Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For July 3, 2016.
Unfortunately still 201 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term
as he pivots to doing what he loves to do which is campaigning for our
potential felon Hillary Clinton since he
is a complete failure as a president; the fat lady sang yesterday to the FBI
most likely assured after her hubby’s tete-a-tete with Loretta Lynch that she
had nothing to worry about as the liberal media on Sunday is leaking statements
that no indictments—Trump is right Hillary and Bill have raised the mordida and
quid pro quo to an art form extracting millions of dollars from governments and
corporations needing favors from the Secretary of State and what is worse she
may get away with such criminal conduct; the “contained” ISIS has killed over a
hundred twenty-five innocent people in Baghdad; in yet another example of the
feckless strategy of this administration, the New Syrian Army like the South
Vietnamese Army decades ago invading Cambodia failed miserably despite air
support in an attempt to seize an ISIS controlled border crossing.
On the good news front which has very
little items to normally report, Michael Phelps worn his last race in the U.S.
notching a number one in the 100 meter butterfly in the qualifying meet for the
U.S. Swim Team in the summer Olympics and an army vet armed with a .22 rifle
was able to sever a rope holding an eagle upside down in a tree branch to save
the bird. Going to 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 New
Kids on the Block, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Senator Cory
Booker while looking forward to enjoying some beans with or without beano
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. Stay
Out Of The Sun Day—another
whimsical holiday that actually in the days of mounting melanoma makes some
sense; find a bit of shade today because tomorrow you will be probably be baked
at your 4th of July barbecue.
2. Disobedience Day—another whimsical holiday that may
have something to do as being a warm up for the true day of disobedience in
1776, our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
3. 1990 Number One Song—celebrating the number
one song in 1990 on a run of three weeks in that position “Step by Step” by New
Kids on the Block. Here is a link to New Kids on the Block performing “Step by
Step.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay6GjmiJTPM
4. National
Eat Beans Day—celebrating
if you are downwind of your fellow diners, a great and nutritious food source.
5. Not
All Castles Are Camelots—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1883 of noted author Franz Kafka who wrote such
masterpieces as Amerika and The Castle but died way too early from
tuberculosis at the age of 41.
On this day in:
a. 1839 the first
state normal school (a school formed for the purpose of teaching high school
graduates to become teachers) was opened in Lexington, Massachusetts.
b. 1886 The New York Tribune became the first
newspaper to use a linotype thereby eliminating the the need to set typesetting
by hand; whether the increase speed off getting news to the public improved the
quality or lack of bias in the reporting thereof is a matter of great debate.
c. 1913
Confederate veteran attending the Great Reunion of 1913 reenacted Pickett’s Charge
at Gettysburg which had occurred at 2:00 p.m. 50 years ago as the high water desperate
mark of the Confederacy to be met this time not by bullets and bayonets but rather the
outstretched hands of friendship of Union veterans of the Civil War.
d. 1938 President
Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Peace Memorial and lit the eternal
flame at the Gettysburg Battle Memorial.
e. 2013 President
Morsi, the leader of the jihadist movement Muslim Brotherhood, was overthrown
by the Egyptian military after 4 days of violent protests. This jihadist
graduate of USC is now awaiting execution for his crimes against Egypt.
Reflections on sacrifice on the eve of our Declaration of
Independence: “May we all, as a nation of believers, fight
for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud
men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of
Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us. Cory Booker,
African-American Blue Senator from New Jersey who may become our noted potential
felon’s running mate. Please enjoy the poems on events
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