Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 3, 2020 The Kansas City
Chiefs ended their Boston Red Sox imitation by ending 54 years of Super Bowl frustration
with a win over the 49ers in a game marked by some questionable calls and two
political ads one for Blumberg and one for Trump; Senate will have its members
explaining to the nation willing to watch the same the reasons for their votes
prior the State of the Union Address tomorrow and the actual vote on Wednesday;
the news cycle has shifted to Iowa and its caucuses now voting for the
Democratic nominee with Biden’s chances really riding on a strong outcome which
may not be in the cards (Quid Pro Joe may be getting a bit testy over the
fallout over his son Hunter’s questionable Ukraine and China dealings as he
lashed out at DNC lackey and NBC reporter Savannah Gutherie over her grilling
of him on Hunter); the DNC has announced that quality control problems are
delaying release of results of the caucus voteing; while pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to
develop a vaccine for the coronavirus which has now expanded to some 17,000
infected with 360 deaths, some potentially helpful news that the transmission
is fecal to digestive which once more proves the adage on should always was one’s
hands after going to the restroom; in a reminder that the coronavirus is a
serious matter Apple has announced it is closing its Apple Stores in China; 5
passengers were wounded and 1 killed in a shooting on a Greyhound Bus bound for
San Francisco near the Grapevine in Southern California early this morning with
the suspect now in custody; in a reason why this poet calls CNN the Cack News
Network, that moniker was reinforced by CNN Reporter John Harwood tweeting that
the 25 Republican Senators voting for no witnesses were from the states that
had joined the Confederacy, implying in some fashion Dixie still exists; we may
be in climate change, but Mother Nature is doing a great job of disguising that
fact by unleashing another arctic storm heading to the Midwest with snow and
freezing temperatures; J.C. Penny, once a retail icon is in great danger from
internet sales and shifting consumer patterns from being delisted from the New
York Stock Exchange; in Chicago, as of February
2, 2020, 189 people have been shot of whom 32 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 4 behind Chicago with 28
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 Glenn Gray and The Loma Linda Orchestra, the fact you are not in the
grips of obnixely acts, a relevant quote
by Marine General Smedley Butler on war, secure
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1. Four Chaplains Day—commemorating the heroic
acts of 4 chaplains aboard the SS
Dorchester which was torpedoed and sunk by a U-Boat who gave up their life
jackets and life jackets to save 4 soldiers and civilians in the water out of
the 220 of the 900 aboard who survived.
2. Women’s
Physicians’ Day—celebrated since 2016 on the birthday on this day in 1821 of
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman’s
doctor in the United States, to honor the achievements of women as doctors and
promote their joining the profession.
3. 1944 Number
1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1944 on this day on a run of 5
weeks in the position was “My Heart Tells Me (Can I Believe My Heart?) Glenn
Gray, leader of The Casa Loma Orchestra. Here is recording of the song with
Eugenie Baird as vocals: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mnet-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mnet&p=glenn+gray+can+i+believe+my+heart#id=12&vid=83f8714f4bdeab86ba63f67404f9b1e1&
action=click This note saxophonist
died from cancer at the age of 63 and Baird retired from singing in 1962 after
marrying the president of Smith Corona and died at age 64.
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day as we move to words starting with “o” is “obnixely” which means
earnestly or strenuously which describes to a tee the resistance of Blues to
Trump’s agenda.
5. Hunger Strike
While Living—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1909 of noted French philosopher,
activist and mystic, Simone Weil who fled to the United States with her parents
and was recruited by the OSS to return to France as an agent but because she
felt that she had to support the French starving under Vichy and Nazi
occupation ate very little and ultimately starved herself to death on August
24, 1943.
On this day
in:
a. 1917
after running on a campaign that heralded the fact he had kept the U.S. out of
war, President Wilson severed relations with Germany due to unrestricted
submarine warfare and began the move toward a declaration of war against it on
April 6, 1917.
b. 1945 U.S. and Philippine
forces began a month long campaign to fulfill Mac Arthur’s promise that he
would return and liberate Manila from the Japanese and in the process destroyed
much of the city.
c. 1959 in the “day in which the music died”
a private plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper”
Richards crashed in bad weather near Clear Lake, Iowa killing all aboard.
d. 1984 John Buster and the research
team at UCLA-Harbor Medical Center announced the first embryo transfer from one
woman to another.
e. 1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins in
piloting the Space Shuttle Discovery became
the first female pilot of the a Space Shuttle when she piloted it to a fly
around of the MIR Space Station in preparation for the next launch of a Shuttle
which would dock at the MIR Space Station.
Reflections on war by
a Marine General who fought in many including World War I and at the time of
his death in 1940 was our most decorated Marine: “I have visited eighteen
government hospitals for veterans. In them are a total of about 50,000 destroyed
men -- men who were the pick of the nation eighteen years ago. The very able
chief surgeon at the government hospital; at Milwaukee, where there are 3,800
of the living dead, told me that mortality among veterans is three times as
great as among those who stayed at home. Boys” ― Smedley D. Butler, War Is A Racket!: And Other Essential
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