Friday, December 2, 2022

December 2 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

PAC-12 B-Ball for Stanford is looking a lot like PAC-12 Football as the Cardinal was decimated in the 1st half, falling behind by 21 points and although they outscored the Bruins in the 2nd half and pulled within 8 points in the closing minutes at the end, the curse of turnovers killed them, and they lost 80-66 to drop to 3-5. As winter nears and temperatures chill, time to take out of mothball any faux fur garments for wearing. Please enjoy today’s Ridley's Believe It Or Not. Hope you find them informative and worthy of your time to read. If not, please reply “Unsubscribe” and I will delete you from the mailing list.

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not December 2, 2022
          National Holiday: The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, marks the December 2, 1949 of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. Unfortunately slavery has evolved into trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation, the worst forms of child labor, forced marriage, and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict affecting some 50 million people worldwide.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “abnegate” which means to renounce or repudiate which is something voters yearn to see when it comes to the ad hominem attacks hurled by our leaders at those with opposing views.
          Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 2015 was “Hello” by  Adele on a run of 7 weeks  to share with 8 other songs reaching achieving number 1 status while 10 acts achieved their first number 1.  Here is a video recording of Adele performing “Hello”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A
          Famous Birthdays: Nicholas Charles Dingley better known to his fans as Razzle, born on this day in 1960 was the English drummer for the Finish glam band Hanoi Rocks but after a night of partying on December 8, 1984 with fellow band members at Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil’s house in Redondo Beach the party came to an end when the beer was exhausted. Ignoring the wise warning to not drink and drive Vince and Razzle got into Vince’s De Tomaso Pantera to make a run to a liquor store for replenishments only on their return to crash into another car, severely injuring its occupants Lisa Hogan and Daniel Smithers  and killing instantly Razzle. Neil’s blood alcohol was .17 and he was charged with vehicular manslaughter and in a real slap in the wrist after pleading guilty was ordered to pay $2.6 million in restitution and  sentenced to 30 days in jail and 5 years’ probation but served only 19 days.
          Notable Events that occurred on December 2
          1.       1899—In what became to be known as the Philippine Thermopylae 60  Filipino troops under the command of Brigadier General Gregorio del Pilar at the Tirad Pass held off an attacking force of some 600 American troops at a cost of 52 dead including Pilar to allow President Emilio Aquinaldo and remnants of his army to escape. The Americans lost 3 dead and 9 wounded.
          2.       1954—The U.S. Senate voted 65-22 to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”
          3.       1956—Fidel Castro, Che Guevara  and 80 members of the 26th of July Movement disembark from the Granma in Oriente Province to launch the Cuban Revolution to overthrow the Cuban Dictator Batista.
          4.       2001—In the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history until surpassed by the WorldCom bankruptcy a year later, Enron with $64.5 billion in assets filed for Chapter XI protection.
          5.       2020—Cannabis  and cannabis resin were removed from the list of most  dangerous drugs in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961 by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
          Quote of the Day: Bethany McClean and Peter Elkind in The Smartest Guys in the Room. “In its accounting work for Enron, Andersen had been sloppy and weak. But that's how Enron had always wanted it. In truth, even as they angrily pointed fingers, the two deserved each other.”

Michael Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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