Thursday, December 16, 2021

Santa's True Thoughts On Biden's Failures During Christmas

 Christmas is supposed to be a time for with family and friends a time to bask in the Christmas spirit and the gift of peace

Today is not what the Magi had in mind when they came with to the manger their three gifts
Despite vaccinations and booster shots that have soared infection rate not going down but on an increase
The malls and streets seen somewhat barren of shoppers as from empty shelves to empty shelves buyers drift
In New York City in Fox Square a 50 foot lit and decorated Christmas Tree was burned down
True to the victims last thugs and felons first
The arsonist was set free to wander around the town
Another example of the left’s no bail equity enhancement curse
Printing money at warp speed to cover the fed’s massive spending spree
Releasing the inflation beast from its pre Biden sound sleep
Policies on energy that jacked up gas prices and made independence history
Stripping low and middle class incomes to be able food on the table keep
A border with record numbers of illiterate and unvaccinated or infected aliens in a surge
And waves of smash and grab locusts stripping shelves bare
Rarely arrested and if so not prosecuted or without bail from the jail cells purged
No wonder the sounds of carolers are missing and the gifts of peace no longer there to share
Standing on a roof a Santa without a “Merry Christmas—Ho, Ho, Ho
But fed up over the chaos and letting go

© December 16, 2021 The Alaskanpoet


Friday, December 10, 2021

December 10, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Human Rights Day

RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 10, 2021

             CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 269 million at 269,117,302 cases,  21,700,635 of which are active, 247,416,667  closed with 242,108,807 recoveries (97.85%), and cracking the 5,300,000 barrier 5,307,860 deaths (2.15% ))to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
             CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 50 million at 50,547,864 with 9,852,994 active cases  of which 14,647  are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the  Delta and Omicron Variants to .149% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 14,694, (serious or critical cases now reported again), 40,694,870 closures with 815,442 deaths (2.00%) and with 39,879,448 recoveries (98.00%). Our death rate percentage is .15% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2443  the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5992) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4275), Hungary (3785), Romania (3020), Brazil (2871) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2549), and newly added to the list Columbia (2496),  and slightly better than Belgium (2355), Poland (2317), Mexico (2263), Italy (2232),  UK (2138),  Russia newly added to list (1967), Chile (1997),  Spain (1888),  Ecuador newly added to list (1858),France (1835), Portugal (1834),  Bolivia (1620),  Sweden (1488) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1347). 
comparable death rates no longer in easy to report country by country tables)
             Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
             US Vaccinations: As of 12/10/21 477.4 million doses,  2.09 million per day over last week (3 weeks left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 274,874  per day  (which means at least 80% of the population of California has received at least one shot which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 61,693,063 total doses have been given (85.1%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.3%), California has not moved from  8th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 64.4% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 60.5% and has  moved from  14th to 14th tied with Colorado  in terms of the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
              Non  CV News:  While The BLM movement stands in support of Jussie Smollett, the MSM had massive egg of its face with Smollett being convicted of 5 out 6 counts of lying to police which CNN headlined that he was convicted on “some” counts and MSNBC proved worthy of its name Mostly Slanted Nimwitted Biased Cack as  "Reid Out " host Joy Reid, "All In" host Chris Hayes, "The Rachel Maddow Show" host Rachel Maddow," "The Last Word" host Lawrence O'Donnell as well as "11th Hour" anchor Brian Williams totally ignored the verdict (one could only imagine the amount of time these biased pseudo “journalist” hacks would have drooled over an acquittal); the trial of Officer Kim Potter may be interrupted by wintry blizzard conditions but body cam evidence shows one very emotionally upset Kim Potter after shooting Daunte Wright; one of the issues to be resolved at the trial of Potter is how she could mistake a taser for a gun and the type of training police receive to know the difference (regardless of the verdict look for some design changes in tasers to make in more unlikely that a mistake could occur in future encounters); for parents disgusted with scenes of fights breaking out involving other parents at youth sporting events after Tyra Hunt the wife of  former NBA player Corey Benjamin and the mother of their 15 year old daughter told her daughter to hit an opposing player when a foul was not called which she did in a sucker punch has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor; the CBO has exposed the Big Lie of the Biden Administration that Botch Back Better will be fully paid for, indicating the legislation will add another $3 billion to the national debt; the prosecution’s case of Ghislaine Maxwell may be coming to an end as the last witness as minor was testifying today that Maxwell was rubbing her breasts in a massage when she was 16 at Epstein’s New Mexico compound; Daniel Ho, a lawyer with the ACLU who has been nominated as a District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York has in the past compared voter ID requirements to insure election integrity to chemotherapy for  cancer which may not be the proper treatment in all cases; Jill Biden is explaining that her job as First Lady is a 24 hour a day job which given Biden’s cognitive impairment is probably a fair statement but leaves us wondering if she is looking for compensation in the Biden family tradition; New York Governor Holchul has just ordered a statewide mask mandate while in a public indoor spaces unless the venues or businesses have vaccine requirements (why is it that the U.S. seems to be the only country that places no credence on natural immunity for those who have been previously infected?); we know that the Blues are being ripped apart by the progressives of the Squad and it now looks like the Reds are experiencing some issues with the big tent party membership given that some members seem to be leaning to support some aspects of Biden’s agenda as a political cartoonist so vividly points out:
                                                                  


                                               
              Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through December 9, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4340 persons shot of whom 761 have died.
              As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history,  a recording link to “Cold, Cold Heart” by Tony Bennett, the fact that you are not sleathy, and a quote from Richard Feynman on the scientific method, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Thanksgiving or Veterans  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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
             1.  
Human Rights Day—created by the UN General Assembly on December 4, 1950, to commemorate the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948 to encourage member states to foster the human rights as opposed to curtailing them.
             2.  
Nobel Prize Day—celebrating on this day the awarding of Nobel Prizes from the Nobel Foundation which was endowed with 31 million SEK and first awarded on this day in 1901.
  
           3.  1951  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1951 on this day was  “Cold, Cold Heart” by Tony Bennett on a run of 6 weeks in that position to join 9 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Tony Bennett performing “Cold, Cold Heart”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORPxmsBJoE Bennett has been a mainstay of American music since 1951 and even after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016 continued performing which probably slowed the onset of the disease until he retired in August of this year at the age of 95.
            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sleathy” which means slovenly which often describes the appearance of someone who as been living on the streets.
            5.  
B-Rod Not an A-Rod—celebrating or bemoaning depending on one’s political views the birth on this day in 1956 of Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois who was convicted of trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by President-Elect Obama and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison to have his sentence commuted by President Trump after serving 8 years to then have his law licensed revoked by the Illinois Supreme Court and now trying to make a living with a political podcast.
              On this day in:
              a. 1936 in order to marry Wallis Simpson, the woman he loved, King Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication.
              b. 1968 in Tokyo, a man passing himself off as a police officer on a motorcycle stole 294 million yen ($817,520) from bank employees transferring the money in Japan’s largest theft which has never been solved.
              c. 1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.                                                                       
              d. 1984 the United Nations General Assembly ratified The Convention Against Torture which as of November 17, 2021, 173 Member States are parties to it and 22 are not.

              e. 2017 ISIL was defeated in Iraq but given the weakness of the Biden Administration do not be surprised when it resurrects itself.
              
Reflections on the scientific method by a Nobel Prize winner: “ Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.” Richard P. Feynman, who was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Sin-Itiro and Julian Schwinger "for their  fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles."
              
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, December 9, 2021

December 9, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Anti-Corruption Day

 

RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 9, 2021
             CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 268 million at 268,532,172 cases,  21,627,058 of which are active, 246,905,114  closed with 241,605,114 recoveries (97.85%), and cracking the 5,300,000 barrier 5,300,110 deaths (2.15% ))to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
             CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 50 million at 50,488,757 with 9,831,418 cases  of which 14,577  are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the  Delta and Omicron Variants to .148% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 14,694, (serious or critical cases now reported again), 40,657,339 closures with 814,438 deaths (2.00%) and with 39,842,9010 recoveries (98.00%). Our death rate percentage is .15% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2440  the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5991) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4260), Hungary (3768), Romania (3014), Brazil (2870) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2549), and newly added to the list Columbia (2496),  and slightly better than Belgium (2351), Poland (2312), Mexico (2261), Italy (2230),  UK (2137),  Russia newly added to list (1959), (Chile (1995),  Spain (1888),  Ecuador newly added to list (1858), Portugal (1833), France (1833),  Bolivia (1620),  Sweden (1487) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1342). 
comparable death rates no longer in easy to report country by country tables)
             Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
             US Vaccinations: As of 12/09/21 475.7 million doses,  2.24 million per day over last week (3 weeks left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 275,705  per day  (which means at least 80% of the population of California has received at least one shot which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 61,422,321 total doses have been given (85.1%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.2%), California has not moved from  8th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 64.2% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 60.4% and has  moved from 13th back to 14th  in terms of the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
              Non  CV News:  As the catch and release policies of far too many leftist D.A.’s across this nation are contributing to the surge in crimes against property and person, Biden’s pick for U.S. District Attorney in Massachusetts, who was confirmed with Harris’s tie breaking vote, is infamous for a list of crimes she will not prosecute which includes 
trespassing, shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, wanton or malicious destruction of property, threats, underage drinking, drug possession, possession with intent to distribute and resisting arrest (just what we do not need for restoring public safety); Fox’s All America Christmas Tree burnt to the ground by a scumbag arsonist on Wednesday has been replaced and will be lit today at 5:00 p.m. EDT; the Blues are at it again to soak the American tax payer by demanding that Biden cancel the massive amount of student loan debt which too often represents debt incurred that leads to no jobs and at minimum extend the moratorium on making payments set to expire in February (questionable whether he has the authority to do that by executive action and question the advisability of another action that would be yet another incentive for people not to work); Josh Duggar, a reality TV personality who falsely passed himself off as possessing conservative values of faith and family life was found guilty by a jury of possessing child pornography and faces potentially 20 years when sentenced in 2022 (sick reptilian brains evidently not confined to party lines or ideology); smash and grab are not the only dangers facing retail outlets and those who work for them as an armed robber in Houston shot a clerk in the face while failing to open the cash register and then fled and is at large:

                                                     

                  
 The jury has found Smollett guilty on 5 counts arising out of his false police report of a hoax attack and attempted lynching of him by 2 MAGA hat wearing black Trump supporters and the prosecution is still presenting its case in the murder trial of Officer Potter who shot and killed Daunte Wright claiming she thought she was tasing him as Minneapolis girds for the possibility of a riot if the verdict is not guilty; once again the leftist cabal on The View prove to a woman they are clueless as they gush over HRC’s reading of the victory speech she was sure she would deliver, praising her for her “strength and resilience” and asserting she did win); the chickens of Biden’s perceived frailty, mental and physical, are coming home to roost as Russian continue to increase the number of troops on its border with Ukraine; our underfunded and undermanned CBP trying desperately to protect our Southern Border while the Biden Administration is pedal to the metal pursuing and “Open Border” policy has been forced to hold a seminar on “Better Together: A Conversation on Unconscious Bias”; in Oklahoma 79 year old Stouffer was executed for killing a school teacher for insurance proceeds for which he received the death sentence in 2003 and went down joking and laughing (how can the death penalty ever be a deterrent when 18 years or more pass before sentence is carried out?); in wakeup call to bars and taverns that dram shop laws need to be obeyed and jury  in  Nueces County, Texas jury entered a verdict of $301 billion after it found Beer Belly Sports Bar of Corpus Christ guilty of serving too much booze to Joshua Delbosque, who ran a red light in his vehicle Nov. 12, 2017, killing Tamra Kindred, 59, and her granddaughter, Ajani Anderson, 16, as they were traveling home from the pizza restaurant where Anderson worked (the  Delbosque was also killed in the accident and the sports bar is probably judgment proof so the award is symbolic only); while biased Biden hacks like Don Lemon posing as a “journalist” gush over a short term supposed nickel drop in gas prices leave it to the political cartoonist to portray what drivers really want for Christmas as Biden’s war on domestically produced oil rages on:                               

       
                             
              Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through December 8, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4327 persons shot of whom 758 have died.
              As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history,  a recording link to “The Thing” by Phil Harris, the fact that you do not  engage in skiamachy, and a quote from Rachel Bachelet on genocide, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Thanksgiving or Veterans  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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
             1.  
International Day of Veterinary Medicine—clueless of who created this day or when to honor those veterinarians who treat pets, farm animals, working animals, animals rescued and zoo animals to keep them in good health or bring them back to that state from injury or disease, but the profession is an ancient one dating back to the Egyptians over 4000 years ago
             2.  
International Anti-Corruption Day—created by the UN and celebrated on this day since the passage of the Anti-Corruption Convention on October 31, 2003 to fight the destructive effects of corruption on our daily lives and economic development hobbled by bribes and corrupt contracts.
  
           3.  1950  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1950 on this day was  “The Thing” by Phil Harris on a run of 4 weeks in that position to join 11 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Phil Harris performing “The Thing”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tKZ3flZZY   Harris was a noted singer, orchestra leader and comedian and lifelong friend of Bing Crosby who performed for some 58 years and died not from “The Thing” but from a heart attack on August 11, 1995 at the age of 91.
            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “skiamachy” which means conflict or argument with an imaginary opponent which is an appropriate word this day as Jussie Smollett was found guilty today for his false police report on the hoax of being attacked and a noose put around his neck by two black racists wearing MAGA hats in the early morning hours on the cold streets of Chicago.
              5.  
Practice Makes Perfect But Not Something to Kid About—celebrating the birth on this day in 1922 of noted comedian, night club entertainer and actor John Elroy Sanford better known to his fans as Redd Foxx and for his work in Sanford and Son and his scenes with fake heart attacks and pratfalls but who while performing on a scene for The  Royal Family on October 11, 1991 while walking behind a chair suddenly fell to the floor which initially caused no concern from people on the set until they realized it was not a fake heart attack but a real one that had killed him.
              On this day in:
              a. 1948 the Genocide Convention was unanimously passed by the United Nations to make genocide a crime and from 39 nation who signed the Convention, the list of signatories has risen to 152 but sadly some 45 nations have refused to do so.
              b. 1953 The General Electric Company announced that any workers who were members of the Communist Party would be discharged from the company.
              c. 1979 smallpox was certified to have been eradicated making it only 1 of 2 diseases to merit that distinction.                                                                        
              d. 2008 Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested by the FBI for trying to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama being vacated due to his victory in the 2008 Presidential election and after being impeached in Illinois he was sentenced to 11 years in prison but had his sentence commuted by President Trump after serving 8 years of his sentence.

              e. 2016 in a equal rights for women, 2 Boko Haram female school girls detonated their suicide vests in a market area of Madagali, Adamawa, Nigeria, killing some 57 and injuring 177 innocent shoppers and shopkeepers, including 120 children.
              
Reflections on the persistence of genocide: “Accountability matters – not only because it provides justice for victims and punishment for perpetrators. It matters because ending impunity is central to ending genocide. Prevention and punishment – the explicitly stated twin aims of the genocide convention – can never be seen in isolation from each other. Punishment is key to prevention. Impunity is an enabler of genocide: accountability is its nemesis.” Rachel Bachelet, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights.
              
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.



         © December 9, 2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

December 7, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

 RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 7, 2021

            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 266 million at 266,644,134 cases,  21,200,608 of which are active, 245,438,262  closed with 240,161,556 recoveries (97.85%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,276,706 deaths (2.15% ))to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 50 million at 50,114,486 with 9,679,189 active cases of which 13,934  are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the  Delta variable to .144% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,337, 40,435,297 closures with 809,898 deaths (2.00%) and with 39,625,399 recoveries (98.00%). Our death rate percentage is .15% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2426 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5988) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4197), Hungary (3700), Romania (2999), Brazil (2868) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2548), and newly added to the list Columbia (2494),  and slightly better than Belgium (2330), Poland (2268), Mexico (2256), Italy (2226),  UK (2129),  Russia newly added to list (1934), (Chile (1991),  Spain (1885),  Ecuador newly added to list (1858), Portugal (1827), France (1826),  Bolivia (1615),  Sweden (1485) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1330). 
              Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
              CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys  that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is  11th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  at 22565/M with 348,385 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.31% of closed cases and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                     Guatemala:  Active Cases:     1079  Deaths/M   870
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 245,799  Deaths/M 1028
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   13,035  Deaths/M  580 
               US Vaccinations: As of 12/06/21 462.3 million doses,  .859 million per day (2 months left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 116,171  per day  (which means at least 79% of the population of California has received at least one shot which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 59,768,100 total doses have been given (84.2%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.4%), California has not moved from  8th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 63.3% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 59.4% and has  moved from 12th tied with Colorado to 14th   in terms of the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
               Non  CV News:  The trial of Officer Kim Potter for the killing of Daunte Wright, who was originally portrayed by the left as a model citizen as we now learn and the jury will not that Wright had a violent past with three gunshot victims suing his estate and Minneapolis girds for a George Floyd like riots in a not guilty verdict is laid down, starts tomorrow; we will never know why Saule Omarova withdrew from being confirmed as Comptroller of the Currency whether due to her Moscow State University background, her theft in 1995 or her realization after watching Biden that he was a one trick, one term or less pony or whether the handlers of Biden who are probably not cognitively impaired suggested to her it was time to leave; doubt if Witless Whitmer had the foresight to have Michigan pass a law that allowed schools to install temporary barriers which a company call night lock did at the Oxford High School, site of a recent shooting which probably saved a lot of lives and is something every school should have installed due to numbers of school shootings; while California is awash in smash and grab thefts, Governor Newsom emboldened by recall victory by portraying Elder as a white suprematcist now fears no voter wrath and is out of California off on a book promotion tour to further augment his wealth; Chris Cuomo, the disgraced and fired “journalist” from CNN and trying to ape his brother as an author to match his forced exit as governor has just had his pending book deal with HarperCollins; if AOC and her leftist Squad get their way and the Senate Blues accede to their demand that the amnesty provisions be included in the reconciliation bill, our open border with record numbers of illegals will be blown wide open; Biden’s Commission on SCOTUS must have heard the voice of RBG from her grave arguing against increasing the size of SCOTUS as it took no position on that issue (what the left fails to realize is that politicizing the court by packing it will be a fatal blow to its legitimacy and the rule of law we are supposed to live by); finally we have heard the last of Smollett’s scripted testimony in court during his trial; Cortez White, a BLM member, who has threatened the judge in the trial of Officer Kim Potter has been arrested and denied bail while awaiting trial;  Matthew Dowd the yo-yo politician who has gone from Red to Blue to Indie and back to Blue has withdrawn from the Blue primary for Texas Lt. Governor in the name of diversity to allow a non-white Christian male to run; as Biden’s SCOTUS Commission took no position of Court Packing, leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal how the Blues on the issue must feel:                                                                


                      

              Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through December 6, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4310 persons shot of whom 757 have died.
              As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history,  a recording link to “Buttons and Bows” by Dinah Shore, the fact that you do not skelder people in your dealings with them, and a quote from Isoruku Yamamoto on the effects of the U.S. declaration of war against Japan, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Thanksgiving or Veterans  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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
             1.  
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day—celebrating this day on December, 1941 when the leading Japanese attack plane over Peral Harbor radioed back to its carrier “Tora, Tora” initiating the surprise attack on Pearl  Harbor, a day in infamy that would bring the United States into a war with Japan soon joined by Hitler’s insane declaration of war against us. A day to remember the sacrifice of the 2403 Americans, including 68 civilians who died that day and the dwindling number of military veterans that are in their late 90’s and early 100’s
             2.  
International Civil Aviation Day—created by the International Civil Aviation Authority on December 7, 1994, that has now grown to some 190 nations setting standards for civil aviation to promote safety and ease of flight in the skies.

             3.  1948  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1948 on this day was  “Buttons and Bows” by Dinah Shore on a run of 8 weeks in that position to join 8 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Dinah Shore performing “Buttons and Bows”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfW9-0EzYxA  Shore was a top female vocalist during the 40’s and recorded 80 hit songs during her career and was successful on TV and on the links as an avid golf fan until she died 5 days before her 77th birthday of ovarian cancer on February 24, 1994.

            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “skelder” which means to obtain by cheating or swindling which describes what we are doing to our children and grandchildren with our massive increases in our national debt..
              5.  
Cigarettes Are a Singer’s Curse—celebrating the birth on this day in 1950 of Canadian singer/songwriter Ron Hynes best known for his song “Sonny’s Dream” but who struggled with heroin and smoking cigarettes which he was unable to quite until diagnosed with throat cancer to undergo radiation treatment that put the cancer in remission but scorched his vocal chords into retirement trying to bet back to music once his chords had recovered but sadly died on November 19, 1965 at age 64.
              On this day in:
              a. 1842 the first concert by the New York Philharmonic  Orchestra founded by Corelli Hill.
              b. 1963 to the joy of football fans and the bane of the “Zebras” Instant Reply made its debut at the Army/Navy football game played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  
              c. 1972 Apollo 17 the last mission to the Moon successfully was launch and as leaving took the iconic picture known as The Blue Marble:
                                                                        



              d. 1982 Charles Brooks, Jr. a convicted murderer who had been sentenced to death on April 25, 1978 in Texas had the dubious distinction to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed by lethal injection.
              e. 1987 David Burke a ticket agent for U.S. Air who had purchased PSA Airlines had been fired for stealing $70 in cocktail receipts and had failed following an interview with his manager Ray Thompson to be reinstated. On this day in 1977 he purchased a ticket on PSA flight 1177 from LAX to SFO and boarded unknown to Thompson. Near San Luis Obispo, he shot and killed Thompson, shot and killed a flight attendant, then shot into the cockpit and killed the pilot and copilot and a PSA pilot riding in the cabin as he tried to reach the cockpit as Burke put the plane into a steep dive which resulted in the deaths of all aboard other that the 5 already dead.

              Reflections on the impact of the declaration of war against Japan by the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor:  “A lot of people are feeling relieved or saying they’re ‘grateful to Admiral Yamamoto’ because there hasn’t been a single air raid. They’re very wrong: the fact that the enemy hasn’t come is no thanks to Admiral Yamamoto, but to the enemy himself. So if they want to express gratitude to somebody, I wish they’d express it to America. If the latter really made up its mind to wade in on us, there’d be no way of defending a city like Tokyo.” Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto

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December 8, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Christmas Tree Day

 RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 8, 2021

             CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 266 million at 267,805,808 cases,  21,357,353 of which are active, 246,448,235  closed with 241,156,053 recoveries (97.85%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,292,182 deaths (2.15% ))to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
             CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 50 million at 50,284,360 with 9,724,088 active cases  (serious or critical cases no longer reported), 40,560,352 closures with 812,402 deaths (2.00%) and with 39,747,950 recoveries (98.00%). Our death rate percentage is .15% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2454 but comparable death rates no longer in easy to report country by country tables)
             Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
             US Vaccinations: As of 12/08/21 473.2 million doses,  1.67 million per day over last week (4 weeks left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 216,717  per day  (which means at least 80% of the population of California has received at least one shot which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 61,199,872 total doses have been given (85.6%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.4%), California has not moved from  8th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 64.1% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 60.1% and has  moved from 14th to 13th  in terms of the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
              Non  CV News:  The trial of Officer Kim Potter for the killing of Daunte Wright has started with his mother taking the stand as the first witness who will probably portray him as an angel as a 22 year woman gave an interview with Fox about Wright’s attempted armed robbery of her at her apartment when she let him and his friend Driver stay in her living room overnight and Wright pointed a gun in her face and demand the rent money she was hiding in her bra; criminal charges were filed against the two with Wright’s dismissed on his death and Driver pled guilty to armed robbery and typical of the failure of our criminal justice system even though it was his second felony he received probation only and is still on the streets (wonder how much of that testimony the interviewee would be able to deliver to the jury); Al Sharpton who is Johnny on the spot whenever there is notable police shooting of a black to stoke the fires of anger and riot potential is also the green scofflaw who gets on of his wealthy black supporters to loan him the use of their private jet to arrive as he did at the funeral of Daunte Wright to deliver a eulogy; Scott Peterson who was sentenced to death in 2004 for the murder of his pregnant wife and his unborn son, and dodged the deadly injection needle in August 2020 when the court overturned his death sentence but not his conviction was resentenced to life without possibility of parole so he will rot in prison no longer on death row;  Jussee Smollett’s fate is now in the hands of the jury as they have stared deliberations; HRC once again shows she will never get over her coronation loss and place the blame on her own policies, unlikability, deception, dishonesty and arrogance that the election given the support of the MSM was really a coronation not an election blaming sexism, misogyny, voter ID and James Comey who should have recommended indictment for her private server and classified information and her efforts to bamboozle the electorate over the false Steele dossier (she really needs to disappear with her dog and wallow in her bitterness away from the public eye); former Mayor Landrieu of New Orleans who is the new infrastructure czar to oversee the implementation of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill has promised to focus on climate and “equity” instead of jobs (red flag signaling a massive amount of waste and fraud and “ bridge to nowhere type earmarks”, the new job killer vaccine mandates are appearing on the employment scene as LASD just fired 496 employees who refused to get vaccinated and school kids who have not been vaccinated by January 10, will not be allowed to enter classrooms; the oppressive clout of the PC Warriors is found everywhere as a boat in the annual Yorktown Virginia Christmas Boat Parade which had won first place was forced to return the prize because the boat had a sign displaying “Let’s Go Brandon” (Jim Acosta can’t help himself from his idiotic rants as he claims the popular disgust of Biden’s policies typified by the “Let’s Go Brandon” is fueled by right wingers—who must be increasing exponentially as Biden’s polling numbers continue to fall); Kamala Harris who is so far over her head as  presidential material and is merely collecting a paycheck as VP waiting for Biden has met with several black female activists that really hate white women that the Blues need to win presidential elections; ; Stacey Abrams who never really accepted defeat against Kemp, is back again to again race, holding Reds in utter contempt which the political cartoonist captures so well:                      


                         

              Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through December 7, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4317 persons shot of whom 757 have died.
              As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history,  a recording link to “Mule Train” by Frankie Laine, the fact that you do not a skellum, and a quote from Elon Musk on why small companies are more innovative, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Thanksgiving or Veterans  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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
             1.  
National Christmas Tree Day—created by Jace Galloway-Shoemaker maker to celebrate what over the years has become a symbol for Christmas in the Christian world with the evergreen boughs representing the eternal life promised to those who believe in Christ and makes the arson allegedly committed by Craig Tamanaha who climbed on top of the 50 foot tall decorated Christmas Tree outside of Fox’s broadcast center early this morning to destroy it by fire; he has been arrested for arson but not for a hate crime of destroying one of Christianity’s symbols.
             2.  
Immaculate Conception Day—celebrated by Catholics as the day that the Virgin Mary was conceived to be free of original sin and celebrated  throughout the Christian World.

             3.  1949  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1949 on this day was  “Mule Train” by Frankie Lane on a run of 6 weeks in that position to join 8 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Frankie Laine performing “Mule Train”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ62MOvS2hQ   Laine was a noted singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned almost 75 years still performing in his later years slowed down by triple and quadruple bypass surgeries and a stroke to record his last song “Taps/My Buddy” shortly after 9/11 to honor the NYPD and his last performance on  a PBS special in 2006 performing to a standing ovation “My Desire” to finally sing no more on February 6, 2007 due to heart failure.

            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “skellum” which means villain or scoundrel  which in our divisive and polarized environment is used too often to describe anyone who disagrees with you.
              5.  
Almost—celebrating the birth on this day in 1981 of Phillip Rivers who played 17 years of professional football, 16 with the Chargers and his final one with the Colts and who holds the record for the most touchdown passes for a quarterback without a Super Bowl appearance.
              On this day in:
              a. 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogmatic definition of the Doctrine of Immaculate Conception that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
              b. 1941 after addressing a joint session of Congress where he Pearl Harbor a day which will live in infamy, the Senate voted 82-0 in favor of war and the House voted 388-1 in favor also with the only negative vote being cast by Jeannette Rankin who also voted in 1917 of declaring war against Germany but in that vote was joined by 49 fellow House members. 
              c. 1987 the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail  Gorbachev in White House.                                                                       
              d. 2010 with the successful launch of the Falcon 9 and the launch of the Dragon, SpaceX became the first private company to launch, recover and orbit a spacecraft. injection.

              e. 2019 the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was confirmed in China which quickly spread to a worldwide pandemic which has resulted in 267,805,808 cases and  5,292,182 deaths as of today, 2 years later, and still the gift of death that keeps on giving.

              Reflections on why small companies like SpaceX are successful: “In terms of our competitiveness, it mostly comes down to our pace of innovation. Our pace of innovation is much, much faster than the big aerospace companies or the country-driven systems. This is generally true. If you look at innovation from large companies and from smaller companies, smaller companies are generally better at innovating than larger companies. It has to be that way from a Darwinian standpoint because smaller companies would just die if they didn’t try innovating.”  Elon Musk at MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Centennial Symposium, October 24, 2014

              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, December 7, 2021

December 6, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Gazpacho Day

 RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT December 6, 2021

            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 266 million at 266,644,134 cases,  21,200,608 of which are active, 245,438,262  closed with 240,161,556 recoveries (97.85%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,276,706 deaths (2.15% ))to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 50 million at 50,114,486 with 9,679,189 active cases of which 13,934  are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the  Delta variable to .144% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,337, 40,435,297 closures with 809,898 deaths (2.00%) and with 39,625,399 recoveries (98.00%). Our death rate percentage is .15% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2426 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5988) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4197), Hungary (3700), Romania (2999), Brazil (2868) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2548), and newly added to the list Columbia (2494),  and slightly better than Belgium (2330), Poland (2268), Mexico (2256), Italy (2226),  UK (2129),  Russia newly added to list (1934), (Chile (1991),  Spain (1885),  Ecuador newly added to list (1858), Portugal (1827), France (1826),  Bolivia (1615),  Sweden (1485) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1330). 
              Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
              CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys  that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is  11th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  at 22565/M with 348,385 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.31% of closed cases and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                     Guatemala:  Active Cases:     1079  Deaths/M   870
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 245,799  Deaths/M 1028
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   13,035  Deaths/M  580 
               US Vaccinations: As of 12/06/21 462.3 million doses,  .859 million per day (2 months left for 75% of population to be vaccinated) and in California 116,171  per day  (which means at least 79% of the population of California has received at least one shot which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 59,768,100 total doses have been given (84.2%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.4%), California has not moved from  8th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 63.3% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 59.4% and has  moved from 12th tied with Colorado to 14th   in terms of the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
               Non  CV News:  Jussie Smollett took the stand and provided some pretty salacious testimony at odds with why his supposed attackers have testified to and will continue being cross-examined tomorrow and as the jurors were dismissed for the day a stern warning from the judge not to be viewing the internet or Google on the trial (if a case of he said they said just one juror has to believe that his “attackers” were lying and dismissed in that juror’s mind the check from Smollett to them); looks like Chris Cuomo’s pal Don Lemon is mimicking him by providing Jussie Smollett as he was devastated by Cuomo’s being fired; the Cack News Network is in damage control mode over the firing of Chris Cuomo as Brian “Helter Skelter” Stelter whitewashed the firing and failed to mention Cuomo’s first sexual harassment accuser; while the evidence coming out of South Africa is that the Omicron Variant is very mild in terms of symptoms, Fauci it appears was the driving force behind the travel ban out of Africa and his pronouncements seem to have nothing to do with the science but rather designed to put the fear of God into Americans and more power in the hand of the ruling Blues; the PC wars to make the sexes gender neutral in failing in the Latino communities as the term “Latinix” is the new Woke term pushed by Blue Progressives to the dismay of the Latino community who despise the use of the name; in Afghanistan where we cut and run and left Americans and their Afghan allies behind, famine and starvation are descending upon the land; David Wright, the former CEO of the L.A. Department of Water and Power has agreed plead guilty to fraud in pushing through a lucrative $30 million contract with a company he was going to join shortly after the contract was signed without disclosing his conflict of interest; the pro felon L.A. D.A. Gascon  must have been emboldened as the recall effort against him failed due to lack of enough signatures as a second recall effort has be started as 14 thugs arrested in 11 smash and grab crimes have released to due Gascon’s low or zero bail policies; while Russia moves over 100,000 troops into its border with Ukraine and China is provoking Taiwan by sending fighter planes and bombers into Taiwan air space, the Biden Administration seems like a deer caught in headlights frozen to be able to create a proper response in both cases; China rapidly becoming our number one adversary is trying to open a military base at 
Equatorial Guinea’s port city of Bata on the Atlantic Ocean Coast; as Biden’s policies are looking more and more like fatal disasters, leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal what the Biden Grinch is stealing from us as Christmas time:                                                           


              

              Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through December 5, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4308 persons shot of whom 755 have died.
              As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history,  a recording link to “Near You” by Francis Craig and Band with Bob Lamm, the fact that you do not suffer from sitiomania, and a quote from The Labor World, January 8, 1908 on the Monongah Mine Disaster, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Thanksgiving or Veterans  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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
             1.  
National Gazpacho Day—celebrating a cold soup that originated originally in the Andalusian region of Spain originally consisting of oil, vinegar, onions, garlic and breadcrumbs with tomatoes and peppers added after Spain’s exploration of the New World and is the perfect refreshing entrĂ©e for a hot day which makes one wonder why the day is not honored in the summer here unless the creators were living in the Southern Hemisphere.
             2.  
National Pawn Brokers Day—celebrating those lenders who often step in to provide needed cash when because of credit history or timing or amounts traditional lenders will not and a source of potentially cheap deals for shoppers when the loan is not paid off.
             3.  1947  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1947 on this day was  “Near You” by Francis Craig and His Orchestra with  Bob Lamm on a run of 12 wees in that position to join 10 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Francis Craig and His Orchestra with Bob Lamm performing “Near You”: https://www.youtube watch?v=angPhGHb5F4.com/ Craig was a noted Nashville honky tonk piano player with his own Nashville band and best remembered for this song being the first number one song out of Nashville as a ”B” Side to Craig’s theme song “Red Rose”  and the song “Dynamite” written in 1938 which became the official fight song of Vanderbilt University.   Lamm was a blind vocalist.
            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sitiomania” which means a morbid aversion to food which is a characteristic that gourmets and gourmands cannot relate to.
            5.  Alcohol May Slow Down the Backswing But Not the Car—celebrating the birth on this day in 1980 of Danielle Downey, who was the two-time New York State amateur golf champion, played golf on both the men’s and women’s high school golf team, had a stellar career at Auburn University and played in the Futures Tour and LPGA for 6 years combine before retiring to become Director of Golf at Auburn. Sadly, after a night on the town after dinner and drinking too much with friends and tired of waiting for her sister to come and pick her,  against advice of friends tried to drive home and ended up crashing into a tree at a high rate of speed, not wearing a seat belt with a BAT level of .024 and thrown from her car to died on January 30, 2014 after arriving at a hospital at age 33.
              On this day in:
              a. 1907 in Monongah, West Virginia  two coal mines had explosions that resulted in 362 miners dying and only 1 rescued and 4 escaping to become the worst mining disaster in U.S. history that prompted the creation by the U.S. of the Bureau of Mines.
              b. 1957 in a disastrous way to enter the space race after the Soviets had successfully launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957 a Vanguard Satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral and on national TV exploded after rising 4 feet into the air from the launch pad.
              c. 1969 at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California at a free concert with the Grateful Dead (backed out at last moment because of violence at the event), Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and The Rolling Stones as the final act, 18 year old Meredith Hunter who had been punched and thrown off the stage tried again to climb on while the Rolling Stones were performing but this time showing a gun in his hand prompting one of the Hells Angels to stab him twice and kill him.
              d. 1992 Babri Masjid, a Muslim mosque in India, believed by  Hindus to have been built on the birth place of the Hindu deity Rama was destroyed by a Hindu mob which prompted immediate  riots across India resulting in 2,000 deaths and a further six weeks of riots in Bombay which resulted in another 900 deaths.
              e. 2017 the Trump Administration formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
              Reflections on the impact of the Monongah Coal Mine Disaster from The Labor World, January 8, 1908: “ In the appeal issued by the Monongah Relief Committee it is stated that of the 3,000 inhabitants of Monongah the mine disaster destroyed one-half of the breadwinners. Two hundred and fifty wives, 1,000 children and many unborn children are left without means of support…..Paul Kellogg Special Representative of the Charities and Special Commons, ‘The statement of the case made in the appeal is not too strong. Putting the average wage at $50 a month (which was given me as fair), an income of $20,000 a month has been cut off from this working population— $240,000 a year. There will not be so many mouths to feed by one-fourth; but in the face of this loss, the real significance of where the burden of industrial disaster falls, stands out. And the character of the town stands out. This is not a community. It is not paying its way. It uses the well and strong. It is part of the working plant of the coal industry. Sympathetic and kindly as may be their sufferance for the weeks following the disaster,  these broken families must move away, as surely as the bodies of the men who supported them had to be removed from the mine offings, so that the work could go on.’”  
               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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