Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 16, 2017 Bowe
Bergdahl after blaming Trump for his remarks during the campaign that he could
not get a fair trial for desertion which may have cost the lives of six
soldiers tasked with trying to find him is expected to plead guilty and be
sentenced to serve time at Leavenworth; Hillary may be a total hypocrite but
when it comes to money she never gives it back and announced that the tainted
money received from the pervert Weinstein whose troubles both civil and criminal
get bigger each day will not be returned by the Clinton Foundation; she also
had the audacity to castigate Trump as a sexual predator while dismissing her
husband’s proclivities as old news as news today that Harvey donated the
maximum to Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky Defense Fund (it’s okay in her moral world
to abuse women as long as it is done by the liberal elite in Hollywood); almost
a stuck record or a gruesome remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style, the
carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings in 2017 through October
15 increasing to 3022 (as predicted that number this weekend to soared past
3,000) and the death toll rising to 526 while nothing is being done to hinder
or prevent the killings of minorities by minorities.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Christopher
Cross, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping that your day if a
southpaw is not marked by your being a kitthoge, a relevant quote from Suzanne Somers on organic food, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like birthdays, 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 Food Day—honoring
the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations created
on this day in 1946 to promote the increase in food production while preserving
the environment and promoting the improvement in the distribution of food resources
to a growing population around the globe.
2. World Anesthesia Day—commemorating
the first use of anesthesia in surgery performed on this day in 1846 at Boston at
the Massachusetts General Hospital, the home of the Harvard School of Medicine.
3. 1981 Number One Song—the number one song in
1981 on a run of three weeks in that position was “Arthur’s Theme” by Christopher
Cross. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnBPHWk5FQ8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of for this Friday the
13th is “kitthoge” which means a left-handed or awkward person which
defined this poet’s mother to a tee in terms of being left-handed but she was
most definitely not awkward when in came to administer shots to patients.
5. Nowhere
Near the Winter of One’s Life—celebrating the birth on this day in
1946 of Suzanne Somers, noted Three’s Company
actress Playboy model, author and poet still going strong promoting a
healthy food consumption lifestyle so appropriate on this World Food Day.
On this day
in:
a. 1946 10 of the 12
Nazi war criminals convicted at Nuremburg and sentenced to death by hanging
were executerd (Borman convicted in absentia had already died unbeknownst to
the Allies while trying to escape Berlin and Goring managed to obtain cyanide
the day before his execution and committed suicide). Unfortunately for the
condemned, the ropes were too short and the deceased necks were not broken and
death came from a slow strangulation.
b. 1964 China joined the
nuclear armed club with the test of its first nuclear test.
c. 1968 in a
reaffirmation that there is no room in sports for politics at the Mexico City Summer
Olympics, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were kicked off the U.S.
Olympic Team for displaying the Black Power salute during the medal awards
ceremony after their event.
d. 1991 at Luby’s Cafeteria
on National Boss Day in Kileen. Texas, George Hennard, an unemployed seamen,
drove his pickup truck into the restaurant and shot and killed 23 diners and
wounding 20 others before turning his pistol on himself and pulling the trigger
to commit suicide.
e. 1995 the Million Man
March to protest racism and to present a more favorable image of black men took
place in Washington, D.C. (the National Park Service estimated that 400,000
were in attendance).
Reflections on what foods to avoid on this World Food Day from
Suzanne Somers on her birthday: “Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty
dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded
with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots,
nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery.” Just what I needed
another food worry as five out of the eleven I eat almost on a daily basis and
they are not organic. 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
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© October `15, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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