Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For April 22, 2017 Keep your fingers crossed as Trump announced
that a tax cut package will be announced on Wednesday; in what has to have been
one of the most difficult tasks of being president, President Trump and the
first lady visited Walter Reed Hospital to meet with wounded soldiers; on Earth
Day protest marches across the nation over Trump’s views on climate change;
another Obama mole has been removed as Trump fired the Obama appointed Surgeon General who has been a vocal critic of
the NRA; in a déjà vu that we do not need, we face another government shutdown
due to a need to pass a budget which has some real land mines in it that
Schumer’s obstructionists oppose like funding to build a wall or defunding of
the abortion practices of Planned Parenthood (finally a time to end all
vacations and recesses for Congress to 24/7 address the issues that face us);
no missile launches from the fat lunatic in North Korea; time for all Red
voters to call on Speaker Ryan to call the troops back and end the summer
recess until we get what Trump campaigned on—reduction in the corporate and
individual tax rates along with a tax holiday to repatriate overseas
earnings; 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 21, 2017 increasing to 977 and the death
toll increasing by 168 (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 R.
Kelley, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Gaylord
Nelson, hoping that truckloads of hoggin will be seen on the highways heading
for use if Congress approves a needed infrastructure bill, 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. Earth Day—another UN General Assembly
observance since 2009 but founded by Gaylord Nelson in 1970 to promote awareness
of the need to curb human conduct that is damaging to the ecosystems of the
planet we call home.
2. In God
We Trust Day—commemorating the resolution of
Congress on this day in 1864 to place the statement “In God We Trust” on a two
cent coin that was produced for only ten years but the motto survives through
today although one might wonder why the ACLU guardians of the separation of church
and state have not filed suit to remove it from our currency.
3. 1994 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1994 on a run of 4
weeks in that position “Bump ‘N Grind” by R. Kelley. Here is a recording of him
performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXxkNaRkp8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “hoggin” which means a mixture of sand and gravel used in road building
which could be the favorite word of Congress if we ever move forward on the
infrastructure bill Trump is proposing.
5. Adios—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1936 of country music icon Glenn Campbell whose last album Adios recorded five years ago will be
released in June of this year. Sadly the singer is in the terminal stages of
Alzheimer’s but his music for his fans will live on.
On this day
in:
a. 1889 at noon the Oklahoma
land rush began as thousands raced across the plains to claim land in the Oklahoma
Territory.
b. 1915 the propensity
of man to utilize more devastating weapons was revealed in the second battle of
Ypres by the Germans who utilized chlorine gas, the same weapon long since outlawed
but used by Syrian war criminal Assad less than two weeks ago against a hospital
in Syria, prompting a US Tomahawk Cruise missile strike.
c. 1970 the first Earth
Day was celebrated.
d. 1977 optical fiber
was used to carry telephone messages for the first time.
e. 2005 in a better late
than never moment Japan finally apologized to the world for its horrendous
record against civilians and prisoners of war during World War II.
Reflections on Earth
Day: “The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil,
forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and
biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all
the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the
sustaining wealth of the world.”Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day and former
Senator and governor of Wisconsin. Please
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