Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 25, 2018 The circus
over Kavanaugh continues amid doubts that Ms. Ford will appear on Thursday
(innocent until proven guilty totally tossed out the window by Blue Senators);
Ms. Ford is complaining big time that her questioner will be a female attorney
skilled in sexual abuse cases; Bill Cosby has been sentenced to 3 to 10 years
and was led away in handcuffs; President Trump spoke to the United Nations
today announcing the days of ripping off the United States are over; Dunkin’
Donuts has changed its name and will be known only as Dunkin’; Weight Watchers
is also in the name game change, changing its name to WW to emphasize its focus
on wellness as opposed to just weight loss; Maxine Waters call to get into the
faces of Red office holders has just claimed another victim, Ted Cruz and his
wife were hounded out of a Swamp restaurant (when will the idiots on the left
understand that they are continuing to blow the dog whistles of calls to
violence and sooner than later someone is going to get killed or severely
injured); on the Islamic intolerance front police in the Maldives have
destroyed and underwater art gallery that the president of the country has
declared to be an insult to Islam (good place to avoid for a honeymoon trip);
Beto O’Rourke has received 4 Pinocchio’s for denying he tried to flee the scene
of a DUI accident in 1998 in El Paso, Texas; in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he
will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September
24, 2018, 2276 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist
Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday
while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 366
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).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Mariah
Carey, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are
not in need of narcology and a relevant quote from Dwight Eisenhower on
Montgomery’s plan to end the war in Europe, 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
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1. International Ataxia Awareness Day—creating awareness for a disease that attacks the ability to
coordinate muscle movement.
2. National Voter Registration Day—celebrating
since 2012 the need for all citizens to register in order to be able to vote
and then actually vote on Election Day.
3. 1993 Number One Song— the number one song in 1993 on
a run of 8 weeks in that position was “Dreamlover” by Mariah Carey. Here
is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBtS6BIP1E
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move
from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n” is “narcology” which means the study of and treatment
of narcotic abuse, a skill desperately needed given our opioid epidemic that is
running rampant in this land.
5. Melrose Place Fall from Grace—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1961 of note TV actress Heather Locklear who has
fallen on hard times and once again is in rehab.
On this
day in:
a. 1890
Congress in a victory for redwoods established Sequoia National Park. b. 1944
surviving elements of the British First Airborne Division successfully evacuated
Arnhem, Holland bringing Operation Market Garden to its disastrous end.
c. 1956
TAT-1 the first transatlantic telephone cable went into operation.
d. 1974
Doctor Frank Jobe performed the first ulnar ligament replacement surgery on L.A.
Dodger pitcher Tommy John who was able to return to the mound to win 168 more
games of his career 288 wins.
e. 1977
about 4,200 took part in the first Chicago Marathon 2007 with American Dan
Cloeter winning the men’s race and American Dorothy Doolittle winning the women’s
race.
Reflections by Eisenhower on Montgomery’s single
thrust concept for winning the war that led to Operation Market Garden: “What
you're proposing is this – if I give you all the supplies you want, you could
go straight to Berlin – right straight (500 miles) to Berlin? Monty, you're
nuts. You can't do it. What the hell[?] … If you try a long column like that in
a single thrust you'd have to throw off division after division to protect your
flanks from attack.” Ike was right and
the supplies to Operation Market Garden would have been put to better use if
given to Patton.
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