Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 24, 2016 Happy Thanksgiving! As you enjoy your feast with family and friends and a day of
football that will seem to never end, more so than ever a chance to give thanks
and to give and more so than ever before a time for this divided country to
unite and move forward as one to insure that the rising tide of hopeful
prosperity floats all boats and leaves no American floundering and shivering in
the cold, freezing waters of hopeless despair--
http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/11/approaching-thanksgiving-thoughts.html;
President-Elect Trump released a short video prayer calling for unity and
healing in order to move the country forward (pray that Red, Blue, Green,
Libertarian and Independents give him the benefit of the doubt and join his
unity call-- http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/11/23/trump-offers-prayers-for-unity-in-thanks?videoId=370542652&videoChannel=1&channelName=Top+News);
the fat lady may not have sung as the Green Party (which appears to be a
stalking horse for Clinton) that received a whooping one percent of the total
vote nationally has filed for a recount in three battleground states that Trump
narrowly won—Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan (Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
flipped to Hillary would leave him 10 electoral votes shy of 270 needing Michigan’s
16 electoral votes to restore his status as President-Elect), raising $2.5
million to pay for one recount and needing $2 million more for the remaining
two requested (do I detect the heavy dollar hand of Soros?); it is great that
Trump has assembled his national security team as he may be tested even before
taking office as Pakistan is threatening full scale war with India (which given
the fact both possess nuclear weapons a real frightening thought especially if
as a result of the Green Party’s actions we are in a transition crisis similar
to the chad crisis in Florida in 2000 with no Scalia around to end Gore’s
nonsense); in a chilling reminder that Blue Lives Matter, the Wayne State
police officer shot in the head has died and in Birmingham a black couple, the
male of which claimed to be a Black Panther, were arrested of plotting to kill
police after planting a fake bomb outside an elementary school; ISIS’s plea to
have MACY’s Thanksgiving Parade attacked may have been thwarted by over 80
sanitation trucks filled with sand to block access to the route to prevent a
repeat of the slaughter in Nice, France.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Bing
Crosby, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Erma
Bombeck, while looking forward to enjoying some sardines before feasting on one’s
turkey dinner, 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. Evolution Day—celebrating the initial publication of The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin on this day in 1854.
2. National Day of Mourning—created by Native American groups to coincide with Thanksgiving
to promote awareness of the disasters and broken treaties inflicted upon Native
Americans by Americans following the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620.
3. 1942 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1942 on a run of 11 weeks in that position “White Christmas” by the Bing Crosby. Here is a recording of Bing Crosby performing what has to be the best selling record of all times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSUT8Inl14
3. 1942 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1942 on a run of 11 weeks in that position “White Christmas” by the Bing Crosby. Here is a recording of Bing Crosby performing what has to be the best selling record of all times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSUT8Inl14
4. National Sardines Day—celebrating on Thanksgiving not any of the traditional components of a Thanksgiving feast
like turkey, yams, mashed potatoes or cranberry sauce but a food item that has
never even made it into the stuffing, but still high in Omega-3 fatty acids
that are great for the heart.
5. Maybe We Do Need a Death Penalty—bemoaning
the birth on this day in 1946 of Ted Bundy, a psychopathic serial killer and
rapist of young women in the early 70’s who killed 36 and may have killed
dozens upon dozens more who was tried, convicted and finally executed by the State
of Florida in 1989.
On this day
in:
a. 1835 the Provisional Government of Texas authorized the
creation of a horse mounted police force known as the Texas Rangers, still
operating today.
b. 1877 Anna Sewell’s novel Black
Beauty was published and later memorialized by the film of the same name
starring a young Elizabeth Taylor.
c. 1917 in Milwaukee, nine police officers were killed by a
bomb, the highest loss of police in the line of duty until the 9/11 attacks on
the World Trade Center
d. 1963 in a very bad day for the Dallas Police Department caught
live on television, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed in the basement of
the Dallas Police Department’s headquarters by Jack Ruby while being led by
Dallas police officers.
e. 1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered the 40% complete
fossilized skeleton of Australopithecus
afarensis in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia that they nicknamed “Lucy.”
e. 2015 Blue Origin’s rocket Blue
Shepard became the first unmanned rocket to be launched into outer space
and return to Earth in a vertical landing—commercial manned flights for
tourists are scheduled to begin in 2018.
Reflections on one’s Thanksgiving meal: “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to
prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes.
This is not coincidence.” Erma Bombeck, noted humorist but on this one
off by three minutes (15 not 12). Please
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© November 24, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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