April 9, 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

Yesterday was National Dog Fighting Awareness Day but the news on this Easter is that of canines getting revenge where at a Home Depot in Evergreen, Colorado a woman with her dog and a female trainer approached a customer and asked him  to give the dog a treat as part of the dog’s training but when customer complied the dog bite him in the face and the 2 women and dog immediately left (caught on surveillance camera the sheriff’s department is trying to identify the women to place the dog in quarantine for 10 days to see if it is showing symptoms of rabies). In Georgia an 11 year old boy, Justin Gilstrap was riding his bike when attacked by three pit bulls who dragged him into a ditch to bite off part of his ear, numerous bites on his legs, and bite off and a large part of his scalp before being rescued by his cousin. The owner said the dogs loved to chase bikes and was promptly arrested and charged with reckless behavior (fortunately for the Gilstrap family a GoFundMe account for medical expenses raised $140,000. In Conroe, Texas, 19 year old Grant Brown saved a 6 year old boy from a dog attack that resulted in the dog taken by animal control and the owner cited. CNN anchor Dana Bash bashed AOC for her demanding Biden ignore a federal judge’s injunction banning sale of the abortion pill Mifepristone pending a determination of its safety. Austin’s Soros’ funded D.A. Jose Garza  lashed out at Governor Abbott for his urging of the Parole Board to recommend a pardon for Sgt. Danial Perry who shot and killed a BLM protestor who raised an AK-47 at him (the gun is able to fire fully automatic which raises the question on how he was able to possess such a firearm). Trust your Easter and weekend were great and that you had a chance to enjoy my Good Friday and Easter Salute:  https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2023/04/salute-to-good-friday-and-easter.html                

           Ridley’s Believe It Or Not April 9, 2023

           Noted Holidays: National Chicken Little Awareness Day: Observing that well known children’s story of the chicken who was hit on the head by an acorn and thought the sky was falling which has come to portray anyone who has an unreasonable fear that a cataclysmic event is going to befall on that person. Given the soaring price of eggs on this Easter when some have urged substituting potatoes for Easter eggs, perhaps it is fitting that Easter falls on this holiday. 

           Word of the Day:  The word of the day is “alopecia” which means baldness or hair loss which companies like Bosley make millions trying to restore hair growth.
          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 2019 was  “7 Rings” by Ariana Grande on a run of 8 weeks noncontinuous to share with 14 other songs that achieved number 1 status  while 10  acts achieved number 1 status for the first time. Here is a music video with lyrics of Ariana Grande performing “7 Rings”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYh6mYIJG2Y 
           April 9 Famous Birthdays: Dennis Quaid, born on this day in 1954 in Houston, is a noted actor who has been called one of the best actors to never have been nominated for an Academy Award and is the younger brother of actor Randy Quaid. He is still very active and his son Jack Quaid, who was the result of an earlier marriage to Meg Ryan, is following in his father’s and mother’s footsteps as an actor.
              April 9 Notable Events 
            1.    1959—NASA announced that the first Mercury Space Program astronauts would be Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton.
              2.    1967—The first Boeing 737 made its maiden flight.
           3.    1981—The USS George Washington, a nuclear submarine accidentally collided with the Japanese cargo ship Nissho Maru, sinking it and killing 2 Japanese crewmen.  
            4.     2003—Baghdad fell to American forces but sadly the fall did not put an end to hostilities which were commenced by us to find WMD’s that never existed which ultimately cost the taxpayers some $1.1 trillion.
            5.     2014—16 year old Alex Hribal, a student at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, stabbed and slashed with a knife  21 students, 8 of which were wounded seriously, and a security guard. He was arrested and charged with attempted murder and pled guilty to be sentenced 23.5 to 60 years in prison.
             Famous Quotes on Events and Issues  
            Secretary of State Colin Powell describing to the U.N. Security Council February 5, 2003 the evidence that Iraq had WMD: “My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.”
           Saddam Hussein in a message to the U.N. General Assembly on September 19,2022:  “I hereby declare before you that Iraq is clear of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.”                           Laurence Silberman, co-chairman, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States on March 31, 2005 on the existence of Iraqi WMD’s:  “The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).”

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