Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 24, 2019 Fireworks at
Mueller’s two sessions of testimony somewhat blunted by his refusal to answer
many questions concerning what the investigation did or did not investigate
with one bombshell in the second hearing where he clarified that he did not
indict Trump for obstruction of justice not because he was a sitting president
as stated to Rep Lieu but because he did not find the evidence to charge (Lieu
has gone from popping the corks to total depression and Schiff must have jumped
off the cliff into the sewer where his false accusations on Trump belong); one
can get a feeling of how bad Mueller’s testimony was for Blues hot to impeach
when Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe, a rabid anti-Trumpster who has
compared Trump to Hitler, called the hearing a “disaster” for Blues wanting to
impeach the president; in the game of Judicial Whapo after a federal judge in
Washington, D.C. has upheld Trump’s new amnesty rules, a federal judge
appointed by Obama in the 9th Circuit has issued an injunction
against the rules; every time Omar opens her mouth she proves that Trump’s
condemnation of her has nothing to do with the color of her skin or her religion
rather it is her ideas, the most recent being that police should profile white
men and not suspected jihadist terrorists and we should fear not jihadists but
white men (can investigate fraud in her asylum application and citizenship
application but the easiest thing to do with this rabid anti-American is to
send her home wherever that is in or out of her district in 2020); Wyoming
Valley West School District in Pennsylvania is a poor district but needs to
find the money to fire Joseph Mazur as president for two strikes, one sending a
letter to parents that if they didn’t pay up their $20,000 lunch money accounts
and secondly turning down the offer of a good Samaritan Todd Carmichael to
discharge the account (a heartless total idiot that should be fired); we have
been offended by videos of young Muslim children being taught to fire AK-47s
and now we are exposed to the Brown Berets in East Chicago organizing a
community day in which the featured entertainment was a piñata resembling an
ICE agent that children were able and encouraged to hit with baseball bats
(nothing like teaching hate at an early age); with literally the entire
population of Puerto Rico in the streets demanding his resignation, sources
indicate Blue Governor Ricardo Rossello will resign shortly; in another case of
proving her time has come and gone, Bette Midler is ranting that Trump is
paying to have blacks attend his rallies (given what has happened to black
wages and unemployment they should be coming out in droves to express their
gratitude); in a sad commentary on the times, the Bushland School District is
beginning drug testing for students as young as 12 who want to participate in
extracurricular activities (if positive results are shared with parents and
police watch for a lot of empty spaces in the school band); in Chicago through
July 23, 2019, 1497 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of
color, 258 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape
Town, South Africa but barely leading the 189 murdered in Baltimore (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 the Donna
Summer, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact we have a
chance to be more phylactic when it comes to gridlock in the Swamp and
relevant quotes from Khrushchev and Nixon during their kitchen debates secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like
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1. Thermal Engineer Day—commemorating since July 24, 2014 the work of thermal engineers
in controlling and combating the heat built up in electronic devices to insure
accuracy, reliability and longevity.
2. Pioneer Day (Utah)—commemorating the reaching of the Salt Lake Valley by Brigham Young
and a band of Mormon settlers fleeing persecution on this day in 1847.
3. 1980 Number One Song— the number one song in 1980 on a run of 2 weeks in that
position was “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” by Billy Joel. Here is
a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAQa4MOGkE.
The Piano Man is still strongly pounding
the keys with rhythm and going strong still in his 4th marriage.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phylactic” which means defending
against disease when it comes to partisanship that is crippling our democracy.
5. Pin Me Anytime—celebrating the birth on this day in 1975 of Torrie Wilson, noted female wrestler, actress, model, and
blogger, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019 and while wrestling
represented the perfect union of beauty and grace coupled with wrestling moves
and technique.
On
this day in:
a. 1959 in
Moscow at the American Culture Exhibit Vice President Nixon and Premier Khrushchev
had for impromptu debates on the merits of capitalism versus communism and
whether communism would surpass the economic activity (which it despite the
drags of Obama and the proposed drags of Sanders and Warren has not).
b. 1969 after successfully landing on the Moon
and taking off to rendezvous with the Apollo 11 spacecraft, Apollo successfully
splashed down in the Pacific to be recovered by the U.S. Navy.
c. 1974 near certainty of the end of the Nixon Presidency, SCOTUS
held that the president did not have the authority to withhold the tapes subpoenaed
and ordered him to turn over the tapes to the special prosecutor.
d. 1980 with the United States boycotting the 1980 Moscow Summer
Olympics due to the Soviet’s invasion of Afghanistan, the Australians captured
the 4X100 meter individual medley relay, the only time the U.S. has not won the
event.
e. 1987 in an you’re only as old as you think you are moment,
Hulda Crooks at age 91 climbed Mt. Fuji, becoming the oldest person to climb
Japan’s highest peak. She continued to climb and be physically active until
death claimed Grandma Whitney at age 101.
Quotes
from the Kitchen Debate: Nixon: “This house can be bought for $14,000, and most American
[veterans from World War II] can buy a home in the bracket of $10,000 to
$15,000. Let me give you an example that you can appreciate. Our steel workers
as you know, are now on strike. But any steel worker could buy this house. They
earn $3 an hour. This house costs about $100 a month to buy on a contract
running 25 to 30 years.”
Khrushchev:
“We have steel workers and peasants who can afford to spend $14,000 for a
house. Your American houses are built to last only 20 years so builders could
sell new houses at the end. We build firmly. We build for our children and
grandchildren.”
Khrushchev:
“The Americans have created their own image of the Soviet man. But he is not as
you think. You think the Russian people will be dumbfounded to see these
things, but the fact is that newly built Russian houses have all this equipment
right now.”
Nixon:
“Yes, but...”
Khrushchev:
“In Russia, all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the Soviet
Union. You are entitled to housing...In America, if you don’t have a dollar you
have a right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you
say we are the slave to Communism.”
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