Wednesday, February 28, 2018

February 28, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Science Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 28, 2018 75 year old has been Striesand is ranting that voting machines were tampered with to steal the election from HRC and is blaming Trump for the Parkland massacre (no evidence which should be a wake up call for her to speed more time in the recording studio keeping her singing skills current);Trump was meeting with Reds and Blues discussing how to make schools safe and how to move legislation that would increase background checks, ban bumpstocks and put more concealed permits in schools; on the reptilian brain front six democrats in office or running for office have returned contributions given to them by Ed Buck a mega donor to Blues due to the meth induced fatal overdose of a young male escort at Buck’s home (HRC and Obama recipients of Buck’s past political largess have not responded to calls on their plans); on the political corruption front Blue Texas State Senator Carlos Uresti convicted of 11 felony counts of fraud and bribery and facing up to 20 years in  prison is refusing to resign (why this felon has not been removed is a real mystery and justifies the low regard we mere mortals have of politicians); Cagle running for governor in Georgia announced he will kill any legislation benefiting Delta unless it drops its plans to eliminate discounts to NRA members (Delta will be out $40 million for joining the throng of corporate lemmings distancing themselves from any ties to the NRA); the All Biased Cack network has received at least 30,000 calls protesting Joy Behar’s rants against Christianity (more effective use of time would be to contact the sponsors dumb enough to keep the clueless, biased women on the air and indicate the caller’s boycott of their products due to their sponsorship of The View); on the pedophile front a 26 year old science teacher Stephanie Peterson has been arrested for having sex with a 14 year old eighth grader; in Chicago through February 27, 2018 355 people have been shot of whom 67 have died and in February through the same date 141 people have been shot of whom 31 have died (do not be surprised if at the end of February, Chicago is averaging two Parklands per month in terms of number of dead and the left and Blue leaders are silent while mostly minority shooters with handguns kill mostly minorities—a true definition of racism).
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to 50 Cent feat. Oliva; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your garden is not lacking in loess and a relevant quote by George Kerr on the 228 Incident in Taiwan, 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. Rare Diseases Day—created in 2008 by the National Organization of Rare Disorders to promote awareness of rare diseases that affect limited numbers of victims and to provide support for the victims and their families.
2. National Science Day—celebrating and promoting the teaching of science since 1986; in the area of STEM this nation is not turning out enough scientists and engineers to fill the high paying jobs at such companies as Google or Oracle.
3. 2005 Number One Song— the number one song in 2005 on a run of 9 weeks in that position “Candy Shop” by 50 Cent feat. Olivia. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRcnnId15BA
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “loess” which means a deposit of rich and fertile soil.
5. Don’t Swim If You Drink Like A Fish—celebrating the birth on this day in 1942 of Brian Jones one of the co-founders of the Rolling Stones who struggled with drugs and alcohol to the point he was asked by the band to leave and drowned in his pool one month later on July 3, 1969.  .
          On this day in:                                                               
a. 1983 the last episode of M*A*S*H aired watched by 106 million viewers the largest number of viewers to watch a final episode of a series.
b. 1993 federal ATF Agents tried to serve an arrest warrant on Branch Davidian leader David Koresh resulting in a shoot out in which 4 agents and 6 Branch Davidians were killed leading to a 51 day standoff that ended with the storming of the complex on April 19, 1993 and the its burning to the ground killing 76 members of the sect.
c. 1998 the first flight of the unmanned RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned drone allowed to file flight plans and operate in commercial airspace.
d. 2004 over a million Taiwanese formed a 500 kilometer long human chain to commemorate the brutal suppression of anti-government protests on this day in 1947 in which some 10,000 citizens were believed to have been killed by Chiang Kai-shek’s troops.
e. 2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church, the first to do so since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
Reflections on the 228 Incident in Taiwan: “Each man was trussed up and the lot were bound together, neck-to-neck, by heavy cords. They were headed toward the river on the outskirts of town and there could be no doubt that they would be tortured or dead within the hour.”  George Kerr, American diplomat in Taiwan and the author of Formosa Betrayed. 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.
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Monday, February 26, 2018

February 26, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Carnival Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 26, 2018 Maxine Waters the rabid ideologue impeachment queen who actually bests Pelosi at times as the lightening rod to energize Red voters at the California Dems’  annual convention was claiming Trump was mentally ill and beating the drums again for impeachment as Mueller “is connecting the dots” (HRC and the DNC may be in a rude surprise that the dots being connecting are like an errant torpedo coming back to the real collusion with the Russians, HRC and the DNC and the real smoking gun of corruption and collusion the Uranium One quid pro quo deal); Sanders who may age notwithstanding his age be thinking of a 2020 run but hobbled by allegations of his wife’s bank fraud allegations is struggling with allegations that his campaign may have colluded with the Russians against HRC (the drama never ends); while there are mounting calls for the sheriff of Broward County to resign or be recalled, the Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy who failed to enter the school and has since resigned is having his lawyer defend him for not being a coward; news today is that the Sheriff Israel is also being slammed for delaying the EMS responders’ entry into the shooting site (another reason that Israel should be fired); Trump was meeting with governors at the White House to listen to their ideas on how to protect schools from violence (not sure if Moonbeam was present but the mayor of Sanctuary City Oakland was in the news warning residents of upcoming ICE raids); the Saudi Arabia King has sacked several of its military top leaders as the war with Yemen continues in its third year and in a sign it is shedding some of its feudal past will allow women to serve in its military; on the sports front that spineless Goodell who has presided over a drop in attendance and viewing in the NFL due to the Kaepernick inspired kneeling protests may be fining Jerry Jones millions for his protest over the outrageous salary and bonuses Goodell has been awarded (why he did not fine the kneeling protestors is beyond belief); on the sexual harassment front Suzie Hardy hired by E as Bob Seacrest’s personal stylist has leveled accusations he groped her in his underwear; on the music front the ageless wonders of the music world, the Rolling Stones, have announced that they are touring the UK this year; in Chicago through February 25, 2018 350 people have been shot of whom 67 have died and in February through the same date 141 people have been shot of whom 31 have died (do not be surprised if at the end of February Chicago is averaging two Parklands per month in terms of number of dead and the left and Blue leaders are silent while mostly minority shooters with handguns kill mostly minorities—a true definition of racism).
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Usher; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that we now have a competent lodesman on the economy and a relevant quote by Seth Shostak on radar, 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. National Carnival Day—celebrating that fun venue of rides, food and games of skill (usually rigged against the participant offering usually cheap prizes that a participant will spend a fortune on).
2. Levi Strauss Day—celebrating the durable and iconic garment essential, blue jeans, on the birthday on this day in 1829 of German immigrant Levi Strauss.
3. 2004 Number One Song— the number one song in 2004 on a run of 12 weeks in that position “Yeah” by Usher feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBSyx85Kp8
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lodesman” who is a person that steers a ship; thanks to Trump our ship of state is being steered properly and in the right directions compared to its last pilot.
5. Spared of a Kaine Mutiny—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your political point of view the birth on this day in 1958 of Tim Kaine Senator from Virginia and running mate of Hillary Clinton who fortunately was such a flawed candidate with a lousy campaign that the two of them were squashed in the election.
          On this day in:                                                               
a. 1815 Napoleon escaped from Elba enroute to entering France and his rendezvous with failure at Waterloo.
b. 1909 the world’s first motion picture color process Kinemacolor was shown to the public at the Palace Theater in London.
c. 1914 the sister ship to the RMS Titanic the RMS Brittanic was launched and like the Titanic had a short life, being sunk as a hospital ship on November 21, 1915 after striking a mine off the cost of Greece but unlike her sister of the 1065 crew and wounded soldiers aboard her, only 30 perished.
d. 1935 in a march toward WWII, Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe outlawed by the Versailles Treaty to be reformed the same day in England that Robert Watson-Watt was demonstrating a device that would lead to the development of radar which enable England to prevail in the Battle of Britain.
e. 1980 in a what took you so long moment Egypt and Israel established full diplomatic relations.
Radar has many more uses that just detecting planes, ships or missles: “The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the Arecibo telescope (used to study the ionosphere and map asteroids) could be detected with a similarly sized antenna at a distance of nearly 1,000 light-years.” Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute charged with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 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.
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Waters The Red Lightening Rod Railing For Impeachment


Maxine Waters once again on an insane rant at the California Democratic state convention
Making the totally insane comparison of Trump being like Kim contention
This plantation owner representative who cares about her district only for its black votes
Ignorant of the facts that under Trump black unemployment at all time lows—to the trash can her voters should demote
Like Pelosi who rails at the tax cut crumbs she is ranting for the call to impeach
Sanity and the idea of responsible governance from this women completely out of reach
In a fairy land expecting Mueller to contact the impeachment dots
While without the Trump agenda her district and Blue run inner cities will continue to rot
As the economy grows and wages for all including blacks rise
And the real collusion involving Hillary will come as no surprise
Your dreams of regaining the House will come to a crashing demise
Hopefully your plantation voters will on you become wise
Trump was right on point when he to black voters said “what do you have to lose?”
Failed schools, crime, jobs lost to illegals--no wonder more decided Trump to choose
Please continue to beat your inane impeachment drums
Rally the Red base and send you and Pelosi’s dreams on a fatal run
As certain as the Sun rises in the East Maxine
Ideologues like you should be purged from the political scene
 © February 265, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

February 25, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Clam Chowder Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 25, 2018 The Dems in California at their annual convention failed to endorse geriatric Senator Diane Feinstein’s bid for another term because she can’t hobble to the left of Kamals Harris fast enough and instead voted in favor of progressive leftist State Senator Kevin de Leon even though polls show Feinstein leading him by 29 percent; from McCabe’s testimony last year that the FISA warrants would never have been sought without the fallacious anti-Trump dossier the Schiff memo and new Blue allegations that the dossier was a minor reason to obtain the warrants, the Blues are scrambling to obfuscate the real threat to our democracy that the FBI and DOJ failed to disclose the dossier was at best not authenticated or at worse false and in either event it had been paid for by the DNC and HRC (still trying to find the transcript but given Schiff’s past performance when it comes to a lack of credibility and objectivity find it hard to believe anything that comes out of his mouth other than cack); look for a recall against Sheriff Israel if he does not resign—how many calls to the Cruz household had to occur before someone realized there was a problem (we also should be looking at whether the anti-police rhetoric and action by Blues is hindering the desire or ability of cops to put their lives on the line http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2018/02/pigs-in-blanket-fry-m-like-bacon-home.html; while the Blues’ response to Parkland has been Pavlovian (more gun control) and the Reds more common sense (better background checks, end burpstocks), a more refreshing response has been that of a high school student entrepreneur Justin Rivard who has invented a device JustinKase that when used makes it impossible for a shooter to open a classroom door overcoming the weakness of merely locking the door only to have it shot through; February 23 Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History alerted the world that the day was Curling Is Cool Day and a day later for the U.S. as predicted by an episode of The Simpsons in 2010 it was, as the U.S. Mens Curling Team beat Sweden 10-7 to win the Gold Medal; in Chicago through February 24, 2018 340 people have been shot of whom 66 have died and in February through the same date 130 people have been shot of whom 30 have died (do not be surprised if at the end of February Chicago is averaging two Parklands per month in terms of number of dead and the left and Blue leaders are silent while mostly minority shooters with handguns kill mostly minorities—a true definition of racism).
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your cupboard of ideas on problem solving is locuplete and a relevant quote by Joseph Stalin on education as a weapon, 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. National Clam Chowder Day—celebrating a great meal whether it is Manhattan or New England and for this Alaskan brings back great memories of digging up a pail of clams at low tide off our front door in Petersburg and then making clam chowder to enjoy.
2. National Day Kuwait—slow day for holidays unless in Kuwait where the country celebrates National Day, showing the world what a unique place Kuwaitis believe their country to be especially since the Iraqis were evicted by the Coalition Forces.
3. 2003 Number One Song— the number one song in 2003 on a run of 4 weeks in that position  “All I Have” by Jenifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeSJ2YdhG5k
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “locuplete” which means amply stocked which aptly describes the amount of rhetoric the Blues and Reds all too willing to sling at each other.
5. Too Biased For Any Handler—celebrating or bemoaning the birth on this day in 1975 of Chelsea Handler who once touted herself as a comedian and has now degenerated into a really too over the top rabid anti-Trumpster with rants that are not funny  but are the dog whistles of hate and discord that rational people should completely tune out.
          On this day in:                                                               
a. 1956 in a better late than never moment Nikita Khrushchev in a speech entitled On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences denounced the largest mass murder in history, Joseph Stalin, and the cult of personality that surrounded him.
b. 1987 Southern Methodist University became the first collegiate football team to receive what is known as the “death penalty” and was banned from any competition in 1987 due to violations of NCAA rules.
c. 1991 with the Soviet Union having dissolved, the Warsaw Pact was also dissolved.
d. 1994 at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank, Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian worshippers with an automatic rifle, killing 29 and wounding 125 before he was beaten to death by the survivors.
e. 1997 Yi Han-yong, a defector from North Korea and relative of Kim Jong-Un was murdered in Bundang, South Korea by unknown assailants who were never caught but believed to be North Korean special forces.
Reflections on our educational system and its PC slant that proves the wisdom of this mass murderer: “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Joseph Stalin   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.
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Pigs In A Blanket Fry 'm Like Bacon Home To Roost


Amid calls for the Broward County Sheriff to resign
When at Parkland one or more deputies refused to put their lives on the line
Time to step back and wonder whether the results of BLM are coming home to roost
How many cop slayings have the pigs in a blanket fry them like bacon chant produced
Police are humans often with wife and children waiting for them at the door
How much harder is it to put life on line when against them is a perceived holy war
When cops are killed in the line of duty how many of the Blues at a funeral will appear
Deeply saddened and for the family shedding real grief and not sound bite tears
Sadly very few especially those on the left when the killer is an illegal hiding in a sanctuary to deportation escape
We are in dire peril if the Thin Blue Line hearing the chants of “off the pigs” bails leaving us subject to murder, maim and rape
The sheriff of Broward County was able to without pushback the NRA assail
Now facing resignation demands when his deputy (ies) in line of duty failed
Maybe time to look at how the MSM, Blues and the community interacts with the police
To question whether the rhetoric on “pigs” are causing the number killed in the line of duty to increase
To question whether the rush to charge cops with unreasonable force means the into the sound of guns rush will decrease
No easy answers only a plea that rhetoric on issues so crucial to our safety ramp down and hopefully cease
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Saturday, February 24, 2018

February 24, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Bartender Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 24, 2018 The Cack “News” Network is at it again but this time really crossing the line and invading the privacy of 76 year old Trump supporter who organized a pro Trump as one of the unknowing Americans cited by the FBI when it announced the indictment of 13 Russians—Drew Griffin the Cack reporter ambushed her in front of her house with its address visible and guess what she denied any Russians were at the rally only Trump supporters she knew and as a result of that Cack dispenser she is receiving death threats; in an internet based adage of live by the sword die by the sword, Snapchat which relies on celebrity endorsements saw its market cap drop $1.3 billion when Kyle Jenner tweeted that she was saddened that no one opened Snapchat anymore; news out of the Parkland Thin Blue Line response is getting worse as two more deputies are being accused of doing the same thing, not heading to the sound of gunfire http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-parkland-no-running-to-sound-of-guns.html; Security Council has approved a ceasefire in Syria to give some relief to the suffering civilians there; the Blue Adam Schiff counter memo on FISA warrants has been released and was immediately attacked by the White House (when will the FISA judge hold a hearing to determined whether the FBI should be held in contempt for failing to disclose that the anti-Trump dossier without which no warrant would have been sought had been paid for by HRC’s Campaign and the DNC utilizing Russian supplied misinformation?); in Chicago through February 22, 2018 325 people have been shot of whom 63 have died and in February through the same date 116 people have been shot of whom 27 have died (do not be surprised if at the end of February Chicago is averaging two Parklands per month in terms of number of dead and the left and Blue leaders are silent).
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Ja Rule feat. Ashanti, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that none of your enemies are lochetic and a relevant quote by President Ronald Reagan on interment of Japanese-Americans, 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. World Bartender Day—celebrating a profession that has been around for a very long time and today is probably 80 percent mixology and 20 percent psychology.
2. National Trading Card Day—clueless where this one came from but a good guess might be Topp or Upperdeck.
3. 2002 Number One Song— the number one song in 2002 on a run of 2 weeks in that position  “Always On Time” by Ja Rule feat. Ashanti. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tcDXJfAFVw
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lochetic” which means waiting in ambush which is exactly what Schumer and Pelosi are trying to do 24/7 to the Trump agenda.
5. A New David Copperfield--celebrating the birth on this day in 1964 of robert McLiam Wilson noted Irish novelist whose first novel Ripley Bogley, a novel about a vagrant living on the streets of London achieved critical acclaim.
          On this day in:                                                               
a. 1983 a special commission of the Congress condemned the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII which ultimately led to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 providing $20,000 to each of the 60,000 Japanese-American internees still alive.
b. 1984 Tyronne Mitchell who had lost both parents, four brothers  and a sister at Jonestown started shooting at elementary school children in the 49th Street Elementary School in L.A. from his house across the street with an AR-15 and shotgun killing two and wounding twelve before turning the shotgun on himself and committing suicide.
c. 1989 a cargo door on United Airlines Flight 811 from Honolulu to New Zealand  blew out shortly after takeoff and blew out 9 passengers from Business Class into the Unfriendly Skies to their deaths.
d. 1991 the ground operations of Desert Storm commenced as Coalition Forces crossed the Saudi Arabia border into Iraq in operations that in 100 hours would lead to the surrender of Iraqi forces.
e. 2008 Fidel Castro retired as the President of Cuba after 32 years of dictatorship.
Reflections on admitting a wrong: “The legislation that I am about to sign provides for a restitution payment to each of the 60,000 surviving Japanese-Americans of the 120,000 who were relocated or detained. Yet no payment can make up for those lost years. So, what is most important in this bill has less to do with property than with honor. For here we admit a wrong; here we reaffirm our commitment as a nation to equal justice under the law.” President Ronald Reagan on signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.   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.
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Friday, February 23, 2018

Belarus Annie Oakley On Skis

Lindsay Vonn on Valentine’s Day at the Olympics was a fox looking to mingle
Reaching out on Twitter to any fun loving guys that were single
In what could be her last Olympics going past the gates in G-force defying leans
Look for her later on the silver screens
Hope her acting skills are the equivalent of how she on the slopes can schuss
She is not alone in beauty there is another fox who skis for Belarus
Darya Domracheva in the biathlon does more than just compete
Four Gold Medals in the Olympics, a legend from the pedestal impossible to unseat
Shooting a rifle on targets after skiing cross country is a most difficult skill
Especially when your heart is pounding after skiing up a steep hill
Whatever shivers or shakes present a shooter must bring to an end
Quickly against the clock before bullets to the target to send
The slightest movement of the barrel will cause the bullet to go awry
Come up empty on another Olympic Gold Medal try
Four Golds, one Silver and one Bronze in three Olympics competitions
When not in a biathlon holding down a KCB lieutenant position
A modern day Annie Oakley whose mate medal count in the biathlon is a record thirteen
So unlike Lindsay Darya is not into the dating scene

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O'Donnell's Liar, Raptist, Racist T-Shirts Sell Out

Call Rosie O'Donnell a comedian is the English language to totally distort
This foul mouthed bile infected carrier of hate can not her hatred of Trump abort
She should be pleased that her rapist, racist, liar anti Trump T-Shirts have sold out
A few more dollars in her purse to more attacks against a president mount
Since all sorts of adverse chemicals are stored in fat and not healthy to release
She is trapped in an obese body doomed to have her weight not decrease
In a strange way I feel sorry for her that on Trump’s election she will never find peace
The bile and hatred in her means rabid attacks on Trump that will never cease
Anger and hate create an aura of irrational rage
More and more reasonable people should not want to pay to see her on stage
Will tune out and from her fade away
As her anger increases and is not held at bay

© February 23, 2018 Michael P. Ridley the Alaskanpoet 

CNN's Fake News and Town Hall Peas in a Pod


When it comes to advocacy journalism bias
CNN’s slogan of the most trust names in news uttered so pious
Is a total joke riddled to its very core
Zero credibility that should be impossible to restore
The Cack News Network held a Town Hall Meeting on Parkland’s tragic events
A scam where concerns and solutions, students and parents could present
Slight problem you had to stay on CNN’s gun control crafted script
Any pretext of rational discussion or exchange of ideas buried in a crypt
Any supporter of the NRA and the Second Amendment treated like Christians before the lions of Rome
Insulted, shouted down, threatened by a howling stacked mob where open discussion has no home
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In Parkland No Running To The Sound of Guns

When a man or woman is given a badge and a gun
A sacred duty in order to protect that officer must to the sound of gunfire run
Ever since Columbine where officers surrounded the schools and for SWAT await
Too many students were gunned down to meet a mortal fate
In Parkland there was an armed deputy on scene
Never went in merely took a position and against a corner leaned
The shooter shot for 6 minutes then from the school fled
Leaving behind wounded and 17 students and teacher dead
Have no idea of this officers training or time on the force
Only that he didn’t move until the shootings had run its deadly course
Had he intervened would Cruz victims have been less?
Realistic to believe pistol shots the AR-15 would have suppressed?
Was it a lack of training or a lack of courage and heart?
Or worse a lack of incentive due to a lack of respect for police off the charts
Too many times do we see those who police are sworn to protect
Denying them service their business and presence to reject
A callous disregard by Blue leaders when another cop is killed in the line?
We need answers for if the thin Blue is going to look the other way during a deadly crime
We are in a world of potential hurt
As felons will their evil continue to assert
An the idea of hardening our schools with retired military or police may be a pipe dream
Drowned out by the sound of gunfire and the wounded innocents’ screams

© February 23, 2018 Michael P. Ridley the Alaskanpoet 

February 23, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Stand Up To Bullying Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 23, 2018 The Cack “News” Network is at it again true to its credo of a question of not if showing bias but always when in putting on a Town Hall Meeting in which Parkland students were told to follow the CNN script on gun control and conservatives like Dana Loesch were shouted down, booed and needed security to be able to exit the building; sounds good on paper to harden schools with retired police or military but the reality may be more complex as shocking revelations that Deputy Scott Peterson who was armed and knew that shootings were taking place refused to enter the school building and who has resigned and currently has his home being guarded by police (he was either untrained or worse was not brave enough to put his life on the line armed with only a Glock which may not be so surprising given the wave of anti-police rhetoric and the callous indifference to police deaths in the line of duty); Trump will be speaking at CPAC after the head of the NRA blasted the left and the MSM for blaming his organization; words are powerful and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has eliminated “nation of immigrants” from its mission statement when perhaps the insertion of “legal” would have been a better choice; thanks to DACA and the pool of unaccompanied minors as fertile grounds to recruit, the deadly and vicious gang MS-13 is now in 22 states (another reason why we need a secure border); in another example of a failed judicial system a third time DUI who killed an active duty vet and fled the scene, after being sentenced to six years appealed and had the sentence reduced to six months; lost in the furor of the left for more gun control after Parkland is this troubling fact: in Chicago through February 21, 2018 321 people have been shot of whom 62 have died and in February through the same date 112 people have been shot of whom 26 have died (do not be surprised if at the end of February Chicago is averaging two Parklands per month in terms of number of dead and the left and Blue leaders are silent).
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Joe feat. Mystikal, factoids of interest for this day in history, a weekend at a quaint locanda and a relevant quote by Michael Dell on charting your future, 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. International Stand Up To Bullying Day—creating awareness since 2008 that bullying whether physical or online should never be tolerated as it can have deadly consequences.
2. Curling Is Cool Day—one of the great dividends of the Winter Olympics is the ability to watch this team sport with its 44 pound stones gliding down the lane with three sweepers frantically sweeping trying to control the flight of the stones.
3. 2001 Number One Song— the number one song in 2001 on a run of 4 weeks in that position  “Stutter” by Joe feat. Mystikal. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eODhO-sA9aQ
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “locanda” which is a lodging-house or inn and a good place to be in the mountains if the slopes are covered in snow.
5. Age Is Not A Barrier--celebrating the birth on this day in 1965 of Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computer Corporation and at one time the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company and the longest serving CEO of a computer company.
          On this day in:                                                               
a. 1945 in the bloody battle for Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal took the iconic picture of the war showing six Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on the top of Mount Suribachi; unfortunately three of the six Marines never made it off the island alive.
b. 1954 the first mass inoculation of children with the Salk Vaccine in Pittsburgh to the relief of parents everywhere and marking the beginning of the end of this crippling and deadly disease that affected among others FDR.
c. 1974 the Symbionese Liberation Army that had kidnapped Patricia Hearst demanded a $4 million ransom which was not paid; she participated in several crimes with the SLA, was captured by the SFPD on September 18, 1975, tried and convicted and sent to prison only to have her sentence commuted by President Carter and received a full pardon from President Clinton.
d. 1983 the EPA announced its intention to buy out dioxin contaminated Times Beach, Missouri.
e. 2008 in its first operational loss on a routine mission a B-2 Bomber crashed in Guam shortly after takeoff with both crew members ejecting but leaving a $1.4 billion hole on the runway, the most expensive crash in Air Force history.
Reflections on how to map out your future: “As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.” Michael Dell   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.
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