Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For May 24, 2017 Obama was
tweeting hypocrisy in full mode that we stood shoulder to shoulder with Britain
as Manchester identifies its dead caused by radical Islam and ISIS that Obama’s
JV Team response allowed to morph into the killers they are today; three thugs
arrested in Manchester in conjunction with the suicide attack as Britain is on
high alert for more terrorist attacks which have already occurred in the Philippines;
surveys coming out on high chilling percentages of Muslims in Europe that
believe in Sharia and support terrorist attacks (our federal judiciary that is
blocking the temporary Muslim unvetted travel ban needs to start going to some
funerals of innocents in Manchester killed by this deranged fanatic radicalized
by an evil ideology); the mayor of Minneapolis which has a large unassimilated radicalized
Somali refugee population thanks to Obama’s misguided policies, many of whom
have traveled to the Middle East to fight for ISIS had the idiocy to deliver, when the dead from
Manchester had not yet be buried, her
state of Minneapolis speech in a mosque with to be expected slams on Donald
Trump; more testimony that North Korea remains hell bent to develop an ICBM
with the capability to reach the U.S. with a nuclear weapon (when does the left
unite behind this president to nuke this rogue regime out of existence if China
does not get its act together and replace this lunatic?); on the PC academic
front the University of Chicago has the distinction of student groups demanding
race based housing for blacks, Asians, and Latinos and a core diversity
curriculum before one can graduate; in the real world away from the delusion of
PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck record or a
remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago
style, the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with total shootings in 2017 through May 22
increasing to 1284 and the death toll increasing to 219, a major tragedy that
the powers to be in Chicago seem to completely ignore.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Bing
Crosby, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping your study of
ichthyology will include a lunch at Catalina Fish Kitchen, a relevant quote from
the birthday boy Joseph Brodsky, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like Fathers’ Day, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the
Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great
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1. Aviation
Maintenance Technicians Day—celebrating since 2008 by
Congressional resolution the contribution to aviation by the skilled
technicians that keep our planes where they belong in the sky transporting
people, cargo and our military.
2. Jerusalem
Day—celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem as a result of the Six
Day War in 1967.
3. 1944
Number One Song—the number one song in 1944 on a run
of 5 weeks in that position was “I Love You” by Bing Crosby. Here is a
recording of him performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-qp5T2urf8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ichthyology”
which is the study of fish which given the benefits of eating seafood is an
area of science that we need more devotion to insure sustainable fish catch
levels for a growing human population.
5. More
Poets Less Parasites—celebrating the birth on this day in 1940 of Joseph Brodsky,
Russian born poet who was sentenced to five years of hard labor for being a
social parasite but was able to emigrate to the U.S. where he became a Poet
Laureate and won the Nobel Prize for Poetry, but his literary genius was cut
short by smoking and died of a heart attack in 1996.
On this day
in:
a. 1844 Samuel Morse
using the Morse Code sent the first telegraph message “What has God wrought?” from
Washington. D.C. to his assistant in Baltimore, Maryland.
b. 1883 the Brooklyn
Bridge was opened after 14 years of construction.
c. 1941 the German
Battleship Bismark sank the HMS Hood, killing all but three of her
seamen and damaging the HMS Prince of
Wales.
d. 1976 a wine tasting
competition took place in Paris known as the Judgment of Paris in which
California vineyards blew away the French, establishing California as one of
the prime wine growing regions of the world.
e. 1999 the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted Slobodan Milosevic
for crimes against humanity for the genocide of Albanians in Kosovo. He avoided
the hangman’s noose by dying of natural causes before the trial concluded.
Reflections of life from a poet who is no longer with us due to
smoking:” Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One
learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book,
including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so
few win, that so many lose.” Joseph Brodsky If there is a God which this poet
believes in his heart there is, one can only wonder if He would act as a referee
to blow the whistle on all the chaos brought about by the evil losers of the
world that are bent on killing innocents. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
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