Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For January 26, 2020 Kobe Bryant whose standing as third place all time
scoring leader was just broken last night by Lebron was killed in helicopter
crash; Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest and fortunately the Impeachment
Trial in the Senate has the day off but unfortunately we are not spared on MSM
from Schiff ranting to agreeing nodding host heads that without witnesses there
is no fair trial and without documents there can be no exoneration (Schiff
gives great credence to the question when can you tell when a lawyer is
lying?—When he moves his lips); on the coronavirus front, the number of cases
in Wuhan has almost broken the 2,000 mark with 56 fatalities and more troubling
to us here, the third case of coronavirus has been reported in Orange County
involving a person who had returned from Wuhan (as the cases increase and their
dissemination continue to cross national borders hopefully a silver lining will
be that nations come together in a common struggle to fight this virus
productively as opposed to what happened in Hong Kong where protesters burned
down a building earmarked to quarantine coronavirus victims); AOC probably
emboldened by her endorsement of Sanders is in the news and being attacked by
Holman for her vile attacks on ICE and calling for Americans to “tip off”
illegals of impending ICE raids; interesting survey on Instagram of what states
residents of each of the 50 states hate most and to no one’s surprise as California
residents and businesses are leaving to go to Texas, Texas tops the list in
Caliornia while in the 9 western states nearest to California and who are the
recipients of Californians fleeing the high taxes, feces, and regulations the
top detested state is California; in a third poll in New Hampshire, Sanders is
in first place topping Biden (who remains under relentless attack by Trump for
his fitness and corruption of his son Hunter while vice president) with Buttigieg
and Warren trailing in that order; Portland, another Blue run city which is
struggling with a wave of homeless, made tragic news as a homeless woman
sleeping in front of an apartment garage door was run over by a resident
backing up to go to work and later died in a hospital (when do our government
officials realize the extent of the homeless epidemic?); in Chicago, as of
January 25, 2020, 125 people have been shot of whom 21 have died; 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 remained in the death lead and suffered
22 murders by shootings to remain in the dubious distinction of being in the
lead (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 Al Donahue and His Orchestra, the fact you do not deserve to be
objurgated, a relevant quote on the
Lewinsky Scandal by Julie Klausner, secure
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1. International Customs Day—created by the World
Customs Organization to promote awareness of the efforts of custom agencies to
border security, revenue collect and interception of counterfeit goods.
2. Child
Labor Day—celebrated on the fourth day of January to promote awareness of
the plight of millions of children who must work to assist in their families’
survival and thereby condemned to a life without meaningful schooling.
3. 1939 Number
1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1939 on this day on a run of 6
weeks in the position was “Jeepers Creepers” by Al Donahue and His Orchestra with
Paula Kelly as vocals. Here is a recording of the song: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mnet-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mnet&p=al+donahue+orchestra+jeepers+creepers#id=4&vid=8b2354268e15f589da82c2c27e90572f&action=click
Al had hjis baton removed permanently on February 20, 1983 and Paula Kelly
followed him on April 2, 1992.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day as we move to words starting with “o” is “objurgate” which
means to scold, chide or rebuke which our political parties deserve in spades
for the amount of polarization that seems to worsen every day.
5. Too Bad There Is
Not Another Remake of the Longest Yard—bemoaning
the birthday on this day in 1944 of long term assistant coach of football at
Penn State who was convicted of numerous counts of child sexual abuse and at 73
is rotting in prison for 30-60 years where he will die.
On this day
in:
a. 1863
in the first step toward desegregation of our armed forces, the Governor of
Massachusetts received permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia
of African-Americans to fight in the Civil War which was always the South’s
worst nightmare.
b. 1945 Audie Murphy
in combat in France displayed bravery that would win him a Congressional Medal
of Honor and serve as a launching pad for an acting career.
c. 1950 the
Constitution of India came into effect and Rajendra Prasad was sworn in as the
republic’s first president.
d. 1980 after 33 years of
intermittent war and strife, Egypt and Israel established diplomatic relations.
e. 1998 President Bill Clinton went on national
television to lie to the American people about his sexual relationships with “that
woman” Monica Lewinsky.
Reflections
on the Lewinsky Scandal: “ I look forward to the day when being called ‘another
Monica Lewinsky’ refers to the hard work behind a master’s degree in social psychology
from the London School of Economics, after spending the first act of one’s
entire life deflecting the shame of a scandal that should have rested on the
shoulders of a man old enough to have known better” Julie Klausner, noted
American actress
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