Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 29, 2020 The ink on the
stimulus bill is barely dry, a Pelosi has already thrown bipartisanship into
the ditch claiming because of Trump as the fiddler in chief on the CV, people
are dying (the needed gift of civility and bipartisanship never made her 80th
birthday party on Friday); Chuck Todd trying to surpass Jim Acosta has thrown his hat in the most grandstanding
by a “journalist” ring by asking Joe Biden if Trump has blood on his hands for
his coronavirus response (even Biden whose campaign has an ad out attacking Trump
for his response responded that the question was too harsh perhaps aware of the
fact he initially slammed Trump for banning travel by Chinese here in the early
stages of the epidemic in Wuhan); on the CV front, the world infection total
has risen to almost 711,000 710,000 and in the U.S. to 135,499 with 2,381
deaths; De Blassio probably regretting his earlier remarks during the beginnings
of the pandemic to celebrate Chinese New Year in NYC is warning people not to
judge his responses to the outbreak on earlier acts; 15,000 National Guardsmen
have been called up and we are starting to see communities self quarantine
themselves from entrance of the virus as Florida institutes checkpoints for out
of state travelers from Louisiana and New York City entering the state and
threatens 60 days jail time for those who don’t self quarantine after entering
the state; Rhode Island much closer to New York than Florida is now having its police
stopping cars with New York license plates and sending National Guardsmen to homes
to check to see if anyone has recently arrived from New York, a practice which
Cuomo has threatened to sue to stop; Malaysia’s top glove maker, Top Glove
Maker Bhd, which can produce 200 million gloves a day has announced that demand
for its products caused by the pandemic is now twice its production capacity;
Biden who has been in hidin’ had another TV interview where once again he was
not asked any questions concerning his former senate staffer’s sexual harassment
allegations (where is Senator Hirono and her demand women must be believed?);
at a press conference today, Trump indicated the CDC social distance guidelines
would be extended to the end of April and June 1 might be the return to
normalcy which caused stock futures for Monday to tank; in Chicago, as of March
28, 2020, 513 people have been shot of whom 88 have died; Baltimore with a
fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will
not be a record in terms of deaths is 21 behind Chicago with 67 murders (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 Ameridca, the fact we celebrate Palm Sunday because of
onomancy, a quote by Vitek Wadhwa on the dot.com boom, 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. National Vietnam War Veterans Day—created in 2017
by President Trump to commemorate the sacrifice made by our veterans during the
Vietnam War.
2. National Mom and Pops Business Day—created
by Rick Segal to honor the woman’s hat store opened by his parents called Ruth’s
in Everett, MA on March 29, 1939 to honor the efforts of and contributions of
small businesses to our national economy which are reeling to the effects of
the coronavirus pandemic laying waste to this land.
3. 1972 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1972 on this day on a run of 3 weeks in the position was “A
Horse with No Name” by America. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM
The band is still going strong without on of its original members, Dan Peek who
died in 2011.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “onomancy”
which means reaching a destination by using a donkey or an ass which is what
Christ used on Palm Sunday.
5. Running
for Office May Get You Published But Not In—celebrating
or bemoaning the birth on this day in March 29, 1916 of noted House member and
Senate member from Minnesota who challenged Lyndon Johnson in 1968 and his
showing in New Hampshire was sufficient to drive Johnson not to seek reelection
and who was a poet who was able to get his works published after his
unsuccessful run and who died a fruitful life on December 10, 2005 of Parkinson’s
Disease.
On this day
in:
a. 1973
in a why did it take us so long moment, the last American combat soldiers left
South Vietnam.
b. 1994 the Terracotta Army consisting of 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses, and 150 cavalry
horses buried with the First Emperor of China to protect him in the Afterlife
was discovered in Shaanxi, China.
c.
1984 the Baltimore Colts in the early morning hours loaded up 15 Mayflower trucks
to slink out of the city to move its its equipment to Indianapolis.
d. 1999 the Dow Jones
Industrial Average closed above 10,000 for the first time in its history at 10,006.78
during the height of the dot.com bubble.
e. 2010 2 female Islamic
terrorists detonated suicide bombs in the Moscow Metro Subway killing 40 people
and wounding some 100..
Reflections on
the glory days of dot.com: “During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company
public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections
for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous
investment bankers and their analysts.”Vivek Wadhwa, noted American
entrepreneur and academic.
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March 29, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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