Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 12, 2018 Nancy Pelosi is
being rightfully ridiculed for lampooning the five white guys Blue and Red
trying to forge a compromise on DACA by speculating they are going to open up a
hamburger stand (Five Guys?) and worse as someone who has never been dependent
on a paycheck to paycheck basis dismissed the millions of dollars of bonuses
and wage increases from a growing list of 130 companies so granting as a result
of the Armageddon tax cut as mere crumbs; Trump is in hot water for allegedly blasting
the idea of immigration from s*-hole countries like El Salvador and Haiti
(wonder in the PC world we live in how many lefties and MSM will be taking
their families to vacation in such garden spots—suspect it will be 0); in a
classic example of how out of touch celebrities are with the American people,
Bella Thorne was in a Twitter snit fit that she missed her boyfriend’s concert
because of road closures in Santa Barbara as a result of deadly mud slides
(nothing like compassion for the 17 who died or the numerous homes devastated);
Texas Tech students and fans at sporting events salute other fans with a finger
salute which at a airport when one student seeing a man wearing a Texas Tech
sweatshirt gave only to be pulled out of line by TSA; on the
sports front Pepsi will unveil a remake of its iconic Pepsi ad with Cindy
Crawford during Super Bowl on February 4; 2018 in Chicago is off to another
bloody start in terms of shootings and killings through the 10th of
January with 71 shot, 16 of whom have died while the mayor and his
administration remain MIA in terms of addressing the problems faced by
residents of color in that city.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music
link to the George Harrison, factoids of interest for this day in history,
the fact that the economy has been freed of the lethiferous tendencies of the
previous administration and a relevant quote by George Bezos. Everett Koop on
death and smoking, 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
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1. National Pharmacists Day—commemorating the contribution to our health system of
pharmacists especially those who are on the lookout for overprescriptions of
opioids that too many doctors seem to be addicted to.
2. Feast of the Fabulous Wild Men Day—commemorating on a day when observances of note are few and far between all those weight lifters and athletes that treat their bodies like temples of worship.
2. Feast of the Fabulous Wild Men Day—commemorating on a day when observances of note are few and far between all those weight lifters and athletes that treat their bodies like temples of worship.
3. 1971 Number One Song— the number one song in 1971 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “My
Sweet Lord” by George Harrison. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9wms6oEMo
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lethiferous” which means causing
death which when it comes to economic growth describes what we have experienced
under the high taxed over regulated economy of the Obama years.
5. Up the Economic River with a Lot of Paddles--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1964 of one of Princeton’s more successful alums, George
Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of the liberal anti-Trump leaning Washington Post who is now reputed to be
the richest man in the world.
On this day
in:
a. 1971 federal prosecutors indicted the Harrisburg Seven led by
Catholic anti-war protestor Father Berrigan for plotting to kidnap Henry
Kissinger and blow up tunnels underneath government buildings in the Swamp; after
a trial in which the defense called no witnesses and 60 hours jury
deliberation, the judge declared a mistrial and the defendants were not retried.
The case was perhaps one of the first in which scientific jury selection based
on demographic info was used to pick a jury most favorable to the defense.
b. 1991 the Congress authorized the use of military force to
drive Iraq out of Kuwait which it did in 100 hours after crossing the border
into Kuwait.
c. 1998 19 European countries agreed to forbid human cloning.
d. 2006 a stampede occurred at the Stoning of the Dead on the
last day of the hajj held in Mina, Saudi Arabia, resulting in the death of 362
Muslim pilgrims.
e. 2016 in another example of how to ruin a tourist economy, an
ISIS suicide bomber punched his one way ticket to “Paradise” by detonating his
bomb that killed ten foreign tourists and wounded fifteen others near the Blue
Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.
Reflections on the future of the Washington Post: “We will need to
invent, which means we will need to experiment. Our touchstone will be readers,
understanding what they care about—government, local leaders, restaurant
openings, scout troops, businesses, charities, governors, sports—and working
backwards from there. I'm excited and optimistic about the opportunity for
invention.” Jeff Bezos
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