Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 29, 2018 On the FLOTUS
fashion front Michelle Obama basking in her new ranking as the most admired woman
trouncing long time occupant of that role Hillary Clinton and sporting $4,000
thigh length designer boots on her book tour was fawned over by the fashion
media while former model Melania Trump was mocked for wearing Timberlake boots
on her visit to Iraq (just another symbol of how divided this country has
become); on the infectious disease front a passenger contagious with measles
from Brussels arrived at Newark’s International Airport and may have exposed
numerous passengers on the plane and in the terminal to the disease and in New
York City a measles outbreak has prompted school officials to ban children who
have not been vaccinated from attending school; on the what to give someone who
has everything front, Kanye West surprised his wife Kim Kardashian with a $14
million condo in Miami as a Christmas gift; on the Syrian front the Defense
Department is defending the withdrawal of U.S. forces is well thought out and organized;
on the political correctness front, the town of Hempstead on Long Island has
organized a toy exchange encouraging kids to exchange their toy guns for safer
alternatives; New Years Eve Times Square Celebration organizers have announced that
they will honor journalism and the free press; Maine’s outgoing governor added
the comment that the Democratic winner of a House seat had stolen the election
due to Maine’s preference voting where second and third choice preference are reallocated
if no one initially garnered more than 50% of the vote; Richard Overton at age 112 the oldest veteran of World War II
and a lover of ice cream, whiskey and cigars has just died; Emanuel’s
announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence
as through December 28, 2018, 2938 people mostly of color have been shot by
mostly people of color, of whom 493 have died (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 mostly people of color by mostly
people of color).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Madonna,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are not an
obsequious person and a relevant quote from an unnamed Khmer Rouge official on
genocide justifications, 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
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1. National Pepper Pot Soup Day—commemorating the serving of pepper
pot soup to the soldiers of the Continental Army ten days after arriving in
their winter encampment of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on this day in 1777.
2. Still Need to Do Day—celebrating a lull in work and the holidays
by accomplishing what you want to accomplish in the waning days of 2018.
3. 1984 Number One Song— the number one song on this day in 1984 on a run of 6 weeks
in that position was “Like a Virgin” by Madonna. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__rX_WL100
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “n”
to words beginning with “o” is “obsequious” which means to fawn over
which is what the MSM is doing 24/7 when it comes to liberal politicians and
celebrities.
5. Justice Moves Slowly But It Moves--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1923 of Doctor Sam Shephard who was convicted of killing
his wife, sentenced to life in prison but released to face a retrial thanks to
the efforts of F. Lee Bailey and was acquitted at the retrial; sadly saddened
by the loss of his wife, he turned to alcohol and died of liver cancer in 1970.
His case prompted the TV series The Fugitive
and the movie of the same name.
On this day
in:
a. 1934 in a march to war moment, Japan renounced the Washington
Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930..
b. 1949 Station KC2XKA
in Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first Ultra high frequency TV station.
c. 1975 a bomb exploded in LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 and
injuring 74. The perpetrators were never caught.
d. 1997 Hong Kong
began the slaughter of all of its 1.25 million chickens to halt the spread of
the deadly bird flu.
e. 1998 in a
better late than never moment, leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologized for the
genocide in Cambodia that claimed over a two million lives but only two leaders
of the Khmer Rouge have been convicted of genocide and are serving life
sentences.
Reflections on the Cambodian genocide: “To build a democratic Cambodia by renewing everything on a new basis,
to do away with every reminder of colonial and imperial culture… To rebuild a
new Cambodia, one million men is enough. Prisoners of war, people expelled from
the cities and villages controlled by the government, are no longer needed, and
local chiefs are free to dispose of them as they please.” An unnamed Khmer Rouge official,
January 1976 Sadly the world like too many genocides stood idly by.
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