Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 1, 2017 Last night even the most leftist of the main stream media
had to admit the Trump hit it out of the park, especially with the tribute to
the Navy Seal who recently was killed in a raid in Yemen and acknowledging his
widow; the market responded positively to the idea of unity and strength and
after eight years of anemic growth under Obama the hope of real economic
recovery by cracking the 21,000 barrier; as expected the Blues other than a few
independent thinkers willing to put country ahead of party sat lifeless, glued
to their seats still in a state of shock about what they were witnessing; two
Blue rebuttal speeches were given, one by the former governor of Kentucky
defending Obamacare and the other by a community activist (aka probably as
someone without a job) Silvia Astrid whose focus typifies why the Blues
lost—women’s rights, climate change and LGBT concerns when Americans are
concerned about safety, jobs, drugs, and a porous border; the fantasy lives on
in France where a petition is circulating (in ignorance of our Constitution)
calling for Obama to run for a third term; highly symbolic that the Blue women
all wore white—perfect snowflakes; nice article on the difficulties of living
in San Francisco from a housing cost standpoint http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/03/01/tech-workers-complain-about-cost-living-increases-in-san-francisco.html; almost like a stuck
record, the carnage in Chicago continues unabated through February 28, rising
to 523 shootings but the death count still stuck at 98 persons dead (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 Evelyn
Knight, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Nicholson Baker, while not having to squint because of your emmetropia, 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. Beer Day—if in Iceland you would be celebrating the end of prohibition which
had lasted from 1915 to 1989.
2. Horse Protection Day—celebrated since 2005 to promote awareness of the plight of
unwanted or abused horses and campaigning in states other than California where
the practice of slaughtering horses for food is illegal to ban the practice in
such states.
3. 1949 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1949 on a run of 7 weeks
in that position “A Little Bird Told Me” by Evelyn Knight. Here is a recording of her performing the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe9RwAFVn9U
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “emmetropia”
which means perfect vision which too many of us lack.
5. The Cat
in the Hat—celebrating the birth on this day in
1904 of Theodor Geisel, better known to his fans as Dr. Seuss who attended
Dartmouth and wrote for the on campus humor magazine but was caught in his dorm
drinking and kicked off the magazine but continued to write for it under the
nom de plume Seuss, his middle name.
On this day
in:
a. 1642 Georgeana, Massachusetts (now York, Maine) became the
first city to be incorporated in the 13 Colonies.
b. 1692 in one of our darker historical moments Sarah Good, Sarah
Osborne and Tituba were brought before a local magistrate in Salem, marking the
beginning of the Salem Witch Trials.
c. 1781 the Continental Congress passed the Articles of
Confederation.
d. 1872 Yellowstone National Park was established as the nation’s
first national park.
e. 2006 Wikipedia published its 1 millionth article (there are
currently 5,344,821 English wikipedias and over 40 million non English
wikipedias).
Reflections on Wikipedia:
“Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is
fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny,
shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
Nicholson Baker, noted American essayist and novelist Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
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