Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For August 5, 2017 In
political debates a telling symbol is the empty chair, an optic that shows the
absent candidate is either afraid or doesn’t care which with the Senate MIA on
recess without repealing Obamacare or making any progress on tax reform merits
our total scorn and derision (McConnell is a complete failure as a Senate Majority
as the chief Blue Swamp denizen has stalled him at every turn);
in the race to be the most despised Blue House
member Maxine Waters the absentee plantation owner is pulling ahead of Nancy
Pelosi with her appearance on The View applauding
and encouraging the treasonous leaks of classified information including
transcripts of Trump’s conversations with presidents of Mexico and Australia
(talk about a show with the clueless questioning a guest who is totally clueless
and a poster child for the need to have term limits); Comey’s side kick and
long term friend Robert Mueller’s investigation is spreading like a virulent
cancerous tumor beyond the Russian Collusion Delusion to Flynn’s dealings with
Turkey and Trump’s finance all the while ignoring Lynch’s involvement in the “investigation”
and the quid pro quo scandal of the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation (if
anyone believes that Clinton and Lynch talked only about golf and grandchildren
when the most likely topic was Bill’s message that Lynch could stay on as AG or
be appointed to SCOTUS if HRC would be elected which could not happen if she
were to face a recommendation for indictment by the FBI is a complete and total
idiot); the fact that the MSM will go to any lengths to attack Trump for the
littlest excuse was exemplified when the Boston
Globe attacked him and his family for vacationing at Trump’s golf course in
New Jersey instead aping Obama and Kennedy and going to Martha’s Vineyard (Newsweek
not to be outdone has on its cover Trump in a recliner with the caption “Lazy
Boy” –what a distortion of reality but so typical of that left wing rag good
only as paper to start campfires); instead of spending its scarce resources on ending
the minority on minority killings in Chicago and complying instead of obstructing
immigration laws, Rahm Emmanuel who masquerades as a mayor is suing the feds
over its decision to withhold funds over Chicago’s sanctuary city status (the
false narrative that one needs sanctuary city status to encourage illegal aliens
to report crime could be shredded by a simple change in policy that like
someone who reports an OD will not be charged with drug use an illegal
reporting a crime will not be deported unless he or she is a criminal also; in
another example of insanity the Security Council unanimously adopted more
sanctions that if observed would reduce North Korean exports by one third; through
August 4, 2017, 2233 people have been shot in Chicago 385 of whom have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Destiny’s
Child, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Anurag
Prakesh Ray on traffic lights and life, knowing that the 535 Gang’s leaving the
Swamp is irremissible, 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 Traffic Light Day—commemorating
the installation of the first electric traffic signal which was installed in Cleveland,
Ohio on this day in 1914 and which have grown to fairly sophisticate signals
linked to sensors and the existence or non existence of pedestrians to speed up
the flow of traffic over increasingly congested roadways.
2. Mead
Day—created by the American Homebrewers Association in 2002 to
celebrate and promote mead perhaps one of the oldest know fermented beverages.
3. 2001 Number One Song—the number one song in 2001
on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “Bootylicious” by Destiny’s
Child. Here is a performance by the group of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVNS4u6VXc
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “irremissible” which means unpardonable
which describes gridlock and lack of partisanship from the elitist gang of 535
to a tee.
5. Ace
Trumped by a Four—celebrating the birth on this day in 1946 of blond bombshell
actress and beauty queen winner Loni Anderson who met Burt Reynolds while
starring with him in the movie Stroker
Ace and then married him for her
third marriage only to after several years later divorce him and remarry for the fourth time
Bob Flick, cofounder of the Brothers Four in 2008.
On this day
in:
a. 1305 William Wallace
so aptly portrayed by Mel Gibson in the movie Braveheart was captured by the English near Glasgow to be
transported to London, tried and then executed.
b. 1583 the first
English colony in North America was established at St Johns, Newfoundland.
c. 1816 the British Admiralty dismissed the first working electric
telegraph invented by Francis Ronalds as unnecessary as they preferred to continue
to use the semaphore.
d. 1861 in order to finance the Civil War the U.S. adopted the Revenue Act of 1861 which imposed an income tax of 3% on all incomes over $800 ($21,134 in today’s dollars) and in what has to be a first of the federal government repealing a tax, repealed it in 1872.
d. 1861 in order to finance the Civil War the U.S. adopted the Revenue Act of 1861 which imposed an income tax of 3% on all incomes over $800 ($21,134 in today’s dollars) and in what has to be a first of the federal government repealing a tax, repealed it in 1872.
e. 2012 in yet another example of ineptitude at the EPA, the EPA
accidentally discharged into the Animas River in Colorado, 3 million gallons of
highly toxic tailings from the Gold Creek Mine (not surprising after reports of
EPA staffers spreading feces on the walls of its offices in Denver).
Reflections on life and
traffic lights: “I wish life had
traffic lights, it would tell us when to go for it, when to be careful, and
when to just stop.” Anurag Prakash Ray, noted Indian Process Associate at SDM
private limited. On this one Ray is a little off the mark as there are aka
honesty, conscience, instinct, experience and integrity. Please enjoy the poems
on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet
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5, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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