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Saturday, July 4, 2020

July 4, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Independence Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 4, 2020

CV World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 286,461 new cases (a 2.58% increase compared to a 2.17% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 11,372,004 cases, 4,405,201 of which are active, 6,966,803 of which have been closed with 6,433,942 recoveries (92.35% compared to yesterday’s 92.19%) and 519,977 deaths (7.65% compared to yesterday’s 7.81%).

CV USA: New cases of 74,838 have brought total cases to 2,935,770 (a 2.62% increase compared to yesterday’s 3.86% increase) with 1,543,047 active cases of which 16,017 (15,907 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,392,723 closures, 132,318 of which have been deaths (9.5% compared to yesterday’s 9.9%) and 1,260,405 of which have been recoveries (90.5% compared to yesterday’s 89.9%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits

since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for some 40% of our deaths with 36,953,633 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).

Non CV News: Kimberly Guilfoyle, a head of a Trump fund raising organization and girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr. tested positive before the Mt. Rushmore speech yesterday and drove back with Trump, Jr. without attending; at the White House the 4^th was celebrated with a small gathering on the White Lawn with military aircraft parading over and Trump giving a rousing speech attacking the liberal mobs who want to tear down our past; from the basement bunker weak Joe Biden addressed the need to confront “systematic racism”; Trump should be applauded for his quick action in banning travel from Chinese from China but evidently the ban did not extend to travel from Hong Kong and Macau and 8,000 Chinese from China entered the country (unfortunately we have no idea how many people were infected by these travelers); in the war on preservation of Human Rights and their suppression by the Chinese in Hong Kong the Chinese seem to be winning the propaganda war with 53 countries of the really misnamed UN Human Rights Council supporting China’s recent suppression and only 26 nations opposing (another reason to wonder why we insist to be a piggy bank anyone can empty); Virginia has cowardly due to fear of protests against the flag in the Commonwealth during the 4^th ordered the removal of a one story tall American flag from a construction site due to fears of protesting violence (give the leftist Anti-American mobs an inch will incite them to demand a mile—what pathetic wimps from a state that gave us 4 of 5 of our first presidents and 8 total; Rose McGowan is back in the news following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell and calling for the arrest of Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew for their alleged involvement with Jeremy Epstein’s sexual abuse of female minors; Michael Cohen, another poster child for two legal standards one for the wealthy and elite and the other for mere mortals, who was released from prison to home arrest due to CV concerns was spotted out with friends dining in a trendy NYC restaurant in violation of the terms of his home arrest and hopefully will be sent back to prison; in Chicago as of July 3, 2020, there were 1778 shootings of whom 318 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete dereliction of duty by Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 151 behind Chicago stuck at 167 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 Neil Diamond, the fact that you do not want parastatal companies operating here in the United States, and a quote by Richelle E. Goodrich on the 4^th of July, 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. Independence Day—celebrating the day representatives from the 13 Colonies executed the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson, who leftist history revisionist loathe and urge statues of him be destroyed, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania declaring our independence from Great Britain and explaining the reasons for such act.

2. Independence from Meat Day—not sure when this day was created by the Vegetarian Awareness Network but given the dearth of barbecues due to the CV pandemic probably a good day to celebrate it.

3. 1972 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1972 on this day on a run of 1 week in that position was “Song Song Blue” by Neil Diamond. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighSddnnaPE. . This incredibly successful songwriter and singer with over 100 million records sold retired from touring due to Parkinson’s Disease in 2018.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parastatal” which means indirectly controlled by the state which describes to a tee the vast majority of Chinese companies operating in the United States.

5. Bullets Block--celebrating the birth on this day in 1981 of Will Smith who played defensive end for this entire 9 seasons in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints but upon retirement was involved in a road rage incident in which he had a BAC of .232 and rear ended a car which caused Smith and the driver of the car to exchange heated words which led to that driver shooting and killing Smith and wounding his wife; the shooter was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to 35 years.

On this day in:

a. 1911 a massive heat wave stroke the Northeastern United States with temperatures in the triple digits leaving some 400 people and countless horses dead in its wake when it ended 11 days later.

b. 1946 after 381 years of continuous rule by various foreign powers, the Philippines gained its independence from the United States.

c. 1976 Israeli commandos with the loss of one soldier freed all but 4 of the remaining hostages from Air France 139 high jacked and held by terrorists at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.

d. 2004 the cornerstone for the Freedom Tower was laid at the World Trade Center Site.

e. 2009 the crown of the Statue Of Liberty opened to the public for the first time after being closed due to the attacks of 9/11.

Reflections on the 4^th of July: “Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

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Friday, July 3, 2020

July 3, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Independent Beer Run Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 3, 2020

CV World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 235,295 new cases (a 2.17% increase compared to a 1.37% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 11,085,543 cases, 4,348,147 of which are active, 6,737,396 of which have been closed with 6,210,988 recoveries (92.19% compared to yesterday’s 92.11%) and 519,977 deaths (7.81% compared to yesterday’s 7.89%).

CV USA: New cases of 106,333 have brought total cases to 2,860,932 (a 3.86% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.01% increase) with 1,529,885 active cases of which 15,907 (15,801 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,331,047 closures, 131,808 of which have been deaths (9.9% compared to yesterday’s 10.09%) and 1,199,239 of which have been recoveries (90.1% compared to yesterday’s 89.9%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits

since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for some 40% of our deaths with 36,297,195 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).

Non CV News: protesters blocking access to Mt. Rushmore where Trump will be speaking were pepper sprayed and arrested ; with Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars and facing over 30 years in prison on conviction, speculation is that anyone who was a passenger on his Lolita Express like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew must be sweating blood over what she might say to minimize her prison time (we hope that wherever she is held awaiting trial does a better job of insuring her safety than what occurred in the “suicide” of Epstein; on the CV front, a new study conducted by the Henry Ford Medical Institute of over 2500 COVID-19 patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine early in their disease had a mortality reduction rate of some 50% with no cardiac issues (remember how Trump was castigated and ridiculed in his support of the drug and his taking it by MSM); Cack News Network Brooke Baldwin was caught with her hand in the bias jar when she stood mute as co-founder of Black Lives Matter Melina Abdullah who was ranting the Trump is the “terrorist in chief” (what a great way to stifle any intelligent discussion on race relations Abdullah); an emergency room doctor whose daughter is a reporter on Fox News has reported the City of Houston is very close to having all of its ICU beds occupied due to the pandemic and that 20% of the CV patients are asymptomatic; the thin skinned PC warriors are on the warpath demanding that the Redskins change their name because it is racist as the new Pocahontas Alyssa Milano claims name is racist which an overwhelming number of Native Americans feel it is not offending; in Chicago as of July 2, 2020, there were 1755 shootings of whom 313 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete dereliction of duty by Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 148 behind Chicago stuck at 165 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 Carole King, the fact that you are not prone to parathria, and a quote by William Faulkner on Pickett’s Charge on antitrust in America, 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. National Independent Beer Run Day—created on June 26, 2019 by the Brewers Association to promote appreciation for and increase the consumption of craft beers instead of the bland national breweries and first celebrated on this day in 2020. Good time to visit a brew pub if open given the CV pandemic and if it is but offering only takeout, buy a growler or two of your favorite suds.

2. American Redneck Day—not sure who and when this date was created but given the wave of concern about racism whether real or imagined, I have to expect that the holiday may be on borrowed time.

3. 1971 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1971 on this day on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “I Feel the Earth Move” by Carole King in her first number one hit. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6913KnbMpHM . This incredibly successful songwriter and singer is still going strong at age 76 and recently grace the Segerstrom in Orange County several years ago.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parathria” which means incoherence which describes a lot of what we hear coming from our politicians and rioters these days.

5. When the Bars Close the Leaks Will Stop--celebrating or bemoaning depending on your point of view the birth on this day in 1971 of Australian journalist and activist Julian Assange who founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and became infamous for leaking a series of classified documents obtained by Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning) and who after jumping bail in the UK hung out in asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy before being expelled by Ecuador and jailed by the UK for bail breach and now in a UK prison in trial to be extradited to the U.S. for trial for his role in publishing classified material.

On this day in:

a. 1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

b. 1863 in what would prove to be the high water mark of the Confederacy General George Pickett led a charge up Cemetery Ridge to be thrown back by the Union Army defenders to bring the 3 day Battle of Gettysburg to a close and a defeat for General Lee and the Confederacy who lost a third of their army to casualties.

c. 1913 veterans from the Confederate Army reenacted the 50^th anniversary of Pickett’s Charge on Cemetery Ridge and were met by Union Army veterans with outstretched hands of welcome instead of bayonets.

d. 1938 President Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Peace Memorial and lit the Eternal Flame at the Gettysburg Battlefield.

e. 1979 President Jimmy Carter signed the first secret directive authorizing aid to Afghans opposing the pro Soviet regime in Afghanistan.

Reflections on Pickett’s Charge: “For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago….” William Faulkner, The Intruder in the Dust

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Thursday, July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Made In USA Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 2, 2020

CV World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 146,247 new cases (a 1.37% increase compared to a 2.37% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,850,245 cases, 4,262,566 of which are active, 6,587,679 of which have been closed with 6,067,700 recoveries (92.11% compared to yesterday’s 91.9%) and 519,977 deaths (7.89% compared to yesterday’s 8.12%).

CV USA: New cases of 27,957 have brought total cases to 2,754,599 (a 1.01% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.62% increase) with 1,486,494 active cases of which 15,801 (15,864 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,296,062 closures, 130,856 of which have been deaths (10.09% compared to yesterday’s 10.21%) and 1,165,206 of which have been recoveries (89.9% compared to yesterday’s 89.79%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for over 40% of our deaths and hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 35,538,123 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).

Non CV News: Mayor Garcetti is eating crow after admitting the recent protests in L.A. have been spreading the CV virus; Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and pimp, has been arrested for multiple sex trafficking counts of minor for Epstein’s abuse and faces over 30 years in prison if convicted (not sure if there will be bail or if there is she fails to post it but if she remains in jail pending trial let’s hope her jailers do a better job of protecting her than they did in Epstein’s case; in a recent poll over 70% of Democrats thought it was important that Weak Joe Biden pick a black female candidate as VP with Kamala Harris in the lead both as being favorable and least favorable (Lying Adam Schiff, who would love to be senator is rooting 24/7 that she be picked); the growth of the BLM movement continues to grow like wildfire as yet another victim is caught up in its wrath as Dean Leslie Neal-Boylan of the U Mass-Lowell school of nursing alleged she has be fired for an email condemning racism and violence and claiming “BLACK LIVES MATTER but also EVERYONE’S LIFE” (when will the BLM movement be castigated for its apparent hypocrisy that Black Lives Matter only if they have been shot and killed by the police?); Black Life Matters cares only for blacks killed by cops as it is totally silent for the young black killed in Chop (father of dead son complained no one cared save Trump with his empathy to share); in Chicago as of July 30, 2020, there were 1747 shootings of whom 310 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete dereliction of duty by Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 146 behind Chicago stuck at 164 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 Jackson Five, the fact that you are not prone to parapraxis, and a quote by Robert LeFevre on antitrust in America, 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. Made in the USA Day—created in 1989 by the Made In USA Foundation to promote the purchase of goods made in the USA as opposed to imports something that is far easier now that Trump is in office always trying to get manufacturers to move their factories to the U.S. or move them back.

2. World Sports Journalists Day—created by the International Sports Press Association on this day in 1994 to commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the founding of its foundation and to honor and promote the work of sports journalists who sadly have been facing due to the CV pandemic a dearth of sporting events to cover since the virus spread out of its confines in Wuhan, China.

3. 1970 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1970 on this day on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “The Love You Save” with a very young Michael Jackson.. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pLV9xZczM.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parapraxis” which means a mistake or blunder which describes Weak Joe Biden’s speech and thought processes to a tee.

5. In the Ursula Trap--celebrating the birth on this day in 1916 of Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the Luftwaffe’s most decorated pilot, who in 2530 missions on the Eastern Front destroyed 519 tanks, as well as one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft, 150 artillery emplacements, 11 planes in aerial combat and more than 800 fighting vehicles of all types. He was married three times all to women with a first name of Ursula, resettled in Argentina and died after several strokes a nonrepentant Neo-Nazi on December 18, 1982.

On this day in:

a. 1890 Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

b. 1921 President Harding signed the Knox-Porter Resolution ending the war with Germany.

c. 1964 after a long but unsuccessful filibuster by Southern Democratic Senators, Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination in public places.

d. 1990 some 1400 Muslims pilgrims to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in a Mecca tunnel are trampled and suffocated to death.

e. 2005 some 1000 musicians performed in the G-8 Countries and South Africa to raise money to fight poverty prior to the G-8 Conference several days later which resulted in pledges of aid of $50 billion, half of which was to go to Africa.

Reflections on anti-trust laws: “The overall effect of the antitrust laws, then, is to maintain the status quo within the market—to not let anyone get ahead of his competition through normal competitive practices. In fact, the breadth of the antitrust laws is so extensive that it is now technically illegal to even be engaged in business in the United States!” The Fundamentals of Liberty by Robert LeFevre, Santa Ana: CA, Rampart Institute, 1988,

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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

July 1, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Canada Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 1, 2020

CV World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 247,836 new cases (a 2.37% increase compared to a 1.19% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,704,083 cases, 4,327,249 of which are active, 6,376,834 of which have been closed with 5,860,299 recoveries (91.9% compared to yesterday’s 91.8%) and 516,535 deaths (8.1% compared to yesterday’s 8.19%).

CV USA: New cases of 70,343 have brought total cases to 2,754,599 (a 2.62% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.16% increase) with 1,477,402 active cases of which 15,801 (15,864 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,277,197 closures, 130,412 of which have been deaths (10.21% compared to yesterday’s 10.3%) and 1,146,785 of which have been recoveries (89.79% compared to yesterday’s 89.7%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for over 40% of our deaths and hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 34,855,642 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).

Non CV New: the Cack New Network is being mocked big time for its listing of big companies still advertising on Facebook as activists are demanding that companies terminate their advertising relationship with Facebook, The Bobbsey Twins of leftist incompetence Cuomo and De Blasio are turning on each other as Cuomo rightfully, as violent crime in NYC is spiking, ridicules

De Blasio for cutting a $ billion out of the NYPD budget as graffiti in Manhattan complaining the cuts are not enough (New York should not worry that the Cuomo imposed 14 day quarantine will deter visitors from states like California from visiting NYC as a visitor, given the unchecked rise in violent crime, would have to have his or her head examined to want to spend any time there); finally after 20 some days of being MIA in her “Summer of Love” delusion, Mayor Jenny Durkan after 5 shootings and 2 deaths had a long due epiphany and ordered police to retake CHOP in Seattle which they did, arresting some 31 in the process; the spike in CV cases has caused several states to do a version of the Texas two step, one opening and two closings back as we enter the 4^th with an expanding number of states closing beaches and bars (some good news however as growing possibility that Pfizer will have a vaccine on the market by year end; in Chicago as of June 30, 2020, there were 1725 shootings of whom 307 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete abdication of Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 143 behind Chicago with 164 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 Henri Mancini, the fact that you do not need to use paranyms, and a quote by Russ Limbaugh on Canada, 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. Canada Day—celebrating the joining of Canada (Ontario and Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on this day in 1867 and celebrated much like our pre COVID-19 4^th of July with parades, fireworks and family get togethers.

2. International Reggae Day—created by Angela David on July 1, 1994 to promote and celebrate that unique form of music reggae.

3. 1969 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1969 on this day on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet”. Here is a recording of the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaA2WiyqO1E. His composing skills ended far too soon when he died from pancreatic cancer on June 15, 1994 at the age of 70.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paranym” which means a euphemism which describes the words used to speak to us by politicians to a tee..

5. Judge a Man by the Women He Divorces--celebrating the birth on this day in 1961 of Diane Frances Spencer, know to her fans as Princess Diane who married Prince Charles, had 2 sons William and Harry, won the world over with her outgoing grace, personality and charity work, divorced Prince Charles and then died in an automobile wreck trying to escape paparazzi in Paris on August 31, 1997.

On this day in:

a. 1968 the CIA formed the Phoenix Program, created to assassinate Viet Cong leaders and sympathizers and people opposed to the government of South Vietnam.

b. 1979 SONY introduced the Walkman.

c. 1997 radio station WFAN in NYC launched the first all sports radio network and was probably doing quite well until the COVID-19 virus hit this country.

d. 2002 the International Criminal Court was established in the Hague to prosecute individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression.

e. 2007 smoking was banned in all indoor public spaces in England.

Reflections on Canada: “Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.” Rush Limbaugh

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