Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 3, 2017 Finally in this dreary political drama some good news to
report as on March 4, the Iditarod, the Last Great Race on Earth commences and
on www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com you will get race summaries and updates (being in Nome when the
dog teams start coming in should be on everyone’s bucket list but you have to
plan far in advance as the supply of hotel rooms sells out months in advance);
the Blues continue in all out hysteria mode calling for Sessions’ resignation
including a call from someone who really should know better as a former AG for
California Kamala Harris who is hell bent to out Boxer Boxer in terms of
partisanship; when a respected formal federal prosecutor Kurt Gowdy as opposed
to Nancy Pelosi who is clueless as to the law, declared that the statements of
Sessions cannot be construed as perjury, time for the obstructionist Blues to
move on; in another example that no one’s email account is secure, Mike Pence’s
personal email account while governor of Indiana was hacked and secondly how
gullible people are when recipients responded to a phishing expedition from an
email claiming that Governor and Mrs. Pence were stranded in the Philippines
and needed money; in yet another example
of a bloated bureaucracy at the VA, patients in excruciating pain are caught on
cell phone cameras waiting for five hours to see a doctor; as anti-Semite
attacks grow in this country and Jewish cemeteries are vandalized kudos to a
Muslim Marine offering to stand guard to protect synagogues and cemeteries
(intolerance of one’s religion is a crime against God regardless of the name He
goes by); on Interior Secretary’s first day on the job, he rode to work on a
horse to signify solidarity with the Park Police and reversed Obama’s last
moment lead shot ban; in another example of a continuing breakdown of the rule
of law and why all sanctuary cities or counties should be cut off from all
federal funding, an Oregon judge in Multnomah County Monica Heeranz, who is
also on the board of the Hispanic Law Association, is alleged to have aided an
illegal alien in her courtroom for a DUI hearing to flee from her courtroom through
a private exit to avoid capture by ICE agents waiting outside (ICE has decided
not to investigate but the Chief Judge of the Superior Court is as to her conduct
that is really troubling—if she did aid an illegal to escape arrest she should
be removed from office and disbarred); almost
like a stuck record, the carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total
shootings in 2017 through March 1 at 528, 98 of whom died (God help those poor
minorities being shot mostly by minorities when the weather gets warmer and the
shooters’ aim gets really better and there is more daylight) and yet nothing
absolutely nothing appears to be occurring to address this blight on blacks and
minorities which is what racism from a black mayor really looks like.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Perry
Como, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from J.
Matthew Nespoli, while not grinding your jaws when at rest due to stress,
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 Wildlife Day—created but General Assembly on December 20, 2013 and first
celebrated on March 3 of the following year, a date chosen to mark the
anniversary of the adoption of the Convention of International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; the day marks efforts to preserve
and protect the habitat of wildlife and over hunting of the population.
2. Dress in Blue Day—celebrating
not the Democratic Party which is still reeling but since 2009 promoted by the
Colon Cancer Alliance to promote awareness of and research on colon cancer
(celebrated also by increasing your fiber intake along with fruits and vegetables).
3. 1951 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1951 on a run of 6 weeks in that position “If” by Perry Como. Here is a recording of him performing the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPqhvhlhCcs
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “gnathic” of or relating to the jaws
bones of which can be broken in a fight.
5. The
Real Deal—celebrating the birth on this day in
1982 of noted up and coming actress Jessica Biel.
On this day
in:
a. 1776 newly formed U.S. Marines conducted their first
amphibious operation, seizing the town of Nassau in the Bahamas and seizing
supplies of gunpowder and shot located there.
b. 1873 the U.S. Congress enacted the Comstock Law Act, making
it illegal to distribute obscene, lewd and lascivious
books through the U.S. Mail.
c. 1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II became the first person to make a
sound recording of a political document by using Thomas Edison’s phonograph
cylinder.
d. 1931 the United States adopted The Star Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
e. 1991 an amateur video captured the vicious beating by LAPD
officers of Rodney King which later sparked the Los Angeles Riots when the
officers were acquitted.
Reflections on our
National Anthem: “Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin,
a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott
Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it.” J. Matthew Nespoli, noted writer and
children’s author Please enjoy the poems on events
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follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History, poems to inspire, touch,
emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go
to Ridley's Believe
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© March 3, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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