Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 2, 2016 Only 38 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; Trump is still tweeting on Machado while the
likes of CNN and MSNBC are having a field day as an arm of the Clinton campaign
attacking Trump for his remarks on her weight gain after winning the Miss
Universe Pageant; on the issue of taxes, who among us would not want to take
every deduction the incredibly complicated tax code would allow unless like a
Hillary cast the first stone of condemnation for not paying more taxes? (what
hypocrisy!); increasing evidence that Russian backed hackers are trying to
subvert our election process (can hardly wait for the Clinton campaign charge
that Putin wants Trump to win); in yet another police shooting, this time in
L.A., a fleeing passenger who was black from a suspected car robbery was shot
in the back and killed just yards from his house—do not want to rush to
judgment and hope there are videos showing a gun but this concept of shooting black
men in the back who are fleeing police cannot be justified; on the nature front
Hurricane Mathews may be back up to a 5 and brush Florida and the southern end
of the San Andreas is shaking and baking; on the sports front USC won its first
Pac-12 game and UCLA bounced back from a disappointing last second loss to Stanford
to beat Arizona.
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.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Elvis Presley, factoids of interest for this day in history, a
relevant quote from Shannon Adler, while looking forward to munching on
some fried scallops (killer recipe below), 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. Guardian Angel Day—commemorating in a world of planned and unplanned random chaos,
the belief that for many of us there are guardian angels out there to protect
us from harm.
2. World No Alcohol Day—created by the International Council of Nurses not to
prohibit alcohol which this nation knows from its Prohibition experiment was a
total failure but rather to promote awareness of the problems of alcohol abuse
and to promote alternatives to alcohol abuse as a means to cope with problems
in personal relationships or work related stress.
3. 1956 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1956 on a run of 11 weeks in
that position “Hound Dog” by Elvis Presley. Here is a recording of a young Elvis
performing and gyrating through the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmljYkdr-w
4. National Fried Scallops Day—celebrating another tasty mollusk complete here with a recipe
for cornmeal coated scallops and a compliment of heirloom bean with oregano
succotash—not bad, not bad at all. http://www.thenibble.com/REVIEWS/MAIN/fish/seafood/cornmeal-crusted-scallops.asp
5. More Than Pots And Pans—celebrating the birth on this day in 1915 of Chuck Williams, the founder of Williams and Sonoma, the parent of Pottery Barn, who died at the age of 100 and who was inducted into the Culinary Institute Hall of Fame.
5. More Than Pots And Pans—celebrating the birth on this day in 1915 of Chuck Williams, the founder of Williams and Sonoma, the parent of Pottery Barn, who died at the age of 100 and who was inducted into the Culinary Institute Hall of Fame.
On this day
in:
a. 1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke in
Colorado while on a speaking tour trying to win public support for the League
of Nations; the effects of the stroke were largely hidden from the public by
his wife and personal physician and without his support America did not join
which probably laid the seeds for the failure of the League to stop aggression
in Ethiopia and the rise of military aggression in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
b. 1937 in an example of man’s inhumanity to man, the dictator
in the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo, ordered the execution not expulsion
of all Haitians living within the country’s borders. Some 12,000 men, women and
children were believed to have been killed in five days.
c. 1950 Charles Schulz published his first Peanuts cartoon; the cartoon would continue for 50 years with 17,897
cartoon strips published in 2,500 newspapers around the world.
d. 1980 Democrat Michael Meyer became the first member since
1861 to be expelled by the House of Representatives by a vote of 376 to 30
(what was going through the minds of those 30 who wanted him to stay unless
they were guilty of the same acts during their career) after being caught on
tape accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent) and uttering those infamous
words, “money walks, bullshit talks.”
e. 2002 Muhammad and Malvo commenced their three week reign of random
terror in what became known as the Beltway Sniper attacks, killing 10 victims
and wounding three others in the Washington, D.C. area; they were caught and Muhammad
was executed (luckily for Kaine, who was the governor of Virginia at the time,
he rejected a plea for clemency) and Malvo will rot in prison serving three
life sentences without possibility of parole.
Reflections on guardian angels and why
this poet believes as he enters the winter of his life that they do exist and
exist big time. “The most glorious moment you will ever experience
in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this
time.” Shannon L. Adler, noted
inspirational author and the writer of over 1200 quotes for Goodreads. 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 2, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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