Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For August 17, 2019 The shooter in
Philadelphia who was Harris’s poster child for her gun control plan while
bullets were still flying with his illegally obtained rifle has been charged
with attempted murders (with his crimes he should never have been on the street
breathing the air of freedom); in a what took him so long moment President
Trump has threatened to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, an action
long overdue; Portland is girding for demonstrations by Antifa and right wing
organizations and is trying to keep the groups separated by the Willamette
River but videos have surfaced of Antifa members trying to pull journalist Ngo
who was previously brutally attacked off a bus today (interesting sidelight, only
Antifa members wear masks to try to conceal their identity but with
conservatives no attempt); Blues evidently still seething over Israel’s right
as a sovereign nation to exclude two rabid anti-Semites Tlaib and Omar are now
considering the idiotic path of trying to punish Israel’s Ambassador to the
U.S. and the U.S. Ambassador to Israel (short memories, but consistent with
their open border views, of Blues when U.S. banned Arafat from U.N. for his advocating
the destruction of Israel); Google is already in the political dog house for
its employees signing a petition demanding Google does not do business with ICE
(but okay with repressive China which is in a trade war with U.S. and on a path
to replace us as a dominant power) has entered a new one as another petition is
circulating demanding no Google business with CBP; in what should be a wake-up
call to the continuing drift to the left of the Blues, ulta leftist comedian Bill
Maher has attacked Blue for their BDS litmus test on candidates; Jessica
Aguilar who slapped a Trump supporter at an Orange County rally in 2016 has
been convicted of battery and sentenced to 20 days of jail, 10 days of community
service and 3 years probation with jail vacated if community service completed
(a good step to end this physical anti-Trump nonsense); news that Harris who
has filed a bill to legalize marijuana at the federal level may take notice of
a Florida lawyer who was ordered to pay $370,000 for improper legal advice
prompting his clients to grow and use marijuana for personal medical uses); it
what sounds like a case of false imprisonment Delta passengers were held on a
plane bound for Dublin for 8 hours while the pilot claimed not to know where
the ground crew was and police finally being called after fights starting
breaking out; in Chicago no shooting and murder updates but 215 murdered in
Baltimore (even without updates 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 Los Del
Rios, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you do
not suffer from planomania and a relevant quote from Monica Lewinsky on the
Lewinsky Scandal (thanks God this predator never became the First Man), 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. National Nonprofit Day—created by Sherita J. Herring, noted speaker and motivator, in
2017 to honor the good deeds of non profits whose real profits are the
thousands of those helped by their services.
2. International Homeless Animal Day—created by the International Society
for Animal Rights in 1992 to reduce the number of homeless animals by spaying
and neutering pets and promoting pet adoptions.
3. 1996 Number One Song— the number one song in 1996 on a run of 14 weeks in that
position was “Macarena (Backside Boys Mix)” by Los Del Rio. Here is a
recording video of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2R6B3oFE4
This Spanish duo was formed in 1962 by Antonio Romero Monge (born 1947) and
Rafael Ruíz Perdigones (born 1949) and is still going strong today.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “planomania” which describes an abnormal desire to wander aimlessly
and ignore social norms which might describe Crocodile Dundee.
5. Still A Raging Bull In His Mind—celebrating or
bemoaning the birth depending on your political point of view of actor Robert
DeNiro born on this day in 1943 but locked in his roll of Jake LaMotta when re
rants about punching Trump in the nose.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1907
Pike Place Market a very popular seafood and other goods market was opened in
Seatlle.
b. 1953 the
first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous was held in Southern California.
c. 1962 Peter Fechter, a brick layer
became the 27th known victim killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall
when he was shot and left to bleed to death.
d. 1998 our noted sexual predator
Bill Clinton admitted in a deposition that he had “an improper sexual
relationship” with Monica Lewinsky and later that day on national TV admitted
the same after previously lying on national TV.
e. 2008 Michael Phelps becomes the
first athlete to win 8 Gold Medals in an Olympics.
Reflections on being the
Clinton Lewinsky Scandal: “He could have made it right with the book. But he
hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.” Monica Lewinsky Too bad
Epstein died or we might have had to endure Clinton’s real depravity. Please
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