Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 17, 2019 While the Blues
who have grabbed the tail of the impeachment tiger and are wondering how to let
go, the Blues are facing another serious problem in the AG’s soon to be
released report on FISA Court abuses by the FBI and DOJ that many are
predicting will result in criminal probes (concern over Trump’s behavior which
no where near rises to the level of an impeachable offense should be dwarfed by
the concern over the DOJ’s and FBI’s illegal use of the FISA Court to spy on
American citizens working for or supporting Trump’s Campaign; in Iowa there is
apparently no longer a closet bar to becoming president as openly gay Pete
Buttigieg is the leading candidate in the Iowa caucuses; a news flash to the
Botox Queen, “your wheel house does not exclude the right of an accused
president to have named and confront this
bogus “whistleblower”; in Michigan an 83 year old is going before the
state’s Supreme Court to recover losses when the county sold his house when his
payment of taxes was $8.41 short (worse county pocketed the $24,000 it made on
the sale); in Bakersfield, McDonald’s may have to introduce a new line of food
items-McTampers, as one of its employees who two years ago had filed an
excessive force claim against the Bakersfield Police Department, was caught on
video tampering with a police officer’s order which is a felony; in Boston,
although the news did not indicate the number of illegal aliens, the fact that
ICE was involved would probably indicate presence of illegals, police arrested
32 members of the violent Trinitarious Gang and seizing 79 firearms; we have
come to recognize that too many college courses do not lead to a viable job but
not the case at Henderson State University in Arkansas where two chemistry professors
were charged with operating a meth lab (certainly a job skill but with little
security due to its illegal nature and proclivity for blowing up while being
made); in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of November 16,
2019, 2468 have been shot, of whom, 417 have died but in another minor miracle
no one on November 16th ;
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 Starship, the fact you are prosilient in your work efforts and a
relevant quote on the effects of NAFTA by Jan Shakowsky, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
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1. World Prematurity Day-- created
by parent organizations in Europe in 2008 and celebrated on this day since 2011
to create awareness of the issues faced by premature infants and their families
and to fund research to reduce the number of premature births.
2. International Students Day—commemorating the
closing of universities in Czechoslovakia and the execution of nine professors
and students on this day in 1938 by the Nazis.
3. 1985 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1985 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “We
Built This City” by Starship. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ.
TOriginally formed as Jefferson Starship, this band is still going strong and
performing on tour.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “prosilient”
which means outstanding which is what thus far the Blues’ impeachment inquiry
is not.
5. Fall Into a Watery Grace--celebrating the birthday
on this day in 1966 of Jeffrey Buckley, a noted singer who produced one album Grace but had several records released
posthumously after drowning during an evening swim fully clothed near Memphis in
the Mississippi River on May 29, 1997.
On this day in:
a. 1967
duped by overly optimistic reports, President Lyndon Johnson, only a few months
prior to the Tet Offensive addressed the American people and declared, “We are
inflicting greater losses than we are taking. We are making progress.
b. 1970 Lieutenant William Calley went on trial for
the Mai Lai Massacre.
c. 1973
in Orlando, Florida at a meeting with 400 AP editors, Richard M. Nixon solemnly
declares, “I am not a crook.”
d. 1989 a massive student
protest over the Communist government is quelled by riot police marking the
beginning of the Velvet Revolution which succeeds on December 29 of that year.
e. 1993 the House of
Representatives passed what many believe to be on of the worst trade deals ever
signed by the U.S., the North American Free Trade Agreement and where its
replacement, the USMCA, remains bottled up by Nancy Pelosi to prevent an
economic win for President Trump.
Reflections
on the effects of NAFTA: “In Illinois, we've seen job losses from agreements
like CAFTA and NAFTA. Those agreements didn't help American workers - and they
haven't brought improvements to the lives of workers in other countries,
either.” Jan Schakowsky, long term Blue Congresswoman from Illinois.
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