Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For
October 30, 2016 Only
10 waning but increasingly vitriolic and
hypocritical days to go until the only polls that matter close; bombshell just
dropped by the FBI already under scathing rebuke by Reds for its ”sham”
investigation of HRC’s private email server and its refusal to look into the
criminal pay to play activities of the Clintons and the Foundation announced it
was reopening its investigation due to thousands of emails recovered from the
lap top shared by that noted pervert Weiner and Huma Abedin, Hillary’s long time
most trusted adviser; latest poll shows voters favoring Hillary are 30 percent
less likely to vote for her now as a result of the latest news; Hillary is
expressing outrage over Comey’s acts and Trump is praising and raising
legitimate concerns that Weiner shared the laptop; on the sports front the
Indians won game four last night 7-2 in Chicago and now lead the World Series 3-1
and McCaffrey returned to his last year’s Heisman form with three touchdowns
and 225 all purpose yards as Stanford beat the Wildcats in Tuscon 34-10.
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, music links to Men at Work and Jefferson Airplane,
factoids of interest for this day in
history, a relevant quote from Orson Welles, while looking forward
to enjoying a bowl of candy corn,
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. International Orthopaedic Nurses Day—celebrating the
work of orthopedic nurses who are the first smiling and caring face one sees
after coming out of surgery and are the first to help a patient get through the
recovery pain following surgery.
2. Mischief Night—celebrating or bemoaning if you are
the victim in the U.S. and Canada, pranks such as egging, tping trees, writing
on cars with soap or my favorite filing a paper bag with dog turds, putting in
on the front porch, lighting it, ringing the doorbell and running away only to
turn around to see the resident react by trying to stomp the fire out.
3. 1982 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1982
on a run of 1 week in that position “Who Can It Be Now” by Men at Work. Here is
a recording of Men at Work performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECVGN4Bsgg
4. National Candy Corn Day--celebrating the essential Halloween
candy to give out to the ghosts and goblins knocking on your front door
tomorrow.
5. An Airplane Needs a Great Wing—celebrating the birth on this day in
1939 of Grace Wing, known to her fans as Grace Slick, lead singer and song
writer for Jefferson Airplane; here in honor of her birthday is one of Jefferson
Airplane’s best hits “Somebody to Love” introduced by a very young looking Dick
Clark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myVzaR8cmDA
.
On this day
in:
a. 1831 Nat Turner the leader of the
most violent and deadly slave rebellion in our history was captured in Southampton
County, Virginia after eluding capture for over two months; he was tried and
convicted and hung on November 11, 1831; as a warning to other slaves who might
be considering rebellion his body was flayed, beheaded and quartered.
b. 1905 Czar Nicolas II signed the October Manifesto which granted some
basic civil rights to the Russian people and permitted them to form a Duma (a
classic example of too little too late as the Communist Party’s October
Revolution would prove.
c. 1938 Orson Welles broadcasted over
the radio H.G. Welles’ The War of the
Worlds causing widespread panic as many listeners thought Earth was being
invaded by Martians.
d. 1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas
City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking the color
barrier in professional baseball.
e. 1995 Quebec citizens by a
narrow vote of 50.52% to 49.48% vote to remain as a province of Canada.
Reflections
on The War of the Worlds” given at the
conclusion of the radio broadcast by Orson Welles: Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your
garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the next best thing. We annihilated
the world before your very ears and utterly destroyed the CBS. You will be
relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions
are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember please for the
next day or so the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing,
globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and
if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian, it's Halloween.” 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 30, 2016, Michael P. Ridley
aka the Alaskanpoet
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