Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 14, 2017 The Russian collusion delusion that has the Blues
lathering like a bunch of rabies infected dogs keeps getting stranger by the
moment and may be a set up by the Obama administration to ensnare the Trump
campaign (regardless of what you believe one thing this Russian collusion
delusion has accomplished is that the MSM is not focusing on health care reform
or tax cuts or infrastructure which are issues the American people are
rightfully concerned about along with the obstruction by Schumer and his lap
dogs); once again a federal judge has inserted his policy views on the Trump
travel ban and ruled that more family members like grandparents and cousins be
allowed in (Thomas was right in his dissent that the court made a great mistake
in allowing people with bona fide connections to relatives already in the
country a mistake that SCOTUS when it hears the case and severally reprimands
the Hawaiian District Court Judge will hopefully correct); U.K. already reeling
from terrorist attacks is now facing another problem, a wave of attacks by
teens tossing acid into the faces of people in cars or on the sidewalks (hard
to keep a stiff upper lip when it has been doused with sulfuric acid); two
women tourists have been stabbed to death and four other tourists injured at
the Hunghada Resort on the Red Sea but no confirmation yet the assailant in
custody is a jihadist; Bernie and his wife Jane who have attempted to personify
themselves as crusaders against corporate fraud and for helping the poor are under
an expanding probe of loan falsification which caused Burlington College after
giving Jane $200,000 golden parachute to fail and causing a Catholic Diocese
which provides many services to poverty stricken residents to lose $2,000,000 (look
for indictments soon and the exit of Sanders and his socialism from the
political landscape); Seattle is succeeding in its attempt to surpass San
Francisco as the most leftist city with its minimum wage increases, tax on gun
and ammo sales and its income tax on high incomes (ironic income for low income
earners down as their hours reduced, gun violence has doubled and watch high
income earners flee the city); through July 13, 1964
people have been shot in Chicago 343 of whom have died (hopefully the ATF
agents Trump has sent in will help put a damper on this carnage.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Kim
Carnes, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Maximilien
de Robespierre on the Reign of Terror, hoping you are not ingluvious in your
meals, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide
you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the
event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1.
Bastille Day—commemorating
the storming of the Bastille in Paris in 1789 by Parisians to liberate
prisoners and gain access to arms and ammunition which led to the French
Revolution and the beheading of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette along
with hundreds of nobility.
2. Shark
Awareness Day—celebrating not the need to stand on the beach and yell “Shark!”
at the sight of a fin but rather to create awareness of the slaughter of these
predators for shark fin soup and shark teeth medallions and necklaces.
3. 1981 Number One Song—the number one song in
1981 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim
Carnes. Here is a performance by her of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ingluvious” which means gluttonous,
a trait you cannot possess if you are trying to lose weight.
5. Simplify
To Characters Create--celebrating the birth on this day in 1910 of William Hanna who along
with Joseph Barbera created such animated classics like Yogi Bear, the Flinstones, the Jetsons and Tom and Jerry by simplifying the animation process.
On this day
in:
a. 1798 John Adams
signed into law the Sedition Act which made it a crime to write, publish or
utter false or malicious statements about the United States Government (so much
for the First Amendment).
b. 1874 a massive fire
in Chicago burnt 47 acres of the city to the ground, killing 20, and destroying
812 buildings.
c. 1957 Rawya Aleya took
her seat in the Egyptian Parliament thereby becoming the first female in the
Arab world to hold a seat in parliament.
d. 1969 the U.S. withdraws
from circulation the $500, $1000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills.
e. 2016 in Nice, France
a Tunisian resident of France plowed a rented 19 ton truck into pedestrians
killing 86 of them and injuring 458 others before being dispatched to “Paradise”
by police (no wonder Europeans have qualms about refugees pouring into their
countries).
Reflections
on the Reign of Terror unleashed by the storming of the Bastille: “Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law;
they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn
kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as
much as that of the courts.”
Maximilien de Robespierre Virtue
and Terror Please enjoy the poems
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