Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 23, 2019 You have to hand it
to Rashida Tlaib for when it comes to big ideas on how to throw people into the
unemployment line she with her idea of a federal minimum wage of $20 she wins
the prize but when it comes to economics the Squad to a woman their ideas are
flawed; Di Blasio is rightfully being castigated for videos showing NTPD
officers being doused with yellow looking water from trash cans while trying to
make an arrest (when will this total wimp stop embarrassing himself and
Democrats and withdraw from the presidential Blue primary; the Blues have been
caught with their mantra “no one is above the law” pants down as people are coming
to the realization that illegals supported by Blues are above the law and
actively encouraged by Blues; you know
when an economy is hurting when its soldiers have to cross into China to
rummage for food as is the case being reported in the news coming out of
China’s border with North Korea; Brian Johnson a rabid pro Brexit supporter
will become the U.K.’s next Prime Minister replacing Theresa May; Julian Castro
whose campaign is going nowhere and who advocate decriminalizing illegal immigration
and while homeless crowd our sidewalks and parks sending billions to Central
America has alleged that Trump is the “biggest identity politician” in our
modern times (says a lot to diminish the claims of veracity given the identity
cards played in unison by the Blues); proving the adage that it takes one to
know one a recent study of tribal and village police forces in Alaskan villages
found that a majority of officers had been convicted of serious crimes like
assault and domestic violence; finally a bill that provides some common sense
solutions to the border crisis and the human trafficking that is occurring
there which should garner some bipartisan support has been introduced by a
Texas Red Congressman which mandates DNA testing of children and adults
appearing as a family unit seeking asylum (don’t hold your breath though in
anticipation of the ACLU filing suit that the procedure discriminates against
people who adopt children); Republicans
are honing their cross examination skills to question Mueller whose
investigation they will try to reveal was flawed conducted by lawyers with
severe anti-Trump prejudices and conflicts of interest (be careful what you
wished for Nadler and Company as Mueller’s testimony may blow up in their
faces); in Chicago through July 22, 2019 (another miracle no deaths ended with
1 out of 10 shot yesterday), 1489 people
have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 257 of whom have
died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa but
barely leading the 187 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 you are
free from phthartic pursuits and a relevant quote from Sam Shephard
on race riots and the 60’s, 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. World Sjögren's Day—commemorating since July 23, 2010, the discovery by Doctor
Henrik Sjögren in 1933 of an autoimmune disease that attacks moisture producing genes
primarily in the eyes and mouth creating dry eyes and dry mouth.
2. Gorgeous Grandma Day—created by 50 year old Wellesley Graduate Alice Solomon who took
her degree in 1984 and believed that society did not give enough credit to
older Americans for their accomplishments in their senior citizen status so she
added the term “Gorgeous” to Grandmother
to honor those grandmas who age gracefully and are as young as they want to be.
3. 1979 Number One Song— the number one song in 1979 on a run of 5 weeks in that
position was “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGKeyCywTY.
Her summer changed to winter on May 17, 2012 when she died at 63
of lung cancer believed by her to have been contracted by being near the 9/11 attacks
at the World Trade Center.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phtharctic” which means deadly or
destructive which describes to a tee the current effects of gridlock in the
Swamp on the issues we as a nation must address.
5. Bully Not As She Is Not A Victim—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1973 of a woman, Monica Lewinsky whose life as a young
intern was turned upside down by a powerful sexual predator, Bill Clinton, but
who has rallied to be a positive force against cyber bullying along with other
pursuits.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1885 a habit
of smoking too many cigars came home to roost and former President Ulysses S.
Grant died of throat cancer.
b. 1967 sparked by a police raid on an
unlicensed after hours drinking establishment on 12th Street in a
predominantly Afro-American neighborhood, a riot erupted in Detroit that lasted
for 5 days and resulted in massive looting, the calling out of the Michigan National Guard
and elements of the 101st and 83rd Airborne Divisions and
ended with 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests and more than 2,000 buildings
destroyed or heavily damaged.
c. 1992 a Vatican Commission led Joseph Ratzinger, a retired
prelate of the Catholic Church, came to the conclusion that limiting certain
rights of homosexuals and unmarried couples was not the equivalent of discrimination
based on race or gender.
d. 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation filed an antitrust law
suit against Intel which was settled by Intel buying the plaintiff’s chip
manufacturing operations for $700 million.
e. 1999 Eileen Collins became the first female Shuttle commander
when she piloted the Shuttle Columbia on
STS-93 which deployed the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Reflections on Detroit and other race riots in the 60’s: “People
talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People
were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like
everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn’t feel like flower
power. It felt like Armageddon.” Sam Sheppard, noted and prolific writer, author
and playwright and actor and director
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