May 31, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World No Tobacco Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 31, 2017   Kathy Griffin apologized for her tasteless over the top photo holding a bloody Donald Trump head,  the acceptance of which by the mere mortals outside the Swamp will depend on how quickly she reverts to her sick sense of “humor” in attacking this president (the Clinton News Network finally showed some class as outrage over her sick and tasteless video continues to grow by firing her as a co host of its New Years Eve Show); morale among the Border Patrol seems to be sinking as top leadership positions are not being filled (McConnell is MIA on this dereliction of duty); Connecticut must have money to burn as the legislature is considering a $175 million financial aid package to illegal aliens in its public universities (push may have hit a snag as one of the leading students proposing the aid has been arrested and has admitted to a hundred cases of anti-Trump graffiti vandalism); the former white head of  the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who passed herself off as black has been disinvited from a Baltimore Book Faire; finally CBS has taken the right step albeit small to reclaim its journalistic integrity it had with Walter Cronkite by doing an anchors away with one of the most biased and anti Trumpers, Scott Pelley, by eliminating him as anchor on CBS Evening News (only a small step as instead of firing his biased self only moved him to 60 Minutes); Kabul hit by a wave of bombings; on the climate front it is looking more likely than not that Trump will pull out of the Paris Climate Accords; in the real world away from the delusion of PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with total shootings in 2017 through May 30 increasing to 1367 and the death toll increasing to 233, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.

    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Vaughn Monroe, factoids of interest for this day in history, thankful when the temperature drops that you are idiothermous, a relevant quote from the Brooke Shields, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day, 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 No Tobacco Day—mourning the loss of some 6 million people each year to smoking, including some 600,000 whose only fault was to be exposed to second hand smoke and promoting efforts to curtail the use of tobacco.   

2. Save Your Hearing Day—creating awareness of the causes of hearing loss or impairment such as prolonged exposure to high noise like rock concerts or construction equipment, airplanes, auto racing, etc.    

3. 1949 Number One Song—the number one song in 1949 on a run of 11 weeks in that position was “Ghost Riders in the Sky” by Vaughn Monroe. Here is a recording of him performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHo6ug6yAmw 

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “idiothermous” which means warm blooded which dinosaurs and family law lawyers are not.          

5. Nothing Comes Between Me and My Calvins—celebrating the birth on this day in 1965 of Brooke Shields, noted model and actress, who started modeling at 11 months and appeared in such films as Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon.  

On this day in:                                                                                   

a. 1790 to the joy of authors present and future, the United States enacted its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.

b. 1859 the Clock Tower in the Houses of Parliament which houses Big Ben started keeping time.     

c. 1889 over 2,200 people died when a private dam upriver of Johnstown, Pennsylvania bursts sending a wall of water 60 feet high into the town.        

d. 1977 in a great day for Alaska and a bad day for OPEC, the Trans Alaska Pipeline was finally completed.       

e. 2005 former Deputy Director of the FBI Mark Felt admitted to Vanity Fair that he was the “Deep Throat” who leaked details of the Watergate Scandal to Woodward and Bernstein.      

Reflections on how to sleep at night from the birthday girl: “Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.” Brooke Shields Wise advice on how to make the world a better place.   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.            © May 31, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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May 30, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Mint Julep Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 30, 2017   The good news for Tiger is that no alcohol was found in his blood but the bad news is that a prescription for pain pills is no defense to a DUI (highlights the epidemic problem faced in medicine with overprescriptions of pain pills); great news of a successful test by US of an anti ICBM missile but before the applause ends, the insane leader of North Korea needs to be replaced and if China will not do it we may need to nuke his nuclear and ICBM program back to the stone age;  Kathy Griffin who tries to sell herself as a “comedian” is attracting a lot of well deserved scorn for her video of imitating an ISIS thug and holding up a bloody, realistic looking  beheaded head of Donald Trump (when does this insane rhetoric end?); the impeachment queen who has long overstayed her tenure and is a poster child for the need for term limits in Congress was confronted by a voter in her plantation safe district in California who argued that by attacking Trump’s pro growth agenda she was not representing her; the Russia collusion witch hunt probe continues while the Trump pro growth agenda appears to be dead in the water (special place in Hell for Schumer and Pelosi and their lackeys who are working to damage this country so Trump will fail and they will return to controlling the Senate and the House); in the real world away from the delusion of PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with total shootings in 2017 through May 29 increasing to 1356 and the death toll increasing to 232, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.

    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Wynonna Judd, factoids of interest for this day in history, know knowing a word to explain why you don’t understand what your kids are saying, a relevant quote from the Cluster Munitions Coalition, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day, 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. Loomis Day—celebrating the accomplishment of a humble dentist Mahlon Loomis in the Swamp who filed a patent to transmit information through the atmosphere by using kites flying at the same height and may have been the inspiration for the wireless telegraph that ultimately followed.  

2. National Mint Julep Day—another observance in which the creator and the rationale for celebrating it today as opposed to on the day of the Kentucky Derby are forever lost.   

3. 1948 Number One Song—the number one song in 1948 on a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Nature Boy” by Nat King Cole. Here is a recording of him performing the song: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=nat+king+cole+nature+boy#id=1&vid=9628667ce584e2b361150a22f44bdb04&action=click

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “idioglossia” which means a private language developed by children to communicate with other children or could be used to describe the Swamp speak found in Washington where a cut in spending is used to describe a decrease in the rate of growth of spending.          

5. See the Light—celebrating the birth on this day in 1964 of Wyonna Judd, noted country singer who has released many number one country songs, including “I Saw the Light.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un9mqRA-2ys  

 On this day in:                                                                                   

a. 1431 at Rouen, France 19 year old Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy after being condemned by an English dominated tribunal.

b. 1868 Decoration Day, the predecessor to Memorial Day, was observed for the first time. c. 1911 Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp won the first Indy 500 in a blistering average speed of 74.6 mph.      

d. 1972 three members of the Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport in Israel attacked the terminal and killed 24 innocents and wounded 78 others before two were killed and the other wounded.       

e. 2008 the Convention on Cluster Weapons, banning the use of cluster bombs, was adopted and ultimately signed by 108 nations excluding the United States.      

Reflections on the barbarity of cluster bombs which 108 nations have agreed to ban: “Not only are these cluster bomb attacks killing civilians, including Syrian children, right now, the unreliability of this weapon means that years, even decades after the conflict in Syria has ended, unexploded submunitions will put lives and livelihoods under threat. This leaves a deadly legacy as we have seen in Lebanon, Laos, Serbia, Iraq and other countries." Cluster Munitions Coalition 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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May 29, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Memorial Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 29, 2017   On this Memorial Day, great speech by Trump at Arlington honoring those who have fallen as Pence led a bike ride fund raiser for vets suffering from PTDS; California’s f*bombing junior Senator has finally tweeted something positive about veterans while blasting Trump’s defense budget which restores years of cutting under Obama’s misguided policies; Texas governor has signed into law SB4 which bans Santuary Cities and levies jail time for officials and law enforcement who do not cooperate with ICE (ironic you have to pass a law requiring law enforcement to enforce the law); Tiger is not out of the Woods after being arrested for a DUI  at 3:00 a.m. today; we all know that police work is dangerous but the story out of Pennsylvania adds a new twist as an officer searching a DUI’s suspect car was exposed to a white powdery substance and almost passed out; sad news out of the VA where every dollar needs to count, the number of criminal investigations involving theft of opioids and other drugs by VA employees  has risen to 108; in the real world away from the delusion of PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with total shootings in 2017 through May 28 increasing to 1336 and the death toll increasing to 228, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.

    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Ted Weems, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping your paintings are all idiochromatic, a relevant quote from Pete Hegseth, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day, 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 Day of United Nations Peacekeepers—celebrated since 2002 to honor the sacrifice of those over the years who have worn the blue helmet trying to act as a buffer between warring sides.

2. World Digestive Health Day—another UN observance; this one designed to promote sanitary food habits and awareness of digestive diseases. 

3. 1947 Number One Song—the number one song in 1947 on a run of 12 weeks in that position was “Heartaches” by Ted Weems. Here is a recording of him performing the song: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=weems+heartches#id=3&vid=476648c587e89ef677e3752442fe2c0b&action=click

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “idiochromatic” which means to possess a distinctive color pattern or design.         

5. Camelot RIP—celebrating the birth on this day in 1917 of John Kennedy who had he not been assassinated in Dallas in 1963 would have been 100 today leaving us to wonder how different the world might have been had his life not been cut short.

 On this day in:                                                                                   

a. 1852 the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind departed from New York City after a two year singing tour of the United States.

b. 1914 the RMS Empress of Ireland after colliding with another ship in the fog in the Gulf of St. Lawrence sank with the loss of 1,012 (less than 20 percent of the passengers in 2^nd and 3^rd class survived as opposed to 70 percent in 1^st class and 59 percent of the crew).  

c. 1932 veterans of WWI began assembling to march on Washington, D.C. to demand payment of bonuses promised to them for their service but deferred to 1945.      

d. 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest.       

e. 2001 SCOTUS ruled that disabled pro golfer Casey Martin could utilize a golf cart when competing in PGA golf tournaments.    

Reflections on Memorial Day: “Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, it’s honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it." 
Pete Hegseth, army veteran and Fox News contributor  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.   © May 29, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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Memorial Day 2017

Memorial Day 2017  

On this Memorial Day over the beer and barbecue grills

The beginning of summer and vacation thrills

If but for a minute we can pause and reflect on those vets who for us have been killed

Pay homage to sacrifice that due to them our flag waves proudly still

The Greatest Generation is almost completely gone but not before defeating an evil scourge

The dreams and hopes of Japanese and Nazi tyranny to purge

Waiting in the wings as the snow in their lives begins to collect

The vets of Korea who stood up again and the tyranny of conquest rose up to reject

And in the fall of their lives with the trees now bare

The men and women of Nam are beginning to the same fate share

The men and women today in the never ending struggle against radical Islam

No battle lines, only IEDs and suicide bombs

All were in their youth happy and gay

Too many lives cut short by the dogs of war in display

Each year a dwindling number of combat tested vets

Each year a dwindling number when it comes to serving, a time to forget.

On this Memorial Day honor those who have been wounded or who have served, been wounded or  died

Brave men and women in uniform across the ages who have pushed evil losers of tyranny aside.  

© May 29, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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HRC Commencement Delusionn

Hillary is back at her alma mater with another commencement speech

Not sure what she spoke of in 69 but suspect it had to do with goals to reach

Today in the fog of delusion and inability to accept

No message of hope of jobs and the voters reject

The first step in recovery of a loss that must affect her to her inner core

Is acceptance and then a real examination of what caused the score

She has done neither and sticks to the delusional Russian/FBI blame

Ignoring her failures of a failed message and a campaign completely lame

In delusion she even blames  sexism and the press

Who like the Clinton News Network did everything to Trump suppress

It is tragic to see a smart women at a commencement address surrounded after 9 months of delusional fog

Unprepared to accept reality and begin the back to reality hard slog

© May 27, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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May 26, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Heat Awareness Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 26, 2017   The mainstream media is in a froth that Gianforte won in Montana and is blaming Trump for his body slamming a reporter to the floor after he badgered Gianforte; the Swamp is leaking like a sieve primarily from Obama holdovers in the Intel community (the Brits are beside themselves over leaks concerning the Manchester slaughter by ISIS and refusing to share intel with the Trump Administration); Trump lectured our allies in NATO that have failed to spend 2% of their GDP on defense and now is at the G-7 Summit to soon end his very presidential foreign trip; in another reminder of radical Islam’s war on Christians, in Egypt a bus carrying Coptic Christians en route to a monastery was attacked by 10 evil losers who killed at least 28 men, women and children and wounded 24; Jared Kushner is evidently now under investigation for ties with Russia as the media having struck out on the issue of Trump’s “collusion” with Russia is trying to pivot to claim obstruction of justice; while illegal immigration is down at our border, the flow of drugs is on the rise (another reason why any parent of a child dead from an OD should vote against any and all Blues who have fanatically opposed the construction of the wall that would be the proverbial nail in the coffin of the illegal drug trade coming across our border; in a where there is smoke there is a fine fire moment, UPS has been hit with whopping $247 million fine for smuggling   cigarettes from Indian reservations into New York and New York City; on the insane academic front, an angry mob of 200 students at Evergreen State College in Washington confronted a biology professor who had the gall to object to a day when all white students and faculty would be forced off campus as opposed to minorities voluntarily leaving to emphasize their “contributions” (another example of the left intolerance threatening anyone who questions or disagrees with their ideology”; Katy Perry who has a great voice but totally clueless on the need to secure our borders is all too quick to jump at $25 million going her way by ABC to be a judge on American Idol; in the real world away from the delusion of PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with total shootings in 2017 through May 25 increasing to 1300 and the death toll increasing to 224, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.

    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Ink Spots, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping you don’t see any unfortunates looking icteroid, a relevant quote from John
Wayne, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day, 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. Heat Awareness Day—celebrated on the last Friday in May to highlight the dangers to humans and animals of excessive heat that if one is not hydrated, engaging in excessive physical activity or not in the shade or air conditioned venue.

2. National Paper Airplane Day—celebrating that great simple and inexpensive toy; today instead of telling someone to fly a kite tell that person to go fly a paper airplane or throw a paper airplane party with a contest to see whose plane will go the furthest or stay in the air the longest. 

3. 1946 Number One Song—the number one song in 1946 on a run of 10 weeks in that position was “The Gypsy” by the Ink Spots. Here is a recording of them performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG6g5CkyWAo

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “icteroid” which means to resemble jaundice which is due to a damaged liver and is common among alcoholics and sufferers of Hepatitis in the later stage of their disease.         

5. That’s Why We Have Two—celebrating the birth on this day in 1907 of Marion Morrison better known to his fans as John Wayne, one of the iconic film stars of the 20^th Century who unfortunately was a six pack a day smoker, losing one lung to cancer, and survived it only to die of stomach cancer in 1979 (61 of the cast of The Conqueror, filmed downwind of the Nevada nuclear testing grounds, also came down with cancer probably from nuclear contamination). On this day in:                                                                                   

a. 1783, a Monday, at North Stratford, Connecticut a Great Jubilee celebrating the end of the Revolutionary War was held and was the first celebration in the Colonies to mark the end of hostilities.

b. 1868 President Andrew was acquitted in the Senate from impeachment by one vote.  

c. 1938 the House Un-American Activities Committee began its first hearing.      

d. 1998 SCOTUS ruled that Ellis Island was located mainly in waters belonging to New Jersey not New York.       

e. 1998 Australia held its first National Sorry Day apologizing for its treatment of that nation’s indigenous population; over a million Australians participated in the ceremonies.    

How to be remembered if you are an icon: “I would like to be remembered, well, the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal.' Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity.” John Wayne  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.            © May 26, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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May 25, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Missing Children Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 25, 2017   A family that terrorizes together stays together as the evil loser Salman Abedi’s father and two sons were arrested and the Brits are combing the country for the alleged bomb maker who is still at large; if you want to be exposed to the theater of the leftist absurd, the four leftists of the View win the prize hands down for ranting that Trump’s characterization of radical Islamist terrorists as “evil losers” offended Muslims and would encourage more attacks; even that rant was outdone by another delusional HRC supporter Katy Perry who made the ludicrous comment that the only way to fight ISIS was “no barriers, no borders” so we could come together and love each other (what a total crock); the race for a vacated House seat in Montana is getting ugly as the Red candidate body slammed a reporter to the ground and the Sanders supported socialist Blue candidate in an oops moment under reported income by $57,000 on his federal ethics forms (fortunately Montana votes today before somebody is killed by an opponent); another Obama inspired scandal over immigration as Reds are investigating whether some really bad MS-13 gang members instead of being locked up with keys thrown away were released into unsuspecting communities; on the banana front in Seattle, Amazon has been giving away 8,000 bananas a day as an eco friendly snack to all (some truth to that in fight type 2 diabetes), causing great concern from shoppers finding bananas disappearing from food store shelves; in the real world away from the delusion of PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with total shootings in 2017 through May 23 increasing to 1292 and the death toll increasing to 220, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.

    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Les Brown and his Orchestra with Doris Day on the vocals, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping your favorite alma mater is not hit with an outbreak of iconoclasm, a relevant quote from author Dennis Lehane, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day, 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. Towel Day—celebrating on this day since 2001 the works of Douglas Adams, best known for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, whose journey by galactic thumb had ended 14 days earlier.

2. National Missing Children Day—celebrated since 1983 as declared by President Reagan to create awareness of a parent’s worst nightmare—to find a child missing and not know whether the child is alive or dead. Hopefully there is a special place in hell for child abductors be they total strangers or estranged family members.  

3. 1945 Number One Song—the number one song in 1945 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Sentimental Journey” by Les Brown and his Orchestra. Here is a recording of them and Doris Day (who is still going strong at 95) on the vocals performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h20YomuQ-XQ

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “iconoclasm” which is an attack on established beliefs which we are seeing more of each day on college campuses when it comes to the freedom of speech and expression.       

5. Two For the Price of One—celebrating the birth on this day in 1970 of identical twins Sidney and Lindsay Greenbush who alternated in the role of Carrie on Little House on the Prairie.

On this day in:                                                                                   

a. 1810 the citizens of Buenos Aires expelled the Spanish Viceroy from the city marking the beginning of Argentina’s War of Independence.

b. 1935 in a omen on what was going to happen to Hitler’s Master Race, Jesse Owens from Ohio State at the Big Ten Track and Field Championships broke three world records and tied a fourth.  

c. 1968 the St. Louis Gateway Arch was dedicated.       

d. 1977 in a galaxy far, far away Star Wars with, when compared to today, almost primitive special effects which awed us, was released.       

e. 1999 the  House of Representatives released the Cox Report which detailed two decades of concerted Chinese espionage of our nuclear weapons program.    

Brace yourself for a really disturbing statistic if true: “Each day 2300 children are reported missing.” Dennis Lehane, author of Gone Baby Gone.  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.                                                                                                                      © May 25, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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May 24, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Jerusalem Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 24, 2017   Obama was tweeting hypocrisy in full mode that we stood shoulder to shoulder with Britain as Manchester identifies its dead caused by radical Islam and ISIS that Obama’s JV Team response allowed to morph into the killers they are today; three thugs arrested in Manchester in conjunction with the suicide attack as Britain is on high alert for more terrorist attacks which have already occurred in the Philippines; surveys coming out on high chilling percentages of Muslims in Europe that believe in Sharia and support terrorist attacks (our federal judiciary that is blocking the temporary Muslim unvetted travel ban needs to start going to some funerals of innocents in Manchester killed by this deranged fanatic radicalized by an evil ideology); the mayor of Minneapolis which has a large unassimilated radicalized Somali refugee population thanks to Obama’s misguided policies, many of whom have traveled to the Middle East to fight for ISIS  had the idiocy to deliver, when the dead from Manchester had not yet be buried,  her state of Minneapolis speech in a mosque with to be expected slams on Donald Trump; more testimony that North Korea remains hell bent to develop an ICBM with the capability to reach the U.S. with a nuclear weapon (when does the left unite behind this president to nuke this rogue regime out of existence if China does not get its act together and replace this lunatic?); on the PC academic front the University of Chicago has the distinction of student groups demanding race based housing for blacks, Asians, and Latinos and a core diversity curriculum before one can graduate; in the real world away from the delusion of PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May  with total shootings in 2017 through May 22 increasing to 1284 and the death toll increasing to 219, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.

    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Bing Crosby, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping your study of ichthyology will include a lunch at Catalina Fish Kitchen, a relevant quote from the birthday boy Joseph Brodsky, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day, 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. Aviation Maintenance Technicians Day—celebrating since 2008 by Congressional resolution the contribution to aviation by the skilled technicians that keep our planes where they belong in the sky transporting people, cargo and our military.

2. Jerusalem Day—celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem as a result of the Six Day War in 1967.

3. 1944 Number One Song—the number one song in 1944 on a run of 5 weeks in that position was “I Love You” by Bing Crosby. Here is a recording of him performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-qp5T2urf8

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ichthyology” which is the study of fish which given the benefits of eating seafood is an area of science that we need more devotion to insure sustainable fish catch levels for a growing human population.        

5. More Poets Less Parasites—celebrating the birth on this day in 1940 of Joseph Brodsky, Russian born poet who was sentenced to five years of hard labor for being a social parasite but was able to emigrate to the U.S. where he became a Poet Laureate and won the Nobel Prize for Poetry, but his literary genius was cut short by smoking and died of a heart attack in 1996.   

On this day in:                                                                                   

a. 1844 Samuel Morse using the Morse Code sent the first telegraph message “What has God wrought?” from Washington. D.C. to his assistant in Baltimore, Maryland.

b. 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge was opened after 14 years of construction.   

c. 1941 the German Battleship Bismark sank the HMS Hood, killing all but three of her seamen and damaging the HMS Prince of Wales.     

d. 1976 a wine tasting competition took place in Paris known as the Judgment of Paris in which California vineyards blew away the French, establishing California as one of the prime wine growing regions of the world.      

e. 1999 the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity for the genocide of Albanians in Kosovo. He avoided the hangman’s noose by dying of natural causes before the trial concluded.     

Reflections of life from a poet who is no longer with us due to smoking:” Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.” Joseph Brodsky If there is a God which this poet believes in his heart there is, one can only wonder if He would act as a referee to blow the whistle on all the chaos brought about by the evil losers of the world that are bent on killing innocents.  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.            © May 24, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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May 23, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Turtle Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 23, 2017   Manchester rocked by an evil loser who detonated an IED at a concert killing himself and 22 innocents and wounding 59, many of whom were children; Trump ended his trip to Israel and is off to the Vatican but not before lambasting the Palestinian Authority for paying blood money to suicide bombers; John Burton who is a poster child for why we need term limits and who is stepping down as chairman of the California Democratic Party led the delegates at a convention in Sacramento in a rousing F* Donald Trump chant complete with flipping the bird (what childish idiots); the AHCA may be in trouble if the CBO scoring does not show significant cost savings as many in the House believe that if voted on again, it would not pass; almost a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May  with total shootings in 2017 through May 21 increasing to 1283 and the death toll increasing to 219, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.

    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Glenn Miller and his band, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping your carbon ichnogram is a small one, a relevant anonymous quote on Crohn’s Disease, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day, 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 Turtle Day—celebrating since 2000 the need to protect and preserve the habitat of turtles and tortoises, especially those that are endangered like the Ridley Kemp Sea Turtle.

2. World Crohn’s and Colitis Day—celebrated since 2007 on this day to promote awareness of the disease and pain and suffering endured by those with it.

3. 1943 Number One Song—the number one song in 1943 on a brief run of 1 week in that position was “That Old Black Magic” by Glenn Miller and his band. Here is a recording of them performing the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIGupnB1OUI

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ichnogram” which is a footprint.      

5. Way Up North Is A Real Gem—celebrating the birth on this day in 1974 of noted singer Jewell who grew up in Alaska and started singing at the young age of six. 

On this day in:                                                                                   

a. 1911 the New York Public Library was dedicated.

b. 1934 bank robbers Bonny and Clyde were ambushed and killed by police in Bienville  Parish, Louisiana. 

c. 1995 the first version of Java programming was released.     

d. 2006 the volcano Mount Cleveland in the Aleutian Islands erupted.     

e. 2013 in a chilling reminder of the dangers of not repairing our infrastructure, the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River near Mount Vernon, Washington collapsed.    

RAdvice on how to deal with Chron’s Disease: ” I've made a conscious effort to reduce the stress in my life and to learn to say ""no"" when I don't want to do something. Additionally, I've been eating smaller, more digestible portions of food at a time, and have cut back my alcohol consumption to an occasional glass of wine."Anon Wise advice especially the note on stress and alcohol. 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.            © May 23, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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