Ridley’s Believe It
Or Not July 10,2016 194 days left to
endure President Obama’s term which is now being marked by a collapse in some
cities of race relations as BLM has been organizing protests over the police
shooting of blacks, usually unarmed, which in the case of Minneapolis and Baton
Rouge turned violent with over a hundred arrests in both cities; Dallas still
trying to heal after killing of 5 police officers and the wounding of 7 others
by a former army reservist who wanted to revenge the killings of blacks by
police; Obama is cutting his trip to Europe short and will head to Dallas—he is
running out of days to try to do what he ran on and seduced this nation to vote
for him—hope and change and unite this country (my guess is that he will focus on gun control); HRC and
Sanders are feuding over the platform—why is beyond me as whoever wins the
election will discard the platform if past elections are any indication of what
politicians think of holding to their campaign promises.
On the
sports front, the Brazilian army complete with armored vehicles did a dry run
of deploying to protect Olympic venues in Rio; 85,000 armed troops and police will
be deployed during the Olympics, far more than the number deployed in London
for the 2012 Olympics; the bulls won one yesterday goring a matador to death
during a bull fight in Aragon which was seen live on Spanish TV—first death of
a matador since 1997.
On the good news front sad to say
nothing worthy of note and worse on July 12 Starbucks is going to be raising
its prices—time to start going to McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts for internet and
coffee. www.lyingcrookedhillay.com is a great way to start your day along of course with www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, a music link to TLC, factoids of interest, an original clerihew
to mark the day, a relevant quote from Bjorn Lomborg while looking forward to
enjoying a Piña colada, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for
any memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know
that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a
great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact
me for details.
1. National Clerihew Day—celebrating that four line
biographical poem first created by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
Ridley, raised in Alaska, was known to all as
the Alaskanpoet
Attempts to blog in prose, one should that
desire stow it
Four lines almost like a tweet but in his case
always in rhyme
Current events, world and national chaos and
the curse of Red and Blue political slime.
2. National Barn Day—celebrated on the second Sunday in July to commemorate our
agricultural heritage—today, if you are fortunate to live near a farming
community, would be a great day to pack a picnic basket and camera and go for a
drive to take some pictures of barns along the way.
3. 1995 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1995 on a run of seven weeks
in that position “Waterfalls” by TLC. Here is a link to TLC performing “Waterfalls.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4
4. National Pina Colada Day—celebrating the national drink of Puerto Rico since 1978 which
first appeared in 1954 at the Caribe Hilton Beachcomber Bar (given the
financial crisis facing Puerto Rico and its impending default of millions of
its bonds, have to believe that to escape the potential chaos, a lot more pina
coladas are being consumed.
5. Raging
Bull—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1921 of Jake LaMotta,
former middleweight champion whose career was featured in the Oscar winning
film Raging Bull starring Robert
DiNiro. He is still alive and the referee in the sky has not counted him out yet.
On this day in:
a. 1913 the
highest temperature on Earth ever recorded, 134 degrees, was recorded at Death
Valley, California.
b. 1925 spiritual
leader Mehar Baba spoke his last words and would not speak another word for
almost 44 years, dying in 1969 with his lips still sealed.
c. 1951 armistice
negations to end the Korean War began at Kaesong; the talks moved at glacial
speed culminating in an armistice signed over two years and thousands of
casualties later.
d. 1962 Telstar, the world’s first
communications satellite was launched into orbit.
e. 1985
Greenpeace’s ship Rainbow Warrior was
bombed and sunk in the harbor at Auckland, New Zealand by agents of France’s DGSE (similar to our CIA).
Reflections on Greenpeace’s activities: “I think it's great that we have organizations
like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out
all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that
they are not presenting a full and rounded view.” Bjorn Lomborg, noted
author and cofounder of the Copenhagen Consensus Just what skeptics of global
warming have been saying for year.
Please
enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like
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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
© July 10, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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