Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 30, 2017 While most Americans are being crushed with higher
premiums and higher deductibles the gang of 535 and their staff are exempt from
Obamacare (time to get on the phone and write Trump to end that exemption so
these parasites get brought back to reality and work to repeal this disaster);
time to ultimatum China who is an enabler for that obese lunatic in North Korea
and time to figure out where this lunatic is and remove him and every member of
his family; another example of Germany’s idiotic posture on refugees as an
Iraqi went into a nightclub in southern German with an automatic rifle and
started spraying bullets, killing one and wounding several before sent to Paradise
by police; UC Irvine is eating crow as it rescinded almost 500 acceptance
letters for this year’s incoming class (do you expect competency from a State
of California Institution?); in another reason why we need Kate’s Law that the
Blues are fighting tooth and nail Sergio Martinez with a rap sheet a mile long
and who has been deported 20 times (prime example of why we need a wall) has
been arrested in the sanctuary city of Portland, Oregon for raping a 65 year
old woman (if this scum bag is convicted lock him up for the rest of his
miserable life and if a lesser sentence, castrate him before deporting him) through
July 29 2173 people have been shot in Chicago 379 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, music links to TLC and
the Beatles, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by St.
Thomas Aquinas on friendship, hoping you are able to avoid inverecund behavior,
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.
International Friendship Day—celebrating
one’s friends since no man is an island and without friends life becomes very
unbearable and lonely.
2. Paperback
Book Day—celebrating Penguin Books introduction of paperback books into
the retail market on this day in 1935. In honor of the day here is a link to
the Beatles performing “Paperback Writer”: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbihws
3. 1995 Number One Song—the number one song in
1995 on a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Waterfalls” by TLC. Here is
a performance by the trio of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “inverecund” which means shameless or
unabashed which when it comes to hypocrisy describes politicians to a tee.
5. I’ll
Be Back—celebrating the birth on this day in 1947 of Arnold Schwarzenegger
of Terminator fame and former governor of California still going strong at 70
but due to infidelity absent his ex-wife Maria Shriver.
On this day in:
a. 1865 the paddle wheel
steamboat Brother Jonathan hit an
uncharted rock of the coast of Crescent City, California and sank taking 225
passengers and crew to Davy Jones Locker (only 19 survived) along with a cargo
of gold which was discovered in the late 1990’s which true to form a rapacious California
tried to claim to no avail.
b. 1932 Walt Disney
premiered Flowers and Trees, the
first animated cartoon to utilize Technicolor and the first animated short to
win an Academy Award.
c. 1965 President Lyndon
Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act of 1965 which created Medicare
and Medicaid which are now under great fiscal strain as the population is
getting older and older.
d. 1974 President Richard
Nixon turned over to the Senate the Watergate Tapes as ordered by SCOTUS.
e. 1975 Teamsters Union
President Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the Machus Red Fox restaurant parking
lot in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan never to be seen again.
Reflections friendship: “There is
nothing more to be prized on this Earth than true friendship” Saint Thomas
Aquinas
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