Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For April 24, 2017 Brexit fever crossed the Channel as the
French sent Le Pen into the run off against Macon; we face another potential
government shutdown as the Blues are digging in their heals on the wall and funding
the abortion factory Planned Parenthood; for fantasy football fans in the
political arena a poll released by the Washington Post with headlines touting
Trump’s low approval ratings buried at the end of the article that if the
election granted the voters a mulligan they would still vote to elect Trump
over the worst candidate the Democrats have ever fielded in modern times; Tom
Perez is receiving flack from both sides including Nancy Pelosi (finally I can
agree with her) on his inane statement that someone who is pro life cannot be a
Democrat (even in the ninth month of a pregnancy?); 57 year old Peggy Whitson
with 535 cumulative days in space is now the American record holder for the
most cumulative days in space but still way between the world record of 879
days held by a Russian cosmonaut; the fat lunatic in North Korea is still ranting he will destroy the USS Vinson and its task force and incinerate Australia for its support of
the U.S. as oil from China starts disappearing and coal exports shrivel up; 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 23, 2017 increasing by nine to 991 and the death toll increasing by four to
172 (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 Celine
Dion, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Joseph
Markwart, hoping that you don’t run into any junglis, 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. Armenian Genocide
Rembrance Day—commemorating since 1919 the expulsion of Armenians from
Constantinople and genocide committed against them by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
a crime against humanity that the Turks still have to come to grips with.
2. Fashion Revolution Day—commemorating
the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1133 garment workers
and injured over 2500 and observed since
2014 to identify where clothes are being manufactured and to promote safer and
better working conditions for those workers.
3. 1996 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1996 on a run of 6
weeks in that position “Because You Loved Me” by Celine Dion. Here is a
recording of her performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNognZzh4do
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “jungli” which is used in India to describe someone who is uncultured or
wild which the denizens of the Swamp must think they are facing in the form of
Donald Trump.
5. Grand Slam—celebrating not the
birth of any prolific home run hitter with the bases loaded but the birth on
this day in 1942 of one of only fourteen entertainers to have won an Oscar,
Emmy, Tony and Grammy award, Barbara Streisand whose politics are way too much on
the liberal side but at least she delivers her views with a great voice.
On this day
in:
a. 1704 the first
newspaper in the colonies The Boston News
Letter was published and continued to do so until the British evacuated in
1776 due to the presence of American cannon on the surrounding heights.
b. 1895 Joseph Slocum
the first person to circumnavigate the globe single handily left Boston on the Spray
a single mast sloop oyster boat to begin
his sailing feat arriving back in Rhode Island on July 3, 1895.
c. 1922 in another making
the world a smaller place the first segment of the Imperial Wireless Service proving
wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England and Cairo, Egypt
opened for business.
d. 1967 Vladimir
Komarov had the unenviable distinction of being the first human being to die
during a space mission when the parachutes on his Soyuz I spacecraft failed to deploy properly on reentry from orbit.
e. 1990 in a making the
universe smaller moment the Shuttle
Discovery launched the Hubble Telescope.
Reflections
on the Armenian Genocide: Even after proclamation
of the Constitution the man slogan of the Turkish policy has been ‘Without Armenians
there will be no Armenian problem.’”Joseph Markwart, noted German scientist so
proclaiming in 1916. What is really sad about the genocide is that Stalin and
Hitler were aware of the lack of any response from the West which indicated
that Hitler would be able to implement the Holocaust and Stalin could wage
genocide against the Ukrainians with impunity.
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