Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 25, 2018 President Trump
is looking very presidential in Davos as we were treated to him welcoming some
15 CEOs of multinational corporations for dinner as he went around the table
thanking them for their increased investment in the U.S. and their pleasure of
his rollback of oppressive regulations and the massive reduction of the
corporate tax rate; the IG for the DOJ announced that thousands of “lost” text
messages in the 5 month period from December, 2016 to May, 2017 involving the
FBI including those between the two biased anti-Trump love birds, Strzok and
Page, have been recovered and will soon be released; the infamous 4 page memo
detailing potential criminal conduct by the FBI surveilling American citizens,
despite the tooth and nail efforts of the DOJ and Blues like the rabid anti-Trump leftist Schiff, should soon
be released to the American public; as Home Depot just joined the expanding
list of corporations announcing bonuses due to the tax cut, Debbie Wasserman
Schulz just revealed again, that like Nancy Pelosi, she is completely out of touch
with Main Street by denigrating the $1000 bonuses being received by millions of
workers (come November, the Reds need to flood the airways with ads with real
people describing what the bonuses, wage increases and tax cuts have meant to
them and reminding voters that not a single Democrat supported the tax cuts and
maybe a few ads from middle class workers showing the Trump increase in their
401ks and IRAs); on the PC inanity front, UConn announced that it was offering
counseling to its snowflake students who might have been troubled that
conservative speaker Ben Shapiro was allowed to speak on campus; in yet another
sign of a dysfunctional Senate hampered by partisan gridlock, Vice President
Pence was called to break a tie vote to confirm Governor Brownback as the
Ambassador to the Office of International Religious Freedom; the Cack News
Network to the joy of family law lawyers is at it again claiming cuckolding can
be beneficial to couples (wonder if Jeff pressured Caryn into cuckolding which
is why the two are getting divorced after 21 years of marriage; through January
23, 2018 161 people have been shot of whom 28 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to Blondie , factoids of interest for this day in
history, the fact you are in a lineal vent about the Swamp, and a relevant
quote by Boris Yelsin which explains why he did not insert his activated launch
key, 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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1. National Opposite Day—celebrating a day when to observe it you say exactly opposite of
what you really mean, a trait that politicians have invoked for years.
2. Fluoride Day—celebrating the fact that on this day in 1945 the City of Grand
Rapids, Michigan became the first municipality to add fluoride to its water
systems.
3. 1981 Number One Song— the number one song in 1981 on a run of 1 week in that
position was “The Tide Is High” by Blondie. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYgrdJ0pWk
It is clear why Debbie Harry has been named as one of the sexiest performers of
all times in addition to having a great voice.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lineal” which has nothing to do
with liens but rather relates to the spleen which those of us living outside
the Swamp should vent over the dysfunctional Senate hobbled by gridlock.
5. Run Out A Winner--celebrating the birth on this day in 1951 of Steve Prefontaine
who during his career held the American record in every long distance race and
who won 120 races out of the 153 races he entered including his last race but
after celebrating the victory he partied with some of the contestants and with
a blood alcohol level of .16 drove his car into a rock wall on May 30, 1975 and
was pronounced dead at the scene.
On this day in:
a. 1961 President John Kennedy held the first televised news
conference.
b. 1964 Bill Bowerman, track and field coach at the University
of Oregon, and Phil Knight, a former member of the university’s track and field
team and who in 2016 donated $400 million to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars,
endowed at $750 million total, founded Blue Ribbon Sports (later renamed Nike
after the Greek goddess for victory).
c. 1995 in another example of how close we can come to nuclear
destruction and why lunatics like Kim must never be allowed to possess deliverable
nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union mistook a Norwegian research rocket launch
for a US Trident ICBM, activated the Soviet equivalent of our football and
would have launched a retaliatory strike if the rocket had not headed out to
sea away from Russia to fall into the ocean with two minutes to spare.
d. 1996 after killing an elderly couple in their home following
a robbery of a liquor store, Billy Bailey had the dubious distinction of being
the last person in the U.S. to be executed by hanging.
e. 2011 the first wave of anti-government riots, marches and clashes
in what would be known as the Egyptian Revolution which resulted in 90 police
stations burned to the ground, the deaths of 846 people and injuries to 6000
and the ouster of President Horsi Mubarak who had ruled the country for 29
years following the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
Reflections on how lucky that on this day in 1995, Boris
Yelsin believed in his own wise words: “I am convinced that the moment is
coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the
aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will
enable us to survive even the most critical situations." Boris Yelsin
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