Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For September 1, 2017 Houston
and surrounding areas devastated by Harvey are slowly digging themselves out as
the death toll as waters recede has climbed to 44 (not out of the woods yet as
evacuations urged for people living near dams that may fail); if anyone
believes in the power of prayer now would be a could time to start flexing one’s
prayer muscles as Hurricane Irma now a Cat 3 and projected to grow to Cat 5 is
headed toward us and if it does not swing north toward Bermuda and instead hits
Florida or the East Coast or God forbid enters the Gulf of Mexico and makes
landfall in Texas we will be in a world of hurt; finally the left leaning professors
and administrators are waking up to the adage that you don’t bite the hand that
feeds you as parents, donors and prospective students are becoming outraged
with the anti-free speech violence sweeping college campuses (time to rethink
the idea of a four year education that leaves one mired in debt, unemployed and
with zero thinking and problem solving skills?); new allegations that Comey may
have committed perjury before Congress and evidence that he had already made up
his mind to exonerate Hillary before the “investigation” was completed (what a
mess and what a disaster to the integrity of the FBI and a direct slap to the
face of those agents there); fortunately, a federal judge has ordered the FBI
to release Hillary emails that the agency felt there was no public interest in
releasing; Obama remains the gift that keeps on giving as taxpayers will be
stuck in 2018 for $1,153,000 in expenses, the highest amount of any living ex-president; Harvey has brought out the best in the
deplorables but on the left like Linda Sarsour it brings out the worst as she
tweets to raise money for Harvey for an organization that has nothing to do
with flood relief only electing left wing candidates; through
August 31, 2017 in Chicago the number of people being shot climbed to 2542, and
the death toll again on the rise to 437.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Tommy
Dorsey and His Orchestra, factoids of interest for this day in history, a
relevant quote by Walter Reuther on stock programs for workers, hoping that ne
avoids the gaze of the jettatura, 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. College Color Day—celebrated since
2005 to promote one’s favorite college team colors which in my case is the Stanford
cardinal—Go Stanford beat SC and its racist horse (not racist but just another
example of the PC police running amok).
2. Start of
Chiari Malformation Month—creating awareness of and promoting the need to raise research
dollars to combat a rare birth defect that results in brain tissue extending
into a person’s spinal cord.
3. 1943 Number One Song— the number one song in 1943
on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “Blues In The Night” by Tommy
Dorsey and His Orchestra. Here is a performance of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WIXZnt-Iig
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “jettatura”
which means the curse of the evil eye which after looking at the gridlock in
the Swamp it seems that us mere mortals are under its gaze.
5. Driving Beats Flying In Bad Weather—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1907 of Walter Reuther a socialist who after spending
some time in the Soviet Union as a young man and seeing the reality of Stalin’s
Soviet Union became a staunch anti communist and when he became the president
of the UAW relentlessly expelled communists from the union. Sadly he was killed
along with his wife in the crash of a chartered jet heading to a UAW recreation
retreat in 1970.
On this
day in:
a. 1715 King Louis XIV
died after a reign of 72 years making him the longest ruling monarch in Europe
although if Queen Elizabeth lives for seven more years, she will surpass that
record.
b. 1914 from a
population estimated to be between 3-5 billion in the early 19th
century only to be decimated by overhunting and loss of habitat, the last
passenger pigeon on the planet, Martha died in the Cincinnati Zoo rendering the
species extinct.
c. 1939 Adolf Hitler
signed an order calling for the euthanasia of physically disabled and mentally
unfit citizens of the Third Reich.
d. 1983 Soviet fighters
shot down a Korean Air 747 Flight 007 when it inadvertently strayed into Soviet
airspace, killing all 269 aboard.
e. 2004 34 jihadis attacked
School Number One in Beslan, Russia holding over 1,000 people hostage until
Russian security forces stormed the school three days later sending 31 jihadis
on a one way ticket to Paradise but in the process losing 334 hostages, 186 of
whom were innocent children which is a reason why Putin should be working with
us to exterminate ISIS.
Reflections on how to create wealth for labor: “Profit sharing in
the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the
ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly
undemocratic and unhealthy.” Walter Reuther On this he is spot on as owning
stock options is a great way to incentivize a company’s work force for their
benefit and the benefit of the company they work for. 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.
© September
1, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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