Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 22, 2018 Trump met with students, parents, and teachers from Parkland to
make school safety a top priority (why schools are soft targets remains a
complete incomprehensible mystery when airports or office buildings are not); Ronan
Farrow who exposed that pervert Harvey Weinstein is back in the spotlight
claiming Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal had a sexual relationship with
Trump back in 2006 based on 8 pages of handwritten notes she wrote in 2016
either before or after her receipt of $150,000 from the National Enquirer (one can only hope the relationship which was
consensual does not add more straws to his agenda and back); the anti-Trump
dossier that justified the FISA warrants is back in the news as a former Obama
State Department official and associate of John McCain Fred Kramer took the 5th
Amendment regarding its creation and distribution just as did Christopher
Steele (really time to appoint special prosecutor to fully investigate the
dossier and its impact on FISA warrants and the Uranium One deal that reeks of
quid pro quo by the Clintons and their foundation); really troubling news out
of the Parkland shootings as the sheriff
revealed there was an armed deputy at the school who took a position outside
the school building where the shoots
were being fired but did not enter and was fired from the department (understandable
if a deputy was armed with a Glock and the shooter was armed with an AR-15 and raises questions over the idea of
arming teachers with handguns to counter shooters with rifles or shotguns); on
the sports front, the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team upset Canada to win the Gold
Medal 3-2 prompting one Canadian to remove her Silver Medal in disgust; on the
reptilian brain front, the Red Governor of Missouri has been indicted on a
felony invasion of privacy involving a women with whom he was having an
extramarital affair with who is now divorced from her husband; in Chicago
through February 19, 2018 319 people have been shot of whom 60 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to Savage Garden, factoids of interest
for this day in history, the not being a lobcock and a relevant quote by anon
on quitting the use of smokeless tobacco, 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. Great American Spit Out—today if you are a user of smokeless tobacco is a day to abstain
from this habit that creates cancers in the mouth, lips, and tongue in addition
to staining the teeth and creating a huge mess when being spit out.
2. National Margarita Day—started by Todd McCalla in the late 2000’s to spice up the gray
and cold days of February although Cinco de Mayo would be the more logical
choice.
3. 2000 Number One Song— the number one song in 2000 on a run of 4 weeks in that
position “I Knew I Loved You” by Savage Garden.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnmICxvoVY
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lobcock” a person who is a bumpkin,
lout, or boor, apt descriptions for most of the Swamp denizens.
5. Hard To Find A Better Way To Die--celebrating the birth on this day in 1962 of the
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, an avid naturalist and television personality who
was stung by a stingray while filming a new show on September 4, 2006 and died
of cardiac arrest.
On this day in:
a. 1819 in another great real estate deal for the United States,
Spain sold Florida to the U.S. for $5 million.
b. 1909 the Great White Fleet consisting of 16 battleships
returned to the United States after a 14 month seven day show the flag cruise
around the world.
c. 1994 CIA counterintelligence agent Alrich was arrested for
spying for the Soviet Union and accepted a plea bargain of life without
possibility of parole to escape the death penalty.
d. 1997 British scientists announced that they had successfully
cloned a sheep named Dolly.
e. 2018 an unarmed man threw a grenade into the compound of the
American Embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro then blew himself up making him the only
casualty.
Reflections on quitting smokeless tobacco: “Quitting is not a spectator sport.
Participation is required.” Anon
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