Saturday, December 30, 2017

December 30, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Falling Needles Family Fest Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 30, 2017 As we near the end of the year it seems that the news has gone into hibernation as people are reflecting on the events of 2017 and predictions of what 2018 will look like as the midterm frenzy will take hold and make it almost impossible for a partisan, deeply divided nation to accomplish anything meaningful for the mere mortals who are trying to thrive and survive outside the Swamp; as Trump is preparing to present his infrastructure plan to repair our crumbling roads, bridges, waterways, airports, tunnels and pot hole infested streets the doubling of our national debt effects under Obama’s 8 years of stagnant self inflicted wounds of regulations and taxes killing GNP growth is coming home to roost in spades (the only silver lining might be to allow public works contracts to pay less than union wages to save money); there may be hope in the land of state sponsored terror and theocracy as protests appear to be breaking out in Iran over the dictatorial rule of the mullahs (why is the MSM MIA in reporting the growing wave of protests erupting in the streets of Tehran?); no thanks to a politicized CH&OA FBI but thanks to Judicial Watch and other FOIA warriors heavily redacted emails sent by HRC’s trusted aide Huma Abedin to her pervert husband now serving time to be printed show that some were marked classified at the time of sending (another example of two standards of law, one for HRC and the Clintonites and the other for mere mortals who served this country like Petreaus or Flynn); if you were considering a vacation visit to China, you might want to reconsider at least if you had Harbin, China on your list as hidden cameras show hotel workers at three high end hotels cleaning glassware with toilet brushes, mopping floors with water from toilet bowls and folding towels on the bathroom floors; almost a stuck record or a gruesome  remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through December 29 increasing to 3551, 626 of whom have died which gruesome as it may be represents a very slight year to date decrease which in the waning 2 days of December is definitely helped not by increased police presence but by Officer Arctic Weather now on patrol in Chicago.
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Beatles, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that unlike Congress,  you are free from lentor and a relevant quote by Matt Lauer on what must in his mind be a euphemistic justification for sexual harassment, 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. Falling Needles Family Fest Day—in another really slow day for holidays and observances and scraping the bottom of the barrel to find this one, celebrated by the family watching the needles of a very dry Christmas Tree slowly one by one falling to the floor reminding the occupants of the house that it will be very soon time to take down the ornaments  and place the tree outside to be picked up.
2. National Soda of Bicarbonate Day—commemorating the many uses of baking soda especially as a reliever of heartburn or indigestion caused by too much celebrating on New Year’s Eve but even so as holidays go still scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
3. 1964 Number One Song— the number one song in 1964 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “I Feel Fine” by the Beatles. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpBiGdV-oJI  
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lentor“ which means sluggishness which seems to describe the state of activity of Congress trying to solve the issues facing this nation.
5. Reptilian Hyperactive Brain Poster Child—bemoaning in the year of the sexual perverts or cheaters the birth of Matt Lauer whose career and marriage is down the proverbial toilet due to his sexual harassment of women which until November of this year NBC had turned a blind eye for many years. One can only feel sympathy for his soon to be ex-wife and their three young children ridiculed by his antics and perversions. 
    On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1936 the UAW staged its first sit down strike at GM’s plant in Flint, Michigan which lasted into February and resulted in the recognition of the UAW as the union for GM workers.
b. 1993 Israel established diplomatic relations with the Vatican and upgraded its relations with Ireland to full diplomatic status.
c. 2005 Tropical Storm Zeta was formed in the Atlantic 30 days after the hurricane season had officially ended to become the latest tropical storm formed in the Atlantic and did not dissipate until January 7, 2006 to have the distinction of being only the second tropical storm to span two calendar years.
d. 2006 ETA, a Basque separatist group parked a car laden with 800 kilograms of explosives in a parking structure at the Madrid International Airport but fortunately called 45 minutes before it was set to go off, enabling police to evacuate the airport resulting in only two deaths  of people who had the misfortune of sleeping in their car in the structure.
e. 2006 Saddam Hussein, was executed but his execution did nothing to stem the violence against coalition forces or innocent civilians.    

Reflections on the what is a euphemism for sexual harassment which is never justified; “When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's  a big boost.” Matt Lauer I suspect that the numerous women subject to Matt’s sexual interests were in no way boosted only threatened and frightened by this perverted predator.

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Friday, December 29, 2017

December 29, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Pepper Pot Soup Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 29, 2017 As we near the end of the year, events continue to occur showing that we live in a dangerous place as our satellites capture a Chinese ship despite all of their pious statements that they have cut off shipments of oil to North Korea, transferring oil to North Korean vessels, prompting South Korea to seize it and hold the crew of 25 Chinese nationals and 2 from Myanmar pursuant to the recent expanded sanctions passed by the Security Council which acts by the Chinese should merit increased sanctions against Chinese banks (when will the Chinese come to their senses and eliminate the rogue regime and move to a unification of a united  Korea that would turn the former North into a prosperous customer for Chinese goods instead of a nation of starving souls) while Russia is accused of shipping oil also on three occasions; not sure what the guests and hosts on Morning Joe are drinking but it certainly is not coffee as RINO pollster Kristen Anderson appeared on the show to express fears that Trump would invalidate the 2018 midterm elections if the Blues won and were dumb enough to start impeachment proceedings in the House (talk about idiocy and fanning the flames of hate and fear); Trump gave an impromptu interview with the NYT on a broad range of subjects including his belief that while Mueller may have been inept in picking his team of Clintonite hacks, he has treated Trump fairly and once again indicated he has no plans to fire him despite all the MSM hysteria warning that will soon happen; he also made it clear that there will be no DACA unless it is accompanied by immigration reform like ending lottery immigration and chain migration to be replaced by merit based immigration, more border and interior security and the Wall for both illegal immigration and the illicit flow of opioids (will be interesting to see if the Nancy and Chuck Show will be dumb enough to commit political suicide by shutting down the government in favor of 800,000 illegal “dreamers”); Trump also slammed the ineptness of the USPS which continues to run in the red while Amazon runs circles around them and demanded to know what is happening with the criminal case of the Pakistani IT staffer for Debbie Wasserman Schulz and other Blues arrested moments before trying to flee the U.S. as it is looking more and more like the unauthorized removal of government data from Congressional databases and a threat to our national security; conservatives have long noted Mika’s delusions  and left wing slants in the political arena but by trying to arrange a face to face meeting between the 10 female victims and pervert Halperin so he could apologize shows how out of touch she is with victims’ feelings and fears as a result of sexual harassment; Y may be for “Yesterday,” but today U is for “Undertaker” as noted mystery writer Sue Grafton has passed away after a two year battle with cancer at her home in Santa Barbara; almost a stuck record or a gruesome  remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through December 28 increasing to 3545, 623 of whom have died which gruesome as it may be represents a very slight year to date decrease which in the waning days of December is definitely helped by the arctic weather affecting Chicago.
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Bobby Vinton, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are free from lentigos and a relevant quote by Dith Pran on genocide and the death of Pol Pot, 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. Still Need to Do Day—time for all procrastinators who have postponed tasks that needed to be performed this year like paying property taxes or making charitable contributions before the new tax cuts and limitations on SALT  take effect (should make one feel better about oneself which might enhance the chances that New Years’ Resolutions will actually be performed as opposed to being tossed in the trash of noncompliance).
2. Pepper Pot Soup Day—commemorating the soup that won the Revolutionary War for the Americans created on this day in 1777 at Valley Forge where the Continental Army had its Winter Headquarters and was in near starvation conditions but on this day treated to bowls of pepper pot soup created by the baker general of the Continental Army Christopher Ludwick who managed to scrounge up some pepper corns, meat, tripe, seasonings and other scraps of food to create a hearty spicy soup to feed the frail and weakened soldiers.
3. 1963 Number One Song— the number one song in 1963 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “There! I’ve Said It Again” by Bobby Vinton. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLAhVU0NOm0 “The Polish Prince of Poch” although no longer performing is alive and well at the young age of 82 living with his wife of 55 years living in Florida.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lentigo“ which means a freckle and even though it is winter time with not much sun still a reminder that teens and children should use sunscreen if fair skinned to avoid freckles.
5. You Would Drink Also If You Were Innocent But Found Guilty—celebrating the birth on this day in 1923 of Doctor Sam Sheppard, noted surgeon who was charged with the murder of his wife who was bludgeoned to death on July 4, 1954 in their home in Ohio in what became one of the more sensationalized criminal trials in American history and which would be the inspiration for the TV series The Fugitive starring David Jansen and the movie by the same name starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Sheppard was convicted but with the aid of a young lawyer F. Lee Bailey had the conviction overturned and was found not guilty on a retrial but sadly upon return to freedom started abusing alcohol to ease the pain of prison and the death of his wife and died of liver failure on April 6, 1970. 
    On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1975 a bomb with the explosive force of 25 sticks of dynamite exploded in the main terminal of LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 and injuring 75. Unfortunately the bomber or bombers were never caught.
b. 1997 in a bad day for chickens, Hong Kong began to kill some 1.25 million chickens in an attempt to eradicate its bird flu epidemic.
c. 1998 in a what took you so long moment, leaders of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia apologized for the murder of some one million Cambodians in the 1970’s immortalized in the movie The Killing Fields.
d. 2006 after missing six years of payments due to exchange rates, the U.K. made its final payment on the post WWII loan made by the United States to maintain Britain’s post war military commitments.
e. 2013 in another chilling wake-up call to the problems faced in Russia from radical Islam, a suicide bomber detonated 10 kilograms of TNT just outside the entrance to the Volgograd 1 train station in Volgograd, Russia, killing 18 and hospitalizing 38.    

Reflections on the genocide by Pol Pot of Cambodia from a Cambodian who somehow survived the ordeal to be immortalized in The Killing Fields: “"This is sad for the Cambodian people because he was never held accountable for the deaths of 2 million of his fellow countryman. The Jewish people’s search for justice did not end with the death of Hitler and the Cambodian people’s search for justice doesn’t end with Pol Pot." Dith Pran as quoted in The Times on the death of Pol Pot in 1998.

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Thursday, December 28, 2017

December 28, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Pledge of Allegiance Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 28 Last chance in 2017 to see the Stanford Heisman winner, Bryce Love and his “Sweet Feet” light up the defense this evening in the Alamo Bowl; thanks to the Trump election and the tax cut which the MSM and Blues have totally erroneously cast as a tax cut for the rich and not the middle class the markets may close at 25,000 before year end; whereas in the U.S. too many like Rep Lee are too quick to the racist card toss our English cousins have it right as Prince Harry will be marrying a divorcee who has a black mother and white father and unfortunately an estranged half sister who may be trying to pedal a tell all book about her half sister Meghan; both parties have doubled down on the 2018 midterms with the MSM and “pundits”, consistent with their erroneous predictions of a HRC sweep, are predicting loss of House and possibly Senate while the Blues are MIA in terms of trying to work with Trump and hoping that the tax cuts fail to stimulate the economy (proof is in the pudding and the first MSM and Blue lie will be in February when millions of Americans receive paychecks with the decreased withholding putting more money in their pocket, the second lie will be that increased GNP growth will very early on cause the pundit predicted static model deficit not to grow but to start shrink like a puddle on the pavement in Death Valley on a warm July day, the third will be an infrastructure plan that will be shovel ready unlike Obama’s pathetic attempt that wasted close to a trillion dollars that the Blues will oppose and the fourth will be the Blues’ attempt to shut down the government because they will not negotiate on border security, the ending of immigration lotteries and chain migration in favor of merit based immigration, ending of funding to cities that continue their sanctuary status and building the wall in order to pass DACA legislation creating a path to citizenship); if the Reds stay on focused message against the party of no ideas and scorched earth, the Blues will take a great step toward the need to start wearing wigs; Ray Moore has become the new  Marvin K. Moody replacing HRC after suing to stop the certification of his opponent by the Alabama Secretary of State (time for this pervert to disappear!); almost a stuck record or a gruesome  remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through December 25 increasing to 3540, 622 of whom have died which gruesome as it may be represents a very slight year to date decrease which in the waning days of December is definitely helped by the arctic weather affecting Chicago.
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Tornados, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your property is not lentic; a relevant quote by Denzel Washington on not be trapped by one side views, 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. Pledge of Allegiance Day—observed since 1945 on the anniversary of Congressional legislation on this day in 1942 recognizing the words to the Pledge of Allegiance written by a Francis Bellamy, a Southern Baptist minister in 1892 (he would be rolling in his grave at the antics of Kaepernick and some of his fellow NFL players).
2. Holy Innocents Day—commemorated by Christians to honor the souls of those children killed by King Herod in his failed attempt to find and kill Jesus Christ.
3. 1962 Number One Song— the number one song in 1962 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “Telstar” by the Tornados. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jUvufQgQo
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lentic“ which means associated with standing water which is something during mosquito season you do not want to see in warm climes.
5. Don’t Pull The Plug Before In The Can—celebrating the birth on this day in 1954 of Denzel Washington noted Academy Award winning actor who has starred in such films as Malcom X which was almost never completed since Spike Lee was hopelessly over budget, Glory, Training Day, and Remember the Titans. 
    On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1832 with three months left in his term as vice president, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president to resign to be appointed a Senator for South Carolina to better represent the state in the Nullification Debate being waged in the Senate over slavery.
b. 1867 the United States claimed the Midway Atoll, the first territory outside the continental United States and the site 75 years later of the battle that turned the tide against the Japanese in World War II.
c. 1895 Wilhelm Rontgen discovered a new form of radiation which would later come to be designated X-rays.
d. 1973 to the bane of developers but the joy of threatened species, the Endangered Species Act was approved.
e. 2017 in another example of why radical Islam is a clear and present danger to innocent Muslims 41 Shiite Muslims were killed in suicide bombings in Afghanistan.    

Reflections on the polarization of our society by the birthday celebrant which the partisan denizens of the Swamp should pay heed to: “I'm not a liberal or a conservative completely. Who is? Or why do you have to be? You assess the pros, the cons, of both sides and you make an intelligent decision.” Denzel Washington.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

December 27, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Cut Out Snowflakes Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 27 If the Pentagon is to be believed we have just received news confirming what a complete disaster Obama has been in term of the war on ISIS which poured out of Syria and into Iraq after our feckless president turned tail and ran while micromanaging the gnat air strikes  to render them almost useless as in less than a year of Trump being in office the murderous and barbaric Caliphate has shrunk to two percent of the territory it once held and the number of fighters still too stupid enough to read the handwriting on the wall and leave number less that 1,000; on the Peace on Earth Good Will to Men Front a family of 4 was travelling a bit fast to get to Grandma’s house for Christmas and were pulled over by Officer Delacruz but instead of a traffic ticket in the Christmas spirit he told them he had previously pulled over Santa who had told him that he would meet a car describing the car he pulled over and that it would be carrying two small boys who would receive the toys he pulled out and gave to them—nice gesture indeed and a reminder that police are humans also with family especially when they are not being shot at;  passengers on a flight to Tokyo on ANA were treated or condemned to a Yo-Yo flight as the plane turned around after four hours into the flight because the person had a United Airline ticket for a flight also going to Tokyo (so much for the scanning of tickets to board); almost a stuck record or a gruesome  remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through December 25 increasing to 3533, 620 of whom have died which gruesome as it may be represents a very slight year to date decrease.
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Tokens, factoids of interest for this day in history, finding that the issues you face are easy to lenify, a relevant quote by Khaled Hosseini on Islamist mistreatment of women, 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. Constitution Day (North Korea)—have not read North Korea’s Constitution but to the extent it grants any rights to the people other than the right to starve due to its nuclear program it has to be as far removed from the rule of law as Pluto is from Earth.
2. Cut Out Snowflakes Day—with a good part of the U.S. covered in snow making driving difficult; rather that go romping in the snow with your kids bring the snow to you in the form of cutting out paper snowflakes and add them to your Christmas Tree and avoid the huge puddles of melting snow on floors and carpets.
3. 1961 Number One Song— the number one song in 1961 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “The Lion Sleeps  Tonight” by the Tokens. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lenify“ which means to mitigate or assuage which when it comes to tax and regulatory burdens on business Trump has accomplished in spades.
5. A Lousy Bias Poker Face—celebrating the birth on this day in 1971 of “journalist” Samantha Guthrie, cohost of The Today Show with the now fired pervert Matt Lauer and who had the unpleasant task of informing her audience that Lauer had been fired for alleged sexual misconduct. Attractive and smart lady but her face exudes advocacy bias journalism so typical when she queried Ryan about what reality world he lived in in conjunction with the tax cut that is now law. 
    On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1845 journalist John O’Sullivan writing in the New York Morning News opined that the United States had the right to occupy the entire Oregon Country as it was “our manifest destiny to do so” which thrilled the British not one iota and almost led to war before a compromise was reached on the border between what would become the states of Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana and British Columbia and Alberta.
b. 1927 the first American musical, Showboat, opened at the Ziegfield Theater on Broadway in New York City.
c. 1929 in an act of genocide that killed millions of peasants in Ukraine, Joseph Stalin ordered the liquidation of millions of “kulaks” by starvation which is one of the reasons the Wehrmacht was welcomed with flowers and bread when it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 once it entered Ukraine shortly thereafter.
d. 1945 the world from a currency and monetary standpoint became a much smaller place with the creation of the International Monetary Fund with 29 nations signing agreements to create the IMF.
e. 1979 in a move the Soviets would learn to regret, the Soviet Union invaded the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and after a little over 9 years of fighting Afghan guerillas and dodging Stinger missiles which brought down Soviet helicopters like flies, limped back across the border having suffered over 14,453 dead and 53,753 wounded but leaving a country with an estimated 2,000,000 civilians dead.    

Reflections on a noted Afghan writer who was able with his family to immigrate to the U.S. to escape the violence and killing there: “I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.” Khaled Hosseini, author of the The Kite Runner.

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.

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December 27, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Cut Snowflakes Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 27 If the Pentagon is to be believed we have just received news confirming what a complete disaster Obama has been in term of the war on ISIS which poured out of Syria and into Iraq after our feckless president turned tail and ran while micromanaging the gnat air strikes  to render them almost useless as in less than a year of Trump being in office the murderous and barbaric Caliphate has shrunk to two percent of the territory it once held and the number of fighters still too stupid enough to read the handwriting on the wall and leave number less that 1,000; on the Peace on Earth Good Will to Men Front a family of 4 was travelling a bit fast to get to Grandma’s house for Christmas and were pulled over by Officer Delacruz but instead of a traffic ticket in the Christmas spirit he told them he had previously pulled over Santa who had told him that he would meet a car describing the car he pulled over and that it would be carrying two small boys who would receive the toys he pulled out and gave to them—nice gesture indeed and a reminder that police are humans also with family especially when they are not being shot at;  passengers on a flight to Tokyo on ANA were treated or condemned to a Yo-Yo flight as the plane turned around after four hours into the flight because the person had a United Airline ticket for a flight also going to Tokyo (so much for the scanning of tickets to board); almost a stuck record or a gruesome  remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through December 25 increasing to 3533, 620 of whom have died which gruesome as it may be represents a very slight year to date decrease.
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Tokens, factoids of interest for this day in history, finding that the issues you face are easy to lenify, a relevant quote by Khaled Hosseini on Islamist mistreatment of women, 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. Constitution Day (North Korea)—have not read North Korea’s Constitution but to the extent it grants any rights to the people other than the right to starve due to its nuclear program it has to be as far removed from the rule of law as Pluto is from Earth.
2. Cut Out Snowflakes Day—with a good part of the U.S. covered in snow making driving difficult; rather that go romping in the snow with your kids bring the snow to you in the form of cutting out paper snowflakes and add them to your Christmas Tree and avoid the huge puddles of melting snow on floors and carpets.
3. 1961 Number One Song— the number one song in 1961 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “The Lion Sleeps  Tonight” by the Tokens. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lenify“ which means to mitigate or assuage which when it comes to tax and regulatory burdens on business Trump has accomplished in spades.
5. A Lousy Bias Poker Face—celebrating the birth on this day in 1971 of “journalist” Samantha Guthrie, cohost of The Today Show with the now fired pervert Matt Lauer and who had the unpleasant task of informing her audience that Lauer had been fired for alleged sexual misconduct. Attractive and smart lady but her face exudes advocacy bias journalism so typical when she queried Ryan about what reality world he lived in in conjunction with the tax cut that is now law. 
    On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1845 journalist John O’Sullivan writing in the New York Morning News opined that the United States had the right to occupy the entire Oregon Country as it was “our manifest destiny to do so” which thrilled the British not one iota and almost led to war before a compromise was reached on the border between what would become the states of Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana and British Columbia and Alberta.
b. 1927 the first American musical, Showboat, opened at the Ziegfield Theater on Broadway in New York City.
c. 1929 in an act of genocide that killed millions of peasants in Ukraine, Joseph Stalin ordered the liquidation of millions of “kulaks” by starvation which is one of the reasons the Wehrmacht was welcomed with flowers and bread when it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 once it entered Ukraine shortly thereafter.
d. 1945 the world from a currency and monetary standpoint became a much smaller place with the creation of the International Monetary Fund with 29 nations signing agreements to create the IMF.
e. 1979 in a move the Soviets would learn to regret, the Soviet Union invaded the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and after a little over 9 years of fighting Afghan guerillas and dodging Stinger missiles which brought down Soviet helicopters like flies, limped back across the border having suffered over 14,453 dead and 53,753 wounded but leaving a country with an estimated 2,000,000 civilians dead.    

Reflections by a noted Afghan writer who was able with his family to immigrate to the U.S. to escape the violence and killing there: “I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law.” Khaled Hosseini, author of the The Kite Runner.

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.

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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

When In Doubt Pull The Race Card Out

Sheila Jackson Lee is back in the news again to the chagrin of United Airlines’ myth of friendly skies
As a white woman on a flight from Houston to the Swamp found her first class seat denied
The facts are not in as the denied passenger denies she cancelled her first class flight due to weather dely
while United Airlines insisted that so cancelled her first class ticket went away
UA apologized for the ticket mess
Knowing that snatched from the comfort of first class to coach is a lot of stress
A 500 dollar voucher to this passenger’s stress allay
Not merit a comment until in a reflex Lee upped the ante with the race card into the fray
Because she was black it was so easy for a white passenger to have cause to complain
False images of Jim Crow when blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and in separate cars on a train
Worse she implied that she was absolved from any wrong doing as she was on the people’s business going back to her vote cast
To prevent the tax cut that if people no long were required to buy to avoid a fine their insurance would not last
To vote for aid to Hurricane Harvey victims the billions they would need to businesses and homes restore
No way a woman of such importance in a safe seat could endure coach and be able to cast a vote on the House floor
A quick study shows when it comes to her staff she is the worse boss in the Swamp bar none
In a safe seat so unlikely that an opposing Blue would in the primaries against her run
Looking at some of her leftist stands makes you wonder how she got in or graduated from Yale
Claiming any attempt to repeal Obamacare due the commerce clause was doomed to fail
Feel sorry for the members of her district to be represented by an ideologue Swamp creature that seems to be out of touch
Fortunately with the tax cut and an infrastructure bill coming down the pike the economic growth will no longer need a crutch
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Rosie O'Donnell In Another Profanity Laden Rant

The recent photos of Rosie O’Donnell show a very, very angry female
A face full of hatred and spite because her candidate failed
Full of profanity after the needed tax cut bill passed
One can only wonder when not if this has been will run out of anti-Red gas
A cat 5 profanity-laden Twitter storm against of all people Speaker Paul Ryan
A ranting like Pelosi that Red policies on taxes will be leaving persons dying
Ryan according to O’Donnell needs to suck her d*ck
No wonder people away from the Swamp and the coasts believe leftists like her are sick
We have major problems at home and abroad
Instead of reaching across the aisle, the Blues are without ideas, have shot their obstructionist wad
Appealing to their leftist fringe Rosie base
Blowing their chance to make to the public a coherent economic case
Rosie and her ilk from the leftist MSM have forgotten to their peril a wise old adage
To catch flies in the ointment of politics you get more with honey than with vinegar bitter rants and rage
Feel sorry for someone who is so fill of hate
She cannot lose any large amount of weight
Insecticides and pesticides in one’s fatty tissue dwell
Try to reduce and they will be released from her fat cells
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Will Trump Be Trumped at Royal Wedding in May

William and Kate are expecting their third child in April while Harry and Meghan are getting married in May
With all the pomp and circumstance at Windsor Castle Cathedral a royal wedding will display
Meghan like Kate must have swept the English people off their feet
Likewise too a queen who has offered her at the Royal Christmas dinner a seat
History will repeat itself in Churchillean tones
Any royal offspring will follow Winston with a U.S. mother with a father closer to the throne
Like weddings everywhere and why so many millennials elect to elope
 William and Meghan have to navigate the wedding list slippery slope
Here cost is no expense but this wedding is more than vows exchanged—it is an affair of state
Already on the wedding list lottery a bit of protocol will soon await
Harry and Meghan want to invite Barack and Michele
But not Trump which might be viewed as a snub hard to dispel
Not sure what the palace head of protocol at the Palace would say
Or whether an invitation to Trump and Melania might be the order of the day
Only that statecraft when it comes to wedding should never come into play
Love should always trump statecraft and never let protocol get in the way
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December 26, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not First Day of Kwanzaa

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 26 Today is one of the largest shopping days of the year and people flock online and to the malls for Day After Christmas Sales or to with refunds in hand for unwanted gifts use them to buy something more desirable or in the eyes of the retailers more expensive; the War on Coal may be over but the war on junk science justifying many of the EPA’s job killing regulations (which under Obama, the EPA refused to hand over many of the scientific reports justifying the regulations) is picking up steam as is Pruitt’s requirement that no scientist may sit on an EPA investigation panel who has also been the recipient of an EPA grant; although Trump has indicated time and time again that despite the stench of bias coming from the 7th Floor of the FBI, he has no intention of firing Mueller; so the MSM is still in a state of rabid lather claiming dire consequences if he does (time for the House to get serious and subpoena documents from the FBI pertaining to Uranium One, Hillary’s private server, the anti-Trump dossier and its use in obtaining FISA warrants and its role in trying to subvert Trump’s election and if the FBI and DOJ refuse to  comply due to their lame excuse of the existence of an ongoing investigation by the IG’s office, the House must start holding the recipients of those subpoenas in Contempt of Congress); an obese rabid non funny Rosie O’Donnell displayed the rhetoric that is systematic with the partisan gridlock by launching a Twitter storm alleging Ryan will go straight to Hell for his role in getting the tax cut bill passed ( nothing like giving back to taxpayers a larger portion of their money to provoke the wrath of ideologues like Rosie); in another example of why actresses and actors should not be listened to when they speak their minds as opposed to wanting mere mortals to believe that because they can play someone whose opinions we should listen to, actress Jenna Fischer was rightfully Twitter slammed when she carped that the tax bill banned deductions for teachers deducting the cost of school supplies they bought out of their own pocket which it clearly does not as the current deduction of $250 remained unchanged; on the better late than never front, Ambassador Niki Haley announced a reduction of the UN budget by $285 million in a step in the right direction; despite a rabid party before country obstruction, Trump has had 19 of his appointees to the federal courts confirmed compared to only 12 during Obama’s first year with the possibility of 143 vacancies being filled not counting 1 (Kennedy) or 2 (Ginsburg) openings up on SCOTUS;  almost a stuck record or a gruesome  remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings by mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through December 25 increasing to 3530, 619 of whom have died which gruesome as it may be represents a very slight year to date decrease.
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Elvis Presley, factoids of interest for this day in history, not being lendrumbilating over what you hear or read in the MSM, a relevant quote by Chris Rose on diversity in holidays like Kwanzaa, 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—celebrated in England and the British Commonwealth since the 1830’s by Lords and their Ladies by giving to postmen, errand boys and their servants of all kinds, a Christmas Box of presents and gifts.
2. First Day of Kwanzaa—celebrated first in this country in 1996-1997 by African-Americans for a festival that lasts one week honoring each day one of the seven principals common to the African American heritage like unity or improving one’s community.
3. 1960 Number One Song— the number one song in 1960 on a run of 6 weeks in that position was “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” by Elvis Presley. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cS5aCozhcA 
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lendrumbilate“ which means to gullibly believe in a word’s veracity which is another reason to always have access to a large dictionary.
5. Out of the Pot and Into the Frying Pan—celebrating the birth on this day in 1936 of Kitty Dukasis, the wife of Governor Dukakis who unsuccessfully ran for president against George H. W. Bush; during the campaign she revealed that she had a long term addiction to diet pills and after her husband’s loss turned to alcohol but fortunately for her and her marriage was able to move from the ranks of a functioning alcoholic to that of a recovering alcoholic.
     On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1941 in a bad day for turkeys, President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation creating the 4th Thursday in November as the Thanksgiving Day.
b. 1944 in a move that sounded the death knell on Hitler’s rash double down attempt to win the war, General George Patton’s 3rd Army broke the siege by the Wehrmacht and SS of the town of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.
c. 1963 “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There” were released by the Beatles marking the beginning of Beatlemania that swept the nation.
d. 1972 in the bombing straw that broke the camel’s back, 120 B-52s, each carrying 26 tons of bombs attacked Hanoi, the largest number of planes in a sortie ever performed by the Strategic Air Command to force the NVA and Viet Cong back to the negotiating table in Paris.
e. 2009 China opened the longest high speed rail route between Beijing and Guangzhou with speeds as high as 220 miles an hour; when the line is extended to Hong Kong the total distance will increase to almost 1400 miles.    

Reflections on celebrating holiday and observance diversity, especially in December and January: “ Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.” Chris Rose, noted New Orleans writer and journalist.

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