Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 31, 2019 Along totally
partisan lines, the House passed a resolution to proceed with an impeachment
inquiry setting forth the procedures to be followed which have been attacked
immediately by the Republicans (hold on to your hats this is going to expose this
nation to a very divisive and partisan destructive ride while any attempt to
deal with issues confronting us will be put on the back burner); in the height
of chutzpah, Blues are touting that because former Republican Amash has switched
parties and voted in favor of the inquiry, the vote on the inquiry is
bi-partisan (what a total delusional crock! Compared to the Reds who made no allegations
that because two Blues broke ranks and failed to support the inquiry that the
move was anything but partisan); a silver lining on the vote is a spike of
funds coming in to Trump’s reelection efforts coffers; the impeachment balloon
may have lost some air when former NSC aide for Russian and European affairs
who listened in on the call between Trump and the President of Ukraine testified today that he heard nothing
wrong with the conversation; retiring Rep Katie Hill, noted for being openly
bi, sporting an Iron Cross tattoo on her inner thigh and favoring threesomes
could not gracefully leave but gave a blistering speech attacking the double
standard and the misogyny of Trump, Kavanaugh and the Reds while ignoring the
role of her behavior (good riddance Hill!); Chris Cuomo, the pseudo journalist
at CNN who is there because of his family name for the sole reason, is in a
snit fit with Eric Trump who has slammed Hunter Biden for his earnings from
China and Ukraine due to his father’s name;
in Chicago as of October 30, 2019, 2352 have been shot, of whom,
403 have died but the minor miracle of no deaths on the 28th and 29th
has ended on the 30th ; in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s
population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 283 have
been murdered (when will Chicago and Baltimore 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 and when will
the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities
which have been more deadly and more numerous than random mass shootings?
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link
to Rod Stewart, the fact you are prevoyant and a relevant quote on the Enron
scandal by Robert Kiyosaki, 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
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1. Girl Scouts Founders Day—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1860 of Juliette Low who founded the predecessor of
the Girl Scouts in Great Britain in 1911 and in the United States in 1915.
2. Halloween—celebrated in immigrant communities in the U.S. during the mid-19th
Century, the holiday expanded to across the nation in the 20th
Century and today in addition to the trick or treaters is widely celebrated by
adults as a excuse to dress up in costumes.
3. 1971 Number One Song— the number one
song in 1971 on this day on a run of 5 weeks in the position was “Maggie May”/”Reasonto
Believe” by Rod Stewart. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOl7dh7a-6g. This color blind model railroad enthusiast
has been knighted as is still going strong at age 74.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “prevoyant”
which means to have foresight, a trait that will keep most people out of
trouble from doing things.
5. Smoking, Drinking and Candy--celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1950 of Canadian born actor and comedian John Candy who
was overweight and a heavy smoker and drinker and died way too early from a
heart attack on March 4, 1994.
On this day in:
a. 1984
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh guards
which led to widespread rioting against Sikhs and the deaths of some 3000
Sikhs.
b. 2000 a Russian Soyuz
22 spacecraft was launched with a crew to the International Space Station which has been continuously manned
since its arrival.
c. 2002
a Houston Grand Jury indicted Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer for
Enron of 78 counts of fraud and money laundering and copped a plea of six years
on September 26, 2006 and was released on probation on December 16, 2011.
d. 2011 our overcrowded Earth
reached a population of 7 billion people, many of whom are living in poverty
wanting to come to the United States.
e. 2017 Sayfullo Saipov, an
immigrant from Uzbekistan in 2010 and believed to be a jihadist, rented a truck
and drove it into a bikeway in Manhattan, killing 8 and injuring 11; this
scumbag was scheduled to go on trial on October 9, 2019.
Reflections on the Enron Scandal:
“During the Enron debacle, it was workers who
took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs,
many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of
the investing food chain.” Robert Kiyosaki, noted
author of 26 books, including the Rich
Dad, Poor Dad series.
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in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and
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Not for just This Day in
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October 31, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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