Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 22, 2017 As the stock market rises to new highs and small business
optimism rises to new highs over Trump’s ideas of tax cuts and regulatory
reform despite the Schumer’s minions doing everything in their tooth and nail
pocket to delay, Maxine Waters wins the rabid ideologue rhetoric prize for
swamp denizen of the day by calling all of Trump’s cabinet nominees “scumbags”
(Pelosi call this pathetic creature into your office for a “woodshed”
discussion); in a world that sees Stockholm up in flames by rioting “refugees”,
China putting missiles on islands created by them in the South China Sea, and
escalating bloodshed in eastern Ukraine thanks to the number one thug in Europe
Putin, the news headline is the fight over transgender bathrooms—some sanity as
Trump administration will reverse federal requirements that user can go into
bathrooms that comports to his or her sexual identity as opposed to biological
identity and leave it up to the states; like so many Blues in denial mode,
Podesta is still playing the blame game over Hillary’s loss due to her being a
completely failed and pathetic candidate out of touch with the mere mortals
suffering under 8 years of Obama and blaming the FBI conspiring against her; in
just another example of complete lack of accountability and potential fraud,
news today of a $1billion paid out to Social Security recipients with no Social
Security numbers (not my problem even if concerns that the system will be
bankrupt); in yet another sad example of rampant and maybe growing anti-Semitism,
Nancy Salem a preschool teacher in Texas has been fired for tweeting a need to
kill more Jews (totally outrageous thoughts); finally on the good news front
two pet owners in Texas who were arrested for shoplifting told officers that
they had a Chihuahua puppy in their car causing police to investigate where
they found a puppy in near fatal overdose mode from chewing on heroin the
owners had left in the car and saved him by taking him the to the hospital; the
carnage in Chicago continues unabated through February 21, rising to 483
shootings with the aim getting better so the total dead has risen to 89 (God
help those poor minorities being shot mostly by minorities when the weather
gets warmer and the shooters’ aim gets really better and there is more daylight.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Artie
Shaw, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Herb
Brooks, while bemoaning that you are not in England enjoying a waygoose,
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. European Day for Victims
of Crime—created by the EU in 2012 to promote
rights of and compensation to victims of crime which given the massive influx
of unvetted and unassimilated “refugees” as one has seen in Stockholm becoming
the new rape capital of the world will probably only increase.
2. International World
Thinking Day—celebrating a day which coincides with
the birthdays of Lord Baden-Powell and Lady Olave Baden-Powell founders of the
Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (precursor to the Girl Scouts) to contemplate on
issues that affect young women.
3. 1941 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1941 on a long run of 13
weeks in that position “Frensi” by the Artie Shaw. Here is a recording of the Artie
Shaw performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOHMYl5BCs
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “waygoose”
which is a summer party usually in England by a printing house for its
employees as opposed to a fowl flying away.
5. Why We
Endure Keeping Up—celebrating or bemoaning
the birth on this day in 1944 of Robert Kardashian noted lawyer, father of the
Kardashians and friend to O.J. Simpson, believe by the prosecution to have
disposed of his bloody clothes after the murder of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman
and who like many smokers died of cancer this time of esophageal 8 weeks after
diagnosis.
On this day
in:
a. 1819 to the joy of future New Yorkers and Canadian snowbirds,
pursuant to the Adams-Onis Treaty Spain sold Florida to the United States for
$5 million.
b. 1856 the Republican Party opened its first national
convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (one can only imagine those present
rolling in their graves over the Trump Phenomenon).
c. 1924 President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to
deliver a radio address from the White House.
d. 1980 at the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, the USA
Hockey Team in what has been called the “Miracle on Ice” defeated in the
semi-finals the Soviet Union 4-3 to advance and win the Gold Medal.
e. 1997 Scottish scientists in Roslin, Scotland announced that
they had successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly.
Reflections on dreaming from the coach of the winning Miracle on Ice
Team: “We should be
dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as
adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.” Herb
Brooks, coach of the USA 1980 Hockey Team No wonder Trump won and despite
the media flack and Blue obstruction the market is shooting to the moon, adding
over $2 trillion in wealth after his election. Please enjoy the poems on events of
interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my
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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
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© February 22, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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