Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 18, 2017 On the
transportation disaster front, Atlanta’s airport, the busiest in the nation which
was shut down yesterday due to a power outage is back in business and on the
ground an Amtrak train between Portland and Seattle derailed on an overpass
over the Southbound I-5 with at least 6 fatalities and 77 people taken to local
hospitals; Trump is unveiling an America First strategy that will discard in
inane PC stance by our former feckless president refusing to identify radical
Islam as an existential threat; at NBC the only “Hardball” practiced is its
refusal to acknowledge how many more settlements for sexual harassment by its
“star” Chris Matthews it has entered into to protect him and the network; ESPN slammed for introducing left wing bias in its
sports coverage and rocked last week by a damming report on sexual harassment
of its female employees was hit today with the resignation of its CEO for
substance abuse (addiction like alcoholism is an equal opportunity disease);
the MSM and Holder are up in arms over the “attempts by Trump and his
supporters to discredit Mueller” when in reality Mueller and his cabal of
biased rabid Hillary supporters and anti-Trump warriors are discrediting him
better than Trump could ever do and sadly taking down the integrity of the FBI
and the DOJ (what little it has left after the politicization by Holder and
Lynch); Dershowitz who is by no means a bastion of conservative thought but an
esteemed constitutional scholar has slammed Mueller’s complete flouting of the
4th Amendment in obtaining Trump Transition e-mails and mail without
warrants (more and more this “investigation” really known as a witch-hunt is
looking like a Trump lynching that should have been headed by the former chief
lyncher at the DOJ Loretta Lynch); on the sexual harassment front Judge
Kozinski of the liberal 9th Circuit after 15 women had filed
complaints announced his retirement and Linda Sarsour, the pro-Palestinian
activist who organized the Women’s March on Washington has been charged by a
women she supervised as being an enabler to encourage sexual harassment; as the market is again taking off today due
to this week’s expected passage of a massive tax cut and if the economy takes
off as most economists expect it will as a result assuming the Reds can focus
on message “ look at your paycheck, 401k and IRA balances, and the figures for unemployment,
growth and wage growth and remember that not a single Blue voted in favor,” the
Blues will not do very well in 2018 and Schumer and Pelosi will be eating crow; 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
December 17 increasing to 3481, 609 of whom have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music
link to the Guy Williams, factoids of interest for this day in history, being
able to impress your sailing friends with knowledge of what a leech is, a
relevant quote by Sherry Bebitch Jeffe missing completely the depth of support
to recall Gray Davis, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that
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for details.
1. International Migrants Day—created by UN
General Assembly in 2000 to promote rights for the increasing number of
migrants fleeing from civil war, radical Islam and economic deprivation but
unfortunately doing nothing to curtail the spread of radical Islam or remove
tyrants like Assad.
2. Arabic Language Day (United Nations)—created by UNESCO
to promote multiculturalism and promote the equal use of its six official
languages of which Arabic is one.
3. 1956 Number One Song— the number one song in 1956 on a run of 9 weeks in that
position was “Singing the Blues” by Guy Mitchell. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJA8b3esxfE
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “leech” not the blood sucking animal
Vietnam War veterans learned to hate but here the vertical edge of a square
sail.
5. From The Land Down Under—celebrating the birth of noted
Australian stage and screen actress Rachel Griffiths.
On this day
in:
a. 1977 the United States celebrated its first Thanksgiving to
honor the defeat of British forces under General Burgoyne at the Battle of
Saratoga in October which was instrumental in convincing the French to start
providing aid to this country.
b. 1917 the Congress passed a resolution for the 18th
Amendment to establish Prohibition once three fourths of the states had
ratified it.
c. 1958 the U.S.
successfully launched into orbit the SCORE satellite, the world’s first
communications satellite with an Atlas rocket and was popularized by President
Eisenhower’s Christmas message sent up to it and relayed back to Earth.
d. 1972 in a move to force the North Vietnamese back to the
negotiating table, President authorized the resumption of Linebacker 2 B-52
bombings of North Vietnam, including Hanoi and Haiphong Harbor, a major entry
point for arms from China and the Soviet Union.
e. 2002 Governor Gray Davis announced that the State of
California was facing a record budget deficit of $35 billion, almost twice what
had been reported during his election campaign that had ended which along with
the increased car tax, the brown out electricity crisis and the bursting of the
dot.com bubble led to his being recalled in October 2003, only the second
governor in American political history to bear that dubious distinction.
Reflections on why we mere mortals
should not listen to pundits and pollsters in the Swamp bubble who completely
blew it by forecasting an easy Hillary win: “ didn't see a groundswell of
support for a recall. I saw a crowd that would add credence to the governor's
claim that it is a partisan movement.” — Sherry Bebitch Jeffe a liberal pundit
who led the chorus of political experts who downplayed early recall campaign
efforts and most likely was predicting a Hillary win while being unable to see
the real world through her ivy covered lenses.
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