Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 8, 2019 Hillary in the
joke of the Century rants back at Trump’s challenge for her to run-“Don’t Tempt
Me”; Trump is trying to hold a rally in
Minneapolis, the backyard of Somali born Ilhan Omar which the Blue Mayor Frey
seems to be trying to prevent by demanding the arena where it is to be held
cough up $530,000 to pay for security which has Trump on the Twitter warpath
(Minneapolis is home to a lot of Somali immigrants whom Frey he must feel,
given Omar’s 24/7 rants against Trump, will rise up in violent protest and has
banned off duty police acting as security from wearing their uniforms); the
head of the Minneapolis Police Union has blasted the liberal mayor for trying
to bully Trump from coming; Warren evidently has not learned from her “I am a
member of the Cherokee Tribe” miscue as is now peddling a tale that she was
fired from her teaching job due to being visibly pregnant that with her
Cherokee claim led her to Harvard and politics (slight problem with this
delusional tale is that videos cast doubt on its veracity but truth has never
deterred her before); what a difference political affiliation makes when
scandal is involved as Hunter Biden’s and his family’s privacy seem sacrosanct
compared to the media
stakeout hype over Kavanaugh; on the
impeachment front, Trump has exerted executive privilege and barred the
Ambassador to the EU from appearing at a deposition of what he calls the “kangaroo
court” of the Blue House impeachment investigation while a new Washington Post indicated that a slight
majority of Americans supported the impeachment inquiry while a slight majority
indicated the impeachment inquiry was distracting Congress from dealing with
important issues (with the echo chamber of the MSM clamoring for impeachment
24/7 against the sole voice of reason Fox, Trump faces an uphill battle in the
House and should be getting his ducks in a row to quash the procedure in the
Senate); in what must seem as an anomaly openly gay Pete Buttigieg is slamming
the LBGT media for its coverage of his homosexuality while refusing to answer
questions by CNN’s Jake Tapper whether he would support a mandatory assault gun
buyback; the left’s intolerance was on display as it released a Twitter storm
attacking Ellen DeGeneres for sitting in the owner’s box watching the Cowboys
play the Packers next to George W. Bush (good for her as she on her show talked
about having respect for people whose views you may disagree with which is advice
the intolerant left needs to pay attention to); in Chicago through October 7,
2019, 2170 have been shot of whom, 373 have died but none on the 7th
which is a miracle; in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, 262
have been murdered in Baltimore (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 the Four Aces, the fact that you are not guilty of pravity, and
a relevant quote on ebola from Time Magazine, 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 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. Own Business Day—created
by Metro AG in 2016 and celebrated on the second Tuesday in October to honor or
commiserate with as the case may be those who own their own business.
2. International Lesbian Day—celebrated mainly in
Australia and New Zealand to honor the lesbian culture since the 90’s.
3. 1955 Number One Song— the number
one song in 1955 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “Love Is a
Many Splendored Thing” by the Four Aces. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDtxiNwDS8. The original Four Aces were shuffled back to the
deck of eternity in their late 80’s and early 90’s but the name lives on with new
singers today.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pravity”
which means wickedness or depravity, which describes Epstein’s past behavior to
a tee.
5. Rainbow Man—celebrating or bemoaning as the case may
be the birth on this day in 1941 of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, a noted Civil
Rights leader who was very active in the Rainbow/Push Movement.
On this day in:
a. 1967
Che Guevara and his followers were captured in Bolivia by two battalions of
Bolivian soldiers and executed the next day on orders of the President of
Bolivia.
b. 1974
Franklin National Bank in the largest bank failure of its time collapsed due to
fraud and mismanagement.
c.
1982 Cats opened on Broadway and was
performed for almost 18 years before its last performance on September 10, 2000.
d. 2001 President Bush created
the Department of Homeland Security in response to the attacks of 9/11.
e. 2014 Thomas Eric Duncan who
had the dubious distinction of being the first person in America diagnosed with
Ebola died.
Reflections on Ebola: “For decades, Ebola haunted rural African
villages like some mythic monster that every few years rose to demand a human
sacrifice and then returned to its cave. It reached the West only in nightmare
form, a Hollywood horror that makes eyes bleed and organs dissolve and doctors
despair because they have no cure.”—Time Magazine (December 2014)
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