow, and for the following 5 days. High temp of 84F. Lots of flash flooding hit in Iowa City yesterday. Other surrounding towns too. Cedar Rapids OK so far.

Swift & Company Ad - May 1944 1940: French front cracking as the Germans break through in Champagne to Dijon, with units of 19th Panzer Korps reaching Besancon on the Swiss border. German forces, supported by heavy artillery and Stuka dive bombers, continue their assault against the Maginot Line on a broad front. The French government of Paul Reynaud resigns and is replaced by one led by Marshal Petain who immediately appoints Weygand as Minister of National Defense. 57,000 British troops are evacuated from Nantes and St. Nazaire. 1940: The Red Army occupies Latvia and Estonia. Tens of thousands of "hostile' natives and their families are rounded up and deported to NKVD prison camps around the Soviet Union. 1940: U-101 sinks the British merchant ship Wellington Star in the Bay of Biscay. 1940: The British submarine Grampus is sunk by four Italian torpedo boats off Syracuse, Sicily. *Suzanne Ridgeway 1941: The US State Department orders the closing by the 10th July of all German consular offices and tourist agencies in the United States. Italians closed down on 19th June. 1941: British unemployment figures for May lowest yet at 243,656 out of work, 400,000 less than a year ago. 1941: The British attempt to continue their offensive, but suffer heavy tank losses to German 88mm Flak guns. Suzanne Ridgeway 1942: After intense air attacks and Italian fleet sorties, the Gibraltar convoy reaches Malta, but the Alexandria convoy is forced back. During these attempts to reach Malta the losses between both convoys stand at the cruiser Hermione (sunk by U-205, South of Crete), five destroyers and 40 aircraft. 1942: Lieutenant General Ritchie gives General Norrie permission to withdraw XXX Corps past Tobruk and as far as Mersa Matruh to re-equip. General Gott's XIII is ordered to take up defensive positions on the Egyptian frontier. This left the city exposed to another siege, for which its defenses were inadequate, having been allowed to deteriorate during the winter. 1943: 93 out of 94 Japanese planes are destroyed during a massive attack on allied shipping round Guadalcanal. Suzanne Ridgeway 1944: The real flying bomb offensive on Britain begins as 95 V1's cross the coast before 6am and a total of 244 reaching England that day. The German press calls it the ‘beginning of the day of vengeance’. 1944: The Eighth Army captures Foligno and Spoleto, east of Orvieto and approach Perugia. 1944: U.S. Marines repulse the Japanese counter-attacks on Saipan. Suzanne Ridgeway *Suzanne Ridgeway was born Ione D. Ahrens on January 27, 1918 in California. Suzanne appeared in approximately 115 films between 1933 and 1955, including "Gone With the Wind", "The Road To Morocco", "Citizen Kane" and "The Best Years Of Our Lives". She also appeared in a number of "Three Stooges" shorts, including "Loose Loot", "Tricky Dicks", "Rumpus in the Harem", "A Missed Fortune" and "A Merry Mix Up". Miss Ridgeway was 78 years old when she passed away on May 5, 1996 in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California.

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