Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 13, 2019 For those who
missed the Panther/Buccaneer game to endure three hours of the 9 Blues trying
to topple Biden and show unity against Trump at the same time, they saw Biden
emerge unscathed, cloaking himself in the Obama record and Sanders and Warren
failing to make any traction with the others like Kamala Harris ranting that
there were no questions on abortion and reproductive rights even though the
support of late term abortions are well known and Klobachar attacking Sanders
for the loss of private insurance (Trump if he watched the spectacle must be licking
his chops in excitement of facing the sacrificial lamb picked by the Blues); finally
Joe Scarborough has said something that makes sense, namely Medicare for all
cannot pass; the Cack News Network is trying to regain some journalistic integrity
as reports surface that many staffers who were questioning his hiring by CNN
since he was fired for lying and now being recommended for prosecution by the
FBI (don’t hold your breath but a parting of the ways of CNN from its role as a
mouthpiece for the DNC would be most welcome); Gronkowski opened up on the toll
football has had on his body—9 surgeries and 20 concussions, 5 of which were blackouts
(do not if a Patriot realistically expect him to return to the game); Bozo O’Rourke
and Republican Texas State Legislator Briscoe Cain are in a twitter snit fit
over Bozo’s claim he will take away AR-15’s from lawful and law-abiding citizens
and Cain’s challenge to come an get his which Bozo ballistically claimed to be
a death threat; Grub Hub and other delivery services may be the way of the future
but not if a study finding that one in four food delivery workers eat a portion
of the food to be delivered to the customer is symptomatic of conditions in the
food delivery industry; in a wakeup call to high tax states, multibillionaire
Carl Icahn has announced he is moving his business and home to Florida to
escape New York and New York City’s high tax rates; MIT which accepted millions
in donations from Fidelity Investments is settling a law suit brought by its
401(k) beneficiaries that alleged Fidelity was allowed to charge exorbitant
fees in return for such donations; the preliminary findings of the NTSB have
found that in violation of not having a watchman awake on board a sleeping
vessel, all the crew members were asleep when the fire broke out, an omission
that probably doomed the 33 passengers; in
Chicago through September 11, 2019, 1975 have been shot of whom 333 have died and
in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, 242 have been murdered in
Baltimore (when will Chicago and Baltimore 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 and when will the
left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities which
have been more deadly and more numerous than random mass shootings?
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, a music link to Fiona Apple, factoids of interest for
this day in history, the fact that you are blessed with an absence of paraskevidekatriaphobia,
and a relevant anonymous quote on the number 13, 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
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1. Programmers Day—celebrated since 2009 on the 256th
day of the year which is represented as 28, which is the number of distinct values represented by a byte
and honors the contribution of programmers to our economy and culture.
2. National Defy Superstition Day—celebrating appropriately
on Friday the 13th a day to discard one’s superstitions and go about
one’s day.
3. 2018 Number One Song— the number one
song in 2018 on a run of 10 weeks in that position was “In My Feelings” by
Drake. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRS_PpOrUZ4.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paraskevidekatriaphobia”
which means fear of Friday the 13th which I hope you do not have
today.
5. An Apple A Day Allows Illegals To Stay—celebrating
or bemoaning depending on your political view the birth on this day in 1977 of
noted vegan singer and songwriter Fiona Apple who has pledged 2 year’s worth of
earnings from her record “Criminal” to the While They Wait Foundation which
provides legal help and payment of expenses for illegals seeking asylum.
On this day in:
a. 1898
Hannibal Goodwin received a patent for celluloid photographic film.
b. 1956
IBM introduced its 305 RAMAC, the first computer to use disk storage.
c. 1962 a federal appeals court ordered
the University of Mississippi to admit its first African American student James
Meredith.
d. 1977 General Motors introduced
the diesel engine in certain models in its Oldsmobile line of cars.
e. 2001 civilian air traffic which
had been suspended on 9/11 due to attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon and a failed attack on the White House was reinstated.
Reflections
on the 13th: “President
Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would
never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also
triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.” Anon Today remember
it is just another Friday with a 13 nothing more nothing less.
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