Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 18, 2017 Major saber
rattling in North Korea who now is promising weekly missile launch tests; United
Airlines must be sighing in relief as Facebook is now in the PR hot seat with
growing outrage after it took Facebook some hours to pull Stephen Stevens’ video of his random killing of Robert Goodwin
who remains at large with a $50,000 reward on his head and a nationwide search
in place; voters are going to the polls in Georgia to fill the vacancy created
by Price’s joining Trump’s campaign with the Blues contributing over $8 million
to Jon Ossoff’s campaign; British Prime Minister May has announced an election
on June 8, 2017 to preserve stability as the EU exit proceeds (what a great way
to have campaign finance reform—have an election in less than 60 days as
opposed to the almost two years of campaigning we have to endure); on the tax
front Mnuchin has indicated that the August goal of tax reform is not realistic,
a victim of Blue obstructionism in the Senate and the failure to repeal and
replace Obamacare (when will Ryan get up off his business as usual ass and
start working the House 24/7?) and Trump in essence has aped Bush with a read
my lips no tax returns moment (do not understand Trump’s continuing refusal—what
is in his returns that is so damaging that they cannot be released?); in a
Southwest Airlines motto mocking moment of “Low Fares Nothing to Hide” a pilot scheduled to pilot the flight to
Chicago was arrested for carrying a loaded pistol in his flight bag (another
vulnerability—pilots and crews are not screened); 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 16
increasing by 10 to 928 and the death toll increasing by one to 161 (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, a music link to Sinead O’Connor, factoids of
interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Jimmy Doolittle, remember
to degust your meals especially those at an upscale restaurant, 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 Linemen Appreciation Day—honoring the hardworking
men and women who during all sorts of miserable weather are climbing or lifted
up to utility poles to restore power due to storms, blizzards, floods,
tornadoes and fires incurring large numbers of overtime. My stepfather was a
lineman for the REA and seeing him coming in from the field after 24 hours in
the winter definitely created a great appreciation for the work he was doing.
2. International Sites and Monuments Day—celebrated since 1992 to promote awareness of cultural diversity
as represented by our monuments and cultural sites, the needs to protect them
and encourage visits to them.
3. 1990 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1990 on a run of 4 weeks in that position “Nothing Compares to
You” by Sinead O’Connor. Here is a recording of her performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auUPqxI1vqg
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “degust” which means to taste food
slowly and carefully to savor it.
5. Accessories Add Glamor—celebrating the birth on this day in 1971 of Samantha Cameron,
wife of former British Prime Minister David Cameron and creative director of Smythson
of Bond Street, a London based manufacturer of luxury stationery, leather and
fashion goods.
On this day
in:
a. 1906 a massive earthquake and resulting fire destroyed much
of San Francisco and even damaged buildings at Stanford University in Palo Alto.
b. 1942 Colonel
Doolittle took off from an American carrier with 16 B-25 bombers on a one way
trip to bomb Tokyo and five other Japanese cities in America’s first attack
back at Japan.
c. 1954 Nasser seized power in Egypt.
d. 1983 a suicide bomber destroyed the American Embassy in
Beirut killing 63.
e. 1988 in retaliation for Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf
and damaging an American destroyer, the U.S. Navy commenced Operation Praying
Mantis and destroyed very quickly one half of Iran’s naval forces and one oil
drilling platform.
Reflections on how to fight in a war something Obama never learned
or if he did was too timid to apply the lessons learned: “If we should have to fight, we should be prepared
to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.” Jimmy Doolittle Please enjoy the poems on events
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