Ridley’s Believe
It Or Not For April 9, 2018 Mueller has crossed the line once again and has
strayed miles away from his original charge of investigating Russian collusion
with Trump which does not exist as his referral results in a no knock raid
against Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen and the seizure of attorney client
document involving Trump along with Cohen’s other clients (couple that with the
unmasking of Trump supporters and officials and the FISA abuses and you have a
real threat to our democracy); Lynch safe at the Nothing But Cack Network
is going to with a straight face expect us to believe that the tarmac meeting
carefully set up to avoid discovery with Bill Clinton had nothing to do with
Hillary and only involved a conversation about innocuous things (anyone who
believes it was only a matter not an investigation Lynch needs to have his or
her head examined); Zuckerberg and his censorship leftist leaning thugs at
Facebook are facing a very hostile Congress when he testifies before Congress
on Facebook’s data breach and its blocking of conservative views (in a world
where social media rules being denied access to social media by the likes of
Zuckerberg is the equivalent of being sent to a Stalinist Gulag); in an example
of how dangerous the power of Facebook has become to the free interchange of
ideas so critical to our society, Facebook labeled two black conservative women
(sit down left, there are such people to your dismay) who support Trump and his
agenda as “unsafe” but after being caught with their hands in the censorship
cookie jar on Fox, it is now “reconsidering its action”; the leftist policies
of the Seattle City Council like a $15 minimum wage, surcharge of high income
residents, and requiring Uber and Lyft to provide driver info to union organizers
are coming home to roost big time with a growing tent city in the shadow of one
of Seattle’s iconic images, the Space Needle; while from Ben Sherwood,
president of the Always Bias Cack Network, remains silent the outrage over
Kimmel’s outrageous mockery of FLOTUS grows and the petition demanding Kimmel’s
apology has gained over 150,000 signatures (when does the right wake up to the
assault by the MSM on the values that built this country and take outrage to a
new level and start boycotting sponsors of Kimmel’s show; in Chicago through April
8, 2018, 578 people have been shot, of whom 98 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Les
Baxter and His Orchestra; factoids of interest for this day in history,
the fact that you are not suffering macrophobia and a relevant quote by Charles
Baudelaire on passion for art, 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 Prisoner
of War Day—proclaimed by President Reagan on this day in 1987 to
commemorate the suffering endured by the Americans on Bataan who surrendered to
the Japanese on April 9, 1942 and who subsequently endured incredible hardship
and death at their hands.
2. Winston Churchill
Day—commemorating the second honorary citizenship granted by
Congress and bestowed upon Churchill by President Kennedy on this day in 1963.
3. 1956 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1956 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “The Poor
People of Paris” by Les Baxter and His Orchestra. Here is a recording
of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYWXAN_W5g
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “macrophobia” which means fear of prolonged waiting which we must
mortals have as the national debt continues to rise and we continue to wait for
Congress to rein in spending.
5. Too Often Poets
Die Poor—celebrating the birth on this day in 1821 of Charles Baudelaire
who spurned a career in law favored by his parents to become a noted French art critic and poet most famous
for his anthology Les Fleurs du Mal but
whose life was plagued with hiding from creditors and the use of laudanum, a
form of opium, and died in poverty from a stroke at the early age of 46 but as
often is the case for poets had many of his unpublished works published to
enable his heirs to pay off his debts.
On
this day in:
a. 1957 after being
closed due to the sinking of ships in the Suez Canal on Nasser’s orders and the
invasion of Egypt by Israel, France and Britain, in 1956 the Suez Canal was
cleared of obstructions and opened once again to maritime traffic.
b. 1961 the Pacific Electric Railway aka the Red Car, once the
largest electric train system, ceased operations, the victim of the automobile
and freeway expansion plans.
c. 1967 the first of 10,000 Boeing 737’s made its maiden flight with
some 6000 still on back order.
d. 1981 in a
demerit moment for its commanding officer the nation’s first ballistic missile
submarine the USS George Washington collided
with a Japanese cargo ship, the Nishoo
Maru.
e. 2013 16 year
old Alex Hribal, a sophomore at Franklin Murray High School in Pennsylvania, in
a proving that you can prevail in a fight if no guns are around, stabbed 21
students and a security guard with four critically wounded, with two kitchen
knives before being subdued by an assistant principal and another student; this
felon who planned the attack to coincide with one of the Columbine shooter’s
birthday is in prison, serving a 23 ½ to 60 year sentence but having a hearing
later this month to reduce it to 15-30 years because of alleged bullying by his
fellow students.
Reflections on art by the birthday celebrant on art: “A
frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.” Charles
Baudelaire Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my
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