Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For April 25, 2017 North Korea appears to be hell bent to remain
on its collision course with the United States and South Korea and is conducting massive live fire artillery drills
and spewing out inflammatory rhetoric (scary stuff especially for the millions of
South Koreans living in Seoul only a few miles south of the border); tomorrow
the entire Senate has been invited to the White House for a briefing on the escalating
tensions with North Korea; in an attempt to raise the PC iron curtain the
students who invited Ann Coulter to speak at Cal have filed a law suit in
federal court against the University for blocking her right to speak (the left
thugs who use violence to prevent conservatives from airing their views should
be expelled and put in jail); it what should not come as a surprise donors to Drexel
are withdrawing their funding due to the inane rants of a professor George
Ciccariello who wants to off the pigs and praises Venezuela as a model country
(in total collapse due to socialist policies as people are starving); in yet another
example of the sheer and unrelenting hypocrisy of politicians, news today is
that Obama will be speaking at a health care conference put on by a Wall Street
investment banking firm and will be paid $400,000 (if this is how the firm
spends its dollars to listen to a speech, how dumb would someone have to be trust
these people with their money or rely upon them for investment advice); 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 ten to 1001 and the death toll
increasing by two to 174 (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 Puff
Daddy, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Steve
Maraboli, hoping that you don’t lollygag through the day, 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. Parent Alienation
Awareness Day—creating awareness for the damage caused by a custodial parent
who is hell bent out of revenge and anger to try to alienate the children from
the noncustodial parent to the detriment of the children who deserve a healthy
relationship with both parents.
2. World Malaria Day—celebrated
since 2007 and designed to promote awareness of this killer of close to one
million people a year and raise money for eradication efforts of the carrier of
the disease—mosquitoes.
3. 1997 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1997 on a run of 6
weeks in that position “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” by Puff Daddy. Here is a
recording of the rapper performing the “song”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmHMcKN8xlI
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “lollygag” which was one of my father’s favorite words which means to
spend time in an aimless or lazy manner.
5. Deadly Camels—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1908 of Edward R. Morrow, note CBS radio and television
broadcaster who unfortunately smoked three packs of Camels a day and died of
lung cancer at the way too early age of 57.
On this day
in:
a. 1859 British and French
engineers broke ground for the construction of the Suez Canal which was
completed ten years later.
b. 1901 in a typical if
it moves regulate it moment, New York became the first state to require license
plates for automobiles.
c. 1915 allied forces
landed in Turkey near Gallipoli but unfortunately lollygagged on the beaches
allowing the Turks to fortify the surrounding heights which resulted in a
subsequent disaster for the allied armies and their humiliated withdrawal in
disgrace after having suffered 302,000 casualties.
d. 1953 Francis Crick
and James Watson published an article describing the double helix structure of
DNA and the biochemistry race was on.
e. 1954 the first practical
solar cell was demonstrated by Bell Labs.
Reflections
on parent alienation which too often is the collateral damage of divorce with
victims who are truly innocent: ”Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence
that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.” Steve Maraboli, noted author and
motivational speaker. From personal experience he is right on point with his
observation. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter
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