Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 6, 2020 In a shocker John
Bolton has announced that he would appear if subpoenaed by the Senate as Pelosi
trying to have her way refuses to release the Articles of Impeachment (will
Trump exercise Executive Privilege to prevent his testimony or will Bolton have
a chance to revenge for his advice being ignored); the air was thick with
carbon from limo after limo instead of electric cars as hypocrisy reigned at
the Golden Globe on climate change (does the Hollywood mega carbon consuming
elite ever look at themselves and their statements in the mirror); CNN remains
committed to bias and fake news by both commission but in the case of Andrew
McCabe omission as the Cack News Network was silent on McCabe’s apology for
lying to the Feds; Senator Hawley will be introducing a motion to dismiss the
Articles of Impeachment due to Pelosi’s refusal to send them to the House which may go nowhere in covered by filibuster
rules but may damage Blue Senators up for reelection in November (what a mess
and further evidence of the deep divide destroying this country); Iran’s
Ambassador to the UN has added fuel to the fire of Iraq’s Parliament’s demand
that the U.S. should leave Iraq by seconding that demand; poor Joe Biden whose
campaign gets tarnished once again by the sins of his son Hunter as Hunter is
alleged to have been involved in identity theft involving his deceased brother
Beau; Kiyoshi Kimura who calls himself the Tuna King and owns a chain of sushi
places in Tokyo paid $1.8 million for a 608 pound blue fin tuna at auction (can
only wonder what the cost of a piece of sashimi or sushi will be; Schiff has
announced he will hold hearings on the killing of Soleimani and Pelosi is
preparing a resolution to limit military action against Iran (nothing like have
a flock of anti-Trumpers trying to put themselves in charge of our foreign
policy against Iran while it seeks to kill Americans and our allies) in a run
but you can’t forever hide great moment Jose Cruz Naranjo Silva, who was arrested
in 2006 for child sex abuse, posted bail and then fled to Mexico was arrested
by Mexican authorities and extradited to the U.S. to face charges; in Chicago,
as of January 5, 2020, 36 people have been shot of whom 7 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 suffered 3 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 The Weekend feat. Daft Punk, the fact you abhor the pycnosis of the
opposition of both parties to each other, a relevant quotes on who she is by
Indira Gandhi, 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 poem at a great price
tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for
details.
1. Take a Poet to Lunch Day—celebrating a great idea
since most poets until dead are starving artists, take on to lunch and enjoy
his or her work while munching a sandwich instead of wolfing through the Wall
Street Journal or watching the market.
2. National
Smith Day—created by Adrienne Koopersmith in 1996 to celebrate those
people with the surname of Smith or have it in their surname which means “worker”
and is the most common surname in the English speaking world although that may
well change in a multilingual world given the higher birthrates of Latinos and
Muslims.
3. 2017
Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 2017 on
this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “Starboy” by The Weekend feat.
Daft Punk. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pycnosis”
which means products or remnants of rotting which describes to a tee what sadly
is happening to the opposition of Blues and Reds to almost any policy of the
other.
5. Pipe May Make You Look Erudite But Trumped by the Bottle--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1915 of Alan Watts, Zen master and prolific writer of 25
books on subjects important to Eastern and Western religions but was a heavy
smoker all his life and battled alcoholism in his later life to die early at 58
on November 16, 1973.
On this day
in:
a.
1929 Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta to begin her ministry to the sick and
poor of that city.
b. 1950 with its prized possession Hong Kong
surrounded by it, the United Kingdom recognized the People’s Republic of China,
causing the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan to suspend diplomatic
relations.
c. 1974 in
response to the OPEC Embargo Oil Crisis, Daylight Saving Time was implemented nearly
4 months early.
d. 1989 in an example of swift
justice Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh were convicted of the murder of Indira Gandhi
on October 31, 1984 and executed by hanging the same day.
e. 2005 in a better late than
never moment Edgar Ray Killen was indicted for the murders of 3 civil rights
workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 and was tried, convicted of
manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison where he would die on January
11, 2018, 6 days before his 93rd
birthday.
Self
reflections on one of the reasons she was assassinated: “My father was a stateman.
I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not” Indira Gandhi,
assassinated India Prime Minister and daughter of Nehru, its first Prime
Minister.
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