Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 10, 2018 Three Korean
Americans illegally held by North Korea were released and met by Trump at
Andrews Air Force Base in the early morning hours, who later in the day with
almost no sleep held a huge rally in Indiana touting accomplishments and urging
voters to vote Red in November (energy level of this president is off the
charts and the Nothing But Cack Network reporter Hallie Jackson should be
castigated for calling the welcoming ceremony a staged event as if staged it
would have been set for a time to preempt shows like Morning Joe or Am Joy); Mueller’s
grandstanding indictments of Russians and Russian companies blew up in his face
as one defendant has appeared in federal court through an attorney demanding to
be able to enter a plea which will enable the defense to swamp Mueller with
discovery requests that may well show the indictment to be a sham); on the
obstruction front the McConnell told Senator Baldwin to pound sand as the
Senate confirmed a nominee to the 7th Circuit that had a vacancy
that Baldwin had blocked for 7 years with her blue list (time for Senate Reds
to accelerate process of confirming judges); on the crime front, Orange County
law enforcement officials arrested 85 members of the Mexican Mafia for criminal
activity but before corks are popped we were reminded the arrests were a mere
drop in the bucket (hopefully another reminder of the need to secure our
border); the big island of Hawaii is experiencing more and more lava flows that
are destroying homes and spewing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere; finally
under contempt threat the DOJ has allowed Nunes and Gowdy to view subpoenaed documents
(when will Sessions cease being MIA and along with Rosenstein realize that documents
embarrassing to the DOJ and FBI are not the same as being classified
documents?); in Chicago through May 9, 2018, 851 people have been shot, of whom
139 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to The
Funk Railroad, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that
you are not guilty of malfeasance and a relevant quote by Mike Gerber on small
business, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like Mothers’ Day, 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. National Small Business Day—celebrating the contributions to our
economy and support of the work force—the small businesses of this nation which
under the Trump Administration’s roll back of regulations are having an easier
time of making money.
2. World Lupus Day—creating since 2004 awareness of the autoimmune disease lupus
and promoting research on means to diagnose, treat and cure.
3. 1974 Number One Song— the number one song in 1974 on a run of 2 weeks in that
position was “The Locomotion” by Grand Funk Railroad. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “malfeasance” which means illegal activities which despite
months and months of investigating and millions of dollars spent Mueller has
come up empty handed when it comes to Trump.
5. Don’t Play With Pistols—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1957 of singer and
bassist John Simon Ritchie better known as Sid Vicious who became a member of
the band Sex Pistols but quickly got into drugs and died from an overdose on
February 2, 1979.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1869 the U.S. became a much smaller place when Leland
Stanford drove the ceremonial Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah to complete
the First Transcontinental Railroad.
b. 1975 Sony introduced the Betamax for sale in Japan which
ultimately lost out to the VHS recorders to the dismay of those who purchased
Betamax videocassette recorders.
c. 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first
black president.
d. 2005 Vladimir Arutyunian threw a hand grenade at President
George W. Bush while he was giving a speech at Tblsi, Georgia which landed 65
feet from him but fortunately for us did not explode. Arutyunian is serving a
life sentence without possibility of parole.
e. 2013 One World Trade Center became the tallest building in
the Western Hemisphere.
Reflections on small
business, the job creator of this nation: “Don't look at small
business as a means to an end and a way to make money until the corporation
hires you; look at it as a chance to create something of immeasurable value and
beauty in a world that desperately needs it.” Michael E. Gerber, noted writer
of books on entrepreneurship. Please
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