Ridley’s Believe
It Or Not For July 7, 2018 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in North Korea in discussions
with Kim Jong Un over North Korea’s commitment to denuclearize amid growing
fears that the Hermit Kingdom is backing away from its commitment to
denuclearize; speculation that Trump has selected Amy Barrett as his choice to
succeed Justice Kennedy as Orin Hatch in writing an Op-Ed used a female pronoun
to describe an anticipated leftist meltdown against her; in another glaring
example of the severity of the opioid crisis that is plaguing the nation,
researchers have found in mussels at 18 residential locations in Puget Sound trace
amounts of opioids (another reason to build a wall to assist in the stopping
the flow of drugs); in another example of intolerance and divisiveness that is
plaguing our nation, a Florida homeowner was assaulted by an outraged
anti-Trumpster for displaying a pro Trump flag on his front lawn; on the Thai
soccer team rescue front, the area near the cave is being pelted with monsoon
rains; in Tennessee a white female property manager is out of a job for calling
police on a man wearing socks on the 4th of July in an apartment
complex pool, recorded on cell phone video which went viral; thousands of
protestors were marching in Chicago against the gun violence that has plagued
the city while its Mayor has been MIA on the issue; on the bovine versus human
front one person was gored and three trampled on the first running of the bulls
of the year in Pamplona, Spain; Wal-Mart has pulled its “Impeach 45” clothing
line from its website after conservatives started a boycott Wal-Mart movement;
Mark Zuckerburg has replaced Warren Buffet as the third richest man on the
planet; in Chicago through July 6, 2018, 1435 people mostly of color have been
shot by mostly people of color, of whom 223 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 Katy
Perry feat. Snoop Dogg, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact
if you will not be forced to listen to the mendacity emanating from the Swamp;
a relevant quote from Dallas Chief of Police David Brown on the shooting death
of five officers in 2005, 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. World Chocolate Day—celebrating since
2009 that candy that most chocoholics cannot live without.
2. International
Cherry Pit Spitting Day—commemorating 45 years of this event at the Tree-Medus Farm in
Eau Claire, Michigan, a contest dominated by Paul Krause who has won the
contest 17 times and defended his title in 2017 with a pit spit of 57’ 11”.
3. 2010 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 2010 on a run of 6 weeks in that position was “Gurls” by
Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F57P9C4SAW4
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “mendacity” which means insincerity or inclination to tell
falsehoods which sadly describes most of our Swamp denizens to a tee.
5. A Starr Is Born—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1940 of Richard Starkey better known to his fans as Ringo
Starr, drummer of the Beatles who has successfully battled alcoholism with his
second wife Barbara Bach.
On
this day in:
a. 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower
signed into law the Alaska Statehood Act.
b. 1981 President Reagan appointed
Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first female Justice of SCOTUS.
c. 1992 the New York Court of
Appeals ruled that women had the same right as men to go topless in public.
d. 2005 four Islamist suicide bomber
detonated four bombs, three of which exploded in the London Underground and the
fourth on a London double decker bus, killing 52 and wounding more that 700
people.
e. 2016 former Army vet Micah Johnson shot 12
Dallas Police officers, killing 5 of them before he was killed by a bomb delivered by a robot.
Reflections
on Dallas shooting of 12 police officers, 5 of whom were killed. “There’s no
greater love than this. rthe Tour de France by someone who has competed in it: “There simply is nothing else like it. That these five men gave
their lives for all of us.” Dallas Chief of Police David Brown at the memorial
service for the five slain officers.
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