Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 27 If the Pentagon is to
be believed we have just received news confirming what a complete disaster
Obama has been in term of the war on ISIS which poured out of Syria and into
Iraq after our feckless president turned tail and ran while micromanaging the
gnat air strikes to render them almost useless
as in less than a year of Trump being in office the murderous and barbaric
Caliphate has shrunk to two percent of the territory it once held and the
number of fighters still too stupid enough to read the handwriting on the wall
and leave number less that 1,000; on the Peace on Earth Good Will to Men Front
a family of 4 was travelling a bit fast to get to Grandma’s house for Christmas
and were pulled over by Officer Delacruz but instead of a traffic ticket in the
Christmas spirit he told them he had previously pulled over Santa who had told
him that he would meet a car describing the car he pulled over and that it
would be carrying two small boys who would receive the toys he pulled out and
gave to them—nice gesture indeed and a reminder that police are humans also
with family especially when they are not being shot at; passengers on
a flight to Tokyo on ANA were treated or condemned to a Yo-Yo flight as the
plane turned around after four hours into the flight because the person had a
United Airline ticket for a flight also going to Tokyo (so much for the
scanning of tickets to board); 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 25 increasing to 3533, 620 of whom
have died which gruesome as it may be represents a very slight year to date
decrease.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music
link to the Tokens, factoids of interest for this day in history, finding
that the issues you face are easy to lenify, a relevant quote by Khaled Hosseini
on Islamist mistreatment of women, 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 price tailored to the event and the
recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Constitution Day (North Korea)—have not read North Korea’s
Constitution but to the extent it grants any rights to the people other than
the right to starve due to its nuclear program it has to be as far removed from
the rule of law as Pluto is from Earth.
2. Cut Out Snowflakes Day—with a good part of the U.S. covered in snow making driving difficult;
rather that go romping in the snow with your kids bring the snow to you in the
form of cutting out paper snowflakes and add them to your Christmas Tree and
avoid the huge puddles of melting snow on floors and carpets.
3. 1961 Number One Song— the number one song in 1961 on a run of 3 weeks in that
position was “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
by the Tokens. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lenify“ which means to mitigate or
assuage which when it comes to tax and regulatory burdens on business Trump has
accomplished in spades.
5. A Lousy Bias Poker Face—celebrating the birth on this day in 1971 of “journalist” Samantha
Guthrie, cohost of The Today Show with
the now fired pervert Matt Lauer and who had the unpleasant task of informing
her audience that Lauer had been fired for alleged sexual misconduct.
Attractive and smart lady but her face exudes advocacy bias journalism so
typical when she queried Ryan about what reality world he lived in in
conjunction with the tax cut that is now law.
On this day
in:
a. 1845 journalist John O’Sullivan writing in the New York Morning News opined that the
United States had the right to occupy the entire Oregon Country as it was “our
manifest destiny to do so” which thrilled the British not one iota and almost
led to war before a compromise was reached on the border between what would
become the states of Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana and British
Columbia and Alberta.
b. 1927 the first American musical, Showboat, opened at the Ziegfield Theater on Broadway in New York
City.
c. 1929 in an act of genocide that killed millions of peasants
in Ukraine, Joseph Stalin ordered the liquidation of millions of “kulaks” by
starvation which is one of the reasons the Wehrmacht was welcomed with flowers
and bread when it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 once it entered Ukraine
shortly thereafter.
d. 1945 the world from a currency and monetary standpoint became
a much smaller place with the creation of the International Monetary Fund with
29 nations signing agreements to create the IMF.
e. 1979 in a move the Soviets would learn to regret, the Soviet
Union invaded the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and after a little over 9
years of fighting Afghan guerillas and dodging Stinger missiles which brought
down Soviet helicopters like flies, limped back across the border having
suffered over 14,453 dead and 53,753 wounded but leaving a country with an
estimated 2,000,000 civilians dead.
Reflections
on a noted Afghan writer who was able with his family to immigrate to the U.S.
to escape the violence and killing there: “I am always revolted when Islamic
leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female
oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as
Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women
on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.” Khaled Hosseini, author of
the The Kite Runner.
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