Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 16, 2019 Al Sharpton is
living the good life by being paid $1,000.000 a year by his charity (ethics of
a snake interested only in his own welfare perhaps); the shooter at Saugus High
School has taken his motive for his deadly acts to the grave (a tragedy as it
would have been helpful in the struggle against gun violence if we could have
learned his motive); yesterday’s impeachment hearing was a sob story sympathy
building attempt for the dismissed Ambassador to the Ukraine that prompted an
angry tweet in his defense and Lying Schiff making a fool out of himself yet
again by claiming it which she had not seen would have an intimidating effect on
witnesses; the charade of hearsay continues next week; AG Barr in a speech to
the Federalist Society stated what must be obvious to anyone other the pseudo
journalists and lackeys for the DNC that the left is on an unprecedented frenzy
to sabotage the Trump Administration; in a close race Blue sitting governor of
Louisiana Edwards won in a very close election against his Republican opponent
with a few precincts not yet reported (is this an omen of trouble for Trump in
a state he carried by 20 points or is it a case of a well performing incumbent
against a rookie outsider?); Colin Kaepernick who was supposed to have an
evaluation session today moved it 60 minutes prior to its time and his passes
to some free agents went unviewed by professional scouts; impeachment hearings
move next week to testimony of what witnesses supposedly heard on conversations
involving Ukrainian officials and Trump on the issue of Biden’s quid pro quo
(lost in the rush to impeach is the clear indication that Hunter Biden most
likely with Joe’s knowledge was sucking in huge dollars in Ukraine and China
and maybe Romania for the simple reason that he was the son of Joe Biden; as
SCOTUS will be hearing the lawsuit questioning Trump’s ability to terminate
DACA, new data released from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
indicates that some 80,000 DACA recipients have criminal arrest records (left
view notwithstanding that all DACA recipients are the equivalent of choir boys maybe
skewed); in a real eye opener, openly gay Pete Buttigieg in polls just
conducted indicate that he has pulled ahead of Biden, Warren and Sanders; news
that may dampen your desire to visit Africa, a tourist from the U.K. after
visiting Lake Malawi and swimming and canoeing he was infected by a worm that
entered his penis and laid eggs which hatched and attacked his vital organs,
almost killing him; in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of November
15, 2019, 2455 have been shot, of whom, 416 have died but in another minor
miracle no one on November 13th and 14th ; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s
population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 301 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 Billy Ocean, the fact you are blessed by not being chained to being a
prosateur in your writing and a relevant quote on LSD from Steve Jobs, 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. International Day of Tolerance—created
by UNESCO in 1995 to promote awareness of intolerance and address means of reducing
it.
2. National Fast Food Day—commemorating a means of
food delivery that has been around since Roman times when street vendors sold
bread and sausage meals and has evolved to the fast food giants of today
serving all many of ready to eat or cooked really quickly foods either on site
or delivered to one’s place of work.
3. 1984 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1984 on this day on a run of 2 weeks in the position was “Caribbean
Queen (No More Love on the Run)” by Billy Ocean. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQ5MT--cmw
. This very talented Trinadian-British singer, born as Leslie Sebastian Charles on January 21, 1950, is still
married and still performing and content as a vegetarian.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “prosateur”
which means someone who deserves our sympathy as one who writes prose for a
living as opposed to poetry.
5. One Way to Enlarge the Career--celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1984 of British actress Greta Atkinson who after breast
enlargement surgery to 34E became a glamour model to go with her acting
credits.
On this day in:
a. 1914
the Federal Reserve Bank System opened in the United States.
b. 1938 Albert Hoffman synthesized LSD at the Sandoz
Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland from ergotamine.
c. 1945
UNESCO was founded.
d. 1973 in a great day for
ultimate American energy independence, President Nixon signed into law the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act of 1073 paving the way for the construction
of a pipeline to transport oil extracted from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska to
be shipped to refineries in the Lower 48 of the United States.
e. 1990 the Duo Milli Vanilli
were stripped of their Grammy awarded for Girl
You Know Its True as session musicians had performed all the vocals.
Reflections
on LSD: “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things
in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t
remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what
was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things
back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
Steve Jobs. Given what he and Wozniak created at Apple we should thank God he
experimented.
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History.
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