Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For June 11, 2017 We
are still mired in the delusion of the Russian collusion and the Comey firing
while the real issues we need to address like replacing a dead Obamacare, tax
cuts, and border security are dead in the water (where are the PR people to
alert the voters to the obstruction by the Blues that will kill this recovery
and doom this nation to a return to the abysmal growth of the Obama years?);
Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest uncouth, profanity spewing “Senator” hurling f*
bombs at Trump (with antics and animosity like that no wonder the Blues are the
reason nothing can be accomplished in the Swamp); the head of the RNC stated
today enough is enough and called for an end to the false Russian collusion delusion
investigations by the Senate and House so Congress can focus on what they were
elected to do—solve the issues aforementioned that exponentially more important
than the sound bites of Blue politicians like Harris seeking reelection or a
higher office; shades of the Berlin Airlift, Iran has sent five planes loaded
with food to Qatar after Saudi Arabia closed its border; in a one step forward
to objectivity with the firing on Aslan, the Clinton News Network, took two
steps backward by running for two days the false narrative based on anonymous sources
that Comey would refute Trump’s allegations that he was not told he was not
under investigation which despite his leaks, Comey told the truth that Trump
was not; Rahm Emanuel’s top priority for Chicago remains making it the
premier sanctuary city in the country as the carnage continues unabated in June
with total shootings in 2017 through June 10 increasing to 1507 and the death
toll increasing to 262, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem
to completely ignore except for those fortunate enough to own a mortuary.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the
Everly Brothers, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping Trump
will remain impavid against the Blues and the MSM in his efforts to get his
needed agenda implemented, a relevant quote on abuse from Simon Baron-Cohen, secure in the knowledge
that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day
which is right around the corner, 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.
Race Unity Day—created
in 1957 by Bahá’í National Spiritual
Assembly to promote racial harmony and understanding which given the
divisiveness of race relations that still persists in this nation is an
observance that merits observing each and every day of our lives.
2. Abused
Women and Children’s Awareness Day—created to promote
awareness of and to end the abuse of one in four women during their lifetime by
their spouse or significant other and the estimated abusing of 6 million
children each year—a real man never, ever strikes or otherwise abuses a woman
or a child.
3. 1960
Number One Song—the number one song in 1960 on a run
of 5 weeks in that position was “Cathy’s Clown” by the Everly Brothers. Here is
a performance by them of the song with a very young Dick Clark introducing them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3-E9JebDtU
Both brothers were heavy smokers but the oldest Don born in 1937 quit in the 60’s
and is still going strong but the youngest Phil born in 1939 who also quit but
took up the butt again died of lung disease in 2014.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “impavid” which means to be fearless
which when it comes to tackling major problems facing us like entitlement
spending growing out of control, is a characteristic our politicians completely
lack.
5. Poster
Child for Term Limits—celebrating the birth on this day in 1930 of Charles Rangel, 19
term Congressman from Harlem who defeated another corrupt long term politician
Adam Clayton Powell but was sanctioned himself for ethics violations in 2010.
On this day
in:
a. 1776 the Continental
Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger
Sherman and David Livingston to draft the Declaration of Independence.
b. 1937 eight high
ranking generals were executed on the orders of Joseph Stalin, whose executing
or imprisoning of thousands from the officer corps of the Soviet Union left it
ill prepared to face the Wehrmacht in 1941 when Germany launched its invasion.
c. 1944 the last
battleship built by the U.S. Navy, the USS
Missouri, was commissioned and now is a floating museum at Pearl Harbor.
d. 1998 Compaq Computer
Corporation acquired Digital Equipment Corporation for $9 billion which at the
time was the largest high tech acquisition until it was itself acquired by
Hewlett-Packard for $25 billion in 2002.
e. 2002 in a what took
you so long and my kingdom for a horse moment, the U.S. Congress passed a
resolution recognizing Antonio Meucci as the first inventor of the telephone
who filed a caveat patent some 16 years prior to Alexander Graham Bell but did
not have the requisite filing fee of $10 to be issued a patent.
Reflections on the impact of child abuse: ““Parents
who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions
produce children who have better moral development, compared to children whose
parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.” ― Simon Baron-Cohen, Zero
Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty Reflecting
on the accomplishments of my children now adults, Simon is right on. Please enjoy the poems
on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet
and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in
History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on
breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or
Not for just This Day in History.
© June 11, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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