Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 26, 2019 Hope you still
have credit availability this Boxing Day to take advantage of the Day After
Christmas Sales to warm the cockles of retailers hearts; it may be symbolic and
unrelated to Seattle’s leftist drift but last Friday the city recorded the
darkest day in its recorded history; Pocahontas got caught with her tomahawk
down in the hypocrisy race after news reports revealed that she too had in the
past hosted a fund raiser at an expensive restaurant that included a private
wine cave; the Christmas Truce was short lived to say the least as Trump came
out swinging against Pelosi for pushing the narrative that Trump was a security
risk requiring immediate impeachment then sitting on the Articles to dictate to
McConnell how she wants the impeachment trial to take place in the Senate (total
shame on this hypocrite who caved to the likes of Green, Waters and AOC and put
two kangaroo masters in charge of the Impeachment circus); love may be blind
but not in the case where money is involved as 26 year old Israeli national Lin
Halfon was arrested for trying to steal $1,000,000 from her 77 year old husband
of 4 months, Richard Rappaport; the once darling of the MSM and potential
presidential candidate Michael Avenatti is facing felony embezzlement and extortion
charges and disbarment proceedings as prosecutors revealed he was $15 million
in debt when he tried to extort Nike (prisons need jailhouse lawyers but those
with reputations of stealing from their clients might not receive the best of
treatment from their new convict clients); California’s war on jobs continues
relentlessly with a new law making it next to impossible for many workers to be
independent contractors thereby forcing those cash strapped businesses who use
them to become employers and pay increased social security taxes or hire
independent consultants out of state (dumb move by Blue state legislators and
Newsom but sadly so typical); if the socialist Blues had any brains, they would
look at Venezuela where the currency has become worthless and people are being
forced to barter goods for essentials; on the wage front 24 states and numerous
cities and counties will raise their minimum wage by the end of the year; in Chicago
with a new interim police chief now having to replace a fired police chief, as
of December 25, 2019, 2707 have been shot, of whom, 452 have died but none on
Christmas Day; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in
second place in the amount of gun deaths as 339 have been murdered, a number
which has passed all of 2014’s deaths and all of 2016’s yearly total of 318
fatalities and is very close to passing 2017’s and 2015’s record of 342 2019 (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 Katy Perry, the fact you appreciate the pulchritude in life, a relevant
quote on Kwanzaa by President William J. Clinton, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
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1. Kwanzaa—created
by Maulana Karenga, a professor of black studies at Cal State University, in
1996 to celebrate 7 principles of African Culture ending on January 1 of each
year.
2. Boxing
Day—celebrating a tradition since the 17th Century in the
United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth of employers giving a gift to their
servants and others who provided services to them during the course of the
year.
3. 2010 Number 1 Number
One Song— the number one song in 2010 on this day on a run of 2 weeks
in the position was “Fire Work” by Katy Perry. Here is a recording of the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pulchritude”
which means beauty and describes the decorations and ornaments present during
the Christmas Season to a tee.
5. Voice No More--celebrating the birth on
this day in 1933 of Carroll Spinney noted puppeteer who was the voice of Big
Bird and Oscar the Grouch who just died of natural causes on December 9, 2019.
On this day in:
a. 1976 in a Boxing Day gift they did not
want to receive, after successfully crossing the ice flow clogged Delaware
River the Continental Army in a surprise attack routed the Hessian garrison at
Trenton, New Jerseyey.
b. 1941 President Roosevelt signed legislation
making the 4 Thursday in November Thanksgiving.
c. 1948
the last Soviet Troops withdrew from North Korea while ours still remain in
South Korea.
d. 1975 the Soviets
introduced the TU-144, the first passenger jet capable of achieving Mach 2
speeds into service, which service lasted until 1978 when it was discontinued.
e. 2012 China opened its high speed rail network of over 1400 miles
linking Beijing to Guangzhou.
Reflections on Kwanzaa: “The seven principles
of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility,
cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we
come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson
of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.”
President William J. Clinton
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