Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For November 6, 2017 CNN (aka Cack “News” Network)
in a day of little news on Trump’s Asian trip scrapping barrel of fake news to
slam Trump for overfeeding koi cutting the tape showing the same means Abe
employed (anyone who watches CNN thinking they might see news as opposed to
biased rants is delusional); ends justify the means so typical of Blues
surfaced in Virginia governor’s race when Blue candidate was caught with a
political race baiting ad that is disgusting beyond belief; Donna Belize is
really slamming the Clintons for their anemic campaign, rigging the primaries
and co-opting the DNC (what about being a Marvin K. Moody does HJC not understand?);
news out of Saudi Arabia reflects a major shakeup of the royal family controlling
the kingdom as numerous members of the royal family were being placed under
arrest for corruption; details about Devin Kelley, the killer of 26 innocents at
the First Baptist Church, reveal a troubled man, medicated on drugs for mental
issues, discharged from the Air Force for assaulting wife and child which
normally are grounds for denying ability to buy a firearm, and denied a permit
to carry a gun and the events reveal the acts of two gun carrying Good Samaritans
who chased him from the church and engaged in a shoot out with him shortly
before he shot himself; almost like a stuck record or a gruesome remake
of Groundhog Day, Chicago style, the carnage in Chicago
continued unabated with total shootings in 2017 through November 5 increasing
to 3197 and the death toll increasing to 557 and still 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 relevant quote from Maria
Shriver on my favorite topic, poetry, a music link to Santana, factoids of
interest for this day in history, while hoping that you are not a victim of
ladronism while secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like birthday, 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. Malaria Day in the Americas—created
by the Pan American Health Organization in 2007 to promote awareness of the
disease of malaria and to advocate for expansion of eradication of mosquito vectors
spreading the disease.
2. Obama
Day (Kenya)—Obama may go down as one our worst presidents but in Kenya he is
revered since his father was a Kenyan so today in Kenya the day is a national
holiday to commemorate his son’s election as the first black president.
3. 1999
Number One Song—the number one song in 1999 on a run of 12 weeks in that
position was “Smooth” by Santana. Here is a recording of
the song to enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ladronism” which means robbery or
banditry which is what we mere mortals suffer at the hands of the Swamp and its
henchmen the IRS.
5. First
Lady With Real Class—celebrating the birth on this day in 1955 of Maria Shriver,
niece to JFK, Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, who left a journalism career to
marry Arnold Schwarzenegger, a marriage that lasted 25 years but ended up in
divorce after revelations that Arnold had fathered a son during the marriage
with the couple’s maid. She is now a special anchor with NBC and active in the
Special Olympics.
On this day
in:
a. 1947 Meet the Press, the nation’s longest
running TV show, made its debut.
b.
1962 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for all nations to
cease economic and military relations with South Africa due to its policy of
apartheid.
c. 1965 the U.S. and
Cuba signed an agreement providing for the airlift of Cubans who wished to
emigrate to the U.S.; when the program ended in 1973, some 260,000 Cubans had
been airlifted to the U.S.
d. 1995 Art Modell
announced that he had entered into an agreement to move his Cleveland Browns to
Baltimore ending the twelve year drought of professional football in the city.
e. 2012 Democrat Tammy
Baldwin became the first openly gay to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Reflections on poetry by the
birthday girl: “One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day,
and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my
mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.” Maria
Shriver could not agree with her more; my funeral memorials to my mother and
dad were lifesavers to me. 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.
© November 6, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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