Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For May 20, 2019 On the impeachment front an Obama appointed federal
District Court Judge Amit Mehta has just ruled that a subpoena for Trump’s financial
records going back to 2011 is valid and worse for the Trump team has failed to
stay the order unless stayed on appeal in seven days; rabid anti-Trump John
Brennan should be sweating blood as the investigation into the start of the
Russian collusion probe should expose potential perjury by him over the use of
the Russian anti-Trump dossier as an email from Comey to senior members at the FBI
relates that Brennan wanted the anti-Trump dossier included as the basis for
commencing the counter intelligence investigation which ran counter to his
testimony to Congress (no one deserves jail time more than Brennan for his
attempt to bring down a duly elected president); 2 percent growth rate Joe
Biden continues to make a fool of himself on the campaign trail with the absurd
claim of the recovery resulting from the failed efforts of the Obama-Biden
Administration and continuing to dig his head deeper into the sand by claiming
China does not constitute a threat to the U.S. (probably desperate to divert
attention from the sweetheart deal with China his son Hunter was rewarded with
during the Obama-Biden Administration); Jim Carey has just proved again he
should stick to scripted comedy and not weigh in on divisive issues like
abortion as he did with a tweet bemoaning the fact that the governor of Alabama
had not been aborted which created great backlash among the pro life movement but
also support as it highlighted the deaths; in another example of why the death
penalty does not deter crime, an inmate in Tennessee who was sentenced to death
in 1985 just died, not from being executed but from cancer in prison 34 years
after sentencing; City of Commerce officials meeting at a conference in Indian
Wells got into a melee that left one councilman in the hospital (another sign
of the divisiveness plaguing our political environment?); in an effort to pare
costs, Ford is laying off 7,000 salaried workers globally; Lori Lightfoot has
become Chicago’s first openly gay black female mayor and faces major problems of
unfunded pension plan liabilities and shootings; on the hurricane front, the
first storm has appeared in the Atlantic with a 70% chance of developing into a
hurricane by this evening and if so will be called Hurricane Andrea); through
May 19, 2019 817 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 162 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).
1. World
Metrology Day—promoting
worldwide uniformity of measurements and celebrated on the anniversary of the
Metre Convention in 1875.
2. World Bee Day—created by the
U.N. in December, 2017 to promote the awareness of the importance of bees and
other pollinators in agriculture and celebrated on this day as it represents
the birthday of Anton Janša, a pioneer apiarist who was born on this
day in 1734.
3. 2011
Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 2011 on a run of 2 weeks in
that position was “E.T.” by Katy Perry feat. Kanye West. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM
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 “pasquinade” which to lampoon which SNL
used to do until it deviated into its non funny anti-Trump bashing.
5. The
Juice Man—celebrating the birth on this day of Dan Abrams
whose rose to fame as the legal analyst covering the trial of O.J. Simpson to
become the chief legal analyst for NBC News to branch out and form his own
media company and host for A&E’s PD Live.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Katy
Perry feat. Kanye West, factoids of interest for this day in history, the
fact that you are not subject to a pasquinade, and a relevant quote from Frank
Boccia on Hamburger Hill, 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.
On
this day
in:
a. 1940 the first
prisoners arrived at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland.
b. 1969 the ten day
battle by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces to capture a hill with no strategic
or tactical value ended with the North Vietnamese withdrawing after suffering
heavy casualties only to see U.S. forces abandon the position several days
later, indicative of the futility of the Vietnam War.
c. 1980 in a referendum,
60% of the residents of Quebec voted against withdrawing from Canada.
d.
1983 Luc Montagnier published in Science his
discovery of the HIV virus.
e. 1996 SCOTUS in the
case of Romer v. Evans overturned a Colorado statue that prevented any
town, city or county from taking any legislative, executive or judicial actions
to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
Reflections on the Battle for Hamburger Hill by an officer who was
there: “The old refrain is that there are no atheists in foxholes. That's
nonsense. They are there by the millions. There is little in combat that will
lead one to look upon the Creator with favor. What can't be there, instead, is
the individualist, the selfish, the self-consumed, the self-centered, the aloof
loner. Such a man cannot long survive. The terror of combat cannot be described
by fear of death. There are worse things. The world can suddenly become a very
cold place...He needs warmth, a fire, to survive: His discipline, his training,
his duty, honor and country, his family, and ultimately the very oak of his
manhood are thrown into the blaze, but they are not enough to save him. At the
end, he needs the warmth of his comrades. Otherwise, all he will have with which
to face the cold dark will be his own spent soul.” ― Frank
Boccia, The Crouching Beast: A United States
Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969
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just This Day in History.
© May 20, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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