Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For April 19, 2018 On the FBI illegality front the Inspector General recommended
criminal charges be filed against Andrew McCabe- great first step in draining
the anti-Trump bias in the Swamp; when does sanity return to the Russian
collusion delusion witch-hunt and we end this Mueller travesty?; IG is not
finished and very soon we should see a report that really slams Comey, Lynch
and the FBI for the whitewash “investigation” of HRC’s private email server
(what we really need to see is a real investigation of the blatant quid pro quo
practices of her as Secretary of State that funneled millions of dollars into
her Foundation and Bill’s pockets in speaking fees—if there was anyone that
should be locked up it is the Clintons); after seeing McCabe in the crosshairs
of criminal prosecution, Rosenstein comes out and states Trump was not a target
in the raid on his lawyer Michael Cohen (when does this rogue special
prosecutor have his Russian collusion delusion terminated so we can continue in
Trump’s quest to make America great again?); Elizabeth Warren moment déjà vu as
Andrew Cuomo makes the ridiculous claim that he is an undocumented alien (does
he know that illegals vote in droves during an election?); as the world has
high hopes that the meeting between Trump and Kim that Pompeo has vetted
favorably in a secret meeting with Kim, our aging senior senator from
California Diane Feinstein totally infected by the progressive disease that
funs unchecked through our Barbara Boxer on steroids junior senator Kamala
Harris has announced that she will vote against Mike Pompeo (totally outrageous
for Blues to hinder and obstruct Trump being able to name his team in this
really critical push to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula—McConnell off your
ass and push this nomination to an immediate vote even if you have to use the
nuclear option); any idiot would know that the only weapon effective against a
gun is another gun in the hands of a trained person but in Illinois Democrats
want to reallocate funds for school security to hire therapists; in Chicago
through April 18, 2018, 637 people have been shot, of whom 107 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to The Beatles,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are
blessed with magnalities today and a relevant quote by Jannie Coverdale on the
death penalty verdict for McVeigh, 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
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recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Bicycle Day—commemorating
this day in 1943 when Albert Hoffman three days after he had accidentally absorbed
some LSD purposely ingested .25 micrograms of LSD and after commencing
hallucinogenic effects had his assistant ride with him on a bicycle to his
house and then to record the effects of the dose.
2. Dutch American
Friendship Day—commemorating this day in 1782 when the
Netherlands recognized John Adams as the Ambassador from the United States and
the U.S. purchased a house at Fluwelen Burnwal 18 in The Hague to become its
first embassy.
3. 1964 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1964 on a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Can’t
Buy Me Love” by The Beatles. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srwxJUXPHvE
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “magnality” which means a great act or event which fits the tax cut
to a tee.
5. Cars Can Be
Unsafe Places In Which To Be—celebrating the birth on this day in 1933 of Vera Jayne Palmer
better known to her fans as Jayne Mansfield, noted actress, pinup and Playmate
who like her father many years earlier when she was a small girl was killed
while driving the family car but in Jayne’s case she was killed when a car she
was in with three adults in the front seat and her three children asleep in the
back seat ran into a semi-truck, killing all three adults but only slightly
scratching the children.
On
this day in:
a. 1984 “Advance
Australia Fair” was adopted as Australia’s national anthem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8tswkr25A0
b. 1985 200 federal agents besieged a right wing white
supremacist survivalist cult The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of the Lord in
Arkansas. Fortunately for all involve the group surrendered two days later.
c. 1993 the 51 day siege of the Branch Davidian Complex ended
when a fire broke out, killing 76 Davidians including 16 children under the age
of 10.
d. 1995 in
revenge for the ATF assault on the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas,
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols parked a Ryder Rental Truck loaded with more
than 4800 pounds of explosives in a drop off zone under the Alfred Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City which also contained a day care center for
the children of federal employees and lit the fuse. When the truck exploded
five minutes later, 168 people in the building were killed, over 670 injured
and a one third of the building destroyed.
e. 2011 Fidel
Castro resigned as Party Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, a post he
had held since 1961.
Reflections on the verdict of death against Timothy McVeigh: “"This
is not a time for celebration. A man's life is being taken from him. It's
something that we wanted, and it's not done out of revenge. It's because we
felt it was necessary." Jannie Coverdale whose two grandsons died in the
bombing. Please
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