Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For August 11, 2018 In a
shades of Malaysia Flight 370 déjà vu, a suicidal employee of Horizon Airlines
took off in an unauthorized take off from Sea Tac in a Horizon Airlines
passenger plane and crashed it into Kelton Island in Puget Sound fortunately
with no passengers aboard other than the pilot; the Eskimo on the tail of
Alaska Airlines must be crying in shame for moving a gay couple so a straight
couple could sit together on a JFK to LA flight; Unite the Right supporters planning
to march on Washington may find it difficult to get there as Uber and Lyft have
advised drivers of their rights to withhold service, Twitter is blocking
accounts and restaurants are planning to withhold service; Andrew McCabe who is
suing the DOJ for wrongful termination and defamation (good luck on that
perversion of justice) has incurred the twitter wrath of Trump who is
threatening to get involved in Judicial Watch’s law suit to obtain McCabe
emails relating to contributions to his wife’s failed state senate bid; Kylie Jenner’s
21st birthday party was shut down by the police as Australian super
model Tammy Hebrow was wheeled out on a stretcher; Judicial Watch has sued the
DOJ to turn over communications among Steele, Ohr and Fusion GPS to shed light
on how the false anti-Trump dossier paid for by the DNC and HRC provided the
basis for the witch-hunt that has cursed this presidency; on the fire front in
California the number of wild fires has risen to 20 and the Mendocino Complex
fire has risen to over 500 square miles but is now 70 percent contained; in
Chicago while Rahm Emanuel continues to imitate Nero playing the fiddle through August
10, 2018 1868 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color,
of whom 305 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 mostly people of color by mostly people of color and
when will Emanuel who has been MIA resign or be voted out of office?)
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Bobby
Lewis, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact
that you are not in a morient mode today, and a relevant quote from Steve
Wozniak on the Apple I and Apple II, 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. Annual Medical Checkup Day—promoting the use of annual medical checkups
to detect diseases in their infancy to boost one’s chance of survival.
2. National Bowling Day—created in 1956 to promote the sport
of bowling which given the heat being inside an air conditioned bowling alley
is the place to be.
3. 1961 Number One Song— the number one song in 1961 on
a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Tossin’ and Turnin’” by Bobby Lewis. Here
is a recording of the song by a singer who is still tossin’ and turnin’ at 93: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghFBvBmXv4E
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “morient”
which means dying which describes the state of civility in our political
discourse to a tee.
5. The Apple of His Eye—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1950 of Steve Wozniak the co-founder of Apple who
probably is a very happy man that Apple now has a trillion dollar market cap.
On
this day in:
a. 1942
actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for a
frequency spread spectrum hopping communications system which later became the
basis of modern technologies in cell phones and Wi-Fi (and you thought Ms.
Lamarr was just another pretty face but unskilled in picking and divorcing 6 husbands).
b. 1965
race riots began in Los Angeles (the Watts Riots) and would not end until 5
days later after 34 deaths, $40 million in property damage, 1032 injured and
3,438 arrests.
c. 1972
the last U.S. ground combat unit departed from South Vietnam after losing over
58,000 soldiers.
d. 1984 President Ronald Reagan joked into an open
mike while preparing for his weekly radio address “We begin bombing in five
minutes,” to the dismay of the Soviet Union.
e. 2003
NATO took over peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan, its first operation
outside of Europe in its 54 year history.
Reflections on designing Apple I and Apple
II:” Steve Jobs didn't really set the
direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part
of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.”
Steve Wozniak
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