Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 20, 2016 The Fat Lady that really counts sang with gusto as the
Electoral College voted to elect Trump with the attempt by the left to flip
electors a total disaster with Trump losing two delegates and Clinton five with
three more prevented from joining the defection (if HRC and the Blues were not
in such a blaming snit, nice symbolism would have been in those states where
electors are not bound to vote according
to who won the state to call upon her electors to vote for Trump); you have to pity Obama as
it seems every time we see a video of him playing golf yet again, in some place
in the world like Ankara, Jordan or Berlin, there is a horrific radical
Islamist attack, murdering the Russian Ambassador in Turkey, in Berlin killing
12 German shoppers at a Christmas market and injuring 48 with a lorry, ala
Nice, France and in Karak, Jordan at a very popular tourist attraction killing
10 people and wounding 34 others before Jordanian security forces killed the 4
members of the Obama designated JV team; in what has to be the ironies of
ironies or the hypocrisy of all hypocrisies, President Obama is cautioning
President-elect Trump against the overuse of executive orders (a bit of legacy
elimination panic on his part?); in yet another example of fraud that is
pervasive in federal entitlement programs, the GAO has just conducted another
sting of Health.gov revealing continuing failure to follow mandates on
verifying information and income levels before enrolling people with false
information in the ACA and approving subsidies; President-elect Trump invited
billionaire Carlos Slim, the largest investor in The New York Times to his Florida estate for dinner (would have
liked to be in that room when the discussion turned to the construction of the
wall and the bias of the paper).
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to the New Vaudeville
Band, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Gary
Zukav, looking forward to enjoying a plate of fried shrimpy, blessed with a
positive attitude and the ability to absquatulate from a difficult or
embarrassing situation 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 Human
Solidarity Day—created by the UN General Assembly in 2005 to promote global
solidarity with efforts to eradicate poverty, encourage economic development
and promote peace, all lofty goals in an age of increasing tension and stress
from globalization.
2. Winter Solstice Eve—celebrating the day most of us sun lovers have been
looking forward for most of 2016 since the summer solstice, the eve of the
shortest day of the year as after tomorrow the days start getting longer and
longer.
3. 1966 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1966 on a run of 3 weeks in that position “Winchester
Cathedral” by the New Vaudeville Band. Here is a recording of a the New
Vaudeville performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_RfFmJ5nA
4. National Fried Shrimp
Day—celebrating another way to load up on calories when you are
enjoying shrimp that have been rolled in batter and then lowered into a pot of
boiling cooking oil.
5. Faster Than a Speeding Bullet—celebrating the birth on this day in 1942 of the second man to
win an Olympic Gold Medal and be inducted into the NFL’s Hall of Fame, Bob “Bullet
Bob” Hayes who was one of the fasted men ever to play the sport, but even with
his phenomenal speed, he could not out run alcohol and drug abuse and died at
the age of 59 from prostate cancer and liver failure.
On this day in:
a. 1924 in a we wished we would have kept him here longer
moment, Adolf Hitler was released from Landsberg Prison in Bavaria after
serving 264 days for leading the failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch the prior year.
b. 1946 one of the most acclaimed films of all times, It’s A Wonderful Life, starring Donna
Reed and Jimmy Stewart, was released to enjoy not box office success but six Oscar
nominations, only one of which an Oscar for Technical Achievement was awarded
for of all things a method of using artificial snow.
c. 1971 the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders was founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group
of journalists in Paris.
d. 1987 in the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history,
the ferry Dona Paz sank after hitting
the oil tanker Vektor in the Tablas Straits in the Philippines, taking an
estimated 4,000 passengers and crew to Davey Jones Locker with her.
e. 1991 in a chilling reminder of how difficult but how critical
it is to get radical Islamists to assimilate into our society, a Missouri court
sentenced Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the
honor killing of their 16 year old daughter Palestina who in their culture had
become too Westernized because she had taken a part time job without their
permission, listened to rap music and dated an non Muslim. These fanatics were
sentenced to death but diabetes beat the state executor with respect of Zein
and Maria’s sentence was commuted to life without parole and she died in prison
in 2014 at the age of 70.
Reflections on the
Eve of the Winter Solstice of the soon to begin winter: “The winter solstice
has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a
verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces
something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully
extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into
unexpected glory. Gary Zukav, noted American spiritual teacher and
author of four New York Times Best Sellers Please enjoy the poems on events
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© December 20, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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