Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 1, 2019 Wal-Mart reeling under a rash of bad
publicity for terminating its disabled greeters has announced it will make
every effort to find them jobs; AOC the
poster child for the idiot who wants to destroy our economy with her Green New
Deal was caught on camera at a restaurant with her chief of staff who was
munching on that same food AOC wants us to stop eating because of methane gas
emission from cows—a juicy hamburger; Cohen’s troubles have just gotten much
worse the Reds making a referral to the DOJ that he perjured himself testifying
to the House by claiming he did not aspire to a White House appointment
discredited taped interviews indicating to the contrary not disclosing a book
proposal very complimentary to Trump after Charlottesville and the Helsinki
Summit ( if he weren’t such a liar I would ipity the collusion delusion hacks like
Shifty Schiff when Cohen testified that there was no collusion); Mark Meadows
invited Lynne Patton to the Cohen hearing which prompted Rashida Tlaib to slam
her as a prop (this a woman employed by HUD and who believes that the reason
Cohen flipped is that Mueller threatened to go after his wife as a guarantor of
the defrauded taxi medallion loan and send her to prison for a long time);
Harris, Warren, and DeCastro are pushing the budget busting idea of reparations
for blacks because of slavery and Warren upped the ante by wanting to include
Native Americans; MSNBC and CNN were guilty big time of “Fake News” by omission
by massive coverage of the Cohen hearings and almost next to nothing of the
North Korea U.S. summit in Hanoi; Morning
Joe contributor Daniel Deutsch was over the top in his rhetoric claiming
Trump is capable of creating a civil war if he loses in 2020; SpaceX will be
launching its Crew Dragon module on Saturday to the International Space Station
as the company continues to move toward of launching astronauts into space and
returning them to Earth; tomorrow is the
start of the race you have been waiting for the Iditarod from Anchorage to Nome—check
in daily to my blog for updates on “the Last Great Race on Earth.”
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Art Mooney and
His Orchestra, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are
oryzivorous and a relevant quote from Bobby Sands hunger strikes, 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 Pig Day—created by sisters Ellen Stanley in Lubbock, Texas and Mary
Lynne Rave in Beaufort, North Carolina to honor the pig as one of the most
intelligent domesticated animal; not sure how to celebrate the day but suspect
having pork chops, bacon or ribs is probably not on the list.
2. Zero Discrimination Day—created by the UN in 2014 to promote equality and lack of discrimination.
3. 1947 Number One Song— the number one song on this day in 1947 on a run of 3 weeks
in that position was “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover” by Art Mooney
and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-_8XOrvTs
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 “oryzivorous” which means rice eating which
describes usually the patrons of a Chinese or Japanese restaurant.
5. No Kneeling During His Tenure—celebrating the birth on this day in
1926 of Pete Rozelle who was Commissioner of the NFL for 30 years and created
Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl and it to probably the most successful
sports franchise in the world.
On this day
in:
a. 1981 IRA member Bobby Sands began his hunger strike at HM Maze
Prison which ended with his death from starvation on May 5, 1981.
b. 1998 Titanic became
the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
c. 2002 the longest war in our history commenced with Operation
Anaconda invading Afghanistan.
d. 2005 SCOTUS in the case of Roper v. Simmons ruled that the imposition of capital
punishment on juveniles committing crimes was unconstutional.
e. 2006 Wikipedia reached its one millionth article, the
Jordanville Railway Station.
Reflections on hunger
strikes against occupation of Ireland by England: “Foremost in my tortured mind
is the thought that there can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign,
oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit
to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign
people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and
economically.” Bobby Sands
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© March 1, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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