Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 22, 2018 On the political
corruption front news that finally the Deep State of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Yates
and Rosenstein may soon be adding a new member, legacy protecting at all costs
Obama, as reports surface of another agency trying to infiltrate the Trump
campaign (it is hard to believe that Obama did not know of these efforts and
approved them and the question becomes how much longer will the American people
allow our government to try to take down a political party and bury the
evidence that Congress has a Constitutional duty and obligation to see?); as
lava flow nears the Geothermal Plant property, new fears that any wells
impacted will cause the release of deadly hydrogen sulfide gas; grasping for straws,
Pelosi is now encouraging voters to vote for Blues so they can drain the Swamp
realizing that their better deal slogan is a complete dud and their vow to
repeal the tax cuts will be a disaster for them as the economy continues improve;
another thin blue line casualty this time in Baltimore, Maryland as a female
officer was shot and killed investigating a home burglary; the Holy Grail of
shipwrecks the San Jose believed to
be carrying treasure worth $17 billion has been found of the coast of Columbia;
Hillary Rodham Clinton continues her can’t believe she lost tour with a
commencement speech at Yale University; sanity has just returned to another California
city, Carlsbad, as the city council voted 4-1 to tell Moonbeam to take a hike
and opted out of sanctuary city status; in Chicago through May 21, 2018, 955
people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 156
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 Deniece
Williams, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that despite
Trump feeling a manqué in his efforts to drain the Swamp he is proceeding
forward and a relevant quote by Pat
Buchanan on the Great Society, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. U.S. National Maritime Day—created by the Congress on this day in 1933 to honor the
contributions of our maritime service to our economy, defense and leisure; the
day was chosen to commemorate the sailing by the USS Savannah, the first steamship to sail across the Atlantic.
2. World Goth Day—first celebrated in the U.K. in 2009 to then spread into other
countries to include fashion and music.
3. 1984 Number One Song— the number one song in 1984 on a run of 2 weeks in that
position was “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” by Deniece Williams. Here
is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7YHZVc7mM
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “manqué” which means having
an unfilled ambition which Trump must feel every day he starts out trying to
drain the Swamp.
5. Hard to Best the Bottle—celebrating the
birthday on May 22, 1946 of noted European soccer player George Best whose
partying lifestyle led to a way too early exit from the sport and his death
from alcoholism on November 25, 2005.
On this day in:
a. 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson launched his Great Society which was a costly failure.
b. 1968 the USS Scorpion,
a nuclear powered submarine sank with 99 officers and crew aboard some 400 miles
off the coast of the Azores, killing all aboard.
c. 1998 a federal judge ruled that Secret Service Agents could
be compelled to testify against Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
d. 2002 in a wheels of justice move slowly but they move event,
a jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted Bobby Frank Cherry of the murder of 4
African American girls in the 1963 bombing of a Baptist Church on 16th
Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama. Cherry was sentenced to life in prison and died
in prison at the age of 74.
e. 2017 23 people were killed and 139 wounded at a Manchester Arena
concert held by Ariana Grande when a jihadist Salman Abede of Libyan descent detonated
a suicide bomb as people were leaving the concert venue.
Reflections on the Great
Society and its failure:” Lyndon Johnson, his
44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a
failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.” Pat
Buchanan, noted conservative author, commentator and adviser to Republican
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