Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 7,2018 In another example
of the fact that the reptilian brain crosses party lines, the New York Attorney
General has resigned over allegations of sexual abuse and drug abuse; NBC
has stooped to a new low as SNL has porn star Stormy Daniels on a skit with
Alec Baldwin playing Trump; Senator McCain may be on his death bed but he still
had time with help to write a 400 page autobiography which is due out soon in
which he castigates Hillary’s handling of the Benghazi attack and the ludicrous
attempts of Susan Rice and the administration to blame the attacks on a video
and not to be unbalanced lights into Tromp even to point of wanting him not to
come to his funeral; 50 former top intel officials have written to Congress
urging that Gina Haspel be confirmed as the new CIA Director (watch the
hypocrites on the left en masse led by Harris, Booker, Sanders and Warren rail
about her former support of waterboarding);
the witch-hunter in chief has turned down Trump’s request to answer any
questions in writing (time for Trump to instruct Rosenstein to release his
scope memo so if Mueller has violated the scope restrict him and tell Mueller
to take any subpoena and show it up his ass see you at SCOTUS); Trump is urging
West Virginia voters not to vote for West Virginia coal executive Don
Blankenship; Sarah Sanders has labeled a rumor that Melania Trump does not live
in the White House as ridiculous; in Chicago through May 6, 2018, 818 people
have been shot, of whom 133 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Three
Dog Night, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that know
when not to turn your malar and a relevant quote by Dan Egan on the damage
caused by quagga mussels to the Great Lakes, 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. Great Lakes Awareness Day—created to promote awareness of the need to the largest
freshwater source on the planet from pollution and species invasion.
2. Melanoma Monday—promoting awareness of how to protect one’s self from melanoma,
a deadly form of skin cancer caused by prolonged exposure to the Sun’s harmful
ultraviolet rays.
3. 1971 Number One Song— the number one song in 1971 on a run of 6 weeks in that
position was “Joy To The World” by Three Dog Night. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as8K3H7Rros
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “malar” which means the bone that formers the outer
eye socket and outer part of the cheek which too often before Trump we have
been turning.
5. Too Young At Heart—celebrating the birthday of noted evolved actress Nora Louise
Kuzma better known to the law and her fans as Traci Lords who started making
porn movies while only 15 but after her true age was exposed entered the Lee
Strassberg Institute to study acting and evolved into a well regarded actress
and singer.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1976 the Honda Accord was officially launched..
b. 1992 in a great ideas do not come to fruition overnight, Michigan ratified an amendment that had been
proposed 203 years earlier to become the 27th Amendment to the
Constitution which prevents Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises.
c. 1998 Mercedes Benz merged with Chrysler for $40 in the
largest industrial merger to date to form Daimler Chrysler.
d. 1999 in a real oops moment the U.S. accidentally bombed the
Chinese Embassy in Kosovo, Serbia killing three and wounding 20.
e. 2000 Vladimir Putin became president of the Russian
Federation.
Reflections on how
easy it is to destroy or alter a body of water through the introduction of a
foreign species: “Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for
example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100
miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions upon trillions of
filter-feeding quagga mussels.” Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. The book details the ecological disaster
caused by ships transiting the Great Lakes to discharge water ballast which
contained vast quantities of microorganisms. Please enjoy the poems on
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