Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For January 22, 2020 Nadler was in deplorable form yesterday basically
accusing the Senate of a cover-up violating the basic rules of criminal
jurisprudence arguing that if a person is blocked from testimony the person
blocking is guilty (Justice Roberts citing a 1905 impeachment case involving
Judge Swayne referring to the use of pettifogging admonished both sides to
remember where they were but if you watched Nadler’s tossing all decorum to the
wind rants, it was clear his warning was directed at him); McConnell beat back
all attempts to modify rules on the procedure to be followed as Reds with the
exception of one motion closed ranks completely (senators must be exhausted as
they were at it until close to 2:00 A.M. such that the vitriol today is a bit
less); unlike the senators who reside within the bubble of the Swamp, state
officials are often at ground zero of the effects of Trump’s beneficial
economic policies as 21 Red AGs sent a letter to the Senate blasting the Senate
for engaging in a dangerous precedence with its impeachment (as might be
expected California’s leftist hack Bacera was not a signatory); HRC must be
back into delusional mode thinking that with a brokered convention delegates
will turn to her as the savior to defeat Trump but may have her feathers
clipped as Tulsi Gabbard has filed a $50 million defamation suit against her
for her inane claim that Gabbard is a Russian asset while Blue candidates like
Yang and Gabbard are heaping criticism on her for her ad hominem attacks on
Bernie Sanders (will she ever regain mental stability and peace by accepting
her loss?); Pam Keith who lost a run for a Florida seat body slammed Kelly Anne
Conway’s “non youthful” looks (get your cataracts removed Pam as you are a
danger with that vision to be on the roads); Biden has sent shivers down law
abiding persons’ backs with his claim that he would arrest ICE agents who
arrested and deported illegal aliens convicted of DUIs; Rapper Juice World who
suffered a seizure as his private jet was landing in Chicago on December 8,
2019 joined the ranks of far too many musicians who overdosed on drugs as the
Chicago Medical Examiner revealed today; in Seattle a gun shooting left 4 wounded
and 1 dead and a suspect supposedly armed and dangerous on the loose; the
droning of Schiff and his hacks are probably more than enough to drive a
senator to drink but under the Impeachment trial rules, only soft drinks and
milk permitted (such a rule should prompt a motion form the floor to acquit and
end the nonsense; the Coronavirus that started in Wuhan, China which has been
quarantined has infected some 500 people and killed 17 has set off red flag
warnings among health officials around the globe including those here as the
first case has been identified in Washington State; in Chicago, as of January 21,
2020, 111 people have been shot of whom 19 have died but none on MLK Day and
the following day; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping
against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths has regained
the death lead from Chicago and suffered 21 murders by shootings (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 Tommy Dorsey, Jr. and His Orchestra, the fact you do not normally
exhibit arguments that should be obelized, a relevant quote from Justice Harry
Blackmun on Roe v. Wade, secure in the
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1. National Library Shelfie Day—created by the New York
City Public Library in 2014 and celebrated on the 4th Wednesday of
January to promote selfies of readers in front of shelves containing one or
more of their favorite library books to encourage reading.
2. National
Celebration of Life Day—created to encourage people to celebrate and be grateful for all
the good things that are going on in their lives today.
3. 1936 Number
1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1936 on this day on a run of 5
weeks in the position was “The Music Goes Round and Round” by Tommy Dorsey, Jr.
and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj73yYe3AY8
Dorsey, known as the “Sentimental
Gentleman of Swing” choked to death in his sleep on November 26, 1956 sedated
on sleeping pills after a heavy meal.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day as we move to words starting with “o” is “obelize” which means to
condemn as spurious which defines what Schiff should be exposed to with his
impeachment justification rants.
5. Spins Heads
Around—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1959 of noted actress
Linda Blair best remembered for her role as a devil possessed child whose head
spun around in The Exorcist.
On this day
in:
a. 1957
the “Mad Bomber” George Metesky, injured in a workplace accident and who
terrorized NYC for over 3 decades with 30 bombs was arrested. After conviction
he was sent to a mental facility where he spent 2/3rds of his 25 year sentence before being
released to die at home at the age of 94.
b. 1970 to the joy of air travelers
especially those lucky enough to be flying in Business or First Class, the
Boeing 747, the world’s first “Jumbo Jet” was put into service by Pan American
Airlines in a flight from NYC to London.
c. 1973 SCOTUS delivered its decision
in Roe v. Wade legalizing elective abortion in the U.S., a decision
which remains as divisive as ever even today.
d. 1984 in one of the more iconic
commercials, Apple introduced during the Super Bowl the MacIntosh, the first
computer with a mouse and graphical interface.
e. 2002 Kmart became the largest
retailer to file for Chapter XI Bankruptcy.
Reflections on Roe v. Wade which
are as true today as when written: "We acknowledge our awareness of the
sensitive and emotional nature of the abortion controversy; of the vigorous
opposing views, even among physicians. ... The right of personal privacy
includes the abortion decision, but this right is not unqualified and must be
considered against important state interests in regulation." Justice Harry
Blackmun’s Majority Opinion
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