Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For April 4, 2018 On the immigration
front, Trump, concerned over the growing caravan of illegal travelling through
Mexico en route to our southern border will like Obama and Bush before him call
out the National Guard; in a missed opportunity Mountain View police
interviewed on the morning of the shooting at YouTube, Nasim Najafi Aghdamlle sleeping
in her car and did not detain her (her brother when notified that the police
had found her called the Mountain View Police Department indicating that she
might do something to YouTube); Obama was back in the news thanks to Judicial
Watch’s FOIA request revealing that Obama’s State Department funneled $9
million to leftist George Soros’ group in Albania to support that country’s
socialist government; Pruitt, the head of the EPA, is in the news over
revelations that two of his aides received large salary increases after the
White House rightfully denied them (Pruitt claimed he did not know how that
occurred and when he found out he immediately cancelled the increases) and his
flying first class on short flights to Texas and Oklahoma (talk about waste and
fleecing of taxpayers); like a stuck record a “celebrity” most likely with
bodyguards, Michael Ian Black, blames the NRA for YouTube shooting attack; in
Chicago through April 3, 2018, 548 people have been shot, of whom 94 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Kay
Starr; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you do
not display the macaroni so prevalent among the denizens of the Swamp and a relevant
quote by John Lewis on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination 50 years ago on
this day, 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. Alcohol Screening
Day—creating
awareness of the dangers created by alcohol abuse and the need to seek
treatment before major issues present themselves.
2. Read A Road Map Day—celebrating
a skill which has become almost extinct due to GPS, the ability to find one’s
way with a folding map.
3. 1952 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1952 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Wheel of
Fortune” by Kay Starr. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIce5NsWKk
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of
the day as we have left words beginning with “l” and have entered the realm of
words beginning with “m” is “macaroni” which is not the pasta but here means
foolishness or nonsense which we see coming out of the Swamp in never ending
quantities.
5. One Way to Pay
for College—celebrating the birth on this day in 1991 of Jamie Lynn Spears
the younger sister of Brittany Spears who has not followed her sister in the
singing world but rather acting and after announcing she was pregnant at 16
sold pictures of her daughter’s birth to Ok!
Magazine for a million dollars.
On
this day in:
a. 1968 Martin Luther
King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee touching off nationwide riots
in most of the cities of this land.
b. 1975 Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Paul
Allen and Bill Gates.
c. 1984 President Reagan called for a ban on chemical weapons.
d. 1994 Marc
Andreesen and James Clark founded Netscape Communications which was later
acquired by AOL for $10 billion.
e. 2009 France
returned to NATO.
Reflections on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. from
someone who marched with him: “The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens
did.” John Lewis, Blue Congressman from Georgia. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my
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