Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For August
28, 2019 In a wakeup call to politically biases artists like Taylor Swift,
lowest VMA ratings ever a warning that politics and entertainment don’t mix
(nothing like a drop in sales to bring fair and balanced back to
entertainment); Matthis’ op ed bemoaning the state of the Trump
Administration’s failings in dealing with our allies should be a wakeup call to
Trump as Matthis is certainly no biased political hack like Brennan or Clapper
spewing their venom on the Trump Administration; a good sex scandal trumps
political idiocy every day as Omar issues a terse denial of an alleged affair
with a political consultant that resulted in divorce proceedings (a prediction
that Omar’s star has peaked and the reality of her legal issues re immigration
and political views will make her a 1 term phenom and many a less than 1 term);
in the race to be the sacrificial lamb to Donald Trump, 10 Blues have made the
debate stage with a sequel politically to Cocoon
of 3 old warriors Biden, Warren and Sanders being in the top 3 and in a not
too surprising result given their records and views Montana Gov. Steve Bullock,
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland (who
sadly is a voice of reason railing against the leftist drift of the Blues), and
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
receiving not a single vote in the polls; the firing of Officer Panetelo for
his role in the tragic death of Eric Garner has sent NYPD morale to an all time
low in the words of a retired NYPD Lieutenant while de Blasio with his idiotic
presidential campaign plays the role of Nero playing the fiddle while morale
burns to the ground; Brazil’s President Bolsenaro’s denial of $40 million in
aid to fight the Amazon wildfires really calls into question any denials that
the fires have been caused to clear vast areas for logging; Hurricane Dorian
may increase to a Cat 2 Hurricane when it hits Florida and in the process
reaching there give Puerto Rico what it definitely does not need a good dowsing
of rainfall; in Chicago through August 27, 2019, 1837 have been shot of whom 305
have died and in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, 224 have been 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 Terror
Squad, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are
not obsessed with plutomania and a relevant quote from the Walker Report on the
police riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention, 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
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1. Radio
Commercial Day--commemorating what would become the first of many, first
commercial on radio using Radio Station WEAF in New York was purchased for $100
($1424.54 in today’s money) by Queensboro Realty for 10 minutes of commercial
air time.
2. National
Bow Tie Day—commemorating a fashion accessory that has been around since the
17th Century and which is now being sported by women also, but if
you have difficulty in surmounting the rite of passage by tying one, there is
always the preformed clip on.
3. 2004
Number One Song— the number one song in 2004 on a run of 3 weeks in that
position was “Lean Back” by the Squad. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiiTx5u5Nb8.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “plutomania” which means a mania not
for the lovable Disney cartoon dog of Mickey Mouse but a mania for money which
most politicians have in wanting to take it from you either in the form of
taxes or donations to their campaigns.
5. Fade to Black—celebrating
or bemoaning, depending on your politics, the birth on this day in 1969 of
singer and actor Jeff Black who is a rabid anti-Trump zealot.
On this day in:
a.
1937 Toyota became an independent company and from those beginnings has grown
to be the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
b. 1963 on the Lincoln
Memorial at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King delivered
his “I Have A Dream” speech.
c. 1968 at the
Chicago National Convention protests by anti-Vietnam War protestors turned into
what many commentators have referred to a police riot by the Chicago Police
Department.
d. 1988 at an air
show in Ramstein, Germany, 3 planes of the Italian equivalent of our Blue
Angels collided while performing, killing 3 pilots and 67 spectators on the
ground and injuring 346 spectators.
e. 1990 Iraq
declared occupied Kuwait to be its latest province a designation that lasted
until the successful victory by U.S. led coalition in Desert Storm.
Reflections
on the 1968 Democratic Convention and the police response: “... unrestrained
and indiscriminate police violence on many occasions, particularly at night.
That violence was made all the more shocking by the fact that it was often
inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no
threat. These included peaceful demonstrators, onlookers, and large numbers of
residents who were simply passing through, or happened to live in, the areas
where confrontations were occurring.
“Individual
policemen, and lots of them, committed violent acts far in excess of the
requisite force for crowd dispersal or arrest. To read dispassionately the
hundreds of statements describing at firsthand the events of Sunday and Monday
nights is to become convinced of the presence of what can only be called a
police riot.” Walker Report created to study the Chicago Democratic Convention
protests
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