Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 26, 2019 Brennan is
outraged that allegations are swirling that the CIA was instrumental in using
the Anti-Trump Steele Dossier to obtain FISA warrants, calling Trump
sociopathic (of the great derelictions of duty by Mueller and his band of Blue
hacks was his failure to probe in the creation and dissemination of the
dossier); Cook County Judge Marc Martin
has castigated Kimberly Foxx for a double standard of justice by prosecuting a
woman for filing a false police report but dropping charges against Smollett as
her ethics head has resigned (wonder if the fact that Michelle Obama’s former chief
of staff’s contacting her had anything to do with the decision?); the gaffer in
chief Joe Biden has opened his campaign with a softball appearance on the
clueless The View while one of his top campaign advisers Simone Sanders has been
caught on tape in November of 2016 after the November 2016 election that the
Democratic Party should not be led by white men (time for Biden to start
appearing in black face?); on the issue of immigration finally the rays of
sanity are being revealed in the Sunshine State as a bill banning sanctuary cities
is moving toward being voted on; Newton, Massachusetts District Court Judge
Shelley Joseph and her court officer Wesley MacGregor have been indicted for
obstruction of justice by aiding an illegal to escape from ICE out the back
door of her court room; on the anti-Trump 24/7 front the Washington Post has slammed Sarah Sanders for holding a mock press
conference for children of the press corp and staffers on Bring Your Sons and
Daughters to Work Day; Illegal alien from Honduras Carlos Zuniga Aviles, who
has been charged with murdering a 4 month old infant after paternity tests
proved he was not his son, had been previously deported 5 times through our
porous open border; an illegal alien has been arrested in the brutal murder of
San Jose resident Bambi Larson in February and in a brilliant sting operation
at a bogus University of Farmington in Michigan over 600 illegal aliens from
India have been arrested or are voluntarily leaving after signing up for
computer classes (when will the Blues come on board with border security so we
can create more opportunities for merit based immigration to fill the jobs that
are open?); on the public health front, hundreds of students have been
quarantined at UCLA and Cal State L.A. due to measles (painful reminder what can
happen when the vaccination rate falls); through April 25, 2019 639 people have
been shot in Chicago of whom 125 have died (what makes the Smollett case so
frustrating is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective
resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder have a suspect
being charged this year).
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Mariah
Carey and Boyz II Men, factoids of interest for this day in history, the
fact that you are free of any paragnosia of why socialism is doomed to fail,
and a relevant quote from Svetlana Alexievich on the Chernobyl disaster,
secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable
events like 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 need only
contact me for details.
1. World Intellectual Property Day—created by the World Intellectual
Property Organization in 2000 to promote awareness of how patents, copyrights,
trademarks and designs impact our daily life and to celebrate creativity and the contributions of creators and
innovators to society.
2. National Arbor Day—celebrated on the last Friday in April and
started in 1872 Julius and Caroline Morton who proposed that the state of Nebraska
create a day dedicated to the planting of trees which was a great success such
that it became a state holiday on April 22, 1875 the day of Morton’s birthday.
3. 1996 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1996 on a run of 16 weeks in
that position was “One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. Here is
a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxRyNvTPr8.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o”
to words beginning with “p” is “paragnosia” which means a misunderstanding
which is what the left will gravely suffer if they believe socialists can win
the presidency of this nation.
5. King of Queens--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1965 of noted comedian
Kevin Knipfing better known to his fans as Kevin James and best known for his
starring role on King of Queens. He
is still making people laugh on the silver screen and on TV.
On this day
in:
a. 1956 the SS Ideal X, the
world’s first container ship set sail from New Jersey bound for Houston, Texas.
b. 1981 Doctor Michael Harrison at the University of
California Medical Center performed the first open fetal surgery on a fetus
still in the womb.
c. 1986 Reactor Number 4 at Chernobyl in the Ukraine experienced
a core nuclear meltdown and spewed radio active material into the atmosphere
making it one of the worst nuclear power plant disasters of all time.
d. 2005 under international pressure Syria withdrew the last of
its 14,000 troops from occupation duty in Lebanon, ending 29 years of military
domination of that ravaged country.
e. 2018 at Bill Cosby’s retrial following a mistrial, Bill Cosby
was found guilty of three counts of sexual abuse and later sentenced to 3 to 10
years in prison which sentence and guilty verdict is under appeal.
Reflections on the
disaster at Chernobyl providing a hint of the effects of socialism and
communism: “It's certainly true that
Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off,
was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a
deep-seated indifference toward the general population. The literature on the
subject is pretty unanimous in its opinion that the Soviet system had taken a
poorly designed reactor and then staffed it with a group of incompetents. It
then proceeded, as the interviews in this book attest, to lie about the
disaster in the most criminal way. In the crucial first ten days, when the
reactor core was burning and releasing a steady stream of highly radioactive
material into the surrounding areas, the authorities repeatedly claimed that
the situation was under control. . . In the week after the accident, while
refusing to admit to the world that anything really serious had gone wrong, the
Soviets poured thousands of men into the breach. . . The machines they brought
broke down because of the radiation. The humans wouldn't break down until weeks
or months later, at which point they'd die horribly.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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© April 26, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the
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