Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For April 28, 2017 A new “Cold War” in the Arctic as Russia
displays its new military base in the Arctic; maybe with Trump’s latest
executive order opening up our Arctic lands and waters to drilling will
accelerate the need to expand our military assets in the region; Trump in an
interview indicated he is very disappointed with Congressional Republicans as
is probably most of the nation; rhetoric continues to escalate on North Korea
with Tillerson calling for more international sanctions against this rogue
nation; in a classic example of ignorance of students on college campuses
Campus Reform interviewed college students at George Mason College in Virginia
about Trump’s first 100 days but used examples of what Obama did which since
the acts were attributed to Trump the students objected to them http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/28/college-students-hate-obama-policies-when-theyre-credited-trump-campus-reform
worth reading; Congress with its back up against the shutdown wall due to Blue
intransience on funding the wall and defunding Planned Parenthood kicked the
can down a one week road by passing a stopgap funding measure (what a way to run
a railroad); California has signed a contract for $278 million to repair the
Oroville Dam spillway which is $100 million more than was estimated (talk about
needing a builder in the governor’s chair); the HIC (hypocrite in chief) has
evidently nailed his second $400 thousand speech; Trump speaking to the NRA Convention
informed a cheering crowd that the eight year war on guns is over; almost
like a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style, the
carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through
April 27 increasing to 1028 and the death toll increasing to 178 (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
to find and shoot victims) 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 who appears to care only about the rights
of illegal aliens in his sanctuary city (when will Chicago residents
through the city council try to impeach this pathetic, inept mayor?).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Santana,
factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Walter Dill Scott, always willing to be an
opsimath, 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. Workers’ Memorial Day—honoring
the workers who have died, been injured or have become ill as a result of their
work and campaigning to increase safety in the workplace..
2. Great Poetry Reading Day—commemorating
another great observance during Poery Month and since today is also Kiss
Your Mate Day a
good day to kill two birds with one stone by reading him or her as the case may
be a romantic poem preceded or followed by a kiss; always some great poetry on www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com.
3. 2000 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 2000 on a run of
10 weeks in that position “Maria Maria” by Santana. Here is a recording of Santana
performing the song:
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “opismath which means someone who
learns or studies later in life, always a great way to keep the mind sound
especially in retirement.
5. Flushed
Down the Drain—celebrating the birth on this day in 1930 of Carolyn Jones noted
actress who appeared in 30 films but is probably best remembered for playing
Morticia in The Addams Family; but
sadly had her career cut way too soon at age 53 by colon cancer.
On this day
in:
a. 1253 a Buddhist monk
Nicheren founded Nicheren Buddhism by promulgating the Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō.
b. 1789 mutineers on HMS Bounty put their captain William Bligh and 18 loyal shipmates
into an open launch and cast them adrift. In an amazing feat of seamanship,
Bligh sailed the craft to civilization on Timor over 4,100 miles away.
c. 1923 Wembley
Stadium the cathedral, capital and heart of football (soccer) to players and
fans of the game opened as Empire Stadium in Wembley, England.
d. 1944 nine German
E-Boats, the German equivalent of our PT Boats, attacked Operation Tiger, a training
exercise for D-Day, killing 976 soldiers and seamen.
e. 1988 in something out
of A Thousand Ways to Die episode,
fight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Landis on Aloha Airlines Flight 242 was blown to
her death when a large chunk of the 737’s fuselage fell off the plane (another
good reason to always have your seat belt fastened).
Reflections on workplace
safety: “The greatest asset of America today is not its fertile fields, its rich
ores, its completely equipped factories or its millions in currency. The
greatest asset in America is the American people. The greatest possible field
for economy is not in saving materials but in promoting the safety of our
people. The future of the safety movement is not so much dependent upon the
invention of safety devices as on the improvement of methods of educating
people to the ideal of caution and safety.” Walter Dill Scott, noted 20th
Century applied psychologist in a letter to the National Safety Council,1921. Please enjoy the poems
on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet
and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 It Or Not for just This Day in History.
© April 28, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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