Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 12, 2019 In another
chilling reminder of why we need a wall, Jorge Rios a Honduran illegal who had
been deported twice and sneaked back in has been charged with the rape and drowning
of Carolina Cano as she was out for an early morning jog on March 24 of this
year in Jersey City which surprise no surprise is a sanctuary city (more blood
on the city council’s hands who created this idiocy); Nancy Pelosi is fuming
over plans by the Trump Administration to since it does not have funding to detain
illegals flooding our border and is facing a preliminary injunction from a
leftist Obama judicial appointment preventing asylum seekers to stay in Mexico until their
cases are heard, to release illegals into sanctuary cities so they can choke on
the chaos of unrestrained illegal immigration; New York Blues are absolutely
insane in blocking tuition aid to children of Gold Star parents who have been
killed during their service or disabled 1 week after passing legislation
granting $27 million in tuition aid to Dreamers (another reason for New Yorkers
to vote with their feet and leave the state); HRC still seething over her loss
to Trump blasted Assange and praised his arrest and made another strong pitch
to eliminate the Electoral College; Rep. AOC continues to vie with IIhan Omar
to become the most despised idiot ever to hold office when she lambasted fellow
Rep. Crenshaw, a former Seal who lost an eye in Afghanistan for not going after
right wing terrorists after he slammed Omar’s characterization of 9/11 as “people
doing something.” (Omar is exactly the sort of person that we never should have
let into this country from the refugee camp she was wallowing in); George
Conway is doing his best to get his wife Kelly Anne Conway fired by attacking
Trump’s fitness to be president (Trump is right this guy must be a husband from
Hell); SpaceX Heavy with 5 million pounds of thrust successfully launched into
orbit a communications satellite and successfully recovered the 3 rockets used
to put it into orbit; Catherine Pugh another Blue mayor of Baltimore who seems guilty
of quid pro quo to enrich he pocket and who has gone on medical leave is rightfully
facing growing demands to resign; as of
April 10, 2019 525 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 96 have died (what
makes the Smollett case so frustrating is that it forced the city of Chicago to
allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting
in murder have a suspect being charged this year).
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Pink
Floyd, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you will
on passing be the recipient of a panegyric, and a relevant quote from
Robert R. Reilly on the Taliban and polio vaccinations, 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 Day of Human Space Flight—created by the General
Assembly on April 7, 2011 5 days before the 50th anniversary of the
first human to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961 Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gargin.
2. Big Wind Day— commemorating the highest wind velocity ever
recorded on the planet on this day in 1934 on top of the Mountain Washington
Observatory clocking in at 231 miles per hour until surpassed by a wind speed
of 253 miles per hour generated by Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996.
3. 1985 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1985 on a run of 4 weeks in
that position was “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” by Pink Floyd. Here
is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ZmKbe5oG4 .
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o”
to words beginning with “p” is “panegyric” which means an elaborate and
poetic compliment which describes many of the Alaskanpoet’s birthday or funeral
poems.
5. A Partridge and a Success Tree—celebrating the birthday on this day
in 1950 of actor and singer David Cassidy best known for his role in the TV
series The Partridge Family but who
battle alcohol abuse and died of liver failure on November 21, 2017.
On this day
in:
a. 1945 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in office from
a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia and was succeeded by Harry S. Truman who had
been kept in the dark over the Manhattan Project’s development of atomic bombs.
b. 1955 the Salk Vaccine for polio was declared safe of use
by the FDA to the relief on parents throughout the nation.
c. 1983 Harold Washington was elected as the first
African-American major of Chicago.
d. 1992 the Euro Disney Resort officially opened with its theme
park Euro Disneyland which subsequently changed its name to Paris Disneyland.
e. 1999 President Bill Clinton in a civil lawsuit was cited for
intentionally giving false statements and was fined and disbarred.
Reflections on polio
vaccinations: “In Taliban-controlled portions of
Pakistan, “Polio vaccinations have been declared haram by the ulema, and the
government campaign has subsequently stalled.” Like car insurance, vaccinations
are a form of presumption. Only with the expulsion of the Taliban from the Swat
Valley in the late summer of 2009 was the Pakistani government able to resume
vaccinations.” ― Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the
Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist
Another example of why this abomination of Islam should be wiped off the
face of the earth.
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.
© April 12, 2019 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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