Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 19, 2017 House passed
the tax cut without a single Blue vote and goes to the Senate for voting
tonight where it will pass (if the economy is surging at 4-5 percent going into
the 2018 midterms the video clip of Pelosi ranting that the legislation is the
worse bill ever played over and over will be the death knell of the Blues); just
when you thought that the rogue regime could not stoop any lower our
intelligence community confirmed that the massive ransomware hacking attack in
May that cost billions worldwide was a direct result of North Korean efforts
(cyber attacks on a nation’s infrastructure and businesses is a declaration of
war and North Korea must be held accountable even if it means nuking Kim and
his military into incinerated ashes which we should do before not after he has
several nuclear armed ISBMs; another story we never would have heard about if
Hillary had won is surfacing that Obama sacrificed an anti-Hezbollah task force
to be able to push the Iran nuclear deal through; although Mueller’s
credibility is now zero, the left is hoping Trump will fire him so they can
unleash thousands into the streets to protest the action; with McCain back in
Arizona being treated for brain cancer, Pence has delayed his trip to Israel
until next year so he can break a 50-50 tie to pass the tax cut bill tonight;
Andrew McCabe will be testifying in closed session before the House as more and
more it looks like a cabal of senior FBI agents and DOJ members were working 24/7
to insure Trump lost and when he did not used the anti-Trump dossier paid for
by the DNC and Clinton campaign to illegally obtain FISA warrants to intercept
communications of Trump supporters (time to end the FBI stonewall and DOJ
stonewall with subpoenas and contempt of Congress); having the FBI be guilty of
such practices is unprecedented and completely unacceptable and having the DOJ
doing the same thing while to be expected due to the politization under the
hacks Holder and Lynch is just as unacceptable); on the teacher sex
exploitation front a former Christian school teacher has been arrested after a yearlong
sexual relationship with a 15 year old after having been caught in bed by her husband;
the Amtrak derailment south of Tacoma, Washington probably stemmed from the
fact that the train was going 80 miles an hour in a curve rated at 30 miles and
hour; almost a stuck record or a gruesome remake of Groundhog
Day, Chicago style, the carnage in Chicago continued unabated
with total shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in
2017 through December 18 increasing to 3489, 611 of whom have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music
links to Elvis Presley and Phil Ochs, factoids of interest for this day in
history, being able to impress your friends with your legerity, a relevant
quote by Christopher Hitchens on the impeachment of Bill Clinton and his
character or lack thereof, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that
the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great
price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me
for details.
1. Goa Liberation Day—in a day totally
devoid of holidays if in India you could celebrate the liberation of Goa on
this day in 1961 by India by force of arms or if in Portugal bemoan such naked
aggression.
2. Holly Day—commemorated in song during the Christmas season as the number
one plant to deck the halls with since Roman times during Saturnalia with the
prickly leaves representing the crown of thorns Christ was forced to wear and
the red berries His blood dripping from those pricks.
3. 1957 Number One Song— the number one song in 1957 on a run of 7 weeks in that
position was “Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis Presley. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJTgYzf9FE
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “legerity” which means lightness or
nimbleness which is an apt description of the running style of the Stanford
Heisman winner Bryce Love who hopefully has recovered from his high ankle
injury and will be at 100 percent for the Alamo Bowl.
5. Stopped Marching Way Too Early—celebrating the
birth of noted American protest songwriter and singer Phil Ochs who campaigned
for civil rights and against the War in
Vietnam but hobbled by alcoholism and bipolar disease saw his career evaporate
and ended up hanging himself on April 9, 1976 in his sister house that he had
moved into. Here is a link to one of his classic songs “I Ain’t Marching
Anymore” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv1KEF8Uw2k
On this day
in:
a. 1777 the Continental Army near starvation and lacking all
manner of clothing goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge to be decimated by
hunger, disease and misery.
b. 1946 in what would ultimately lead to the U.S. disaster in
Vietnam, the First Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh, who we
should have backed as opposed to later backing a corrupt Diem, commenced.
c. 1984 the Joint Declaration providing for the return of Hong
Kong to China was signed by China and the United Kingdom.
d. 1998 Bill Clinton became the second president in this nation’s
history to be impeached but was acquitted by the Senate on straight party
lines.
e. 2016 at a Christmas market in Berlin next to the Kaiser
Wilhelm Church, a jihadist inspired by ISIS from Tunisia who was turned down as
an asylum seeker carjacked a large van and drove into a crowd of shoppers,
killing 12 and injuring 56 others before being shot to death several days later
in Milan, Italy.
Reflections on why a wife after 24 years
later in many cases never falls far from the husband’s tree especially if that
husband is a Clinton: “During
the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that
Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and
deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any
of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then
writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at
the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even
after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a
losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate
trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American
history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down)
by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare
to say that at least I saw it through.”―Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir Looking at her years
as Secretary of State and her quid pro quo for the Foundation and Bill’s
speaking fees and one gets an understanding why this corrupt tag team stayed together.
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