Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For October 16, 2016 Only 24
waning but increasingly vitriolic days to go until the only polls that matter
close for Trump to continue his pivot before we elect a new president and if he
has any chance of winning closes down his Twitter account for the duration; while
the media is pedal to the metal 24/7 to find more women accusers who amazing
kept silent for years and in some cases decades, the sounds of total silence have
put an iron curtain over a flood of disclosures of the corruption of pay to
play at both the foundation and the Hillary’s State Department with FBI
interview notes of Patrick Kennedy in essence appearing to bribe FBI agents with
choice postings overseas in a classification on a sensitive email was changed;
the stench emanating from the WikiLeak flood of emails many related to attempts
to manipulate the press and remarks of her almost $2 million in speaking fees
before Goldman Sachs is overpowering (we get a glimpse of her need for public
and private positions and her disdain for the middle class she is supposedly
fighting for); some hope that Chelsea has not been infected by the corruption
virus that has spread to every cell in their bodies as leaked emails portray
her concern over Foundation fund raising activities; but what really tops the
cake and wins the Oscar for best hypocrisy by a campaign, the Clintonites are
comparing WikiLeak’s hacking to the break in at Watergate when her private
server and her defiant attempt of a Congressional subpoena to BleachBit over
30,000 emails under the false assertion that they contained personal info only
fits the Watergate scandal of obstruction of justice to a T; we can add to the
old adage “nothing is certain but death and taxes” the new adage if Prop 55
passes and continues the “temporary” state sales tax and higher rates on those
earning more than $250k a year “no tax is ever temporary”: on sports front
Dodgers lost their opener in Chicago on a pinch hit bases loaded home run,
Stanford at South Bend playing without injured Christian McAffrey came back
from a 10-0 to beat Notre Dame and USC is back stomping Arizona 44-14 in
Tuscon.
As Trump is trying to become more presidential, going to www.lyingcrookedhillary.com is a great way to start your day along of course with www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com and reading Clinton Cash would be a great read to understand
the quid pro quo mentality of the Clintons and if you want some music in your
life with a little satire-- https://safeshare.tv/x/kXjbXGyQDsE
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, a music link to the Beatles, factoids of interest for this
day in history, a relevant quote from Mahatma Gandhi, while looking forward to sipping a glass
of your favorite liqueur, 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. World Food Day—celebrated by the Food and Agricultural
Organization of the UN in 1979 to promote awareness and efforts to promote food
security and issues affecting food production and distribution in a world that is
in a constant race between food production and population growth with this year’s
theme centering around the effects of climate change.
2. Bosses Day—celebrated
since 1962 to create among employees especially young ones an awareness of the
contribution and hard work of supervisors in the workplace and since 1979
another holiday that Hallmark has cards for.
3. 1968 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1968 on a run of 9 weeks in that position “Hey Jude” by
the Beatles. Here is a recording of the Beatles performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA
4. National Liqueur Day celebrating
in moderation always after dinner drinks such as eau de vie, schnapps and cordials.
5. Triple Threat—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1925 of Angela Landsbury, note actress of British,
American and Irish nationality probably best remembered for the TV long running
series of Murder She Wrote.
On this day
in:
a. 1793 one day after a “trial”
in which she was convicted of treason, Marie Antoinette, the widow of Louis
XVI, joined him by being guillotined.
b. 1846 William T.G.
Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia to the joys of future surgical
patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
c. 1909 President William
Howard Taft and Mexican President Porfirio Diaz met for a summit meeting in
Ciudad Juarez across the river from El Paso, the first time an American
president had visited the contrary; both presidents were lucky that an assassination
attempt was foiled as guards disarmed a man with a pistol only a few feet away
from the two of them.
d. 1916 Margaret Sanger
an advocate of euthanasia opened a birth control and family planning clinic in Brooklyn which grew to Planned Parenthood
Federation which has been in the spotlight for alleged illegal sales of aborted
fetal body parts.
e. 1978 in a what took
you so long moment Karol Wojtyla from Poland was elected as Pope John Paul II,
the first non Intalian Pope since 1523.
Reflections on hunger during World Food Day: ”There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." – Mahatma
Gandhi a true but sad commentary when a growing problem in the civilized world
is a rising tide of obesity. 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.
© October 16, 2016,
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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