Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For April 8, 2018 Another day
another poisonous gas attack that has killed at least 40 by the world’s current
most infamous war criminal Assad on his own people, this time in a suburb of
Damascus, kept in power and assisted by another enemy of humanity Putin who was
emboldened big time by our feckless former president; hold on to your breath
but Republican John Cox is number two in the top two primary leading the former
mayor of Los Angeles and closing the gap between him and Gavin Newsome (no one
should vote for this leftist who screwed up his marriage with Kimberly
Guilfoyle and who has attracted the endorsement of the illegal alien queen
Kamala Harris); still have not heard whether Moonbeam will join Arizona and
Texas to deploy National Guard troops on the porous southern border but we know
that the other Governor Brown in Oregon is easily bought for after receiving
$25,000 from leftist George Soros for her reelection bid immediately announced that
she would not cooperate with the feds to send National Guard troops to join in
the effort; that spineless pro HRC sycophant James Comey is trying to ape
Hillary by going on a book tour for A
Higher Loyalty (careful of the perjury trap Comey); in Chicago through April
7, 2018, 576 people have been shot, of whom 98 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Bill Hayes;
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are eating
well to avoid being macilent and a relevant quote by Bill Hilgard on the genocide
practiced by the Germans on the Romani, 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. International
Feng Shui Awareness Day—celebrating the Chinese philosophy on where to place a building
to flow with the water and wind, a philosophy that has been in existence for
over 3,000 years.
2. International
Romani Day—created in 1990 by the Fourth Romani Conference
to create awareness of the issues faced by the some 15 million Romanis in the
world and discrimination against them and to promote an awareness of their
culture.
3. 1955 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1955 on a run of 5 weeks in that position was “The Ballad
of Davy Crockett” by Bill Hayes. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1KYpizprfI
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “macilent” which means lean or excessively thin.
5. A True American
Hero—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1974 of Chris Kyle, one of the most prolific and
accurate snipers in American military history whose skill on the battlefields
of Iraq saved the lives of countless of his fellow soldiers but sadly after
surviving 4 tours of duty in Iraq with a bounty on his head by insurgent
forces, was killed on a gun range in Texas by a Marine he was trying to help
and who had serious mental issues.
On
this day in:
a. 1913 the 17th
Amendment calling for the direct election of Senators was ratified.
b. 1959 a team of computer scientists, computer manufacturers
and academicians led by Grace Hopper met to discuss the creation of a new
computer language known as COBOL.
c. 1975 Cleveland Indians Frank Robinson became the first African
American to manage a Major League Baseball Team dead.
d. 1992 retired
tennis great Arthur Ashe announced he had AIDS acquired from blood transfusions
needed during one of two open heart surgeries.
e. 2008 the
Bahrain World Trade Towers, the first commercial structure to incorporate wind
power in its design was completed and its wind turbines started to provide
close to 15% of the electrical needs for building.
Reflections on the inhumanity of the Germans to the Romanis in
addition to the Jews during the Holocaust: “Some estimates place the number
between 500,000 and 600,000, most of them gassed in Auschwitz. Others indicated
a more conservative 200,000 Gypsy victims of the Holocaust.” Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews
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