Ridley’s Believe
It Or Not For July 6, 2018 The situation facing the trapped Thai soccer team in a water
filled cave has turned deadly as fears surface that oxygen levels in the cave
are dropping and a retired Thai naval diver died when he ran out of air leaving
the cave (Elon Musk has proposed inserting a 1 ½ mile tube through the water
that the boys could walk through to safety); the left in its all out war
against any nominee of Trump to replace Justice Kennedy is being blasted for
its attacks on Amy Barrett for her Catholic faith; in a blow to uphold academic
freedom the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered Marquette University to
reinstate a fired political science professor who had blogged against gay
marriage; on the fashion front Instagram model Nadine Bruna has lost 80 and 50 percent of her vision in her right and
left eye respectfully after undergoing silicon insertions to her eyes to change
her eye color in a procedure outlawed in the U.S.; another favorable jobs
report showing the addition of over 200,000 new jobs and an increase in the
labor participation rate; on the terrorism front Sholo Asahara and six of his
followers were hanged for a Sarin nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway attack in
2004; in Chicago through July 5, 2018, 1427 people mostly of color have been
shot by mostly people of color, of whom 221 have died (when will Chicago get
serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run
city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by
people of color?).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Black
Eyed Peas, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact if you are
not forced to listen to the mendaciloquence on the floors of Congress; a relevant
quote from Chris Boardman on the Tour de France, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college
graduations, 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. National Fried
Chicken Day—clueless as to why the observance is held on this day or when it
started but today is the day to get great bargains on fried chicken.
2. Comic Sans Day—commemorating the
release of the font by Microsoft in 1994.
3. 2009 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 2009 on a run of 14 weeks in that position was “I Gotta
Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “mendaciloquence” which means lying speech which describes to a tee
what you hear on the floors of Congress.
5. Father of Rock and Roll—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1925 of the Father of Rock and Roll Bill Haley whose band
was Haley and the Comets; sadly he was an alcoholic that could never stay sober
and died way too early on February 9, 1981.
On
this day in:
a. 1957 three years before they formed
the Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time as teenagers
at the Woolton Fete..
b. 1962 The Late, Late Show, the world’s longest chat show by the same
broadcaster aired for the first time on RTE 1 in Ireland..
c. 1986 Davis Phinney became the
first American to win a road stage in the Tour de France.
d. 1988 the Piper Alpha drilling rig
in the North Sea was destroyed by an explosion and fire, killing 169 of the 230
oil workers working aboard the rig, making the accident the largest off shore
oil disaster in history in terms of loss of life.
e. 1990 the Economic Frontier Foundation was
founded to protect online digital communications from government interference.
Reflections
on the Tour de France by someone who has competed in it: “There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical
and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as
pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day
after day. It’s the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut
halfway through.”–Chris Boardman,
former pro cyclist, multiple times holder of the Hour Record, one of
cycling’s most prestigious rewards.
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July 6, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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