Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For May 20, 2017 Instead of a groveling
Obama apologizing for the U.S., a vibrant and strong President Trump is
visiting Saudi Arabia, announcing an over hundred billion dollar arms deal with
the Saudis as GE announced a fifteen billion dollar deal to the delight of its shareholders;
Blues appear to be up in arms over suggestions that Joseph Lieberman will be
named by Trump to replace the fired Director Comey who is expected to testify
before Congress soon; the Blue governor of Colorado in an attempt to keep ICE
from deporting a convicted violent felon must be smoking too much of his
legalized pot as he has just pardoned this felon; Brainherd High School in
Minnesota has just joined the list of hate mongering public schools with its
yearbook publishing really vile comments about Trump like wanting to behead him;
Huma Abedin has filed for divorce against her pervert husband (frightening to
imagine her at the right hand of a President Clinton); almost a stuck
record or a remake of Groundhog Day,
Chicago style, the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with total shootings in 2017 through May 19
increasing to 1241 and the death toll increasing to 213, a major tragedy that
the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Jimmy
Dorsey, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping you are not bleed
dry by ichneumous lawyers or politicians, a relevant quote from Doctor Kim, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like Fathers’ Day, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the
Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great
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1. World
Metrology Day—celebrating the field of measurement without which many of our
highly accurate instruments and products would not exist; a big round of applause
for companies like QPlus Labs here in Orange County.
2. Armed
Forces Day—commemorating since May 20, 1950 the men and women serving in the
five branches of our Armed Forces.
3. 1942
Number One Song—As the Japanese were running rampant
in the Pacific, the number one song in 1942
on run of 6 weeks in that position was “Tangerine” by Jimmy Dorsey
and his band. Here is a recording of them performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JDUnZv1N0
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ichneumous”
which is the perfect word to describe politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers
expecially family law lawyers as it means parasitical.
5. Mad
Dogs and Englishmen Not Smart Enough Smoke Out—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1944 British blues singer Joe Cocker with his gravelly
voice and wild stage gyrations but who was plagued by substance abuse and hooked on a two pack a
day cigarette habit and like so many smokers died of lung cancer at the too
early age of 70.
On this day
in:
a. 1570 cartographer
Abraham Ortelius published his Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum, the world’s first
modern atlas.
b. 1862 in a move to
open up the West, President Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act.
c. 1881 Krakatoa in
Indonesia began to erupt and violently erupted three months later, killing
36,000 people and plunging the Earth into an early winter with massive crop
losses due to the amount of ash spewn into the atmosphere lowering our
temperatures.
d. 1969 the ten day
battle to occupy a worthless piece of dirt by American forces ended with 72
American lives lost; the action was strongly condemned in the U.S. Senate
especially when the American troops withdrew on June 5 as American focus
shifted from killing the NVA to minimizing casualties.
e. 1983 Luc Montagnier
published in Science his discovery of the HIV virus that causes
AIDS.
Reflections on why following the money may not be the best idea:” If
you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and
malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it's
very simple: because there's a market in the United States and Europe. Jim Yong
Kim, noted Korean-American physician and President of the World Bank. Africa
is ravaged tuberculosis and malaria but not enough wealth to effectively fight
those two diseases as sadly drug development always follows the path to the
wallet regardless of need. Please
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