January 22, 2024 Ridley’s Believe
It Or Not
With Ron DeSantis dropping out the race
yesterday and endorsing Donald Trump, the Red
ballot in New Hampshire, the nation’s first primary will feature Nikki
Haley and Trump and if Nikki Haley does not come in a very close second or a
slim win against Trump, pundits are wondering how she can keep her campaign
alive for another month and the South Carolina primary. If she comes up short
Blues may be in a world of perceived election interference hurt where the
perceived nominee for certain is being prosecuted for number criminal and civil
charges and whether the 14th Amendment forces his off the ballot.
Biden is apparently
developing some spine as U.S. fighter jets and Tomahawk missiles and British
fighter jets were conducting raids in Yemen against Houthi military
targets that have been attacking ships
in international waters of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Houthi Rebels
are morphing themselves into Barbary Coast Pirates of the early 19th
Century, but still have not been put of the International Terrorist
Organization list where they belong to subject any of their assets that can be
found to being seized.
Devon Archer, who served on the
Burisma Board with Hunter Biden and who was convicted of defrauding a Native
American Tribe of some $60 million only to have his conviction thrown out by
the Second Circuit had his conviction reinstated by SCOTUS but is still trying
to overturn his 1 year and 30 day sentence.
Finally Biden must after 3
years of falsely claiming the border is secured must have had cataract surgery
or viewed the film clips that show a tidal wave of illegals, along with their
drugs, trafficking, sanctuary city protection, and proclivity for committing
crime to be released into the interior of the nation destroying towns’, cities’
and county’s safety nets in numbers exceeding 10,000 per day never to reappear
at immigration hearings to rule on their largely bogus asylum claims. He is now
admitting the border is not secure but his solutions have nothing to do with
returning illegals to their native lands, only more aid and benefits.
With Biden now claiming he is all hands on
deck to control the open border crisis, his DOJ was successful getting SCOTUS
in issuing an order to allow CBP to do their job in securing the border by
having them remove the razor barbed wire installed along the border because the
razor barbed wire prevented the CBP from doing its jobs (What was Justice
Roberts and Justice Amy Comey Barrett thinking in ruling against Texas?)
On the sports front, it was only a question
of time before transgenders were competing in professional sports like golf and
winning as TG Hailey Davidson did in the NXXT Women's Classic last
week but who claimed she has been on hormone therapy since 2015 and gender
reassignment surgery in 2021.
On the sports front, Tara
VanDerveer, the coach of the Stanford Women’s Basketball Team, picked up her
1202 college basketball win to tie retired coach Mike Krzyzewski's record as
Stanford after holding Oregon scoreless for the first 6’15” of the game beat
Oregon 88-63. On Sunday Stanford playing without Cameron Brink but with another stellar game of 37 minutes by Kiki Iriafen who scored 37 points against Oregon State to win 65-56 to give Tara Van Derveer her 1203 win, surpassing beat Krzyzewski’s record.
January 22, 2024
Noted Holidays: Roe v Wade Day:
Celebrating one of the most divisive cases ever decided by SCOTUS on this day
in 1973 7-2 that a woman had a fundamental right to an abortion, not absolute.
The case was overruled in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization
5-4 providing that abortion was not a constitutional right but within the
purview of state legislatures and still is a lightning rod between prochoice
and right to lifers.
Word of
the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words starting
with “b” is “bridewell” which means a jail or
detention facility for petty offenders such a reform school.
Song of the Day: Leaving the
number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number song
in 1993 in the U.S.A. was “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney
Houston on a run of 9 weeks after a run
of 14 weeks starting in November 1992 to share with 10 other number one songs
while 6 acts achieved their first number one song. Here is a music video with
lyrics of Whitney Houston
performing “I Will Always Love
You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
January 22 Birthdays: “6 Charges
of Shades of Gray”: Celebrating
the birthday on January 22, 1980 of Marilyn Mosby in Boston, Massachusetts who
became the State’s Attorney General for Baltimore and gained notoriety for her
charging 6 6 Baltimore police officers who were charged with various crimes
arising out the arrest of Freddie Gray and his death in a police van while
shackled but not restrained by a seat belt. All the officers were either found
not guilty or charges dropped due to mistrials of hung juries and she was on
the receiving end of charges of overcharging. She her position and was charged
with 2 counts of perjury on loan applications and convicted on both counts on
November 9, 2023 and faces up to 5 years for each charge.
January 22 Historical Events in
Rhyme
1. On this day in 2009
President Obama signed an Executive Order losing Guantanamo Detention
Center/Which at the start of his administration housed 250 violent terrorist
defenders/ Congress rose up and Obama’s wishes defied before any transfers were
done/Now the super secure facility holds only terrorists numbering 41.
2. On this day in 1984 during a
third quarter of the Super Bowl XVIII/Apple released on the most iconic
television commercials millions of viewers had ever seen/Unveiling its new
consumer PC the MacIntosh/A woman with a hammer is pursued by thought police
then into big brother screen tossed:
3. On this day in 1970, Pan American Airways/Took off from NYC’s JFK/In Boeing’s 747, the world’s first “jumbo jet”, to Heathrow Airport in London/The era of cheaper fares, more comforts, longer flights and more misplaced or lost luggage was here to stay.
4. On
this day in 1957 George Metesky aka the “Mad Bomber” who had planted in NYC some 32 bombs in 16 years/Some of which failed to explode and those
that did injured 15 people creating a goodly amount of fear/Metesky had worked
for Consolidated Edison and was injured in an explosion in the workplace/Angered
beyond belief that Con Ed’s handling of his injury claims merited loathing and
disgrace/As a former Marine, during World War II/He announced that for the
duration of the war his bombings were through/Back to spreading terror after the
war’s end/But his postcards and letters railings against Con Ed he continued to
send/Offender profiling was first used in his case/His paper trail against Con
Ed was easy to trace/Found by the court to be insane for his 16 years bombing
spree/He was committed to the Matteawan Hospital for the Criminally Insane in
Beacon, New York after being adjudged no longer a threat to the community
released in 1973/A poster child case for HR Departments/To pay more attention
to workplace injury claims that would revengeful violence prevent.
5. On this day in 1917, President Wilson
of the still neutral U.S./Facing growing demands that the U.S. against the Axis
Powers begin to aggress/Declared that to end WWI there should be “peace without
victory” that missed the cut in the Treaty of Versailles/Which created the
seeds of World War II in which many more millions than in World War I would be
injured or died.
Quote by Senator Tom Cotton on
Guantanamo Bay: “President Obama likes to say
Guantanamo Bay is a terrorist recruiting tool, and while that may be an easy
excuse, it's simply not true. The reality is the motivations of radical Islamic
jihadism existed before Guantanamo Bay. The ideology is premised on a narrative
of conquest, in the spiritual as well as the earthly world.”
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