Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For June 18, 2018 Fear of a trade war
with China is heating up as the Trump Administration is taking steps to levy an
additional $200 billion in new tariffs against Chinese goods as the economy
heats up and prompts the fed to increase its benchmark rate by 25 basis points
with two more rate hikes indicated for the remainder of the year; the DOJ is
appealing a federal court injunction which blocked the feds from withholding public
safety grants to sanctuary cities; chaos at the border as asylum seekers who
have entgered the county illegally not at a port of entry are having their
children held separately in juvenile detention facilities; in Chicago,
principal Mary Beth Cunat invited a radical anti-police activist to speak at a
Career Day to sixth through eighth graders to the ire of parents and then
abruptly retired; 20 year old rapper XXXTentacion was shot dead in South
Florida while shopping for a motorcycle; Reds are demanding the names of the
five unnamed biased FBI employees in the IG’s report while controversy is
stirred over the IG’s conclusion that no bias occurred in the investigation; in
Chicago throught June 17, 2018
1251 people mostly of color have been shot by
mostly people of color, of whom 203 have died (when will Chicago get serious
about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns
a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of
color?)
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to All-Four-One,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you may be blessed
with mathesis, and a relevant quote from Tmple Grandin on
autism, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like
Father’s Day, college graduations, 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
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1. Autistic Pride Day—created
by Aspies for Freedom in 2005 to celebrate the neurodiversity of austistics
throughout the autism spectrum.
2. International Go Picnic Day—celebrating a great way to enjoy the outdoors at a park or
beach.
3. 1993 Number One Song— the number one
song in 1994 on a run of 11 weeks in that position was “I Swear” by All 4
One. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25rL-ooWICU
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the
day is “mathesis” which means mental discipline.
5. Some Like
It Hot—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1915 note
oil well firefighter Red Adair who successfully put out over 1,000 oil well
fires.
On this
day in:
a. 1815 British and Prussian
forces defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
b. 1979 the U.S. and
the Soviet Union signed the SAALT II Treaty.
c. 1981 the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first plane designed around stealth technology made
its first flight.
d. 1983 Astronaut
Sally Ride became the first American woman to orbit the Earth.
e. 2018 a 6.1
earthquake hit Osaka, Japan.
Reflections
on autism: “What would happen if the
autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people
standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything
done,” Dr. Temple Grandin, professor of animal sciences at Colorado State
University and autism spokesperson Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my
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in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and
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© June 18, 2018
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