Friday, July 31, 2015

Killing of Cecil and the Sale of Fetal Body Parts

It the best of times and the worst of times
Sounds like the beginning of The Tale of Two Cities Line
But used here the metaphor is about public reaction
Of two tragedies now getting media traction
One involves a huge majestic lion from his sanctuary lured
To at the hands of a dentist out 50 grand his death insured
And since as neighbors to Cecil there was another pride
His six cubs were also sentenced to a certain death ride
Fortunately the outcry was instant, prolonged, angry with death threats forcing the dentist to hide
The media focus increasing faster than a Bay of Fundy incoming tide
The other involves hundreds of thousands of deaths
And videos so shocking and gruesome they will take away your breath
Planned Parenthood is for many fetuses their last stop, the on the tracks of life the last station
Its abortion factories perform over 40 percent of the abortions in this nation
But sadly e the media gave little to the story, gave it little attention
On the back pages off the air but save for Fox only a passing brief mention
But we now know that Planned Parenthood caught on tapes is in the business of selling fetal parts
How far can we allow this nation to any claim on bioethics and humanity depart?
As these medical directors over haggling prices feast on fine wine and brie
Worse to the tune of $500 million yearly our tax dollars are financing their killing spree
One shows a doctor telling how to conspire so  the sales can be concealed
To describe not as sales but as part of ongoing research deals
Selling fetal body parts is a federal crime
The doctors on the tapes released and to be released should serve time
Along with the head executives of Planned Parenthood
As to this conspiracy there is no way they could have not known or misunderstood
The Reds have introduced bills to end the $500 million payments and to women’s health clinics transfer
Medicine should be about not death but healing and finding cures
Any Blue Senator or Congressman who opposes, all men and women of conscience should take note
And come out in droves in November and against them especially Kamala Harris investigating CMP vote
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Sounds Of Silence From DNC

The head of the DNC is never slow to attack Reds with caustic inflammatory words
Like the charge Scott Walker was hitting women with the back of his hand—patently absurd
But yesterday a question of what is the difference between Blues and Socialists she was asked
Repeated again and again and she would not or perhaps could perform up to that verbal task
Was she being grilled by a rabid conservative Hannity from Fox?
No Chris Matthews of MSNBC noted for being on conservatives a ruthless pox
As Hillary slides further and further to the left pushed by the Bern
Becomes more and more difficult for any difference to remotely discern
Moderate Blues are a dwindling species almost extinct
As this nation with its soaring national debt moves closer to a Greece like insolvency brink
As Hillary’s credibility continues to sink like a huge stone
While she continues to insist on her emails she has nothing for which to atone
Giving us a preview of the iron curtain transparency in her presidency would surround
Yet another reason to go with incompetency and dishonesty she must never occupy White House grounds
The Bern is catching up; she is losing to Reds in swing states
The flow of scandals and mistrust of her increases and will not abate
A news flash for Debbie Wasserman Schultz your silence may mean the difference is zero or so thin you need a microscope to see
Even as Blues push to grant citizenship for illegals, we are not ready for socialism in the home of the brave and land of free
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Biden May Run Hillary Relief

The shadows of deception and dishonesty for Hillary should cast a chill
Like the famous groundhog more winter to be see in the till
Already the leaves of her coronation color are falling dead to the ground
As her scandals and dishonesty do not lessen but continue to abound
Biden has just lost a son and to get into the race may be a heavy lift
But clearly from this dishonest and untrustworthy wanna be queen the voters are starting to shift
Biden regardless of gaffs is an honest man with a very large integrity chip
Hillary lacks completely and seeks only from chalice of regal power to sip
If Biden despite personal grief 
For love of country runs to give us Hillary disaster relief
Better than even bet
That the slams on Obama he will not forget
Payback time for the DOJ 
For her release of classified material to bring on the FBI

Ridley's Believe It Or Not July 31 History National Mutt Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—July 31, 2015 Trust your Friday gateway to another summer weekend is proving to be a great one and as always, I hope you enjoy Friday’s somewhat meager holidays and observances,  factoids of interest, a music video by The Doors, a relevant quote by Jim Morrison, looking forward to enjoying some jelly beans ala Ronald Reagan,  blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
       1. System Administrator Appreciation Day—celebrating since 2000 a day to promote recognition of the contribution of one’s IT professionals that keep one’s computer and peripherals running properly and without crashes.                                                    
       2. National Mutt Day—celebrating man's best friend that does definitely need to have an expensive pedigree, especially if you save a canine life by adopting a mutt from the pound.                                                        
       3. 1967 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1967 on a three week run in that position another great classic of the 60’s Light My Fire by The Doors.  Here is a link to The Doors performing Light My Fire:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deB_u-to-IE  
      4. Jump for Jelly Beans Day—celebrating among Ronald Reagan’s many contributions to this nation, his love of jelly beans and the huge jar of assorted jelly beans he kept in the Oval Office.
      5. Maverick Sharks Can Be Billionaires Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1958 of Mark Cuban, a very successful entrepreneur who after selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for almost $6 billion invested in a variety of successful startups on the Shark Club and with Ross Perot purchased the Dallas Mavericks.
On this day in:                                           
       a. 1703 Daniel Defoe author of Robinson Crusoe and over 500 books, journals and pamphlets was placed in a pillory but according to legend and perhaps since he was also a poet was not pelted with noxious objects but rather flowers and then toasted to his health.  
       b. 1790 the first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
       c. 1970 in a day known as Black Tot Day, the Royal Navy ended its centuries old tradition of a daily rum ration for its sailors.   
       d. 1990 Nolan Ryan became the 20th pitcher to win 300 games.   
       e. 1991 in a no more complaints about woman drivers day, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of allowing women to fly combat missions.  
Reflections on a meager day for holidays and factoids from the lead singer of the Doors who lit the fires of the children of the 60’s: “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison Hope your day today is maskless.
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Valeria Harper Out Of A Coma

In our youth we are immortal and the idea of the thief in the night
Is a potential reality so far removed from our sight
If you are self viewed as immortal no need to ever contemplate a savage survival fight
But as the summer turns into fall and the chilling winds begin to bight
The human spirit begins to forge against any foreseen or unforeseen blight
In the play of life rare is the chance for a human to write his or her final script
When age or disease want to turn the stage into a crypt
Valerie Harper was diagnosed as a victim of cancer’s often fatal might
Three months to live in 2009 but decided a stage would be a better site
Did not quit, fought and back to the stage to avoid the mortal bite
A great talent but a fighter who would not quit and was winning in a delaying fight
Cancer be damned she would dance with the stars under the TV lights
Six more years of her talent for us mere mortals watching to excite
News today is that in a coma to a hospital but not yet ready for last rites
At 75 released and now resting for the night
We mere mortals can only admire and hope for more performances to the applause ignite
And pray God likes His balcony seat and is not ready for a higher stage for you to invite
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Another Iranian Deal Choice?

Obama in trying to sell his pathetic unknown side agreements Iran nuclear deal
In the classic straw man tactic tries to frame it in ways to reality steal
With his great speech-making flair
With pauses and glances and gestures in the air
War or this deal that’s the only choice
And with legacy driven flair seeks to drown out all other voices
We are in this corner because Kerry and Obama in the Persian bazaar were fleeced
Especially when Iran’s support of terror, death to us or Israel will not cease
When in our history has a President the elected representatives of the people decided to circumvent?
An agreement under law to be reviewed by the Congress but instead to the U.N. sent?
Here are some other choices which might work assuming we had a CinC who by our foes could be feared
U.S. sanctions remain, we start exporting our growing production of natural gas and crude to away from Iran steer
Their oil fields are like old men in the winters of their life as to production hobbling with canes
Whatever chance against us in an oil war they would be flushed down the drain
Whatever crude that could with great effort extract from underneath the ground
Buy it from us at discounts so their oil market as long as the mullahs rule will not rebound
Internet and Social Media Free Iran needs to blossom and encourage the youth to against these feudal mullahs rebel
So many youth in Iran into the 21st Century want to be propelled
But after Obama on supporting past change missteps
That they may not forget
May be difficult but worth an attempt
A realistic threat of an Iran with nukes as the new  parking lot might remove a bit of the mullahs’ contempt
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Fetal Parts Awaiting Sale In A Petri Dish--Defund

How callous do we as a species have to become before our humanity we must purge
Fetal parts as parts of the profit harvest no matter your views on abortion federal funding of Planned Parenthood we must purge
Another video once again with any sense of dignity for life totally disdained
Those cells in a Petri dish, poked at laughed at, sold and the worthless remains flushed down the drain
Abortion should be only in the early stages when a fetus born early could not survive
Should be the right of any woman to make the tough call when that fetus has no chance to survive
Planned Parenthood has become the fetal equivalent of Soylent Green
Erasing any sense of our humanity from our human scene
Disguising profit as the cost of research or loading up “recoverable” “costs”
Just exposes what we as humans sacrificing our humanity seed corn have lost
When the left whose moral compass on these gruesome videos  has been shredded and shed
Attacks these videos as weirdo attacks, will they ever recover any of the human dignity in a common grave they have just buried dead
Defund, defund; if Stem Search wants to evade the federal law against the sale of body parts
Let it go alone and from making taxpayers accomplices in this horrific crime,  they must depart.
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UBS Another Hillary Scandal

Arrogance, dishonest, paranoid, unlikeable—just a few of Hillary’s character faults
But she is not stupid any more than the Salton Sea is a body of water without salt
Finding a smoking gun email with an illegal quid pro quo connection will be a forlorn hope
Once again she and her husband are intelligent, certainly not a pair of dopes
But the pattern of conduct involving UBS and the Clintons smells and stinks
Even the most partisan Blue a quid pro quo would most likely think
UBS had just paid a $750 million fine to the U.S.  and was in a continuing dispute with the IRS
Who was seeking with 52,000 Swiss accounts totaling $18 billion tax fraud address
To the rescue under the claim that the Swiss asked her to intervene
Hillary knowing there was money for Bill and the Foundation arrived on the negotiating scene
A settlement was reached with account information for one tenth of the accounts
Very quickly the dollars into Bill’s speaking pocket and the Foundation reached staggering amounts
From $60,000 to $600,000 to the Foundation and to Bill for Q&A sessions one and half million bucks
Plus as icing on the cake $32 million loaned to participants in programs of the Foundation for entrepreneurship and those out of luck
UBS of course has denied any connection to the funds that to the Clintons flowed
UBS is not stupid either and would never admit to any bribery intentions show
Pattern of conduct committed again and again during her tenure as Secretary of State
Millions upon millions of donations and speech fees being heaped on the Foundation’s and the Clintons’ money plates
No wonder her poll numbers continue to erode and Biden may now decide to run
As more and more Americans due to her dishonesty will either not vote or if voting her candidacy shun
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IRS Chief Facing Contempt

Under Holder’s protect-Obama-at-all-cost DOJ
Any investigation of the IRS could be counted on to slowly but surely fade away
A bogus excuse that Lerner’s computer had crashed and all her emails were lost
Followed by another lame excuse that the IRS was doing everything to recover despite the cost
Followed by revelations that despite orders to records retain
IRS employees dumped thousands of documents down the electronic drain
If one would listen to the tapes of Koskinen when before Congress he testified
Even setting aside the outrage over his arrogance more likely than not he lied.
Thanks to FOIA and brave independent IGs, the pursuit of justice has not stopped
Despite the lack of a smidgeon of corruption public interest in this case has not stopped
A federal district judge after a large number of Lerner emails have been recovered
At offsite storage sites that any IP person would know that’s where they would be discovered
Ordered the IRS to produce the emails
Yet deadline, after deadline the IRS failed
For Koskinen a potential contempt of court citation may soon be in place
Nothing like a little time in jail to win that grin off his arrogant face
He has lied to Congress and their lawful demands he has defied
He should be impeached if he does not resign and say goodbye
When it comes to the IRS targeting scandal Lynch so far seems to be of the same cloth
Even though the targeting and intimidation of conservative groups cut a large swath
For the preservation of the democracy one hopes that observation is wrong
And that Lynch returns the DOJ to an agency of justice where impartiality is strong
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Ridley's Believe It Or Not July 30 History International Friendship Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—July 30, 2015 Trust your Thursday is proving to be a great one and as always, I hope you enjoy Thursday’s holidays and observances,  factoids of interest, a music video by The Beatles and The Troggs, a relevant quote by Olivia Butler, looking forward to enjoying some cheesecake,  blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
       1. International Friendship Day—celebrating since 1958 a day to promote friendship in nations around the world. To have a friend one needs to learn how to be a friend.                                                    
       2. National Paperback Day—celebrating the publication by Penquin Books of its first paperback book on this day in 1935; given the rise of NOOKS, Kindels and iPads with the ability to read e-books may be a holiday of diminishing followers. In the honor of the day here is a link to the Beatles performing Paperback Writer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taADLPtyDb0                                                        
       3. 1966 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1966 on a two week run in that position Wild Thing by The Troggs.  Here is a link to The Troggs performing  Wild Thing:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hce74cEAAaE
      4. National Cheesecake Day—celebrating a great American desert classic which packs a lot of calories.
      5. There Is Ford In Your Future Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1863 of the man who founded the Ford Motor Company and established the first modern assembly line to manufacture automobiles and in so doing was able to raise wages to an unheard level of $5.00 a day.
On this day in:                                           
       a. 1733 the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the American Colonies was established in Massachusetts.  
       b. 1916 the Black Tom Island Munitions Depot was sabotaged by German agents with explosions killing five and felt as far away as Philadelphia.
       c. 1930 at Montevideo, Uruguay, Uruguay won the first FIFA World Cup and probably the last free of bribes by host countries to FIFA. 
       d. 1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot of the Manchus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and was never seen again.    
       e. 2003 the last Volkswagen Bug rolled off an assembly line in Mexico.
Reflections on friendship on this international Day of Friendship: " Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
Octavia Butler, noted American science fiction writer.
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Francisco Sanchez' New Alien Friend Razo

Move over Francisco Sanchez you have a new illegal alien celebrity mate
Juan Razo an example of the violence Obama’s open border equates
                              
Stopped three weeks ago but by Ohio deputies but by the Border Patrol told to release him
Goes on a crime spree with the results deadly and grim
A woman shot, another woman killed, a young girl almost raped
Now in jail with a bail so high a trial he will not escape
Not all illegals are here with criminal intent
But rather the desire to find a job with money earned to back to their family sent
If Coulter’s facts in Adios America  on illegal alien crime are correct
Obama’s refusal to deport or secure the border is an idea we must reject
Immigration law is not like an all you can eat buffet to feast on items you like to taste
While ignoring items you dislike and passing them by and letting them go to waste
Another example of Obama’s fatal flaw
Use of his vaunted pen, ignore or fail to enforce disliked laws
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Ton Of IRS Corruption Not A Smidgeon

When it comes to delusion, Obama and his administration in la-la-land dwell
When the myth of transparency in his administration he continues to try to sell
After years of lies, deceptions, and obfuscations, Lerner emails are finally seeing the light of day
The targeting of conservative groups by the IRS to silence them clearly on display
Without the emails Obama could look O’Reilly sincerely in his eyes
And not a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS deny
In a polished act he could when the story first broke
He expressed outrage and pledged to get to the bottom—what a joke
History will record that when the IRS
Attempted to conservative groups suppress
It put our democracy’s continuation under great stress
Dissent to be silenced aided by a nonindependent DOJ and fawning press
FOIA requests responded to in the slow walk mode
Obama’s pick and choose law enforcement, the rule of law corrode
Under another imperial presidency of Hillary if her private email server is a clue
Her administration will be hidden like lead windows from our view
Would be okay if we mere mortals had x-ray eyes

We don’t so any attempt at transparency will be frustrated and denied.

Chakka Fattah Indicted For Fraud

Chakka Fattah is the new poster child
Of graft and corruption run wild
And yet another example of why we need limits on the term billets
No matter the reform minded at inception ideals the more they stay greater chance to pivot
A reform-minded Blue at inception
Appropriations committee post and landslide elections
 Now indicted for fraud and siphoning federal funds to repay his campaign debt
To the dismay of the voters who on him had placed the voting bet
A million dollars of campaign debt alleged to have been repaid
From honesty and integrity this former rising star has really strayed
Too much power, too much money from the federal trough to disburse
No wonder Fattah fell under the sway of the corruption curse
In passing one might question Fattah’s mental state
To leave a district for life to run for mayor with far less power there to him await
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18 Minutes Erased 2 Months Missing Emails

A gap of only 18 minutes on the Nixon Tapes
Put Nixon under a cloud of impeachment that he could not escape
Knowing he would be found guilty when impeached
He appeared before the nation on TV with a resignation speech
Ironic that Hillary as a young lawyer worked on the Watergate Hearing staff
Who is viewed as dishonest by more each day and about as likeable as an infection of staph
Cannot escape the scandal of her private email server and a two month missing email gap
Her credibility thread on her justification for it is about to fray and snap
No emails during May and June as Libya was starting to explode
Attacks on our embassy and a British convoy moving down a road  
Yet so far not a single electronic note
The possibility that she was not communicating with her staff is completely remote
More so than ever we need to have the server turned over which she continues to refuse
She is hiding the truth for if released she knows in November she will lose
Fortunately, Linda Tripp has broken her silence and given us another glimpse as to the workings of her mind
And why as to her coronation, we must respectfully and forcefully decline
Sadly the chances of this DOJ prosecuting for illegal release of classified information are slim
Unless Obama who does not like her decides he does not want her to win.
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