Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For April 24, 2018 The supporters of a movement
to have California secede from the United States have been granted permission
to start collecting signatures to have the matter placed on the 2020 ballot (God
help us if these idiots succeed); the Always Biased Cack "News"
"reporter" Jonathan Karl was
ridiculed by the president for asking a stupid question on whether Trump would
pardon Michael Cohen; Kate Middleton has just delivered a son, the 5th
in line to the British throne (kudos to a complete woman and mother of total
class); the first installment of “refugees” from Central America that Mexico
did not impede has arrived at Sanctuary Border, California but President
Trump unlike Obama is dispatching a flood of agents and judges to send these
illegal “refugees” back as opposed to catch and release them into the interior
never to be seen inside a courtroom again; Toronto reeling after Alek Minassian
in a rented Ryder van killed 10 pedestrians and injured 15 others; the father
of the Waffle House shooter may be facing federal charges for returning the
four guns to him (fortunately the shooter has been captured); the bane of most
conservatives and the most overturned Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit has
seven vacancies which Trump can fill with hopefully some conservative judges to
rein in its leftist tendencies; finally some sanity in the Senate as on party
lines, Pompeo was recommended as Secretary of State by the Committee on Foreign
Relations; the petition to have FSU fire Randa Jarrar for her profanity laced
attack on Barbara Bush shortly after her death now has 10,000 signatures and
growing as the predictable news just released that George H.W. Bush is back in
intensive care; Trump’s selection to head the VA is on hold as allegations have
surfaced concerning improper conduct; in Chicago through April 23, 2018, 678
people have been shot, of whom 111 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to The Young
Rascals, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that hopefully
the new mahout for the House Republicans will support the Trump Agenda and a
relevant quote by Henry Morganthau, Sr. on the Armenian Genocide, 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. Armenian Genocide
Rembrance Day—commemorating the genocide by the Turks starting in 1915
of over a million Armenians which many believe given the lack of the civilized
world’s reaction was the inspiration for Hitler’s Holocaust of the
Jews.
2. Fashion
Revolution Day—commemorating the anniversary of the collapse of
the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Bangladesh that killed 1133 workers and
injured 2500 by promoting worker safety by encouraging buyers to purchase
clothing from manufacturers with acceptable safety standards.
3. 1966 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1966 on a run of 1 week in that position was “Good
Lovin’” by The Young Rascals. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55XaECGBN0
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day is “mahout” which one who drives an elephant and which when it comes to
Republicans, hopefully Ryan’s replacement will be more committed to the Trump
Agenda.
5. Ran Out of
Letters—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1940 of noted author Sue Grafton best known for
her 25 novels on private investigator Kinsey Millhone starting with A Is for
Alibi and ending with Y Is for Yesterday before dying of cancer on
December 28, 2017.
On
this day in:
a. 1953 Winston
Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
b. 1957 the Suez
Canal was reopened to traffic following the introduction of UN Peacekeepers.
c. 1967 Soviet
Cosmonaut Vladimir Koramov became the first human being to die in a space
mission when his Soyuz 1 failed to deploy
its parachutes on reentry.
d. 1990 the
Hubble Space Telescope was placed into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery.
e. 1996 President
Bill Clinton signed into law The Antiterrrorism and Effective Death Penalty
Act of 1996 passed by Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support following
the World Trade Center Bombing.
Reflections on the Armenian Genocide: When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations,
they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this
well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to
conceal the fact… I am confident that the whole history of the human race
contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions
of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the
Armenian race in 1915." Henry Morganthau, Senior, American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I Please
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© April 24, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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