January 27, 2024 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
In another example that wealth or celebrity status or friends can
protect someone or their caregiver from the mental onslaught of dementia or
Alzheimer’s, noted comedian and replacement host for Johnny Carson Jay Leno was
in court seeking a conservatorship for his wife Mavis of 43 years who has
dementia.
Notwithstanding the poorly
decided SCOTUS decision giving the CBP the right to remove the razor wire in
the State of Texas Shelby Park which abuts the Rio Grande River which the DOJ
argued was interfering with the federal government’s obligation to secure the
border which anyone watching television can clearly see it has failed or worse
ignored, Texas is still contesting the right of the CBP enter state owned land remove
the razor wire. New Mexico, Louisiana, California, Mississippi should determine
that they are being invaded by illegals as a such have the right to use the
National Guard to deport illegals to protect their state and since given the
catch and release policies of the Biden Administration every state in reality
is a border state all Red run states should file suit also. The Biden proposal
is a border closure if and when the number of illegals crossing the border
exceed 5,000 a day which means at least 1.825 million illegals allowed in each year.
News that caravans are going to be heading to the border, fortunately
not coming from the South but truckers coming from states north of our wide
open border to like previous trucker conveys into Washington, D.C. descending
to protest Administration policies like high fuel costs but in this case to
protest the open border and the chaos the flood of illegals is creating in this
nation.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, whose
military and national security compared to his work on HRC’s political campaigns
and debate preparation for Obama is near zero has ended talks with China on the
issue of Houthi Rebels attacks on shipping in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea
and Taiwan’s desires for independence with no resolutions other than a desire
to continue discussions in Bangkok. It should be troubling that the beating of
the war drums by Beijing is getting louder
as the Chinese sent 6 warships and 30 advanced fighters to the vicinity
of Taiwan. Given the very large percentage of integrated chips that are
produced in Taiwan, the loss of those production facilities either through an
occupation of the island of destruction by bombing during the process of trying
to take over the island would be disastrous to the increasing amount of sectors
that are dependent on Taiwanese produced chips.
On dissolution of marriage front,
McKenzie Scott who was one of the first Amazon employees and former wife of its
founder Jeff Bezos and who in their divorce in 2019 received Amazon shares
representing 4% of the company and worth then some $37 billion. She has sold
some 63 million shares representing 25% of her holdings for some $10 billion
plus and since her divorce in 2019 she has donated over $16 billion to philanthropic
causes but still has billions left to distribute.
In what has to rank as the
highest hypocrisy Biden has slammed the Supreme Court of Venezuela’s upholding
the ban of opposition leader, María Corina Machado who won the presidential
primary in October with more than 90% of the vote, from the ballot. Yet the Biden
remains silent as his supporters are in courts across the land vigorously
calling for Trump’s removal from primary ballots for his support of “insurrection.”
It should as no surprise that border crossings of Venezuelan illlegals has
skyrocketed (Time for Biden to double down on his pledge to be the unity
president and pardon Trump from any and all crimes alleged to have been
committed by Trump since all seem to be politically motivated and filed after
Trump announced his intention to run in 2024).
On the international aping the Barbary
Pirates front by the Houthi Rebels in the 38th missile or drone
attack on ships in international waters of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, a
Marshall Islands flagged tanker the M/V Marlin Luanda was hit by a
missile before Allied Warships could intercept but who transferred 100
containers to put out the file which had it spread to the Marlin Luanda’s cargo
of liquid hydrogen would have been a deadly disaster. Biden needs to immediately
designate these pirates as terrorists and in addition trying to destroy launch
sites and ships capable of launching missiles seize any of their financial
assets and if we could capture any of them on the open ocean treat them like
the pirates of old and hang them.
On the open border front, campaigning
in Las Vegas, Trump blasted Biden’s proposed open border fix and worse that no
bill at all while Haley is seeing increasing demand to exit the race and unite
her supporters behind Trump.
January 27, 2024
Noted Holidays: International Holocaust
Remembrance Day created by General Assembly Resolution: Created by General
Assembly Resolution 60/7 on November 24, 2005 and first celebrated on this day
in 2006, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi
death camps for Jews and other Nazi targets of the Holocaust of Birkenau-Auschwitz.
Sadly as the wave of antisemitism has broken out following the invasion of
Israel by Hamas on October 7 the memory of the millions who died in the camps
seems to have faded away.
Word of
the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words starting
with “b” is “brimborion” which means useless
worthless, trash which too often is spewed
daily by the MSM.
Song of the Day: Leaving the
number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number song
in 1991 in the U.S.A. was “The First Time” by Surface
on a run of 2 weeks while 14 acts, including Surface, achieved their first
number one song. Here is a music video with lyrics of Surface performing “The
First Time”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sz2HOAb54w January 27 Birthdays: “Redistricting Can Be Fatal”: Celebrating
the birthday on January 27, 1943 of George Mica who was born in Binghamton, New
York to grow up in Florida and become a 12 term member of Congress who had the
misfortune of having his district being redistricted to lose 51-49% to Blue
Stephanie Murphy who was appointed by Pelosi to serve on the January 6
Committee and with her District evenly distributed elected to end her
Congressional career on January 20, 2021 by indicating she would not run for
reelection in 2020.
January 27 Historical Events in
Rhyme
1. On this day in 2023 after
bodycam videos of Tyre Nichols being beaten by 5 black cops after running away
on January 7 were released/riots and protests nationwide broke out since on January
10 Nichols became deceased/Officers were fired before the release but that did
not satisfy many blacks/They wanted accountability the Memphis PD seemed to
lack/Officers are awaiting trial for excessive use of force and tampering with
witnesses/Both civil and criminal trials not yet occurred but if no guilty
verdicts City of Memphis will be under a world of stress.
2. On this
day in 2013 at the Kiss Nightclub in Santa Maria, Grande du Sol, Brazil a fire
broke out during an indoor fireworks display/It quickly spread to the acoustic ceiling
needed to improve the sound the music bands would play/But if it caught fire
deadly toxic smoke would patrons inside quickly slay/Poorly designed with only
one exit to safety lead the way/630 patrons injured while 242 met their
death/Mostly caused by cyanide fumes inhale as they took their last breaths/With
only one exit out it was deadly fire trap/With endurance and ability to move
quickly to escape by toxic fumes quickly sapped.
3. On
this day in 2010 Apple announced its tablet the iPad/Creating a PC with the size
of a book but able to link to all the apps and websites there were to be had/Highly
successful with over 220 million sales through 2022/Proof positive that Apple’s
technical innovation and marketing skills were nowhere near being through.
4. On
this day in 1980 6 Americans were working in a consulate building separate from
the Embassy in Iran/When Iranian students outraged that the Shah had been
admitted for medical treatment the Embassy overran/The 6 quickly left to hide
in private homes hoping the occupation would be brief/When the government fell
3 days later they turned to the Canadians to escape the potential grief/They
hid out for days in the homes of Canadian diplomats until the CIA came up with
an escape from Iran plan/One that would get them out of the fire in the country
and not into the frying pan/Canadian passports and false visas for a science
fiction filming crew for Argosy whose film production was now
through/With their 2 CIA experts and camera props waltzed through airport
security to board Swiss Air and to take off into the “wild blue”.
5. On this day in 1967 we were reminded that
space travel is not free from risk/As Apollo astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White
and Roger Chaffee were strapped in going through the items on the preflight
ignition list/The Apollo rocket was not fueled so the safety details may not have
been examined in great detail/But a short in a circuit caused a fired and all
efforts to open the module door due to the internal oxygen pressure failed;
Their suits were not fire proof or designed shield them from toxic fumes/That
saved them from the pain that being burned to death entailed.
Quote by Gene Kranz, Second Flight
Director for the Apollo Program in a speech given to Mission Control after the
deadly fire on Apollo 1: “From
this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: Tough and Competent.
Tough means we are forever
accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again
compromise our responsibilities ... Competent means we
will never take anything for granted ... Mission Control will be perfect.
When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first
thing you will do there is to write Tough and Competent on
your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room,
these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee.
These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”
© January 27, 2024 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
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