Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 13, 2019 The
illegal alien supporter queen Kamala Harris is finally getting flack albeit in
a backhand way as Biden attacks her for being dishonest for Medicare for all
and indirectly praise Sanders for being forthright on admitting that taxes will
be raised for the middle class to pay for it and private insurance will be
eliminated; as well needed ICE raids to sweep up illegals who already have
court orders deporting them, Biden is on the receiving end of protesters
against his roll in Obama era deportations; in a shocking display of our lack
of assimilation of recent illegal aliens and a wake-up call to those who
support secure border efforts by the CBP and ICE protestors at a Colorado alien
detention center took down an American flag, replaced it with a Mexican flag
and vandalized a Blue Lives Matter flag by spray-painting “Abolish ICE” and
hanging it upside down (signal for distress) in Washington State a man throwing
flares at an ICE detention facility was shot and killed; Tropical Storm Barry
has been downgraded from a Cat 1 Hurricane with winds of 75 mph to a Tropical
Storm with decreasing winds after crossing the Louisiana Coast and New Orleans
almost overflowing levees (but s; in a glaring admission of who you cannot
trust, insiders with rap star R. Kelley who was arrested on federal charges of
child pornography, enticement of a minor and obstruction of justice, have
supposedly released to federal authorities 20 tapes of the rapper having sex
with minors; with half of the oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico shut
down due to Barry, might not be a bad time to fill up before a spike in gas
prices; while Blues are totally MIA on border security and pushing open
borders, Mexico under threat of tariffs is applying force to secure its borders
(too bad we don’t have the ability to cut federal funding of districts headed
by Blues who support open borders); compliments of @CBP
twitter account and a new daily feature, the CBP announced the apprehension of
a Somali national wanted for homicide (what Blues despite all information to
the contrary fail to acknowledge is that the border is a dangerous wild, wild
west with all sorts of unsavory people trying to get in); in Chicago through
July 12, 2019, 1386 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of
color, 245 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 Three
Dog Night, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are a
philonoist, and a relevant quote from the New York Times
on the Civil War Draft in 1863 proving the existence of fake news even then, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. Gruntled
Workers Day—created by Tony and Ruth Roy of Well Cat
to celebrate those jobs that workers are
really happy to be at providing more than a ample paycheck but also job
satisfaction and a great work environment and co-workers.
2. Embrace
Your Geekness Day—created by Tony and Ruth Roy to
acknowledge that in this high tech computer age with computer science majors
fresh out of college earning 6 figure salaries being a geek is no longer looked
down upon.
3. 1970
Number One Song— the number one song in 1970 on a
run of 3 weeks in that position was “Mama Told Me (Not to Come) by Three
Dog Night. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkM7uWBjUrI The with new members is
continuing to tour.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “philonoist”
which means one who seeks knowledge which is a great habit or trait to have and
which many politicians lack.
5. Genes
Still Work In Three Generations—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1988 of TV Steven R. McQueen, the grandson of
Steven McQueen, who has not made it significantly into the silver screen like
his grandfather.
On
this day in:
a. 1863 anger
over conscription that enabled the rich to be exempted out on payment of $300
($6,098 in today’s dollars) erupted three days of riots and civil disorder the
largest in our history other than the Civil War with massive property damage
and injuries and 120 deaths and revealed the latent racism of Irish immigrants
against blacks.
b. 1956 at Dartmouth the first conference on
artificial intelligence was held.
c. 1973 in what would prove to be the beginning of the
end of the Nixon Presidency, Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of a
secret taping system in the Oval Office.
d. 1977 amidst a time of financial and social uncertainty
a massive blackout engulfed New York City for 23 hours and produced looting and
fires and unproven claims of a surge in births nine months later.
e. 2016 David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister and
was replaced by Theresa May.
Reflections on the conscription that promped the
NYC riots: “Conscription is a necessity; the conscription is a law; the
conscription is just. It is the justest mode of raising an army—just to the
people of every class and condition, poor and rich, lack and white. No class of
citizens is exempt form its operation-even poor clergymen, if drafted, being
compelled to shoulder their musket." The New York Times, July 15, 1863 Total example of fake news 156 years ago ignoring the fact the rich
could buy their way out for $300 and the rest of classes could not.
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in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and
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July 13, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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