Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—August 29, 2015 Trust your Saturday is
off to a great sweltering start and as always I hope you enjoy Saturday’s holidays
and observances, factoids of interest, a music video by The Beatles, a relevant quotes by Michael
Eric Dyson, looking forward to enjoying a plate of chop suey, blessed with a
positive attitude and secure
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1. International Day Against Nuclear Tests—another UN observance celebrated since 2009 created to promote awareness of the need to promote a nuclear weapons
1. International Day Against Nuclear Tests—another UN observance celebrated since 2009 created to promote awareness of the need to promote a nuclear weapons
free world on one hand and on the other the UN Security Council
approving the removal of sanctions previously imposed on Iran due to its quest
for nuclear weapons.
2. National Sarcoidosis Day—promoting
awareness of a rare immune system disease that can affect almost every organ of
the body, including the skin (rash), eyes (soreness) and lungs (shortness of
breath, dry coughs and chest pains).
3. 1965 Number One
Song—celebrating the number one song in 1965 on a run of three weeks
in that position Help! by The
Beatles. Here is a link to The Beatles performing Help! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r77L3oPOLVA
4. National Chop
Suey Day—celebrating a dish that originated in the city Taistan on the Pearl
River in Southeast China. Chop Suey means “assorted pieces” like beef, chicken,
pork, seafood and vegetables and is served over rice.
5. Unlock The Mind Day—celebrating
on this day in 1632 the birthday of philosopher John Locke, the Father of
Classical Liberalism and a strong proponent of property rights and limited
government, ideas under massive assault by the Obama Administration.
On this day
in:
a. 1758 the first Indian
Reservation was established at Indian Mills, New Jersey, the first of many that
condemned thousands upon thousands of Indians to a lifetime of poverty and ill
health.
b. 1831 Michael
Faraday discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction.
c. 1949 thanks to
great espionage and U.S. traitors, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic
bomb known as Joe 1 at the Soviet’s nuclear test site located near
Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. After 456 tests with no regard to the health and
safety of nearby residents or the impact of radiation buildup on the
environment, the test site was closed in 1991.
d. 1966 the Beatles performed their last
concert before paying customers at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
e.
2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall at the U.S. Gulf Coast causing almost
2,000 deaths and over 108 billion dollars of damage.
Reflections on Hurricane
Katrina on the 10th Anniversary of its U.S. landfall and the
beginning of its massive death and destruction:”Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional
wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor
they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn
something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve
better than this.” Michael Eric Dyson, noted American professor, author and
radio host
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