Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For January 30, 2018 Tonight is Trump’s first SOTUS and smart money like on DACA is that he will try
to reach across aisle to chairs filled with closed and biased minds even as
black unemployment falls to all time lows; despite tooth and nail objections
from leftist demagogue Adam Schiff House Republicans have voted to release the
controversial four page memo detailing illegal surveilling by the FBI of Trump
supporters if Trump does not object within 5 days (finally the conflict of interest
allegations that have tarnished Mueller’s witch-hunt have claimed its first
victim—Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who was removed from the FBI but sadly
will not have his pension affected); reports out of North Korea indicate a very
nervous Kim Jong Un has been executing several top generals as international
sanctions are further crippling the Hermit Kingdom’s anemic economy; NBC’s two
heavy weights are in a snit fit over NBC’s decision not to send Megyn Kelly to
South Korea for the Winter Olympics and instead send Couric (why Kelly ever
left Fox is a mystery); the reptilian brain has just claimed another victim--Glee star Mark Salling, who was to be
sentenced for possessing child pornography on March 7 and was facing 4-7 years
(assuming the cons did not kill him first as child pornographers often suffer
that fate, committed suicide; in Chicago
through January 28, 2018 190 people have been shot of whom 31 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to Foreigner, factoids of interest for this day in
history, enjoying the fact that your movements are not “limaciform” that you
can use in Scrabble and a relevant quote by Walter Cronkite on the Vietnam War and
art, 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. Fred Korematsu Day—commemorating since 2010 in California and followed by the
states of Hawaii, Florida and Virginia to honor the efforts of Fred Korematsu,
a Japanese-American to overturn the executive order of FDR to relocate forcibly
citizens and resident aliens of Japanese descent away from the West Coast.
2. Start of Season for Nonviolence (January 30-April 4)—created by Arun
Gandhi, the grandson of Gandhi to promote and honor the philosophies of Gandhi
(assassinated on January 30, 1948) and Martin Luther King, Jr. (assassinated
April 4, 1968).
3. 1985 Number One Song— the number one song in 1985 on a run of 2 weeks in that
position was “I Want to Know What Love Is” by Foreigner. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “limaciform” which means sluglike
which fits Congress to a tee in describing how fast it moves toward compromise
and away from gridlock.
5. Angler’s The Name--celebrating the birth on this day in 1941 of Dick Chaney, Secretary
of Defense under President H.W. Bush and Vice President with George W. Bush. An
avid hunter and fisherman, his Secret Service nickname was Angler and was satirized
viciously by comedians for accidently shooting one of his hunting companions.
On this day in:
a. 1831 Richard Lawrence became the first person to attempt an assassination
of a president when his two pistols misfired at President Jackson. He was
beaten by Jackson with his cane and subdued by a crowd, arrested and found not
guilty by insanity and sentenced to an insane asylum for the rest of his life.
b. 1956 in retaliation for the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott,
the home of Martin Luther King, Jr. was bombed.
c. 1959 the MS Hans Hentoft
like the HMS Titanic touted as the
safest ship afloat and “unsinkable” struck on its maiden voyage an iceberg off
the coast of Greenland and sank, killing all 95 passengers and crew aboard; it
was the last ship to have been sunk by an iceberg.
d. 1968 after being fed a diet of overoptimistic reports that we
were winning the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong and NVA unleashed a series of
attacks throughout South Vietnam that although they were all repulsed, the Tet
Offensive marked the beginning of the end of support for the war and the end of
LBJ’s presidency as he soon announced he would not seek reelection.
e. 1982 15 year old Richard Skrenta created the first PC computer
virus, 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot code called “Elk Cloner.”
Reflections on the
Tet Offensive by the most trusted news anchorman in America: “For it seems now
more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a
stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face
of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.” —Walter Cronkite
in an editorial at the close of the CBS Evening News broadcast on February 27,
1968 reporting on what he had learned to South Vietnam in the aftermath of the
Tet Offensive. Please enjoy the poems on
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