When President Wilson had his stroke, his wife Edith was
instrumental in keeping that fact and the stroke’s effect on his physical and
mental faculties from the American public. Jill Biden from the day Biden
announced and made his rare excursions from his campaign bunker basement and continuing
from the day he took office has done yeoman’s duty in protecting him from the
press and having to answer questions that expose his cognitive difficulties.
Finally and maybe because of the obfuscation from the Karine Jean-Pierre over
the classified documents revealed in non-secure locations, the press is showing
its frustration and outrage over Jill’s efforts. The body cams of the Memphis
Police arrest and alleged beating of Tyre Nichols which resulted in his death
are expected to be released soon and Memphis and cities across the nation with
memories of the riots caused by the death of George Floyd are bracing for what
they hope will not be a déjà vu (Brian Kemp having seen violent demonstrations
against police after an environmental activist shot at one of Atlanta’s
officers and was killed by return fire has declared an emergency order and
called out 1000 members of the Georgia National Guard). I hope you also enjoy
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 27, 2023
Noted Holidays: International Day of
Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust, created by the United
Nations General Assembly on November 5, 2005 and first celebrated on January
27, 2006 and annually on that date thereafter as January 27th marked
the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration
and death camp, liberated by the Red Army in 1945. What should be troubling to
us as the day is observed and we pledge “Never again!” is the rise of
antisemitism and mass shootings in synagogues in this nation.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “aeolistic” which means long winded
which when used to describe speeches or lectures describes acts that will put
most of the listeners to sleep.
Number 1 Song of the Day: The
number 1 song on this day in 1974 was “You’re Sixteen” Ringo Starr on a run of 1
weeks to share with 34 other acts achieving number 1 status (a record also
reached in 1975), while 25 acts achieved their first number 1 song. Here
is a music video of pre knighted Ringo Starr performing “You’re Sixteen”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upytFIvcMJY
Noted Birthdays: “The Oxford
Bond Girl” aka Rosamund Pike born on this day in 1979 who is the only actress
to have graduated from Oxford who appeared in a Bond film “Live and Let Die”
whose role was that of a double agent whose is killed in a sword duel in a plane
soon to crash by C.I.A agent Hallie Berry working with Bond and whose acting
career to date has resulted in 34 motion picture roles.
Notable
Events that occurred on January 27:
1. 1967—Astronauts
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee on board Apollo 1 in a launch verification
test of a launch scheduled for February 21, 1967 were killed when a fire broke
out in the space capsule due to an electrical short. Since the rocket was
unfueled NASA wrongly assumed the hazard of a fire was negligible.
2. 1973—With
the signing of the Paris Peace Accords the Vietnam War for the United States
came to an end with Army Colonel William Nolde gaining the dubious distinction
of being the last America combat casualty and the South Vietnamese doomed to fight
on until Saigon fell on April 30, 1976 as two Marines on the American Embassy’s
security detail Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge were killed in a rocket attack
as the Embassy was being evacuated but 18 servicemen would later join them in
the Mayaguez seizure and rescue to be the final 18 names added to the
Vietnam War Memorial.
3. 1996—Germany first
observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
4. 2010—Apple Corporation announced the first generation of
iPad, a tablet computer.
5.
2011—16,000 Yemeni’s took to the
streets of Yemen’s capital to signal the start of the Yemen Revolution with
protestors protesting poverty, corruption, and the over 30 year rule of Yemeni
President Ali Abdullah Saleh and would come to a conclusion 13 months later
with President Saleh leaving office.
Quote of the Day: David Vergun Associate
Editor and Writer, Department of Defense and Contributor, Freelance reviewing Charles Lamb’s review of conduct
of the Mayaguez incident: “Mission command, the military’s current
doctrine of conducting warfare, relies heavily on decentralization and
operating on commander intent, he [Charles Lamb] said. ‘As good as that
is, you have to provide [adequate] oversight.’ Instead, commanders in the
Mayaguez incident assumed subordinates would arrange requisite air support for
ground operations, which did not happen, and subordinates assumed they had the
same intelligence their superiors were using, which was not true. Questioning
commander intent in light of operational challenges would have quickly revealed
these false assumptions, but that kind of give and take was largely absent in
the Mayaguez Crisis. Three Marines were left behind on the island and were
believed to have been executed, he said. Their names are the last ones on the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial.”
Michael P. Ridley aka the
Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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