Friday, December 9, 2022

December 9 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

The Griner Family is celebrating her release, but the Whalen Family has a lump of coal under their tree as he is still wallowing in a Russian cell under bogus espionage charges and more and more people are questioning the transfer that released a notorious and dangerous arms trader known as “The Merchant of Death” (a deja vu look when in exchange for Bergdahl we released 5 Taliban leaders who probably have long since returned to their respect conflicts). I trust you have addressed and deposited in the mail all of the Christmas cards you were planning to send so you have time to read and 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 9, 2022
          Noted Holiday: International Day of Veterinary Medicine, not sure when or  who created this day to honor the work of  veterinarians but do know that the day was chosen to mark the anniversary of the world’s first school of veterinary medicine in Lyon, France in 1762 and the practice of treating animals has been with us since the time of the Babylonians.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “acanaceous” which means bearing prickles or thistles which some plants have like roses or blackberries to protect themselves from herbivores.                                   Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 2008 was “Live Your Life” by T.I. feat Rihanna, on a run of 5 weeks noncontinuous  to share with 13 other songs reaching achieving number 1 status while 7 acts, including Static Major who became the 7th artist to achieve first time number 1 status posthumously,   achieved their first number 1 song.  Static Major died at age 33 in a hospital from breathing difficulties from the myasthenia gravis he suffered. Here is a music video with lyrics of T.I. feat. Rihanna  performing “Live Your Life”:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koVHN6eO4Xg       
           Noted Birthdays: Jacob Dylan, born on this day in 1969, is the son of Bob Dylan and creator of the rock band Wallflowers; he is still performing today as a musician and songwriter but has not yet filled his father’s shoes.
          Notable Events that occurred on December 9.
          1.       1946—At Nuremburg 23 defendants, 20 of whom were medical doctors, were tried for human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. 7 of the defendants were acquitted, 7 were found guilty and hanged on June 2, 1948, and 9 were found guilty and sentenced to terms ranging from 10 years to life although all had their sentences commuted to shorter terms and were released between 1951 and 1955. 
          2.       1950—Harry Gold was convicted for helping Karl Fuchs pass classified information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 30 years in prison, of which he served some 30 years before being released.
          3.       1968—Douglas Engelbart gave what many call the “Mother of All Demos” when he debuted the computer mouse, hypertext and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System.
          4.       1996—Gwen Jacob, a Guelph University student on a  hot July 19 day in 1991 was arrested for being topless in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, convicted and fined $75 which prompted her to appeal and her conviction was reversed by the Ontario Court of Appeals which the province did not appeal so if in Ontario, a woman wants to appear in public topless, she can without fear of arrest.
          5.       2021—In an example of how desperate illegals are to come to the U.S., a semi-truck with 160 illegals primarily from Guatemala, some of whom had paid $13,000 for passage to our border overturned near Chiapas, Mexico, killing 55 and injuring some 100 people.
          Quote of the Day:  Brigadier General Telford Taylor in his closing of his opening statement at the Doctors’ Trials: “Guilt for the oppressions and crimes of the Third Reich is widespread, but it is the guilt of the leaders that is deepest and most culpable. Who could German medicine look to keep the profession true to its traditions and protect it from the ravaging inroads of Nazi pseudo-science? This was the supreme responsibility of the leaders of German medicine—Rostock and Rose and Schroeder and Handloser. That is why their guilt is greater than that of any of the other defendants in the dock. They are the men who utterly failed their country and their profession, who showed neither courage nor wisdom nor the vestiges of moral character. It is their failure, together with the failure with the leaders of Germany in other walks of life, that debauched Germany and led to her defeat. It is because of them and others like them that we all live in a stricken world."

Michael Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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