Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 28, 2017 Schumer and
Pelosi are acting like spoiled children and canceled a scheduled meeting with
the president along with McConnell and Ryan to discuss tax cuts and keeping the
government open (totally pathetic Chuck and Nancy, totally pathetic; when will
you start earning your pay by compromising and seeking common ground as opposed
to our way or the highway?); Elizabeth Warren is on the warpath, literally and
figuratively, over the theater at the Consumer Finance Protection Agency that
has two dueling heads, one appointed by Trump and the other named as a deputy
head by the resigning head appointed by Obama and the press is on the warpath
over Trump’s label of Pocahontas for Warren who falsely claimed Indian heritage
to obtain a teaching job at Harvard; MSM is on a a frenzy to dish FLOTUS over
her taste in dress and Christmas decorations at the White House which this poet
believes both are stunning (you be the
judge: http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2017/11/28/first-lady-melania-trump-trolled-over-white-house-christmas-decorations-outfit.html);
the Rocket Man is at it again with another ballistic missile launch over the Sea
of Japan—when does the president and the Pentagon wake up to the reality that
China is going to do squat against the rogue regime and we are going to be
forced to launch a preemptive strike with all weapons including nuclear to
eliminate this obese lunatic and his entire family followed by an opening of
the border to allow anyone who wanted to migrate into South Korea to do so; on
the sexual relations front former Hiawatha High School biology teacher
Gabrielle Bauman pleaded no contest in her six month birds and the bees
extracurricular romp with one of her minor students, another staffer of Conyers has come forward to
detail his sexual abuse, and 180 women have come forward to complain of being
sexual abused by massagers with evidently large, active reptilian brains at
Massage Envy, a national chain of massage parlors; on the good news Christmas
Spirit front and so appropriate to report on this Giving Tuesday, while most
Black Friday shoppers were fighting over vanishing stock of bargain priced
goods, a Good Samaritan in Cherry Hills, New Jersey known only as Charlie K,
wrote a check for $10,732 to pay off the balance due on 62 lay-away orders; 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 27 increasing to 3333 of whom 581 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 Rae
Sremunnd, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping you leave
any Laodician attitudes at home in trying to face issues that many confront you,
a relevant quote by Oprah Winfrey on giving, 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. Giving
Tuesday—celebrated first at the Belfer Center for Innovation and Social
Impact at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 2012 and supported by
such philanthropic organizations as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a
way the survivors of the orgy of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and
Cyber Monday can atone for their gluttony by giving money, gifts and their time
to those less fortunate.
2. Turkey Leftover
Day—since
tomorrow is Throw Out Leftovers Day, today is appropriately the last day to celebrate this
observance by serving up what turkey remains from one’s Thanksgiving Day meal.
3. 2016 Number One Song—the number one
song in 2016 on a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Black Beatles” by Rae
Sremmund. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8m9zhNAgKs
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “Laodician” which means lukewarm
or halfhearted which when it comes to attacking Trump the MSM is anything but
Laodician.
5. Rice Had Too Much Spice—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1936 of former Senator Gary Hart who managed George
McGovern’s disastrous campaign against Richard Nixon and so emboldened ran for
the Democratic nomination for president against Walter Mondale only to be
sabotaged by his reptilian brain with rumors of an affair with Donna Rice which
ended his candidacy.
On this day
in:
a. 1942 in the deadliest nightclub fire in
our history the Coconut Grove in Boston caught fire killing 492 patrons and
employees (32 more than the authorized capacity of the building) and injuring
100’s more; the owner of the club Barney Welansksy notorious for bricking up and
hiding exits to prevent people from leaving without paying was charged with
numerous code violations and 19 counts of manslaughter, convicted, and
sentenced to 12-15 years in prison and then pardoned after serving 4 years; on
his release, suffering from cancer, he told reporters that he wished he had
died with the 492 victims, which he did 9 weeks later due to the spreading
cancer.
b. 1964 members of the National
Security Council met with President Johnson to recommend a two stage plan for
escalating the bombing of North Vietnam that never achieved the objective of
blocking the flow of men and material into South Vietnam or forcing the North
to come to the peace talks table but did achieve the goal of having the Hanoi
Hilton and ten other prisons achieve 100 percent occupancy.
c. 1972 Claude Buffet and Roger
Bontems had the dubious distinction of being the last persons executed in
France by being guillotined at the La Sante Prison in Paris.
d. 1989 in the face of growing
protests the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced it was giving up its
political monopoly in the country.
e. 1990 the Iron Lady Margaret
Thatcher announced her resignation as the head of the Conservative Party and as
Prime Minister to be replaced by John Major.
Reflections on why Giving
Tuesday should be a daily regime throughout the year: “To move forward, you
have to give back.” Oprah Winfrey. So very true as none of us are Pharoahs with
all our possessions taken to the grave with us. 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
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Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.
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November 28, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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