December 29 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

Maybe storms are jealous and envy those that get all the attention and headlines but after the deadly devasted winter storms in the Northeast, the Pacific Northwest tries to take center stage as strong winds and snow have caused several traffic deaths and thousands to be without power in the cold in Washington and Oregon. The winter storms that have raised havoc among the airlines especially Southwest seems to be lessening under the belated threats by the DOT as Southwest announced only 39 cancellations for today and announced normal flight operations would resume this Friday (will believe that when the planes leave and depart on or very near to scheduled time. For those celebrating the 4^th day of Kwanzaa and Ujamaa (shared wealth and work) and for those declining numbers in Northeast but new numbers in the northwest still without power, the 3^nd red candle lit will further lighten the darken rooms.  I hope you enjoy today’s Ridley's Believe It Or Not  and find it worthy to read and if not reply “Unsubscribe” to be removed.  
Ridley’s Believe It Or Not December 29, 2022
          Noted Holiday: National Tick Tock Day, another celebration created by Ruth and Thomas Roy not to honor the videos posted on Tik Tok, a site due to CCP ownership and influence, Congress will be moving to ban, but to encourage people to complete tasks needed to be completed before the clock ticks on midnight December 31.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “aculeate” which means an insect having a sting like a bee, wasp or ant which is very painful and possibly deadly if the victim is allergic.  
          Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1993 was “Hero” by Mariah Carey on a run of 1 week to share with 10 other songs achieving number 1 status while 6 acts achieved their first number 1 song.  Here is a music video with lyrics of Mariah Carey performing “Hero”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IA3ZvCkRkQ
          Noted Birthdays: Stanley “Tookie” Williams III, born on this day in 1953, was an infamous gang member who founded the Crips in Los Angeles as its first major African American street gang and in the 70’s was the de facto crime boss of South Los Angeles, a career that end when he was arrested for 4 murders occurring during 2 robberies in 1979. He was convicted in 1981 and sentenced to death but like most on San Quentin managed to delay his execution for years until finally executed by lethal injection on December 13, 2005.
          Notable Events that occurred on December 29
          1.      1913—Cecil B. DeMille began filming Hollywood’s first feature film The Squaw Man a silent Western starring Dustin Farnum.
          2.      1934—Moving to preparing for World War II, Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 signed by France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and the U.S. that limited the construction of aircraft carriers, battleships and battlecruisers but not other warships and the London Naval Treaty of 1930 signed by the same nations which addressed the tonnage of aircraft carriers, battleships and battlecruisers and added other warships to the limits on construction.
          3.      1989—The Nikkei NI225 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed at its all time high of 38,915.87 to become the high mark of the Japanese asset bubble. In 33 years the index has recovered somewhat but closed today at 26,094.50, for its first annual loss in 4 years.
          4.      1998—In a what took you so long but still better late than never, the Khmer Rouge apologized for its genocide than turned Cambodia into the killing fields with over 1.5 -2 million innocent victims.
          5.       2006—In a better late than never the United Kingdom settled its Anglo-American loan taken out on July 15, 1946.
          Quote of the Day: Leonard Teale, an Australian actor after visiting Cambodia in 1979: “The Pol Pot regime started off with the view that everything in the cities was corrupt… the strength of the country lay in its soil, with the peasants… Pol Pot’s regime took it a lot further than that. They enslaved people to do it. Furthermore, they decided that anybody who was corrupted by the city, that is, anyone who had a Western education, whether doctor or official or their wife or child, it was impossible to re-educate them. So like a cancer they had to be removed, cut out and destroyed.”
So much for the idea after the Holocaust of “Never Again!”

Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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