Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 27, 2017 Brace yourself and
your wallet having survived Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, today is
Cyber Monday as internet shopping is on a roll; Mt. Agung in Bali erupted again
on Saturday which has prompted authorities to warn residents to flee as a
larger eruption with lava flows is a growing concern; although Conyers has
resigned his minority chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee, the
Congressional Bobsey twins of sexual abuse, Conyers and Franken, are refusing
to resign (so typical of the Swamp); hopefully Santa was not looking to stock
up on reindeer for Christmas in Norway as tragically 106 of the animals were
killed in a collision with a freight train while migrating; the Consumer Finance Protection Agency
attacked by banks and financial agencies as an oppressive rogue agency with no
Congressional oversight is in the litigation docket news today as Obama appointee
Corday appointed English, a Democrat, as his deputy director and then resigned
thwarted by Trump by naming Mick Mulvaney as interim director and prompting a
law suit by English to block the appointment (God help us if bureaucrats can
scam the powers of the duly elected commander in chief by appointing their
successor—just another example of why Trump needs to tweet less and concentrate
more on removing from office Obama appointed lackeys); Senator Claire McCaskill
after being castigated for charging taxpayers for her use of a private plane
had her husband sell it but when it comes to fleecing the taxpayers, her
husband purchased a more expensive private plane and immediately moved to block
tracking of its use by the public under moves made by Obama to remove as a
requirement the credible threat of a terrorist attack on the plane (watch this
issue dog this Senator in her reelection fight in 2018 as it should); the sexual
abuse scandals continue unabated and claim the latest perpetrator Richard
Branson who is alleged to have stuck his head between two breast of a singer
partying on his private island and motorboating them; Trump is meeting with the
four leaders of Congress including the Blues top Grinches on the issue of tax
cuts before Christmas and not shutting the government down; on the over the top
dog whistle rhetoric that really needs to end, Morrisey was ranting that if he
had the chance he would “kill Trump for the sake of humanity” (those of us who
bemoan the rancor from leftists idiots like Morrisey should boycott all of his
records and any advertisers who place ads on any performance in which this
loose cannon appears and urge the Secret Service pay him a visit on the issue
of inciting an assassination of the president); almost a stuck record or a
gruesome remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,
the carnage in Chicago continued unabated with total shootings by
mostly minorities against mostly minorities in 2017 through November 25
increasing to 3319 of whom 579 have died 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 Adele,
factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping you can find a cure
to the growing languor of the Swamp gridlock, a relevant anonymous quote on
shopping, 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. Cyber
Monday—celebrating the growing importance to a retailer’s bottom line
of on line sales which continue to expand as the number of brick and mortar
retail outlets continues to decrease due to closures or bankruptcies.
2. National Four
Hugs Day—today is the day to find four souls who could use the warmth of
a caring and spirit uplifting hug although why only four is a mystery unsolved
by this poet.
3. 2015 Number One Song—the number one
song in 2015 on a run of 10 weeks in that position was “Hello” by Adele. Here
is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “languor” which means
listlessness or weariness which is what more and more Americans are feeling
about the gridlock that grips the Swamp.
5. Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword But Not the Cigarette—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1909 of James Agee, film critic for Time Magazine, screen play writer for the African Queen, and Pulitzer Prize winner for his autobiography A Death in the Family (awarded
posthumously as he was a heavy drinker and chain smoker and died at the age of
45 ironically in a cab enroute to a doctor’s appointment.)
On this day
in:
a. 1835 John Smith and James Pratt had the dubious distinction of being the
last persons to be executed by hanging for the then crime of sodomy.
b. 1895 in Paris at the
Norwegian-Swedish Club Alfred Nobel executed his will transferring his entire
estate to fund the Nobel Prizes following his death.
c. 1924 the first Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City.
d. 1945 CARE was founded to send
CARE food relief packages to a Europe devastated by WWII; the organization
still exists but has expanding its efforts outside of Europe to other poverty
stricken areas of the globe.
e. 1973 in a high water mark for
bipartisanship the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford pursuant to the 25th
Amendment as Vice President of the United States an act which the House would
also confirm a month later by a vote of 387-35.
Reflections on shopping
whether it be on Black Friday or Cyber Monday: “After Black Friday and Cyber
Monday comes Buyer’s Remorse Tuesday and Hide From My Creditors Wednesday.” Anon. Please enjoy the poems on
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November 27, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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