© December 9,
2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
On the college antisemitism
front cheers were being heard, Penn President Liz Magill realizing how her
statements on context of genocide were so absurd and no apology could still the
growing clamor of the resignation herd resigned today. Representative Stefanik stated
“1 down and 2 to go” but probably understated the bias big time and should have
stated “1 down and 50 or so more to go.” Not sure how much of her resignation
was due to big donors lining up to their donations withdraw or her looking in
the mirror and realizing the inanity of what on TV people would hear. She was
not alone as the Chairman of Penn’s Board of Trustees Scott Bok resigned also.
In Houston, in a special
election to elect Houston’s next mayor 2 Blues were running against each other
Rep Shelia Jackson and Texas State Senator John Whitmore with House Republicans
hoping Jackson would win to create an open seat
given their slender House Majority, but Whitmore a strong proponent of
law and order won and Jackson will be running in 2024 to retain her seat.
Teenager Ethan Crumbley was
sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for gunning down 4
classmates and wounding six others and a teacher at Michigan’s Oxford High
School in 2021. The sentencing Judge Kwamé Rowe noted that the “defendant in
his own words” told the court “this is nobody’s fault but his own.”
On the good news in the
medical front, the FDA approved 2 gene-based treatments for sickle cell disease,
including the first therapy that uses the gene-editing technique CRRISP,
opening a new era of treatments for genetic conditions.
On the Scrooge Front, the
world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, Iran, has just been awarded Scrooge of
the Century Award as it blocked the family of Masha Amini from traveling to
Paris to accept in her name the European Union’s top award for the support of
human rights by confiscating their passports. Trump’s economic sanctions that were
bringing Iran to its knees and its protestors against the mullahs’ rule into
the streets under Biden’s relaxing now just a things were better then memory.
December 9, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National
Opal Apple Day: Created by First Fruits Farms, an nonprofit Christian farm
establishing in Northern Baltimore County in 1998 to use volunteers to plant and
distribute fresh produce to those in need and in this case to celebrated the
Opal Apple, a golden crispy apple with a great taste.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words
starting with “b” is “blattoid” which mean of or
pertaining to cockroaches which are words a homeowner never wants to hear from
an extermination in describing one’s insect infestation.
Song of the
Day: Leaving the number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to
come back to the number song in 2016 in the U.S.A. was “Black
Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane on a run of 6 weeks to share
number 1 status with 11 other songs, while 14 acts reached number one status
while 12 9 acts, including Rae Sremmurd
and Gucci Mane 1st number 1 single. Here is a recording with lyrics of Rae
Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane performing “Black Beatles”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8m9zhNAgKs
December 9
Birthdays: “In the College Admission Wars, $15,000 Pocket Change to Boost SAT
scores”: celebrating
the birth on this day in 1962 in Bedford, New York of Felicity Huffman, a noted
actress best known for her starring role of Lynette Scavo in “Desperate
Housewives” and her playing a transgender woman in “TransAmerica but
also one of the many celebrities caught up in the cheating scandal to stack the
deck to improve a child’s chance to get into an elite as she paid someone
$15,000 to improve her daughter’s PSAT when she took the PSAT. She served 11 of
the 14 day sentence, 250 community hours of service, a year of probation and
paid a fine of $30,000. Revealing the pressures parents feel to get their kids
into an elite school she admitted in an interview in November 2023 with KABC on
the admissions scandal that "It felt like I would be a bad mother
if I didn't do it.”
December
9, Historical Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 2021 once again we saw evidence of how deadly the Illlegals’
trek to El Norte can be/Outrageous fees paid to cartel members far from a safe
passage the payment guarantees/Some 200 illegals crammed into a semitruck
trailer near the town of Chilipas like a load of 2 legged sardines/Too much
weight and probably too much speed and the trailer in to a pedestrian bridge careened/Then
flipped over killing 55 and injuring a hundred in a deadly bloody scene/Money
paid but the cartel members did not hang around to hear the painful cries and
screams.
2. On
this day in 2016 proof that in Nigeria under Boko Haram girl students that
reading, writing and arithmetic do not learn/Rather how to detonate suicide
vests in a market to into a massive killing and wounding ground turn/One hopes the
door to the bombers to Paradise was locked/If the mullahs preached there is no
Paradise by suicide to innocents kill the inanity of explosions would be
blocked.
3.
On this day in 2008 the Blue Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was
arrested by the FBI/For trying to sell Obama’s Senate Seat to be vacated on
January 20, 2002 to anyone who would pay the most to it buy/He was quickly
impeached and found guilty and from running for any political office denied/In
federal court ultimately convicted for his attempt to Obama’s Senate Seat sell/While
in federal prison formed a prison band that for the cons played well/Until
Trump commuted his sentence to release him from purgatory Hell/Yet today he is
still trying to end to running in Illinois again to sell.
4. On
this day in 1996 an Ontario Court of Appeals ended Gwen Jacobs over 5 years of
legal pain/That began on July 19,1991 when this U of Guelph student on a
blistering hot day in Guelph removed her shirt to begin 15 minutes initially of
fame/Fined $75 for exposing her breasts while in public walking/Since men had
the right to remove their shirts a double standard of behavior she was
mocking/The court threw out her convictions not on Constitutional grounds but
on the community tolerance test/Found that for most people men and women walking
shirtless and braless to minimize the heat would pass the community tolerance
test.
5. On this day in 1979 one the deadliest
and most disfiguring diseases to infect mankind was certified to have been
eradicated/No longer would smallpox scar the faces of the lucky survivors or
large portions of the population like Native Americans have decimated/In June
of 2011 smallpox was no longer the only disease to have been wiped off the
Earth’s face/Rinderpest known as the “cattle plague” was finally erased.
Quote on smallpox from
: William H. McNeill, 1977
Plagues and Peoples “ ..on the night when the Aztecs drove Cortez and his
men out of Mexico City, killing many of them, an epidemic of smallpox was
raging in the city. The man who had organized the assault on the Spaniards was
among those who died on that 'noche trista', as the Spaniards later called it.
The paralyzing effect of a lethal epidemic goes far to explain why the Aztecs
did not pursue the defeated and demoralized Spaniards, giving them time and
opportunity to rest and regroup, gather Indian allies and set siege to the
city, and so achieve their eventual victory.
Moreover, it is worth considering the psychological implications of a disease
that killed only Indians and left Spaniards unharmed. Such partiality could
only be explained supernaturally, and there could be no doubt about which side
of the struggle enjoyed divine favor. The religions, priesthoods, and way of
life built around the old Indian gods could not survive such a demonstration of
the superior power of the God the Spaniards worshiped. Little wonder, then,
that the Indians accepted Christianity and submitted to Spanish control so
meekly. God had shown Himself on their side, and each new outbreak of
infectious imported from Europe (and soon from Africa as well) renewed the
lesson.”
© December 9, 2023 Ridley’s Believe
It Or Not
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