Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 19, 2019 L.A. is awash in homeless, needles, feces
and despair but the L.A. Council has more important things to air, namely like
the Soviets of old who airbrushed out of photos of fallen from grace former
leaders, voting to remove Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame; AOC
keeps opening up her mouth to defend her indefensible remarks on comparing the
border detention to concentration camps to stick her foot in it and receive
heaps of justified scorn (what about the death camps during the Holocaust not
understand and why has this “expert” on history not seen it fit to go to the
border and see the chaos we are facing—simple she is blind and deaf the waves
of illegals and does to be exposed to reality); Blues really need to open their
eyes to the public safety issues caused by illegal immigration as in 2018
256,000 illegals were arrested and deported, of whom 146,000 were convicted
criminals and almost 6,000 were known or suspected gang members or terrorists
(the Blue elites living in their gated communities often protected by armed
security is a luxury mere mortals in this nation do not have and if Blues have
their way will probably be stripped of lawfully purchased firearms to protect
themselves); the House is holding raucous hearings on the issue of reparations
for descendants of slaves while polls indicate overwhelming majorities of
Americans oppose it (if some Blue candidates do not ape William Jennings Bryan
by urging that the Blues not be crucified on the cross of reparations, the
Blues chance of regaining the presidency and retaining the House are going to
be flushed down the drain; as Trump opened his campaign in Orlando, new polls
indicate that like the purchase of fireworks by HRC, the popping the corks by
the Blues may be a bit premature as the economy keeps firing on all cylinders;
the South Carolina Democratic Party is giving the Mostly Slanted Bias Negative
Coverage exclusive coverage of its convention featuring those paragons of
objectivity A; Sharpton and Joy Reid (the sound of clicks of Independents
changing channels will be deafening); FOX News with its mantra of “fair and
balanced” is crushing the biased advocacy anti-Trump networks of CNN and MSMBC
big time (when will the advertisers tired of paying big bucks for time on
networks very few people watch continue to run ads to support the bias shown?;
the death toll of Americans dying under mysterious circumstances now up to 9;
while thousands upon thousands of Americans are living on the streets, the
Senate committee approved a $4.6 billion appropriation which has be denuded of
any funding to deal with securing the border (shame, total shame as what ever
happened to the adage that charity begins at home?); through June 18, 2019 1130
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. World
Sickle Cell Day—created by the Sickle Cell Disease Association in 2009 to create
awareness of a disease that impacts 4.5 million people worldwide, mostly blacks
and promote funding to cure the disease.
2. National Free BSD Day—celebrated since
2017 to commemorate a free open source architecture created at the University of
California at Berkeley in 1993 and used today in many services like Netflix we
use today.
3. 1948 Number One Song—the
number one song on this day in 1948 for 7 weeks in that position was “Nature
Boy” by Nat King Cole. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw
. A heavy smoke, this king lost his crown to lung cancer on February 19,
1965.
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 “perficient” which means actually able to
achieve results which both Blue and Reds are not when it comes to compromise.
5. Takes
One to Play One to Win One:—celebrating the birth on this day of
1972 of noted French actor Jean Dujardin who became the first French actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his
role in The Artist.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Nat
King Cole, 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. 1910 the first
Fathers Day was celebrated in at the YMCA Spokane, Washington thanks to the
efforts of Sonora Smart Dodd, whose father a Civil War veteran had raised six
children as a single parent.
b. 1949 the first
NASCAR race was held at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina.
c. 1978 Garfield, the longest running comic
strip in newspapers debuted in 41 newspapers.
d. 2012 Julian Assange,
the founder of WikiLeaks, fearing incarceration for leaking photos of U.S. Army
troops killing Vietnamese civilians, asked for asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy
in London.
e. 2018 the 10,000,000th
patent was issued by the U.S. Patent Office.
Reflections on Sickle Cell Anemia: “For the most part I have been able to meet all
my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not
complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as
an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know.
It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not.
People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it.
Try to find triumph in the situation.” A.J. Green, noted wide receiver for
Georgia and the Cincinnati Bengals
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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 19, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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