Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 4, 2019 On the time to
chill out on the food front, a patron was stabbed to death at a Popeye’s
Restaurant in Maryland over a fight to get a chicken sandwich; on the absurd
Political Correctness front Pamela Anderson, who turns heads when she enters
any room, has been slammed for cultural appropriation for wearing an American
Indian costume for Halloween (where is the outrage when Warren appropriated a
false Cherokee identity so she could become a Harvard Law School professor?; an
axiom in politics is that that head of the ticket in a presidential election
year have coattails to help the down ticket but in Warren’s case Wall Street
donors not bemused with her attacks on Wall Street have chosen to shun Blue
Senate candidates (that shunning should increase over the inanity for her
Medicare for All Plan that is clearly unfinanceable and will cost some
2,000,000 jobs); the hostess of The View,
Joy Behar is generally clueless in her positions save apparently one which
as O’Dork’s dropout reinforces as she advises Blues not to tell Americans they
want to take away their guns (nice try Behar but Americans are smarter than you
think and will see through the scam); seems like only yesterday that Michelle
Obama was touting that when Reds go low we go high as claiming whites left
Chicago because blacks were moving in and still running (exposed by two black
conservatives as totally lacking any factual basis and the good news as she
pedals her book is that she will not run); good news in the case of the refrigerated
truck found with 39 Vietnamese illegals in the U.K. is that Vietnamese have
arrested 10 people in Vietnam involved in the smuggling (as long as illegal
smuggling does not have severe jail time and financial tragedies, the world
will continue to witness such tragedies); Ilhan Omar should not be surprised
given her anti-American stance to receive Twitter death threats but should be
surprised that Ted Cruz is at the forefront of condemning such threats as
should be AOC who has received praise from him for calling for a ban of former members
of Congress being hired as lobbyists (no matter how much the left wants to tear
down this country and its conservatives, we are a nation of good people); in Chicago as of November 3, 2019, 2380
have been shot, of whom, 408 have died; in Baltimore with a fraction of
Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 287
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 Stevie Wonder, the fact you are able to exercise proairesis on acts to
take in life and a relevant quote on the Hungarian Revolution by Albert Camus, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
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1. National Chicken Lady Day—celebrated
since 2001 to commemorate the community development and outreach work done by Doctor
Martineria “Tiny” Dupree who worked for a large chicken restaurant as head of
community development and known as the “Chicken Lady” who as a result of her
community activities was invited to meet
with President George W. Bush.
2. Job Action Day—celebrated on the first Monday of November
since 2008 to commemorate the union of efforts of job seekers and career
development officers to match seekers with jobs appropriate to their skill and
desires.
3. 1974 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1974 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “You
Haven’t Done Nothin’” by Stevie Wonder. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQCJ6PzRdA
. This great singer and songwriter
overcame blindness shortly after birth to become a music icon and is still
going strong at 69.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “proairesis”
which is the act of choosing which when it comes to a new term for the
president, the voters, assuming he is not impeached and convicted, the voters
will have to exercise that act as to him in a year.
5. A Leader Without A Costello--celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1957 of Tony Abbot, the Prime Minister of Australia.
On this day in:
a. 1956
Soviet troops crossed into Hungary to ruthlessly put down the Hungarian Revolution
which had started on October 23, killing thousands of civilians and causing
hundreds of thousands to flee.
b. 1966 the Arno River flooded submerging parts of
Florence with over 22 feet of water, rendering thousands homeless and
destroying untold numbers of art and other masterpieces.
c. 1973
in response to the OPEC oil boycott, the Netherlands introduced the first car
free day limiting access to highways and roads to bikes and roller skates or
pedestrians.
d. 1979 in a move that would
sound the death knell of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency, a mob of Iranian students
seized the American Embassy in Tehran and began the holding of 90 Americans as
hostages.
e. 1995 Israeli Premier Yitzhak
Rabin was assassinated by a an ultra nationalist Israeli, Yigal Amir who was
caught, tried, convicted and now serving life plus 14 years in an Israeli
prison.
Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution that we may have encouraged
then did nothing when the Soviet tanks rolled in: “Hungary conquered and in
chains has done more for freedom and justice than any people for twenty years.
But for this lesson to get through and convince those in the West who shut
their eyes and ears, it was necessary, and it can be no comfort to us, for the
people of Hungary to shed so much blood which is already drying in our
memories.” – Albert Camus, noted French author and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1957.
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