© December 24, 2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
On Hamas Israel War front, Israel
announced the death of 14 of its soldiers over the weekend as the IDF
discovered the reason why the nation is united in its quest to destroy Hamas by
finding the bodies of 5 hostages in one of the myriad of tunnels like rats
Hamas is hiding. Biden and Netanyahu spoke over the weekend with Biden urging
that Gazans not be targeted and the IDF is claiming it is trying very hard to
minimize civilian casualties which is very difficult when Hamas locates its
strongholds underneath or next to civilians. Netanyahu’s wife has written Pope
Francis for his intervention to get the hostages released, citing the case of
one female hostage whose mother is dying of stage 4 cancer.
On the shipping front, the
Panama Canal Zone is in the midst of a drought lowering the water levels of
Gatun Lake from which water is used to operate the locks that enable the ships
to pass through the Canal which reduces the number of ships the Canal can transit each day which if the
drought continues will cause great delays in goods saving thousands of miles by
using the Canal.
On the continuing surge of
illegals most of which have illegal asylum claims based not on persecution but
poverty, Blue State leaders cannot come to realize that the more freebies of
food, shelter, medical cares, education,
transportation, legal representation and work permits the more likely
the number of bogus asylum claims will increase threatening to destroy American
citizens’ social safety nets as vouchers for hotel rooms are increased while a
Chicago alderman wants the idea of Chicago as a sanctuary city to be put before
the voters where those suffering from the designation can seek redress.
On the growing wave of
antisemitism Jewish ownership of firearms is skyrocketing as Magen An which
means Nation’s Shield is a Jewish volunteer organization in L.A. and Phoenix
which trains volunteers and community members in extensive classes on gun
safety, hand-to-hand self-defense, de-escalation, verbal tactics and the use of
intermediate weapons such as Tasers or batons and the
need to protect synagogues.
Very few places on the globe are
free from the zealots wanting Palestine from the river to be free (free from
Jews that is as they are to be driven into the sea) as a Christmas caroling
event in Australia to raise money for blind children with some 10,000 in
attendance was disrupted by a swarm of pro Palestinians trying to drown out the
performance.
In Yellowstone National Park a
deer carcass was found infected with the deadly prior disease which is called
in deer, elk, moose, and reindeer in areas of North
America, Canada, Norway and South Korea and known as the “Zombie deer” disease
with so far no spillover cases of transmittal to humans found.
December 24, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Feast
of the Seven Fishes: Celebrated primarily by Italians and Italian Americans
on Christmas Eve which is a meal of 7 different fish dishes that trace back its
roots to the fact that Christians in Rome did not eat meat on the eve of feast
days which Christmas was.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words
starting with “b” is “boyg” which means a problem
difficult to get grips with which describes to a tee the divisiveness we face
today which seems to be growing not receding.
Song of the Day: Leaving
the number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number
song in 2001 in the U.S.A. was “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback on a run of 2 weeks to
share number 1 status with 14 other songs, while 12 acts, including Nickelback
in their only number 1 single, achieved their first 1st number 1
single. Here is a music video of Nickelback performing “How You Remind Me”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQh1ccqu8M4
December 24 Birthdays: “Crossing
Trump Can Be a Career Ender”: celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1946 in Selma, Alabama of Jeff Sessions who was a U.S.
District Attorney in Alabama for 12 years, a District Court Judicial nominee
who was only the 2nd nominee in 48 years to not get approval of the
Senate Judiciary Committee to have the
nomination go to the full Senate for a vote, Alabama Attorney General for two
years and a U.S. Senator for 20 years before resigning to become Trump’s Attorney
General for a tumultuous period where he recused himself in the Russian
collision investigation resulting in the 4 year nightmare known as the Mueller
Special Counsel Russian Hoax Investigation and his resignation at Trump’s
request. Tried to make a comeback in 2000 but Trump backed his opponent, former
Auburn Football Coach Tuberville in the primary to lose.
December 24 Historical Events in
Rhyme
1. On this Christmas Eve in
2021, 100 soldiers of Myanmar Light Rifles Division 66 arrived the village of
Hpruso/Hell bent terror and a massacre to bestow/Shot and killed 40 civilians
and their bodies burned/No way authorities their identities would ever learn/13
were missing and presumed dead/In a non-Christian country Christmas Eve goals
of peace came to an end.
2. Starting on Christmas Eve in 2008, the Lord’s Resistance
Army, an extremist Christian group in Uganda would on a killing civilian
rampage go/When their killing needs were sated in the Republic of the Congo/Over
400 civilian corpses lay scattered all around/In their beliefs in the 10 commandments
the 6th they must never have found.
3. On Christmas Eve Day
2005 6 days after Chad Rebel forces backed by Sudan the Chad village of Andre attacked/Forewarned
Chad’s armed forces stopped the rebel forces in their tracks/The Rebels still
alive were to the Sudan limping back/When the dogs of war taste or smell human
blood/Chad declared a state of war as the need for revenge and threat elimination
came in a flood.
4. On
this Christmas Eve in 2003 Spanish Police thwarted an ETA bomb attempt/Showing
the Basque’s Separatist’s Christmas contempt/2 earlier bomb planting tries on
trains heading for Madrid sounded the terrorist alarm/That ETA was planning to
on innocent civilians create some major bloody harm.
5. On Christmas Eve in 1914 a truce broke
out along the trenches of the Western Front/The guns became still, after 5
months of killing each other the idea of killing another man before Christ’s
birthday became to the conscience a major affront/Small gifts exchanged on
Christmas Day and soccer games/For 2 days the dogs of war muzzled and the world
no longer up in flames/In 2014 the soldiers got it right while in the 4 days
above the leaders did not give peace a chance/Sadly, let the howling dogs of
war, muzzles off, snarling and growling continue to advance.
Quotes on the 1914 Christmas Truce
Captain Robert Miles, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, who was attached to the Royal Irish Rifles, in an
edited letter that was published in the Daily Mail and
the Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News in January 1915,
following his death in action on 30 December 1914: “Friday (Christmas
Day). We are having the most extraordinary Christmas Day imaginable. A sort of
unarranged and quite unauthorized but perfectly understood and scrupulously
observed truce exists between us and our friends in front. The funny thing is
it only seems to exist in this part of the battle line – on our right and left
we can all hear them firing away as cheerfully as ever. The thing started last
night – a bitter cold night, with white frost – soon after dusk when the
Germans started shouting 'Merry Christmas, Englishmen' to us. Of course our
fellows shouted back and presently large numbers of both sides had left their
trenches, unarmed, and met in the debatable, shot-riddled, no man's land
between the lines. Here the agreement – all on their own – came to be made that
we should not fire at each other until after midnight tonight. The men were all
fraternizing in the middle (we naturally did not allow them too close to our
line) and swapped cigarettes and lies in the utmost good fellowship. Not a shot
was fired all night.”
Alfred Anderson, 1st/5th
Battalion of the Black Watch and last known surviving Scottish veteran of WWI
in a 2003 interview: “I remember the silence, the eerie sound of
silence. Only the guards were on duty. We all went outside the farm buildings
and just stood listening. And, of course, thinking of people back home. All I'd
heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of
bullets in flight, machinegun fire and distant German voices. But there was a
dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted,
'Merry Christmas', even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in
the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible
war.”
German
Lieutenant, Johannes Niemann: “I grabbed my binoculars and looking
cautiously over the parapet saw the incredible sight of our soldiers exchanging
cigarettes, schnapps and chocolate with the enemy.”
Adolf Hitler, Corporal 16th
Bavarians: “ Such things should not happen in wartime. Have
you Germans no sense of honour left at all?”
© December 24, 2023 Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not
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