The Chinese “weather balloon” is no longer drifting across the
U.S. with cameras clicking and gathering all manner of data but we are now
finding out that some 4 months earlier another Chinese spy balloon crashed off
the coast of Hawaii and other spy balloons may have crossed southern portions
of the nation for a brief period of time which was discovered after Trump left
office but the excuse of collateral damage against really sparsely areas of the
nation like Montana and Alaska is being ridiculed. In the war against the 2nd
Amendment a District Court in Oklahoma has ruled that a federal law banning
users or addicts of controlled substance from owning firearms is illegal. Since
federal law banning the use, possession and sale of marijuana is illegal most
banks will not allow the use of credit cards which means legal dispensaries of
marijuana have become a magnet for thugs wanting to rob stores with large amounts of cash on the
premises, incentivizing big time anyone working there to be armed. Tonight the
Grammy Awards will be handed out and we wonder whether Woke announcements in
favor of leftist causes will overshadow the artists’ performances. Add gas
stoves to the list of products that the Biden Administration wants to ban that
users are outraged so bad that Senators
Cruz and Manchin have introduced a bill to prevent the Biden Administration
from banning gas stoves or imposing new regulations that would significantly
increase their cost. The Stanford Women were upset by the University of
Washington in a close game with numerous lead changes. I hope you enjoy today’s
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 5, 2023
Noted Holidays: California Western
Monarch Butterfly Day created in 2004 by the California Legislature
and celebrated on February 5 of each year marking the migration of the huge clouds
of Monarchs that despite their frail gossamer wings head some 2500 miles to Mexico
and then return to sites on the Central Coast.
Word of the Day: The
word of the day is “affreux” which means frightening which should describe how
taxpayers must feel when they learn the size of our national debt which keeps
growing at a staggering rate.
Number 1 Song of the
Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1967 was “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees
on a run of 6 weeks following 1 week in December 1966 to share with 18
other songs achieving number 1 status, while 8 acts achieved their first number
1 song. Here is a recording with lyrics of The Monkees performing “I’m
a Believer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9YIsKIEbA
Noted Birthdays: Barbara
Lynn Herzstein, better known to her fans as Barbara Seagull (adapted as a
result of her in the film Endless Summer having to toss a seagull into
the air to teach it to fly which had to be redone numerous times until the
seagull’s neck was broken) and Barbara Hershey, a noted actress who has been in
the silver screen and TV business since 1965 and whose early career was
wallowing during her 6 year relationship with David Carradine but blossomed
after they broke up. Notable
Events that occurred on February 5:
1. 1958—A B-47 bomber carrying a thermonuclear
warhead from Homestead Air Force in Florida on a training bombing run collided
near Savannah with an F-86 Fighter that
crashed after the pilot ejected and the bomber remained aloft but was granted
authority to land at the nearest military airport but to first jettison the bomb
which it did over the waters off the coast of Tybee Island. The bomb had its
thermonuclear material but it is not clear whether the plutonium capsule which
would be needed to create a thermonuclear blast had be installed. We do know
the bomb did not detonate after falling into the waters of Tybee Island. The
bomb has never been found which would provide the answer to that question despite
extensive searches for it.
2. 1971—After
overcoming in flight some technical problems that would have terminated the
landing and with the prior failure of Apollo 13 potentially resulting in a
termination of the Apollo Program, Alan Shephard and Edgar Mitchell in Apollo
14 landed on the Moon while Stuart Roosa remained in the Command Module and
orbited the Moon. Apollo 14 is probably best remembered for Alan Shepard
smuggling two golf balls and the head of a Wilson 6 iron on board the command
module and then after landing and in
full view of the TV cameras hitting two golf balls with a makeshift 6 iron
which despite the Moon’s week gravity flew only 27 and 40 yards due to the
movement limitations in his space suit.
3. 1985—In a better late than never and what
took you so long moment, Ugo Veter, the mayor of Rome, and Chedli
Klibi mayor of Carthage, a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia, met in Tunis to sign
a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which had lasted
2.131 years.
4. 1997—The Swiss
National Bank, UBS and Credit Suisse aka the Big Three of Swiss banking announced
the formation of a $71 million fund earmarked to assist Holocaust survivors and
their families.
5. 2020—President
Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial with 52
Red Senators voting against impeachment for the charge of abuse of power and
Mitt Romney voting in favor to become the first senator to vote in favor of
removing a president of his own party and all 53 Red Senators voting against for
the charge of obstruction of justice.
Quotes of the Day: Major
Howard Richardson, the pilot of the B-47 that collided with the F-86
reading from the receipt he signed when bomb was loaded abroad: “During this
maneuver I will allow no assembly or disassembly of this item while in my
custody, nor will I allow any active capsule to be inserted into it at any
time.”
Lieutenant Colonel Derek Duke, USAF (retired), author of Chasing Nukes that
quotes Howard H. Dixon a former Air Force crew chief who loaded nuclear weapons
onto planes at Hunter Airforce Base in Savannah from 1957 to 1959 “Never in my
Air Force career did I install a Mark 15 weapon without installing the
plutonium capsule.”
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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