Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For July 11, 2019 The Progressive gang of Four of House Blues have tossed
Reagan’s 11th Commandment into the ditch and are at Pelosi’s throat,
tossing the race card against her (bad move Progressives as Pelosi is a tyrant
and as soon as she quits ranting over the need to fire Acosta for his Epstein
plea bargain fiasco, look for heads among the four to roll); police chief
in Prince George County not to arrest
any illegals they encounter with outstanding federal warrants; Buttigieg continues
to when he opens his mouth prove he is clueless on what it takes to run the
country, claiming that ICE’s raids targeting a miniscule 2,000 illegals who
have already been ordered deported will make us less safe (at least The View partially redeemed itself by
slamming him for his performance at the town hall meeting in South Bend
following a police shooting of a black); after the recent arrest of Epstein,
the public, as a result of search warrants executed against Epstein and his
properties including his home in Manhattan, has been treated to a view of a
real pervert when it comes to underage girls; Cape Town is making Chicago look
like a Sunday School picnic destination spot with over 1600 murders, mainly
gang related in 2019; in the nanny wars, the nanny state has been given new
weapons with a new study that finds drinking too many sugary drinks will cause
cancer (Blumberg must be having a snit fit the study had not been completed
earlier for his soda wars in NYC); in Chicago through
July 9, 2019, 1356 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of
color, 240 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape
Town, South Africa (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 Herb
Albert, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are
truly philodemic, and a relevant quote from Astronaut
Gerald Garr on Skylab, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like Father’s Day, 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 Free Slurpee Day—celebrated
since 2002 the year of the 75th anniversary of the 7-11 Corporation
by from the hours of 11 A.M. to 7 P.M. each customer at a 7-11 store will
receive a free 12 ounce slurpee.
2. World Population Day—created by the UN in
1987 to focus on global population issues as the population of the Earth was
approaching 5 billion people and growing at some 100 million every 14 or so
months and is estimated today to stand at 7.58 billion people.
3. 1968 Number One Song— the number one
song in 1968 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “This Boy’s In Love
With You” by Herb Albert. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ByJ1C0iR4
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “philodemic” which means a lover of the lower classes or the common
people a virtue which the Blues profess to have but usually fail to deliver.
5. Business
As An Altar—celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1956 of Dutch born business Paul Prolman, a senior
executive with Proctor &Gamble and Nestle and CEO of Unilever and as of
2019 one of three founders of Imagine, a business devoted to business halting
the growth of poverty and spread of climate change, goals he would have pursued
if he had followed his dream of becoming a priest.
On this
day in: .
a. 1798 to the joy of
future citizens seeking refuge in a hostile world, the U.S. Marine Corps was reestablished
after being disbanded in 1783 following the end of the American Revolutionary
War.
b. 1922 to the love of
future music lovers, the Hollywood Bowl was opened.
c. 1962 the first
transatlantic satellite transmission occurred as our globe became a much
smaller place.
d. 1977 Martin Luther King, Jr. was posthumously
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
e. 1979 Skylab,
America’s first station launched almost 6 years prior reentered the Earth’s
atmosphere and was destroyed.
Reflections
on Sklab and its pioneering work: "I think the greatest achievement is
that we pretty much proved that the human body can stay weightless for a very
long time. This was our first opportunity to go up and settle in. I don't see
any reason we couldn't go to Mars without artificial gravity." Gerald
Carr, astronaut on Skylab’s first
mission.
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