February 7, 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

Biden delivered his 2^nd SOTUS which lacked the theater of Trump’s SOTUS which after he finished then House Speaker Pelosi tore up but the drama was still present as the House at times looked more like Parliament as Reds were shouting “Liar” at some of the lies Biden with a straight face was spewing out. The speech which barely mentioned the border, drug deaths and the 8 day Chinese spy balloon incursion sounded like a campaign for reelection which will face strong headwinds even from Blues who believe in really large numbers that Biden is too old and frail to run again. Lots of standing ovations mostly by Blues but one when the parents of Tyre Nichols were introduced produced loud standing ovations from both sides of the aisles. The cameras were not focused on our military leaders when he falsely claimed we are stronger that ever before to face a confrontation  with China. In a difficult act to follow, Sarah Huckabee Sanders the first female governor of Arkansas and the youngest governor in the nation gave a spirited rebuttal to Biden. LeBron James has surpassed Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s NBA career point scored record of 38,387 who was sitting at the game in the front. LeBron turns 39 on December 30 of this year and has an outside chance of breaking John Stockton’s assist record of 15,806. Marjorie Taylor Green who mocked Biden’s handling of the spy balloon brought a large white balloon to her office but did not bring it into the Capitol but was seen shouting “Liar” to some of  Biden’s claims. Biden proclaimed we were free of COVID but a very old looking Senator Sanders looked like a fool as the cameras panned to him as the only Representative or Senator wearing a mask. 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 February 7, 2023
          Noted Holidays: Rose Day not sure what floral association created or when the day was created to kick off “Love Week” which culminates on Valentine’s Day but today would be a great day to decide what gifts you shower your Valentine with and pick out the florist where you acquire the roses you will also bestow on your Valentine.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “agacerie ” which means enticement or coquetry behaviors which wanna-be Valentines might want to be honing before Valentine’s Day.
          Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1965 was “I Feel Fine” by The Beatles on a run of 2 weeks following a 1 week run in December 1964 s to share with 25 other songs achieving number 1 status, while 14 acts achieved their first number song and The Beatles and The Supremes had 5 and 4 respectfully. Here is a recording with lyrics of The Beatles performing  “I Feel Fine”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV5EVI4tU (while Ringo is not on the drums but working out on a stationary bicycle).
           Noted Birthdays: Desmond Doss, born on this day in 1916 and the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor for saving 75 wounded American soldiers on April 29, 1945 during the Battle of Hacksaw Ridge on Okinawa , commemorated in the Academy Award winning film Hacksaw Ridge.
           Notable Events that occurred on February 7:
           1.     1900—A Chinese migrant fell ill in San Francisco from what later proved to be the bubonic plague representing the first plague in the continental U.S.
           2.     1962—The U.S. banned all exports to and imports from Cuba.
           3.     1990—The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party surrendered its political monopoly leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union which today Putin at great cost to his forces due to arms supplied sometimes belatedly to Ukraine by the U.S. and NATO dreams of restoring with his invasion of Ukraine.
           4.     1995—Ramzi Yosef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan at a guest house in the act of putting a bomb in a doll to be extradited, tried, convicted and sentenced to 2 life sentences plus 240 years and now rots in a SuperMax Prison in Florence, Colorado awaiting death to free his 54-55 year old body from a really miserable prison
existence.
            5.     2014—British scientists announced that hominoid footprints discovered and photographed in May, 2013 at a newly uncovered sediment bed near Hippisburgh Beach in Norwich were 800,000 years old, making them the oldest discovered outside the African continent.
          Quotes of the Day: Raymond Kelly, longest serving Commissioner of the NYPD on the World Trade Center Bombing: “I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.”
           Bobby Ray Inman, retired Admiral, former Deputy Director of the CIA and former Director of the National Security Agency:  “As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.”

Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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