Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For June 23, 2017
One can only pray that McConnell can pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat
and find 50 votes to repeal Obamacare to send it to reconciliation with the House
(Schumer is the chief obstruction Swamp denizen whose “wolf in sheep’s clothing”
castigation of the proposed bill should go down as one of the most pathetic
deceptive speeches in history on the Senate floor); no Senator or House member
should be allowed to leave the Swamp until a repeal and replacement of Obamacare and tax cuts are passed—no more MIA
business as usual nonsense while the recovery hangs by a slender thread of
failed expectations!; Mueller, given his long term friendship with Comey when
it comes to him and his team of Clinton donors, probably does not have an objective
bone in his body but has a carte blanche to spend as much money as he wants to
investigate an expanding, never ending probe of collusion and obstruction of
justice witch hunts that will only delay what this country really needs—jobs,
tax cuts, security, and infrastructure (when does Trump say enough and fire
this Comey plant, take the heat and move on to solve our pressing potential
economic problems that may devastate us mere mortals living outside the
Swamp?); gruesome news coming out of the Hermit Kingdom of Kim Jong Un’s
depravity in killing and the methods of killing any perceived opponents (if
there ever was a case for regime change ala snipers, drones, MOAB or sadly even
nukes look no further and followed by massive food aid to a starving
population); in another art trying to imitate life moment Johnny Depp in
England was “joking” about assassinating President Trump ala Booth (when will
the left tone down the anti Trump rhetoric and put away the dog whistles of
hate and violence?); 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 22
increasing to 1660 but the death toll unchanged at 292, 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
Byrds, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping that our
politicians will not display impudicity in dealing with the pressing issues
facing us, a relevant quote from Freddy Fender on birth control, secure in the knowledge
that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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.
International Widows Day—a
UN ratified day to promote awareness of the economic and social difficulties
faced by widows following the death of their husbands.
2. United
Nations Public Service Day—created by the UN General Assembly
in 2003 to recognize and promote the contributions of public service to our
communities although too often public service workers due to the contributions
of their unions to political office holders are blessed with wages higher than
the private sector and bankrupting pensions that private sector workers can
only dream of.
3. 1965 Number One Song—the number one song in
1965 on a run of 1 week in that position was “Mr. Tambourine Man” by the
Byrds. Here is a performance by the band of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqAvgN6Tyw
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “impudicity” which means shamelessness,
a character trait which most politicians in attacking their opponents possess
in spades as they stand on the pulpit of hypocrisy.
5. Almost
Borked by Leftist Dorks—celebrating the birth on this day in 1948 of Associate Justice
of SCOTUS Clarence Thomas who barely survived a savage attack by Anita Hill
over bogus sexual harassment claims and the Blues eager to Bork another conservative
nominee and has become one of the conservative pillars of the court.
On this day
in:
a. 1894 the
International Olympic Committee was established at the Sorbonne.
b. 1926 the College Board
administered the first SAT.
c. 1960 in a let the
good times now roll without concern moment, the FDA approved the use of Enovid
as an oral contraceptive.
d. 1969 in a move which
created the modern software industry, IBM announced that henceforth it would price
its hardware and services separately.
e. 2014 in a classic pull
the wool over the civilized world’s eyes, the barbarous Assad convinced the world
that all his chemical weapons previously being used on his own people which
created the “red Line in the sand” by our feckless former president had been removed
for destruction, a deception that was revealed in April of this year when he
dropped nerve gas on a town in Syria, prompting a nonfeckless Trump to launch
dozens of cruise missiles against the Syrian base that had launched the planes.
Reflections on the need for
birth control on the anniversary of the introduction of the pill: ”Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel
sorry for them, and I say to myself, ‘There's one more argument for birth
control.’” Freddy Fender, noted Mexican American singer who sadly died
of lung cancer at the early age of 69. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
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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
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© June 23, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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