Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 3, 2020 The
killing of Iranian General and chief architect of killing U.S. soldiers has
prompted the proverbial hornet’s nest of criticism from the elite like Rose
McGown who apologized to Iran on behalf of America and the Blue politicians
almost to a man or woman slamming Trump for him not getting Congressional input
and approval (which is not required or mandated) and raising fears that this
“reckless” provocation will move us to war with Iran (which Trump explained was
what the strikes were intended to do—remove the threat of war with Iran); AOC
fresh from her Green New Deal Crusade has added military leader to her
accolades slamming Trump for endangering lives by killing Soleimani (ironic a
lot of cheering seems to be going on over his death in the Middle East); Nanny
Bloomberg showed some spine when he slammed Sanders for complaining that the
Soleimani killing was an “assassination”; Cruz is introducing a resolution in
the Senate praising the military for killing Soleimani, daring the Blues to
oppose it; the ratings sinking due to bias may have been a CNN wakeup call as
one of its military pundits blasted Blues to “stay quiet” over their slamming
of Trump for killing Soleimani; in Chicago, as of January 1, 2020, the new year
ended with 6 people; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, has
started 2020 with 2 deaths and came in first place in 2019 in the amount of gun
deaths as 348 have been murdered, a number which has the dubious distinction of
passing all of 2014’s deaths, 2016’s 318
deaths and 2017’s and 2015’s previous
record of 342 (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 Taylor Swift, the fact you oppose putid refuse, relevant
quotes on the killing of Qasem Soleimani by Jarvid Zarif and Benjamin Netanyahu, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
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1. National Drinking Straw Day—celebrating the patenting
of the world’s first drinking straw on this day in 1888 but this holiday is
under attack over the concern of straw pollution in the world’s oceans as some
jurisdictions are trying to curb their use.
2. Memento
Mori Day—celebrating an observance created by Ruth and Thomas Roy as a
day to reflect on your life on this planet and to accept the fact that we all
come with an expiration date such that today would be celebrated by doing something
however long in duration you really love to do.
3. 2015
Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 2015 on
this day on a run of 7 weeks in the position was “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “putid”
which means rotting or fetid which describes what is happening in the Swamp far
too often.
5. Much More Than a Steakhouse--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1988 of noted Brazilian TV chef, Bela Gil who is spreading
the word on Brazilian cuisine.
On this day
in:
a.
1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.
b. 1977 Apple Computer was incorporated,
closing today at $297.43 after closing above $300 earlier in the week.
c. 2000 final
daily edition of the comic strip Peanuts was
published.
d. 2009 the first block of the
decentralized payment system Bitcoin called Genesis
block was established by the creator of the system Satoschi Nakamoto.
e. 2020 Iranian General Qasem
Soleimani and 5 fellow top officers are killed in an American drone strike at Baghdad
Airport.
Reflections
on the killing of Qasem Soleimani from two sides of the aisle: “The US’ act of
international terrorism, targeting & assassinating General Soleimani—THE
most effective force fighting Daesh (ISIS), Al Nusrah, Al Qaeda et al—is
extremely dangerous & a foolish escalation. The US bears responsibility for
all consequences of its rogue adventurism,” tweeted Javad Zarif, foreign
minister of Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“Just as Israel has the right of self-defence,
the United States has exactly the same right,” Israeli President Netanyahu said
in a statement issued by his office Friday. “Qassem Soleimani is responsible
for the death of American citizens and many other innocent people. He was
planning more such attacks.”
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