Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March
16, 2019 New Zealand is still reeling from the 2 mosque shootings that killed
49 people and in the U.S. the left is attacking Trump who is claimed to have
been responsible for inciting this lunatic now in custody (what a total travesty
by the left); AOC may be the poster child for the Progressive radicals of the
Democratic Party but her negative ratings are soaring as she is replacing Nancy
Pelosi as the lightning rod that will drive Republicans and Independents to the
polls (every time she opens her mouth she makes a total fool of herself); Australian
Senator Fraser Anning who has blamed Muslim immigration for the shooting in
Christchurch hit a teenager in the face twice when the boy egged him; Santa
Anita has experienced the death of 22 thoroughbreds since December 26th
causing it to suspend racing and is now the subject of a criminal investigation
which the track is apparently welcoming; Bozo O’Rorke is eating crow over his
jokes about his wife and his white privilege on the campaign trail (what does
this media darling believe in and what has he accomplished?—0); Chelsea Clinton was on the receiving end of a
leftist student harangue at NYU over her remarks castigating IIhan Omar
implying the Clinton had stoked the mosque shootings in New Zealand; Elizabeth
Warren is on the warpath advocating the breakup of big tech and promoting
increasing taxes on the wealthy; the House Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee is on the horns of a dilemma whether to legislate infrastructure
projects or investigate Trump’s D.C. Hotel; as of March 15, 2019 332 people
have been shot in Chicago of whom 56 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to Percy Faith and His Orchestra,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact reality of its
failed philosophy will overhaile AOC’s failed ideas of sociialism; a relevant
quote from Hamish du Bretton-Gordon on the poison gas and nerve gas attack on
the Kurds, 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. Freedom of Information Day—celebrating
the need for transparency in our federal, state or local governments and
celebrated on the birthday of James Madison one of the authors of the Constitution
and Bill of Rights. We would still be in the dark over the corruption at the
senior levels of the FGI without the existence of FOIA.
2. Black Press Day—proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter on the 150th
anniversary of the publication of the first black owned press, Freedom Journal, on this day in 1827.
3. 1960 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1960
on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Theme from a Summer Place” by Percy
Faith and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M
Percy often pictured on his album covers with a cigarette in his hand
died of cancer at age 67 on February 9, 1976.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning
with “n” to words beginning with “o” is “overhaile” which means to overtake
which we hope reality of the failed philosophy of socialism does with Rep. AOC.
5. Elegance in a Clothe Coat—celebrating the birth on this day in 1912 of former first
lady who as a heavy smoker all her life, died of lung cancer at the age of 81.
On this day
in:
a. 1985 Associated Press Terry
Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon and released on December 4, 1991.
b. 1988 Saddam Hussein ordered
the attack of the Kurdish town of Hakabham Iraq with gas and nerve gas, killing
5,000 and injuring 10,000 others.
c. 1995 in a what took you so long
moment, Mississippi became the last state to ratify the 13th Amendment
which had been ratified by the requisite number of states in 1865.
d. 2001 Jin Rachao, angry with his
ex-wife, ex-mother in—law and ex-lover, blew up 4 buildings in short order in
Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, killing 108 people and wounding 38 in the largest
mass non state murder in China. He was caught after a huge manhunt and executed
along with 3 others who had provided him with explosives.
e. 2005 Israel officially hands over control
of Jericho to the Palestinians.
Reflections on use of poison gas an nerve
gas on the Kurds: “It is highly likely that without that no-fly zone, we
would have seen millions of Iraqi Kurd refugees in Europe, as Saddam was bent
on their extermination, which began with the Anfal campaign of the 1980s, and
is synonymous with the poisonous gas attack on Halabja in 1988.” Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, noted chemical weapons adviser to
NGOs
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March 16, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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