Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For February 1, 2018 This has to be a nervous day at the FBI as the infamous 4 page
memo which is believed to document what should be really scary to Americans
concerned over government intrusion into the 2016 elections-- abuse of FISA
warrants through the use of false information in the anti-Trump dossier from
Fusion GPS funded by HRC’s campaign and the DNC which led to the firing of
Comey and the appointment of Mueller with his team of rabid anti-Trump members
should be released to the American public tomorrow; in a classic case of
delusion Schumer had the gall to claim that Obama should be given credit for
the economy’s performance in 2017; not to be outdone Pelosi must think she still
is speaker in a letter to Ryan demanding that Rep. Nunes be removed as chairman
of the Intel Committee claiming he is not fit; Michael Wolff’s 15 minutes of
fame for his anti-Trump diatribe Fire and
Fury is fast fading as even the MSM questions his credibility (you know you
are in trouble when the most anti-Trump critic Mika Brezinski cut him off and
stated the credibility of the whole book was in question); Maxine Waters was in
the news again making a fool of herself demanding that whenever Trump is on TV
there should be a parent’s advisory warning (how with all that bile and hatred
can she properly represent her district?); Trump is meeting with Republican
lawmakers at a resort in West Virginia to strategize plans for the agenda in
2018 and keeping control of both houses); in Chicago through January 31, 2018 209
people have been shot of whom 36 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to Madonna, factoids of interest for this day in
history, enjoying the fact that your limicoline address is where you want to be
and a relevant quote by Eddie Adams on his iconic Tet Offensive photograph,
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 Freedom Day—commemorating the signing by President Lincoln of a Joint Resolution
of Congress that would later become the 13th Amendment which
outlawed slavery; the day is also the first day of Black History Month.
2. World Hijab Day—created in 2013 and observed in 140 nations to encourage Muslim
and non Muslim women to wear the hijab.
3. 1987 Number One Song— the number one song in 1987 on a run of 1 week in that
position was “Open Your Heart” by Madonna. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snsTmi9N9Gs
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “limicoline” which means living on
the shore which assuming we do not have climate change and rising sea levels a
great place to live.
5. The Good Die Young--celebrating the birth on this day in 1984 of Lee Thompson Young,
a talented young actor and graduate of USC who sadly committed suicide at the
young age of 29.
On this day in:
a. 1942 the Voice of America began broadcasting to areas
controlled by the Axis.
b. 1946 Trygve Lie of Norway was picked to be the first United Nations
Secretary-General.
c. 1960 four black students staged a lunch counter sit-in at the
Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina igniting a wave of similar sit-ins
across the South which ultimately forced Woolworth’s to end its segregated
lunch counter policy in July of the same year.
d. 1968 in what would become one of the iconic videos and still
photographs of the Vietnam War the leader of a Viet Cong sapper unit who had
just killed a South Vietnamese colonel, his wife, his six children and his 80
year old mother was captured in Saigon during
the beginning of the Tet Offensive and was summarily executed by South Vietnam’s
National Police Chief.
e. 2003 the Space Shuttle
Columbia disintegrated on reentering the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all
seven astronauts aboard.
Reflections on an
execution on a Saigon street of a Viet Cong sapper during the Tet Offensive: “ Two people died in
that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. The
general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still
photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. People believe them;
but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.
... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the
general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called
bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?'.... This picture
really messed up his life. He never blamed me. He told me if I hadn't taken the
picture, someone else would have, but I've felt bad for him and his family for
a long time. ... I sent flowers when I heard that he had died and wrote, ‘I'm
sorry. There are tears in my eyes.’" Eddie Adams the photographer who took
the photograph. Please enjoy the poems on
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entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day
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