Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 16, 2019 The House
in a contentious session is debating a resolution condemning Trump for his
tweets and comments on the Squad; like Ike who had written an address to be
delivered in the event of the failure of D-Day, President Nixon had a speech
written in the event that Apollo 11 launched on this day in 1969 landed on the
Moon but did not come back; AG Barr has made the decision not to prosecute the
NYPD officers involved in the choke hold death of Eric Gardner during an arrest
for selling untaxed cigarettes (hopefully the 5 year passage from his death
will still the riot potential passions); Steve Cortes the only token
conservative on the Cack No News slammed fellow CNNer Wajahat Ali for his
racist and disgusting attack on him indicating anyone who supports Trump is a
racist (only a question of time before advertisers pull the plug on this rating
disaster masquerading as a news network); Kellyanne Conway has come out
swinging against tired racist and xenophobic attacks against Trump as things if
she and her husband cannot compartmentalize emotions in the Conway household must
be somewhat frosty after her husband penned an OpEd that Trump was a racist to
the core; while the Blues are fixated on conditions facing illegals flooding
into this country, they are totally MIA on the issue of our own homeless with
L.A.’s skid row the epicenter of the problem with Garcetti in essence throwing
up his hands and saying this is a federal problem not L.A. (news flash Garcetti
the rest of the country does not look like L.A. and you are a failure, creating
major health hazards as large disease carrying rats roam and the sidewalks reek
of feces and urine and are carpeted with used hypodermic needles); in Chicago
through July 15, 2019, 1414 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly
people of color, 251 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 Billy
Preston, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you do not
have phonasthenia, and a relevant quote from General
Thomas Farrell on the atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. Holocaust
Rembrance Day (France)—commemorating the round up in Paris of
13,152 Jews on this day in 1942 and their transportation to Auschwitz for
extermination (a good place to be today for the Blues like the Squad who
compare the detention centers to concentration camps.
2. World
Snake Day—not sure of the origin or reason for
this holiday other than Indiana Jones and the birds on Guam would not be
celebrating and snakes have been in art and literature like the Bible for over
12,000 years and have a bad reputation of being poisonous which most are not.
3. 1973
Number One Song— the number one song in 1973 on a
run of 2 weeks in that position was “Will It Go Round In Circles” by Billy
Preston. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghj5V5cUo1s His world stopped going around
in circles on June 6m 2006 when he died of kidney failure.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phonasthenia”
which means a weakness of voice which blowhard politicians rarely exhibit.
5. Fast
Down the Runway—celebrating the birthday on this day in
1996 of noted model with over 100,000 Instagram followers, Alex Swift.
On
this day in:
a. 1769 Father
Junipero Serra founded the first mission in California, Mission San Diego de
Alacala whch grew to become the city of San Diego.
b. 1941 Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 consecutive
games a MLB record that still stands today.
c. 1945 just before the USS Indianapolis departed San Francisco to Tinian Island with “Fat
Boy” the United States successfully detonated an atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New
Mexico.
d. 1979 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigned
to be replaced by Saddam Hussein.
e. 1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn and her
sister Lauren Bisette were killed when a private plane piloted by Kennedy
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard.
Reflections
on the effect of the Trinity Test of the atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico:
“The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful,
stupendous and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had
ever occurred before.”General Thomas Farrell, Deputy to Gen. Leslie Groves,
head of the Manhattan Project.
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