Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November
4, 2016 Only
5 waning but increasingly vitriolic and
hypocritical days to go until the only polls that matter close; it is going
from bad to worse for the Clinton campaign as reports out yesterday spoke of
new Clinton emails being found on Weiner’s lap top used by Abedin who is now
MIA; Trump and HRC both campaigned in North Carolina with Trump charging to no
one’s surprise that she has repeatedly perjured herself and HRC making the charge
that Trump will institutionalize discrimination; Obama is MIA from the Oval Office
(anytime he is nowhere near an executive order pen is time well spent for the
good of the nation) spending all his time campaigning for Hillary with
ludicrous claims that the “fate of the world” is at stake if voters do not
elect one very corrupt candidate HRC; Melania Trump in Pennsylvania campaigning
for her husband; at “fair and balanced” Fox News Bill O’Reilly is considering
not renewing his contract as is Megyn Kelly; Tucker Fredrickson takes over for Britt
Hume; our border with Mexico is experiencing a tidal wave of illegals fearful
that if Trump wins the border will be closed to illegal immigration; victory
parade for Cubs tomorrow and on the sports front in the New York Marathon a
doping scandal involving a Russian runner; good news for California—according to
the feds one fourth of California is now free from drought but don’t rush to
the stores just yet to splurge on water
purchases or massively water your brown lawn.
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 Tiffany, factoids of interest for this
day in history, a relevant quote from
Will Rogers, an original poem alluding to his untimely death, while looking
forward to enjoying your favorite candy to endear yourself to your dentist, 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. National Skeptics Day—celebrating an
attitude that all voters should express as we get closer to the election as the
amount of charges and countercharges increase exponentially—which should
produce a healthy amount of skepticism.
2. Use Your Common Sense Day—celebrating on the birthday of Will
Rogers (“Common sense ain’t all that common”), a skill that is lacking with
most politicians but hopefully resides in voters was they anguish over how to
vote on November 8, 2016.
3. 1987 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1987
on a run of 2 weeks in that position “I Think We Are Alone Now” by Tiffany.
Here is a recording of Tiffany performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78
4. National Candy Day—odd to be celebrating so soon after
Halloween this observance when most of your trick or treat children or
grandchildren are still suffering from candy overdose from Halloween.
5. Check The Flaps Wiley, Common Sense Please—celebrating the birth on this day in 1879 of that great humorist
and columnist Will Rogers sadly killed with most of his wits still waiting to
be heard in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935: “Wiley the choice in life are too narrow/ Why take off in lousy
weather near Pt. Barrow?/ On your piloting skills Mr. Post no offense/ But if
we are going to see the morrow, time for some flying common sense.” © November 4, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the
Alaskanpoet
On
this day
in:
a. 1847 Sir James Simpson, a British
doctor, discovered, to the joys of future surgical patients, the anesthetic
properties of chloroform.
b. 1922 Howard Carter and his team discovered the entrance to the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings Egypt.
b. 1922 Howard Carter and his team discovered the entrance to the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings Egypt.
c. 1939 in the first step to becoming
the “Arsenal of Democracy” to lift this nation out of the Great Depression,
President Roosevelt orders the U.S. Customs Service to implement the Neutrality
Act allowing the cash purchase by belligerents of American made weapons.
d. 1973 in response to the OPEC oil
embargo the Netherlands with nary a hill in sight instituted its first Auto
Free Sunday, allowing only bicyclists and roller skaters on its highways, roads
and streets.
e. 1979 a mob of Iranians protesting
the admission into the United States of the deposed Shah seized the American
Embassy in Tehran taking 52 Americans hostage; an impotent Jimmy Carter failed
to forcefully respond to this act of war and lost to Ronald Reagan in a
landslide (knowing that Reagan would not stand for this nonsense the Iranians
released all of the hostages minutes after he was sworn in).
Reflections on the ineptness of politicians from the mind of
Will Rogers: “Every time Congress
makes a joke it's law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.” To paraphrase when looking at the two choices we
have running for president the Ridley corollary might be “Every a candidate makes
a joke it’s in an attack speech; and every time a candidate makes a speech, it’s
a joke.” What a mess have we in this campaign degenerated to. 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.
© November 4, 2016, Michael P. Ridley
aka the Alaskanpoet
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