Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For March 31, 2018 On the sports front
the Cinderella team for the Dance was ousted by Michigan who will await the
winner of Villanova Kansas game;more protests in Sacramento over what seems to
be an excessive and unwarranted use of force by two cops, one black, one white
killing Stepfon Clark who was shot 20 times for showing his hands with a cell
phone in one hand (so far peaceful but already a pathologist hired by the
family released an autopsy conflicting the account of the police); the Cold War
is getting hotter as we inch closer in Syria to having Russians shooting at U.S.
forces and vice versa which is yet another reason to have Assad eliminated;
Johnetta Benton, a sixth grade teacher from the same school that brought you a
teacher compelling students to write letters to Congress demanding stricter gun
control, was caught on a phone video making a 15 minute rant attacking whites
and Trump for his slogan make America Great Again (ignoring the devastating
effects of the Obama no growth economy on black and minority communities); the
lobbying firm known as the Washington
Post and Amazon were in Trump’s crosshairs for fake news and fleecing the
Post Office of billions in bogus billings and states in billions of lost tax
revenue; Moonbeam Brown was castigated in his attempt to protect 5 violent
illegal aliens from deportation by pardoning them; some sanity in the otherwise
leftist leaning judicial system, as a federal judge has refused to fast track
the Stormy Daniels case against Trump and will not expedite depositions of
Trump; in Chicago through March 30, 2018, 523 people have been shot, of whom 93
have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Peggy
Lee; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your
heirs will not be burdened with a lot of personal property to dispose of to
hold a lythcoop and a relevant quote by James R. Jones on why LBJ chose not to
run again, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that
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1. World Backup Day—celebrating the cyber
equivalent of the old adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
of a daily backup in the cloud or on hard disk prevents terrabytes of digital misery. Don’t be a fool
tomorrow; back up today.
2. Cesar Chavez Day—celebrating
the contributions of labor activist and organizer, Cesar Chavez, to promote
wages and safety conditions for farm workers. Declared by President Obama to be
a federal holiday in 2014.
3. 1948 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1948 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Manana (Is
Good Enough To Me)” by Peggy Lee. Here is a recording of the
song:
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “lythcoop” which is an auction of household goods which after
quarreling among the heirs as to what they would want to keep is the next step
followed by donation to charities.
5. The Little Man
Big Footprint—celebrating or bemoaning the birth on this day in 1948 Al Gore
former vice president of the United States but fortunately for us a loser to
Bush in 2000 and now an environmental activist always hectoring us mere mortals
to add less carbon to the environment while he jets around in his private jets.
On
this day in:
a. 1931 a Fokker
III wooden trimotor operated by Transcontinental and Western Air lost a wing in
flight and crashed at Bazaar, Kansas, killing all 8 aboard including Notre Dame
football coach Knute Rockne creating a firestorm of outrage that led to the
rapid phasing out of wooden frame planes to be replaced by all metal frames and
the abandonment of the practice of withholding data on air crashes from the
public.
b. 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps was established to fight
rising unemployment sweeping the nation during the Great Depression.
c. 1959 the 14th
Dalai Lama fled from Tibet into India to seek asylum.
d. 1968 after
addressing the American public on how to limit the Vietnam War, President Johnson
dropped a bombshell that he would not run for reelection nor accept his party’s
nomination.
e. 1992 in an end
of an era moment the USS Missouri, the
last active American battleship was decommissioned to ultimately become a
floating museum at Pearl Harbor.
Reflections on Johnson’s electing not to run for reelection. “And he kept coming back to Vietnam - a blot on his
Administration he wanted to remove. As an active candidate, he reasoned, he
might miss or postpone an opportunity to achieve peace. ‘What if we're late in
the campaign and I have to make a decision that might result in a peace
settlement but will be politically risky,’ one night in March. ‘'I want my
hands free to do what's necessary to end this thing.’ he mused.” James R. Jones,
President Lyndon Johnson’s Chief of Staff. Please enjoy the poems on
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