Wednesday, January 31, 2018

January 31, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Social Security Check Appreciation Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 31, 2018 Unless you are the most rabid Blue on the planet, hard not to believe that Trump hit it out of the park again and again last night while the Blues were glued to their chairs, refusing to stand and applaud on anything positive Trump said and some had the gall to walk out during his speech (seeing their rejection of everything that Trump stated is another wake up call that in the fall we must elect 9 more Red Senators and hope that Blues indicate in no uncertain terms that Pelosi and Schumer will remain as their leaders); Reds on a chartered Amtrak ran into a dump truck on the track enroute to a retreat in Virginia; MSM was in a real snit fit attacking Trump’s speech; HRC after 5 days of not condemning one of her senior adviser for sexual harassment and trying to remain relevant announced before Trump’s SOTUS that she should have fired him (little late HRC; when do we hear news of apology for slamming Bill’s victims or announcing she is divorcing the sexual predator?);Trump caught on hot mike leaving SOTUS indicating House memo should be released to public as IG hones in on McCabe’s biased decision to stall examination of HRC emails on Weiner’s server until after the election (why did it take so long to fire that biased pro HRC scumbag?); it would appear that the gene pool of the Kennedys has been finally diluted as Joe Kennedy son of Robert Kennedy gave a drooling rebuttal speech to Trump’s SOTUS devoid of any ideas; for those who missed Trump’s SOTUS, here is a transcript of the speech (could not find complete video that would have shown the total despair of the Blue faces that conveyed compete defeat) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/30/full-text-trumps-state-union-address.html; in Chicago through January 28, 2018 190 people have been shot of whom 31 have died.

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Dionne and her friends, factoids of interest for this day in history, enjoying the fact that your wood floors are in tip top limation condition and a relevant quote by Ike on Social Security and other entitlement programs, 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. Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day—commemorating the fact that the first Social Security check in the amount of $22.54 was issued on this day in 1940 to Ida May Fuller (unfortunately unless Congress tackles the problem of an aging and living longer population by increasing the retirement age and/or increasing the payroll tax or the amount of income subject to the payroll tax, the Social Security system may become bankrupt.

2. Hell Is Freezing Over Day—in a very slow and sparse day for holidays and observances, not sure where this day came from but given the concern over climate change, my gut feel is that the observance is not long for this world.

3. 1986 Number One Song— the number one song in 1986 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “That’s What Friends Are For” by Dionne and Friends. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTpu6BmE88

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “limation” which means polishing which is what
Trump delivered in his SOTUS last night—a very well delivered and polished presentation even though the Blues were for the most part glued to their seats sitting on their hands and looking very glum.

5. The Big K--celebrating the birth on this day in 1947 of the most prolific strike out and no hitter pitcher in history, Nolan Ryan.

On this day in:

a. 1958 the first successful American satellite Explorer I detected the presence of the Van Allen radiation belt.

b. 1968 as part of the surprise Tet Offensive, Viet Cong sappers attacked the American Embassy in Saigon before being killed by security forces.

c. 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 people aboard.

d. 2012 Toyota Corolla became the largest number of model cars sold with over 35.7 million vehicles sold.

e. 2018 Earth was treated to a total lunar eclipse and blue moon.

Reflections on Social Security and other entitlement programs:”Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.” Dwight David Eisenhower 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.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

January 30, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Fred Koramatsu Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 30, 2018 Tonight is Trump’s first SOTUS and smart money like on DACA is that he will try to reach across aisle to chairs filled with closed and biased minds even as black unemployment falls to all time lows; despite tooth and nail objections from leftist demagogue Adam Schiff House Republicans have voted to release the controversial four page memo detailing illegal surveilling by the FBI of Trump supporters if Trump does not object within 5 days (finally the conflict of interest allegations that have tarnished Mueller’s witch-hunt have claimed its first victim—Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who was removed from the FBI but sadly will not have his pension affected); reports out of North Korea indicate a very nervous Kim Jong Un has been executing several top generals as international sanctions are further crippling the Hermit Kingdom’s anemic economy; NBC’s two heavy weights are in a snit fit over NBC’s decision not to send Megyn Kelly to South Korea for the Winter Olympics and instead send Couric (why Kelly ever left Fox is a mystery); the reptilian brain has just claimed another victim--Glee star Mark Salling, who was to be sentenced for possessing child pornography on March 7 and was facing 4-7 years (assuming the cons did not kill him first as child pornographers often suffer that fate, committed suicide; in Chicago through January 28, 2018 190 people have been shot of whom 31 have died.

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Foreigner, factoids of interest for this day in history, enjoying the fact that your movements are not “limaciform” that you can use in Scrabble and a relevant quote by Walter Cronkite on the Vietnam War and art, 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. Fred Korematsu Day—commemorating since 2010 in California and followed by the states of Hawaii, Florida and Virginia to honor the efforts of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American to overturn the executive order of FDR to relocate forcibly citizens and resident aliens of Japanese descent away from the West Coast.

2. Start of Season for Nonviolence (January 30-April 4)—created by Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Gandhi to promote and honor the philosophies of Gandhi (assassinated on January 30, 1948) and Martin Luther King, Jr. (assassinated April 4, 1968).

3. 1985 Number One Song— the number one song in 1985 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “I Want to Know What Love Is” by Foreigner. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “limaciform” which means sluglike which fits Congress to a tee in describing how fast it moves toward compromise and away from gridlock.

5. Angler’s The Name--celebrating the birth on this day in 1941 of Dick Chaney, Secretary of Defense under President H.W. Bush and Vice President with George W. Bush. An avid hunter and fisherman, his Secret Service nickname was Angler and was satirized viciously by comedians for accidently shooting one of his hunting companions.

On this day in:

a. 1831 Richard Lawrence became the first person to attempt an assassination of a president when his two pistols misfired at President Jackson. He was beaten by Jackson with his cane and subdued by a crowd, arrested and found not guilty by insanity and sentenced to an insane asylum for the rest of his life.

b. 1956 in retaliation for the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, the home of Martin Luther King, Jr. was bombed.

c. 1959 the MS Hans Hentoft like the HMS Titanic touted as the safest ship afloat and “unsinkable” struck on its maiden voyage an iceberg off the coast of Greenland and sank, killing all 95 passengers and crew aboard; it was the last ship to have been sunk by an iceberg.

d. 1968 after being fed a diet of overoptimistic reports that we were winning the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong and NVA unleashed a series of attacks throughout South Vietnam that although they were all repulsed, the Tet Offensive marked the beginning of the end of support for the war and the end of LBJ’s presidency as he soon announced he would not seek reelection.

e. 1982 15 year old Richard Skrenta created the first PC computer virus, 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot code called “Elk Cloner.”

Reflections on the Tet Offensive by the most trusted news anchorman in America: “For it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.” —Walter Cronkite in an editorial at the close of the CBS Evening News broadcast on February 27, 1968 reporting on what he had learned to South Vietnam in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive. 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.

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Sunday, January 28, 2018

January 28, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Data Privacy Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 28, 2018 Two days to Trump’s first SOTUS and smart money like on DACA is that he will across aisle reach to chairs filled with closed and biased minds even as black unemployment falls to all time lows; Trump’s plan on fixing the immigration mess has created a firestorm of rhetoric from both Reds and Blues led by Pelosi’s over the top rhetoric that Trump wants to make America white again; in addition to the “People’s SOTUS” with such biased intellectual lightweights as Moore and Goldberg trying to be relevant, Waters (fixated on removing Trump with the same intensity of an Ahab trying to kill Moby Dick, Wilson (colorful hats but nothing underneath them), Lewis and Blumenauer are boycotting the speech;Trump aggressively campaigned for black votes as opposed the HRC’s taking them for granted with the slogan “What do you have to lose?” when it should have been “What do you have to gain?”—lowest unemployment rate in history; on the PC educational front Gregory Salcito a high school teacher at El Rancho High in Southern California was caught on a cell phone video rant attacking the U.S. Military for being “a bunch of dumb shits” and should not be allowed to recruit on campus (if they are pointing their lives on the line to protect a scumbag like Salcito maybe they are but if this idiot had brain still function he should be on this knees thanking God they have enlisted and because of the First Amendment bought and paid for over the years with a lot of American blood and property in oversea cemeteries, he can make a fool of himself http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/28/california-teacher-slams-military-members-as-lowest-low-in-classroom-rant-caught-on-video.html; new book out The Corrupt Classroom that asserts that not only are the public schools failing in their educational mission, a task certainly not help by the flood of illegal children with no English skills that school districts have to educate, but they are becoming politicized by the leftist ideas of far too many of their faculties; Scott Baio, a rarity in Hollywood as a conservative, has been accused of sexual molestation by Niccole Eggert 30-32 years ago while she was 14-17; a claim that he vehemently denies; in a be careful what you wish for moment, Blues hounding the RNC to return any campaign contributions from Steven Wynn are now shocked he or his groups have contributed in the last nine years over $700,000 to Nevada Democrats and related parties in Chicago through January 27, 2018 189 people have been shot of whom 31 have died.

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Yes, factoids of interest for this day in history, learning another word “ligyrophobia” that you can use in Scrabble and a relevant quote by Alan Alda on politics and art, 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. Data Privacy Day—commemorating since 2007 the need to promote best practices of cyber security to prevent hacking, viral intrusion and all forms of malware.

2. Pop Art Day—commemorating merging of popular and cultural symbols with fine art pioneered by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichenstein in the 50’s and 60’s but why it is observed on Jackson Pollock’s birthday on this day in 1912 as opposed to the birthday of the painter of the Campbell Soup can, Andy Warhol a mystery.

3. 1984 Number One Song— the number one song in 1984 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O6e7cgkeqw

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ligyrophobia” which is the fear of loud noises which probably explains why people jump when they hear a loud noise on a quiet night.

5. It’s All In The Name--celebrating the birth on this day in 1936 of noted big and small screen actor Alphonso D’ Abruzzo, better known to his fans as Allen Alda, immortalized in the long running TV series M*A*S*H. that brought a lot of humor into our living rooms when the carnage of the Vietnam War did not.

On this day in:

a. 1958 in a move that made it dangerous for parents of young children to walk on bare feet indoors, Lego patented its design of its bricks used in constructing its toys.

b. 1977 the first day of a three day blizzard known as the Blizzard of 77 dumped up to 10 feet of snow in Upstate New York with winds created 30-40 foot snow drifts.

c. 1981 President Reagan by executive order removed domestic price controls and petroleum allocation regulations put in place by Carter due to the supply disruptions due to the fall of the Shah and heralded the oil glut of the 80’s and falling oil prices.

d. 1986 The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board and grounded the Space Shuttle program for 32 months.

e. 2016 to the horror of pregnant women in warm climes throughout the world, the World Health Organization announced an outbreak of the Zika virus carried by mosquito virus which in many cases resulted in the birth of babies with very small brains.

Reflections on politics and art by the birthday boy:“There is an impression, I think, that M*A*S*H was making political statements a lot. I think it was rare that it ever happened. It was usually only a satirical swipe.” Alan Alda. Given the economic, human, and social chaos the Vietnam War caused this country one in retrospect should regret that more political statements were not made. 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.

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Saturday, January 27, 2018

January 27, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Auschwitz Liberation Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 27, 2018 Steve Wynn has just resigned as finance chair for the RNC; like spoiled brats who were not picked to join a pickup game, a growing number of Democrats are announcing their plans to boycott Trump’s first SOTU speech while other misguided idiots at the Lincoln Memorial are protesting the tax cuts while American Family Insurance became the latest company to join the tax cut bonus parade announcing that its 11,000 employees would receive a $1000 bonus; CNN has just earned a new acronym to supplement its Cack “News” Network—Cuckold “News” Network for its idiocy in promoting cuckolding (major problem in the black community is the absence of fathers either because they are in jail, if in Chicago dead, or MIA and CNN is promoting the humiliation of men by encouraging wives to have sex in front of them—no wonder one of its “stars” is rightfully named Lemon); Clinton is back in the news again looking very old and irrelevant and hit by allegations she ignored during her pathetic 2008 campaign allegations of sexual harassment by a senior adviser to her against one of her young campaign workers (the H in HRC stands, as it always has, for hypocrite); on the school shooting front the gruesome totals at Marshal County High School are two dead and 14 shot and wounded (Preston Cope the father of Brian Cope who died while en route to the hospital rushed to the school and recognized his socks on a stretcher and was able to tell him he loved him one last time (Red and Blue reaction unlike other school shootings was to introduce legislation in Kentucky to have armed guards at all schools to protect students); on the sports front advertisers are crossing their fingers that Trump does not tweet his opposition to any player not standing for the national anthem during the Super Bowl and Bob Costa is in hot water with NBC for the observation that football destroys brains (unfortunately repeated concussions arising out of collisions of big athletes running at full speed do exactly just that); in Chicago through January 26, 2018 178 people have been shot of whom 30 have died.

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Men at Work, factoids of interest for this day in history, learning another meaning for lighter and a relevant quote by Anna Reid on the 872 day siege of Leningrad during World War II, 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. Auschwitz Libration Day—commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on this day in 1945; but sadly such liberation did not come soon enough for the 1,082,000 (1/6^th

of the total Holocaust victims) Jews, Poles, Romanis, Soviet POWs and other nationalities that were gassed before the Red Army arrived.

2. Vietnam Peace Day—commemorating the cease fire resulting from the Paris Peace Accords that began at midnight on this day in 1973 which enabled the U.S. to withdraw its troops from South Vietnam and cease hostilities and end the nightmare that was ripping the country apart.

3. 1983 Number One Song— the number one song in 1983 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Down Under” by Men at Work. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lighter” which has nothing to do a device to light a cigarette but rather is an open boat used to load or unload a ship which typically is moored offshore or has cargo that needs to be further transported over shallower water.

5. In The Genes--celebrating the birth on this day in 1964 of Bridgett Fonda, granddaughter of Henry Fonda, daughter of Peter Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda who first appeared on the screen in Easy Rider playing a five year old child in a commune and went on to become an accomplished actress who retired from the business after suffering a broken vertebra following a severe automobile accident.

On this day in:

a. 1944 the Soviet Red Army after 872 days lifted the siege of Leningrad, the longest siege in history and the most costly in terms of military and civilian casualties (over a million Soviet civilians died from bombs, shells and starvation.

b. 1967 astronauts Gus Grissom (infamous for having his Mercury 7 Capsule hatch open prematurely after splashdown in the ocean to be sunk), Ed White, and Roger Chafee are burnt to death during a test of their Apollo 1 Spacecraft while on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.

c. 1980 with Canadian assistance a fake film crew was formed in Tehran consisting of 6 American diplomats that had escaped capture when the American Embassy was seized, 1 Irishman and 1 Latin American were spirited out of Iran on a Swiss Air flight; the effort was memorialized by 2012 film Argo.

d. 2000 Bill Belichick was hired as the head coach of the New England Patriots and will be trying to add to his record of 5 Super Bowls wins as a head coach next Sunday.

e. 2002 the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress announced the first 50 selections for the National Recording Registry.

Reflections on the effect of the siege of Leningrad through the eyes of a 12 yeaar old child. “One of the most oft-quoted records of the siege, scribbled in pencil over the pages of a pocket address book, is that kept by twelve-year-old Tanya Savicheva:
‘28 December 1941 at 12.30 a.m. – Zhenya died. 25 January 1942 at 3 p.m. – Granny died. 17 March at 5 a.m. – Lyoka died. 13 April at 2 a.m. – Uncle Vasya died. 10 May at 4 p.m. – Uncle Lyosha died. 13 May at 7.30 a.m. – Mama died. The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left.’” Anna Reid Leningrad, The Epic Siege of World War II 1941-1944

Unfortunately, although she was one of 140 children rescued from Lenigrad, her story does not end happily as she ended up dying from intestinal tuberculosis in a hospital on July 1, 1944. 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.

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Friday, January 26, 2018

January 26, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Customs Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 26, 2018 President Trump in his “America Is Open For Business” speech at Davos hit the proverbial ball out of the park and the stock market continued its climb to new heights but the good news was drowned out by the MSM’s focus on whether Trump wanted to fire Mueller last June but was talked out of it which he denies as
“fake” news; text messages from the partisan love birds Strzok and Page just released show the fix was in terms of Hillary not being investigated and would never face criminal prosecution as Strzok and Page were more concerned that she would win and if the FBI actually investigated her criminal conduct that she would come down on the FBI like a ton of bricks; leaks from the 4 page damning memo name Comey, Rosenstein and McCabe, the troika of anti-Trump bias at the FBI as the culprits in the illegal surveilling of Trump supporters (this memo needs to be released and released now); the economy only grew at 2.6 % in the fourth quarter to put a slight damper on the Trump story (hopefully that number will be adjusted upward and hopefully in the next quarter with new withholding tables taking effect in February along with bonuses paid by 230 and growing companies due to tax cuts, growth will be far in excess of 3%); Trump has released his DACA plan and both the far right and the far left are going over the top in condemning it which may mean it might have a chance of passing, something that Obama did not try when he had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House trembling in fear of not clicking their heels and bowing to Pelosi’s every whim; the reptilian brain has just claimed another casualty but this time is taking Wynn’s Resorts down with him as numerous women are claiming Steve Wynn had sexually molested them, prompting a fall of Wynn International’s stock by over $20 a share (10% drop); through January 23, 2018 166 people have been shot of whom 28 have died.

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1. International Customs Day—created by the World Customs Organization in 1983 to promote the role of customs officials in border security and to promote awareness of their contribution to the economic welfare of a nation.

2. National Big Wig Day—created by Patty Sharkey in 2016 and celebrated on the last Friday in January to raise money for cancer research and to show solidarity with cancer victims especially those undergoing chemotherapy lose their hair and resort to wearing wigs especially if they are women.

3. 1982 Number One Song— the number one song in 1982 on a run of 1 week in that position was “I Can’t Go For That” by Hall and Oates. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccenFp_3kq8

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lientery” which has nothing to do with liens is the discharge of partially digested foods that a bird would do for its chicks and what I would like to do whenever I hear Nancy Pelosi or Schumer going over the top against Trump.

5. The Great One--celebrating the birth on this day in 1961 of perhaps the greatest hockey player to lace up a pair of skates and step onto the ice—Wayne Gretzky who held or shared 61 NHL records, including most career goals (894), most career assists (1,963) and most career points (2,857).

On this day in:

a. 1905 the largest diamond ever discovered weighing in at 3,106.75 carats, the Cullinan was taken from the Premier Mine near Pretoria, South Africa and cut into 109 diamonds of various cuts.

b. 1920 former Ford executive Henry Leland founded the Lincoln Motor Car Company which he later sold to Ford.

c. 1961 President Kennedy named Janet Travell as the first female Physician to the President.

d. 1992 Soviet Union President Boris Yelsin announced American cities were no longer being targeted by Soviet nuclear armed ICBMs, a statement that should not surprise us given his quote I posted on January 25, 2018 on Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History.

e. 1998 President Bill Clinton addressed the nation on television and looking the public directly in the eye lied through his teeth by denying he had ever had sexual relations with “that woman Monica Lesinsky.” (since when did oral sex not constitute sexual relations?)

Reflections on how to win in hockey by the Great One: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky

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Thursday, January 25, 2018

January 25, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Fluoride Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 25, 2018 President Trump is looking very presidential in Davos as we were treated to him welcoming some 15 CEOs of multinational corporations for dinner as he went around the table thanking them for their increased investment in the U.S. and their pleasure of his rollback of oppressive regulations and the massive reduction of the corporate tax rate; the IG for the DOJ announced that thousands of “lost” text messages in the 5 month period from December, 2016 to May, 2017 involving the FBI including those between the two biased anti-Trump love birds, Strzok and Page, have been recovered and will soon be released; the infamous 4 page memo detailing potential criminal conduct by the FBI surveilling American citizens, despite the tooth and nail efforts of the DOJ and Blues like the rabid anti-Trump leftist Schiff, should soon be released to the American public; as Home Depot just joined the expanding list of corporations announcing bonuses due to the tax cut, Debbie Wasserman Schulz just revealed again, that like Nancy Pelosi, she is completely out of touch with Main Street by denigrating the $1000 bonuses being received by millions of workers (come November, the Reds need to flood the airways with ads with real people describing what the bonuses, wage increases and tax cuts have meant to them and reminding voters that not a single Democrat supported the tax cuts and maybe a few ads from middle class workers showing the Trump increase in their 401ks and IRAs); on the PC inanity front, UConn announced that it was offering counseling to its snowflake students who might have been troubled that conservative speaker Ben Shapiro was allowed to speak on campus; in yet another sign of a dysfunctional Senate hampered by partisan gridlock, Vice President Pence was called to break a tie vote to confirm Governor Brownback as the Ambassador to the Office of International Religious Freedom; the Cack News Network to the joy of family law lawyers is at it again claiming cuckolding can be beneficial to couples (wonder if Jeff pressured Caryn into cuckolding which is why the two are getting divorced after 21 years of marriage; through January 23, 2018 161 people have been shot of whom 28 have died.

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Blondie , factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are in a lineal vent about the Swamp, and a relevant quote by Boris Yelsin which explains why he did not insert his activated launch key, 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. National Opposite Day—celebrating a day when to observe it you say exactly opposite of what you really mean, a trait that politicians have invoked for years.

2. Fluoride Day—celebrating the fact that on this day in 1945 the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first municipality to add fluoride to its water systems.

3. 1981 Number One Song— the number one song in 1981 on a run of 1 week in that position was “The Tide Is High” by Blondie. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYgrdJ0pWk It is clear why Debbie Harry has been named as one of the sexiest performers of all times in addition to having a great voice.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lineal” which has nothing to do with liens but rather relates to the spleen which those of us living outside the Swamp should vent over the dysfunctional Senate hobbled by gridlock.

5. Run Out A Winner--celebrating the birth on this day in 1951 of Steve Prefontaine who during his career held the American record in every long distance race and who won 120 races out of the 153 races he entered including his last race but after celebrating the victory he partied with some of the contestants and with a blood alcohol level of .16 drove his car into a rock wall on May 30, 1975 and was pronounced dead at the scene.

On this day in:

a. 1961 President John Kennedy held the first televised news conference.

b. 1964 Bill Bowerman, track and field coach at the University of Oregon, and Phil Knight, a former member of the university’s track and field team and who in 2016 donated $400 million to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars, endowed at $750 million total, founded Blue Ribbon Sports (later renamed Nike after the Greek goddess for victory).

c. 1995 in another example of how close we can come to nuclear destruction and why lunatics like Kim must never be allowed to possess deliverable nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union mistook a Norwegian research rocket launch for a US Trident ICBM, activated the Soviet equivalent of our football and would have launched a retaliatory strike if the rocket had not headed out to sea away from Russia to fall into the ocean with two minutes to spare.

d. 1996 after killing an elderly couple in their home following a robbery of a liquor store, Billy Bailey had the dubious distinction of being the last person in the U.S. to be executed by hanging.

e. 2011 the first wave of anti-government riots, marches and clashes in what would be known as the Egyptian Revolution which resulted in 90 police stations burned to the ground, the deaths of 846 people and injuries to 6000 and the ouster of President Horsi Mubarak who had ruled the country for 29 years following the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

Reflections on how lucky that on this day in 1995, Boris Yelsin believed in his own wise words: “I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations." Boris Yelsin

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

January 24, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Just Do It Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 24, 2018 Shutdown Schumer has fired another cannon shot across the bow of the recovering American ship of state by notifying the president that any funding for the wall is off the table which is a clear indication that the end to chain and lottery migration to him is a non starter which means the next shutdown will be much longer starting on February 9; the California AG has announced that under California’s Sanctuary State Law he will prosecute any employer who notifies ICE of any employee’s immigration status and if that was bad enough the state will be issuing drivers’ licenses to illegals and at the same time registering them to vote (which means the idiocy of leftist Blues running the state into oblivion will continue for a long, long time as they feast on thousands and thousands of illegal Hispanic alien voters); in the very near future look for ICE raids not in the workplace but in the mayors’ and city councils’ office to arrest those in sanctuary city government for harboring illegals in their cities (as a result mayors like Di Blasio are boycotting a Council of Mayors meeting with the administration to address the sanctuary city issue (news flash to the boycotters--if you are not at the table your views are not heard); not sure how those two infatuated with each other lovers Strzok and his mistress Page managed to their regular work while exchanging some 50,000 text messages but we now learn that the FBI, the superior law enforcement Americans used to trust has lost five months of text messages from December, 2016 to May, 2017 including conveniently for the Russian collusion delusion fanatics text messages between Strzok and Page (Lois Lerner déjà vu as the stench of political corruption at the FBI and DOJ cries out for Sessions to impanel a grand jury before any more evidence is lost); Governor Moonbeam’s favorite boondoggle the California Bullet Train is already billions over budget and hopelessly behind schedule (watch more and more high income earners tired of the anti-business climate and repressive taxation and spending on illegals leave this state); in Chicago through January 23, 2018 156 people have been shot of whom 26 have died.

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Michael Jackson, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are as leif celebrating Just Do It Day, and a relevant quote by Lt. Jack Revelle on finding the H-Bombs released near Goldsboro, North Carolina from a crashing B-52, 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. Beer Can Appreciation Day—commemorating the introduction of the aluminum can as the container for beer in 1935 (slow day for holidays and observances).

2. National Just Do It Day—not sure where this day urging people to break the inertia of procrastination to perform tasks on their to do list but suspect it originated from Nike’s trademarked slogan “Just Do It” introduced in 1988 which was inspired by the last words of Gary Gilmore to the firing squad in Utah—“Let’s Do It.” As stated above slow day for holidays and observances.

3. 1980 Number One Song— the number one song in 1980 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Rock With You” by Michael Jackson. Here is a recording of the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-Mrc2l1d0

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lief” which means happily or gladly and which does not describe the mood of the Democrats following the Schumer Shutdown and the soaring Trump Agenda economy.

5. Heart of Gold Larger Than Hope--celebrating the birth on this day in 1941 of noted singer and song writer Neil Diamond who was the equivalent of the Hope Diamond with such songs as “Sweet Caroline” and my favorite “Heart of Gold” and who sadly has announced his retirement from touring on January 22, 2018 due to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDgU4LZXmpU

On this day in:

a. 1848 James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento, California.

b. 1916 SCOTUS to the disgust of taxpayers in the case of Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad ruled that the federal income tax was constitutional.

c. 1933 the 20^th Amendment to the Constitution changing the inauguration of the President from March 4 to January 20 and the swearing in of members of Congress from March 3 to January 3 was ratified.

d. 1961 near Goldsboro, North Carolina a B-52 with two Mark 39 3-4 Megaton H-Bombs on board crashed after its assigned fuel air tanker noticed a fuel leak killing 3 of the 8 man crew; fortunately although the bombs started arming themselves neither exploded to the great relief of the residents of North Carolina.

e. 1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoishi Yokoi was discovered hiding in the jungles of Guam where he had been hiding since the end of World War II first with 2 other soldiers and then by himself for the last 7 years of his hiding.

Reflections on how close we came to having the H-Bombs explode near Goldsboro:”Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, "Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch." And I said, "Great." He said, "Not great. It's on arm." Lt. Jack Revelle, leader of the team that found one of the H-Bombs. 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.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

January 23, 2018 Rdley's Believe It Or Not World Freedom Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 23, 2018 Schumer and his hold the military hostage to ram through a DACA amnesty failed big time and Schumer went down in flames (in California please note our two Bobsey Twins of the left, Harris and Feinstein were willing to continue to sell out the military in favor of illegal DACAs); President Trump will be off to Davo, Switzerland to explain his ideas on America first as he announced tariffs on solar panel makers abroad for dumping their products here in the U.S.; revelations that in a shades of Lois Lerner, the FBI cannot find five months of text messages between the two biased anti-Trump FBI lovebirds who seemed to have nothing better to do than text each other are really troubling and point to a secret cabal in the FBI to oust the president; on the crime front at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky a gunman is in custody after killing one person and wounding several others; James Franco who won a Golden Globe best actor and Critic’s Choice best actor award has discovered after allegations from five women that he had engaged in sexual misconduct that sexual harassment claims are not good for one’s career as he was snubbed for an Academy Award nomination; Alaska and the coasts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California dodged the tsunami bullet after a 7.9 earthquake this morning near the island of Kodiak; in Chicago through January 21 2018 152 people have been shot of whom 25 have died.

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Chic, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are not viewed as a lickerish person, and a relevant quote by Jonathan Dembleby on poll taxes on why she did not have children, 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 (Taiwan/South Korea)—commemorating the 22,000 communist prisoners of war who wisely elected not to return to China or North Korea but elected to resettle in Taiwan and South Korea.

2. National Handwriting Day—created by the Writing Instruments Manufacturers Association in 1977 to promote penmanship and handwriting.

3. 1979 Number One Song— the number one song in 1979 on a run of 6 weeks in that position was “Le Freak” by Chic. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qQ1SKNlgY

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lickerish” which means lecherous which describes far too many in media, politics and entertainment.

5. Hudson Miracle--celebrating the birth on this day in 1951 of noted airplane pilot Chesley Sullenberger who after losing power in all engines shortly after takeoff managed to land his plane on the Hudson River without losing a single passenger or crew member.

On this day in:

a. 1964 the 24^th Amendment banning poll taxes in federal elections was ratified.

b. 1973 President Nixon announced that a Peace Accord had been reached in Paris to enable the U.S. to withdraw from the Vietnam without losing its honor.

c. 1986 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located in Cleveland inducted its first members.

d. 1997 Madeline Albright known recently for her idiotic statement that there is a special place in hell for women who did not vote for Hillary Clinton became the first female Secretary of State for the United States.

e. 2002 journalist David Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan and subsequently executed.

Reflections on having a poll tax which had the effect of denying blacks the right to vote due to its cost: I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. Jonathan Dimbleby, noted British historian and author. 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.

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