Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 30, 2018 A 1964 Good
Friday déjà vu as Anchorage, Alaska his by a 7.0 earthquake (fortunately no
reports of tsunamis being formed like the one that hit Crescent City,
California after the Good Friday earthquake); Secretary of the Interior Zinke
has blasted Representative Grijalva as a drunken hostile Democrat for whom the
taxpayers paid a former staffer almost $50,000 to dismiss a harassment suit
after he wrote an OpEd calling for Zinke to resign (so much for a plea of
civility and compromise when the person who should resign is Grijalva for his
drunken and abusive behavior); at the G-20 Putin and the Saudi Crown Prince are
high fiving it and Macron is caught on a hot mike lamenting to the Crown Prince
that “You never listen to me.” In regards to Yemen; the welcome mat in Tijuana
for the illegals is being yanked as the mayor demands that the organizers of
the caravan be arrested while more illegals continue to head north; lady
justice is nowhere blind as Clapper and Comey have lied to Congress with no
adverse consequences but Cohen is prosecuted and has to plead guilty (when will
this biased witch-hunt of Mueller in search of a crime end?); the Asian long
horned tick first discovered in New Jersey has spread to 9 Eastern states and is
raising concerns of the CDC since the insect is a voracious biter and can lay up
to 2,000 eggs on its host without mating; Emanuel’s announcement that he will
not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through November 29,
2018, 2740 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, of
whom 461 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this
the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to
the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Lorne
Greene, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you have
no need to dwell on nugacious issues and a relevant quote from an addict on the
dangers of using meth, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Meth Awareness Day—created by President Bush on this day to promote awareness of
the dangers of using meth, a drug that destroys large areas of the brain.
2. Computer Security Day—celebrating since 1988 the need for awareness of the need to
have strong spyware systems and passwords that are unique to each device and
website and updated frequently even more so than ever on a day in which the
Marriott announced that a data breach had occurred with respect to 500 million
users.
3. 1964 Number One Song— the number one song in 1964 on a run of 1 week in that
position was “Ringo” by Lorne Greene. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCyuq-ofnPc
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we moved from words beginning with
“m” to words beginning with “n” is “nugacious” which means
unimportant which far too many of us dwell on nugacious things.
5. Ten Thousand
Angels Can Be Trumped by the Depression and Substance Abuse Devil--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1975 of noted country singer Mindy McCready best known for
her first album Ten Thousand Angels
but who struggled with depression and substance abuse and shot herself to death
at the age of 37.
On this day in:
a. 1972 Press Secretary Ron Ziegler announced that since troop
levels in South Vietnam had fallen to 27,000, there would be no more public
announcements of further troop reductions there..
b. 1982 Michael Jackson released his sixth record album Thriller which went on to become the
most purchased album in history until surpassed by the Eagles—Greatest Hits-1971-1975 in August of this year.
c. 1995 Operation Desert Storm officially came to an end with a
crushing defeat by Coalition forces of the Iraqis.
d. 1998 Exxon and Mobil signed a $73.7 merger agreement to create
ExxonMobil the largest company in the world.
e. 1999 some 40,000 anti-globalization protestors violently rioted
against a meeting of the World Trade Organization catching the police by surprise
and forcing cancelation of opening ceremonies.
Reflections on the dangers of meth from a
meth addict: “Welfare money was not enough to pay for our ‘meth’ habit and
support our son, so we turned our rented home into a meth lab. We stored the
toxic chemicals in our refrigerator, not knowing that the toxins would permeate
into the other food stored in the icebox. “When I gave my three-year-old son
some cheese to eat, I did not know that I was giving him poisoned food. I was
too stoned on meth to notice it until twelve hours later, that my son was
deathly ill. But then I was so stoned it took me two hours to figure out how to
get him to the hospital five miles away. By the time I got to the emergency
room my boy was pronounced dead of a lethal dose of ammonia hydroxide, one of
the chemicals used to make meth.” —Melanie
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