Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 22, 2017 Radical Islam is
alive and well at least on the bridge leading to Parliament as a bearded
presumed Islamist mowed down 20 pedestrians on the Westminster Bridge killing
three and injuring dozens before being given his one way ticket to “Paradise”
by armed police in front of Parliament; growing outrage over the rape by two
illegals 17 and 18 who were in the ninth
grade of a Rockville, Maryland high school and gang raped a 14 year old student (another sad case of collateral damage of a porous
border that Blues like our junior senator Kamala Harris are fighting tooth and
nail to keep open); shocking and really scary revelations that numerous members
of the Trump campaign and Trump transition team were being wiretapped on an “incidental”
basis; Gorsuch faces another day of partisan attacks by Blues desperate to find
some basis to sabotage his nomination and are demanding the vote on his
nomination be delayed until the witch hunt probe of Russian tampering with the
election and the supposed influence on causing HRC to lose is concluded; anarchy
is sprouting its evil head in San Francisco as Hillary Ronen has introduced
legislation to ban the city from doing any business with any company that bids
to do work on the construction of the wall on the southern border (are you
kidding me—time to cut off any federal dollars to this urine stained cesspool
sanctuary city and start prosecuting city officials who are refusing to enforce
federal immigration law and in effect harboring illegals); despite arm twisting
by President Trump, it is not clear whether the Reds have enough votes to pass
the replacement bill for Obamacare tomorrow; almost like a stuck record,
the carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through
March 21 increasing to 656 and the death toll fortunately stuck at 119 (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
to find and shoot victims) and yet nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be
occurring to address this blight on blacks and minorities which is what racism
from a black mayor really looks like.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, another music link to the Turtles, factoids
of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Marq de Villiers,
while enjoying snorkeling to view the benthos, 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 Water Day—designated by the UN in 1993 to promote the development and
preservation of clean and sanitary water supplies in developing countries.
2. As Young As You Feel Day—celebrating
the fact that with replacement of joints, age is merely a state of mind; today
like all days is a day to keep moving and exercise your mental capabilities.
3. 1967 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1967 on a run of 3 weeks in that position “Happy Together” by the
Turtles. Here is a recording of the group performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRCe5L1imxg
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “benthos” which means the flora and
fauna to be found at the bottom of the sea or lake.
5. Shocking Truly Shocking—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1943 of Keith Relf the
founder of the Yardbirds who met an untimely early death at the age of 33 while playing an electric guitar that was not
properly grounded.
On this day
in:
a. 1765 in a “no
taxation without representation” moment that infuriated the American Colonies
and started the path to the Revolutionary War, the British Parliament enacted
the Stamp Act which levied a tax on all documents.
b. 1871 William Holden, the governor of North Carolina, had the
dubious distinction of being the first governor removed by impeachment on
strict party lines although the legislature recognized the error of its actions
and pardoned him in 2011.
c. 1872 Illinois became the first state to require gender equality in employment.
c. 1872 Illinois became the first state to require gender equality in employment.
d. 1960 Arthur Schlawlow and Charles Townes received the first
patent for a laser.
e. 2016 Islamist terrorists bombed the Brussels airport and the
Maalbeck/Maelbeck train station killing 33 innocents and wounding over 300
people; sadly to commemorate that vile act of Islamist terror, a jihadist ran
his car into pedestrians walking across the Westminster Bridge and then rammed
the gate leading to Parliament, stabbed a policeman to death and then was shot
down like the dog he was.
Observations of the importance of water in our lives on World Water
Day: “The trouble with water—and there is trouble with
water—is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less,
mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now
as there was in prehistoric times. People, however, they're making more of—many
more, far more than is ecologically sensible—and all those people are utterly
dependent on water for their lives (humans consist mostly of water), for their
livelihoods, their food, and increasingly, their industry. Humans can live for
a month without food but will die in less than a week without water. Humans
consume water, discard it, poison it, waste it, and restlessly change the
hydrological cycles, indifferent to the consequences: too many people, too
little water, water in the wrong places and in the wrong amounts.” Marq de
Villiers, noted South African author and writer now living in Nova Scotia, Canada. 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.
© March 22, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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