Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 7, 2017 Often times this poet has railed at Pelosi for her bias but maybe after Meet the Press on Sunday one should
worry instead that Ms. Pelosi is losing it due to her bias as she railed
against our new president, President Bush; the delay and obstruction party of
Chuck Schumer loses again as Vice President Pence casted the deciding vote to
confirm DeVos as the new head of the Department of Education (every Blue
running for election should be punished in 2018 for voting against this
champion of real education of kids as opposed to prior Blues heading the office
who were mere puppets of the teachers’ unions); first the rust belt unions and
now the teachers’ unions will fade off into the sunset as a wave of charter
schools resulting in decent education will devastate the Blues’ campaign
coffers; in another example of why illegal aliens are allowed to flourish here
in this country, the nominee for secretary of labor admitted that he had hired
(he claims unknowingly) an illegal alien as a housekeeper; in yet another
classic example of government ineptitude and fraud Liang Zhao Zhang,
a janitor for BART who fleeced his employer in 2016 for $270,000 in
compensation including overtime was caught on camera for hours upon end each
day hiding out in a closet and not working (his supervisor should be fired and
Zhang should be criminally persecuted); in yet another chilling reminder of the
brutality of the Assad regime, Amnesty International is claiming Assad’s regime
has executed up to 13,000 civilians by
hanging since 2011; the drama continues over Trump’s temporary ban of residents
from 7 nations previously identified by Obama as hotbeds of terrorist activity
and failed nation states in terms of vetting abilities with briefs being filed
by the DOJ and plaintiffs (who must be praying that before the court reviews
the briefs the inane argument of the plaintiffs that no terrorist attack by an
illegal occurs in the United States); as President Trump is raising the possibility of
sending in federal agents to Chicago, the number of mostly blacks who were shot by mostly blacks in Chicago in 2017
through February 5 now totals 360, 59 of whom died but 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 Beyonce
and Slim Thug , factoids of interest for this day in history, a quote from Charles
Dickens, hoping that if you are making gravy to complement your dinner tonight
it does not excessively inspissate with lumps, blessed with a positive attitude
and secure in the knowledge that if you
want to find a gift for any memorable events like Valentine’s Day, 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. “e” Day—celebrating Euler’s
number if you are a mathematician as today represents the first two numbers of
the letter e--2/7.
2. National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—creating awareness of the infection of African-Africans by the HIV virus and the means to prevent such infection.
2. National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—creating awareness of the infection of African-Africans by the HIV virus and the means to prevent such infection.
3. Number One Song in 2006 —celebrating
the number 1 song in 2006 on a run of 5 weeks in that position “Check On It” by
Beyonce and Slim Thug. Here is a link to Beyonce and Slim Thug performing the
song:
4. Word of
the Day—the word of the day is “inspissate” which means to thicken or congeal (do not pronounce
the “p”).
5. The Boz Sketches Well—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1812 of noted 19th Century author Charles
Dickens who initially wrote under the nom
de plume the Boz and in his two tours of America giving lectures became
somewhat of a celebrity and earned the equivalent of over $1.5 million for his
speeches. Unfortunately, he died way too
early at 58 of a stroke.
On this day in:
1. 1795 the 11th
Amendment was ratified which granted to the states sovereign immunity.
2. 1894 the
Cripple Creek 5 month long miners’ strike began which quickly degenerated into
violence and marked the only time in employee/employer relations during a
strike that a state militia had been called up to protect the strikers.
3. 1962 the United
States banned the import of all Cuban products including to the dismay of cigar
aficionados all Cuban cigars.
4. 1992 the Maastricht Treaty was signed
creating the European Union which after Brexit may be in the process of
dissolving.
5. 1907 NeXT merged with Apple leading to the
creation of Mac OS X.
Reflections
as to whether Michelle Obama was an English major: “I
never knew what it was to feel disgust and contempt, till I traveled in
America.” —Charles Dickens Since
he received today’s equivalence of over $1.5 million for his lectures during
his tours of America before and after the Civil War, mystified why he would
make that comment. 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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