Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 25, 2017 The DNC is meeting today to elect its new chairman and the
question is how much further to the left away from the mainstream the party
will move with Ellison and Perez both very liberal the leading candidates http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2017/02/blues-moving-to-left-at-dnc.html; DHS is moving at flank speed to start constructing the wall
although still uncertain how it will be paid for (why not put every abled
bodied male caught trying to enter this country illegally to work building it?); news media outlets are still
in an uproar over Spicer’s banning certain news outlets from a briefing while
admitting some additional outlets that tend to be conservative; Trump still is
having difficulty in staying focused on the economic issues that really concern
us like jobs, security and growth and continues to attack the media and the FBI
(the smoke coming out the White House is
not the notice of a new Pope but rather the burning of political capital in a
wasteful manner); as the mere mortals brace themselves for a wave of political
anti Trump rhetoric at the Oscars, George Clooney in accepting an honorary
Cesar in France could not restrain himself from attacking Trump implying he
represents hate; finally a glimmer of sanity in the Political Correctness Iron
Curtain that has descended down on most of our colleges and universities, the
trustees of Orange Coast College have rescinded the suspension of a student who
taped a professor’s rant that Trump’s election was an “act of terrorism”
(unfortunately for the students, the professor was not fired for academic
terrorism in making it pretty clear that if a student disagreed with her views,
a F would be in that students future);
Justice Ginsburg who looks like death warmed over has indicated she will
stay on SCOTUS as long as she can (she really should resign due to age and
health but such resignation would really tilt the balance in favor of
conservative views for the next decade or so); in another you will not believe
this moment a group witches have gathered to cast a spell on President Trump; almost
like a stuck record, the carnage in Chicago continues unabated through February
24, rising to 502 shootings with the aim improving so the total dead has risen
by 2 to 96 (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 the
Andrews Sisters, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote
from Anne Frank, while hoping that your favorite sports team plays in and wins
a barn burner of a match, 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. World Sword Swallowers Day—celebrated on the last Saturday in February at Ripley’s Believe It
Or Not Museums around the world to raise money for research in swallowing disorders
and esophageal cancer.
2. Quiet Day—promoting the solitude and benefits of ramping down the noises
that as humans we are constantly exposed to in order to reduce stress and promote
tranquility (this is one observance that should be mandated on the political
scene to tone down the escalating rhetoric against Trump).
3. 1945 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1945 on a run of 7 weeks
in that position “Rum and Coco-Cola” by the Andrews Sister. Here is a recording of them performing the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxL2uNr7bk
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “barn
burner” which means an exceptionally exciting event, especially a sporting
event or in political arena Trump’s campaign and election.
5. Too
Biased and Profane to Handle—celebrating or
bemoaning, as the case may be depending on your political view, the birthday on
this day in 1975 of one very biased anti-Trump comedian, Chelsea Handler.
On this day
in:
a. 1836 Samuel Colt was granted a patent for a revolver.
b. 1933 the USS Ranger, the
first aircraft carrier designed from the start to be an aircraft carrier, was
launched.
c. 1939 in a sign that war was coming in the future the first of
1.5 million Anderson shelters distributed to civilians before the outbreak of
war were distributed in London.
d. 1968 in the village of Ha My in South Vietnam, 135 unarmed women,
children and elders were killed and buried by South Korean Marines in a common
grave.
e. 1987 after learning that since 1981 Southern Methodist
University had been making illegal payments to its football players, the NCAA
cancelled the university’s entire 1987 football season.
Reflections on quiet: “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go
outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and
God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” Anne
Frank Hiding from the Germans the poor child and her family probably never saw
the outdoors after the start of the war until they arrived at the concentration
camp for extermination. 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 25, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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