At Tyre Nichols Celebration of Life, Al Sharpton who is an expected
attendee when a black has been killed by a white police officer was present who
claimed that if Tyre had been white, he would not have been beaten to death by
the 5 black officers (should blacks paint themselves white when in neighborhoods
where the police force has been integrated?). First mega Blue donor Bankman-Fried discovered
$38 donated to Blue candidates would not
prevent his arrest for securities fraud dwarfing Maddow’s Ponzi scheme and now
we learn that long time lawyer and Blue megadonor
Tom Girardi has been charged with embezzling $18 million from clients. In a
scary news item, it has been revealed that the highest increase in deaths from
fentanyl is in children 1-4 of drug users. I hope you enjoy today’s Ridley's
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 1, 2023
Noted Holidays: National Girls
and Women in Sports Day, created by
President Reagan in 1987 as National Women in Sports Day and expanded to
include girls in 1989 and celebrated on the first Wednesday in February. The
celebrates the contribution of girls and women in sports but may be under
attack as leftist Woke forces want to allow boys and men who “identify” as
females to participate in women’s sports which their higher muscle mass and
larger organs give them a tremendous advantage and end the advances made under
Title IX.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “aestival” which means of or
pertaining to summer which for many of us under winter storm warnings describes
the days we are looking forward to enjoying .
Number 1
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1971 was “My Sweet Lord”
by George Harrison on a run of 3 weeks following a run of 1 week in the end of December
1970 to share with 18 other acts
achieving number 1 status, while 18 acts achieved their first number 1 song
including Janis Joplin who became the 2nd artist to achieve number 1
status posthumously. Here is a recording with lyrics of George Harrison
recording “My Sweet Lord”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04v-SdKeEpE
Noted Birthdays: Brandon Lee, the son of actor and martial arts star Bruce
Lee was born on this day in 1965 in Oakland, California and pursued an acting/martial
career like his father. His career was just starting to take off when he landed
a leading role in The Crow and in an incident that Alec Baldwin would in
2021 ape was shot when a bullet in an earlier scene had not exited when the gun
misfired. When the gun loaded with blanks was fired at him it propelled the bullet
to strike a major artery that caused his death on March 31,1993 with only 8
days shooting left to finish the movie with Brandon needing to be in 3 scenes.
Thanks to stand-ins and CGI the movie was completed and released in 1994 to gross
over $50 million in the U.S. after spending $23 million to produce it.
Notable
Events that occurred on February 1:
1. 1960—In
a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina, Joseph
McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond all black students at North Carolina Agricultural
and Technical State University sat down at the whites only lunch counter at F.W.
Woolworths and were refused service and refused to leave until the store closed.
The next day the number of students increased to 20, then to 60 and the sit
down movement coupled with boycotts of segregated stores started spreading
across the country. F.W. Woolworths continued its segregation policy until the
passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act but in Greensboro the store manager after
suffering losses of $200,000 and having his salary reduced on July 25,1960 ordered
4 black employees to remove their work uniforms and sit down at the lunch
counter to be served.
2. 1968—The New
York Railroad merged into the Pennsylvania Railroad to become Penn Central
Transportation which sadly filed for bankruptcy protection some two years later.
3. 2003—Returning from
a successful mission and unaware that some heat shield tiles has been damaged
on takeoff, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on reentry into the
atmosphere, killing all 7 astronauts aboard.
4. 2004—During the stoning ritual during the Hajj at Mina,
251 pilgrims were crushed to death in a stampede and 244 were injured.
5.
2012—In sportsmanship be damned, thousands
of supporters of the soccer team Al Masry, in the Port Said Stadium after
beating Al Ahly 3-1 stormed the outnumbered Al Ahly section to kill 74 fans and
injure 500 (on can barely imagine the carnage if Al Masry had lost.
Quotes of the
Day: In an interview just prior to his death, Lee quoted a passage from
Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky he had chosen for his wedding
invitations for a wedding that now would never occur; it is now inscribed on
his tombstone: “Because we don't know when
we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet
everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number
really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your
childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't
even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more?
Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise?
Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..”
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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