Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 28, 2019 O’Rourke, the
man who wants to confiscate your semi-automatic rifles made the idiotic plea
for Trump to resign over his Ukraine remarks that would bring the nation
together (the only thing that will bring country together is the application of
an effective anti-Trump Derangement Syndrome for the left; reports are coming
in that the House plans to put impeachment on a fast track which still means
the 2020 election will be clouded by the specter of impeachment proceedings
during most of the campaign and the impact on the Blues if impeachment fails in
the House (which is possible) or fails in the Senate (which you can take to the
bank) and Congress gets nothing done to address our pressing issues (will be
interesting to watch the blame game that will ensue); Governor Cuomo, hardly a
Trump fan has slammed Pelosi for caving into the left and blasted impeachment
as “nonproductive (just a few days earlier he was supporting an impeachment
inquiry); on the climate change front while the East Coast is basking in the
low 80’s, Montana is bracing for a “life threatening storm of 15 to 30 inches
of snow; not sure if Weight Watchers or Nutri-Systems should be quaking in
their boots over potential lost customers but Mike “The Situation” Sorrento, a
star of the “Jersey Shore” TV serial was released from federal prison for tax
evasion after serving 8 months but a svelte 35 pounds lighter due to the prison
regimen; Sarah Jeong, a writer at the New
York Times has written in support of the general public’s right to boycott
the paper as such boycotts might lead to the fostering of dissenting views
within the paper (it is next to impossible to find a column in the NYT that is
not extremely anti-Trump); consistent with China’s goals of more domination, it
is making inroads in pushing its agenda of diminishing U.S. influence around
the world while increasing its leadership role in the United Nations (full
court press by the Chinese to have the world gloss over its abysmal record of
human rights); after having had his writs slapped and fined $20 million by the SEC,
Elon Musk must be wondering if he can accelerate the missions to Mars as a
California administrative judge found the company in violation of labor laws
trying to illegally obstruct efforts of employees to unionize; while the Reds
have just raked in $15 million of donations spurred by the impeachment threat,
President Trump did not mince words attacking AOC+3, Nadler and Schiff calling
them savages (watch the rhetoric ramp up way too quickly as the impeachment
follies suck up all the oxygen in the room and progress on problem and issue
solving come to a screeching halt; Princeton grad Thomas Gilbert, Jr. 36 years
old and unable to hold down a decent job was sentenced Friday to 30 years to
life for killing his father for his reducing his $1,000 a week allowance (talk
about overindulgent parents); in Chicago through September 27, 2019, 2109 have
been shot of whom 362 have died, but surprise, surprise no one of the 27th
; and in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, 254 have been
murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago and Baltimore 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 and when
will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run
cities which have been more deadly and more numerous than random mass
shootings?
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link
to Frank Sinatra, the fact that you can
enjoy a posset if under the weather, and a relevant quote on hunger by Dolly
Parton, 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. Freedom
From Hunger Day—celebrated first in 2006 to promote awareness of the extent of
hunger in the developing world and sadly right here under our noses in affluent
places like Orange County, California.
2. Access to Information Day—created
by UNESCO in 2015 and celebrated on this day to promote transparency in the
operation by government of its business and to tear down the walls of
bureaucracy that prevent citizens from discovering what their governments are
doing.
3. 1946 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1946 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “5 Minutes
More” by Frank Sinatra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vkkDnV0aJM. Fortunately
for his fans “Old Blue Eyes” sang and acted for a lot longer than 5 minutes more,
dying on May 14, 1998 from natural causes at the age of 82.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “posset”
which means a warm milk drink curdled with beer, wine, or spirits used to treat
a cold under the guise of fulfilling one’s calcium requirements.
5. La Dolce Vita and Pancreas At Odds—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1924 of noted Italian born actor Marcello Mastrianni
whose La Dolce Vita career ended at 72 due to pancreatic cancer.
On this day in:
a. 1971
the U.K. Parliament passed the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971 which also banned the medicinal use of marijuana.
b. 1973
the ITT Office Building in NYC was bombed by what was believed to be the
Weather Underground to protest ITT’s alleged involvement in the coup attempt against
Chile’s President Salvador Allende.
c. 1991 the Strategic Air Command stood down its ICBMs scheduled for deactivation
under START ! along with its strategic bombers.
d. 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and PLO President Yasser Arafat signed the Interim Agreement relating to
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
e. 2008 Falcon 1 built by SpaceX
became the first privately fund liquid fueled rocket to put a payload into
orbit.
Reflections on hunger: ” I
went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up
when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now
it’s my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly
not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do
better…we must!” Dolly Parton Great dream that when people volunteer time and money to food banks
and support job retraining and developing work skills can become a reality.
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2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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