Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 11, 2017 Trump throws down
the gauntlet to China, demanding they help in solving the fat madman’s insane
quest for nukes or we will do it alone (with our feckless former president
empty words but with our current one action looming behind those words); G7 meeting
in Italy has not come up with a unified sanctions plan against Russia for its
support of Assad (another problem we face thanks to the bogus red line in the
sand that our former feckless president announced); the friendly skies of United
are anything but that as the video of a doctor dragged off a United Flight goes
viral (I hope he sues big time and collects and may after a defiant email from UA
President Oscar Munoz was leaked—time to address over booking and time for a
boycott of UA); while at the G-7 meeting in Rome Rex Tillerson was pleading his
case for more sanctions against Syria and Russia, Blue representative Tulsi Gabbard was meeting
with the criminal Assad in Syria and rightfully being slammed by some of her
Blue colleagues; in another display that Ruth Ginsburg may not be all there,
she assumed Senator Graham was a woman; Trump met with 20 high profile CEOs to
promote tax cuts and repeal of Dodd-Franks (failure to achieve both sooner than
later will be a disaster for the economy); 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 April
10 increasing to 843 and the death toll rising to 155 (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 who appears to care only about the rights of illegal
aliens in his sanctuary city (when will
Chicago residents through the city council try to impeach this pathetic, inept
mayor?).
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, music links to Kenny Loggins and the Kingsmen,
factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Linda
Ronstadt, vowing today to avoid being a vidiot, 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 Parkinson’s Day—celebrating James Parkinson’s diagnosis of a terrible disease in
1817 and promoting research and funding to find a cure for it.
2. Louie Louie Day—celebrating the iconic
rock and roll song written by Chuck Berry (died March 18, 2017 at age 90) and released
in 1957. Here is a link to the Kingsmen performing the song in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ.
3. 1984 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1984 on a run of 3 weeks in that position “Footloose” by Kenny
Loggins. Here is a recording of him performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltrMfT4Qz5Y
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “vidiot” which means a habitual
watcher of television or video.
5. Freedom March Casualty—honoring the the birth on this day in 1925 of Viola Gregg Liuzzo
who participated in the Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery but had her life
cut short when she was murdered by the Klu Klux Klan driving a fellow marcher
back to Selma to become the only known white woman murdered in the Civil Rights
Movement.
On this day
in:
a. 1951 President Truman affirming that civilians control the
military relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his command in Korea.
b. 1961 after being
abducted by Mossad in Argentina, the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in
Jerusalem. He was found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death and hanged for
his role in the Holocaust.
c. 1966 51 tornadoes touched down in six Midwestern states, causing
256 deaths and massive damage to structures.
d. 1976 Steve Wozniak hand built the first Apple 1 and Apple’s
rise to fortune was off to the races.
e. 2002 over 200,000 people marched to the presidential palace
in Caracas, Venezuela to demand the resignation of Hugo Chavez and 19
protestors were killed; unfortunately for the country he and his socialism were
not removed until his death in 2013 and his successor Maduro’s socialistic
policies have brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy.
Reflections on the personal cost of Parkinson’s
disease:“ I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My
voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words
away from me.” Linda Ronstadt What a shame to be robbed of one’s
creative skills. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
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© April 11, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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