Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 4, 2018 all those pundits
who predicted a Trump victory would the market tank must be eating crow as the
market just notched another 1000 point rise in the fastest time in history;
Pelosi and Schumer will look like the idiots they are by without any basis
claiming it was a tax cut for the rich paid for on the backs of the poor; since
most taxpayers except the really wealthy do not itemize top one percent of
income holders will be paying more taxes totally offset by the wealth creation
in their portfolio (Andrew Cuomo is beating a dead horse on this one including
his pipe dream of becoming president); light bulbs may be going on the heads of
Blues who are hell bent to place the needs of “Dreamers” over the rights and
needs of citizens and legal immigrants and just maybe they are realizing that
without a wall, enhanced border security, end of chain migration and lottery
immigration to be replaced with immigration based solely on merit, enactment of
Kate’s Law and an end of federal funds to any sanctuary state or city, the
Dreamers are not going to get their amnesty so we looking at this problem once again
in 10 years with a another 1,000,000 illegal “Dreamers”; if Michael Wolfe whose
journalistic reputation for credibility is in the tank thinks Americans living
outside the Swamp other that the Clintonite sycophants are going to waste
dollars in buying his book, he is about as dumb as dumb can be; unrest still occurring
over corruption and theocracy in Iran; Trump has dramatically increased the
offshore acreage on both coasts opened to drilling even as the advocates of
climate change are freezing their collective fannies in huge areas of the U.S.
giving us another reason to either eliminate the 60 vote filibuster rule in the
Senate or elect a lot more Reds to the Senate; 2018 in Chicago is off to
another bloody start in terms of shootings and killings with the 2nd
day in the New Year ending with 18
people shot, 3 of whom have died while the mayor and his administration remain
MIA in terms of addressing the problems faced by residents of color in that
city (if I were a minority living in that city I would be praying for continued
arctic air to keep the shooters shivering to miss their targets).
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music
link to the Beatles, factoids of interest for this day in history, the
fact that you are leptochrous in dealing with rants from the left and a
relevant quote from Patty Loveless on word of mouth marketing Kate Bosworth on
change and aging, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that
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1. World Braille Day—commemorating the creation of Braille by Louise Braille who was
born on this day in 1809.
2. National Trivia Day—whether celebrating this day with a game of trivial pursuit with friends and family looking up some interesting facts to keep the dementia away.
2. National Trivia Day—whether celebrating this day with a game of trivial pursuit with friends and family looking up some interesting facts to keep the dementia away.
3. 1968 Number One Song— the number one song in 1968 on a run of 3 weeks in that
position was “Hello, Goodbye” by the Beatles. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblYSKz_VnI
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “leptochrous“ which means having
thick skin which our current and former president and too many in Congress lack
which explains the divisiveness and gridlock in the Swamp.
5. Love Less to Love More--celebrating the birth on this day in 1957 of noted American
country singer Patty Ramey better known to her fans as Patty Loveless and
perhaps should be known as the Tommy John of vocal chord surgery who
underwent surgery on her vocal chords to
come strong with a more powerful and vibrant voice and still going strong today.
On this day
in:
a. 1865 appropriate that today when the market closed at yet
another all time record high the New York Stock Exchange opened its first permanent
location near Wall Street in New York City.
b. 1884 the Fabian Society was organized and what has to be
amazing after the record of socialism destroying the economies of Venezuela and
Cuba and any other country where its failed economic ideas have been foisted upon
the residents of that country, it still is in existence and embraced people
like Bernie Sanders in this nation.
c. 1951 in a glaring rebuke to MacArthur’s assurances that the
Chinese would not cross the Yalu, Chinese and North Korean forces recaptured
Seoul.
d. 1958 Sputnik I which inaugurated the satellite age fell to
the Earth to be replaced by hundreds upon hundreds of more sophisticated
satellites launched by dozens of countries.
e. 2018 to the dismay of stranded travelers we have added a new
phrase to our lexicon, “bomb cyclone” which is a winter storm in which the low
pressure at its center has dropped at least 24 millibars in 24 hours resulting
in high winds, snow, freezing temperatures and in the case of East and Midwest,
thousands of cancelled flights.
Reflections on guerrilla marketing in
the pre internet go viral age videos: “It's kind of odd when you think of
Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was
all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it
around to their friends and family.” Patty Loveless Astute observation
confirming that the best ads in the world are the validation of a product or
service by family, friends and people you respect and trust who are validating
not because they are being paid but believe you could be helped by the product
or service.
Please
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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.
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January 4, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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