Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For July 24, 2016. Only 180 days to go
in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 233 days since hiding Hillary
has held a formal press conference; on
the eve of the DNC opening in Philadelphia, the massive almost 20,000 email
leak by Wikileaks confirm what most people already suspected—the Blue process
was rigged and corrupt but fortunately claimed its first victim, Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, the titular head of the DNC and flaming ideologue whose anti
Red rhetoric is over the top, will not be speaking; the Sanders camp is
outraged over the content and demanding accountability while Trump is reaching
out to those supporters http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/07/sanders-supporters-to-hold-someone.html;
after Obama last week made a plea that the rhetoric should be dialed down, the
mayor of Philadelphia, James Kenney made the shameful and disgusting claim on
MSNBC that Trump wanted to put blacks at the back of the bus and remove them
from the lunch counters (given the total devastation to black employment and
income due to Obama, very difficult for many to pay for a meal); Malik Obama,
Barack’s half brother, announced he was backing Trump (at least one member of
Obama’s family has wise judgment); in Obama’s delusional the world is less
violent view, another car bombing in Baghdad claimed the lives of only 14
innocents.
On the sports/politics front, BLM staged
a protest in Rio 11 days prior to the start of the Olympics to protest
shootings and excessive force of the Rio police against blacks and the WNBA
rescinded fines previously levied against players wearing black shirts to
protest police violence against blacks. Going to www.lyingcrookedhillary.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 Vera Lynn, factoids of interest, a relevant
quote from Amelia Earhart on her birthday while looking forward to enjoying some
tequila, 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. Pioneers’
Day—a
state holiday in Utah to commemorate the arrival of the first group of Mormons
led by Brigham Young into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 after being forced to
flee from Nauvoo, Illinois.
2. Parents’ Day—created by Presidential Proclamation by Bill
Clinton in 1994 to be observed on the fourth Sunday in July to honor and
commemorate the role of parents in rearing and educating their children.
3. 1952 Number One Song—celebrating the number
one song in 1952 on a run of 9 weeks in that position “Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart” by iconic British singer Vera Lynn.
Here is a link to Vera Lynn performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsuLH4sulA
4. National Tequila Day—this
poet is clueless why this holiday is not observed on Cinco de Mayo.
5. My
Plane Is So Small and the Pacific Is So Large—celebrating the birthday of “Lady
Lindy,” Amelia Earhart, born on this day in 1897 and who became a pioneer
female aviator but sadly disappeared on a flight over the Pacific in 1937 and
never seen again.
On this day in:
a. 1487 the
citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands went on strike to protest the ban on the
sale of imported beer.
b. 1911 Hiram
Bingham III rediscovered Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas.”
c. 1929 the
Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as a means to settle foreign policy
differences goes into effect; unfortunately in a little over 10 years, World
War II erupted in a calamity that killed millions upon millions of civilians
and combatants.
d. 1974 SCOTUS
ruled that President Nixon did not have the right to withhold the Nixon Tapes
from the Special Prosecutor and ordered him to turn the tapes over; this was a
lesson learned by a young lawyer working for the Senate’s Watergate
Subcommittee and explains her motivation in creating her private email server
and wiping the “personal emails” clean.
e. 1998 Russell
Eugene Weston, Jr. burst into the United States Capitol and killed two police
officers before being apprehended; he was judged not competent to stand trial
for their murders and still resides in a federal mental institution.
Chilling prediction from Lady Lindy: “I have a feeling there is just about one more good
flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it.” (said to reporters before
her last flight) Amelia Earhart Please
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© July 24, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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