Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 15, 2018 The Blue wave on
the political front may be fading but not on the baseball front as the Blue
Congressional Baseball Team thumped the Reds 21-5; on the immigration front,
Reds are in locked horns between conservatives and moderates over immigration
reform which appears not to fund the wall and does not end chain migration
(which Blues to a man or woman reject); on the sports front the World Cup begins
today in Russia amidst threats by ISIS urging lone wolf attacks; fallout continues
from the IG report on Comey’s insubordination and a pervasive practice of FBI
agents leaking to the press and receiving in return gifts, dinners, tickets to
events and other things of value; Pompeo is returning from South Korea and
China still confident that North Korea will make significant progress during Trump’s
first term in denuclearizing; FEMA is in hot water over the mess in Puerto Rico
caused by Hurricane Maria by failing to stock supplies on the island before the
hurricane blasted the island; on the opiod front, Kentucky has sued Walgreens
for filling larger numbers of prescriptions of opioids than medically
warranted; the IG’s report revealed that Obama flat out lied to the American
people when he asserted that he learned of HRC’s private email server from the
news media (so typical of the you can keep your plan man); in Chicago through June
13, 2018, 1183 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color,
of whom 191 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 Janet
Jackson, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you may be
masticating on a lobster on National Lobster Day, and a
relevant quote from Abraham Lincoln on harnessing and taming the wind, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like
Father’s Day, college graduations, 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
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1. Global Wind Day—created by the European Wind Energy Association in 2007 to
promote the use of wind energy in the creation of electricity.
2. Magna Carta Day—celebrating the execution of the Magna Carta on this day in 1215
by King John which granted certain rights to the nobility and included the
basis for guaranteeing a trail by a jury of one’s peers.
3. 1993 Number One Song— the number one song in 1993 on a run of 8 weeks in that
position was “That’s the Way Love Goes” by Janet Jackson. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpQ88a6zy8E
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “masticate” which means to chew
which the IG’s report at over 500 pages has a lot to digest.
5. Being Ernest on the
Road to Success—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1949 of James Varney
best known for his character Ernest Worrell who appeared in numerous commercials
but unfortunately a chain smoker who contracted lung cancer and died way too
early at the age of 50.
On this
day in:
a. 1864 200 acres formerly owned by General Robert E. Lee was
set aside as a military cemetery known as Arlington by Secretary of War Edward
Stanton.
b. 1916 President Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy
Scouts of America, making them the only youth organization to have a federal
charter.
c. 1970 Charles Manson went on trial for the Sharon Tate
murders.
d. 1992 SCOTUS ruled in the case of United States v.
Alvarez-Machain that the United States could forcibly extradite a suspect without
the consent of the country that such suspect was being extradited from.
e. 2012 Nik Wallenda became the first person to successfully
walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls.
Reflections on wind power: “As yet, the wind is an untamed and unharnessed force; and quite possibly one of the greatest discoveries
to be made hereafter will be the taming and harnessing of it.” Abraham Lincoln Please
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