Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 15, 2018 Palestinians
start to bury their 59 dead many of whom were used as cannon fodder and human
shields for bomb throwing Hamas and Iranian backed terrorists in the protesting
crowd; North Korea is threatening to cancel summit talks with Trump over
regularly scheduled joint American South Korean military exercises (not good
news but typical of past behavior of North Korea); Trump is fuming over the
leak by his aide Kelly Stadler’s comment that McCain’s views on Haspel don’t
matter since he is dying anyway (not a joke and she must be fired to end this
story that continues to overshadow Trump successes); on the Haspel confirmation
front 4 Blues have put country above party and in the case of 3 of them also
wanting to get reelected have announced they will support her; Seattle is hell
bent on killing the Golden Geese by adopting an employee head tax that will
cost Amazon and Starbucks millions but not Boeing that was smart enough to have
relocated from Seattle (Seattle has a major homeless and spending problem with
outrageous salaries for public employees and officials); in another failure of
Obama’s misguided policies in Syria and Iraq, guns designated for Syrian rebels
have ended up in al Qaeda’s hands; shades of the Freedom Bus riders that rolled
through the South to protest Jim Crow laws in interstate commerce, a Red
candidate for governor in Georgia, Michael Williams, is rolling a Deportation Bus through sanctuary
cities in Georgia (every time an illegal commits a crime or takes a job or
lowers wages on a job, it makes the attempt to create a workable immigration
policy based on what the country needs and how to create a path to citizenship
for those who have and will provided needed skills to the country so much more
difficult); in Chicago through May 14, 2018, 844 people mostly of color have
been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 144 have died with complete
returns on Mother’s Day showing that 7 mothers will have learned their child
has been shot of whom 2 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this
carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear
and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Peaches
and Herb, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that Trump
will not mammer when it comes to border security and a relevant quote by Aarron Carroll on the disastrous
roll out of Obamacare and Kathleen Sebelius, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like
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1. Peace Officers Memorial Day—created by Congress in 1961 to honor
the police officers who have died in the line of duty protecting civilians and
celebrated today with President Trump emotionally meeting some family members
of fallen officers.
2. International Conscientious Objectors Day—created by the United
Nations in 1985 to recognize conscientious objection to military service and
with the draft ended in the United States perhaps a trend to object to service
in the military industrial complex as 3000 employees at Google have signed a
petition that Google not enter into AI contracts with the Pentagon that have
nothing to do with weapons or cyber warfare, only the analysis of threat data.
3. 1979 Number One Song— the number one song in 1979 on a run of 4 weeks in that
position was “Reunited” by Peaches and Herb. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26J0uDIGErM
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “mammer” which means to waver which
when it comes to the need to have a secure border Trump has never been guilty
of.
5. Waste Not, Want Not, Not There—celebrating or bemoaning depending
on your political views the birthday on this day in 1948 of Kathleen Sebelius former
governor of Kansas but better known as the poster child of waster and lack of
accountability as the Secretary of DHHS who presided so ineptly over the roll out of Obamacare and the disastrous creation of the Obamacare website.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1941 Joe DiMaggio began his 56 game hitting streak, a record
that still stands.
b. 1972 Arthur Bremer after failing in his original plan to
assassinate Richard Nixon, he shot four times and paralyzed Alabama Governor
George Wallace who was running for president at a Wallace rally in Laurel, Maryland;
he was tried convicted and sentenced to 53 years for attempted murder and was
released on November 9, 2007 after serving 35 years and will be on parole until
2025.
c. 1988 after 8 years of fighting in Afghanistan against
guerrillas now armed with U.S. Stinger missiles shooting down Soviet helicopters
like flies, the Soviet Union started to withdraw its troops.
d. 1987 the United States acknowledged the existence of the “Secret
War” in Laos and dedicated the Laos Memorial to Hmong and other “Secret War”
veterans.
e. 2008 California became the second state to legalize same sex
marriage after its Supreme Court ruled the previous ban to be unconstitutional.
Reflections on the
disaster of the Obamacare roll out and Kathleen Sebelius: “If we were talking
about a company having mismanaged things so badly, you could be sure that heads
would roll. Many would be fired, and there would be a change in management. But
that may not be possible here.Were Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius to go, President Barack Obama couldn't get someone else vetted and
through the Senate nomination process in an expedient manner. He's likely stuck
with his current team, or no team at all.” Aaron Carroll, CNN reporter Moral of
the report is that if in government if you are going to screw up screw up like
Sebelius big time so your job is safe. Please
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