Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For October 12, 2017 On the failing Obamacare front, President Trump signed an
executive order designed to create more competition in the health insurance
market and enable consumers to buy the insurance they want as opposed to being
forced to buy what they do not want or need (if only Congress were mandated to
be covered by Obamacare, a repeal and replace bill would have been sent to the
president months ago); on the good news front Caitlan Coleman, her husband and
her three infants born in captivity since being abducted in Afghanistan by Taliban
linked terrorists are being freed (but on the bad news front the family does
not want to leave Pakistan as the husband is concerned that past behavior would
result in his becoming a resident of GITMO); fires in Northern California are raging
out of control with the town of Calistoga being evacuated as the death toll
from the fires now at 23 with hundreds missing; AG Sessions rightfully blasted
Obama for the surge in illegals seeking asylum and vowed a crackdown on
illegals in sanctuaries (good place to start would be to cut off all federal
funding to sanctuary cities and sanctuary states like California); Hillary was
on the Cack News Network being interviewed by one of the most leftist
“journalists” Fareed Zakaria expressing shock and disgust over Harvey
Weinstein’s alleged sexual predator behavior and rape claiming complete
ignorance of that behavior while accepting large contributions to her campaign
and the Clinton Foundation (believe her lack of knowledge and stand in line
with those who believe in the tooth fairy); as if we did not have enough to
worry about on our platter, news today that the super volcano at Yellowstone
that last erupted 630,000 years ago may be ready sooner that predicted for
another massive eruption that would spew ash into the atmosphere equal to 2500
times the amount of ash emitted by Mt. St. Helens;
in Chicago through October 11, 2017, the number of people being shot climbed to
2989 and the death toll rising to 517 while the city seems to not be doing
anything to prevent the killing and maiming of its minority residents—a
real definition of racism which is deadly.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Michael
Jackson, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by the
birthday boy Luciano Pavarotyi on music, thankful that your diet will not cause
kuru and
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
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1. Freethought
Day—promoting the ideas of freethinkers who urge for actions based
on reason and logic as opposed to religion or dogma.
2. UN
Spanish Language Day—created
by the UN in 2010 to commemorate the use of Spanish as one of the six working
languages at the UN.
3. 1979
Number One Song—the number one song in 1979 on a run
of 1 week in that position was “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” by Michael
Jackson. Here is a performance of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “kuru” which is a brain disease
transmitted by cannibalism which probably explains why there are not a lot of
cannibals on this planet.
5. A
Tenor For The Ages—celebrating the birth on this day in 1935 of Luciano Pavarotti,
perhaps one of the greatest opera tenors of all times who sang his last aria on
September 6, 2006 due to pancreatic cancer, leaving an estate worth almost 500
million dollars.
On this day in:
a. 1692 to the joy of
real or more likely imagined witches, the governor of Massachusetts, Sir
William Phips, put an end to the Salem witch trials which resulted in the
execution of 20 victims, 14 of whom were women.
b. 1792 in New York City
the first Columbus Day celebration was held.
c. 1901 President Teddy
Roosevelt officially changed the name of the Executive Mansion to the White
House.
d. 1928 an iron lung respirator was used for the first time in Boston
to enable a polio victim to breathe.
e. 2000 the USS Cole was
badly damaged by two suicide boat bombers, killing 17 men and wounding 39 others
while moored at Aden, Yemen.
Reflections on the joy of listening to music by one of the great
tenors of all time: “Learning about music by reading about it is like making
love by mail” Luciano Pavorotti Please enjoy the poems
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October 12, 2017Michael
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