Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 12, 2017 On
the National Anthem kneeling controversy, the NFL players finally showed some
class by not kneeling on Sunday as fans continue to show their disgust by
fleeing from the TV sets due to many of these millionaires taking a knee; just
when you thought the Mueller witch-hunt could not get more bizarre and needing
to be reigned in, news out that he has found a new coven of witches involving
Flynn, but not Russia or Ukraine but Flynn and Turkey and a plot to kidnap
Turkish moderate Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and turn him over to Turkey
(vehemently denied by Flynn and Turkey); on the drunk driving front, several
days ago a Florida woman made news by being arrested for DUI while riding her
horse on a highway with animal endangerment charges thrown in which idiocy may
have been topped by Kenneth Alleshouse of Florida arrested with a blood alcohol
level of.24, three times the legal limit for driving a lawnmower on a busy
highway (in addition to probably swerving the case of Budweiser on the mower
might have been a dead giveaway of intoxication); on the Hollywood sexual
harassment front Wonder Women Gal Gadot will not make a sequel unless accused
sexual harasser Brett Ratner is terminated from any financial involvement with
the sequel (the film grossed $400M); the California Blues have got caught with
their proverbial zippers down as the President pro temp of the California
Senate seeking to replace an aging Diane Feinstein is under investigation for
sexual harassment of a young female employee; in the homestretch of his Asia
trip, Trump held a joint press conference with the President of Vietnam and was
on the Twitter warpath indicating Russia could help in solving the North Korea
nuclear issue and called ex-Intel officers under Obama as political hacks; SNL
put Trump bashing Baldwin on hold as they went after Blues, Brazille and HJC (nothing
like a little fair and balanced comedy to spiff up the ratings among the deplorables);
while the Hollywood sex scandals are spreading faster than bacteria can
multiply, the Oscar season kicked off with the Governor’s Award to those in the
business who have been performing for decades with excellence but with business
as usual, ignoring the sexual predators in the business; on the hacking front
800 school websites were hacked by pro ISIS groups and for hours were corrupted
with pro ISIS jihadist material (the sooner the civilized world realizes that
we and an overwhelming number of Muslims are at war with this ideology, the
sooner we will be able to wipe it off the face of the Earth like small pox;
almost a stuck record or a gruesome remake of Groundhog Day,
Chicago style, the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total
shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through
November 11 increasing to 3221 of whom 562 have died while nothing is
being done to hinder or prevent the killings of minorities by minorities.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Kannye
West, factoids of interest for this day in history, knowing that here in the
U.S. is a word never heard but is, albeit translated, in many Sharia ruled
countries, relevant quotes from three participants in the tragedy at Mai Lai, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like birthdays, 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
Pneumonia Day—observed
since 2009 to bring numerous health organizations together to create awareness
of the deaths inflicted on children under five by pneumonia and to promote
research in ways to stop the dreaded disease in its tracks.
2. International
Tongue Twister Day—commemorating a word game that has fascinated people for
centuries and produced great amounts of laughter when participants’ tongues are
truly twisted as the phrase is said faster and faster—try this one on your
tongue: “The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.”
3. 2005
Number One Song—the number one song in 2005 on a run of 10 weeks in that
position was “Gold Digger” by Kannye West. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY
4. Word of
the Day—today’s word of the day is “lairwite” which must be a word
that given our morals has faded into oblivion as it means a fine given to a
woman who commits adultery (could not find a similar word involving for the
man).
5. All’s
Fair In Love And Skating—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your point of view, the
birth on this day in 1970 of Tonya Harding who was the first female skater to
complete a triple axel but ruined her career by having her husband hire a hit
man to attack Nancy Kerrigan during the 1994 Olympics Trials which resulted in
her being banned from the sport for life.
On this day
in:
a. 1927 Leon Trotsky was
expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union leaving Joseph Stalin in
charge.
b. 1936 the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was completed.
c. 1948 the International
Military Tribune for the Far East sentenced 7 high ranking civilian and
military officials to death for war crimes.
d. 1969 in a testament to
the need for a free press, investigative journalist Seymour Hersch broke the
story of the Mai Lai Massacre which the U.S. Army was trying to conceal
from the American people.
e. 1993 a statute
honoring the contributions of women who served in the Vietnam War Theater was
unveiled at the Vietnam War Memorial.
Reflections on Mai Tai from one American who tried to halt the
massacre, one American who was in charge and one Vietnamese survivor and yet
President Trump was warmly welcomed in Vietnam: 1. “[Hugh] Thompson landed
again… walked over to this lieutenant, and I could tell they were in a shouting
match. I thought they were going to get in a fist fight. He told me later what
they said. Thompson: ‘Let’s get these people out of this bunker and get ’em out
of here.’ Brooks: ‘We’ll get ’em out with hand grenades.’ Thompson: ‘I can do
better than that. Keep your people in place. My guns are on you.’ Hugh was
outranked, so this was not good to do, but that’s how committed he was to
stopping it.” Lawrence Colburn, a member of Thompson’s helicopter crew 2. “The only crime I have committed is in judgement of
my values. Apparently I valued my troops’ lives more than I did the lives of
the enemy.” William Calley, ‘C’ company lieutenant 3. “It’s why I’m old before
my time. I remember it all the time. I’m all alone and life is hard. Thinking
about it has made me old… I won’t forgive as long as I live. Think of the
babies being killed, then ask me why I hate them.”A Vietnamese survivor of the
My Lai massacre No matter how just a war may be at the start as the
casualties mount the battles fought may become crimes against humanity.
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