Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 13, 2018 Hurricane
Florence has weakened to a Cat 2 which is great news but the bad news is that
it still is expected to bring catastrophic flooding and storm surge to the
Carolinas now largely evacuated; Hurricane Florence has not even made its late
Thursday or early Friday landfall and already Trump is being excoriated in the
MSM from the ludicrous Op-Ed by the Washington
Post that he is complicit in Florence to the false claim that FEMA has
transferred $10 million to ICE a claim vehemently denied by ICE to a revival of
charges that he was not empathetic to the plight of Puerto Ricans because they
are not white; Susan Sarandon and Debra Messing are in a snit fit brawl over Variety’s article on Sarandon than more
women than ever are running for office under Trump while Messing remains in the
rut of Trump bashing; natural disasters like
Hurricane Florence bring out the best in America like the Confederate Navy
who performed so well in Houston announced they were bringing 1,000 boats to
the flood zones and the worst as fake government workers in safety vests were
trying to get residents to leave in Virginia probably so they could loot their
abandoned property; Kavanaugh has produced 260 pages of answers to over 1200
questions submitted primarily by Blue Senators (some of the questions were clutching
straws like questioning why he incurred so much credit card debt buying sports
tickets-answer was innocuous be bought them on behalf of himself and a group of
friends then held a sports lottery to see who would win the tickets and the
obligation to reimburse him); on the Good Samaritan front Blaine Hodge stepped
in front machete wielding David Rivas to prevent him from killing a woman who
had just rushed into a Bakersfield Starbucks and who survived but is in
critical condition while Hodge suffered 200 stitches; the sounds of silence
still plague the left over political violence following Farzad Fazeli knife
attack on Red Congressional candidate Porter (so typical of Pelosi not to
proclaim outrage when Republicans or conservatives are violently attacked);
Twitter is in the hot seat again and becoming the poster child for freedom of
internet access legislation for its banning of the phrase “illegal aliens” (as
much as I would not like the government to police internet access I am more fearful
of social media giants with their leftist bias determining who and who should
not get access and the content on that access); Kamala Harris is probably
basking in the glow of the 4 Pinocchios awarded to her for using Kavanaugh’s
quote out of context which shows how much the end justifies the means mantra
has infected the left wing of the Democratic Party; in Chicago, Emanuel’s
announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence
as through September 11, 2018, 2156 people mostly of color have been shot by
mostly people of color, of whom 347 have died as no one shot on the 11th
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 Tina
Turner, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are
not a thoughtless myrmidon, and a relevant quote from James Meredith on
applying to the University of Mississippi, 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. Day of the Programmer—created in Russia in 2009 to honor
the efforts and accomplishments of programmers; the day was chosen as the day
is the 256th day of the year (28) as it represents the number of distinct values that
can be represented by an 8 bit byte.
2. Bald Is Beautiful Day—created to celebrate those who are
bald because of genetics, medical procedures like chemotherapy or voluntarily choose
to be.
3. 1984 Number One Song— the number one song in 1984 on
a run of 3 weeks in that position was “What’s Love Got to Do With It” by Tina
Turner still going strong at 78. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpFcHTxjZs
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “myrmidon”
which means a follower, hireling or mercenary which too often defines those who
are blind to reality but are myrmidons of socialists like Cortez-Ocasio, the
latest darling of the extreme left.
5. Song Writing Is Great Therapy--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1977 of noted singer and songwriter Fiona Apple who
was raped as a pre teen and turned to songwriting to ease the trauma.
On this day in:
a. 1814
in the turning battle of the War of 1812 the British fail in their attempt to
capture Baltimore after burning Washington, D.C. while Francis Scott Key pens
his poem “Defense of Fort McHenry” which became our National Anthem on March 3,
1931.
b. 1948
Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to be elected to the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
c. 1962 a
federal District Court issued an injunction requiring the University of
Mississippi to admit James Meredith as its first African-American student; it
took several weeks of additional court moves and the intervention of 500
federal marshals to force the university to admit Meredith which it did on
October 1, 1962 after enduring the nationalization of the Mississippi National
Guard and rioting on campus.
d. 2001
civilian aircraft travel was reinstated after being shut down on September 11,
2001.
e. 2007 the
Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN General
Assembly.
Reflections on integrating the University of
Mississippi: “Nobody handpicked me...I believed, and believe now, that I have a
Divine Responsibility... I am familiar with the probable difficulties involved
in such a move as I am undertaking and I am fully prepared to pursue it all the
way to a degree from the University of Mississippi.” James Meredith from his
application to be admitted.
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just This Day in History.
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2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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