Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For September 13, 2017 After
new revelations from a security firm that was supposed to be hired to replace
an inept firm providing “security” to the consulate in Benghazi just before the
attack on 9/11/2012 and was instructed after the attack not to speak to the
media or Congress (aka a coverup), Hillary is now blaming Benghazi for her loss
which is probably right as she was asleep at the switch before and during the
attack and lied to the victims’ parents’ faces over the video being the cause—still
in delusion and can’t admit or accept the reality that she lost because of her own
mistakes wwhich is really sad as more and more it looks like she is suffering
from mental illness; new findings suggest that up to 5,000 votes in New
Hampshire were cast by out of state residents which resulted in the defeat of
the Republican incumbent by some 1,000 votes (despite all the denials from the
Blues who want illegals to be able to vote, voter fraud is a problem and will
grow with illegal immigration and a lack of voter ID requirements); Senator
Sanders has unveiled his single payer health plan which will add billions upon
billions of dollars to the deficit and will end the practice of Canadians and
Brits coming here to pay for treatment they cannot get in their home countries
(our Barbara Boxer on steroids Senator Harris as might be expected is for this
budget buster inanity); applause for the celebs like Streisand and Wonder for
their telethon that raised $44 million in hurricane relief drowned out by
deserved catcalls and boos for turning the event into a political attack on the
deniers that climate change caused the hurricanes; Trump is having dinner at
the White House tonight with Pelosi and Schumer to push his tax cut proposals
(if the Blues block tax cuts they will be crucified next year); the death toll from
Irma stands at 30 as millions of Floridians are without power in appalling heat
and humidity; through September 12, 2017 in Chicago the number of people being
shot climbed to 2669, and the death toll again on the rise to 459 while the
city seems to not be doing anything to prevent the killing and maiming of its
minority residents—a real definition of racism which is deadly.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to the Mitch Miller Orchestra and
Fiona Apple, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote on programming
by Larry Ellison, hoping you meet someone worthy of kalology 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 Day of the Programmer—observed
on the 256th day of the year (
) to celebrate the contributions of programmers to our economy,
society, health and welfare.
2. National Celiac
Awareness Day—celebrated
on this day to commemorate the efforts of Dr. Samuel Gee born on this day in
1839 to link diet with celiac disease. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease that
affects one in every 133 Americans and if a person digests foods containing
gluten the body attacks the digester’s small intestines.
3. 1955
Number One Song— the number one song in 1955 on a run of 6 weeks in
that position was “The Yellow Rose of Texas” by the Mitch Miller Orchestra.
Here is a performance of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uS5cPfbIjw
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “kalology” which means the study of
beauty which in the case of Melania practitioners could spend years and the case
of Hillary at the same age not even open a file.
5. A
Slice of the Apple—celebrating the birth on this day in 1977 of Fiona Apple, noted
pianist and singer. Here is a film clip of her performing at the Ohana Music
Festival: https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-fiona-apple-perform-rare-festival-set/
On this
day in:
a. 1814
in a turning point in the War of 1812 the British failed in their attempt to
take Baltimore. Observing the attempt Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that
would become our national anthem—“The Defense
of Fort McHenry.”
b. 1899
Henry H. Bliss had the dubious distinction of being hit after he stepped off a
street car in New York City only to be hit by an electric cab and die the next
morning, the first person killed by an automobile and sadly not the last.
c. 1948
in a political glass ceiling breaking moment, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine became
a Senator and the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate and later
in her reelection in 1960 became the first woman to campaign against another woman
in the general election.
d. 1956
IBM introduced the 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to use disk
storage.
e. 2001 after being
grounded by the FAA on the 9/11 attacks, commercial air service resumed.
Reflections
on computer programming by the founder of Oracle: “What is Oracle? A bunch of
people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people -
ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the
best idea for a database or for a programming language.” Larry Ellison 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
13, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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