Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 29, 2017 Finally the word must be getting out to the NFL and
Goodell that ratings are taking a nose dive as all the players at last night’s
Thursday Night Football stood during the playing of the National Anthem (we may
have major problems still in this country that merit discussion and serious
attempts to resolve but kneeling is counterproductive unless the kneeling was a
sign of prayer seeking God’s help for guidance in helping solve those
problems); to long periods of cheers and applause, Scalise returned to the
House to address it after being shot months ago at a baseball practice for the
annual House charity baseball event (if only that bipartisan outpouring could
continue but already Schumer and Pelosi merit nothing but scorn for their rabid
obstructionism on Trump’s tax cut agenda); on the propaganda front North Korea
alleged that 5,000,000 robitons have volunteered to join the army in response
to Trump’s threat to destroy the country (would not surprise me since easily
millions are starving and being in the army is the only way to get a meal);
after a federal appellate court upheld a district court’s ruling that the
Swamp’s ban on concealed weapons unless the applicant could show good reason
for a permit was unconstitutional the issue may be going before SCOTUS; king
and queen of hypocrisy Schumer and Pelosi are railing that cutting taxes will
ramp up the deficit after 8 years of Obama’s doubling of the national debt
without ever achieving 3 percent growth, first time in history that that has
occurred; a silver lining in the Trump tax plan is the removal of the deduction
for state and local taxes which may cause taxpayers in high tax fiefdoms like
California, New York, and Illinois to unleash their wrath on Blue legislators
and force them to curtail spending; through September 27, 2017 in Chicago
the number of people being shot climbed to 2842 and the death toll rising to
488 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, a music link to Diana
Ross, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Jan
Masaryk on the Munich Agreement, reminded that if you are trolling in a slow
moving current you might want to make sure you have packed a killock and 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. World Heart Day—created by the
World Heart Federation, a global nongovernment organization, to promote
awareness on means to reduce deaths from heart attacks (over 17 million
worldwide) and
strokes.
2. International
Coffee Day—celebrated
worldwide to promote the use of coffee as a beverage and to promote fair trade
in coffee.
3. 1970 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1970 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “Ain’t No Mountain High
Enough” by Diana Ross. Here is a performance of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjdF7VJSc6U
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “killock” which means a small anchor which seems to represent what
the Congress is using to uselessly try to slow down the ramp up by the ship of
state of spending.
5. Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword But Not Cancer--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1955 of Gwen Ifil, noted Black-American Peabody Award
winning journalist who died far too early at 61 from cancer.
On this day in:
a. 1938 in a great day for appeasement Germany, France, and Great
Britain signed the Munich Agreement ceding the Sudetenland to Germany without
Czechoslovakia being a party making Czechoslovakia indefensible to future
German attacks and postponing World War II for less than one year.
b. 1954 the convention for establishing CERN to explore the
field of high energy particle physics was signed.
c. 1975 WGRP in Detroit became the first black owned and
operated T V station.
d. 2008 following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and
Washington Mutual, the Dow Jones Average fell 777.68 the largest single day
point fall in its history.
e. 2013 in another chilling reminder of the need to kill radical
Islam whenever and wherever it rears its sick head, at least 40 people were
killed by jihadists from Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture at Gujba,
Nigeria.
Reflections
on the betrayal of Czechoslovakia by the leader of the nation betrayed: “If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the
peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen,
God help your souls." Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to
Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938. Please enjoy the poems on events
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