Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 20, 2019 Berkeley
is going of the PC cliff banning natural gas in new businesses and homes and
gender specific words (how idiotic can you be to ban the most clean and carbon
low fuel on the planet other that nuclear; the UN has warned the rogue regime
of Iran there will be “serious consequences” if the tanker seized by it is not
released (nothing like a worldwide embargo of all products and services to
bring the deranged mullahs to their senses); Democratic Krysten Sinema has seen
the light of reason and has crossed the aisle to join the GOP in supporting a
program of rapid deportation in the event of false asylum claims; after the
sound bite caravan of open border Blue House members, Blue Senate members are
going to replicate the event by going to border (watch for the Blue wanna-bes
to fill the airwaves with tears over the treatment of illegals while ignoring
the plight of our homeless in our cities run by Blues, especially in Harris’
home state; Ricardo Rossello, the embattled governor of Puerto Rico, is MIA as
thousands of Puerto Ricans are demanding his resignation as is the first wanna-be
Castro; the trailer for Cats has been
released to howls of some fans that the movie has whitewashed some of the
actresses and actors in terms of the color of their fur; Buzz Aldrin the second
man to walk on the Moon 50 years ago decked a harassing lunar conspirator theorist
in 2002 and had his charges dismissed; on the feline movie front while Cats is under fire for its trailer, the
preview of Disney’s The Lion King on Thursday
took in $23 million; on the intolerant PC front, Kathy Zhu, the Miss Michigan
Queen, was stripped of her title and dismissed from the Miss World America
pageant due to social media posts that the organization claimed to be “offensive,
insensitive and inappropriate” for tweeting blacks need to solve problems in black
communities because most blacks are shot and killed by blacks which is totally
true; Rep Omar received a rousing welcome as she returned to her district pledging
to remain President Trump’s nightmare (she is a nightmare but a nightmare for
all Americans who believe in this country and do not want to see it and Jews trashed); in Chicago through July 19,
2019, 1455 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 256
of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South
Africa (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 people of color by people of color?)
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Shaun
Cassidy, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are
not photophygous and a relevant quote from Aung San Suu
Kyi on chess, secure in the knowledge that if you
want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college
graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the
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1. International
Chess Day—created on this day in 1966 by UNESCO to
honor the game of chess which has been with us for centuries and is celebrated
on this day to mark the founding of the International Chess Foundation in 1924.
2. National
Woody Wagon Day—celebrated on the 3rd Saturday
of the month to commemorate the introduction of wood as a building material for
station wagons due to shortages of steel for the war effort and popularized by
surfers looking for cheap transportation for their surf boards.
3. 1977
Number One Song— the number one song in 1977 on a
run of 1 weeks in that position was “Da Do Ron Run” by Shaun Cassidy.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1nTfgUbW48. This noted writer, singer, actor and songwriter is still going strong
at 60.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “photophygous”
which means to avoid or dislike light a trait which vampires and criminals
often possess.
5. Reflections
On Pitching. —celebrating the birth on this day
in 1958 of Billy Mays a noted TV pitchman for home cleaning products but whose
pitches fell on deaf ears on June 28, 2009 from hypertension.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1960 in moment to eliminate the ability to
have a first strike nuclear capability to eliminate the retaliatory missile strikes,
the USS George Washington
successfully launched a Polaris ICBM
nuclear missile from under the waters.
b. 1969 Apollo
11 successfully landed on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility with Buzz Aldrin
and Neil Young aboard as Neil Young became the first person to walk on the Moon
and broadcast from the Moon’s surface.
c. 1997 The
U.S.S. Constitution set sail on
this day after 116 days being moored up to celebrate her 200th
birthday.
d. 2012 James Holmes opened fire in a movie theater in
Aurora, Colorado, killing twelve and wounding 70 others before being arrested,
tried, convicted of 12 murder on counts and sentenced to 12 consecutive murder
terms plus 3,318 years.
e. 2017 the Juice, OJ Simpson, was sprung lose on
parole after serving 9 years of a 33 year sentence for armed robbery (now he
has time to find Nicole Brown’s killer).
Reflections Reflections On Chess And The Democratic
Process. — If you
look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many
moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any
checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast
difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic
process is like.. Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and Nobel Pease Prize
Laureate
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