Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 15, 2019 The 14 year
drought is over as Tiger Woods won his 5th Masters on Sunday duly
noted in poetic tribute by the Alaskanpoet https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2019/04/tiger-now-second-masters-ace.html;
Trump responded to the win by announcing
he would award Woods the Medal of Freedom; Pelosi may be in for another bout of delusion
as she downplayed the influence of AOC on the Blues dismissing her as leading a
group of five people (somehow I believe she is spooked and is terrified that
the leftward drift of the party will doom her reign as speaker); Notre Dame
Cathedral in Paris which was undergoing a $6.8 million renovation project is in
flames in a massive fire the cause of which has not been determined: https://www.foxnews.com/world/massive-fire-breaks-out-in-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris;
CBS aka Cacky Biased Slant’s The Good
Fight is in hot water for tweets encouraging assassination of President Trump
(when will this MSM over the top rhetoric come to an end before people start
getting really hurt or killed-shame!); AOC has self elevated herself to
political pundit and historian by claiming a Biden run would be a turn backward
not forward after she was dismissed by Pelosi as leading a splinter group of 5;
as the crisis at the border reaches epic proportions heads are rolling at the
DHS and CBP (Blues are still stuck with their heads in the sand and MIA in
trying to help solve the crisis); in a glaring example of lack of screening for
police recruits a former Louisiana police officer who was previously charged
with animal sex abuse has been charged with 30 counts of child pornography; Mueller’s
400 page report on Trump will be released on Thursday although it is doubtful
any opinions will be changed among the dogs of impeachment of the Blues; today
is tax day but at least millions of Americans will be rejoicing in the fact
that their taxes will have gone down unless they have the misfortune to live in
high tax Blue states like New York, California and New Jersey; as of April 14, 2019, 548 people have been
shot in Chicago of whom 100 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 Starship,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you believe in
panmnesia and better yet can still recover your mental impressions,
and a relevant quote from Dean Ornish on diabetes and heart disease,
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. World Art Day—created by the International Association of Art to promote
creativity and first celebrated on this day in 2012.
2. Jackie Robinson Day— commemorating on this day in 1947 the
professional debut in Major League Baseball of the league’s first African
American Major League Baseball player, Jackie Robinson.
3. 1987 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1987 on a run of 2 weeks in
that position was “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by Starship. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxyN3z9PL4.
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 “panmnesia” which means a belief that all mental
impressions are stored in memory.
5. Bewitched--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1933 of noted actress Elizabeth
Montgomery best known for her role of witch Samantha Stephens in Bewitched who was knocked off her broom
by colon cancer at the age of 62.
On this day
in:
a. 1892 the General Electric Company was formed.
b. 1923 to the relief of diabetes sufferers, insulin became
generally available to the general public.
c. 1955 McDonald’s first franchised restaurant was opened by Ray
Kroc in Des Plaines, Iowa.
d. 1989 a human crush resulted at Hillsborough Stadium in
Sheffield, England during the FA Cup Semi-Finals between Liverpool and Nottingham
Forest resulting in the death of 96 Liverpool fans and the injuring of 766
Liverpool fans.
e. 2013 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, two bombs were
detonated by two brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and
Tamerlane Tsarnaev, killing 3 and injuring 264 12 of whom lost their limbs.
After a massive manhunt, Tamerlane was fatally run over by his brother trying
to escape from police and who was caught, tried, convicted of murder and
attempted murder and sentenced to death and currently resides on death row
awaiting execution.
Reflections on diabetes:
“Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in
the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely
preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or
surgery.” Dean Ornish, noted physician and advocate of dietary and life style changes
to combat diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
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 15, 2019 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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