The FBI has just arrested
21 year old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira for leaking classified
information on such sensitive matters as how we penetrated China to learn of
their hypersonic missile capable of reaching the U.S., state of Ukraine’s air defenses and Russian plans for
continued invasion of Ukraine which has
critics of the Biden Administration outraged at the security breach. While
visiting Ireland Biden was so confused on a child’s question he had to have Hunter,
that paragon of virtue, explain it to him. On the reparations front, we have
not yet seen the final report on the reparations that taxpayers in California
will be expected to shoulder but some estimates of the total cost are in the neighborhood
of $800 billion from a state that was not a slave state and which a member of
the state commission considering the issue of reparations is castigating
residents for having the temerity to question the amount. Some great news on
the medical front as medical researchers have found a biomarker to detect the
likelihood of Parkinson’s Disease. The thousands of homeless in Feces City can
breathe a sigh of relief after early reports that the murder of Bob Lee, the founder
of Cash App, seemed to be a murder by one of SFO’s thousand homeless as SFPD
arrested Nina Momeni, a Bay Area entrepreneur for the murder. The “it’s a video”
Queen Susan Rice has made the outrageous claim to justify reparations that the
U.S. economy has been damaged to the tune of $16 trillion due to the wealth gap
caused by discrimination of blacks.
Ridley’s Believe It Or Not April 13, 2023
Noted Holidays: National
Peach Cobbler Day: Created by The Georgia Peach Council located in the
state which produces more peaches than the other 49 states combined in the 1950’s
to sell more canned peaches that are used to make this delicious desert when peaches
are just beginning to be harvested.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “amasesis” which means the difficulty in chewing which if you are
a lover of beef will make your life somewhat miserable and which is often
caused by cancer, particularly oral and oropharyngeal cancers.
Number 1 Song: As we have left the past and returned to start the clock backwards
from the present, the number 1 song on this day in 2015 was “Uptown Funk”
by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars on a run of 14 weeks to share with 8 other
songs that achieved number 1 status while 6 acts, including Mark
Ronson, for the first time. Here is a music video of Mark Ronson feat. Bruno
Mars performing with lyrics “Uptown Funk”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
April 13
Famous Birthdays: Leticia Bufoni e Silva, born
on this day this day in 1993 in São Paulo, Brazil, is a professional skateboarder
started skating at age 9 and received her first skateboard at age 11 from her
grandmother. Her father seeing her skateboarding with 10 boys was not happy and
broke her skateboard and forbade her from skateboarding which he eventually
relented and she went on to move to Hollywood to attend Hollywood High but
dropped out to excel in skateboarding to win 1 Gold and 3 Silver Medals in the
World Championships and win 3 Bronze,
3 Silver, and 6 Gold Medals in the Summer X Games.
Noted Events on April 13:
1. 1873—In one of the most violent anti-black mob attacks by whites during
Reconstruction in the South, a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members
of the Klu Klux Klan armed with rifles and a small cannon attacked the Colfax, Louisiana Courthouse occupied by black freedmen and state militia. Overwhelmed the defenders
surrendered only to be executed with the numbers killed during the attack and after
surrender estimated to be 62 to153 with the exact number difficult as the
attackers threw many of the dead into the river to be washed away. In a sad comment
on our judicial system, SCOTUS in the case of United States v. Cruickshank
ruled in the case of the few mob members who had participated in the mob act
and were prosecuted under the Enforcement Acts granting blacks the right to
vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of the
laws only applied to state action and not individual actions, dismissing the convictions
and leading to the discrimination inflicted on blacks living in the south and
lessening the number of Republican offices holders to insure Democratic
majorities who passed segregationist Jim Crow laws for decades.
2. 1943—The
Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated.
3. 1976—In order to commemorate our bicentennial of the Declaration of
Independence and the 233rd birthday of Thomas Jefferson, the U.S.
Treasury re-introduced the Jefferson $2 bill as a Federal Reserve Note which
has not had great demand for it compared to other bills.
4. 1975—Tiger
Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters by 12 strokes but after
making the cut in the often rain delayed 2023 Masters due to rain and wind
blowing trees down had to due to the lingering single car accident in Rancho
Palos Verdes on February 23, 2021.
5. 2017—The U.S. Air Force dropped
a MOAB (“mother of all bombs”), its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS bunker
and cave complex in the Achin District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan killing some
90 ISIS terrorists.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues
:
Historical Marker at the site of
the Colfax Riot erected by the Louisiana Department of Commerce in 1950: “On this site occurred the Colfax riot in which three white men
and 150 Negroes were slain. This event ... marked the end of carpetbag misrule
in the South.”
David Bright, a Yale University Professor
who has studied slavery and the Reconstruction on the Colfax Massacre: “Colfax is an egregious case, when people really understand it and
really look at it. It’s a case of political murder. It’s murder for political
reasons, a political end. ... That’s the kind of society we always say we are
not.”
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