Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For September 6, 2017 Irma
which is proving not to be sweet has become a Cat 5 monster bearing down on
Florida that has declared a state of emergency and residents of Broward County
have been ordered to evacuate; President Trump has reached across the aisle and
struck a deal with the Blues for Harvey aid and funding for another three
months to prevent a government shutdown over Ryan’s objections (McConnell and
Ryan appear to be in a race with Schumer and Pelosi to see who can be more
obstructionist against the Trump agenda); the wife of indicted IT staffer for Debbie
Wasserman has agreed to return to the U.S. to face charges while Wasserman
lamely tries to defend her retention of him on her payroll until he was
arrested trying to flee the country; the View
which is clueless on issues that Americans care about pounced all over Sarah
Huckabee Sanders for working for Trump as Press Secretary; the it’s a video queen
Susan Rice whose credibility is zero has met privately with the House Intel
Committee over what is the real scandal and threat to our democracy that Mueller
should be investigating—the unmasking of Trump advisors and supporters; Glenn
Simpson the boss of Fusion GPS behind the false anti Trump dossier has
stonewalled and is refusing to cooperate with the House while Mueller continues
to chase windmills with the fantasy of the Russian collusion delusion; Hillary
will be on the leech, money sucking book sales trail with the arrogant concept of
charging people buying her book of delusions for her to sign it (good luck on
that as only a fool other that a mental health professional looking for signs
of mental illness would want to buy it);
through September 5, 2017 in Chicago the number of people being
shot climbed to 2512, and the death toll again on the rise to 446.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Pee Wee
Hunt and His Orchestra, factoids of interest for this day in history, a
relevant quote on still birth by Charlotte Bronte, hoping your day is free from
jolterheads, 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. Barbie Doll Day—celebrating the 58th
anniversary of the day that Mattel’s Barbie Doll went on sale; the doll was
created by
Ruth Handler, with of
one of the founders of Mattel, and named after her daughter Barbara Handler.
2. Stillbirth Remembrance
Day—commemorating those unfortunate parents of the some 26,000 still
births that occur each year in the United States. If a parent a day to be
grateful and thankful that your child was not still born and to reach out with
empathy and condolences to a friend who had the misfortune of experiencing that
tragedy.
3. 1948
Number One Song— the number one song in 1948 on a run of 8 weeks in
that position was “Twelfth Street Rag” by Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra. Here
is a performance of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l73jhrBHhaI
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “jolterhead” which means a clumsy
oaf.
5. A
Bridge Too Far—celebrating the birth on this day in 1962 of Chris Christie, failed
presidential candidate in 2016 and soon to be the ex governor of New Jersey,
whose political career was mortally damaged by the scandal known as Bridgegate.
On this
day in:
a. 1642
England’s Long Parliament banned plays in all theaters.
b. 1870
in Laramie, Wyoming, Louisa Ann Swain became the first woman to legally cast a
vote in a general election.
c. 1901
Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist (have you ever seen one employed?)
fatally wounded President McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,
New York. In the 45 days following McKinley’s death 8 days later, Czolgosz was
tried, found guilty and executed in the electric chair.
d. 1916
Clarence Saunders opened the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly in
Memphis, Tennessee.
e. 1962 the U.S. began
Exercise Spade Fork, a nuclear readiness drill which assumed 48 million
civilian and military deaths following nuclear strikes on the homeland (given
the threat posed by Kim Jong Un today one would hope that those plans have been
updated and are ready to be instantly implemented).
Reflections on the grief and sorrow felt in the still birth of a
child: “There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its
dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could
paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her
empty arms.-Charlotte Bronte, noted 19th Century British author and
poet. 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.
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6 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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