Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 17, 2017 The birthday
boy Chris Matthews who is so quick to pounce on any hint of sexual abuse by
Trump was a defendant in a sexual harassment case brought by a female producer
of Hardball that NBC paid $40,000 to
settle; on the fire front the Thomas Fire is advancing on Santa Barbara and
Montecito forcing more evacuations; chaos in the skies as a complete power
outage at Atlanta’s airport has stopped all flights in and out of Atlanta, the
nation’s busiest airport; the concept of “Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men” took
a one two punch yesterday from radical Islamist suicide bombers in a church in
Pakistan that killed 9 worshippers and a mosque in Nigeria that killed 50
Muslims; in another glaring reminder of why Russia should be involved in the
taking down of ISIS given the amount of Muslims in that country and the fact it
borders many Muslim countries, Putin called Trump to thank him and the CIA for
providing information about an Islamist terrorist plot to attack a cathedral in
St. Petersburg which Russia was then able to preemptively strikee(despite the
howls of the MSM not an example of Trump Russian collusion but good intel
practice to share information as long as the methodology of how the intel was
obtained was not shared); look for the tax cut to be passed in Congress in the
next few days and if the economy takes off as most economists expect it will as
a result assuming the Reds can focus on message “ look at you paycheck, 401k
and IRA balances, 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 16 increasing to 3471, 608 of whom
have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music
link to the Tennessee Ernie Ford, factoids of interest for this day in
history, being able to avoid being lectual, a relevant quote by Aysha Taryam on
the Arab Spring and migration, 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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for details.
1. Pan American Aviation Day—celebrating the
first flight by the Wright Brothers of a heavier than airplane propelled by a
propeller at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
2. National Maple Syrup Day—celebrating that uniquely flavored syrup derived from the sap of
the maple tree although why it is celebrated today is a mystery since the sap
normally flows from February through March.
3. 1955 Number One Song— the number one song in 1955 on a run of 7 weeks in that
position was “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lectual” which means to require bed
rest or confinement to bed which is why a flu shot is a great idea.
5. A Hardball In Name Only, More Like A T-Ball—celebrating or
bemoaning depending on your point of view, the birthday on this day in 1945 of Chris Matthews host of the
MSNBC’s show Hard Ball which when posing
questions to Blues is about as far removed from objective truth finding
questions as one could be; more like T-Ball where the ball is stationary so the
hitter has a hard time not making contact.
On this day
in:
a. 1957 the United States successfully launched its first Atlas
ICBM.
b. 1969 the U.S. terminated Operation Blue Book, a study to
determine whether UFOs existed.
c. 1989 The Simpons debuted
on national television with its first program “Simpsons Roasting on an Open
Fire.”
d. 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi immolated himself setting the stage for
the Tunisian Revolution and the Arab Spring.
e. 2014 the United States and Cuba reestablished diplomatic
relations after being severed in 1960.
Reflections on the transistor and its
impact on society: “The Arab Spring whose seeds failed to bloom anything other
than a chaotic mess that requires only blood to grow has contributed immensely
to the rising numbers of these migrants.” Aysha Taryam, editor of the
English Language Gulf Report residents
in the Middle East feel they are not secure from their own government as in the
case of Syria or from radical Islam as in the case of Libya or Iraq we will be
faced with the specter of thousands of migrants fleeing to safety polluted by
the numbers of Islamists trying to blend in with them. Please
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