Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For August 31, 2017 The
danger and damages posed by Harvey keeps getting worse as 20% of the nation’s
refining capacity has been shut down, 30,000 gallons of crude oil have been
released from two damaged oil tanks, and a French owned chemical company has
lost power needed to keep refrigerated certain chemicals that will explode or
catch when their temperatures rise which has occurred early this morning
resulting in a 1.5 mile evacuation radius; the death toll has risen to 31 and
it is highly likely that it will rise as the waters recede; on the good news
front Google has been matching contributions for Harvey relief and has raised
$2 million, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has given $1 million and the
Cowboys and Texans preseason game has been cancelled and replaced with a fund
raising Telethon with Cowboys players participating to take donations; in another
example of judicial overreach so typical of too many of our federal judges,
Orlando Garcia has blocked enforcement of SB4 designed to prohibit Sanctuary
Cities in Texas; Governor Rauner masquerading as a Republican has signed into
law legislation that makes Illinois in essence a Sanctuary State (kiss our
immigration laws goodbye and open the floodgates to illegals to fulfill the left’s
dream of no borders); in a really chilling video a Lt. Greg Abbot of the Cobb
County, Georgia Police Department is shown on his patrol car’s video cam
telling a woman he had pulled over for suspected DUI that “We only shoot black
people.” (totally unacceptable from an officer and veteran police officer); in
yet another example that alcohol and flying do not mix just like driving and
drinking, an intoxicated passenger who on
a flight from Honolulu to New York became unruly threatening his girlfriend and
her kids, striking a flight attendant and forcing the pilot to return to
Honolulu has been hit with a $97,817 fine; Wells Fargo announced that the number
of fraudulently opened accounts has risen from the original estimate of 2.1
million to 3.5 million; through August 30, 2017
in Chicago the number of people being shot climbed to 2530, and the death toll again
on the rise to 435.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Kay
Kyser and His Orchestra, factoids of interest for this day in history, a
relevant quote by the birthday lady Marcia Clark on domestic violence and
silver linings, hoping that our Coast Guard and Border Patrol are successful
with their jerques, 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 Diatomaceous Earth Day—celebrated
to promote the awareness of and contributions to our well being of the one
celled diatom plants that when they die fall to the bottom of the waters they
had previously lived to form minerals with amazing abrasive, construction and
filtration qualities. First discovered by Peter Kasten in Germany in 1836.
2. Love
Litigating Lawyers Day—not sure where this observance came from other than to suspect
it did not originate from a defendant who was nailed with a huge judgment;
always thought although litigators can be a necessary evil, Dick the Butcher
was right in his observations on lawyers.
3. 1942 Number One Song— the number one song in 1942
on a run of 8 weeks in that position was “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” by Kay
Kyser and His Orchestra. Here is a performance of the song:
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “jerque” which
means to search a ship for smuggled goods or contraband which the Coast Guard
is actively doing to protect us from the cartel jerks that are bringing tons of
illicit drugs into this nation and when it comes to using trucks another reason
to build the Wall.
5. Losing to Nightmare Team Hobbled by a Racist Cop—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1953 of Marcia Clark who was lead prosecutor in the
trial of OJ Simpson for the killing of his exwife Nicole Simpson and Ron
Goldman who had enough evidence to convict the Juice ten times over but was
confronted with the best lawyers money could buy and shackled to LAPD Detective
Mark Furman who was exposed as a liar and a racist in front of a black majority
jury—foregone conclusion the Juice would be acquitted. She is no longer practicing
law but is a successful author.
On this
day in:
a. 1895 Count Ferdinand
von Zeppelin patented his dirigible that would see service as a bomber in World
War I and until the disastrous fire of the Hindenburg
at Lakehurst, New Jersey, passenger
service across the Atlantic.
b. 1920 the first radio
news program was broadcast on radio station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
c. 1943 the USS Harmon the first warship to be named
after an African-American, posthumously Navy Cross winner Mess Attendant
Leonard Harmon killed aboard the USS San
Francisco off Guadalcanal while protecting a pharmacist tending to wounded
with his body was commissioned.
d. 1997 Diana Princess
of Wales was killed along with her companion Dodi Fayed in an automobile
accident in a tunnel in Paris.
e. 2006 Edvard Munch’s
famous painting The Scream stolen
from the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004 was recovered by Norwegian police.
Reflections on the on need to find a silver lining in any adversity
or setback: “To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the
advances we've made in understanding domestic violence as a lethal problem.
Before that trial, I think there was a widespread sense that it was a family
affair, a normal part of a relationship, not really a crime. The reality is
that it's very much a crime, and a very serious.” Marcia Clark. Right as rain
on this observation as domestic violence is a great predictor of further
violence even death especially when the relationship is ended. 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.
© August
31, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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