Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 29, 2019 Governor Newsom
has been hit by the Perfect Storm—raging wildfires in Northern and Southern
California that have evacuated hundreds of thousands of residents, power
blackouts to prevent further fires starting that have put millions in the dark,
homelessness that strews our streets and sidewalks with feces and spent needles, and rising gas
prices too far above the national averaged but true to his out of touch illegal
alien concern focus has turned to slamming PG&E for decades of profit
before safety greed (good chance that PG&E shareholders will be wiped out
in bankruptcy including California’s public pension funds that are huge
shareholders of it); after rightfully characterized as a Banana Republic
dictator for the complete absence of due process impeachment inquiry, Pelosi
has been forced to call a formal vote to launch a formal impeachment inquiry
(House members in strong Republican Districts like Harley Rouda who ran and won
as not being a Pelosi puppet which he has proved to be should be sweating blood
which will turn into a flood when the expected partisan vote to impeach
occurs); on the challenged marital front George Conway, husband of White House
Adviser Kellyanne Conway, is ranting that Reds need to stop defending Trump and
that he belongs in prison (can only speculate the degree of frost in that
household but if their marriage stays together they could be the poster family
that the need to compromise transcends political beliefs which we desperately
need in these troubled times); Biden, beset by quid pro quo allegations now
including Romania involving Hunter, has seen his support in the polls in the
first primary state fall from a commanding lead to being third and in
desperation is slamming Trump for almost letting Baghdadi escaping killing by
U.S. Special Forces because he removed our meager trip wire out of the way of
the Turks ; Mark LIndell, founder of My Pillow, Inc and whose face appears
constantly selling his wares on line, came out with a warning that Amazon will
turn American towns and cities into ghost towns and is calling for an internet
tax to level the playing field (love it when Bezos gets push back either from
Trump or even AOC); in another example of how desperate the Blues are to seize
control of the Senate, Blue Sara Gideon, running to replace Susan Collins, is
being sued for illegal making contributions to the Maine Democratic Party for
use against Collins (another case of ends justify the means by Blues who are
terrified that Trump will win reelection and nominate one or more SCOTUS
appointees); the war between the dwindling moderate wing of the Democratic
Party and the growing progressive wing continues unabated as SQUAD members
endorse progressive candidates in Texas and Illinois running against
moderates; in Chicago as of
October 28, 2019, 2341 have been shot, of whom, 402 have died but in a minor
miracle none on the 28th; in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population,
is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 283 have been murdered
(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 the Temptations, the fact that if a preterist you enjoy the number one
songs you hear on Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History and a relevant
quote on the internet by Tom Green, 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. National Cat Day—created
by Colleen Paige to honor cats and promote awareness of the need to adopt
shelter cats as after all cats are the most popular pets outnumbering even dogs
and have been around humans for over 12,000 years and among Egyptians and
Romans revered.
2. International Internet Day—celebrated on this day
since 2005 to commemorate the first computer to computer transmission from a
computer at UCLA to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute and the
Internet era was to begin.
3. 1969 Number One Song— the number one
song in 1969 on this day on a run of 2 weeks in the position was “I Can’t Get
Next to You” by the Temptations. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYn_xGp-GWA.
The band is still going strong and recording and touring.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “preterist”
which means a lover of the past which when dealing with music of the 60’s and
early 70’s it is easy to be one.
5. Up Into the Wild Blue Yonder in a Paint Brush--celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1942 of Bob Ross who spent 20 years in the Air
Force as an enlisted man and developed a love of and skill for painting and was
known as the “Television Artist” but had his paint brush removed permanently on
July 4, 1995 from lymphoma.
On this day in:
a. 1994
Francisco Martin Duran fired over two dozen shots at the White House in an
attempt to kill President Clinton who was inside, was tried, convicted and
sentenced to 40 years in prison where he now resides with a projected release
date in 2029.
b. 1998 in a you are only as old as you think you are
moment Space Shuttle Mission STS-95 also carried on board John Glenn who at 77
was the oldest person to be launched into Earth orbit.
c. 1998
ATSC HDTV service commenced with the launching of Space Shuttle Mission STS-95.
d. 2008 Delta Airlines merged
with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airlines and reducing the
number of legacy airlines to five.
e. 2015 after 35 years and a
declining percentage increase in population, China ended its one child per
family policy.
Reflections on the internet
50 years after its first appearance on the American scene: “The dirty little secret that nobody likes
to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet.
We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and
Facebook consumed our lives.” Tom Green, noted Canadian born comedian who is
now an American citizen.
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October 29, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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