Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For
August 25, 2019 Don Quixote lives and has resurfaced in the form of former Red
Congressman Joe Walsh who has announced he will run in the Republican primary
against Donald Trump (if the courts uphold the inane Newsom back law in
California of barring anyone from the ballot who does not file tax return
copies even then with write-ins Trump would beat him as the only person on the
ballot); on the sports front good news in that Louisiana beat Curacao, the reigning
international champions, 8-0 in the Little League World Series; America met the
sacrifices of WWII and the Cold War and should also meet the sacrifices of a
trade and intellectual property war with China regardless of costs borne in the
short term ignoring the calls of the left to throw in the towel and accept
domination by the Chinese); a legal Iranian immigrant with an empty pocket and
rose to become a wealthy real estate investor was killed by a lawyer who
claimed his Mercedes had been hit by a golf ball was hit by the Mercedes and
killed resulting in the lawyer being charged with murder (hate crime?);
Manhattan may be astronomical in terms of real estate prices but 60 miles north
just across the border from Fairfield, Connecticut $850,000 buys you a private island on Putnam
Lake with an almost 2,000 square foot house and solar powered boat (non
believers in climate change only should apply); Sanders Election co-chair
stated that the Gaffer in Chief regretted his comment on Obama’s assassination
and claimed its now a three person race with Biden and Warren also in the race
(a race with three losers out of touch or out of fitness for the job); on the
academic freedom front Duke Psychiatry Professor Alan Frances has proved that
to teach the subject to know psychosis you have to be one or at least partially
by claiming Trump is just like Hitler, Stalin and Mao and whose policies have
killed millions (Huh? If an alumni you might want to consider holding up on
your donation or at least converting it to a donation to the athletic department
for men’s and women’s basketball tickets; on the sports front Andrew Luck has
run out of luck and due to injuries has elected to retire; at least one good
thing will come out of the G-7 Meeting as the participants have pledged to aid
Brazil in fighting the disastrous Amazon wildfires along with the 60,000 troops
Brazil has belatedly called out; on the porous, open and dangerous border front
suggest all should follow @CBPArizona on
Twitter for updates on apprehensions and support for the idea of completing the
wall; in Chicago through August 24, 2019, 1815 have been shot of whom 303 have
died and in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, 220 have been 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 Alicia
Keys, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are
not hounded by pleniloquence and a
relevant quote from Joseph L. Sax on National Parks, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
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1. National
Park Services Founders Day—commemorating the signing into law
by President Wilson the Organic Act calling for the newly created National Park
Service to identify and create national parks worthy of protection from
development so they can be enjoyed by future generations.
2. Sacrifice
Our Wants for Other Persons Needs Sunday—created by Lorraine Jara
and celebrated on the last Sunday in August by reaching out to help people with
physical, emotional or mental needs with acts of help to make their lives easier.
3. 2001
Number One Song— the number one song in 2001 on a run of 3 weeks in that
position was “Fallin” by Alicia Keys. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urdlvw0SSEc
This noted singer, songwriter and classical pianist
is on a roll.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pleniloquence” which means excessive
talking a trait one of my ex-wives possessed to my discomfort and those around
her.
5. Shaken Not Stirred—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1930 of noted and knighted actor Sean Connery who
starred in the first 7 James Bond movies and went on to have a long storied
film carer until retiring from acting and producing in 2007 and enjoying the
retired life today.
On this day in:
a.
1939 an ill-prepared for war Britain and humiliated by its appeasement at Munich
signed a treaty with Poland to defend Polond itf it were invaded which it was
by Germany 7 days later and WWII was off to the races.
b.
1950 2 months into the invasion by North Korea of South Korea and fearful of
disruption of our Korean War effort, President Truman seized the nation’s
railroads to prevent a strike.
c. 1967 George
Lincoln Rockwell, the founder and head
of the American Nazi Party, was assassinated by a former member of his own
party he had expelled who was caught, tried, convicted and sentenced to 20
years but paroled after 8 and serving 6 years after for a parole violation.
d. 1997 Egon
Krenz the last leader of East Germany before its reunion with West Germany was
convicted of his “shoot to kill” order against people trying to escape Berlin
and served 4 years of his 6 year sentence before released on parole.
e. 2017 Hurricane
Harvey a Class 4 Hurricane and one that lingered for days made landfall in
Texas causing massive flooding, 106 deaths and $125 billion in damages.
Reflections
on access to our National Parks: “It is impossible to provide unlimited
visitation and the essential qualities of an unconventional, non-urban
experience simultaneously. Here too a compromise is called for: a willingness
to trade quantity for quality of experience. There is nothing undemocratic or
even unusual in such a trade. The notion that commitment to democratic
principles compels the assumption of scarcity is one of the familiar
misconceptions of our time. We need a willingness to value a certain kind of
experience highly enough that we are prepared to have fewer opportunists for
access in exchange for a different sort of experience when we do get
access.”
― Joseph L. Sax, Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks
― Joseph L. Sax, Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks
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