Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 13, 2019 The Blues are
coming off the rails in their mantra of investigate not legislate in their
demand for 6 years of tax returns of Trump, which Trump has demanded the IRS
not deliver setting up a nasty court fight (legislation provides that the
Chairman of the House Ways and Means can demand release but able minds question
whether what looks like and smells like a fishing expedition can be so used;
Trump is going to call the Blues’ pro illegal alien immigration bluff by
releasing illegals into Sanctuary Cities causing the Blues to go ballistic and
exposing their hypocrisy on their stance; the Masters facing a weather storm
disaster will tee off earlier in the final round tomorrow to beat the expected
bad storm and Tiger is in the hunt two shots back; workers who are forced to
smile at customers and clients like health care workers, food service workers,
or teachers to repress negative feelings are more likely to drink more heavily
after work; a Houston driver was arrested and charged by police with toll road
avoidance of almost $5,500 in tolls by having a flipper that flipped his
license when going through a toll booth so the camera was unable to read his
plates; Olivia Jade ensnared in the college admissions scandal revealed that
she may not be college material as her trademark application for her cosmetics
line was rejected by the PTO for spelling and punctuation errors; the cassowary
is living up to its reputation as one of the world’s most dangerous birds when
it killed its owner in Florida when he fell over near the bird; on the agriculture front, some
scientists are promoting the use of perennials like Kernza and clover to reduce
soil loss and carbon dioxide emissions; on the sports front the fast growing
game of Quidditch which is a combination of elements of rugby, dodgeball and
basketball is facing concerns due to a growing concern over injuries like
concussions; broken bones and ligament damage; as Chinese hacking and theft of
intellectual property continues unabated, costing us close to $57 billion a
year, new evidence is that the culprits are often the victims themselves; as of April 12, 2019, 542 people have been
shot in Chicago of whom 98 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 Falco,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your goals are
realistic not Panglossian, and a relevant quote from Thomas
Jefferson on friendship, 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
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recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Thomas Jefferson Day—celebrating the birthday on the day in 1743 of one of our Founding
Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote his own epitaph detailing what he wanted
to be remembered for: "HERE WAS
BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE OF
THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA."
2. Scrabble Day— commemorating the birth on this day of
Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts who after losing his job during the Great
Depression invented the popular board game of Scrabble, still popular today and
a great way to learn new words.
3. 1986 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1986 on a run of 3 weeks in
that position was “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA.
He was the only singer to have a number one song in German and sadly while
making a comeback was killed in a automobile accident in the Dominican Republic.
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 “Panglossian” which means overly optimistic
which often describes politicians’ claims to be able to reduce our spending and
national debt.
5. Up in Smoke celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1949 of noted British-American journalist, essayist and
author of numerous books Christopher Hitchens, whose prolific pen due to a
lifetime of smoking and drinking since being a teen was put down for good on
December 15, 2011 due to cancer.
On this day
in:
a. 1919 Socialist Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was sent
to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for speaking out against the draft in World
War I.
b. 1964 Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to
win an Oscar for Best Actor his role in Lilies
of the Field.
c. 1976 the US Treasury reintroduced the $2 bill on the 233rd
anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth.
d. 1987 China and Portugal signed an agreement returning the Island
of Macau to China in 1999.
e. 1997 Tiger Woods in winning his first of 4 Masters became the
youngest golfer to win a Masters and in the final on Sunday is only 2 strokes
behind the leader.
A Jeffersonian reflection
on how to end the pervasive gridlock in the Swamp: I never considered a
difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for
withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson If only the partisan politicians
would listen and shed the Trump Derangement Syndrome of investigate not
legislate, we might be able to solve some our major troubling issues that we
sent our representatives to the Swamp to try to solve.
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote,
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This Day in History.
© April 13, 2019 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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