April, 8, 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

In another example of the havoc being unleashed by Soros funded D.A.’s soft on crime sentencing and prosecution and wrongfully prosecuting defendants who acted in self-defense, Sgt. Daniel Perry who was on active duty but working as a Uber driver had the misfortune of being surrounded by BLM rioters with one of them pointing an AK 47 at him, resulting in Perry shooting the man dead but despite Austin police believing he acted in self-defense was prosecuted and convicted of murder on Good Friday. Fortunately Governor Abbott is acting to remedy this insanity by moving as fast as Texas law provides to pardon Sgt. Perry. Thanks to the millions Soros has donated to D.A.’s, 20% of the D.A.’s currently in office were funded by Soros. On April 8, 2024 parts of the United States will see a total solar eclipse, an event that will not be seen again until 2045. Here is the path of the total solar eclipse:

                                         

The cities crossed over going north are Austin, Dallas, Evansville, Indianapolis. Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Montreal, Burlington, Lancaster, PA. and Caribou, Maine. Rainy weather and winds toppling trees has been turning the Masters into a traffic jam disaster as the second day was completed today with Tiger Woods barely making the cut and Fred Couples becoming the oldest player to make the cut. The third day was suspended in the afternoon and will start with threesomes at 8:30 a.m. to complete it  with the final day scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m., weather cooperating. For your Easter enjoyment please go to https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2023/04/salute-to-good-friday-and-easter.html

           Ridley’s Believe It Or Not April 8, 2023

           Noted Holidays: Dog Farting Awareness Day/ National Dog Fighting Awareness Day: Man's best friend should merit two holidays and they do. The first has been observed since 2014 and I am clueless who the creator is but suspect a pet food company or a veterinarian. The second one is more serious and was created on this day in 2014 by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to promote efforts to stamp out this deranged sport enjoyed by really sick people which gained infamous notoriety when Michal Vick who was the first player picked in the 2001 football draft and was off to a great career that was sidelined when he pled guilty to being involved in a dog fighting ring and served 21 months in a federal prison and upon completion resumed his playing career for 7 more seasons. 

          Word of the Day:  The word of the day is “alogism” which means an illogical statement which fits Kamala Harris’ frequent word salads she has a proclivity to spew forth.
          Number 1 Song: As we have left the past and returned to start the clock backwards from the present, the number 1 song on this day in 2020 was  “Blinding Lights” by The Weekend on a run of 4 weeks noncontinuous to share with 19 other songs that achieved number 1 status  while 13  acts achieved number 1 status for the first time. Here is a music video with lyrics of The Weekend performing “Blinding Lights”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRXx6U8ABQ
          April 8 Famous Birthdays: Robin Wright, born on this day in 1966 in Dallas, is a noted actress and director who might have had the patience of Job to be married to Sean Penn as her second husband for 14 years and two children.
          April 8 Notable Events 
           1.    1906—August Deter, the first person with the dubious distinction of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, died some 5 years after being diagnosed and committed to a psychiatric hospital. 
          2.    1992—Retired tennis pro and winner of three Grand Slam titles and the only African American to win both Wimbledon and U.S. Open Singles Championships announced he had contracted AIDS from 1 of 2 heart surgeries and sadly would die from the disease on February 6, 1993.
           3.    2008—The Bahrain World Trade Center, a 50 story office complex which incorporated wind turbines electrical generators to provide up to 15% of the electricity consumed in the complex were turned on for the first time.  
            4.     2014—To the great sadness and dismay of its millions of users, Windows XP reached its end of life and was no longer supported by Microsoft.
            5.     2020—Bernie Sanders extinguished the Burn and ended his campaign for the Democratic Party nomination as president leaving us with a cognitively impaired Joe Biden who would go on to defeat President Trump.  
            Famous Quotes on Events and Issues

            Nancy Reagan on Alzheimer’s and why we need far more funding for research to find a cure or how to prevent it: “When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.”

© 4/8/2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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