Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 27, 2020 At a time more
than ever when we need unity to fight an unknown threat in terms of spreading
and lethality, Pelosi and Schumer are once again showing terminal signs of
Trump Derangement Syndrome trying to turn the coronavirus into a political
weapon to use against Trump while the two B’s seeking the nomination Bloomberg
and Biden were slammed by fact checkers from misleading statements that Trump
has cut back of NIH funding; although Biden appears to be leading in South
Carolina, Sanders is surging for Super Tuesday and may prove unstoppable which
has the DNC in a world of hurt even as Pelosi with a straight face indicates
the party is united and will support whomever is nominated including Socialist
Sanders (doubt if that message will resonate in the Districts Trump won in
2016); markets still being hammered by the rise in coronavirus cases in and out
of China but any stock involved in possible vaccines, testing, or treatment is
going off the charts; not only are a majority of the co-hosts on The View, clueless but it looks like the
leftist stooges in the studio audience are also as they were chastised by
McCain over applause over alleged failings of Pence as overseer of the efforts
against coronavirus here; Anthony Ferrill a black electrician who worked for Molson
for 17 years evidently had disputes with workmates and felt he was
discriminated against so he returned the company’s Milwaukee brewery site and
shot an killed 5 co-workers before turning the gun on himself; disgraced former
Blue Mayor of Baltimore was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion;
Maricopa County in Arizona, the state’s most populous county, became the second
county in the country to become a 2nd Amendment Preservation City;
the “Lovebirds” Strzok’s and Page’s texts and emails to each other read by Dean
Cain and Kristy Swanson brought the house down at CPAC; in Chicago, as of
February 26, 2020, 330 people have been shot of whom 65 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 fallen 17 behind Chicago with 48
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 Johnny Ray and the Four Lads, the fact that you are opposed to ochlocracy, a
relevant quote by Michael klare on the invasion of Iraq to liberate, 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. International Polar Bear Day—created by Polar Bear International
to create awareness of the dangers faced by Polar Bears due to shrinking sea ice
caps caused by climate change.
2. World NGO Day—created in 2014 and observed in 96 countries to promote awareness
of the importance of nongovernament organizations to address social and
economic issues.
3. 1952 Number 1 Number One Song— the number
one song in 1952 on this day on a run of 11 weeks in the position was “Cry” by Johnny
Ray and the Four Lads. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlymVnbjEs.
Ray struggled with alcoholism most of his life and his Crying stopped on
February 24, 1990 from liver failure.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ochlocracy” which means government
by mobs which describes what Antifa wants to impose upon us.
5. Worthy on or off—celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1961 of noted professional basketball player James
Worthy who played with the Los Angeles Lakers.
On this day
in:
a. 1951 the 22nd Amendment limiting the president to two
terms was ratified the states; but unfortunately we did not address the need
for term limits of members of Congress, too many of whom make holding office a
career which is not what the founding fathers had in mind.
b. 1962 in
what should have been a wake-up call that we were supporting an unpopular
leader in Diem, two South Vietnamese pilots bombed the Presidential Palace in a
failed assassination attempt.
c. 1964 the government of Italy asked
for help in stabilizing the lean of the Tower of Pisa which after years of
study and efforts was successfully completed in May of 2008.
d. 1991 President George H. W. Bush announced that Kuwait had
been liberated..
e. 2004 Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult
Aum Shinrikyo was sentenced to death for his role in the nerve gas sarin
attacks on the Tokyo Subway in 1995 and finally had his date with the gallows
met on July 6, 2018.
Reflections
on the invasion of Iraq to liberate Kuwait: "The invasion of Iraq was not
an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with
Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied
Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.” Michael Klare,
Five Colleges Professor of Peace and World Security Studies.
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