Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 1, 2017 Shades of the Nullification Crisis and John Calhoun the idiotic Blues in
California are introducing legislation to make California a Sanctuary State; Trump has nominated to SCOTUS an appellate court veteran
who was confirmed by voice vote but the Blues under a myopic Schumer appear to
be preparing to filibuster his nomination (Schumer should realize that if he
orders a filibuster there will be at least 10 fewer Blues in the Senate after
the 2018 elections—go for it Chuck); the Blues are in a complete childish snit
fit over Price and Mnuchin and looking like spoiled temper tantrum two year
olds by boycotting a committee vote on their nominations so the Reds voted in
favor without them to move their nominations to the floor of the Senate; Mr.
Irrelevant Barack Obama is getting ready to become the dissenter in chief to
President Trump as his legacy is being flushed down the toilet (who will be
listening as HRC ran as an Obama clone and lost); Whoopi Goldberg is a total
joke and an overweight disgusting has been and why anyone with any sense of
sanity would watch her rantings on the View
is unbelievable but for her to compare President Trump to the Taliban tops the
charts for being pathetic and ridiculous; Nancy Pelosi is not among my favorite
biased ideologues but this news item of her pathetic response at a Town Hall
meeting defending sanctuary cities will stun you http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pelosi-asked-at-town-hall-which-of-her-kids-is-expendable/article/2613564?utm_campaign=Fox%20News&utm_source=foxnews.com&utm_medium=feed;
ending on a sad note through Tuesday as President Trump is raising the possibility
of sending in federal agents to Chicago, the number of mostly blacks were shot by mostly blacks in
Chicago for the month of January rose to 310 with 53 fatalities and from Mayor Emanuel and
the BLM nothing but the sounds of silence.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Shaggy,
factoids of interest for this day in history, a reflection on Black History
Month by Carter Woodson, hoping in you are able to avoid choking when you are
experiencing deglutition, 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 Freedom Day—commemorating
the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery on this day in
1865 and it being sent out to the states for ratification.
2.
Start
of Black History Month—celebrating the contributions of African-Americans to our
culture and society.
3. Number One Song in 2001 —celebrating
the number 1 song in 2001 on a run of 2 weeks in that position “It Wasn’t Me”
by Shaggy. Here is a link to Shaggy performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWWVhJ7RF0
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “deglutition” which means the act of swallowing which when it
comes to most pronouncements out of D.C. bureaucrats definitely difficult to
do.
5. King of Hollywood—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1901 of Clark Gable who led quite a life with five
marriages but was a binge drinker and three packs a day smoker who died from a
heart attack at age 59.
On this day in:
1. 1884 the first
volume of the Oxford English Dictionary
A to Ant was published.
2. 1942 the Voice
of America began broadcasting to countries controlled by the Axis Powers.
3. 1960 four black
students began the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in
Greensboro, North Carolina.
4. 1979 the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to
Tehran after 15 years in exile in France.
5. 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on reentry to the Earth’s atmosphere,
killing all 7 astronauts aboard.
Reflections on Black History Month “We should emphasize not Negro history,
but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or
nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race, hate, and religious
prejudice.” Carter Woodson, noted 20th
Century African-American historian, journalist and author and one of the first
to study African-American history. 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.
© February 1, 2017 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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