Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For January 28, 2020 Pseudo journalist Don Lemon of the Cack News Networks
sheds any vestige of objectivity blasting Trump supporters as “illiterate rubes”
(wonder if his statement validates the adage “takes one to know one”; although
the market has bounced back from coronavirus fears inflicted on it yesterday,
the number of victims keeps rising to over 4,500 with deaths now at 106 (for
reasons that must have to do with face or the desire to obfuscate the extent of
the epidemic, China has refused the help of our CDC); Trump may have pulled a
decades old rabbit out of the hat in welcoming Netanyahu to the White House and
revealing a new peace plan which involves a contiguous Palestinian state and
large amounts of economic aid (biggest question is whether the Palestinians
hobbled by Iran backed Hamas will buy into it and whether zealots like Squad
member Rashida Tlaib will swallow her anti-Trump prided and support the deal);
Trump’s legal time ends its defense today while the Blues remain fixated on
Bolton and the need for witnesses, ignoring the simple fact that the House
after listening to Trump’s legal time has not made its case for an impeachable
crime (questions that we should be asking is whether there are any Blues,
especially those in the Senate still in the race to replace him and who have a
conflicted vested interest in not having to face him, able to ape Ford’s pardon
of Nixon in order to not further divide the nation and vote to acquit; in New
Jersey, a solid Blue state, a massive crowd is awaiting Trump who has a rally
planned there; stepping back to feudalism in Indonesia, a female flogging force
has been introduced in one province to punish women who violate Sharia by
flogging; in one looks like a pro Clinton déjà vu that has Sanders supporters
up in arms, key Clinton supporters have been put in place to manage the
Democratic Convention (HRC simply cannot let go and must be in a huge
delusional state believing that she can be the savior of the Blues by having
her selected by the delegates in a brokered convention); six months after Oakland
had announced it was closing down a homeless encampment in the parking lot of a
Home Depot in Oakland, the city is finally doing just that; in Chicago, as of January 27, 2020, 138 people
have been shot of whom 23 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 dropped back to a tie with Chicago with 23 murders by shootings (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 Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, the fact you are not in the grips of
oblivesence, a relevant quote by Nick
Mancuso on “We Are the World”, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like
Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries,
you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized
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1. National Data Protection Day—finalized by the U.S.
Senate on this day in 2009 to promote and enhance the ability of people to
protect against the unwanted dissemination of their personal data, a worthy
goal but difficult in the era of Google and Facebook to achieve.
2. International
Lego Day—commemorating the filing of a patent for Legos on this day in
1958 to the joy of parents watching their children be creative in building
structures followed by the bane of those in bare feet running to the nursery on
hearing their child crying and then stepping on one of them.
3. 1941 Number
1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1941 on this day on a run of 12
weeks in the position was “Frenesi” by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlVCCENmT_I
Artie’s performances thrilled
thousands, especially U.S. Forces serving in the South Pacific where he
performed during World War II as a sailor in the U.S. Navy, until his
retirement from music in 1954. Married 8 times, he died on December 30, 2004.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day as we move to words starting with “o” is “oblivesence” which
means forgetfulness which is the scourge of too many baby boomers as they start
to move into their mid 70’s.
5. Drink and Paint But
Not Drink and Drive—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1912 of noted painter Jackson
Pollock who struggled with alcoholism and sadly after drinking too much in the
prime of his career crashed his car one mile away from his home, killing
himself and one passenger.
On this day
in:
a. 1915a to
the joy of boaters and to the bane of future drug smugglers, Congress passed
legislation creating the United States Coast Guard.
b. 1960 to the joy of
professional football fans the NFL announced the expansion of the league to
Dallas in 1960 and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 season.
c. 1985 USA for Africa, an ad hoc group of 42
famous singers recorded “We Are The World” to raise funds for Ethiopian famine
relief-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI
for an amazing tribute to the creative genius of our artistic community coming
together to face suffering.
d. 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly on takeoff,
killing all 7 astronauts on board.
e. 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada
in the case of R v. Morgantaler struck down Canada’s anti-abortion laws.
Reflections on “We
Are the World” “We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not
because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on
the infinite, on life.”Nick Mancuso, noted Canadian actor
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