Ridley's Believe It Or Not--This Day In History: July 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

July 30, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Support Public Education Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 30, 2016. Only 100 days to go before we elect a new president and 238 days since Hillary has held a formal press conference (where is the outrage of the press?); both parties are on the campaign trail as Russia is implicated in hacking into Hillary’s campaign; if you thought we might have a rational discourse on the issues that face us on the campaign, think again rhetoric heating up as Clinton bus heads through PA and Trump in Colorado vows to take the gloves off; 6 municipal workers in Democratically controlled Flint have been charge in the lead contamination crisis; California with the growing spread of the idiotic movement toward sanctuary cities may lose $148 million of federal funds; so typical of a country that cannot be trusted all of Russia’s weightlifting team joined its track and field team in being banned from the Rio Olympics due to doping; for those of us who thought we could escape our problems on Earth by heading out to Mars, think again—study revealed that astronauts who went to the Moon and were exposed to solar radiation have had disproportionate cardiovascular problems; in Southern California major wildfires continue to rage out of control; on a good news front the suspected killers of the San Diego cop killed literally moments after the moment of silence for fallen police officers was interrupted by the BLM have been taken into custody.

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As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Perez Prado, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from ben Quayle while looking forward to enjoying a slice of cheesecake, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 Paperback Book Day—celebrating the publication by Penquin Books of the first paperback high quality publication on this day in 1935.

2. National Support Public Education Day—honoring the need to support out public schools which in the inner cities are clearly failing and across this land are under attack by the teachers’ unions leadership who blindly support Blues and fight reform, teacher accountability and charter schools which provide inner city children with their only real hope to escape lousy education tooth and nail.

3. 1958 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1958 on a run of only one week in that position “Patricia” by Perez Prado. Here is a link to Perez Prado performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0A6KCLO_54

4. National Cheesecake Day—celebrating a great way to end a meal and remind yourself that a trip to the gym would be in order.
5. I’ll Be Back Next Year Also—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1947 of Arnold Schwarzenegger, of Terminator and governor of California fame.

On this day in:

a. 1619 the first representative assembly in North America the House of Burgesses at Jamestown, Virginia convened for the first time.

b. 1932 Disney’s animated cartoon Flowers and Trees premiered; it was the first cartoon to use Technicolor and won an Academy Award for best animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWEzHE7wn7U

c. 1956 President Eisenhower signed a joint resolution of Congress establishing as our national motto the phrase In God We Trust (could you even begin to fathom with the ACLU how difficult that would be today to accomplish?)

d. 1965 to the joy of millions of geezers and to be geezers Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 which established Medicare and Medicaid.

e. 2003 the last “old style” Volkswagen rolled off the assembly line in Mexico.

Reflections on Medicare after its 51 years in existence: “And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode. Ben Quayle son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and former Congressman from Arizona. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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July 31, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Ranger Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 31, 2016. Only 100 days to go before we elect a new president and 239 days since Hillary has held a formal press conference (although she has finally consented to an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News tonight, where is the outrage of the press?); if you thought we might have a rational discourse on the issues that face us on the campaign, think again rhetoric heating up as Clinton bus heads through PA and Ohio focusing on Trump’s temperament making him unfit to be commander in chief; as continues to talk about himself and blew a real chance to respond appropriately the Indian immigrant father who lost a son in the U.S. military fighting for our freedom and while targeting Sanders supporters hurls insults at him for having blown it and being worn out (where are the master of the art of the deal’s campaign advisers?); on the independence from Wall Street front, Hillary picked up $48 million in contributions from Wall Street to Trump’s pocket change of $17 thousand while the Koch Brothers will not be donating a dime to the Trump campaign and instead will concentrate on keeping the Senate Red; the Department of Justice is finally acting like one in order to preserve its budget by warning that sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE as required by law will lose federal grants to their law enforcement agencies; tragic accident over the skies of Texas as a hot air balloon crashed killing all 16 aboard; in what has to be the ultimate dare devil feat, Luke Adkins without a parachute jumped from a plane at 25,000 feet and successfully landed in a 100’ by 100’ net and lived to jump up and hug his wife; in a sign that Muslims in France are getting fed up with the senseless killings by ISIS, the local Muslim community announced it would not bury the beheader of the French priest and throughout France Muslims were seen attending Mass as a show of solidarity; the Olympics starts this Friday and to everyone’s surprise no more Russians have been added to the list of banned athletes.

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1. World Ranger Day—celebrating since 2007 (the 15^th anniversary of the founding of the 63 nation member International Ranger Foundation) not the Texas Major League Baseball team but the park and forest rangers who toil to preserve and protect our natural and cultural treasures.

2. Uncommon Musical Instrument Awareness Day—honoring the ability of humans to think outside the box and in the pursuit of music to play a wide variety of instruments you will never see in a band or symphony. Open up this link and scroll down to see the group Stomp playing music with such “instruments” as trash cans and sticks. http://www.dailyholidayblog.com/2013/07/uncommon-instrument-awareness-day-celebrate-the-unusual/

3. 1959 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1959 on a run of four weeks in that position “Lonely Boy” by Paul Anka. Here is a link to Paul Anka still singing at 75 performing the song before a group of gum chewing teeny boppers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKcCaCgMLBE

4. National Cotton Candy Day—celebrating a great way to feed your sweet tooth first introduced as we see it made today at the 1904 St. Louis Fair.
5. In A League By Himself—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1921 of Whitney Young, Jr. who became the president of the National Urban League promoting racial equality in the workplace, housing and education but died way too soon by drowning in Lagos, Nigeria while at a conference.

On this day in:

a. 1790 the first of what today stands at over six million U.S. Patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.

b. 1874 Francis Patrick Healy became the first person of African-American descent to become president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.

c. 1970 the official rum ration aboard ships of the Royal Navy was ended.

d. 1991 the U.S. and the Soviet Union sign the START I the first treaty to require reduction in their respective nuclear arsenals.

e. 2007 the British Army ended Operation Banner, its longest deployment in history, lasting almost 38 years when it withdrew its troops from Northern Ireland originally sent in 1969 to keep the peace between Protestants and Catholics.

Reflections on advice on how to achieve racial progress that BLM should really listen to from a who had he not gone swimming would be celebrating his 95^th birthday today: “You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program.” Whitney Young, Jr. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Friday, July 29, 2016

July 29, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Tiger Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 29, 2016. Only 175 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 237 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference (where is the outrage of the press?); nice speech for Hillary at DNC last night but a speech cannot wash away the baggage of four decades of scandal, deception and dishonesty; as two San Diego police were being shot, one fatally, last night the BLM agitators in the convention hall interrupted a moment of silence for fallen police officers; under Obama’s pathetic leadership and failed policies, the economy grew at 1.2 percent in the second quarter; after taking millions from Wall Street Hillary with a straight face announced once again that Wall Street can never be allowed to damage Main Street; in all a lot of vague empty promises, a lot of attacks on Trump, and a lot of appeals to Sanders; at least after the first three days of being a endangered symbol there were a lot of American flags being waived.

On the non political front, Florida confirmed that 4 cases of the Zika virus have occurred in the Miami area (thank the Blues in the Senate for blocking funding for Zika prevention); Rio Olympics to open in a week under a cloud of potential Islamist terror threats; IRS is investigating Facebook’s valuation of transferred assets overseas (company may face claims of unpaid taxes of several billions of dollars).

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As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Elvis Presley, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Mike Taibbi while looking forward to enjoying a plate of lasagna, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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—observed since 2010 to promote awareness of the need to protect tigers whose habitat is under extreme stress due to expanding human population.

2. Rain Day—honoring the lore that on July 29 in Waynesburg, PA since the mid 1800’s it always seems to rain on that day and applauding the ingenuity of Americans to turn any occurrence into a festivity to attract tourists to spend money in their town; this is probably the only event on the planet where success is measured by whether it rained. Waynesburg may be skunked today, however; there is only a 20 percent chance of rain according the weather forecasts.

3. 1957 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1957 on a run of seven weeks in that position “Teddy Bear” by Elvis Presley. Here is a link to Elvis performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkDbk-egHH4

4. National Lasagna Day—celebrating that great layered pasta dish dating back to the Romans but until the Spanish returned from Peru in the 1500’s the dish lacked tomatoes.
5. Trust Someone Under 30—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1938 of Peter Jennings who at 26 became the youngest news anchor at a major television network (ABC) only to quit after three years of competing with the likes of Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley to become a foreign correspondent. Sadly, he was a smoker and although he had quit in 1981 picked up the habit after 9/11 and died from the disease in 2005 at the age of 67.

On this day in:

a. 1836 the dedication of one of Paris’ iconic landmarks, the Arc de Triomphe, was dedicated.

b. 1958 President Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act which created NASA.

c. 1976 David Berkowitz, aka the son of Sam, killed the first of his six serial killing victims in New York City.

d. 1981 Lady Dianna Spencer and Charles the Prince of Wales are married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in a ceremony watched on TV by some 700 million people.

e. 1987 Prime Minister Thatcher and President Mitterrand signed an agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel to link the two nations.

Reflections on smoking from a colleague of Peter Jennings who after decades managed to quit and stay smoke free. “I guess what’s different is that now I want to live as long as I can. There are stories I want to cover or at least see how they turn out. More things I want to write, places I want to travel to. I want to sail some more, get better at golf, enjoy my marriage and continue being a father. Forget about getting hit by that bus: I want to live.” Mike Taibbi Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

July 28, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Hepatitis Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 28, 2016. Only 176 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 236 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference (where is the outrage of the press?) a fact which Trump pointed out yesterday morning at his press conference of over an hour in front of a potentially hostile press in what has to rank as one of the best press conferences this poet has witnessed in a very long time; feel sorry that a true patriot Leon Panetta was drowned out by rabid attendees at the DNC; Trump was slammed again and again by Blumberg, Biden and Obama as not being fit to be president while Obama insulting the legacies of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Eisenhower and LBJ touted Hillary as the most qualified person ever to run for president (she is certainly more qualified than Obama but other than that quite a stretch); a tidbit on the DNC is that per a Hillary edict, no uniformed police were to be seen in the CNC hall; Trump is not going dark and is on the stump today; three days into the convention and not a word on ISIS as the world remains in flames due to this radical Islamist ideology—we need to start praying for the next president for Obama’s two terms have created a mess of unfathomable proportions to deal with this barbaric force that threatens civilization.

On the you should be outraged front, in Alexandria, Virginia a female cop in uniform was denied service at a Noodles and Company restaurant http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/07/noodles-and-company-denies-service-to.html and the VA spent $20 million on art work while vets were dying because of wait time.

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As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Elvis Presley, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Doctor Dinesh Kini while looking forward to munching on a milk chocolate bar, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 Hepatitis Day—a UN observance creating awareness of the alphabet diseases of Hepatitis A, B,C, D, and E that affect over 400 million and kill if untreated almost 2 million per year.

2. Buffalo Soldiers Day—honoring since 1992 the first black regiments formed in the U.S. Army in 1866 and existed until being disbanded in 1951 when Truman ended by Executive Order segregation in the U.S. Army.

3. 1956 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1956 on a brief run of only one week in that position “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” by Elvis Presley. Here is a link to Elvis performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw

4. National Milk Chocolate Day—celebrating that great candy bar which became possible in 1879 upon the invention of the conching machine which enabled the production of a creamy smooth chocolate.
5. Before Melania There Was Jackie—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1929 of Jacqueline Kennedy who brought incredible beauty and grace to the White House much in the same way Melania Trump would but unknown to most Americans was a three pack a day chain smoker who died far to early of cancer at the age of lung cancer at the age of 65.

On this day in:

a. 1854 in a passing of an era the last all sale U.S. warship, the USS Constellation was commissioned.

b. 1868 the 14^th Amendment was ratified granting African-Americans the right of citizenship and guarantying equal protection of the laws.

c. 1932 President Hoover orders the army to evict the squatters of the Bonus Army from the Washington Mall.

d. 1945 in the fog, a B-25 bomber crashes into the 79^th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14 and wounding 25.

e. 1965 in the mission creep to disaster of the Vietnam War President Johnson announced he was increasing U.S. troop levels from 75,000 to 125,000.

Reflections on hepatitis on World Hepatitis Day: “HBV is 100 times more infectious than HIV. Both HBV and HCV can remain in the patient’s blood for years without any symptoms, and by the time the disease is detected, the patient would already have a severe form of liver disease. But both viruses are treatable, and results of the treatment, lasting from about 28 to 48 weeks and including anti-viral tablets with sometimes weekly interferon injections, are very good.” » Dr Dinesh Kini, noted renown physician in the fight against hepatitis. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

July 27, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Bagpipe Appreciation Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 27, 2016. Only 177 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 236 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference a fact which Trump pointed out this morning at his press conference of over an hour in front of a potentially hostile press in what has to rank as one of the best press conferences this poet has witnessed in a very long time; Hillary must be sweating blood wondering if the Russians hacked into her private server and have the 30,000 plus emails that she saw fit to delete and will release, many of which may reveal the quid pro quo corruption of her and the Clinton Foundation; despite the show of unity by the Sanders camp, beneath the surface many Sanders supporters will not support Hillary especially since some of the DNC leaked emails reveal bias against Israel; touching moment with respect to the mothers who had lost children to police shootings or gang violence but probably due to BLM influence no mothers of policemen killed in the line of duty; finally the DNC put some American flags on stage; nice love speech by Bill but still no discussion of radical Islam terror even as the FBI announced a warning that we are facing a worldwide Diaspora of radical Islam.

On the crime front, Hinckley was released and all of the charges against the police in the Freddy Grey death were dismissed, prompting Trump in his press conference to suggest that the Baltimore should be prosecuted.

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As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to Bill Haley and His Comets and the NYPD Bagpipe Band Jaggar, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Alfred Hitchcock while looking forward to sipping a fine Scotch while listening to your favorite bagpipe tune, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 Transatlantic Communication Day—commemorating the first sustainable transatlantic telegraph cable on this day in 1866 thanks to the risks taken by Cyrus Field.

2. Bagpipe Appreciation Day—celebrating that great musical instrument that emits a continuous migraine inducing sound akin to stepping on the tails of a hundred felines but without which a St. Patrick’s Day Parade is second rate and a funeral of fallen first responders is lacking. Here is a link to one of my favorites Garry Owen (the theme of the 7^th Cavalry). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNwu8qRllJ0

3. 1955 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1955 on a run of 8 weeks in that position “Rock Around The Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets, the father of rock and roll. Here is a link to Bill Haley and His Comets performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw

4. National Scotch Day—celebrating the perfect drink to go with bagpipes especially if one is of Scottish heritage.
5. Is It Talent Or Drugs?—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1975 Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod to his fans, who became the youngest player to reach 500 home runs but after being suspended for a year due to doping has only 9 this year, leaving at 696 but still enjoying over $25 dollars on his contract.

On this day in:

a. 1666 to the displeasure of the Americans, the English Parliament passed the Navigation Act which required that any cargo shipped to the American Colonies had to be shipped by English ships leaving from English ports.

b. 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State) was established.

c. 1890 a very troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh shot himself and died two days later.

d. 1981 six year old Adam Walsh was kidnapped from a Sears Department Store in Hollywood, Florida and his decapitated head was found two weeks later. His death although tragic was not in vain as it spurred the creation of the Code Adam program by retailers, public facilities and amusement venues on what do in the case of missing children, the formation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the passage of the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act.

e. 1996 a pipe bomb that killed one person and injured over one hundred detonated in Atlanta, Georgia during the Summer Olympics, planted there by one deranged individual Eric Rudolph who wanted to have the Olympics cancelled due to the government’s funding of abortion.

Reflections on the bagpipes on Bagpipe Appreciation Day: “These are bagpipes. I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately the man made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.” Alfred Hitchcock. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

July 26, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not One Voice Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 26, 2016. Only 178 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 235 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference; the DNC without Debbie Wasserman Schulz opened in Philadelphia with no mention of terror and with no American flags present (I guess America according to Michelle is the greatest nation as long as its symbol of unity is not present) but one Palestinian flag being waved; rousing speeches by Warren and Sanders that must make the DNC after comparing Hillary’s pathetic speech ability (yelling) feel like the German General Staff in WWI who likened ally Austria as being tied to a corpse; Bill speaks tonight and in a first he probably is not being paid by a foreign government seeking favors from the State Department; another ISIS jihadist attack in France at a church that killed a priest and sent two fanatics to find that in reality the gates to Paradise for them are locked; Solar Impulse 2 completed its solar powered flight around the world that began over two years ago by landing in Dubai; 5 Russian canoeists joined the Russian track and field team by being banned from the Rio Olympics for doping.

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As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to Kitty Kallen and Mick Jaggar, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from James Comey while looking forward to enjoying a coffee milkshake, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 Aunt And Uncles Day—honoring the contribution of aunts and uncles to the well being and child raising needs of families especially those headed by single parents.

2. One Voice Day—an observance to have all people around the world read aloud the Universal Peace Covenant at 6:00 p.m. UT (12:00 p.m. in California). Here is a link to the 577 word covenant: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/one-voice-day/

3. 1954 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1954 on a run of 9 weeks in that position “Little Things Mean A Lot” by Kitty Kallen, a very popular singer during the 30’s to the early stages of rock and roll who died this year at the age of 94. Here is a link to Kitty Kallen performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C7SzKv2uLU

4. National Coffee Milkshake Day—another ice cream treat to beat the heat dome blistering a fair amount of the country and get your caffeine fix at the same time—too bad Starbucks does not offer this drink.

5. How To Get Satisfaction—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1943 of Mick Jaggar of the Rolling Stones, still going strong and soon to be a father again as a result of his relationship with his 29 year old girlfriend—talk about belying the title of one of his number one hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0

On this day in:

a. 1908 the Attorney General Bonaparte issued an order to staff the Office of Chief Examiner (later name the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

b. 1941 in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina President Roosevelt ordered the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

c. 1948 President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 ending segregation in the U.S. military.

d. 1989 a federal grand jury indicted Cornell student Robert Morris for releasing the Morris worm. He was the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; after conviction he had his wrists slapped with three years’ probation, 400 hours of community service and ordered to pay a fine of $10,500.

e. 1990 to the delight of unscrupulous lawyers the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.

Reflections on the Hillary Standard on the 108^th anniversary of the founding of the FBI: “The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.” James Comey, FBI Director Great, high sounding words but in view of caving to the White House in the case of the investigation of Hillary Clinton and despite the FBI’s findings, the FBI did not recommend indictment. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Monday, July 25, 2016

July 25, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Carousel Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 25, 2016. Only 179 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 234 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference; on the eve of the DNC opening in Philadelphia, Debbie Wasserman Schultz stung by email leaks showing the DNC bias against Sanders is stepping down as the head of the DNC http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/07/wasserman-schulz-muzzled-at-dnc-kaine.html; Hillary has been quick to play the race card and the gender card but today on “60 Minutes” stooped to new delusional lows by playing the victim card claiming she is subject to more scrutiny than other candidates while CBS displaying the double standard omits any reference in the interview to the email scandal with Wasserman Schulz and directs viewers to go on line after the program; she claims there are two standards one for the Clintons and the other for the rest of the people but she did not and should have said their standard makes them above the law but the rest of the people have to obey the law; in her vetting of VP candidates all potential nominees and their family members had to divulge their passwords while she spent her entire time as Secretary of State with her secret server and when she was caught deleted all and only “personal emails” which the FBI stated was a lie, denied any emails were classified or marked as such which the FBI stated was a lie, and swore under penalty of perjury that all work related emails were turned over to State which the FBI stated was also a lie; I was fearful that the DNC would be boring and not worth watching with no political theater to rhyme about but it appears that Sanders supporters angered over a rigged and biased system may be demonstrating tomorrow.

Bavaria was rocked with another suicide bombing by a Syrian refugee whose asylum application had been denied but given an apartment and allowed to stay but denied entrance to a music festival so he detonated the bomb in his ruck sack killing no one else but seriously wounding 12 others, 3 seriously. Munich police arrested a 16 year old Afghan as a potential accomplice of the suicide shooter in Munich who killed 9 before killing himself.

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As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Eddie Fisher, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Patrick Steptoe on her birthday while looking forward to enjoying a hot fudge sundae, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 Carousel (Merry-Go-Round) Day—although carousels date back 500 A.D. in the Byzantine Empire with baskets carrying riders suspended from a center pole, they did not appear in the U.S. in the 1840’s when Franz Weisenhoffer introduced the first merry-go-round in Hessville, Ohio. July 25^th was chosen since William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa was awarded a patent for the first modern carousel on this day in 1871.

2. Culinarians Day—an observance for those who can barely boil water and form whom making hard boiled eggs is an achievement worthy of note to encourage all of us to boycott the restaurants and try to cook something, anything.

3. 1953 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1953 on a run of 2 weeks in that position “I Am Walking Behind You” by one of Elizabeth Taylor’s many husbands, Eddie Fisher. Here is a link to Eddie Fisher the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vTTjjCQz-w

4. National Hot Fudge Sundae Day—another ice cream dish to beat the heat dome blistering a fair amount of the country.

5. He Who Has the Most Cannon Wins Usually—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1750 of Henry Knox the colonel of the artillery under Washington who was instrumental in bringing British cannon captured from Fort Ticonderoga to the heights surrounding Boston forcing the British to withdraw from the city. After the Revolutionary War he resigned his commission as Major General to become Washington’s first Secretary of War.

On this day in:

a. 1837 the first successful use of an electric telegraph was demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in the city of London.

b. 1917 Sir Robert Borden introduced the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure with rates from 4% to 25%. To no one’s surprise income taxes were not temporary even after World War I ended and remain in place today.

c. 1946 at Club 500 in Atlantic City, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team and continued performing together until July 25, 1956.

d. 1978 Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube (petri dish actually) baby, was born. She is alive and well and the proud mother of two sons.

e. 2010 Wikileaks published documents about the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

e. 1998 Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. burst into the United States Capitol and killed two police officers before being apprehended; he was judged not competent to stand trial for their murders and still resides in a federal mental institution.

Reflections on the ethics of in vitro fertilization for humans: It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly religious people. The Jewish or Catholic faiths, for example, have their own rules. But just religious people, who will make very devoted parents, have no problem with in vitro fertilization.” Patrick Steptoe, noted British gynecologist instrumental in the development of in vitro fertilization so important to those couples wanting to bring a child into the world but faced with major biological hurdles. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

July 24, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Parents' Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 24, 2016. Only 180 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 233 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference; on the eve of the DNC opening in Philadelphia, the massive almost 20,000 email leak by Wikileaks confirm what most people already suspected—the Blue process was rigged and corrupt but fortunately claimed its first victim, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the titular head of the DNC and flaming ideologue whose anti Red rhetoric is over the top, will not be speaking; the Sanders camp is outraged over the content and demanding accountability while Trump is reaching out to those supporters http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/07/sanders-supporters-to-hold-someone.html; after Obama last week made a plea that the rhetoric should be dialed down, the mayor of Philadelphia, James Kenney made the shameful and disgusting claim on MSNBC that Trump wanted to put blacks at the back of the bus and remove them from the lunch counters (given the total devastation to black employment and income due to Obama, very difficult for many to pay for a meal); Malik Obama, Barack’s half brother, announced he was backing Trump (at least one member of Obama’s family has wise judgment); in Obama’s delusional the world is less violent view, another car bombing in Baghdad claimed the lives of only 14 innocents.

On the sports/politics front, BLM staged a protest in Rio 11 days prior to the start of the Olympics to protest shootings and excessive force of the Rio police against blacks and the WNBA rescinded fines previously levied against players wearing black shirts to protest police violence against blacks. Going to www.lyingcrookedhillary.com is a great way to start your day along of course with www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com

As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Vera Lynn, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Amelia Earhart on her birthday while looking forward to enjoying some tequila, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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. Pioneers’ Day—a state holiday in Utah to commemorate the arrival of the first group of Mormons led by Brigham Young into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 after being forced to flee from Nauvoo, Illinois.

2. Parents’ Day—created by Presidential Proclamation by Bill Clinton in 1994 to be observed on the fourth Sunday in July to honor and commemorate the role of parents in rearing and educating their children.

3. 1952 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1952 on a run of 9 weeks in that position “Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart” by iconic British singer Vera Lynn. Here is a link to Vera Lynn performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsuLH4sulA 4. National Tequila Day—this poet is clueless why this holiday is not observed on Cinco de Mayo.

5. My Plane Is So Small and the Pacific Is So Large—celebrating the birthday of “Lady Lindy,” Amelia Earhart, born on this day in 1897 and who became a pioneer female aviator but sadly disappeared on a flight over the Pacific in 1937 and never seen again.

On this day in:

a. 1487 the citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands went on strike to protest the ban on the sale of imported beer.

b. 1911 Hiram Bingham III rediscovered Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas.”

c. 1929 the Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as a means to settle foreign policy differences goes into effect; unfortunately in a little over 10 years, World War II erupted in a calamity that killed millions upon millions of civilians and combatants.

d. 1974 SCOTUS ruled that President Nixon did not have the right to withhold the Nixon Tapes from the Special Prosecutor and ordered him to turn the tapes over; this was a lesson learned by a young lawyer working for the Senate’s Watergate Subcommittee and explains her motivation in creating her private email server and wiping the “personal emails” clean.

Chilling prediction from Lady Lindy: “I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it.” (said to reporters before her last flight) Amelia Earhart Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for 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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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