Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 18, 2019 Tensions
continue to mount in the Persian Gulf a U.S. warship shooting down an Iranian
drone with hostile moves; giving credence to those who believe that Omar has
bitten the hand that fed her enough and should go back, Omar has introduced a
boycott Israel resolution and compared Israel
to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (for an iambic reply on Twitter https://twitter.com/Alaskanpoet/with_replies ); Harris who is in the lead in California is being
slammed by Sanders for her typical leftist ploy of deceiving taxpayers,
especially the middle class on the Medicare for all (Sanders campaigns on the
question of not what the cost will be to taxpayers but what will be cost if we
do not adopt Medicare for all?); California which is a Blue run state with
leaders like Newsome and Harris who wring their hands constantly over the
plight of illegal aliens and ignore the real plight of our homeless was the target
of a scathing attack on the inaction on the issue of homelessness by Dr. Drew
raising the question with rising levels of lack of sanitation and rats carrying
a plethora of deadly diseases of how many people have to die before officials
act? (are you listening Garcetti?); at the opening round at the British Open,
David Duval who won the tournament in 2001 proved he is not a triskaidaphobiac scoring
a 13 on one hole and ending the day with a 90 to face almost insurmountable
odds to make the cut; AOC who is too busy creating sound bites on treatment or
in her distorted view mistreatment of illegal aliens that she is out of touch
with the feelings and needs of voters in her district is claiming that people
would not be concerned over losing their private insurance to Medicare for all;
alleged noted child pervert Epstein has been denied bail due to concerns of
being a flight risk; in Chicago through July 17, 2019, 1430 people have been
shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 252 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 Captain
and Tennille, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are
free from phonus-balonus and a relevant quote from Nelson
Mandela on achieving freedom, secure
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1. International
Nelson Mandela Day—created by the UN on July 18, 2009 and
celebrated since 2010 on this day to celebrate on the anniversary of his
birthday his accomplishments toward social justice and ending apartheid.
2. World
Listening Day—created on this day in 2010 by the World
Listening Project to celebrate the idea that all talk and no listen is not a
rewarding place to be in and humans are better off when they study acoustic
ecology which is the relationship between humans and the natural world in
reference to sounds.
3. 1975
Number One Song— the number one song in 1975 on a
run of 4 weeks in that position was “Love Will Keep Us Together” by Captain
and Tennile. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o which was their first hit record.
The husband and wife duo remained married for 39 years until Tennille filed for
divorce in 2014. Tennille is still with us but the Captain died on January 2,
2019 with Tennille at his side.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phonus-balonus”
which means exaggerated trickery or nonsense which has a tendency to exist in
the halls of Congress.
5. For
Whom the Bell Tolls—celebrating the birthday on this day in
1980 of noted actress Kirsten Bell who has appeared in numerous films, is a lifelong
vegetarian and is married to a recovering alcoholic with over 14 years of
sobriety. The bell definitely tolls for her fans who are enamored with her
performances.
On
this day in:
a. 1968 Intel was founded in Mountain View,
CA.
b. 1969 after leaving a fundraiser in Chappaquiddick,
MA, Ted Kennedy crashed his car on a bridge and onto the tidal basin with Mary
Jo Kapachne, a female volunteer left in the car to drown while he supposedly
went for help.
c. 1984 at a MacDonald’s in San Ysidro, CA, Oliver
Huberty opened fire, killing 21 people and wounding 19 others before being shot
and killed by police.
d. 1992 a picture of the band Les Horribles Cernettes, a band was taken and posted as the first
photo posted on the World Wide Web:
e. 2013 the City of Detroit with 30 billion in debt
filed for the bankruptcy in the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S.
history.
Reflections on achieving freedom: “There is no
easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the
valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of
our desires.” Nelson Mandela. How right he was and how brave to endure the many
years of prison fighting for the end of apartheid in South Africa
Please
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in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and
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July 18, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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