Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 1, 2018 On the sports front
the Cinderella team for the Dance was ousted by Michigan who will meet a
Villanova team that crushed Kansas for the Championship on Monday; another déjà
vu moment soon happening on our southern border of a caravan of illegals from
Honduras, heading through Mexico without
hindrance to cross our border and then turn
themselves in with a bogus refugee claim, be arrested then released to
disappear into our streets never to appear at a deportation hearing or until
they re in the news by committing commit
a crime against innocent legals or citizens that the left has thrown under the
bus (Trump is demanding the nuclear option to ram through legislation to ramp
up the number of agents, build the wall, end chain migration, catch and release
and terminate the illegal DACA program that Obama instituted); like the Blood Sweat
and Tears song what goes up must come down, the Chinese 19,000 pound space
station is set to enter the Earth’s atmosphere in the coming 24 hours
(hopefully most if not all the pieces will burn up); on the sexual harassment
and abuse front another example that pox knows no political or gender
boundaries as Democratic 3 term Representative Elizabeth Etsy is facing growing
demands from both Reds and Blues that she resign for failing protect from her
chief-of-staff one of her female staffers who had taped his threat left on her
answering machine that he would kill her if she did no call back and when Etsy
finally fired him gave him a $5000 bonus and a job recommendation (every seat
no matter how safe is a contested jewell and neither party can afford a candidate
who has any baggage); in Chicago through March 31, 2018, 529 people have been
shot, of whom 94 have died but in a rarity maybe because it is Easter Weekend,
no one has died in the last two days.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Robert
Morgan and His Orchestra; factoids of interest for this day in history,
the fact that are ready to mabble your tasks and a relevant quote by Charles
Lamb on the number of fools, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. April Fools’ Day—celebrating a
great day for hoaxes and practical jokes, a tradition that has been practiced
in Europe for centuries.
2. Fossil Fuels Day—celebrating
since 2004 the need to wean society from the production of energy from fossil
fuels by expanding the use of alternative energy sources like wind, tides,
solar, hydroelectric, biomasss and fuel cells.
3. 1949 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1949 on a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Cruising
Down The River” by Russ Morgan and His Orchestra. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpX0mPSYMC8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day as we leave words beginning with “l” and enter the realm of words
beginning with “m” is “mabble” which means to wrap up which hopefully when it
comes to partisanship gridlock we will soon do and start voting on issues.
5. The Winds Of Objectivity
On Her Set No Longer Blow Only The Becalm Of Bias—celebrating or
bemoaning depending on your political point of view the birth on this day in 1973
noted leftist MSNBC advocacy “journalist” Rachel Madow anchoring the Rachel Madow Show. After being killed by Megyn Kelly on Fox for
years maybe because of her rabid anti-Trump she has climbed into a number one
ranking besting Sean Hannity. A Stanford grad with not an objectivity view in
her body.
On
this day in:
a. 1954 President
Eisenhower authorized the establishment of the U.S. Air Force Academy at
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
b. 1960 the TIROS-1 satellite transmitted the first television
pictures from space.
c. 1970 Richard
Nixon signed legislation requiring the Surgeon General to place warnings on
cigarettes to the effect of the dangers of smoking effective January 1, 1971; unfortunately
too many people ignore the warnings such that 160,000 men and women die from cigarette
smoking caused lung cancer and worse those smokers take down some 7,000 non
smokers with them due to their second hand smoke.
d. 1976 Steve Jobs,
Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne formed Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, California. In probably
one of the worst stock deals ever made Ronald Wayne was bought out for $800.
e. 2004 Google
announced the introduction of G-mail to the public.
Reflections on April Fools Day: “Here cometh April again, and as far
as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” Charles Lamb, noted 19th
Century British essayist and poet Please
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