Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 29, 2017 While both the
Senate and the House appear loath to conduct any inquiry of the quid pro quo of
Russia and the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s outrageous speaking fees
in Russia while HRC was Secretary of State while 20 percent of our uranium
assets ended up in Putin’s hands, it’s pedal to the metal time with respect to
Russian influence in the elections and possible interaction by Trump campaign
with Russia (lurking in the background and not getting as much attention is the
involvement of Obama holdovers in government on why Trump Transition Team and
Campaign members were being swept up by incidental monitoring and then unmasked
which is a felony); Pierce College joined the ranks of the PC tyranny over free
speech by preventing a student from handing out copies of the Constitution
outside the school’s “free speech” zone and is now being sued by that student
(let’s hope he wins big time to end this nonsense); while Christie dodged the
bullet over the Bridgegate scandal and is slotted to head Trump’s commission on
opioid addiction, two of his aides did not and they were sentenced to go to
prison, one for 18 months and the other for 2 years plus 500 hours of community
service; in yet another example on the growing spread of anarchy on the issue
of illegal immigration, Massachusetts Representative Michelle DuBois got wind
of an upcoming ICE sweep in Brocton and posted on her Facebook a warning to
illegals in the area (she pulled the notification but continued to defend her
actions); in North Carolina a Red state representative released a report that
320 illegals were licensed by the Secretary of State as notary publics with the
power among others to attest to absentee ballots; on the refugee front news
that individuals on the 9th Circuit, Washington, and Hawaii masquerading
as judges should take to heart, the FBI has ongoing terrorism investigations on
300 refugees many of whom are from the countries Trump wants to ban and those
investigations represent 30% of the active terrorism investigations (even more
frightening is that the FBI is becoming stretched very thin by the magnitude of
the investigations); in yet another example of incompetence in vetting, three
Iraqi refugees applying for citizenship have been arrested for immigration
fraud for failing to disclose that two of them were brothers of a kidnapper who
held an American hostage in Iraq for a year in an underground bunker; 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 28 increasing to 711 but the death toll
remains stuck at 123 for the last two days (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, including a poem in honor of Vietnam Veterans
Day http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/11/tribute-to-marines-at-khe-sanh-on-this.html, a music link to the Temptations,
factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Zack Wamp,
while bemoaning the fact that bi-partisanship has flatlined in the Swamp, 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. National Mom and
Pop Business Owners Day—celebrating the backbone
of our economy and the driver of job creation, small business, and the
dedication of small business owners to their employees and their community.
Celebrate the day by shopping at a small business.
2. Vietnam Veterans Day—honoring
the service of the almost four million veterans who served in the Vietnam War,
especially the 58,164 whose names are etched on the Wall.
3. 1971 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1971 on a run of 2 weeks in that position “Just My Imagination”
by the Temptations. Here is a recording of the band performing the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Z9-QCmZyw
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “flatline” which means to die and
which perfectly describes what has happened to compromise and bi-partisanship
in the Swamp.
5. Pedal to the Metal—celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of Eric Idle, noted
British actor, comedian and co-creator of Monty
Python and the Flying Circus still going strong, idle and definitely in the
words of an English knight on the bridge “I’m not dead yet,” as he gets slowly
hacked to pieces.
On this day
in:
a. 1806 construction began
on the Great National Pike, the first federal highway better known as the
Cumberland Road was authorized to run 620 miles from Cumberland, Maryland on
the Potomac River to Vadalia, Illinois.
b. 1847 American forces led by General Winfield Scott took Veracruz
after a siege 20 days.
c. 1867 Queen Victoria gave her Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1 of that year.
c. 1867 Queen Victoria gave her Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1 of that year.
d. 1961 the Twenty Third Amendment was ratified which allowed
residents of the District of Columbia to vote in presidential elections.
e. 2014 the first same sex marriages were performed in England
and Wales.
Reflections on the
disgraceful conduct of anti war protestors demonstrating not only against Vietnam
War but also against those in uniform coming back from their tour of duty: “Thank you for the
sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught
us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and
patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our
prayers. Zack Wamp, former Republican member of the House from
Tennessee. The Ridley Corollary is that in addition to thoughts and prayers we
must unlike our former feckless president support them with our wallets. 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 29, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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