Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For August 1, 2018 the trial of Pual Manafort is
entering its second day and Meuller’s team has already been chastised for
attacking Manafort’s life style and banned from using the term oligarch in
describing his Ukrainian contacts; Trump is again slamming the continuation of
the Russian “probe” aka witch-hunt; the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
has overturned Trump’s executive order banning federal funding to sanctuary
cities and San Diego has voted to defy California’s sanctuary state law (what
an absolute crock of cities defying detainer requests and then releasing
criminal illegal aliens back into the general population); Obama may have been
the worst president to sit in the Oval Office but his political instincts were
excellent as in endorsing candidates he omitted endorsing Ocasio-Cortez, an
avowed socialist; Maxine Waters is in hot water with the FEC with her practice
of soliciting contributions from Blue candidates to appear on her sample ballot
the cost of mailing and preparing of which are funneled to her daughter Karen
Waters (in addition to being infected with fatal Trump derangement syndrome,
this woman has the ethics of a snake); Wells Fargo has been hit with a $2
billion fine for selling mortgages to investors that contained incorrect credit
information of the borrowers; in another example of Trump Derangement Syndrome
run amok Chloe Wright was arrested for hit and run for driving into a motorist
whose car sported a Trump bumper sticker;
through July 31, 2018, 1713 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly
people of color, of whom 277 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 and
when will Rahm Emanuel resign?).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Vera Lynn, factoids
of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are not facing
moilsome in completing your tasks; a relevant quote from Charles Whitman on his
state of mind, 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 Astronomers Day—celebrating the birth of Maria
Mitchell on this day in 1918 who became the first women to become a
professional astronomer, first woman to become a professor of astronomy and
first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2. National Minority Donor Awareness Day—created in 1996 to create awareness in minority communities of
the need to donate organs as 50 % of the people on organ waiting lists are
minorities.
3. 1952 Number One Song— the number one song in 1952 on
a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Auf Weiderseh'n Sweetheart” by Vera Lynn. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsuLH4sulA
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “moilsome”
which means laboriously which describes the process to get anything done in the
Swamp.
5. HeLa Cells Save Lives—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1920 of Henrietta Lacks who died of cervical cancer in
1951 but without her knowledge her cells were harvested from her that exhibited
a unique trait of survival after being harvested and were multiplied and cloned
and used extensively in medical research including by Salk in developing a vaccine
for polio.
On
this day in:
a. 1893 Henry
Perky patented shredded wheat.
b. 1966
after killing his wife and mother, Charles Whitman from the Texas Bell Tower at
the University of Texas shot and killed 14 people and wounded 32 before being
shot and killed by police.
c. 1981
MTV began broadcasting with its first video “Video Killed the Radio Star” by
the Buggles.
d. 1993
the Great Missouri and Mississippi Flood of 1993 peaked leaving 32 people dead
and resulting in over $13 billion in damages.
e. 2007
the I-35 W bridge over the Mississippi River at Minneapolis collapsed during
rush hour killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
Reflections on why
some people should be barred from owning guns from the worlds of Charles
Whitman: “I do not really understand myself these days. I am supposed to be an
average reasonable and intelligent young man. However, lately (I cannot recall
when it started) I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts.”
Charles Whitman.
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