Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For January 25, 2020 The president’s legal time consigned to the graveyard
shift of Saturday morning TV began its defense of the president arguing the
facts and the law which they believe is on their side and not like Schiff and
Nadler hurling inflammatory accusations against Red Senators who most likely
support the president to incur the admonition of Justice Roberts (speculation
is rampant that given the weakness of the Blues’ case and the charge that
impeachment has been brought to influence the 2020 election, the defense unlike
the Blues presentation will be brief and to the point); after yet another year
of being trounced in the ratings battle with Fox, there may be a slimmer of
recognition that fair and balanced and lack of bias drives ratings as MSNBC
Host Ari Melber slammed the House Impeachment Managers for not presenting an
overwhelming case for removing the president for obstruction of Congress; Wuhan
and the surrounding cities have been shut down while Americans are trying to
flee the corona virus infected site in droves as the number of cases continue
to climb along with fatalities and markets fearful of the consequences of a
pandemic fall (sadly the photos showing more and more Chinese wearing surgical masks
may give false comfort to those wearing them but such masks do little if
anything to halt the spread of viral diseases); in a new twist on the warning
that smoking is hazardous to your health, in a Chicago cigar bar, a woman
patron pulled a handgun out of her purse and shot a killed a retired state
trooper, wounded another and an off duty trooper and then fatally shot herself;
Delta Airlines has been fined $50,000 for discriminating against Muslims for
removing three Muslims from two flights to the U.S. because their presence made
either passengers or flight attendants nervous and uncomfortable; beleaguered Boeing had the good news that the weather in
Seattle improved enough to allow its new 777X to complete its maiden flight; we
all hate traffic delays but a driver in Arizona went to great illegal lengths
to avoid them by putting a skeleton in the passenger seat and driving in the
HOV lane:
in
Chicago, as of January 23, 2020, 123 people have been shot of whom 21 have
died; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all
hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths has regained the death
lead from Chicago and suffered 22 murders by shootings to remain in the dubious
distinction of being in the lead (when will Chicago and Baltimore 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 and when will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings
in Blue run cities which have been more deadly and more numerous than random
mass shootings?).
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link
to Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra, the fact you do not normally obganiate, a relevant quote for Chinese New Year in
Chinese and translated, secure in the knowledge
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college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that
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1. Chinese New Year—celebrating the
beginning of the Year of the Rat of the Lunar New Year but in this year in Wuhan
and surrounding areas not much to celebrate given the outbreak of the coronavirus.
2. Burns
Supper—celebrated on this day since 1803 in Scotland and Scottish
communities to commemorate the poetic works of Robert Burns born on this day in
1759 complete with readings, bagpipes and those inedible haggis.
3. 1938 Number
1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1938 on this day on a run of 2
weeks in the position was “Rosalie” by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCwI66QUass
The Harbor Lights for this King of Sway went out due to cancer on June 2, 1987.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day as we move to words starting with “o” is “obganiate” which
means to irritate someone by constantly repeating oneself which probably
describes the effect of the presentations of Schiff and Nadler to the Senate.
5. Irony Rules—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1971 of Filip Coppens a noted Belgian borne author,
host, commentator and student of anomalies who had the misfortune of contracting
a rare form of cancer that affects some 200 people a year and died way too
early on December 30, 2012 at 41.
On this day
in:
a. 1971
Charles Manson and 3 “family” members, Atkins, Kernwinkle and Van Houten were found
guilty in the Tate-LaBianca Murders. Manson and Atkins have since died and
Kernwinkle and Van Houten are still in prison after numerous parole hearings.
b. 1980 Mother Teresa was honored with India’s
highest award a civilian can receive the Bahrat Ratna.
c. 1996 Billy Bailey had the dubious
distinction of being the last person in the United States hanged some 16 years
after being convicted and sentenced to death which begs the question of the
effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring murder.
d. 1998 Pope John Paul II visited
Castro’s Cuba, demanding political reform, the release of political prisoners
and the end of U.S. attempts to isolate the island nation.
e. 2011 the first wave of protests
began against Mubarak in Egypt marked by strikes, marches and violent demonstrations
and riots which lasted for 17 days and resulted in the deaths of almost 1000
Egyptians.
Reflections
on Chinese New Year: “zhù nǐ lóng mǎ jīng shén祝你龙马精神May you be as energetic as a dragon and
horse.”
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