Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 24, 2019 the Sri Lanka
Easter bombings are the terrorist gift that keeps on giving as the death toll
has now risen to 359 as the FBI is on the ground there assisting Sri Lanka
authorities after ISIS has claimed responsibility; AOC must be spending too
much time with her two Congressional radical Muslim friends as on Sri Lanka
Easter bombings only sounds of silence on her end; Scott Israel whose hands
reek with the smell of blood of the students killed at Parkland while his
deputies cowered outside the school has been slammed by the Florida Supreme
Court who upheld the governor’s right to suspend him for malfeasance; the U.S.
is being plagued with an e-coli outbreak in ten states from hamburger meat (time
to make sure one’s burgers are cooked well done); AOC remains remarkably
consistent when it comes to her making a complete fool out of herself by in a
sparsely attended town hall claiming that the VA provides excellent medical
care to veterans (she as a proponent like Sanders of a single payer system has
to make that false claim as the quality and availability of health care under a
government run health care system would be a disaster); Boeing is being
hammered by the 737 Max groundings due to two fatal plane crashes with earnings
down $1 billion; on the automobile safety front the U.S. is expanding its
investigation to over 12 million autos where collision air bags may be defective
and not deploying when a crash occurs; Kim is meeting with Putin today in Russia
on economic issues between the two countries but probably not on the need to
denuclearize North Korea (if Russia enters into new trade agreements do we have
anyt additional sanctions to employ against Russia?); enroute to a opioid summit
President Trump announced he would fight the subpoenas issued by the House
committees which are hell bent on continuing to do a post Mueller investigation
of him and his finances (impeachment is the new scarlet letter that will
hopefully sink the Blues in 2020); through April 23, 2019 627 people have
been shot in Chicago of whom 120 have died (what makes the Smollett case so
frustrating is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective
resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder have a suspect
being charged this year).
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to R. Kelly,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you enjoy
parabolists’ parables, and a relevant quote from Patrick Kennedy on
the Armenian Genocide, 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. Armenian Genocide Rembrance Day—commemorating the genocide by Turkey
of its population of Armenians which began when Turkey started to expel
Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople on this day in 1915 and which was
first observed 1919.
2. Fashion Revolution Day— created in 2013 by two UK fashion designers
Carry Somers and Orsola de Castro in
response to the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1133
garment workers and injured another 2,000 on this day in 2913 and celebrated on
this day in 2014 to urge safer working conditions for garment workers around
the world.
3. 1994 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1994 on a run of 4 weeks in
that position was “Bump ‘n Grind” by R. Kelly. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXxkNaRkp8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o”
to words beginning with “p” is “parabolist” which means the teller of
parables, the most famous of whom was Christ.
5. A Sticky Wicket For Sure--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1973 of Sachin Tendular,
considered by many to be the best cricket player of our life time who fortunately
for opposing teams has retired from the sport.
On this day
in:
a. 1953 Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
b. 1957 the Suez Canal is officially reopened after the
insert of UB Peacekeepers.
c. 1990 8 U.S. servicemen died in a failed operation Eagle Claw
designed to rescue the hostages held at the American Embassy in Tehran.
d. 1996 The Anti Effective Terrorism Death Penalty Act making it
far easier to execute terrorists who committed terrorist acts against the U. S.
was passed by the Congress.
e. 2004 in an act which Kim should take to heart, the U.S.
lifted economic sanctions against Libya due to its abandonment of its nuclear
weapons program.
Reflections on the Armenian
Genocide which the Turks to this day have yet to accept as a fact: “Moreover,
as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains
opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish
objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to
the rest of the world.’ Patrick J. Kennedy son of Ted Kennedy and from Representative
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© April 24, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the
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