Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 4, 2017 London’s butcher
bill is being tallied after yesterday’s cowardly attack by three radical
Islamists-7 dead and 48 injured and 3 sick fanatics sent on their delusional one
way ticket to Paradise where they will find the gates closed and the virgins
throwing rocks at them; Brits have arrested 12 suspected accomplices; CNN’s
biased “journalist” Reza Aslan stoops to new lows of decency and respect by
tweeting that President Trump is a piece of shit (it truly takes one to be able
to be presumed to know one); Susan Rice is on the Sunday talk shows arguing that
Trump’s ban will not make America safer as if she has any credibility with the
American people other than the leftist zealots in the MSM; one hopes that the
lunatic in North Korea has a translator that speaks Russian as Russia at a
security conference in Singapore where General Mathis declared North Korea’s
nuclear weapons and missile program to be a “clear and present danger” stated
in no uncertain terms that North Korea’s nuclear weapons program constitutes a “direct
threat to Russia”); a slight crack in the PC Thought Curtain that has infected
American colleges and universities may be appearing at MIZZOU where freshmen
enrollment has dropped 35% and where the new chancellor has issued the clarion
call for diversity of thought; Rahm Emanuel’s top priority for Chicago seems to
be making it the premier sanctuary city in the country as the carnage continues
unabated in June with total shootings in 2017 through June 3 increasing to 1420
and the death toll increasing to 244, 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 Percy Faith, factoids of
interest for this day in history, hoping your day is an illecebrous one, a relevant quote from Angelina Jolie, 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 price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact
me for details.
1. Hug Your Cat Day—if a cat
lover/owner this is an observance idea that should be celebrated daily not just
one day of the year, especially if one’s cat is well trained and uses a litter
box and does not scratch the sofas.
2. International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression—created by the
United Nation in 1982 to combat and prevent violence against children, be
emotional, mental or physical.
3. 1953 Number One Song—the number one song in 1953 on a run of 10 weeks
in that position was “The Song From Moulin Rouge” by Percy Faith and his
orchresta. Here is a performance by them of the song: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=percy+faith+the+song+from+moulin+rouge#id=1&vid=46c564159aaa0c147d49a36569259346&action=click .
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “illecebrous” which means enticing or
attractive which the gridlock in the Swamp is definitely not.
5. Proactive Not Reactive--celebrating the birth on this day in 1975 of noted actress,
director and producer Angelina Jolie who when confronted with the reality that
she carried a gene that makes it highly likely she will develop breast cancer
before age 50 underwent a double mastectomy and although probably not related
filed for divorce from her third husband Brad Pitt.
On this day
in:
a. 1411 King Charles VI granted a monopoly to the residents of
Roquerfort-sur-Soulzon to ripen Roquerfort cheese.
b. 1876 the United States became a much smaller place with the
arrival in San Francisco of an express train the Transcontinental Express 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New
York City.
c. 1912 Massachusetts became the first state to pass a minimum
wage law applicable only to women and children under the age of 18 with no
penalties for failure of employers to abide other than publishing their names
and handed over the power to set minimums to a commission.
d. 1939 in one of our darker days in history the MS St. Louis carrying 963 Jewish
refugees from Germany was denied permission to land in Florida and forced to
return to Germany where some 200 passengers unfortunate enough not to be able
to otherwise flee were exterminated in concentration camps.
e. 2010 SpaceX successfully launched its first Falcon 9 rocket
from the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
Reflections on love from one very courageous woman: “We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but
by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” Angelina Jolie Wise words, wise words indeed and if followed might
dramatically cut our staggering divorce rate. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my
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