Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 1, 2019 On the how sick can
it be front, a Virginia State Police officer was suspended for delivering to
ICE a suspect driver in a traffic
accident who had a warrant for his arrest for not showing up at a deportation
hearing; in another example of our
porous border Jose Luis-Ruiz has been deported 6 times and convicted of 5 DUIs
with on more pending has been arrested in Tennessee and faces a wrist slap of
only 2 years for his 5th illegal entry; in a hopeful sign that
Silicon Valley may be waking up to the threat posed by the leftist drift of the
Democratic Party and its candidates for president, an audio of Jeff Zuckerberg
attacking Elizabeth Warren and promising to legally go to the mat against her
has surfaced (when will the entrepreneurs who have built highly successful
companies wake up to the reality of disaster of attacking the policies and
environment that enabled them to be successful?); another desperate Blue
candidate Bernie Sanders has unveiled his inequality pay tax on corporations
that pay their CEO more than 50 times the average employee salary which would
have cost Apple $1.4 billion dollars if the law had been in place (might dim
Tim Cook’s support of Blue candidates and his opposition to Trump); Mike Pompeo
is complaining that the employees of the State Department are being deluged
with subpoenas by investigative trigger happy Blue led House Committees as the
identity of the whistleblower still has not been revealed nor a date for his or
her testimony set (Senate needs to get ahead of this and summon whistleblower
to testify before the House uses him or her to skewer Trump in the media); Dallas
police officer Amber Gyger has been found guilty of shooting an unarmed black
in his apartment which was directly above hers which she wrong entered; with
all the homeless feces and trash San Francisco probably has a rat problem like
Los Angeles but the Frarallon Islands 50 miles off shore from San Francisco
definitely does and the EPA is holding hearings on whether to dump 1.5 tons of
rat poison on the islands to eradicate the problem (I guess the organic way of
making the island a shelter for cats would not work); Mueller has returned to
his old firm and most of his deputies in the Mueller witch-hunt have landed
cushy jobs including hatchet man Andrew Weissman who will be teaching at George
Washington School of Law while further enriching himself with a book deal with
Random House; on the hurricane front Hurricane Lorenzo is bearing down as a CAT
5 Hurricane on the Azores with projected 70+ feet waves but with the good news
that its projected track will send it to Northern Europe; in Chicago through
September 30, 2019, 2128 have been shot of whom, after the one day hiatus of no
deaths, 365 have died; in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, 256
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, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link
to Frankie Laine, the fact that we do
not need to plan for our postmundane, and a relevant quote on Stanford University by
Devon Cajuste, 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
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1. International
Day of Older Persons—created on December 14, 1990 and first celebrated on October 1, 1991
to create awareness of the problems, like elder abuse, that older persons face
and to commemorate their contributions to society.
2. International Coffee Day—created
by the International Coffee Organization in 2015 to promote awareness of all
those from the plantation to the barista that are involved in delivering that
coffee drink we all look forward to receiving other than President Trump.
3. 1949 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1949 on this day on a run of 8 weeks in the position was “That
Lucky Old Sun” by Frankie Laine. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL3kvxN3xFc. The
Sun stopped shining on him after 75 years of performing which in died in 2007
at age 93.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “postmundane”
which means after the end of the world which if you listen to AOC is coming
less than 12 years due to climate change as she eschews the train to go from
the Swamp to her home district and flies instead, spewing out tons more carbon
instead .
5. We May Be Flat But Suds Bubbled Free—celebrating
or bemoaning depending on your political affiliation, the birth on this day in
1924 of Jimmy Carter, our oldest living
president and only ex-president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and best noted for
his “Malaise Speech” and the deregulation of airlines and breweries.
On this day in:
a. 1891
Leland Stanford Junior University opened its doors en route to becoming one of
the great universities on the planet.
b. 1946
Mensa International was founded.
c. 1992 The Cartoon Network started
broadcasting.
d. 2017 58 people are shot and killed and wounded
or injured over 850 at the end of a music concert in Las Vegas.
e. 2019 China celebrated the founding of the
People’s Republic of China 70 years ago with a large military parade in Beijing.
Reflections
on Stanford University: “Stanford just stood out, not even close to the other
schools. I was going to wait, see what else comes into play, but when I got
there, I knew I wanted to be there.” Devon Cajuste, former Stanford tight end
who never made it in the pros.
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