Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not—November 9, 2015, 438 days to go in President
Obama’s term. Trust your weekend was outstanding and with fully charged
batteries Monday is off to a great start; as always I hope you enjoy Monday’s
holidays and observances, factoids of interest, a music video by Bad English, a relevant quote from Ernest Honecker, looking forward to enjoying
some scrapple, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. World Freedom Day (U.S.)—commemorating the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall; a good day for our current president to realize how weak he is perceived to be in dealing with a resurgent Russia.
1. World Freedom Day (U.S.)—commemorating the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall; a good day for our current president to realize how weak he is perceived to be in dealing with a resurgent Russia.
2.
World Orphan Day—promoting awareness and caring for
those unfortunates who have lost both parents; sadly given the scourge of HIV
in Africa and the chaos of jihad the number of orphans continues to increase.
3. 1989 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1989 on a run of two
weeks in that position When I See You
Smile by Bad English. Here is a link
to Bad English performing When I See You
Smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu6pclWsxzs
4.
National Scrapple Day—celebrating
a great way to turn your leftovers into a great breakfast meal.
5.
We Are Not Alone
Day—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1934 of Carl
Sagan whose love of astronomy brought space to the average citizen.
On this day
in:
a. 1620
Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sighted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
b. b. 1960 Robert McNamara became the first non Ford to run Ford; he resigned a month later to with his whiz kids to join the Kennedy Administration and ultimately run the Vietnam War.
b. b. 1960 Robert McNamara became the first non Ford to run Ford; he resigned a month later to with his whiz kids to join the Kennedy Administration and ultimately run the Vietnam War.
c. 1967 the first
issue of The Rolling Stone was published.
d. 1989 accepting
the failure of communism in East Germany, the misnamed German Democratic Republic
opened up its checkpoints in East Berlin allowing citizens in East Germany to
once again flee into the west and leading to the unification of East Germany
with West Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
e. 1998 a federal District Court Judge awarded 1.03 billion
dollars to plaintiffs who alleged they had been damage by brokerage houses
while trading for NASDAQ listed securities.
Good observation on the longevity of the Berlin Wall which like predicions on the 1000 year Reich proved to be wrong: "This wall will be standing for 50 years even for 100 years if the reasons for its existence are not removed." Ernest Honecker, head of East Germany, January 19, 1989
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