Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 6, 2019 In the Blue state
of Massachusetts, rising Blue star as the youngest mayor of Fall River,
Massachusetts has been arrested for defrauding investors, failing to file tax
returns and extorting marijuana sellers; Hurricane Dorian’s death toll in the
Bahamas has risen to 30 with more expected but the good news is that Sean
Connery’s estate there escaped damage while the bad news is that China’s relief
efforts there may be a portend of a Chinese presence 50 miles from our shores;
4 have died in the U.S. from Dorian and thousands are without power as it
weakens and slowly makes its way off shore heading northeast; Jemele Hill for
all her biased faults at least proves the race card can be a two way street as
the fired ESPN reporter now with the The
Atlantic is calling on black athletes to leave white colleges (leaving a white
college for a black college would be the kiss of death when the athlete
assuming he or she is one of the fortunate few to go professional and fewer yet
to play long enough to salt away significant sums and go into broadcasting and
ill-prepared joins the work force (news flash to racist Hill, Harvard’s huge
endowment has nothing to do with its athletic teams that probably have
endowment sources separate from the university but due to its academic
excellence and the generosity of its successful alumni); on the why we need a
wall front in California Guadalupe Lopez-Herrara an illegal with a history of domestic
violence has been arrested after shooting a deputy trying to serve a warrant
for violating a domestic restraining order (don’t know why with a history of
domestic violence he was not turned over to ICE unless he was living in a
Sanctuary City the existence of which are an abomination for security and
safety); on the lunar front and a wakeup call for our moribund space program,
India may become the 4th country to land a probe on the Moon; vaping
was considered to be the panacea of the diseases like lung cancer caused by
smoking but now it looks like it may be a Hobson’s choice as a growing number
of lung issues, including 2 deaths, are being reported by vaping; the nanny disease
on the food front that former Mayor Bloomberg unleashed has spread to Twitter
and Subway when an intoxicated woman in London ordered a hot dog without the
dog but with cucumbers, black olives and shredded untoasted cheese a photo of
which was posted and went viral with a 100,000 hits with many a slam
castigating the woman for what she ordered; unlike our traveling elite like Nancy
Pelosi Meghan Markle flew commercial to the French Open after the private jet
scandal with her and Prince Harry flying a carbon emitting montster private jet
to an eco-conference on climate change; in Chicago through September 4, 2019, 1906
have been shot of whom 322 have died (bad aim by the shooters as for 2 days no
one shot has died) and in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, 237
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 Taylor Swift, factoids of interest for
this day in history, the fact that you are a pollent person, and a
relevant quote from Samora Machel on apartheid, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
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1. Wear Teal Day—celebrated on the first Friday in September
to create awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer and to promote efforts to
raise research dollars to fight this disease.
2. National Food Bank Day—celebrated
on this day since 2017 to commemorate the founding of the first food bank in
1967, the St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance which today distributes 250,000 meals a
day and together with food banks like Second Harvest in Orange County are doing
their best with the aid and support of individuals many of whom read this and
businesses to fight the hunger that grips over 40 million hungry people in this
country, many of whom are children.
3. 2012 Number One Song— the number one
song in 2012 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “We Are Never Ever
Getting Back Together” by Taylor Swift. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4iX5D9Z64. Appropriate
title to describe her relationship with the millions of deplorables that
surprise, surprise buy music.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pollent”
which means strong which describes exactly the sort of president we need as
opposed to most of the Blue wanna-bes trying to replace Trump.
5. Anti-Semitism And The Wallet—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1943 of Roger Waters, the co-founder of one of the more
successful bands Pink Floyd that he ultimately split from to pursue a single
career which has been marred by sponsors dropping him for his pro-Palestinian
stands and support of the BDS movement.
On this day in:
a. 1642
in an all work and worship and no entertainment makes an Englishman a dull man
moment, the English Parliament banned all public plays.
b. 1966
Hendrick Verwoerd, the architect of South Africa’s apartheid policy was stabbed
to death during a Parliamentary Meeting in Capetown, South Africa.
c. 1996 in a testimony to longevity
and dedication Cal Ripken, Jr. played in his 2,131st game breaking
Lou Gehrig’s record that had stood for 56 years (he voluntarily ended his
streak at 2632 to give a record that in almost certainly will never be broken
some preventive cushion).
d. 1997 the funeral of Princess
Diane took place in London with a million people lining the streets to view the
funeral procession and an estimated 2 ½ billion watching the proceedings on TV.
e. 2007 in a pollent move Israel in
Operation Orchard bombed Syria’s nuclear reactor out of existence.
Reflections
on apartheid in South Africa: ”Economic, social, and other kinds of regional
cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems
the duty of all mankind to destroy it.” Samora Machel, first president of
Mozambic who as a socialist and fortunately for the country died in a plane
crash near the border with South Africa on October 19, 1986.
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