Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 14, 2019 The long
awaited ICE raids begin today targeted against some 2,000 illegals out of the
20+ million already here who have already gone through the legal process and
ordered to be deported (other than perhaps Biden, the other candidates are open
border and insisting that the only illegals who may be deported are those who
are violent felons—how safe does that make Middle America feel?); the open
border fanatics will not listen to the facts but maybe the voters will as ICE
issued its Declined Detainer Outcome Report for the 2nd quarter 2018
which detailed the ongoing criminal activity of 16 illegals released some
multiple times after detainer requests and sadly 12 of whom are still at large at
putting most likely Americans and illegal and legal immigrants at risk and the
ICE officers who will be put in harm’s way when they must try to bring them
again to justice https://www.ice.gov/declined-detainer-report; on the reptilian brain front singer Julio Inglesias
who has been just declared the father of a 43 year old man from a tryst with a
former ballerina some 44 years ago will now face a paternity law suit that will
put a sour note in his asset portfolio but that has not stop him from assert
that Trump is a clown; Biden’s fall in the polls due to the Illegal Alien
Supporter Queen’s attack on him during the first debate must have regenerated
some growth in his spine as he defended the millions of illegals deported during
his 8 years as vice president but such regeneration has not helped his delusion
faculties as he is claiming he laid the basis for defeating ISIS; Rapinoe may
be a star soccer player but her latest anti-Trump outburst proves she needs to
stick to soccer as she falsely blasts Trump for being anti-LBGT (although in a
poll by Newsweek of over 600 voters, a majority of which were Democrats she
slightly leads Trump, she will quickly find that politics is not like a penalty
kick in soccer which she excels but she could plague the nation by aping AOC
and running for Congress); power Manhattan which was knocked out to 73,000
people in Manhattan yesterday on the 42nd anniversary of the blackout
that blackout that blacked out the whole city was restored after Governor Cuomo
slammed his least favorite mayor in New York for being and staying MIA until
the lights came back on; in Chicago through July 13, 2019, 1399 people have
been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 249 of whom have died, a
fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa (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, music links to Carole
King and John Lennon (released posthumously), factoids of interest for
this day in history, the fact you are a philotherianism, and a
relevant quote from Victor Hugo on the Bastille and its storming, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. Bastille
Day—celebrating the storming of the Bastille
which caused the deaths of at least 200 Parisians and the deaths of nine
defenders and the release of prisoners and the capture of large amounts of
muskets and gunpowder and led to the French Revolution and the execution of the
King and Queen of France and many members of the aristocracy.
2. National
Tape Measure Day—celebrating the issuance on this day an
issuance of a patent to Alvin J. Fellows in 1858 for “Improvements to a Tape
Measure” but a patent for a retractable tape measure was not issued until December
6, 1864 to Walter H. Bangs.
3. 1971
Number One Song— the number one song in 1971 on a
run of 3 weeks in that position was “It’s Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move”
by Carole King. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7l0jksuJE This acclaimed 77 year old
singer/songwriter is still going strong on tour.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “philotherianism”
which means one loves animals.
5. Huff
and a Puff to the Left—celebrating the birthday on this day in
1950 of Arianna Huffington who in her early days was a conservative but as she
got old became more liberal and her Huffington Post which she sold for over $300
million is home to numerous leftist bloggers.
On
this day in:
a. 1923 at the
U.S. Open, Bobby Jones won his first major tournament, defeating Walter
Cruickshank by 2 strokes in an 18 hole playoff.
b. 1984 John Lennon’s “I’m Stepping Out” was released
posthumously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJgn68PA8X0.
c. 1996 MSNBC began internet Microsoft NBC.
d. 2002 British born jihadist Ahmed
Omar Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court
for the killing of journalist David Pearl but the one way ticket to Paradise
was commuted to life to join his three accomplices serving the same sentence.
e. 2003 AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape
Communications; the Mozilla Foundation opened the same day.
Reflections on the Bastille:” An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies,
exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in
this world, with its towers of hatred. It must be cast down. This monstrous
mass must be made to crumble. To conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the
Bastille is immense.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.
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