Friday, April 21, 2023

April 20, 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

Journalist Matt Taibbi is a hero for exposing prior to Musk’s purchase of Twitter the involvement of federal agencies in censoring conservative views  but instead the ranking Blue member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government outraged that the truth on the collusion of the DOJ and FBI with Twitter is threatening him with perjury for conflating CISA with CIS even after admitting his error and deleting a tweet wound the leftist Blues with the truth and they become like a dangerous wounded animal. Kim Potter will be released on Monday and her mug shot is of a deteriorated woman. The gig economy helped to save us from a major depression and the pandemic closed many business across the nation went out of business but it looks like Biden’s nominee for Labor Secretary  Julie Su is before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions as the queen of unionization and the elimination of thousands upon thousands of independent contractors with her intent to bring California’s failed and cumbersome AB 5’s goal to significantly reduce the number of independent contractors and assuming the job they were doing make them employees. In a great disappointment to Musk’s desire to reach the Moon and Mars, the massive rocket SpaceX would use blew up 4 minutes into its flight. Driving in Texas has just gotten a little safer and as 50 yr. old Christopher Faran Stanford (no relation to Leland Stanford) with 8 DWI’s, 4 of which
required prison time picked up this 9th with a BAC of .267  pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
          April 20, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet 
          Noted Holidays: National D.A.R.E Day:  Created jointly by the LAPD and LAUSD and spearheaded by Ruth Rich head of the LAUSD’s Health Education Department who created a 17 lesson curriculum to help students resist drugs and alcohol. The program has become more important as with the tidal wave deadly Fentanyl manufactured by the Chinese and then sent to the Mexican cartels and then smuggled across our borders to kill in 2021 almost 107,000 Americans many of whom died taking a counterfeit prescription drug that had fentanyl in it giving rise to the new slogan “1 Pill Can Kill”.
          Word of the Day:  The word of the day is “amplect” which means to embrace; to amplect communism is to embrace policies that will almost always result in economic ruin.
          Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 2008 was “Touch My Body” by Mariah Carey on a run of 2 weeks. The song shared with 14 other songs that achieved number 1 status  while 7 acts including Static Major who was the 7th artist  to achiever to attain number 1 status posthumously, achieved number 1 status  for the first time. Here is a music video with lyrics Mariah Carey performing “Touch My Body”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b8erWuBA44
          April 20 Famous Birthdays: Steve Spurrier, born on this day in 1945 in Miami, Florida who became the Heisman Trophy winner in 1966 went on to play 10 years in the NFL, primarily as a backup quarterback and who then spent after his retirement in 1977 for the next 38 years as a college and NFL coach and had great success coaching Florida and South Carolina. After retiring Governor Niki awarded him the Order of the Palmetto, the high award the South Carolina government can award its citizens.
          Noted Events on April 20:
          1.    1945—With the Red Army closing in on the Fuhrer Bunker on this 56th Birthday, Adolf Hitler came out to greet and Iron Crosses  on a troop of young teens of the  Hitler Youth and would commit suicide 10 days later simultaneous with his new wife Eva Braun.

           2.    1999—In Columbine, Colorado  18 yr. Eric Harris and 17 yr. Dylan Klebold, entered  Columbine High School and shot and killed 13 and wounding 24 others before committing suicide while the police formed a perimeter and did not charge to the sound of the guns which resulted in a nationwide reform of how to deal with mass shootings by moving to neutralize the shooter or shooters .
           3.    2008—Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy race with her win in the Japan 300. She has retired from racing and is the owner of a 24 acre vineyard Napa Valley near Helena named Somnium which means in Latin  for “dream.".
           4.    2010—The Deepwater Horizon  Oil Well Platform exploded killing 13 workers that created a massive leak from the well for 6 months creating a massive environmental disaster with the killing of massive numbers of sea life and generating large fines against BP in the billions.
           5.    2021—Derek Chauvin, the 19 year police veteran whose knee on the neck of George Floyd for 9 minutes and 28 seconds and who would be recorded on a cell phone for the action that would cause the death of George Floyd, leading to violent riots across the nation would be convicted and sentenced to 22 ½ years.
           Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
           Edward Cullen, Columbine: After Columbine there was a nation review to determine how police could react in a manner to reduce the casualties:  “Columbine also changed police response to attacks. No more perimeters. A national task force was organized to develop a new plan. In 2003, it released “The Active Shooter Protocol.” The gist was simple: If the shooter seems active, storm the building. Move toward the sound of gunfire. Disregard even victims. There is one objective: Neutralize the shooters. Stop them or kill them.”

© April 20, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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