September 29, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Coffee Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 29, 2018 The circus over Kavanaugh continues as the FBI has opened a 7^th background check after Flake’s tantrum that the Senate should not vote on confirmation until the FBI conducts a brief supplemental background check while Blues are pushing a new misleading narrative that, after Kavanaugh’s defense of their last minute smear job, he does not possess the temperament to be a justice of SCOTUS (what a crock after being accused of being a multiple rapist and having his integrity and reputation destroyed what judge would not do what ala Clarence Thomas did— slam into the Blues as a lynch mob); a Go Fund Me account has raised over $500k for Professor Ford; Pelosi is up to her old tricks sending out a false fund raising email claiming despicable Reds will confirm Kavanaugh in matter of hours without any further investigations (keep up the good work Nancy as when it comes to Red voter turnout you are the best thing since sliced bread); call it the Ford effect but another woman in Seattle, Ms. Faber, has broken her silence and claimed Red minority leader of the Washington State Senate Fain raped her in 2007 after a night of both drinking too much following her graduation from Georgetown University; on the trade war front, increased speculation that Canada and U.S. will conclude negotiations to replace NAFTA soon after Trump announced plans to impose tariffs on Canadian auto exports if a deal cannot be negotiated; on the tax cut front the House has passed a bill to make the Trump tax cuts (also known to Blues as the Crumbs Bill) permanent; in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September 28, 2018, 2303 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 371 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Los Del Rio, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you have nary troubling issues today and a relevant quote from Lewis Black on coffee, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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 Coffee Day—promoting the consumption of a drink that has been around the Middle East since the 6^th Century and Europe since 1615; where would our mornings be without starting them with a fresh brewed cup of your favorite roast.

2. World Heart Day—created by the World Heart Foundation in 2000 to inform people worldwide that heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death.

3. 1996 Number One Song— the number one song in 1996 on a run of 8 weeks in that position was “Macarena” by Los Del Rio. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwWRjvwlLKg

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n”  is “nary” which means not a one, not at all which in our era of gridlock describes the number of politicians willing to cross the aisle in search of compromise.

5. Blazing a Trail of Comedy—celebrating the birth on this day in 1942 of comedian actress Madeline Wolfson better known to her fans as Madeline Kahn, best remembered for her role in Blazing Saddles who unfortunately died from ovarian cancer on December 3, 1999 at the age of 57.

    On this day in: 

a. 1907 the cornerstone for the Washington National Cathedral was laid.

b. 1923 in a pre Article 9 moment the first American Track and Field Championships for Women consisting of 11 events was held in Newark, New Jersey.

c. 1975 WGPR of Detroit, Michigan became the first black owned and operated TV station to begin broadcasting.

d. 2004 Asteroid 4179 Toutatis in a too close moment passed within 4 lunar distances of Earth.

e. 2007 Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant which opened in the United Kingdom in 1956 was destroyed in a controlled explosion following its decommissioning.

   Reflections on the power of coffee:”I like coffee because it gives me the illusion I might be awake.” Lewis Black, noted American standup comedian and actor.

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September 27, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Tourism Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 27, 2018 The circus over Kavanaugh opens today with Ford and Kavanaugh both testifying and being subject to questioning under oath and the Senators (except the Blues who have already made up their mind that he should not be confirmed because of a perceived view that he will overturn Roe v Wade and have deprived him of the presumption of innocence) will have the daunting task of deciding who to believe and whether a lifetime by Kavanaugh of respect for women and exemplary public service should be trashed by an uncorroborated allegation 36 years ago; hopefully we will see more of a Clarence Thomas like mien when he was falsely accused by Anita Hill and likened the process to a judicial lynching; high stakes with the prospects of Reds losing control of the Senate based on the outcome of this hearing and the proposed vote on Friday; on the high drama front Rosenstein is meeting with Trump today to see if he will be fired for his obstruction of Congress’ subpoenas while emails have surfaced that Rosenstein on May 10 unleashed a personal threatening attack of Red Congressmen and their staff; Stephen Colbert broke ranks and slammed Cack News Network “star” Jim Acosta for grandstanding at President Trump’s news conference (why he is admitted is mind boggling); Clare Bronfman who  is under house arrest following her indictment for involvement with sex cult NXIVM has posted a $100M bond and wants more pretrial freedom;  in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September 26, 2018, 2295 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 371 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Mariah Carey, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are not subject to narrischkeit today and a relevant quote from Narendra Modi on the importance of tourism, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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 Gay Men’s kHIV/AIDS Awareness Day—promoting awareness among those infected by the HIV virus of the fact that with anti-HIV drugs that are religiously taken, people so infected can achieve a lower viral load that prevents transmission of the virus and that an AIDS diagnosis is no longer the death sentence it once was although the cost of drugs remains expensive.

2. World Tourism Day—created by the UN World Tourism Organization in September of 1979 and first celebrated on September 27, 1980 to promote tourism as a powerful engine in economic development and to bring societies closer together.

3. 1995 Number One Song— the number one song in 1995 on a run of 8 weeks in that position was “Fantasy” by Mariah Carey. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq09UkPRdFY

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n”  is “narrischkeit” which means foolishness or nonsense which is what emanates normally from the Swamp creatures.

5. No Horror With Rocky—celebrating the birth on this day in 1947 of noted singer and actor Marvin Lee Aday, better known to his fans as Meat Loaf who appeared in such blockbuster films as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Wayne’s World.

On this day in: 

a. 1908 production of the Model T began at Ford’s Piquettte Avenue Plant in Detroit.

b. 1941 the SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2700 Liberty Ships was launched.

c. 1962 Rachel Carson published her book Silent Spring which spawned a worldwide environment movement and led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

d. 1983 Richard Stallman announced the formation of the GNU Project to develop a free UNIX like operating system..

e. 1998 Google retroactively claims this day as the birth of its search engine.

   Reflections on the importance of tourism: “Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.” Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India

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September 26, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not European Day of Languages

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 26, 2018 The circus over Kavanaugh with Avenatti joining the last minute smear campaign with his client Ms. Swetnick claiming Kavanaugh engaged in a gang rape continues amid doubts that Ms. Ford will appear on Thursday while her lawyer has released 4 statements from her husband and 3 friends indicating she told them of them of the incident several years ago (really hope she shows up to testify under oath about this attempted rape and her support team drops the myth that the FBI should investigate the claimed event); on the football front a competitor to the NFL that promises its players will stand during the National Anthem, the Alliance of American Football, has announced its formation and the four teams that will commence playing after the Super Bowl (will be interesting to see if the new league survives but the standing pledge is a great sign); on the why we need the Wall front Ramon Escobar, an illegal alien who had been deported 6 times, has been arrested for a string of fatal baseball bat attacks on homeless men in Southern California; Amazon Prime has announced the commencement of deliveries from Whole Foods in New York City and Miami; on the it’s no longer the Amigo Land front, the entire police force in Acapulco has been stripped of its guns, radios, and bullet proof vests due to fears it has been infiltrated by drug cartels (time to cross that destination off cruise ship stops); on the patient rip off front, helicopter Medevac providers are under Congressional scrutiny for sky high prices being charged; in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September 25, 2018, 2284 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 369 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Boyz II Men, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are not subject to narquois and a relevant quote from George Harrison on completing Abbey Road, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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. European Day of Languages—created by the European Union to encourage residents to become fluent in languages other than their native tongue which is a skill we Americans are woefully lacking.

2. National Compliance Officer Day—celebrating since 2016 to honor those officers of businesses that have the thankless job of insuring that they are in compliance with the myriad of complicated and often conflicting regulations that businesses are burdened with.

3. 1994 Number One Song— the number one song in 1994 on a run of 14 weeks in that position was “I’ll Make Love to You” by Boyz II Men. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV8vB1BB2qc

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n”  is “narquois” which means mocking which is what the Swamp creatures are prone to do when it comes to Middle America.

5. Big Iron in El Paso—celebrating the birth on this day in 1925 of iconic songwriter and singer Marty Robbins noted for such songs as El Paso and Big Iron who sadly died way too early at 57 from his third heart attack.

On this day in: 

a. 1969 the last album by the Beatles Abbey Road was released.

b. 1983 Australia II won the America’s Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club’s 132 year string of victories.

c. 1984 the United Kingdom and China agreed to the transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

d. 2000 anti-capitalist demonstrations involving 12,000 protestors erupted in Prague DURING the meeting of the IMF and World Bank resulting in 900 arrests.

e. 2008 Swiss born Yves Rossy also known as Jetman became the first person to fly across the English Channel with a jet powered wing strapped to his back.

   Reflections on Abbey Road: “At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.” George Harrison.
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September 25, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Ataxia Awareness Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 25, 2018 The circus over Kavanaugh continues amid doubts that Ms. Ford will appear on Thursday (innocent until proven guilty totally tossed out the window by Blue Senators); Ms. Ford is complaining big time that her questioner will be a female attorney skilled in sexual abuse cases; Bill Cosby has been sentenced to 3 to 10 years and was led away in handcuffs; President Trump spoke to the United Nations today announcing the days of ripping off the United States are over; Dunkin’ Donuts has changed its name and will be known only as Dunkin’; Weight Watchers is also in the name game change, changing its name to WW to emphasize its focus on wellness as opposed to just weight loss; Maxine Waters call to get into the faces of Red office holders has just claimed another victim, Ted Cruz and his wife were hounded out of a Swamp restaurant (when will the idiots on the left understand that they are continuing to blow the dog whistles of calls to violence and sooner than later someone is going to get killed or severely injured); on the Islamic intolerance front police in the Maldives have destroyed and underwater art gallery that the president of the country has declared to be an insult to Islam (good place to avoid for a honeymoon trip); Beto O’Rourke has received 4 Pinocchio’s for denying he tried to flee the scene of a DUI accident in 1998 in El Paso, Texas;  in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September 24, 2018, 2276 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 366 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Mariah Carey, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are not in need of narcology and a relevant quote from Dwight Eisenhower on Montgomery’s plan to end the war in Europe, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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. International Ataxia Awareness Day—creating awareness for a disease that attacks the ability to coordinate muscle movement.

2. National Voter Registration Day—celebrating since 2012 the need for all citizens to register in order to be able to vote and then actually vote on Election Day.

3. 1993 Number One Song— the number one song in 1993 on a run of 8 weeks in that position was “Dreamlover” by Mariah Carey. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBtS6BIP1E

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n”  is “narcology” which means the study of and treatment of narcotic abuse, a skill desperately needed given our opioid epidemic that is running rampant in this land.

5. Melrose Place Fall from Grace—celebrating the birth on this day in 1961 of note TV actress Heather Locklear who has fallen on hard times and once again is in rehab.

On this day in: 

a. 1890 Congress in a victory for redwoods established Sequoia National Park. b. 1944 surviving elements of the British First Airborne Division successfully evacuated Arnhem, Holland bringing Operation Market Garden to its disastrous end.

c. 1956 TAT-1 the first transatlantic telephone cable went into operation.

d. 1974 Doctor Frank Jobe performed the first ulnar ligament replacement surgery on L.A. Dodger pitcher Tommy John who was able to return to the mound to win 168 more games of his career 288 wins.

e. 1977 about 4,200 took part in the first Chicago Marathon 2007 with American Dan Cloeter winning the men’s race and American Dorothy Doolittle winning the women’s race.

   Reflections by Eisenhower on Montgomery’s single thrust concept for winning the war that led to Operation Market Garden: “What you're proposing is this – if I give you all the supplies you want, you could go straight to Berlin – right straight (500 miles) to Berlin? Monty, you're nuts. You can't do it. What the hell[?] … If you try a long column like that in a single thrust you'd have to throw off division after division to protect your flanks from attack.”  Ike was right and the supplies to Operation Market Garden would have been put to better use if given to Patton.

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September 20, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Punch Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 20, 2018 Professor Bird continues to play the cat and mouse game with the Senate Judiciary Committee now declaring that she is prepared to testify if her safety is guaranteed and the hearing is “fair” (what in heaven’s name does that mean that she gets to approve the questions in advance, that Kavanaugh cannot be present to hear her or only Blues get to ask her questions; this farce has to come to a close and Kavanaugh the subject of a political hatchet job by a despicable and shameless Feinstein needs to come to an end); Bird’s two attorneys who are Democratic donors have had a fund raiser for Wisconsin Senator Tammy Bruce cancelled (despicable that a Blue Senator seeking reelection would use the confirmation chaos as an excuse to raise money); Professor Fair at Georgetown who is anything but on a profanity laced rant against Republicans and those who voted for them (if a Red supporter probably kiss your chance at an A goodbye from this biased academic hack); a Chevy Suburban transporting 7 illegals was involved in a head on collision in Arizona, killing 3 of them and critically injuring the remaining 4; in a chilling reminder of the dangers illegals face trying to come to this country the Border Patrol discovered almost 200 illegals including 12 unaccompanied minors in a remote desert in Arizona after they had been abandoned by smugglers (catching a smuggler and putting him in prison for 20 years or more might be a deterrent to this dangerous crime); Deep State traitors like Brennan and many Blues are ranting over Trump’s order to declassify FISA documents and other documents subpoenaed by the House (Rosenstein must be sweating blood as those documents will more likely than not reveal his corruption and the corruption in the FBI and DOJ); on the senseless murder front, 26 year old Snochia Moseley, a temporary worker for Rite Aid in Maryland, reported for work with a hand gun and shot 6 people, 3 of whom died and 3 of whom are expected to live before killing herself with a shot to her head; in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September 19, 2018, 2226 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 360 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Bpyz II Men, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you do not suffer from narcolepsey and a relevant quote from Michael Baisden on the legal system, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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 Fried Rice Day—created by Benihana this year to celebrate a great way to eat rice especially when enhanced with vegetables and meats or seafood.

2. National Punch Day—celebrating an often alcoholic party drink named after the Hindi word panch which means five which is the number of ingredients in punch-spirits, lemons or limes, water and tea or spices.

3. 1992 Number One Song— the number one song in 1992 on a run of 13 weeks in that position was “End of the Road” by Boyz II Men. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKO6XYXioc

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n”  is “narcolepsy” which means a pathological drowsiness which seems to describe our government’s response to the opioid epidemic that is sweeping the land.

5. Lasting Beauty—celebrating the birth on this day in 1934 of noted actress Sophia Loren who even today at 84 is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world.

On this day in: 

a. 1881 Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as president following the death of James Garfield the previous day.

b. 1962 James Meredith, seeking to become the first African-American to be admitted to the University of Mississippi, was temporarily barred from entering.

c. 1973 Singer Jim Croces and five others were killed when their light plane crashed on takeoff from Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.

d. 1984 a car suicide bomber from Hezbollah attacked the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 24 people including the bomber.

e. 2007 15,000-20,000 people marched in Jena, Louisiana in protest to the conviction of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.

   Reflections on this nation’s legal system: “If you're poor and white in this country, you get involved in the legal system, you're in trouble. But if you're poor and black, you're in hell.” Michael Baisden, noted nationally syndicated radio talk show host.

  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 www.Alaskanpoethistory.blogspot.com for just This Day in History.

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September 19, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Gibberish Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 19, 2018 The flood waters from now Tropical Depression  Florence are lingering in the Carolinas and the Little River is belying its name by continuing to rise as the death toll remains at 37; Trump is visiting New Bern, North Carolina as Lara Trump released photos of her grandmother’s flood submerged home; a joyless Joy Behar of the clueless The View threw the presumption of innocence out the window and intoned that men are protecting a probably guilty Kavanaugh as Ms. Ford has announced she will not testify before Congress until the FBI has completed an investigation which it will not do of the incident which occurred 35 years ago (questions have arisen over the nature of the polygraph test Ms. Ford took but details have not been forthcoming from her counsel); the USDA is in hot water for its decades old program of infecting kittens with parasitic contaminated food then killing them as opposed to treating them and then putting them up for adoption, a policy that has attracted bipartisan outrage;  on the PETA front the L.A. City Council has unanimously adopted a resolution instructing the City Attorney to draft an ordinance prohibiting manufacture and sale of fur products in the city; Governor Moonbeam is on a rant against Trump and keeps nudging the line calling for “something has got to happen to this guy” (a dog whistle for assassination perhaps); Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, has reneged on his promise to create a million jobs in the U.S. citing the trade war between China and the U.S.; in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September 18, 2018, 2213 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 359 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Color Me Badd, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that maybe today civility might not be napooed in the Swamp and a relevant quote from Rick Jervis on Hurricane Maria, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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 Gibberish Day—bemoaning a form of speech that is nonsensical which describes to a tee what we usually hear emanating from the Swamp.

2. National String Cheese Day—tcreated by Galbini Cheese in 2017 to celebrated that peel able snack invented by Frank Baker in 1976.

3. 1991 Number One Song— the number one song in 1991 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “I Adore Mi Amore” by Color Me Badd. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92NdfSeOLA0

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n”  is “napoo” which means to destroy or kill which describes what politicians have done to civility in the Swamp and across the land.

5. Cowboys and Indians—celebrating the birth on this day in 1963 of noted Irish author Joseph O’Connor author of such novels as Cowboys and Indians, The Salesman, and Star of the Sea..

On this day in: 

a. 1971 after making landfall in Nicaragua Hurricane Irene crossed that country to enter the Pacific and regain hurricane status as Hurricane Olivia to become the first hurricane in history to have crossed from the Atlantic into the Pacific.

b. 1973 Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” in the Houston Astrodome.

c. 2001 in an address to a joint session of Congress televised to the American people, President George Bush announced a “War on Terror.”

d. 2011 the U.S. Military ended its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and allowed openly gay and lesbians to serve in the military.

e. 2017 Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Cat 4 hurricane, causing 2975 deaths and $90 billion in property damage.

   Reflections on Hurricane Maria from a reporter at ground zero: “The wall pulsed, bowed and finally gave, crashing to the floor and sending Hurricane Maria howling into the lobby of the Courtyard Marriott Isla Verde. ... I covered six previous hurricanes and thought I knew tropical cyclones. But Maria was different: meaner, louder, more punishing." Rick Jervis, USA Today reporter in San Juan , Puerto Rico

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September 18, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Water Monitoring Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 18, 2018 The flood waters from Florence are lingering in the Carolinas and the death toll has risen to 32 as authorities warn residents not to return to their flooded homes; the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on Monday with Kavanaugh and Ford (if she does not Grassley will cancel the hearing) testifying under oath on the alleged sexual abuse 36 years ago while so typically Kamala Harris is beating the drums for the FBI to reopen the background check and for additional witnesses to be called (even if the incident did occur which is doubtful is it grounds for rejecting his nomination or to put it another way does the incident determine his character—the answer should be no in both cases); Matthew Dowd of the Always Biased Cack Network is rightfully being slammed for tweeting that Justice Thomas is a sexual predator and inferring that Judge Kavanugh is one also;  Professor Cheny-Lippold of the University of Michigan is being slammed for his refusal to write a letter of recommendation for a student seeking to study in Israel because it would run counter to his department’s position of Israeli occupation of Palestine (another example of anti-Semitism running wild on our college campuses); not to be outdone on the anti-Semitism front tenured professor Hamid Dabashi as Columbia has tweeted that every dirty problem in the world is the fault of Israel (with tenure you can’t get rid of idiots like this one); on the culinary front the Lobster Pound in Charlotte, Maine is getting its lobster high on marijuana smoke before steaming them to death         http://video.foxnews.com/v/5836485027001/?#sp=show-clips; in Chicago, Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through September 17, 2018, 2208 people mostly of color including anti-gun violence activist Delmonte Johnson a teenage leader of GoodKids Mad City gunned down on Wednesday while playing basketball, have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 358 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Milli Vanilli, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your face is covered with sunscreen to avoid being naevous, and a relevant quote from Angelina Jolie on landmines, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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 Water Monitoring Day—created by the American Clean Water Foundation in 2003 as an educational outreach program to promote the monitoring of water quality of our water resources.

2. International Read an E-book Day—created in 2014 to promote the reading of e-books which take up little or no extra space in a briefcase or suitcase but allow the reader to take a small library with him or her.

3. 1989 Number One Song— the number one song in 1989 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You” by Milli Vanilli. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUENJ5FjBk

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n”  is “naevous” which means spotted or freckled which one can become being out in the Sun with pale skin and no sunscreen on.

5. Enhance for a Chance—celebrating the birth on this day in 1971 of noted cyclist Lance Armstrong who won the Tour de France 7 times but was stripped of his wins after it was discovered he was using banned performance enhancing drugs.

On this day in: 

a. 1793 the first cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol was laid by President George Washington.

b. 1984 Joe Kittinger completed the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in a gas balloon named Balloon of Peace.

c. 1997 media magnate Ted Turner donated $1 billion to the United Nations.

d. 1997 the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention was adopted by 33 countries but not the U.S., Russia, China and India.

e. 2001 the anthrax attacks began with the mailing of letters containing anthrax spores to two senators and various news media outlets; the mailings continued until October 9, 2001 and killed 5 people and injured 17 others. The prime suspect a Doctor Bruce Ivins committed suicide before being brought to justice.

   Reflections on anti-personnel landmines: “The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.” Angelina Jolie

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