Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 21, 2018 On the wildfire
front, the Camp Fire is now 80% contained as firefighters are slowly gaining
ground and the death toll has risen to 81 with the number of people missing has
increased to 870 with heavy rains forecasted for Wednesday which should help
firefighters but hinder the search for victims and result in mudslides; the
House will hold hearings on the state of the DOJ’s investigation of the Clinton
Foundation which has been heavily criticized for the pay to play scandal of Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton; on the war on women front, a federal judge has ruled
that a Michigan law banning female genital mutilation is unconstitutional as it
infringes on the freedom of religion clause (where in the Koran does it condone
this barbaric practice?); on the political correctness front, Rider University
in New Jersey notwithstanding an overwhelming desire of its students to have Chick-fil-A
on campus has refused to allow the chain due to its corporate values (school
alumni should boycott giving a single penny to this school); Massachusetts has
opened two dispensaries for recreational marijuana; the House has passed a farm
bill that imposes increased work requirements to receive SNAP assistance but
the Senate bill has left the existing rules unchanged (with the unemployment
rate as low as it is why the Senate is not following the House is a complete
mystery recipients able to work should be required to do so); Emanuel’s
announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence
as through November 19, 2018, 2692 people mostly of color have been shot by
mostly people of color, of whom 452 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 Bobby
Darin, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are
fortunate enough to not be subject to nugament and a relevant quote from Richard
Nixon on Reagan and the Iran-Contra affair, 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
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details.
1. World Television Day--created by the UN to promote awareness of the contribution of television
to our daily lives.
2. Alaskattalo Day—created by writer Steven Levi to promote Alaskan humor and named
after the fictitious animal the alaskattalo a cross between a moose and a
walrus. The day is marked by a one block parade down an alley in Anchorage,
Alaska.
3. 1959 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1959 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “Mack the
Knife” by Bobby Darin. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=SEllHMWkXEU
His switchblade was permanently closed at the age of 37 on December 20, 1973
following open heart surgery to repair a damage heart valve.
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 “nugament” which means nonsense
which describes sadly what goes on too often in the Swamp.
5. Sock It To Me--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1945 of actress Goldie Hawn who is best noted for her being
a cast member of Laugh In and the
socialite recruit in Private Benjamne.
She is still going strong at age 73 and still with Kurt Russell after 35 years.
On this day in:
a. 1967 in a pre Tet delusional moment General Westmoreland told
reporters that “Today I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy
was winning, today he is certainly losing.” How wrong he was as Tet would prove
in 1968.
b. 1969 the first permanent ARPANET link was established between
UCLA and SRI.
c. 1970 a joint U.S. Army and Air Force special ops team landed
at the Son Tay prisoner of war camp near Hanoi but found that the prisoners had
been previously moved.
d. 1985 Jonathan Pollard was arrested for spying on behalf of
Israel and transmitting classified information on Arab nations to Israel. He pled
guilty and became the only person sentenced to life for releasing classified
material to an ally of the U.S. He was granted parole and released on November
20, 2015.
e. 1986 Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents
allegedly linking them to the Iran-Contra affair.
Reflections on Iran-Contra by one whose own
scandal ended his presidency: “Reagan will survive, because, when all is said
and done, Reagan can get up and say 'I am an idiot and therefore I can't be
blamed,' and everyone will agree.I never had that option.” Richard M. Nixon
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