Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 9, 2017 the Washington Post, that paragon of
objectivity when dealing with Trump and any Red, just run a story that 38 years
ago 14 year old Leigh Corfman was sexually molested by Roy More when he was 32,
a claim that he vehemently denies (never underestimate the ability of the left
to stoop to new lows in attacking Red politicians); the jury in the trial of
Sen Mendez for bribery and corruption is in its third day of deliberation as a
dismissed juror predicted a hung jury and voiced her view to reporters that the
prosecution was trying to railroad the senator and she would have voted for his
acquittal; the Cack News Network the leftist bastion of women’s rights has
been hit with a class action lawsuit
claiming racial discrimination by 205 of its African American employees which
should further muddy the waters of the proposed AT&T merger that the DOJ is opposing; the Juice evidently had consume too much juice
and was booted out of Las Vegas hotel for a drunken disturbance which should be
a violation of his parole and should put him back where he belongs—prison; the
Reds in the Senate have unveiled their tax bill which is more like the mouse
that “roared” in that the corporate tax cut to 20% does not kick in until 2019
but on the plus side eliminates the state and local tax deduction and lowers
the lowest rate to 12% and the highest rate from 39.6% to 38.5% (watch the Blue
ideologues like Warren, Harris, and Schumer blast it a tax cut for millionaires
and billionaires at the expense of the middle class; Kathy Griffin evidently is
so full of anti Trump bile that she fainted on stage during a performance; through November 8, 2017 3211 mostly
minorities shot by mostly minorities have been shot in Chicago, of whom 560
have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Eminem, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Erich Honecker on the future longevity of the Berlin Wall, hoping if sailing in shallow waters you do not run into some lagan, 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—designated by
President Bush in 2001 to commemorate the opening of the Berlin Wall to all
traffic vehicular and pedestrian on midnight November 9, 1989.
2. Day of the Skull—if in Bolivia you would be celebrating by decorating the skulls
of ancestors kept by you to protect the living and decorating them with fresh
flowers.
3. Number One Song in
2002—celebrating
the number 1 song in 2002 on a run of 12 weeks in that position “Love Yourself”
by Eminem. Here is a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yhyp-_hX2s
4. Word of the Day—the word of the
day is “lagan” which is wreckage or cargo at the bottom of the sea and in the
age massive amounts of drugs often will be drugs tossed overboard at the sight
of an intercepting Coast Guard Cutter.
5.
The
Rowing to God Ended Way Too Early--celebrating the birth on this day in 1928 of Pulitzer Prize
winning poet Anne Sexton noted for her confessional style of poetry but who
battled depression and mania and committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning
on October 4, 1974.
On
this day in:
1. 1960 Robert
McNamara became the first nonFord president of Ford only to resign a month
later to join JFK’s administration as the Secretary of Defense.
2. 1965 22 year
old Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen Laporte set himself on fire in
front of the United Nations in New York to protest the Vietnam War.
3. 1967 the first
issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.
4. 1970 SCOTUS
refused to hear the case of Massachusetts v. Laird by a 6-3 vote to rule on the
constitutionality of whether Massachusetts residents could refuse to serve in
Vietnam since the Congress had not passed a declaration of war.
5. 1998 a federal
district court judge ordered 37 brokerage houses to pay to class action plaintiffs
$1.03 billion to compensate for price fixing on NASDAQ, the largest civil
verdict in U.S, history.
Reflections on th e
end of the Berlin Wall: The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years,
if the reasons for it are not removed.” Erich Honecker, GDR head of state,
January 1989 Talk about a prediction that was only off by a little more that 49
years and surpassed by Hitler’s pronouncement that the Third Reich would last a
thousand years. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
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