Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For January 23, 2017 Four days into his presidency
and already the lawyers are on the offensive as CREW lawyers announced planss
to sue President Trump in Manhattan District Court claiming he has violated the
Constitution’s no emoluments clause by failing to completely divest his
business interests in the Trump Organization; President Trump was also blasted
on the Sunday talk shows for the controversy over whether the crowd size for the
Inauguration was correct (who cares as what most of us care about is when will
more good paying jobs be created, the border secured, tax rates cut and
job-killing regulations eliminated); President Trump will be meeting with
Netanyahu next month (so much for Maddow’s claim of anti-Semitism) and very
soon with the President of Mexico and Prime Minister of Canada to discuss
renegotiation of NAFTA; Texas Governor Abbot announced that the Texas will cut
funding to Travis County due to its plans to implement a sanctuary county
policy by refusing to honor detainers without a court order unless the illegal
alien was booked for capital murder, sexual assault or smuggling of aliens
(finally some sanity starting to emerge); in yet another example of the divide
in this country, a Trump supporter on an airplane was subject to a vitriolic
rant and abuse by an anti-Trumper in the seat next to him so bad the woman was
asked to leave and police called when she refused to the cheers of the
passengers; Taylor Swift is being slammed by feminists because she did not join
the marches against President Trump; on the sports front the Falcons routed the
Green Bay Packers do the dismay of their favorite fan Greta Van Sustern and the
Patriots destroyed the Steelers and the winners meet in two weeks in Houston in
Super Bowl LI.; pace of killings in Chicago picked up with 3 killed bringing
the total to 41 through Saturday and 191 shot and wounded and nothing but the
sounds of silence from Mayor Emmanuel.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music
link to Whitney Houston, factoids of interest for this day in history, an
observation on poll taxes by Ann Coulter, looking forward to not being vagarious
and hoping President Trump is not vagarious either, blessed with a positive
attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like 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. World Freedom Day—celebrating in
Taiwan and South Korea the 23,000 communists captured in the Korean War by U.S.
and Allied forces who chose not to return to Red China or North Korea but
instead chose Taiwan or South Korea.
2. Better Business Communication Day—celebrating in
what in many cases in the business world is a dying or lost art—effective,
concise and clear business communications to improve productivity, sales,
profits and motivation.
3. Number One Song
in 1993—celebrating
the number 1 song in 1993 on a long run of 14 weeks in that position “I Will
Always Love You” by Whitney Houston. Here is a link to her performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
4. Word of the Day—the word of the
day is “vagarious” which means
unpredictable and erratic in behavior and direction which describes the leader
of North Korea to a tee and which many here in the U.S. are hoping will not be
used to describe our new president.
5. A Bird Can’t Fly on One Wing but a Plane Can Fly with No Engines—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1951 of Chelsey Sullenberger who was piloting a U.S. Air
flight out of La Guardia when it was hit by a flock of geese, knocking out all
egines but Sullenberger was able to turn around and land in the Hudson River,
saving the lives of all 155 aboard.
On this day in:
1. 1912 The International Opium Convention, the world’s
first international drug trade treaty designed to control the export of
narcotics was signed at the Hague, the Netherlands.
2. 1920 the Netherlands refused to surrender Kaiser
Wilhelm to the Allies.
3. 1957 American Walter Morrison sold his rights to his
flying disk to Wham-O Toy Company which renamed it “Frisbee.”
4. 1960 the bathyscaphe USS Trieste descended to a record depth in the Marianna Trench in
the Pacific Ocean of 35,797 feet.
5. 1964 the 24th Amendment to the Constitution
abolishing poll taxes in national elections was ratified.
Reflections from a commentator who is usually on point but not here:
“I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax on the right to vote”
Ann Coulter With respect to literacy so one knows who or what he or she is
voting for one might make an argument but not when the practice in the South
was to make it impossible even for black college degree holders to pass but a
poll tax when we have the lowest participation rate already no way. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
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© January 23, 2017 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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