Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 28, 2017 The drama on repeal of Obamacare had its curtain call last
night with three Reds voting no and Schumer today at his most hypocritical best
urging bipartisanship (if you want Congress to be bipartisan on this have Trump
remove the exemption for Congress and its staff from Obamacare and watch the
stampede to try to solve this disaster); Maxine Waters put on a disgusting but
typical show interrupting continually the testimony of Treasury Secretary
Mnuchin (this absentee plantation owner should be thrown out of office by the
voters in her district that she doesn’t live in); another day of China trying
to do both support North Korea and do business with U.S. and another ballistic
missile test landing in the economic zone waters of Japan which fortunately did
not hit any vessels in the area (China needs to chose one path or the other); get
ready for another special prosecutor as Reds are demanding one to investigate
Lynch, Comey and your favorite potential felon HRC; on the terror front another
knife wielding “Allahu Akbar” attacker in Hamburg killing one person and
wounding 4 others before being subdued; on the PC Academic front a conservative
professor Keith Fink teaching free speech at UCLA has been fired even though he
possessed an excellent rating; through July 27, 2152
people have been shot in Chicago 376 of whom have died (sadly the ATF agents
Trump has sent has not put a damper on the carnage).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to UB40; factoids
of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Tom Libri on the need
to vaccinate against hepetitis, hoping you do not have to put up with people inveighing
against you, 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.
Day of Commemoration of the Great
Upheaval (Canada)—designated in 2003 to commemorate the forced expulsion of French
speaking Acadians from the Maritime Provinces in Canada following the French
and Indian War; many of whom settled in
Louisiana.
2. World
Hepatitis Day—creating awareness of the alphabet disease of hepatitis A,B,C,D,
and E that affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and kills over a
million each year.
3. 1993 Number One Song—the number one song in
1993 on a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
by UB40. Here is a performance by the
group of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajp0Uaw4rqo
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “inveigh” which means to attack in
speech or in writing which is all we are being forced to endure in the Swamp
instead of Congress getting anything done.
5. Change
the Channel on the Telly—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your political views the
birth on this day in 1957 of Scott Pelley former news anchor for CBS Evening
News who was canned in part due to failing ratings probably due to his unconcealed
bias and partisan attacks on Trump and conservatives.
On this day in:
a. 1854 in the world is
changing moment, the USS Constellation,
the last all sail warship in the US Navy, was commissioned.
b. 1868 the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution granting citizenship to African Americans and guaranteeing
due process of law to all was ratified.
c. 1917 the Silent Parade
a parade of 8-10,000 African-Americans protesting the lynching, murders and other
violence directed against African-Americans took place in New York City.
d. 1965 the march to
disaster known as the Vietnam War quickened its pace as President Johnson
announced the increase in troop levels from 75,000 to 125,000.
e. 1984 the XXIII Summer
Olympics opened in Los Angeles which were dominated by the U.S. due in large
part to the fact that in a tit-for-tat moment the Soviets boycotted the games.
Reflections on how to prevent the spread of Hepetitis A and B: “Giving vaccine works because we’ve seen case
levels of hepatitis A and B drop in Florida. In the past eight years
(2001-2008), acute hepatitis B cases have decreased by 49 percent, and
hepatitis A cases have dropped by 84 percent.” » Tom Liberti, retired
Bureau Chief of the Florida Department of Health. Please enjoy
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