Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For December 27, 2016 May your credit cards
still have availability after you have gorged on after Day after Christmas
Sales bargains; the carnage in Chicago continues and all we hear from the major
are the sounds of silence and from the police the need for more gun control in a
city that has the strictest gun control laws in the nation (Chicago needs a
surge of National Guardsmen or a declaration of national emergency so the
Military Police can be called in to supplement the Chicago PD who must be
demoralized beyond belief; after reports that she was in stable condition,
Carrie Fisher has died; the final numbers are in on Obama’s effect on the
Democratic Party during his two terms in office—1042 Senators, House
Representatives, state legislative seats, governors, and the big prize the
presidency; in yet another example of the complete failure of socialism, Venezuelan
women since contraceptives have all but disappeared from the shelves are
resorting to sterilization in record and increasing numbers (who in their right
mind would want to bring a child into the world in such an economically
dysfunction country, oil reserves not withstanding?); Japanese Prime Minister Abe
will be visiting Pearl Harbor but will not deliver an apology for the attack on
December 7, 1941.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to Marlene
Dietrich (both in German and English), factoids of interest for this day in
history, relevant observations from Marlene Dietrich, looking forward to
enjoying or enduring a few slices of fruit cake, 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. Boxing Day—if a
servant or tradesman this is your favorite holiday to receive the Christmas box
from your employer which normally falls on the 26th unless Christmas
falls on a Sunday to postpone the gift receiving celebration to the 27th.
2.
National Visit A Zoo Day—since most
students are on Christmas Break, today would be a great day to bundle up the
family and take them to a zoo and relive a tradition that dates back to 1500 B.C.
when the first zoo was established in Egypt.
3.
Number One Song in 1971—celebrating
the number 1 song in 1971 on a run of 3 weeks in that position “Brand New Key”
by Melanie. Here is a link to Melanie performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5LzOlNZPCc
A bouncy song that should make you want
to dance.
4.
National Fruit Cake Day—now that Christmas is over and you are wondering what to
do with the fruit cakes you received as gifts, could be a day to donate them to
the local food bank or bite the bullet and have a few slices and drop a note or
video to the person who sent it to you thanking them profusely, even if you do
not like fruit cakes.
5. Lili Marlene Enjoyed by All—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1901 of Marlene Dietrich, iconic German born actress
and singer whose career spawned over 50 years who had the sense to leave Germany
in the late 30’s as she detested Hitler and entered American troops during
World War II, often singing the song that American, British and German troops thoroughly
enjoyed—“Lili Marlene”. Here is a recording of Marlene Dietrich singing the
song in both German and English (I think the German is far more tear jerking):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56QzGcAKZc
in German https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR-nGIJAaw4
in English. In addition to being a great actress and singer, she had great
longevity genes; despite smoking and being dependent on alcohol and pain
killers in later life, she passed away on May 6, 1992.
On this day in:
1. 1703
to the joy of wine connoisseurs and woolen manufacturers in England the Methuen
Treaty aka the “Port Wine Treaty,” Portuguese wine primarily port could be
imported into England at a tariff of one third that levied on French wines and
English woolen cloth would be admitted to Portugal free of tariff.
2. 1845
Irish journalist John L. O’Sullivan displaying his bias against the English
wrote in the New York Evening News
that the U.S. had the right to take over the entire Oregon Country by virtue of
its “manifest destiny.” Fortunately saner heads prevailed and Britain and the
U.S. in 70 years and the Oregon Treaty was signed creating the border between
Washington, Idaho and Montana as it exists today.
3. 1929
Joseph Stalin cemented his path to becoming the dictator who is responsible for
more deaths than any human being in history by ordering the elimination of the “kulaks
as a class”.
4. 1945
the International Monetary Fund was established.
5. 2001
in a let the trade deficits with China soar off the charts, China was granted
permanent normal trade relation status with the United States while the U.S.
received nothing but currency manipulation and closing of Chinese markets to
American goods made here in the U.S.
As the countdown to 800 homicides in Chicago continues committed
mostly by black gang members against other black gang members or innocents in
the wrong place and the wrong time, reflections from the birthday girl on a
major root of the problem—the absence of fathers: “A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or
abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the
paradox, they would understand the dilemma.” Marlene Dietrich Please enjoy
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© December 27, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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