Saturday, November 30, 2019

November 30, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Small Business Saturdaybuit O

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 30, 2019 Kelly Mehlenbacher, Kamala Harris’s top campaign aide who has left her sinking ship to join the Bloomberg campaign has slammed Kamala’s abysmal treatment of her staff;  Hunter Biden has demand that his income and financial statements filed in his divorce case be kept confidential to avoid embarrassment (normally a valid request but here the income received from his quid pro quo Burisma Board Seat and his equity interest in a Chinese investment company merit disclosure); in the stabbing attack in London, the number of wounded has increased to five as tales of heroism by bystanders one of whom was a chef wielding a narwhale tusk  who disarmed this Islamic jihadist recently paroled after serving 6 years for terrorism (supposedly this jihadist showed no remorse which begs the question why he was ever released?); in another example of why Social Media’s censorship of Reds must be reined in, Twitter has banned Omar’s Red opponent for tweeting that if Omar is proved to have transmitted classified material to Iran, she should be hanged for treason (news flash Dorsey, that’s a definition of treason and the penalty can be death); on the good news front for the holidays, Stanford alum and 49er CB Richard Sherman has discharged the lunch school debt of a Santa Clara middle school and given $20,000 to fight hunger in Seattle public schools; great news for retailers that Black Friday sales set records but bad day for our social fabric as numerous fights broke out in malls across the land and climate change activists hindered many shoppers from entering and leaving stores (hopefully Small Business Saturday will be more civilized); the left is is aping the elephant that never forgets as ex HRC aide Fallon’s “non profit” Demand Justice is on a rant claiming Gorsuch’s and Kavanaugh’s appointments were illegitimate and slamming Facebook for posting ads from major law firms supporting of the Federalist Society’s dinner; to the angry howls of leftists ICE deported  38 year old illegal alien Delmer Palma from Honduras who had been working construction for 18 years but had the misfortune of working on the Hard Rock Hotel that collapsed in New Orleans (construction pays well and many Americans seek those jobs which in certain industries like drywall have been taken over by illegals); in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of  November 29, 2019, 2541 have been shot, of whom, 431 have died; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 312 have been murdered, a number which has passed all of 2014’s death and is closing in on 2016 yearly total of 318’s fatalities (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 Whitney Houston,  the fact you avoid pseudodox; a relevant quote on the effects of Desert Storm by Mark Moyar,  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. Small Business Saturday--celebrating a way to avoid the unruly crowds and lack of parking spaces at the malls to shop at the neighborhood shops that are the backbone of our economy—small businesses.
2. Computer Security Day--created in 1988 to promote the need to protect computers and other smart electronic devices from hacking which causes major financial and security problems to the government, businesses non profit organizations and individuals.
3. 1995 Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1995 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “Exhale ( Shoop, Shoop)” by Whitney Houston. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrTuV4Szxzo   Sadly, this singer with an incredible voice die way too early on February 11, 2012 after passing out and drowning in a bathtub due to ingestion of cocaine.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pseudodox” which means false doctrine or opinion which is what one hears when a socialist like Sanders extols the virtues of socialism.
5. The Fountain of Youth--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1912 of the “World’s Oldest Teenager” Dick Clark, best known for his longtime hosting of American Bandstand on TV and the New Year’s Eve Celebration in New York
City whose eternal youth finally failed him on April 18, 2012. 
On this day in: 
      a. 1982 Michael Jackson released his sixth album Thriller which became the largest selling album of all time until passed by the Eagles’ Eagles Greatest Hits
        b. 1995 the official end of Operation Desert Storm. 
    c. 1999 Exxon and Mobil signed a $73.7 billion agreement to merge, creating ExxonMobil, the largest corporation in the world. 
   d. 1999 anti-globalization protestors rioted in Seattle over the meeting of the World Trade Organization, forcing the cancelation of opening ceremonies.
   e. 2018 a 7.0 Earthquake occurred only 15 miles from Anchorage, causing significant property damage but no deaths.
      Reflections on Desert Storm: “Within a mere one hundred hours, the Iraqi army lay vanquished. American casualties totaled 147, a pittance in comparison with other wars. The stunning success of Operation Desert Storm was to shape world military affairs for decades to come. The efficacy of American precision weaponry convinced most other nations that they could not hope to compete with the United States in conventional warfare. Devoting greater attention to “asymmetric warfare,” they pursued capabilities such as ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons that could deter or thwart superior American forces. In the ensuing wars in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, insurgent groups devised new tactics and weapons that impeded the use of American technology. A few peer competitors—China and Russia—sought to catch up with the United States by investing in high-tech military capabilities. They are still trying to catch up today, but are now a good deal closer than they were in 1991.”´Mark Moyar, noted military historian at the Hoover Institution.
  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, November 29, 2019

November 29, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Black Fridayeive


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 29, 2019 London Bridge may not be falling down but the terrorist wielding a knife and fake bomb shot by police is; Roger Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Network has opined that the election is Trump’s to lose due to the fact of his belief that none of the current crop of Blue presidential candidates are capable of winning; aides to Kamala Harris are recognizing reality by admitting the illegal alien supporter queen’s plunge in polls stems from her attacks on Tulsi Gabbard as a Russian agent and Tulsi’s withering responses against her (time for this “let me be clear” candidate to quit embarrassing herself and fleecing her dqindling band of donors and drop out); in a life imitates art but with consequences two Korean K-pop stars were sentenced to five and six years in prison for raping an intoxicated unconscious woman; the Charles Schwab and Ameritrade comes with an almost $ one billion break-up fee and if consummated results in the combining companies moving to Texas (thanks to California’s high tax, high regulation and anti-business environment); Starbucks is in the proverbial public relations hot water as a barista at a Starbuck’s in Glenpool, Oklahoma wrote “pig” on a police officer’s coffee order and a report surfaced that five police officers were asked to move from a complaining customer’s line of sight or leave a store in Tempe, Arizona; AOC continues to move the party to the left and is in the news for slamming Peter Buttigieg for attacking tuition free college (how many more unemployable majors like gender studies to we really need?); in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of  November 28, 2019, 2536 have been shot, of whom, 429 have died; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 312 have been murdered, a number which has passed all of 2014’s death and is closing in on 2016 yearly total of 318’s fatalities (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 Boyz II Men,  the fact your psephology of the 2020 elections show a Trump victory and a relevant quote on the Korean War and the Vietnam War by Helen Thomas,  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. Black Friday—celebrating the official beginning of the Christmas shopping season which brings most retailers out of the red and into the black which has crept up to and passed Thanksgiving afternoon to earlier in the week in a déjà vu in 1939-41 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up to the third Thursday to boost holiday sales to help end the Great Depression.    
2. Buy Nothing Day--created by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and first celebrated on September of 1992 until moved in 1997 to the Friday after Thanksgiving to protest the consumerism foisted upon consumers by retailers anxious to achieve profitability.
3. 1993 Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1994 on this day on a run of 14 weeks in the position was “I’ll Make Love to You” by Boyz II Men. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV8vB1BB2qc
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “psephology” which study of election results which the MSM had to eat crow big time in 2016 when they blew their predictions big time.
5. You Are Only As Old As You Think You Are Or Your Genes Let You Be--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1899 of Emma Morano of Italy who daily ate a raw egg and eschewed relationships until the age of 38 and lived to be 117 years old, dying on April 15, 2017. 
On this day in: 
      a. 1947 the General Assembly approved a plan for the partition of Palestine which guaranteed decades of Arab-Israeli Wars and strife still involving the Palestinians today. 
      b. 1952 President Eisenhower fulfilled a campaign promise and traveled to Korea to see for himself what could be done to end the Korean War, hostilities for which ended July 27, 1953. 
      c. 1967 Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara submitted his resignation to President Johnson shortly before the Tet Offensive in 1968 that rocked the nation and led to President Johnson not seeking reelection. 
 d. 1972 Atari released Pong, the world’s first video game which compared to today’s games was about as primitive as primitive could be.
 e. 2009 Maurice Clemons entered a coffee shop in Parkland, Washington and shot and killed four Lakewood Policemen and fled with a wound to his torso. Despite help by five friends and family members he evaded capture for two days only to be cornered, shot and killed by the members of the Seattle Police Department. The accomplices were charged, convicted and sentenced only to have the convictions overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct.
 Reflections on the Korean and Vietnam War: “Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.” Helen Thomas, noted American author and journalist, best known for her long standing tenure as a member of the White House Press Corps.
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, November 28, 2019

November 28, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Thanksgiving Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 28, 2019 A very Happy Thanksgiving to all even those impeachment zealots like Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi who will after the Schiff Circus will be feasting on crow; President Trump aped former President H.W. Bush with a surprise visit to the troops in Afghanistan; former Blue governor Martin O’Malley must have been celebrating Black Wednesday with too much to drink as he launched into a loud tirade against Ken Cuccinelli and his hard line illegal immigration stance causing Ken to leave the Dubliner Restaurant (if you can’t reason with someone with whom you disagree, the Blue way is to shout them down and in this case out); as a result of Trump’s efforts to build the wall, and  return illegals to Mexico and their country of origin while awaiting a hearing on their asylum status, illegal border crossings have been cut by half; in another example of why the Blues need to pull their heads out of the sand and join with Reds to pass Kate’s Law, ICE arrested Olga Franco del Cid, a Guatamalian bus driver who killed 4 people in 2008 and served 8 years before being deported for illegally reentering the United States; in an ongoing sting operation, ICE has arrested another 90 illegals, mostly from India seeking to attend bogus Farmington University in Farmington, Michigan; Governor of Texas Greg Abbott responded eloquently to a mean spirited tweet that God put him in his wheel chair by responding that God gave his the strength of overcome his handicap to succeed and become governor of Texas; Illinois State Senator Martin Sandoval has resigned from office effective January 1, 2020 due to an FBI bribery and corruption probe; although Chicago gun violence is still raging, Chicago police announced that they had seized more than 10,000 guns in 2019 (how many of these were used in crime or were possessed by law abiding citizens for protection in this battle ground city was not disclosed); in what should rank in chutzpah award of the year, Jussie Smollett has sued the city of Chicago for malicious prosecution for its trying to recover the costs of investigating his false police report of being racially attacked; UPS in Arizona may have to change its name to United Peyote Service as 4 out of the 11 in Tucson arrested in a decade old drug smuggling ring were UPS drivers and supervisors; in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of  November 27, 2019, 2529 have been shot, of whom, 429 have died but none on the 27th ; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 312 have been murdered, a number which is closing in on 2016 yearly total of 318’s fatalities (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 Meat Loaf,  the fact you do not suffer from psellium and a relevant quote on Thanksgiving by President Abraham Lincoln,  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 Family Health History Day—commemorated since 2004 in recognition of the importance that genes play in susceptibility to disease by assembling your family health history to be able to take necessary steps to minimize diseases.    
2. National Day of Mourning—created by the United Native Americans of New England to create awareness of the genocide resulting from the European settlement of this nation and the treaties broken by Washington, D.C.
3. 1993 Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1993 on this day on a run of 5 weeks in the position was “I Will Do Anything for Love (But I won’t Do That)” by Meat Loaf. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_ViIPA-Gc
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “psellium” which means a defect in pronunciation which is not a good trait to have if you are a public speaker.
5. When It Comes To Estate Planning Age Never a Hindrance--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1967 of Vicki Lee Hogan better known to her admirers as Anna Nicole Smith who was Playmate of the Year in 1993, married 89 year old billionaire J. Howard Marshall who died the following year creating litigation that went all the way to SCOTUS and back and ultimately ended up with Smith’s estate receiving nothing and died on February 8, 2007 from an overdose of prescription drugs.  
On this day in: 
      a. 1942 a fire broke out in the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub which killed 492 (30 more than authorized to be present there by building codes) and injured 130 others. Barney Wellansky,  the owner was charged with and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years, serving only 4 but dying from cancer nine weeks after his release. 
      b. 1943 President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Prime Minister Stalin met in Tehran, Iran to discuss strategy against the Axis Powers.
      c. 1965 heeding President Johnson’s call for more flags in South Vietnam, President-Elect Ferdinand Marcos announced that he would send a little over 2000 troops to South Vietnam. 
 d. 1972 Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems had the dubious distinction of being the last two convicts guillotined in Paris at the La Santé Prison for the murder in 1971 of a prison warden and prison nurse they took hostage while both were serving prison sentences at a high security prison, Clairvaux Prison.
 e. 1990  the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, resigned as head of the Conservative Party and therefore Prime Minister of the UK to be succeeded by John Major.
 Reflections on Thanksgiving Day: “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him…they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.” Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863.
 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, November 27, 2019

November 27, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Adopt a Turtle Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 27, 2019 Sondland has been hit with a report alleging he sexually harassed three women which he vehemently has denied; in a reversal of the adage of sins of the father weigh upon the son, Joe Biden is receiving great flack and downward poll drift due to more revalations about Hunter Biiden’s roll in a Chinese investment firm owned by the Chinese government which is making investments in U.S. companies some of which have sensitive relations with the U.S. military (with no investment experience just like not oil and gas experience (this looks more and more like quid pro quo leveraging on Hunter’s relationship with his father to the potential detriment of national security which has Reds in the Senate demanding answers); the U.S. Cavalry in the form of Medicare for all spending and higher taxation reality has descended upon Pocahantas’ campaign and her standing in the Blue polls is dropping faster than a hot rock; in something out of feudal times, two daughters of deceased Elijah Cummings have come out in support of his long time aide against his second wife in a crowded primary to see who will be the Blue running in a special general election on April 28 (given Baltimore’s murder rate and the dreary litany of problems of urban areas being represented by Blues, the voters could do much better by having a Red represent them in Congress and city hall); in addition to fighting a never ending war against the entry of illegals, the CBP is at the forefront of stopping the flow of counterfeit goods, mostly made in China, and seized $100,000 of Oral-B tooth brush heads; Michelle Presley, a school bus driver in Auroa, Illinois, has been arrested for stopping at a convenience store, buying two beers, and sipping from one after loading 32 students aboard and heading to school due to a clerk who called the school bus company who called the police who arrested her as video cameras showed her drinking while driving the kids; AOC may be the new darling of the left and socialists with here inane ideas faces a primary candidate in the form of Scherie Murray, a legal immigrant from Jamaica who voted for Obama but now claims he did nothing for the residents of her community and the “Trump has done more for African Americans than any other politician in my lifetime”; Obama District Court appointee Kentaji Jackson who was also interviewed to fill the seat on SCOTUS vacated by the death of Justice Scalia has issued a stay of her order requiring Dan McGanh to appear pursuant a subpoena before the House Intel Committee; in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of  November 26, 2019, 2523 have been shot, of whom, 428 have died as the two day hiatus of shooting deaths has expired; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 311 have been murdered, a number which exceeds all of last year’s fatalities (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 The Heights,  the fact you do not need a proxemics because you are pleased with it and a relevant quote on gratitude by Robert Dear justifying his murder and wounding at a Planned Parenthood Center in Colorado Springs,  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. Blackout Wednesday—commemorating since 2004 what has become one of the largest party days of the year as college students return home for Thanksgiving to meet with friends a celebrate at local bars and taverns. If one is to celebrate consider Kyft or Uber as your drvie of choice so any driving after celebration will not turn into a permanent blackout.   
2. Adopt a Turtle Day—created by Christine Shaw on a blog post on Found Animals promoting the rescue of abandoned or distressed animal on November 25, 2011 which achieved observance status two days later and was selected by this poet because there are two Ridley marine turtle species that are endangered.
3. 1992 Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1992 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “How Do You Talk to an Angel” by the Heights. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csATriX8Ed0 written by several members of the TV series The Heights.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “proxemics” which means the study for personal space a need which most humans have.
5. Cyber Bullying Just as Lethal--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1996 of Amanda Todd born in British Columbia who met a man online who seduced her to photograph her breasts at age 12 and then he blackmailed her and cyberbullied her, causing her to make a videoe with flash cards that will bring tears to your eyes. No one anwered her call for help and she committed suicide on October 12, 2012 by hanging herself at home.  
On this day in: 
     a. 1945 in an affirmation of American generosity, CARE was formed to send donated food packages to the civilian population of Western Europe. 
     b. 1965 the nightmare in Vietnam continued as the Pentagon informed President Johnson that to carry out planned operations the number of troops would have to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
     c. 1973 in a show of bipartisanship rarely since seen, the U.S. Senate confirmed Gerald Ford as vice president 95-3 following the resignation of Spiro Agnew (the bipartisanship continued as the House also confirmed him 387-35). 
     d. 1978 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk are shot and killed by former supervisor Dan Whte who escaped the death penalty with the infamous Twinkie defense and convicted of manslaughter and served five years of a seven year sentence; he committed suicide two years after being released.
     e. 2015 at a Colorado Sprigs Planned Parenthood Center, Robert Lewis Dear, Jr attacked the facility killing three people including a police officer who responded and wounding five police officers and four civilians before surrendering. He was found incompetent to stand trial and confined indefinitely to a Colorado state mental institution where he remains today.
 Justification in the eye a deranged shooted: “"In a war, there's gonna be casualties. Are you gonna name the hundred million babies that were killed, that nobody talks about, nobody represents them, they have no voice, but yet our Constitution says we have the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness? I feel no guilt. I am in a war" Robert Dear, Jr. in an interview after the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs..
     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, November 26, 2019

November 26, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Good Grief Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 26, 2019 Lockdown scare in the White House and Capitol as unidentified airplane entered restricted air space; if the adage that the more you promise in politics the more likely voters will not believe you is true which this poet believes to be the case, then Warren with her promise of a creating a million new good paying jobs is scraping the bottom of the voter barrel;  just as support for impeachment is being eroded big time among Independents and faltering among Blues, Horowitz is soon to release his report on potential FISA abuses as a leak that a FBI lawyer falsified material for submission to the FISA Court (nore ammunition for Trump to claim witch-hunt and attempt to overthrow a duly elected president); Bloomberg News, 88% of which is owned by Michael Bloomberg, has made of mockery of the free press by announcing it will do no investigative reporting on Michael Bloomberg and any Blue candidates for president but will continue to investigate Trump (nothing like a bias news outlet with 2700 “journalists” in your back pocket to spew fake news by omission and commission against Trump); Obama probably deeply troubled that Trump will destroy Warren or Sanders has warned the party about going too far left and pointedly has not endorsed his VP and in fact has castigated him for losing rapport with voters; before heading off to Florida for a campaign rally, President Trump pardoned two large white turkeys “Bread” and “Butter” while mocking Schiff; Ford foolishly challenged Tesla to a truck tug-of-war which Elon Musk accepted and won and now Ford is demanding a recount due to the heavier weight of Tesla’s truck; in the news versus “fake news” derby Tucker and Hannity and Fox bested MSNBC and CNN for the 215th straight month in terms of ratings (when will the executives of the MSM get it through their biased thick skulls that “fair and balanced” trumps bias every day of the week?); as Oberlin College is allowing a memorial erected by students in praise of Palestinian terrorists who have been killed by Israeli air strikes, Israel’s Iron Dome missile has shot down the second rocket fired from Gaza into Israel; with her campaign mired in an absence of ideas and running out of cash, the illegal alien supporter queen lashed out at Mayor Pete for comparing the struggle of the black community with that of the LGBT community while taking another dig at Trump demanding that his Twitter account be suspended (free speech is a right granted only to those who agree with you is her philosophy); in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of  November 25, 2019, 2519 have been shot, of whom, 426 have died but none in the last two days on the 24th and 25th ; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 311 have been murdered, a number which exceeds all of last year’s fatalities (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 Michael Bolton,  the fact you are protreptic towards your children in a good way and a relevant quote on gratitude by Charlie Brown,  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. Good Grief Day—commemorating the birth on this in 1922 of Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip on October 2, 1950 which was run in newspapers for almost 50 years until ending on February 13, 2000, one day after his death. The phrase “Good grief” was synonymous with Charlie Brown, the main character in the strip.   
        2. National Cake—celebrating that sweet desert that traces its origins back to Roman times and still enjoyed today and an essential item at any wedding reception after the birde and groom have tied the knot.
        3. 1991 Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1991 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Michael Bolton. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUuNDb-nm5M This very successful singer born in 1953 is still performing and has sold over 75 million records.
       4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “protreptic” which means exhorting which parents do all the time to their children.
       5. One of the Five Amigos--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1983 of one of the 5 co-founders of Facebook of Christopher Hughes who helped run Barack Obama’s successful social network campaign in 2008 but backed the wrong horse or she did not listen to him in 2016.  
On this day in: 
      a. 1863 President Abraham Lincoln designated the 4th Thursday to be Thanksgiving ever since same for an interlude in 1939-1941 when it was moved to the third week by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to stimulate sales during the waning days of the Great Depression.
      b. 1976 the record “Anarchy in the U.K.” was released by the Sex Pistols heralding the onset of punk rock.
      c. 1998 Tony Blair became the first British Prime Minister to address the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland. 
      d. 2003 in an end to an era of supersonic flight that spanned 27 years, the Concorde made its last flight over Bristol, England.
      e. 2008  ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist group based in Pakistan launched attacks on 12 sites which lasted for 4 days in Mumbai, India, killing 165 people and wounding some 300 before 9 of the terrorists were killed and the 10th who was captured was hanged in 2012.
     Reflections on Thanksgiving Day: “What if, today, we were grateful for everything?” Charlie Brown.
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Monday, November 25, 2019

November 25, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 25, 2019 For those who yearn for bloated government, reports are out the Elizabeth Warren’s budget busting proposals call for the creation of 20 new federal agencies to add to those already sucking the lifeblood out of our economy (when will Pocahontas and her fellow Blues realize that a trillion here and a trillion there will devastate our economy?); Deval Patrick, former two term black governor of Massachusetts and former partner of Bain Capital and late entrant to the presidential race, has sounded the alarm that hating Reds and business are not good ideas for Blues as he proclaims he is a Democrat and proud of it and espouses that being moderate is not the solution to our problems (with Blumenthal and Patrick now in Biden can kiss his black support goodbye); Trump may have had his balloon deflated after the inane Schiff Circus as a court has ruled that ex-White House lawyer Don McGahn must answer a Congressional subpoena (DOJ will appeal ruling); Sanders has lashed out at Bloomberg claiming the billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to buy elections (in his world leftist billionaires like George Soros can but not moderate albeit being pulled to the left nannies like Bloomberg); while the Schiff Circus is preparing its impeachment report, a top Democratic strategist Doug Schoen is asserting that impeachment will be an electoral college disaster for the Blues; free speech took a hit when SCOTUS refused to hear a defamation case brought by a liberal “climate change scientist” at Penn State the National Review sought to have dismissed; Iran is playing the Great Satan card to diffuse domestic unrest as thousands of Iranians are protesting in the streets over rising gas prices and trotting out Revolutionary Guard General Salamini who is threatening to destroy us and our Middle East allies (déjà vu of Xerxes having his slaves lash the incoming tide in the Hellespont to stop it); in another Nero like moment Pelosi continues to play the impeachment fiddle while she sits on bringing USMCA and its job creating benefits to the floor to spite Trump; in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of  November 24, 2019, 2516 have been shot, of whom, 426 have died; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 311s have been murdered, a number which exceeds all of last year’s fatalities (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 Maria Carey,  the fact you support protogenists and a relevant quote on not opposing evil by Pastor Martin Neimoller,  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. International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women—created in 199 by the UN to combat the violence against women which if by men is a case of true cowardice.    
     2. Shopping Reminder Day—as Black Friday sales and the bargains associated with them are being pushed further and further in front of Thanksgiving time to set aside this day to create your gift list and the identify what gifts to what recipients. 
     3. 1990 Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1990 on this day on a run of 3 weeks in the position was “Love Takes Time” by Mariah Carey. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkDpwF6-QiA This very successful singer continues to churn out money making albums and philanthropic checks.
      4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “protogenist” which means an inventor whom we need more of than politicians, bureaucrats or lawyers.
      5. Her Name Lives On--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1986 of Amber Hagerman who tragically was kidnapped while riding a bicycle at an abandoned grocery store parking lot in Arlington, Texas on January 13, 1996 and her body was found 4 days later. An autopsy revealed she had been killed 2 days earlier after being sexually abused. Sadly her perverted killer has never been found but the Amber Alert adopted in her memory has resulted in the arrest of numerous kidnappers, saving numerous children from her fate.
On this day in: 
      a. 1947 a group of directors and screenwriters after being held in contempt by HUAC were “blacklisted” by Hollywood movie studios.
      b. 1963 the body of President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery while on the same day the body of his killer Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in Shannor Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Dallas, Texas  lyN i80  a fire broke out in the MCM Grand in on that day misnamed Paradise, Nevada, killing 87 people and injuring 650 to become the worst fire in Nevada’s history.
      c. 1986 Attorney General Edwin Meese announced that proceeds from covert arm sales to Iran were illegal transferred to the Contra rebels fighting the communist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. 
 d. 1992 the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia voted to split the nation into 2 separate entities The Czech Republic and Slovakia.
     e. 1999 a 5 year old boy Elian Gonzalez was found by a fisherman floating off the coast of Florida after the boat carrying him, his mother and other migrants fleeing Cuba sank. He was repatriated to Cuba against the will of relatives in the U.S. after SCOTUS refused to hear an appeal from the 11th Circuit ordering his return to his father in Cuba.
    Reflections on the Hollywood Ten: “In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me – and by that time no one was left to speak up.” Pastor Martin Niemoller, Dachau, 1944 Fortunately for him he was only  held at Dachau until liberated by the Allies in 1945.
 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, November 22, 2019

November 22, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Humane Society Anniversary Dayy


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 22, 2019 Finally and mercifully, the Schiff Impeachment Circus has come to an end, after laying from beginning to end a big egg of hearsay, conjecture, speculation and presumption but no evidence of any impeachable offense on a day when a real bombshell was leaked by CNN and confirmed by WAPO that Michael Horowitz’s investigation has found that a FBI lawyer believed to be Peter Strozk (but later last night that confirmation detail deleted by WAPO) falsified documents used by the FISA Court to issuance the warrant authorizing surveillance of the Trump Campaign (Clapper and Brennan must be sweating blood as the Horowitz Report will be released on December 9 and he will appear on December 11 before a Senate committee; more bombshells have fallen on the Blues in polls revealing a swing of opinion against impeachment and removal and results of the Blue debate on Wednesday showing the lowest level of viewers (Schiff’s and his minion’s performance during the hearings have proved the difficulties to be faced when you grab a tiger by the tail); consistent with the MSM doing everything to spin and protect the Blues, CNN gave almost no air time to its own report of the leak (the chefs in the MSM cafeterias must be scrambling to find edible recipes and seasonings for the crow menus their pseudo journalists will be eating in the coming days); Adam Schiff and Swalwell merited contempt and disdain for their performance while Jordan and Stafanik clearly 5 stars (the Cleveland Plain Dealer degenerated into leftist ad hominen attack mode in an editorial viciously attacking him by one of its ex-editors); the Gaffer in Chief, Joe Biden was in rare form when he claimed with black Kamala Harris on the debate stage with him that he’s the only candidate that has been endorsed by the only female black senator (lamely tried to correct by claiming he said “the first black female senator”); on the immigration front the Oregon Supreme Court has adopted rules designed to prevent ICE from making administrative arrests in or near courthouses and the Washington Supreme Court is considering the same which has produced an outcry from the Trump administration; while the left idiotically rails for the abolition of ICE, a report released says the U.S. is in the top three for countries for trafficking victims (anecdotally confirmed with an ICE raid in Kansas City arresting 21 alleged traffickers and a Border Patrol arrest of a trafficker who cut a hole in a wall on the Mexican border and drove a truck with 16 illegals in it and fortunately they and the drive were all arrested; in Chicago with a new interim police chief as of  November 20, 2019, 2494 have been shot, of whom, 425 have died; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in the amount of gun deaths as 309  have been murdered, a number which equals all of last year’s fatalities (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 Bad English,  the fact you are not burdened by protervity and a relevant quote on the treatment of animals by Mohatma Gandhi,  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. Humane Society Anniversary Day—created in 1954 by journalists Fred Myers and Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser to promote animal welfare and prevent cruelty to animals.    
2. National Stop the Violence Day—observed since 1990 to promote efforts to stop gun violence in our cities and towns, an effort which Chicago and Baltimore and other blue run cities shows is not going well.
3. 1989 Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1989 on this day on a run of 2 weeks in the position was “When I See You Smile” by Ban English. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu6pclWsxzs This group named after a member missing a pool shot due to bad spin on the ball (“Bad English”) was active from 1987 to 1991.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “protervity” which means petulance a trait which Adam Schiff seemed to evidence big time as his star witnesses wilted under Republican questioning.
5. Worth More Than Any Oscar--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1958 of noted actress and children’s book author Jamie Lee Curtis whose many accomplishments include being a recovering alcoholic, sober since 1999 which she believes has been her greatest achievement in life.  
On this day in: 
      a. 1942 in what would prove to be a turning point in the war in Europe, General von Paulus telegrammed to Hitler that the Sixth Army was encircled by the Russians in Stalingrad where they would be defeated as Hitler refused non Paulus’ pleas to withdraw before the encircling ring grew so tight to prevent a breakout. 
      b. 1963 in one of his better investments, William Clay Ford bought the Detroit Lions for $4.5 million.
      c. 1977 the world became a much smaller globe as British Airways inaugurated transpacific service from Alameda to Manila. 
 d. 2002 Muslim extremists rioted in Nigeria to protest the holding there of the Miss World Contest resulting in 100 deaths and moving the pageant to London.
 e. 2005 Angela Merkel became the first female elected as Chancellor of Germany.
 Reflections on the humane treatment of animals: ” The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mohatma Gandhi
 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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