The Griner Family is celebrating her release, but the Whalen Family has
a lump of coal under their tree as he is still wallowing in a Russian cell
under bogus espionage charges and more and more people are questioning the
transfer that released a notorious and dangerous arms trader known as “The Merchant
of Death” (a deja vu look when in exchange for Bergdahl we released 5 Taliban
leaders who probably have long since returned to their respect conflicts). I trust
you have addressed and deposited in the mail all of the Christmas cards you
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not December 9, 2022
Noted Holiday: International
Day of Veterinary Medicine, not sure when or who created this day to honor the work of veterinarians but do know that the day was
chosen to mark the anniversary of the world’s first school of veterinary medicine
in Lyon, France in 1762 and the practice of treating animals has been with us
since the time of the Babylonians.
Word of
the Day: The word of the day is “acanaceous” which means bearing prickles
or thistles which some plants have like roses or blackberries to protect
themselves from herbivores. Number 1
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 2008 was “Live Your Life”
by T.I. feat Rihanna, on a run of 5 weeks noncontinuous to share with 13
other songs reaching achieving number 1 status while 7 acts, including Static
Major who became the 7th artist to achieve first time number 1
status posthumously, achieved their first number 1 song. Static
Major died at age 33 in a hospital from breathing difficulties from the myasthenia
gravis he suffered. Here is a music video with lyrics of T.I. feat. Rihanna performing “Live Your Life”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koVHN6eO4Xg
Noted Birthdays: Jacob
Dylan, born on this day in 1969, is the son of Bob Dylan and creator of the
rock band Wallflowers; he is still performing today as a musician and songwriter
but has not yet filled his father’s shoes.
Notable
Events that occurred on December 9.
1. 1946—At Nuremburg 23 defendants, 20 of
whom were medical doctors, were tried for human experimentation and mass murder
under the guise of euthanasia. 7 of the defendants were acquitted, 7 were found
guilty and hanged on June 2, 1948, and 9 were found guilty and sentenced to terms
ranging from 10 years to life although all had their sentences commuted to
shorter terms and were released between 1951 and 1955.
2.
1950—Harry Gold was convicted for helping Karl Fuchs pass classified
information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 30
years in prison, of which he served some 30 years before being released.
3.
1968—Douglas Engelbart gave what many call the “Mother of All Demos” when he
debuted the computer mouse, hypertext and the bit-mapped graphical user
interface using the oN-Line System.
4. 1996—Gwen Jacob, a Guelph University
student on a hot July 19 day in 1991 was
arrested for being topless in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, convicted and fined $75
which prompted her to appeal and her conviction was reversed by the Ontario
Court of Appeals which the province did not appeal so if in Ontario, a woman
wants to appear in public topless, she can without fear of arrest.
5. 2021—In an example of how desperate illegals
are to come to the U.S., a semi-truck with 160 illegals primarily from Guatemala,
some of whom had paid $13,000 for passage to our border overturned near Chiapas,
Mexico, killing 55 and injuring some 100 people.
Quote of the Day:
Brigadier General Telford Taylor in his
closing of his opening statement at the Doctors’ Trials: “Guilt for the
oppressions and crimes of the Third Reich is widespread, but it is the guilt of
the leaders that is deepest and most culpable. Who could German medicine look
to keep the profession true to its traditions and protect it from the ravaging
inroads of Nazi pseudo-science? This was the supreme responsibility of the leaders
of German medicine—Rostock and Rose and Schroeder and Handloser. That is why their
guilt is greater than that of any of the other defendants in the dock. They are
the men who utterly failed their country and their profession, who showed neither
courage nor wisdom nor the vestiges of moral character. It is their failure, together
with the failure with the leaders of Germany in other walks of life, that
debauched Germany and led to her defeat. It is because of them and others like
them that we all live in a stricken world."
Michael Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on events of the day
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