Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 17, 2018 A great
American hero Bob Dole received the Congressional Medal of Freedom today in a
packed Rotunda of the Capitol but unless you watched Fox you would not know as
CNN was fixated with the resignation of all members of the Park Advisory Board
and MSNBC fixated on you guessed it the Mueller ongoing witch-hunt; freed from
the shackles of the pathetic Obama economy, the Dow closed today in another
record at 26,115.65 (safe bet that such good economic news that will sink the
Blues will not be reported by the MSM); the Blues are still putting their hope
of future Blue DACA voters and the needs of illegal DACAs over the needs of
Americans and the military for a budget; Cory Booker when it comes to
grandstanding has as much integrity as a cheap two bit hooker faking an orgasm for
her John in his false outrage over s*holes lacking only some real tears (this
pathetic excuse for a Senator should survey how lopsided the majority of Salvadorians
or Haitians that believe they live in a real s* hole in their countries which
is why they want out and apologize for his demeaning remarks the head of DHS;
Senator Flake is a credit to his last name in a pathetic speech on the Senate
floor comparing Trump to Stalin in his attacks on the press (news flash Flake,
Stalin didn’t attack the press he just shot them, jailed them or banished them
to a Gulag in Siberia); Sean Peen that noted high school dropout is on the rant
trail again this time attacking Trump as an enemy of the state and of mankind
(news flash Penn you do not have the mental firepower to make people want to
hear what you think—stick to acting and hob knobbing with dictators like
Chavez); in what has to be a record probably due to Officer Freezing Weather patrolling
the streets of Chicago, that hell hole of murder and shootings has gone 5 consecutive
days without someone being shot to death.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Barry
Manilow, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you do not
have to use libanomancy to determine your course of action in facing issues,
and a relevant quote by Adam Hamilton on the role of earthquakes, 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. National Bootleggers Day—commemorating a new class of criminals created when on this day
in 1920 Congress banned the production and sale of alcoholic beverages which led
to the Prohibition Experiment, the rise of organized crime and widespread
corruption involving the police.
2. National Cable Car Day—commemorating the patent issued to Andrew Smith Hallidie for a
cable car which was spawned by his witnessing horses on the hilly streets of
San Francisco stumbling to their death and injury trying to pull heavy trolley
cars.
3. 1975 Number One Song— the number one song in 1975 on a run of 1 week in that
position was “Mandy” by Barry Manilow. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGfcD5qycQY Still going strong
after 50 years of performing.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “libanomancy” which the art of
divination by watching the smoke from incense which probably would have been
more accurate in the 2016 election than all the pundits and pollsters.
5. Dumb And Dumber In Real Life Also--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1962 in Canada (or bemoaning it after hearing his rant
from Hawaii after the false alarm over an incoming ballistic missile depending
on your point of view) of James Carry noted for such films as The Mask and Dumb and Dumber. Like so many actors he should stick to acting and
not spouting political observations about things he knows nothing about.
On this day
in:
a. 1962 near the town of Palomares, Spain a B-52 with 4 70
kiloton nuclear weapons aboard collided with a KC-135 tanker in midair destroying
it and killing all four aboard along with three of the seven crewmembers aboard
the B-52. Three of the nukes hit the ground but did not explode only
contaminated the ground and the other went into the sea to be recovered some two
months later, also unexploded.
b. 1977 capital punishment which had been put on hold in the
United States by SCOTUS resumed in Utah with convicted killer Gary Gilmore
being executed by firing squad.
c. 1994 the Northridge Earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter
Scale hit Northridge in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, killing
57 and injuring some 8,700 others.
d. 1995 not to be outdone but not connected the Kobe Earthquake
measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale hit Japan leaving between 5,502-6,434 dead
and 251,000-310,000 people displaced.
e. 2007 the Doomsday Clock was set at five minutes to midnight
as a result of North Korea’s nuclear program (given the progress made by the
rogue regime I have to believe the clock stands today at 11:59:55 which is
frightening and which reminds us we have got to get Russia and China involved
in the denuclearization process or face the real probability of having to nuke
the North’s ICBMs and its nuclear program).
Reflections that earthquakes
are your need friend to sustain life on the planet: “Why did the earthquake and
tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result
of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven
by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the
process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.” Adam
Hamilton, noted pastor of the 22,000 member United Methodist Church of the
Resurrection located in Leawood, Kansas. Please
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