Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 20, 2017 The world has
one less scumbag to deal with as Charles Manson who has rotted in prison since
his conviction for the Tate-La Bianca Murders died yesterday in prison; just when you thought the idiocy of NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem was over think again as Raider Lynch kneeled for the U.S. National Anthem but stood for the playing of Mexico's National Anthem (what about the thousands of innocent Mexicans slaughtered by the drug cartels and the rampant corruption in Mexico does this well paid athlete not understand); on the
political front, Merkel’s attempts to form a coalition government have
collapsed and Germany may be facing a snap election to remedy the problem
(Merkel may be a smart woman but he decisions to open Germany’s borders to
unvetted refugees from the Middle East is a major error); and Mugabe’s
time has run out as his party throws the gauntlet to resign by Monday or be
impeached (too much corruption even for a continent where corruption is the
rule not the exception; our border with Mexico in addition to being porous is a
dangerous place as a Border Patrol agent Rogolia Martinez was shot and killed
and his partner seriously wounded in the Big Bend Park section of Texas
(another reason why we need the Wall as the scumbag or scumbags committing the
act were most likely cartel members smuggling drugs into the country); two
perverts one in the Senate (Franken) and the other trying to become one (Moore)
are telling the outraged American public and the Senate to in essence pound
sand; we all know that texting or operating a cell phone while driving can be
dangerous but for 18 year old Alexis Butler so is driving while taking a breath
analyzer as she was killed in Arlington, Texas while backing out of her
driveway by a non impaired driver doing just that; UCLA has chimed in on the
arrest and subsequent release of three of its basketball players for
shoplifting in China by suspending them from the team; 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 18
increasing to 3271 of whom 571 (in what has to be a record no one on the
17th or the 18th died) 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 Maroon 5,
factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping you encounter
lamprophony if listening to a speech or lecture, a relevant quote from Judge
Greene on the consent decree ultimately entered in the AT&T antitrust
litigation, secure in the
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event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Universal
Children’s Day—created by the United Kingdom in 1954 to promote better
understanding among the children of the world and to promote programs and
policies for the benefit of all children on this planet.
2. Africa
Industrialization Day—created by UN General Assembly to promote awareness of the need
of Africa to industrialize and promote programs and policies that will promote
effective industrialization.
3. 2012 Number One
Song—the
number one song in 2012 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “One More
Night” by Maroon 5. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwK7ggA3-bU
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lamprophony” which means to
speak loudly in clear tones which baby boomers appreciate as they age and their
hearing gets worse especially if they went to a lot of rock concerts in the
60’s.
5. Runner Up In Only
a Few Years Not Bad—celebrating the birth on this day in 1946 of Duane Allman,
noted singer and guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band and ranked by Rolling Stone Magazine as number 2 in
its list of top 100 guitarists, second only to Jimmy Hendrix who way too soon
died on October 29, 1971 following the release of the band’s successful album
At Filmore East.
On this day
in:
a. 1962 in a step back from the brink of
nuclear war in response to the Soviet’s agreement to remove its nuclear
missiles from Cuba, President Kennedy ended the quarantine of Cuba and secretly
agreed to remove from Turkey medium range Jupiter missiles that had been
installed in 1959.
b. 1969 the Cleveland Plain Dealer published graphic photos of the men, women
and children executed by the U.S. Army at Mai Lai which accelerated the growing
protest of the civilian population to the Vietnam War.
c. 1974
in another lawyers full employment act (the defendants employed close to 3000
staff and spent close to $400 million in defense of the action), the Department
of Justice filed its last antitrust suit against AT&T which led to the breakup
of ATT&T and its Bell System.
d. 1985 Microsoft released Windows 1.0 and the
PC revolution was off and running.
e. 1991 the Senate Ethics Committee (the same
one hopefully soon investigating Al Franken for sexual harassment) cited
Democratic and four term Senator from California Alan Cranston for improper
conduct in his dealings with the head of Lincoln Savings and Loan Charles
Keating.
Reflections on the
antitrust action against AT&T from the Judge whose rulings gaveled the
defendants into a consent decree with the Department of Justice: “Antitrust
decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month
basis. They are written for a long, long, time, typically, particularly a big
decree like this. And then to come along and say, a couple of years late,
‘Oops, we made a mistake; let’s forget it’, it’s obviously a change in
policy…I’m hopeful that we’re back on an even keel now.” Judge Harold Greene
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