Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 18, 2019 AOC has just given her constituents yet another
reason to send her back to bartending next fall after her idiotic remark that
Trump is operating concentration camps on our southern border (what about the
reality of the Holocaust does this anti-Semite not understand and how long
before she is condemned by members of her own party for her remarks?); Patrick
Shanahan who was the Acting Secretary of Defense withdrew his name form
consideration as Secretary of Defense after spousal abuse charges have arisen
during a 2010 incident between his now ex-wife and him in which she was charged
with hitting him, charges which he dropped, and an incident involving his son
striking his ex-wife with a baseball bat in self defense; the Secretary of the
Army has been named as Acting Secretary of Defense; thousands of Trump
supporters have waited days in the sweltering Florida Sun to await Trump’s
formal kickoff of his campaign today amidst early polls showing him trailing
many of the Blue wanna-bes (hopefully this is a déjà vu of 2016 when pollsters
completely misread the electorate); on the Blues’ push to create an open border
and nullify our immigration system, riders attached by them to pending
legislation will gut our ability to keep out and remove illegals from this
country (while the Blues are totally MIA compared to Mexico in trying to secure
our border, the head of the DHS testified before a Senate Committee that 90 %
of asylum seekers miss their hearings never to be seen again unless they run
afoul of the law in a nonsanctuary city—what an outrage); Rachel Maddow whose
ratings have tanked over her over the top anti-Trump bias to the point the New York Times has banned its reporters
from appearing on her program is praising the paper big time; the ultra-left
hosts on the leftist partisan The View have
shot down Biden’s claim that if elected he will be able to compromise with the
Reds; in a case of the deep divide affecting this country former Arkansas State
Senator Collins who changed her
affiliation from Democrat to Republican was murdered and her former staffer and
“friend” has been charged and faces the death penalty if convicted; that once
beautiful city San Francisco which is now awash in discarded needles, homeless
and human waste on its sidewalks is moving to ban all sales of e-cigarettes
(nothing like forcing nicotine addicts to go back to smoking cancer sticks to
feed their habit); Ilhan Omar’s ability to expose her stupidity knows no bounds
as she is blaming Trump for the attack on two oil tankers because he pulled out
of the Iran Nuclear Deal (when will the voters in her district who have to
endure this blithering idiot come to their senses and vote her out?); Google
has announced plans to build 20,000 affordable housing units in the Bay Area to
help in the homeless crisis (good news from a company that is making billions);
through
June 17, 2019 1127 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 213 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).
1. Autistic
Pride Day (International)—created by the Aspies for Freedom to
promote awareness that people with autism are unique people not just cases for
treatment.
2. International
Picnic Day—life may not always be a picnic but a picnic at the beach or a
park brings new life to life and should be enjoyed although I have no idea why
the day is celebrated today or when it was first celebrated or who created it.
3. 1947 Number One Song—the
number one song on this day in 1947 for 2 weeks in that position was “Mam’selle”
by Art Lund. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ikjl6wRe8A. This
popular baritone died at age 75.
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 “perfervid” which means ardent or eager
which sadly describes the base of both Trump and the Left which explains the
death of compromise and the birth of gridlock.
5. Is
There a 22 in His Future?:—celebrating the birth on this day of
1942 on noted singer and songwriter Paul McCartney of Beatles and Wings fame to
go along with a storied solo career with 21 Grammy Awards.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Art
Lund, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that
you practice moderation as opposed to being perfervid in your daily pursuits; a
quote from Janet Frenchette Held on having an autistic child, 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.
On
this day
in:
a. 1948 Columbia Records
introduced the long playing record at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
b. 1979 the world
became a safer place when on this day the Soviet Union and the United States
signed the SALTII treaty further reducing nuclear arsenals.
c. 1981 the Lockheed
F-117 incorporating stealth technology to make it almost invisible to radar
made its first flight.
d. 1983 Sally Ride, a
Stanford grad, became the first American women to orbit into space as a mission
specialist on a Space Shuttle flight.
e. 1983 Mona Mahmudnizhad
aged 17 and nine other women of the Baha’i were tried, sentenced to death and ignoring
pleas of Ronald Reagan were hanged on this day in 1983.
Reflections
on Autism: “This is a FOREVER journey with this
creative, funny, highly intelligent, aggressive, impulsive, nonsocial,
behavioral, often times loving individual. The nurse said to me after 6 hours
with him ‘He is a gift’ INDEED he is,” Janet Frenchette Held, Parent of a
autistic child
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 for just This
Day in History go www.Alaskanpoethistory.blogspot.com.
June 18, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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