Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 3,2017 The Senate Reds may not be dancing in the streets but in high SALT
states like California already there are protestors at least for now peacefully
in the streets urging their rare Reds in Congress to vote to defeat any bill
coming out of conference to defeat; the
ICBM that the North Koreans just launched that may be capable of hitting any
target in the United States evidently broke up on reentry but the threat of war
as McMasters reiterated again grows each day (sadly due to China and Russia not
realizing or refusing to believe that a nuclear armed North Korea is not in
their best interests and their corresponding refusal to get on board in closing
North Korea’s borders, the only military option to avoid a carnage in South
Korea may be a massive nuclear one on military targets, including wherever Kim may
be located—God help us); the MSM needs to take a deep debias breath and realize
that all of the anti-Trump rant including the meltdowns by Morning Joe Joe Scarborough that Trump is medically unstable and
suffering from dementia (where did this biased advocacy “journalist” receive
his advanced medical training) emboldens Kim in furthering his nuclear
ambitions; a new stench is emanating from the Swamp and it is coming from the
FBI as the senior aide FBI agent Peter Strzok dismissed by Mueller for his
anti-Trump texts participated in the interview with Hillary Clinton and may
have been a key person in the receipt of the false anti-Trump dossier funded by
the DNC and HRC Campaign that led to the investigation of the Russian collusion
delusion and led to the FISA warrants justifying intercepting communications of
Trump supporters and transition team members. The FBI has been stonewalling
efforts of the House to get to the bottom of this real obstruction of justice and
threat to our democracy by an institution most Americans thought we could trust
and may soon face contempt of Congress; the Pontiac Silverdome, home of the
Detroit Lions survived a demolition implosion blitz and is still standing; in
Atlanta the Georgia Dome, home of the Atlanta Falcons since 1992, was
successfully imploded to be replaced by the $1.6 billion Mercedes Benz Stadium
next door; the PAC-12 other that USC that was hoping for a long shot bid to the
Championship Playoffs are breathing easier in terms of recruiting next year as
Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Ohio State, all with higher rankings than USC
prevailed in their respective conference championship games; on the party
hearty to excess, front employees arriving to open up Cash’s Liquor Store in
Fort Walton Beach Florida found a female opossum lying drunk as an opossum skunk
and an empty broken bottle of bourbon; 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 1 increasing
to 3368 of whom 586 have died while nothing is being done to hinder
or prevent the killings of minorities by minorities.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Mills Brothers, factoids
of interest for this day in history, being pleased with your largition
during the Christmas season, a relevant quote by Teri Garr on MS, 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. International Day For Persons With Disabilities—created by the UN
in 1992 to promote understanding of the issues faced by persons who may be physically,
mentally or emotionally challenged and to create awareness of the benefits to
society in their integration with it.
2. National Hug Day—a hug for someone in grief or troubled by what may seem to be insurmountable
issues is the welcome wonder drug without side effects other than perhaps its
addictive qualities of both hugger and huggee to welcome another.
3. 1943 Number One Song— the number one song in 1943 on a run of 12 weeks in that
position was “PAPER Dolls” by the Mills Brothers. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42mQhMAg-7s
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “largition” which is a word
perfect to describe one’s hopeful qualities during the Christmas season as it
means an act of generosity.
5. Keep It Simple--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1930 of noted French director and screen writer Jean-Luc
Godard whose movies enjoyed great commercial success until in the 70’s and 80’s
ala Michael Moore his movies became too ideological and convoluted for fans to
understand which is ironic since he is often known for his observation that “all
you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
On this day
in:
a. 1800 the Electoral College vote ended up in a tie between Thomas
Jefferson running for president and Aaron Burr who was running for vice president
due the fact that one elector who was to have abstained from casting a vote for
Aaron Burr failed to do so, sending the election into the House of
Representatives who on the 36th ballot elected Thomas Jefferson
which doomed Hamilton to an early death but spared the nation of perhaps having
his murderer in a duel, Aaron Burr as president.
b. 1910 to the future joy of visitors to Las Vegas and its icon
Strip, modern neon lighting was demonstrated by George Claude at the Paris Auto
Show.
c. 1971 Pakistan launched preemptive air strikes against India who
invaded East Pakistan in support of the Bengali Independence Movement calling
for independence from Pakistan. The war ended with Pakistani surrender on
December 17, 1971, over 300,000 civilians killed and the creation of a new
independent nation, Bangladesh (now that both Pakistan and India are nuclear
powers frightening to imagine what would happened in another war broke out in
that region).
d. 1982 a soil sample taken in Times Beach, Missouri revealed concentration
levels of dioxin of 300 times more than the legal limit from years of spraying
the towns roads with waste oil contaminated with the deadly chemical, an
environmental disaster of the worst magnitude.
e. 1992 in a moment that parents would come to regret as the
beginning of the end of conversation with their children by phone, Neil
Papworth sent a text message to a colleague at Vodafone saying “Merry
Christmas.”
Reflections on perceptions of disability: “When
you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't
walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing
for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in
life and are bitter.” Teri Garr, noted now retired actress who copes with MS
and is a National Ambassador for the Multiple Scelerosis Society. Please
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