Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For August 27, 2017 Harvey
continues to inundate the Houston area with
massive amounts of rain with nowhere to go other than to flood homes,
businesses and roads with more heavy rain forecast (when you have flood waters
to the height of traffic signals you have a problem); sadly the death toll has
risen to six but is expected rise further when and if the waters start to
recede; at least Texans are coming together as one with volunteers with flat
bottom boats bringing ala Dunkirk friends and strangers to safety; President
Trump has acted decisively to speed federal aid to Texas and will visit the
area on Tuesday; one slight silver lining is that 20,000 passengers remain
stuck at sea on cruise ships that cannot return to port (as long as supplies
hold out being on a cruise ship beats being in a Red Cross shelter); Biden is
back in the news with over the top rhetoric claiming Trump has unleashed the
darkest forces to overcome years of civil rights progress and slamming Trump
for pardoning an 85 year old sheriff Joe Arpaio (denials notwithstanding with
remarks like that Joe still has a case of presidential fever); Trump has
overturned Obama’s ban of giving surplus military equipment to police
departments; in Berkeley, ground zero for the free speech movement a hundred
hooded anarchists entered a no hate rally looking for counter protesters to
physically attack while the police did not stop these anarchists; in another example of the ingenuity of human traffickers,
Border Patrol agents discovered a tunnel near Otay Mesa when they arrested 30
illegals including 23 Chinese; through August 26, 2017
in Chicago the number of people being shot climbed to 2498, 432 of whom have
died.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Chainsmokers,
factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Irene Parby
on the roll of women in politics, hoping the jebels you face in life are short
and with gentle slopes, 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. National Petroleum Day—celebrating
to the dismay of the eco-warriors the discovery by Edwin Drake of petroleum on
this day in 1858 of petroleum in Titusville,Pennsylvania.
2. Lyndon Baines
Johnson Day—celebrated in Texas to commemorate the birthday on this day in
August 27, 1908; given the rains coming down in Houston, the state holiday
festivities will be somewhat restrained.
3. 2016 Number One Song—the number one song in 2016
on a run of 12 weeks in that position was “Closer” by Chainsmokers.
Here is a performance of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT-JzR0qn3o
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “jebel” which
is a term used in the Middle East or Africa to designate a mountain or hill
which is what unfortunately we still have climb to defeat radical Islam there
or at home.
5. Cats
Rule Humans Drool—celebrating the birth on this day in 1958 of Dennis Avner aka80 Stalking
Cat who underwent a record 14 body modifications to make his face look like a
tiger; sadly he only had one life not nine which he discovered when he
committed suicide in 2012.
On this day in:
a. 1918 Mexican and
American forces fought at the Battle of Ambros Nogales in which 4 American
soldiers died along with 30 Mexican soldiers in the only battle fought on U.S.
soil in World War I.
b. 1927 five Canadian
women (the Valiant Five) filed suit in the Canada Supreme Court to decided the
issue of whether term “person” in the British North America Act includes a female
person to the which the court ruled no only to be overruled by the Privy
Council in 1929 thereby clearing the way for women to be appointed to Canada’s
Senate.
c. 1942 the first day of
a two day massacre of some 14,000-18,000 Jews in the town of Sarny, Ukraine.
d. 1956 the nuclear
power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the
national power grid to become the first operating nuclear generating power
plant.
e. 2003 in a glaring
example of futility in dealing with the rogue nation of North Korea, the first
six party talks on the security concerns of North Korea’s nuclear program commenced
among North Korea, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the United States. Reflections
on a woman’s roll in politics: “If
politics mean…the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions
of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other
people’s children…then it most assuredly is a woman’s job as much as it is a
man’s job.” Irene Parby, one of the Valiant Five. Please
enjoy the poems on events of
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