Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 16, 2019 The impeachment queen
Maxine Waters has been sworn in to head up the House Financial Services Committee
vowing a war on big banks and worse she will have at her side AOC whose
knowledge of finance and economics is far removed from any sense of reality
(bank CEOs will be in for a lot of raising their right hands to testify during
the next two years); under a false veneer of concern for security Nancy Pelosi
has written Trump asking him to delay the State of Union scheduled for January
29 be delayed or submitted in writing (pure politics and demonstrating that the
Blues are terrified of Trump appearing before the American people and of having
her and Chucky doing a repeat of the
American Gothic response to be ridiculed); Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancelled an
appearance in New York and is not expected to return to the court until
February 19 (if you thought the confirmation hearings were contentious in Kavanaugh’s
case, be prepared for a massive tempest if a conservative justice is named to
replace the most liberal member of the court); the socialist darling of the MSM
has warned conservatives that they will be exhausted as she runs a train on the
Progressive agenda (how inappropriate as run a train means a gangbang); Angel
parents went to the offices of Schumer and Pelosi to make their case that
illegal aliens killing Americans is not a manufactured crisis (pathetic illegal
aliens supporters that they are, neither Schumer nor Pelosi would meet with
them); anti-Semite and rabid profanity laced impeachment queen Rashida Tlaib
has been denied a seat on the Appropriations Committee; Cack News Network host
Areva Martin attacked Fox reporter Daniel Webb for his white privilege ignoring
the fact that he is black; it is time for the Blues to come to the table and
end this nonsense of a government shutdown as the White House is now estimating
that the each week of the shutdown will cost a .1% drop in GNP (Senator Scott
has introduced legislation that prohibits payment of salaries to members of
Congress while the shutdown continues—good move); my daily source for murders
and shootings has stopped publishing so this feature will no longer appear in
Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Boyz II Men, factoids
of interest for this day in history, the fact that it is easy to sate one’s
desires as an oenophile and a relevant quote from Ronald Reagan on religious
liberty, secure in the knowledge that if you
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1. National Religious Freedom Day—celebrating the adoption by the
legislature of Virginia Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
on this day in 1786 which formed the basis for the establishment clause in the
First Amendment.
2. National Without a Scalpel Day—created by Interventional Initiative to
promote awaresness of non surgical alternatives to the treatment of diseases
like uterine fibroids, strokes, and aneurysms.
3. 1995 Number One Song— the number one song on this day in 1995 on a run of 4 weeks
in that position was “On Bended Knee” by Boyz II Men. Here is a recording
of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSUSFow70no
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 “oenology” which means the study
of wines and a good reason to go wine tasting today while shopping at Trader
Joe’s in Costa Mesa.
5. No Fly Zone—celebrating the birth on this day in 1979 of noted teen singer
phenom Aaliyah Dana Haughton who had the misfortune of being flown back from a
music video shoot in the Bahamas in an overloaded private plane which was being
flown by an unlicensed pilot with traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system
and crashed 200 feet after takeoff on August 25, 2001 killing her and the other
8 members aboard.
On this day in:
a. 1883 the Pendelton Civil Service Act was signed into law by
President Arthur creating the U.S. Civil Service.
b. 1964 the musical Dolly opened
on Broadway for the first of its 2844 performances.
c. 1979 the last Iranian Shah fled Iran with his family and
relocated in Egypt, ending 2500 years of rule by Iranian monarchy.
d. 2001 President Bill Clinton posthumously awarded Teddy
Roosevelt a Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the
Spanish-American War.
e. 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia
was successfully launched on what would become its last mission as it
disintegrated on reentry 16 days later.
Reflections on Religious
Freedom: “To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God
from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The
First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of
this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values
from government tyranny.”—Ronald
Reagan, Address to Alabama State Legislature Astute observation and warning to
the left who assault religious freedom at every opportunity.
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