Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 27, 2017 The Blues that
were as recently as two weeks ago on life support are back in the obstructionist
game full time preparing to be nuked over Gorsuch’s nomination and dancing in
the streets over the Freedom Caucus’ sabotage of the repeal of Obamacare which
is becoming the greatest job killer of all time (fortunately for the Reds it
still has Obama’s name on it but it will implode leaving people in a world of
real hurt and angrier over professional swamp denizens be they Red or Blue than
ever before—term limits); biggest fear facing market is that needed tax cuts
will go down the drain due to an emboldened Schumer and his lackeys; finally a
revival in Appalachia as coal is being mined again and miners are working seven
days a week; another battle brewing over privacy and safety as Scotland Yard in
a dispute with WhatsApp is trying to open Masood’s encrypted messages sent
before his vehicle attack on Westminster Bridge; the Catholic Church in Mexico
has proclaimed that any Mexicans who work on the wall Trump wants to build are
traitors and acting immorally (like the women who didn’t vote for Hillary and
according to Madeline Albright have a special place in hell, any Mexican so
employed will have his or her special place); as Iraqi forces move to retake
Mosul, U.S. sends an additional 200 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne
to assist; on the sports front, the Stanford women came back from a 16 point
deficit in the third quarter to defeat Notre Dame, setting up a potential
showdown with UConn and the drama of two sisters named Samuelson playing
against each other for the National Championship; almost
like a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style, the carnage in Chicago continues unabated with
total shootings in 2017 through March 26 increasing to 701 and the death toll
rising to 123 (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, a music link to Tommy Roe, factoids of
interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Jay Leno, while thankful
that today is not to deracinate in the garden, 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. International
Whisk(e)y Day—first celebrated in 2009 to honor
the making of whisky and whiskey and to raise funds for research into Parkinson’s
Disease (no relation to the disease and the consumption of spirits).
2. World Theater Day—created
by the International Theater Institute in 1961 to promote appreciation of and
support of live theater and proving Shakespeare’s astute observation that “All the world’s a
stage, And all the men and women merely players.”
3. 1969 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1969 on a run of 4 weeks in that position “Dizzy” by Tommy Roe.
Here is a recording of him performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2DLMVxg02Q
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “deracinate” which means to tear
something out at the roots which is what we desperately need to do with the
corruption and lobbying weeds in Washington, D.C.
5. Call It For What It Is—celebrating or bemoaning the birth on this day in 1963 of
Quentin Tarantino a director of really violent films who sees no connection between
gun violence on the screen and gun violence on the streets and who created a storm
of controversy at a Black Lives Matter rally calling police murderers.
On this day
in:
a. 1915 Mary Mallon aka Typhoid
Mary the first asymptomatic carrier of the typhoid virus in the United States
was placed in quarantine where she would remain for the rest of her life.
b. 1964 a 9.2 earthquake, the strongest ever to hit the United States,
struck South-central Alaska killing 125 people and causing massive damage to
Anchorage and leveling the town of Valdez (the southern terminal of TAPS).
c. 1975 after years of delay due to litigation and Alaska Native claims construction on the Trans Alaska Pipeline
c. 1975 after years of delay due to litigation and Alaska Native claims construction on the Trans Alaska Pipeline
System finally began.
d. 1998 in a let the good times roll moment, the FDA approved
the sale of Viagra designed to prevent erectile dysfunction in men.
e. 2016 at a park in Lahore, Pakistan a suicide bomber targeting
Christians celebrating Easter detonated his bomb, killing 70 and wounding some
300 others.
A note of humor on
Viagra: “More coming out
about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six
mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy -
he's one of their own.” Jay Leno. Please enjoy the poems on events
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© March 27, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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