Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For August 26, 2017 Harvey
slammed into Texas as a category 4 hurricane and though quickly downgraded to a
tropical storm is like the bad inlaw you cannot get rid of and is remaining in
Texas expected to dump three plus feet of rain in the coming days bringing
flooding to the Houston area (only one person has died as a result of the storm
as gas prices across the country have surged); Trump is being slammed by the
left and MSM for pardoning Sheriff Arpaio (where was the outrage when Clinton
pardoned felon Mark Rich after his ex-wife gave almost #$1,500,000 to his
campaign, his wife’s Senate campaign and to the Clinton Library Foundation?);
Gorka is out as a Deputy National Security Adviser to Trump; African-American
Grand Canyon University Professor Toby Jennings is out of a job for indicating
that certain members of BLM should be hanged for their violent rhetoric; Blues
are salivating over possibilities of flipping the House by tying all Reds to
Trump (please Pelosi stay in power with your delusional rants that fire up the
Red base and turn out the vote); as the Pope decried the latest ISIS video as a
threat to Christianity, two knife attacks in London and Brussels with no one
killed other than the two delusional jihadists who will find no virgins in Paradise,
the doors to which have been closed to them; through
August 23, 2017 in Chicago the number of people being shot climbed to 2481, 427
of whom have died but in a rarity no deaths in the last two previous days.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to OMI,
factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Nicolas
Kristof, hoping the Houston jawholes remain unclogged, 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. Women’s Equality Day—celebrating the
adoption of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in
1920.
2. Repentance Day—celebrated
in Papua New Guinea on a day when holidays and observances are few and far
between since 2011 to promote the fact the nation is primarily a Christian
nation.
3. 2015 Number One Song—the number one song in 2015
on a run of 6 weeks in that position was “Cheerleader” by OMI. Here
is the performance of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGflUbPQfW8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “jawhole”
which is a hole that sewage or runoff runs into which in Houston’s case if they
are not kept unclogged it is going to be in even more of a flooding hurt.
5. Home
Alone Again—celebrating the birth on this day in 1980 of child star Macauley
Culkin best noted for the Home Alone series of movies and who has discovered the
hard way that being a child actor phenom does not always translate in to adult
stardom.
On this day in:
a. 1498 Michelangelo was
commissioned to carve the Pieta at the Vatican.
b. 1789 the National
Constituent Assembly of France approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man
and the Citizen which was heavily influenced by Thomas Jefferson.
c. 1883 Mount Krakatoa
began its violent eruptions that lasted until the next day and destroyed 70 %
of the island and spewed tons of ash and debris into the atmosphere causing
temperature drops of 2 degrees in the Northern Hemisphere and the combination of
debris and tsunamis killed over 36,000 people.
d. 1977 the National
Assembly of Quebec passed the Charter of the French Language making French the
official language of Quebec.
e. 2015 Allison Parker
and her cameraman Adam Ward while conducting a live interview of Vicki Gardner
of the local Chamber of Commerce were shot and killed by a disgruntled former
worker at the station they worked for named Bryce Williams who was found later in
his car with a self-inflicted bullet wound from which he expired in the
hospital.
Reflections on gender
equality especially in those feudal countries hobbled by Sharia: ”In the nineteenth century, the central moral
challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against
totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge
will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into
Opportunity for Women Worldwide Please
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26, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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