Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For
January 25, 2019 A shooting spree starting in a bar near the Penn State campus
has resulted in the deaths of 4 people including the shooter; in a chilling moment
of prosecutorial over kill Roger Stone’s home in Florida was assaulted by a SWAT
team with guns drawn to be arrested in the early morning hours today to be
arrested on numerous counts of obstruction of justice and lying to
investigators (defiantly after being released on bail amidst heckling chants of
Lock Him Up” he slammed the political nature of the arrest and swore he will
not be a false witness against Trump which means he has indicated that Mueller
can take a hike in his quest to flip him); hit with a growing sick out at LaGuardia
and Newark International Airports of TSA and flight controllers, Trump signed a
bill to fund the government until February 15 but no funding for a wall to
allow both sides to negotiate funding of border security (Nancy and Chuck need
to get their act together an come to grips with the fact anyone with an IQ
higher than room temperature recognize the need for physical barriers as Trump
has thrown the gauntlet down that failing a compromise he will declare a
national emergency an move forward to build a wall); Pelosi is being rightfully
slammed for appointing Blue anti-Semite Muslim Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign
Affairs Committee despite her rabid anti-Semite views.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Eminem,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are
subject to obrophilous but wishing you would have the chance to use the
characteristic and a relevant quote from Vincent Bugliosi on murderers like
Manson, 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
Preschool Health and Fitness Day—promoting a healthy life style and physical fitness at an early
age during preschool to instill habits that will last a life time.
2. Macintosh Computer
Day—commemorating
the commercial introduction of Apple’s Macintosh computer, the first successful
computer with a mouse and graphic interface.
3. 2003 Number One Song— the number
one song on this day in 2003 on a run of 12 weeks in that position was “Lose
Yourself” by Eminem. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yhyp-_hX2s
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day as we move from words beginning with “n” to words beginning with
“o” is “ombrophilous” which means tolerant of large amounts of
rainfall which is what you have to be if you live in Southeastern Alaska or the
Olympic Rain Forest in Washington.
5. Matriarch of R&B—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1938 of Etta James, noted Grammy Award winning singer, who
battled drug addiction for a good part of her career and died from leukemia on
January 20, 2012.
On this day in:
a. 1971 Charles Manson, Susan
Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten were convicted of murder in
the Tate-Labianca murders and sentence to death later commuted to life in
prison where Manson and Atkins have died and where Krenwinkel and Van Houten
will be eligible for parole in 2022.
b. 1995 the Soviet Union almost
launched its ICBMs after it mistook a Norwegian 4 stage sounding rocket for a
missile launched by a Trident submarine; Russia’s nuclear football was
activated and delivered to President Boris Yeltsin who must not have been drinking
that day and elected not to retaliate.
c. 1996 after spending 16 years on
death row for killing two people, Billy Bailey had the dubious distinction of
becoming the last person in the U.S. to be executed by hanging.
d. 1998 Pope John Paul II made a
historic visit to Cuba demanding political reform and urging the release of political prisoners while
condemning the U.S. for its attempts to isolate the island.
e. 2011 the first wave of violent
demonstrations, riots, acts of civil disobedience and labor disruptions known
as the Egyptian Revolution began throughout Egypt due to increasing police
brutality and state of emergency laws which ended with the overthrow of
President Mubarak.
Reflections on hideous
murders like Manson: “Since we place so much value on human life, why do we
glorify, in a perverse sort of way, the extinguishment of life? The answer to
that question, whatever it is, is at least a partial answer to why people
continue to be fascinated by Hitler, Jack the Ripper—Manson.” ― Vincent
Bugliosi the district attorney who tried the case that won convictions in the
Tate Labianca murders and author of Helter
Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders He passed away on June 6, 2015
after successfully prosecuting 105 out of 106 felony trials including 21
murders. Please enjoy the
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2019, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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