Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 18, 2020 After the DNC
has altered the rules of admission to the debates and fueled by his millions
spent on ads, Michael Bloomberg will appear on the debate stage and has
announced unlike Trump, he will sell his Bloomberg News Network; Trump is in the judicial news again, commuting
the sentence of ex Governor Blagojevitch and pardoning Michael Milliken, former
NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and former owner of the 49’s Edward de
Bartolo, Jr. (judge is moving forward on sentencing of Roger Stone amidst the
furor over the DOJ’s withdrawal of the prosecutors’ recommendations of 7-9
years; anti-Trumper Blue Senator Chris Murphy has admitted to meeting with Iran’s
Foreign Minister in Munich totally ignoring the fact that foreign policy should
be conducted by the president not members of Congress (Iran must be in a totally
depressed mood after the impeachment farce failed and Trump continues to pursue
crippling sanctions); Behar who is the head clueless on The View and Meghan McCain, the only sane view on the program got
into a snit fit over criticizing Bloomberg for his minority policies and his misogynist
views; at a Sanders’ rally in Colorado a black man wearing a Black Lives Matter
T-shirt and a white Sanders’ Supporter
got into a brawl while Sanders droned on (Sanders has ridiculed Bloomberg for
being unable despite his billions of being able to defeat Trump); conservatives
in liberal Oregon fed up with the state’s leftist policies are now trying to
move a slice of the state to Idaho (shares of the creation of West Virginia);
thanks to well engineered safety features, Randy Newman injured near the end of
the Daytona 500 is awake in serious condition talking to doctors; battered by
over 300 lawsuits by former Scouts claiming sexual abuse the Boy Scouts of America
has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; in Virginia, Blue Governor Northam’s relentless assault on the Second Amendment was
stalled when 4 Blues joined Reds to defeat a sweeping anti-assault weapon bill
in committee (wonder if the 2nd Amendment in the state capital had
something to do with the vote); in Chicago, as of February 17, 2020, 278 people
have been shot of whom 52 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 9 behind Chicago with 43 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 Nat King Cole Trio, the fact you are not oblselquious, a relevant quote by the Conspiracy prior to
the trial of the Chicago Seven, 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. National Drink Wine Day—not sure who created
this or when but if a wine lover needed an excuse to enjoy a fine glass of wine
today would be a day to do it and if fortunate to live in Orange County,
California, the Wine Lab in Costa Mesa in the Camp would be the perfect venue.
2. National
Battery Day—celebrating the contribution to our society and a means to
reduce carbon emissions of batteries which were first invented by Allessandro
Volta at the turn on the 19th century and have evolved to the lithium
batteries that power our cell phones and enable electric cars like Tessla to go
increasing ranges between charges. The day was chosen as it marks Volta’s
birthday in 1745.
3. 1947 Number
1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1947 on this day on a run of 1 week
in the position was “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons” by the Nat King Cole
Trio. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47TG8iAs6LU
A heavy smoker, the King lost his crown to lung cancer on February 15, 1965
shortly after recording an album against his doctor’s wishes to start treatment
to insure his family’s welfare.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “obsequious” which means servilely
ingratiating or fawning a trait which affects most which politicians seeking
your vote near election day.
5. Clapper Queen—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1957 of noted television game show hostess on Wheel of Fortune who holds the Guinness Book
of Records for the most claps.
On this day
in:
a. 1954 the
first Church of Scientology was established in Los Angeles, California.
b. 1970 the Chicago
Seven are found not guilty of inciting riots at the Democratic National Convention
in Chicago in 1968.
c. 1972
in California the California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson
invalidated the death penalty and converted all sentences to life imprisonment
(the state has not executed anyone since 2006 and now has more than 700 prisoners
rotting on Death Row).
d. 1979 Richard Petty won his then
record 6th Daytona 500 as leaders Donnie Anderson and Cale
Yarborough crashed on the final lap.
e. 2010 WikiLeaks published hundreds
of thousands of classified documents from a U.S. Army soldier now known as
Chelsea Manning who was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 35 years but
had “her” sentence commuted by Obama after serving 7 years but is again back
behind bars for contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about Julian
Assange.
Reflections on the Chicago Seven Trial: “The Conspiracy in the
streets needs: freedom, actors, peace, turf, money, sunshine, musicians,
instruments, people, props, cars, air, water, costumes, sound equipment, love,
guns, freaks, friends, anarchy, Huey free, a truck, airplanes, power, glory,
old clothes, space, truth, Nero, paint, paint, help, rope, swimming hole, ice
cream, dope, nookie, moonship, Om, lords, health, no hassles, land, pigs, time,
patriots, spacesuits, a Buick, people's justice, Eldridge, lumber, panthers,
real things, good times." -- Leaflet handed out by the Conspiracy
office in the week before the trial of the Chicago Seven. .
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