Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For
April 8, 2019 California District Court Judge Richard Seeborg, appointed
by Obama and infamous for striking down a question on citizenship for the census
has just issued a preliminary injunction banning Trump from returning asylum
seekers back to Mexico until their petition can be heard but stayed the order
until government could appeal the ruling; the pervasive hatred of the left on
Trump is manifesting itself on attempts to discourage any entity from employing
persons who worked for the Trump Administration; first Kirstjen Nielsen hounded
and hobbled by the likes of the pro illegal alien queen Kamala Harris has resigned
and now the Director of the Secret Service Randolph Ailes has announced he is
resigning (reading the tea leaves indicates that Trump’s patience with the open
border crisis has been exhausted); “Spartacus” Cory Booker has beat the other
wanna-bes out of the block by introducing a bill to create a commission to
study the issue of reparations for blacks (total pandering to obtain the black
vote for an idea that will never result in any black seeing a dime of
reparations); Socialist Sanders on the quest for voters wherever he can find them
is now promoting the idea that felons still serving their sentences be allowed
to voter (he must feel that felons will vote Blue); Joy Behar whose anti-Trump
animus is all hate and no joy and Meghan McCain got into another snit fit with
Meghan lashing out that part of Behar’s job was to listen to her (Behar is
totally clueless on The View and its
abysmal ratings confirm that fact); being able to memorize a script does not translate
to competence or intelligence as Alec Baldwin proves touting he could beat
Trump in 2020 (bring it on Alec with or without your Trump impersonation);
Israelis go to the polls tomorrow to elect a prime minister one of whom Netanyahu
has pledged to annex West Bank Jewish settlements; as of April 7, 2019 487
people have been shot in Chicago of whom 87 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 Blondie,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are a
skeptical panaceist when it comes to solving gridlock; and a relevant quote from Justice Hugo Black on
presidential executive authority, 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
Romani Day—created in 1990 to promote awareness
of the needs of Romanis (gypsies) and to call for an end to discrimination of
them.
2. Zoo
Lovers Day— celebrating a very popular place to
visit with the family, the zoo which some 600 million people are estimated to
visit the 2,800 zoos and aquariums located throughout the world.
3. 1981
Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1981 on a run of 2 weeks
in that position was “Rapture” by Blondie. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g The
band is still going strong today.
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 “panaceist”
which means a believer in panaceas which unfortunately when it comes to solving
the gridlock in the Swamp are few and far between.
5. Violence
Does Solve Problems—celebrating the birthday on this day
in 1974 the “Devil of Ramadi” recipient of 2 silver stars and 5 bronze medals Chris
Kyle who killed 160 terrorists during 4 tours in Iraq but tragically was killed
by deranged former Marine on a shooting range in Texas.
On this day
in:
a. 1952 President Harry S. Truman called for the seizure
of all steel manufacturers to end the national steel strike which he believed
would adversely affect our ability to prosecute the Korean War.
b. 1959 a group of computer manufacturers, users and
members of academia met under the leadership of Grace Hopper to discuss a new
computer programming language called COBOL.
c. 1975 Frank Robinson managed his first game as a manager
of the Cleveland Indians, marking the first black manager in Major League
Baseball.
d. 1987 Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned
after making racially insensitive remarks on ABC’s Nightline.
e. 2008 the Bahrain World Trade Center, the first
skyscraper to incorporate wind turbines providing 11-15% of the electrical power
needs of the building in its design was completed.
Reflections on legality of 1952 seizure of the steel companies:
“[t]he President’s power, if any, to issue the order must stem either from an
act of Congress or from the Constitution itself. There is no statute that
expressly authorizes the President to take possession of property as he did
here. Nor is there any act of Congress…from which such a power can be fairly
implied.”Justice Hugo Black’s majority opinion in Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Co. v. Sawyer, invalidating
President Truman’s seizure.
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just This Day in History.
© April 8, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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