Ridley's Believe It Or Not--This Day In History: July 2019

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 31, 2019 Cummings has been caught on a past video moaning about drugs in Baltimore and the fact that its residents are “walking around like zombies” (sound very similar to what Trump said and does it suggest Cummings is a racist to himself?); the first night of the second round of the Blew debate is over with the 3 rabid progressives shooting down the 6 moderates on stage (Marianne Williamson defies characterization) but in so doing showed the complete hypocrisy of Sanders who railed against conditions in Baltimore 3 years ago but called Trump a racist for expressing the same comments today; CNN which was in a frenzy for over 2 years with the false Mueller Russian collusion delusion narrative asked the candidates not one question concerning the Mueller report or for that matter whether any supported impeachment; the Blues with Nadler the poisonous adler are looking more and more like lemmings ready to jump over the proverbial electoral cliff with nearly half of them wanting to proceed with an impeachment inquiry (short memories ala impeachment of Clinton and what happened to the Reds in the election following the impeach by House and acquittal by the Senate on party lines which will happen if Trump is impeached); CNN also took a lot of flack from Planned Parenthood supporters over a lack of questions concerning abortion; this poet usually disagrees with the leftist rants out of Scarborough’s mouth but on single payer Medicare for all, he is right as rain in condemning Sanders and Warren for their plan to take away union health plans; the Fed cut interest rates for the first time in a decade by 25 basis points in a move to bolster the continuation of this nation’s economic expansion; on the drug war front former American Idol contest Antonella Barba pled guilty to possession of 2 pounds of fentanyl with intent to sell and now faces up to 10 years in prison (fentanyl is so deadly that a dose of heroin contained only 250 micrograms of it equates to a high risk of dying); Loughlin’s and Giannulli’s 2 daughters Olivia Jade and Isabel involved in the college admissions scandal have both been kicked of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority at USC for their involvement in the scandal (now that is punishment that will scar them for life while potential incarceration of their parents will be mere slaps on the wrist); the illegal alien supporter queen, like all politicians in not refusing any contribution regardless of the source unless caught, is facing a revelation Donald Trump after being urged by disgraced New York AG Eric Schneiderman’s suggestion that he contribute $5,000 to Harris’ campaign to be re-elected as the California AG in fact did so; in Chicago through July 29, 2019, 1577 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, 269 of whom have died ( a rarity in that two days of shootings and no one died), a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa but barely leading the 196 murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Prince, factoids of interest for this day in history, a performance of your favorite pibroch and a relevant quote from Patrick Reeden Keefe on The Troubles, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, 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 Ranger Day—created by the International Ranger Federation in 2007 to honor those Rangers who protect national parks and wildlife refuges including those who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

2. National Mutt Day—created animal advocate Colleen Paige in 2005 and celebrated on this day and December 2 to encourage pet adoption from shelters in which mutts outnumber substantially pure breeds.

3. 1984 Number One Song— the number one song in 1984 on a run of 5 weeks in that position was “When Doves Cry” by Prince. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3VcCAlUgE This very accomplished singer and songwriter suffered regicide from fentanyl on April, 2016 at the too early age of 57.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pibroch” which means a piece of music for this poet’s favorite musical instruments, the bagpipe, aka the stepping on the tails of cats symphony.

5. Drink Like A Fish Swim Don’t Drive—celebrating the birth on this day in 1992 of Jose Fernandez, a phenom pitcher for the Miami Marlins who was rookie of the year and destined for greatness after recovering from Tommy John Surgery but who after a night of drinking and using cocaine with two friends piloted a boat at over 50 mph into a jetty in Miami and was killed at the age of 24, leaving a yet to be born daughter behind.
On this day in:

a. 1874 Doctor Patrick Francis Healey became the first African American to be appointed president of a predominantly white university Georgetown University.

b. 1970 the British Navy ended the practice of issuing a daily rum ration which had started in 1665, the quanities of which had be decreased over the years due to discipline problems and concern over the effects of alcohol.

c. 1991 the U.S. and the Soviet Union both sign the Start I Treaty, which was the first treaty in which the parties agreed with verification to reduce a portion of their nuclear arsenals.

d. 2007 Operation Banner for the British Army in Northern Ireland came to an end after 38 years, the longest operation in British Army history which makes the long war in Afghanistan look like a short engagement.

e. 2012 Michael Phelps broke the record of 18 Olympic medals won by Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina and went on through the 2016 Olympics to win 28 medals total and with his retirement after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 will add no more medals to his total.

Reflections on The Troubles in Northern Ireland: “Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.” ― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

July 30 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Whistle Blower Appreciation Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 30, 2019 While MSM continues 24/7 to falsely brand Trump as a racist, Fox has people on the street in Baltimore asking residents to weigh in on the issues in the their city which include rampant corruption at all levels of government, drugs and crime, and rats (if Cummings will not investigate the corruption in this Blue run city, Barr at the DOJ should as Reds and Indies should watch a growing hysteria among Blues as Trump continues his gain among blacks and Baltimore continues to expose Blue Big City failures) ; Ibraheem Samirah, a Virginia legislator disrupted Trump’s speech in Roanoke with an anti-Trump placard standing in front of the podium while he was speaking (Ibraheem is a Palestinian-American with a history of disgusting anti-Semite remarks about Israel which he in many cases to try to hide his feelings has deleted); the advertisers who advertise on CNN must be getting tired of the combination of falling ratings from already abysmal levels and the steady stream of cack while MSNBC advertisers must have the same feelings as Fox continues to crush them in all viewing segments showing “Fair and Balanced” trumps mostly slanted biased cack every time (when will they pull the plug or at minimum demand reduction in the ad fees charged by MSNBC?); the Blues hold their second round of presidential debates which may be watched by few people due to the DNC’s move to ban Fox from the debates (will be interesting to see how much Blues go at each other and if Warren and Sanders try to take each other out while the nation awaits the next night’s debate which may be a make or break mement of Biden as he faces off against a group the includes Booker and his nemesis Harris); on the migration front, a back black seagull flew from Britain to Spain to breed, covering over 500 miles in seven days; on the economic front, the Fed is prepared to cut interest rates for the first time in a decade; in another reason why Trump despises California which provides that no one in a primary election may be placed on a primary ballot unless he or her tax returns have been filed (a sure loser with respect to federal elections which even in the liberal 9^th Circuit will be shot down but so typical of Newsom’s focus on petty distractions as opposed to our open border, illegal alien crime and the blight of homeless and drugs; never underestimate the drive of parents whose kids are not admitted to schools with admit blind policies to scam financial aid by transferring their kids to a legal guardian to avoid counting income of parents (judges must have a blind eye to this scam but it stinks if it results in kids who really need aid being deprived because of the scam); the first round of the second round of the Blue debate ended today with a lot of bickering between and a flurry of cost claims of their leftist programs that will keep fact checkers occupied for weeks and a sense of desperation from the second tier Blue candidates; in Chicago through July 29, 2019, 1566 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, 269 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa but barely leading the 196 murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to The Police, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact if you enjoy not being piacular and a relevant quote from the Daily Caller on the Rat problem in Baltimore, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, 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 Friendship Day—created by Joyce Hall of Hallmark Cards in 1930 to celebrate friendship with small gifts and cards and recognized on July 30 to commemorate friendships which observance was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly on June 28, 2019 but by moving the date of observation to July 30 of each year.

2. National Whistle Blower Appreciation Day—created by Senate Resolution this day in 2013 to honor the service of whistleblowers to the prevention of fraud and misfeasance by government officials as encouraged in the Whistle Blowers Act of 1778.

3. 1983 Number One Song— the number one song in 1983 on a run of 8 weeks in that position was “Every Breath You Take” by The Police. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YbBHVF4g This British Rock And Roll Band disbanded for 20 years from 1986 to 2006 to join together for a world tour from 2007 to 2008. The four band members in their 60’s and 70’s are going strong with their musical solo careers.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “piacular” which means atrociously bad which is a great way to describe the performance of politicians on both sides of the aisles.

5. Do You Need A Team When You Can Go Solo—celebrating the birth on this day in 1981 of soccer goalie phenom Hope Solo whose goal tending play was instrumental in the U.S. Women winning a Gold Medal in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games and a Gold in the 2015 World Cup.
On this day in:

a. 1729 the now rat and rodent infested City of Baltimore was formed.

b. 1956 President Johnson signed a Joint Resolution of Congress providing that the national motto of the United States would be In God We Trust.

c. 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act of 1965 which created Medicare and Medicaid which all blues want to extend to all Americans and all illegal and legal residents.

d. 1975 after having lunch in the Machus Red Foxx restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot, never to be seen or heard from again.

e. 1980 Israel’s Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law which although directly saying so provided for the annexation of East Jerusalem.

Reflections on the rats in Baltimore: “The Baltimore rat problem President Donald Trump tweeted about Saturday is apparently so extensive that it was the subject of a documentary two years ago.

The president’s tweets took aim at Democratic Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, who has been very critical of the administration’s immigration and migrant detention policies, calling his home district in Baltimore “rodent infested.”

The Baltimore Sun’s editorial board published a scathing op-ed later in the day that simultaneously waved off the city’s rat problem while calling Trump a rat. ‘Better to have a few rats than to be one,’ blared the headline.

But according to earlier reports from The Baltimore Sun, that rat problem is actually quite a bit more extensive than the editorial board implied.” Daily Caller L.A. and Newsom must be breathing a sigh of relief as attention to their rat and rodent infestation problem has be shadowed by the rats and rodents in Baltimore

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July 29, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Chicken Wings Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 29, 2019 Antifa is finally facing resistance but not from the Sounds of Silence Blues but from the Reds to be declared a terrorist organization while Portland still reeling from the attack by the group on a conservative journalist is in the news again on the intolerance front as anarchists stuck a hose through lawyer Sean Riddell’s office mailbox and turned it on to flood first floor and basement as a warning to those who represent those like the ICE Council that represent ICE members (find these cowards and prosecute to the full extent of the law including a charge of hate crime for attacking a lawyer doing his job to represent his client which is a death knell to our rule of law); the police in the Gilroy shooting should be applauded for rushing to the sound of an AK-47 armed with only service revolvers to shoot and kill the gunmen within a minute of his starting shooting (the Blues however should be ashamed of themselves for being like a stuck record calling for gun control before the wounded had been treated or the dead released from the morgue); existing staff at the DCCC are facing crucifixion on the cross of diversity as it announced an interim executive director and that staff changes would be coming; the illegal supporter queen has announced her new medical for all but the details are skimpy especially as to costs and the involvement of private insurance (for seniors who vote in droves detail of impact on Medicare will really be important especially impact due to inclusion of illegal aliens); Megan Arapinoe needs to stick to soccer as her claim of compensation decimation was refuted by U.S. Soccer which claim that women were paid more than men but when the payments from FIFA were included the men received slightly more which could be due to the fact that receipts for mens’ soccer were 13 times higher than for women’s games; in Chicago through July 28, 2019, 1560 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 269 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa but barely leading the 196 murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Survivor, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact if you enjoy being phytivorous but enjoy the taste of meat, protein made from plants is now on the market from companies like Beyond Meat and a relevant quote from Peter Landesman about the Chunnel, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, 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 Tiger Day—created at the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit in 2010 to promote the preservation of habitat for tigers and to promote worldwide conservation efforts.

2. National Chicken Wing Day—Buffalo wings were created by Terressa Bellissimo at here Anchor Bar in Buffalo as a snack to feed her son and his friends looking for a late night snack. She deep fat fried them and coated them with butter and cayenne sauce to the joy of her son and friends. The Mayor of Buffalo in 1977 proclaimed this day to be National Chicken Wings Day.

3. 1982 Number One Song— the number one song in 1982 on a run of 6 weeks in that position was “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phytivorous” which means feeding on plants which one can now do in the form of protein produced from plants by companies like Beyond Meat that tastes very much like beef.

5. Crossing the Silent Line—celebrating the birth on this day in 1905 of noted actress Clara Bow who successfully crossed the line of making 46 “silents” to maiking 11 ”talkies” ; she retired from the acting business in 1933 at the peak of her career and became somewhat of a recluse.
On this day in:

a. 1836 the Arc de Triomphe was inaugurated.

b. 1967 off the coast of North Vietnam, the USS Forrestal caught on fire for the worst disaster suffered by the U.S.Navy since World War II; 134 sailors were killed, 161 were wounded and 21 planes were destroyed. Escaping death on that day was future senator and presidential candidate John McCain.

c. 1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French Prime Minister Francois Mitterrand sign an agreement to build a tunnel between France and England which was completed and opened on May 6, 1994.

d. 1993 the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the conviction on John Demjanjuk for killing Jewish concentration camp prisoners resulting in his return to the U.S. where he remained but had his citizenship revoked, After several years trying to find a country to which he could be deported, Germany agreed and tried and convicted him for murder of Jewish concentration prisoners but the conviction was appealed and he died during the appeal process at the age of 91.

e. 1996 the child protection provisions of the Communications Decency Act were struck down by SCOTUS for being too broad.

Reflections size of the EuroStar Train in the Chunnell: The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.” Peter Landesman, noted American journalist, writer and author.

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

July 25, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Red Shoe Daym

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 25, 2019 AG Barr has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to begin taking steps to execute federal prisons convicted of murder starting in December of this year; almost to a commentator on MSM pundits and commentators have called Mueller’s testimony a big win for Trump and a nailing of the impeachment coffin to the joy of Pelosi who wants more than anything to save the House with the lone exception of Rachel Maddow whose ratings are in the toilet and who has terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome; Jeffrey Epstein being held without bail over charges of sex with minors was found nearly unconscious in his jail cell raising questions of whether this was a suicide attempt of a jail house beating (hard to believe any inmates had access to his jail cell); the Palm Beach County Sheriff has instigated an investigation over the procedures followed that allowed Epstein during his prior 13 month sentence to be released on a work release to his foundation (total example of two systems of justice one for the wealthy and connected and the other for those who are not); leftist Portland Mayor Andy Wheeler is trying to distance himself from the Antifa riots and violence in his city and denying he has ordered police to stand down; new Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is doing a great job of aping Rahm Emmanuel as residents continue to be gunned down in the streets, calling the police chief a “clown” (nothing funny about blacks killing blacks in obscene numbers Lightfoot); On the PC Facebook front Toms River School District Board Member Dan Leonard resigned after CAIR accused his anti-Sharia Law posts as being anti-Muslim (Sharia Law is the antithesis of our values especially our views on the rights of women); Franky Zapata, a French inventor, failed in his attempt to cross the English Channel in a Hover board when he tried to land on a platform halfway across to refuel and fell into the water; on the war on religion front, Boston is being sued by the founders of Camp Constitution for its refusal to fly it in Boston while flying 294 other flags; a new species of ostriches has been discovered legislators of high tax states like New York, California, Illinois and New Jersey who are putting their heads in the fiscal sand and raising taxes instead of lowering, causing thousands of high income taxpayers to move to low cost states like Florida, Texas and Nevada; in Chicago through July 23, 2019, 1497 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 258 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa but barely leading the 190 murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Kim Carnes, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you can avoid physagogues in your diet and a relevant quote from Jemima Goldsmith on the importance of WikiLeaks, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, 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. Red Shoe Day—created by the Global Lyme and Invisible Illness Organization on this day in 2014 to commemorated the death of Theda Myint in Australia by wearing red shoes on this day and raising money for research on finding a cure Lyme Disease and other invisible diseases.

2. National Hire a Veteran Day—created by Marine Corps Veteran Dan Caporale in 2017 to honor those who have served by those who may have not by hiring a veteran.

3. 1981 Number One Song— the number one song in 1981 on a run of 9 nonconsecutive weeks in that position was “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8. Kim is still going strong at 74..

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “physagogue” which means a substance like beans that causes flatulence.

5. More Abdulmajid Less Omar—celebrating the birth on this day in 1955 of Somali-American model, actress and entrepreneur Inman Abdulmajid who was married to David Bowie until the day he died.
On this day in:

a. 1965 Bob Dylan performed with an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival marking a quantum shift in the production of folk and rock music.

b. 1969 to the joy of potential American draftees, President Nixon announced the Nixon Doctrine which established the proposition that our American allies would be responsible for their own defense, which doctrine was dubbed “Vietnamization.”

c. 1978 Louise Joy Brown became the first baby to be born after conception following in vitro fertilization.

d. 2000 Air France Concorde Flight 4590 ran over debris on its runway while taking off from Charles de Gaul Airport which caused its fuel tank to be punctured and set on fire and to crash, killing all aboard.

e. 2010 WikiLeaks in one of its largest leaks of classified military information released documents concerning the American military’s involvement in Afghanistan.

Reflections on WikiLeaks: “WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.” Jemima Khan British-Pakistani journalist and television producer who was the former wife of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and after divorce goes by her maiden name, Goldsmith

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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

July 24, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Thermal Engineer Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 24, 2019 Fireworks at Mueller’s two sessions of testimony somewhat blunted by his refusal to answer many questions concerning what the investigation did or did not investigate with one bombshell in the second hearing where he clarified that he did not indict Trump for obstruction of justice not because he was a sitting president as stated to Rep Lieu but because he did not find the evidence to charge (Lieu has gone from popping the corks to total depression and Schiff must have jumped off the cliff into the sewer where his false accusations on Trump belong); one can get a feeling of how bad Mueller’s testimony was for Blues hot to impeach when Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe, a rabid anti-Trumpster who has compared Trump to Hitler, called the hearing a “disaster” for Blues wanting to impeach the president; in the game of Judicial Whapo after a federal judge in Washington, D.C. has upheld Trump’s new amnesty rules, a federal judge appointed by Obama in the 9^th Circuit has issued an injunction against the rules; every time Omar opens her mouth she proves that Trump’s condemnation of her has nothing to do with the color of her skin or her religion rather it is her ideas, the most recent being that police should profile white men and not suspected jihadist terrorists and we should fear not jihadists but white men (can investigate fraud in her asylum application and citizenship application but the easiest thing to do with this rabid anti-American is to send her home wherever that is in or out of her district in 2020); Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania is a poor district but needs to find the money to fire Joseph Mazur as president for two strikes, one sending a letter to parents that if they didn’t pay up their $20,000 lunch money accounts and secondly turning down the offer of a good Samaritan Todd Carmichael to discharge the account (a heartless total idiot that should be fired); we have been offended by videos of young Muslim children being taught to fire AK-47s and now we are exposed to the Brown Berets in East Chicago organizing a community day in which the featured entertainment was a piñata resembling an ICE agent that children were able and encouraged to hit with baseball bats (nothing like teaching hate at an early age); with literally the entire population of Puerto Rico in the streets demanding his resignation, sources indicate Blue Governor Ricardo Rossello will resign shortly; in another case of proving her time has come and gone, Bette Midler is ranting that Trump is paying to have blacks attend his rallies (given what has happened to black wages and unemployment they should be coming out in droves to express their gratitude); in a sad commentary on the times, the Bushland School District is beginning drug testing for students as young as 12 who want to participate in extracurricular activities (if positive results are shared with parents and police watch for a lot of empty spaces in the school band); in Chicago through July 23, 2019, 1497 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 258 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa but barely leading the 189 murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Donna Summer, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact we have a chance to be more phylactic when it comes to gridlock in the Swamp and relevant quotes from Khrushchev and Nixon during their kitchen debates secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, 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. Thermal Engineer Day—commemorating since July 24, 2014 the work of thermal engineers in controlling and combating the heat built up in electronic devices to insure accuracy, reliability and longevity.

2. Pioneer Day (Utah)—commemorating the reaching of the Salt Lake Valley by Brigham Young and a band of Mormon settlers fleeing persecution on this day in 1847.

3. 1980 Number One Song— the number one song in 1980 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” by Billy Joel. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAQa4MOGkE. The Piano Man is still strongly pounding the keys with rhythm and going strong still in his 4^th marriage.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phylactic” which means defending against disease when it comes to partisanship that is crippling our democracy.

5. Pin Me Anytime—celebrating the birth on this day in 1975 of Torrie Wilson, noted female wrestler, actress, model, and blogger, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019 and while wrestling represented the perfect union of beauty and grace coupled with wrestling moves and technique.
On this day in:

a. 1959 in Moscow at the American Culture Exhibit Vice President Nixon and Premier Khrushchev had for impromptu debates on the merits of capitalism versus communism and whether communism would surpass the economic activity (which it despite the drags of Obama and the proposed drags of Sanders and Warren has not).

b. 1969 after successfully landing on the Moon and taking off to rendezvous with the Apollo 11 spacecraft, Apollo successfully splashed down in the Pacific to be recovered by the U.S. Navy.

c. 1974 near certainty of the end of the Nixon Presidency, SCOTUS held that the president did not have the authority to withhold the tapes subpoenaed and ordered him to turn over the tapes to the special prosecutor.

d. 1980 with the United States boycotting the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics due to the Soviet’s invasion of Afghanistan, the Australians captured the 4X100 meter individual medley relay, the only time the U.S. has not won the event.

e. 1987 in an you’re only as old as you think you are moment, Hulda Crooks at age 91 climbed Mt. Fuji, becoming the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak. She continued to climb and be physically active until death claimed Grandma Whitney at age 101.

Quotes from the Kitchen Debate: Nixon: “This house can be bought for $14,000, and most American [veterans from World War II] can buy a home in the bracket of $10,000 to $15,000. Let me give you an example that you can appreciate. Our steel workers as you know, are now on strike. But any steel worker could buy this house. They earn $3 an hour. This house costs about $100 a month to buy on a contract running 25 to 30 years.”

Khrushchev: “We have steel workers and peasants who can afford to spend $14,000 for a house. Your American houses are built to last only 20 years so builders could sell new houses at the end. We build firmly. We build for our children and grandchildren.”

Khrushchev: “The Americans have created their own image of the Soviet man. But he is not as you think. You think the Russian people will be dumbfounded to see these things, but the fact is that newly built Russian houses have all this equipment right now.”

Nixon: “Yes, but...”

Khrushchev: “In Russia, all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the Soviet Union. You are entitled to housing...In America, if you don’t have a dollar you have a right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say we are the slave to Communism.”

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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

July 23, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Gorgeous Grandma Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 23, 2019 You have to hand it to Rashida Tlaib for when it comes to big ideas on how to throw people into the unemployment line she with her idea of a federal minimum wage of $20 she wins the prize but when it comes to economics the Squad to a woman their ideas are flawed; Di Blasio is rightfully being castigated for videos showing NTPD officers being doused with yellow looking water from trash cans while trying to make an arrest (when will this total wimp stop embarrassing himself and Democrats and withdraw from the presidential Blue primary; the Blues have been caught with their mantra “no one is above the law” pants down as people are coming to the realization that illegals supported by Blues are above the law and actively encouraged by Blues; you know when an economy is hurting when its soldiers have to cross into China to rummage for food as is the case being reported in the news coming out of China’s border with North Korea; Brian Johnson a rabid pro Brexit supporter will become the U.K.’s next Prime Minister replacing Theresa May; Julian Castro whose campaign is going nowhere and who advocate decriminalizing illegal immigration and while homeless crowd our sidewalks and parks sending billions to Central America has alleged that Trump is the “biggest identity politician” in our modern times (says a lot to diminish the claims of veracity given the identity cards played in unison by the Blues); proving the adage that it takes one to know one a recent study of tribal and village police forces in Alaskan villages found that a majority of officers had been convicted of serious crimes like assault and domestic violence; finally a bill that provides some common sense solutions to the border crisis and the human trafficking that is occurring there which should garner some bipartisan support has been introduced by a Texas Red Congressman which mandates DNA testing of children and adults appearing as a family unit seeking asylum (don’t hold your breath though in anticipation of the ACLU filing suit that the procedure discriminates against people who adopt children); Republicans are honing their cross examination skills to question Mueller whose investigation they will try to reveal was flawed conducted by lawyers with severe anti-Trump prejudices and conflicts of interest (be careful what you wished for Nadler and Company as Mueller’s testimony may blow up in their faces); in Chicago through July 22, 2019 (another miracle no deaths ended with 1 out of 10 shot yesterday), 1489 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 257 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa but barely leading the 187 murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Donna Summer, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are free from phthartic pursuits and a relevant quote from Sam Shephard on race riots and the 60’s, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, 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 Sjögren's Day—commemorating since July 23, 2010, the discovery by Doctor Henrik Sjögren in 1933 of an autoimmune disease that attacks moisture producing genes primarily in the eyes and mouth creating dry eyes and dry mouth.

2. Gorgeous Grandma Day—created by 50 year old Wellesley Graduate Alice Solomon who took her degree in 1984 and believed that society did not give enough credit to older Americans for their accomplishments in their senior citizen status so she added the term “Gorgeous” to Grandmother to honor those grandmas who age gracefully and are as young as they want to be.

3. 1979 Number One Song— the number one song in 1979 on a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGKeyCywTY. Her summer changed to winter on May 17, 2012 when she died at 63 of lung cancer believed by her to have been contracted by being near the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phtharctic” which means deadly or destructive which describes to a tee the current effects of gridlock in the Swamp on the issues we as a nation must address.

5. Bully Not As She Is Not A Victim—celebrating the birth on this day in 1973 of a woman, Monica Lewinsky whose life as a young intern was turned upside down by a powerful sexual predator, Bill Clinton, but who has rallied to be a positive force against cyber bullying along with other pursuits.
On this day in:

a. 1885 a habit of smoking too many cigars came home to roost and former President Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer.

b. 1967 sparked by a police raid on an unlicensed after hours drinking establishment on 12^th Street in a predominantly Afro-American neighborhood, a riot erupted in Detroit that lasted for 5 days and resulted in massive looting, the calling out of the Michigan National Guard and elements of the 101^st and 83^rd Airborne Divisions and ended with 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed or heavily damaged.

c. 1992 a Vatican Commission led Joseph Ratzinger, a retired prelate of the Catholic Church, came to the conclusion that limiting certain rights of homosexuals and unmarried couples was not the equivalent of discrimination based on race or gender.

d. 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation filed an antitrust law suit against Intel which was settled by Intel buying the plaintiff’s chip manufacturing operations for $700 million.

e. 1999 Eileen Collins became the first female Shuttle commander when she piloted the Shuttle Columbia on STS-93 which deployed the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Reflections on Detroit and other race riots in the 60’s: “People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn’t feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.” Sam Sheppard, noted and prolific writer, author and playwright and actor and director

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Monday, July 22, 2019

July 22, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Spoonerism DayA

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 22, 2019 Great video of that master of civility and dropper of the “mother#####-bomb Rashida Tlaib being ejected from a 2016 Trump speech to the Detroit Economic Club (she belongs in the gutter not the Halls of Congress); former governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford whose political career crashed following an affair out of the country with a woman in Argentina is considering a primary run against Trump not because he believes he can beat him but rather to refocus Reds on the soaring deficit; Joyce Vance, a contributor to the Mostly Slanted “News” Biased Cack network, who is probably worried about her salary as ratings fall, falsely tweeted that the Mueller hearings would not be aired on Fox (caught with her hands in the lying cookie jar, she took down her tweet); Biden in a recent interview with Mika from Morning Joe once again came across in unprepared and gaff mode (he seems out of touch and mentally sluggish); with Mexico doing what our head in sand Blues will not—work on border security—illegal alien crossings are falling at the border though the BP is still in crisis mode, a situation that may be alleviated by a bill introduced by a Texas Congressman to require DNA testing for illegals with children (trafficking with children posing as sons or daughters is common ploy among illegals to scam our asylum laws); on the feline front, a woman in Scotland trying to break up a fight between stray cats in her back yard, was infected with cat scratch fever, ending up in the hospital and lost a finger; Equifax and the feds have settled a law suit over a data breach of 150 million of its credit files for $750 million (when does hacking of this magnitude become a capital offense and if by a government worldwide economic sanctions?); Wyoming Valley School District in the coal producing area of Pennsylvania is threatening parents with foster care if their unpaid lunch money debts are not settled (another example of Blue focus and concern over the welfare of illegal alien children at our border detention while ignoring the needs of American residents); in Chicago through July 21, 2019 (another miracle with 23 people shot in last 2 days but no fatalities), 1479 people have been shot mostly of color by mostly people of color, 256 of whom have died, a fraction of those dead from murders in Cape Town, South Africa (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color?)

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Andy Gibb, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you are free from phrenesis and relevant quotes from Malca Fein and an unnamed British operator on the King David Hotel Bombing, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, 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. Ratcatcher’s Day—commemorating the myth of the rat catcher in Hamelin, Germany who after not being paid for piping the rats in the waters to be drowned piped all of the children out of the town.

2. Spoonerism Day—commemorating the birth on this day of Archibald Spooner who was a student at Oxford and an Anglican priest, blessed with great intellect and poor eyesight whose mind was ahead of his speech creating words misformed or not in order which became known as Spoonerisms like this example:”I have in my bosom a half-warmed fish" (half-formed wish—it is believed he said this in a speech Queen Victoria). He may have been the blueprint for the premier gaffer in politics Joe Biden.

3. 1978 Number One Song— the number one song in 1978 on a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Shadow Dancing” by Andy Gibb. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_yGYU_jUU . The shadows of drug addiction and depression ended the dancing of this talented young singer at age 30 on March 10, 1988.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phrenesis” which means frenzy or delirium which describes the left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome to a tee.

5. Newest Jeopardy —celebrating the birth on this day in 1940 of noted game show host and the host of a revived Jeopardy since 1984, Alex Trebek, who was diagnosed this year as having Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer but is fighting it and hopes to be on this year’s season this fall.
On this day in:

a. 1946 the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary group fighting for an independent Jewish Palestine, bombed the King David Hotel, the headquarters for the British military and administrative services in Palestine, killing 91 people.

b. 1976 Japan completed its last payment for reparations totaling $550 million for war crimes committed by it in the Philippines during World War II.

c. 1992 Columbian Drug Lord Pablo Escobar escaped from a luxury prison near Medellin, Columbia due to his fears of extradition to the U.S. After a search lasting 16 months and costing hundreds of millions of dollars he was discovered near Medellin and shot and killed in a gunfight with Columbian security forces.

d. 2003 members of the 101^st Airborne and Special Forces attacked a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay and Qusay’s 14 year old son.

e. 2011 right wing anti-Muslim extremist Anders Breivik detonated a car bomb in Oslo, Norway, killing 8 people and injuring over at least 110 then took a ferry to a youth camp on Otoya Island and shot and killed 69 and wounded at least 209 others and was captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to 21 years which is the maximum penalty which can be extended indefinitely if he is deemed to be a threat to society.

Reflections on the bombing of the King David Hotel from participants who was there: “I brought the bombs and ammunition. I transferred the TNT — we all did. Our goal was to destroy the records the British were using to round people up. The Irgun were geniuses at explosives.” Malca Fein Unnamed British operator at the hotel who received a warning to evacuate due to an impending explosion 30 minutes before it occurred: “We don’t take orders from the Jews.” 91 people including 15 Jews wished he or she had relayed the warnings.

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