Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 22, 2017 Rachel Maddow should be ashamed of herself over
calling President Trump ’s speech
“anti-Semitic” when immediately after it Israel announced plans to continue
construction of settlements and its plans to have Netanyahu call President
Trump; despite the numerous protest marches in the Capital and across this
nation to the election of President Trump, what other nation allows such
peaceful assembly (why does the left in demeaning this nation not understand
that irony?); President Trump expressed his support for the CIA; deadly
tornados in the South; scary news that a British Trident submarine in error
launched an unarmed missile off the coast of Florida which veered toward the
U.S. mainland (big debate in Britain over whether it can afford to pay 40
billion pounds to modernize its Trident fleet as President Trump campaigned on
insisting NATO members step up to the plate on defense spending); on a light
hearted note the city of Auburn, Kentucky has declared war on the Amish by
requiring equine diapers on their horses when on a public street (remember the
fuss over bovine diapers in California to cut down on methane emissions from
dairy cows?); pace of killings in Chicago picked up with 3 killed bringing the
total to 38 through Saturday and 183 shot and wounded.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to All 4
Love, factoids of interest for this day in history, an observation on the Mac by
Steve Jobs, looking forward to using your ulu without cutting yourself events,
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. Roe v. Wade Day—celebrating or
bemoaning depending on one’s point of view the decision of SCOTUS Roe v.
Wade to legalize abortion in all 50
states.
2. National
Celebration of Life Day—celebrating the
lives of our children and grandchildren whose journey in the womb was not
aborted but went full term; but really an
observance that should be celebrated each and every day as life is so very
precious.
3. Number One Song in 1992—celebrating
the number 1 song in 1992 on a run of 1 week in that position “Color Me Badd”
by All 4 Love. Here is a link to the band performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PccRs1HR7VI
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “ulu” which a short-handled knife
with a broad crescent-shaped blade, used by Inuit women. in Alaska.
5. Don’t Spin My Head Around—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1959 of actress Linda Blair, best noted for her role
in The Exocist and with the bubious
distinction of being nominated for 6 Golden Raspberry Awards, and winning four.
On this day in:
1. 1905 at St. Petersburg, Russia soldiers of
the Tsar fired at crowds of protestors marching to the Winter Palace to present
a petition to the Tsar; it was the beginning of the end of the Romanovs.
2. 1917 appalled by the carnage in Europe, President
Woodrow Wilson of a still neutral United States called for “Peace without
Victory” which unfortunately for the men in the trenches was ignored.
3. 1946 the U.S. established the Central
Intelligence Group, the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency that
President Trump visited yesterday.
4. 1970 the Boeing 747, the world’s first
jumbo jet began commercial service with a Pan Am flight from JFK to London.
5. 1984 Apple introduced its Macintosh consumer
computer to the world during commercials at Super Bowl XVII (the commercial will
go down as one of the best ever produced). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
Reflections on the Macintosh personal computer: “Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people
working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and
historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing
amazing things in other fields.” Steve Jobs Wise words from Steve Jobs
even if sometimes technology of computers seems to overwhelm those of us even
poets who are members of the first and second class of Baby Boomers while our
kids and grandkids are completely at home with computers. Please enjoy the poems
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