Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 23, 2018 Schumer and his
hold the military hostage to ram through a DACA amnesty failed big time and
Schumer went down in flames (in California please note our two Bobsey Twins of
the left, Harris and Feinstein were willing to continue to sell out the
military in favor of illegal DACAs); President Trump will be off to Davo,
Switzerland to explain his ideas on America first as he announced tariffs on
solar panel makers abroad for dumping their products here in the U.S.;
revelations that in a shades of Lois Lerner, the FBI cannot find five months of
text messages between the two biased
anti-Trump FBI lovebirds who seemed to have nothing better to do than text each
other are really troubling and point to a secret cabal in the FBI to oust the
president; on the crime front at Marshall County High School in Benton,
Kentucky a gunman is in custody after killing one person and wounding several
others; James Franco who won a Golden Globe best actor and Critic’s Choice best
actor award has discovered after allegations from five women that he had
engaged in sexual misconduct that sexual harassment claims are not good for
one’s career as he was snubbed for an Academy Award nomination; Alaska and the
coasts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California dodged
the tsunami bullet after a 7.9 earthquake this morning near the island of
Kodiak; in Chicago through January 21 2018 152 people have been shot of whom 25
have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Chic, factoids of interest for this day in
history, the fact you are not viewed as a lickerish person, and a relevant
quote by Jonathan Dembleby on poll taxes on why she did not have children,
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
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for details.
1. World Freedom Day (Taiwan/South Korea)—commemorating the
22,000 communist prisoners of war who wisely elected not to return to China or North
Korea but elected to resettle in Taiwan and South Korea.
2. National Handwriting Day—created by the Writing Instruments Manufacturers Association in
1977 to promote penmanship and handwriting.
3. 1979 Number One Song— the number one song in 1979 on a run of 6 weeks in that
position was “Le Freak” by Chic. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qQ1SKNlgY
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lickerish” which means lecherous which
describes far too many in media, politics and entertainment.
5. Hudson Miracle--celebrating the birth on this day in 1951 of noted airplane
pilot Chesley Sullenberger who after losing power in all engines shortly after
takeoff managed to land his plane on the Hudson River without losing a single
passenger or crew member.
On this day in:
a. 1964 the 24th Amendment banning poll taxes in
federal elections was ratified.
b. 1973 President Nixon announced that a Peace Accord had been
reached in Paris to enable the U.S. to withdraw from the Vietnam without losing
its honor.
c. 1986 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located in Cleveland
inducted its first members.
d. 1997 Madeline Albright known recently for her idiotic
statement that there is a special place in hell for women who did not vote for
Hillary Clinton became the first female Secretary of State for the United
States.
e. 2002 journalist David Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan and
subsequently executed.
Reflections
on having a poll tax which had the
effect of denying blacks the right to vote due to its cost: I fail to
understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude
a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is
paying for. Jonathan Dimbleby, noted British historian and author. 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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