Thursday, January 25, 2018

January 25, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Fluoride Day oU

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 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 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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