Sunday, June 30, 2019

June 30, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Social Media Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 30, 2019 Biden continues to display why he would be in elected the Gaffe-in Chief when at a fund raiser in Seattle at the home of a gay activist he stated that progress had been made by the GBGT community since a joke by a businessman about a gay waiter 4 years ago would no longer be acceptable, a comment not well received by the gay supporting audience; Castro has the gall in view of resistance by his party and Obama appointed federal judges to Trump’s attempts to seal the border to claim Trump has failed in his attempt to secure the border (what a dismal hypocrite); Trump, Jr. was also attacked by Trump for retweeting the obvious that Harris did not descend from American slaves by from slaves of rich Jamaicans where slavery was abolished in 1834 with all slaves emancipated in 1838 (if we are dumb enough to pass reparations, Harris will be sol  to receive any); Trump and Kim met at the DMZ in a photo op to push the narrative that talks on denuclearization are continuing which the Blues castigated almost en masse that he was coddling dictators yet on the other side of their hypocritical mouths they demand diplomacy instead of military action with respect to Iran; in a sign that lake water purity is improving in Lake Erie and the Great Lakes, millions of May flies have been swarming in Ohio in swarms large enough to be detected on local weather radar systems; Bernie Marcus the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot at age 90 is supporting Trump, calls Sanders a clear and present danger to entrepreneurship and will donate the bulk of his estate to his Marcus Foundation which among other things is funding research in autism; Schwarzenegger’s love child was not invited to his daughter Christine’s wedding with Chris Pratt as his two daughters have no relationship to their half-brother; while the Blue candidates are in a rush to judgment to adopt Medicare for all, Congressman Tim Ryan, barely registering in the polls is castigating the plan which would end private insurance as “not the way to go”: the political hack head of the DNC Tom Perez is defending the plan to include medical care for illegals as it is not a “handout” (ignoring the fact that millions who work illegally without social security are paid under the table and contribute nothing in taxes on a drain on our social services); through June 29, 2019 1247 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 229 have died (what makes the Smollett case so frustrating and why the appointment of a special prosecutor should be applauded,  is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder has a suspect being charged this year).
1. International Asteroid Day—created in 2004 to commemorate the striking of the Earth at Tunguska, Siberia on this day in 1908 by an asteroid that was the largest and most damaging asteroid in modern times and to raise awareness of the need to create defenses against strikes from major sized asteroids.                 
 2. Social Media Day—created by Mashable on June 30, 2010 to create awareness of the impact of social media on global communication and increasingly to create awareness of the ability of social media to censor conservative ideas and impact election by driving viewers away from conservative sites.
 3. 1959 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1959 with 6 weeks in that position was “The Battle of New Orleans* by Johnny Horton. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CnPv_1SVh0 The noted singer lost his battle with life as his career was taking off on November 5, 1960 when he was killed at the far too early age of 35 on a highway bridge in Texas by a drunk driver.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o” to words beginning with “p” is “pervicacious” which means obstinate which describes the MSM anti-Trump bias in spades.
5. World’s Oldest Teenager—celebrating the birth on this day in 1929 of the World’s Oldest Teenager, Dick Clark,  host of American Bandstand for almost 30 years, several game shows and New Years’ Eve celebrations in Time Square until slowed by a stroke in 2004; Father Time crossed the stage for him at age 82 on April 18, 2012 following prostate surgery.
 As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,  a music link to Johnny Horton, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you avoid being pervicacious in your discussions of issues; at work, a quote by Amy Schumer on social media, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 need only contact me for details.
    On this day in:                                        
a. 1953 the first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
b. 1966 the National Organization for Women was founded.
c. 1986 SCOTUS in Bowers v. Hardwick ruled that states could ban homosexual acts between consenting adults, a case which was overruled by SCOTUS in 2003 by Lawrence v. Tribe.
d. 1990 East Germany and West Germany merged their two economies.
e. 2013 19 firefighters died fighting wildfires near Yarnell, Arizona.
Reflections on social media by a comedienne whose party wants to shadow ban conservative thought: “I'm super grateful that there wasn't social media when I was a kid, but that sort of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It's bullying. It's the comments here and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don't even mean to be a mean-spirited comment, but they'll just kind of say it to you in passing.” Amy Schumer cousin of Chuck Schumer.
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June 30, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Saturday, June 29, 2019

June 29, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Day World Sceleroderma Awareness Daylereive

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 29, 2019 After being excoriated by the illegal alien queen Harris who brazenly is and condemned for  offering T-shirts with the logo “That Little Girl Was Me,”, Spartacus chimed in against Biden slamming him for insensitive racial language when on Friday he claimed the the “next kid wearing a hoodie could be the next poet laureate (disagree with Biden’s policies and economic record but Blues behind him are becoming way to PC sensitive); at the G-20 Trump hit back at Carter for his claim that Trump was an illegitimate president due to Russian meddling and asserted he was a terrible president which he was and slammed Harris for getting too much credit in the debate (wonder what nickname he will pick for the illegal alien queen to torpedo her candidacy?); on the Chinese tariff wars, Trump announced at the G-20 that Chinese telecom giant Huawei will be allowed to purchase goods from American suppliers and reports indicate that the U.S. may delay imposing tariffs on an additional $300 billion of Chinese goods as trade talks will continue (is Trump caving or part of a sound negotiation strategy?); Luisa Alvarez, a first responder with the NYPD bomb squad who testified with Jon Stewart before Congress on the lack of funding for first responders who have come down with life threatening diseases due to responding to 9/11 has died two weeks after his testimony from colon cancer (not a stellar moment for our legislators especially Blues more concerned about the welfare of illegals); in a 180 from Horace Greeley’s advice to “Go West” a new study that to find affordable housing, prospective homeowners struggling to find affordable housing to buy should look East especially Pittsburgh (values may be down as many cheap houses are in the East where high taxes predominate and people are leaving in droves flooding the markets with houses for sale); Judge Haywood Gilliam, another unelected judge appointed by Barack Obama, has quashed Trump’s plans to divert military funds to curtail the invasion that is swamping our southern border and creating havoc with our security; an heir to the Disney fortune, Abigail Disney, has called for a ‘wealth tax” to support ameliorating the inequality of income (best way as Gates, Bezos and Zuckerberg and others have proved is to support policies that encourage entrepreneurship like lower taxes and less crushing regulations); through June 27, 2019 1221 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 227 have died (what makes the Smollett case so frustrating and why the appointment of a special prosecutor should be applauded,  is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder has a suspect being charged this year).
1. World Scleroderma Awareness Day—created by the Systemic Scleroderma World Congress in Florence in 2010 to be celebrated on June 29, the birthday of noted painter Paul Klee who suffered from the disease and died on this day in 1940; the disease is an auto immune disease that affects the connective tissue and is life threatening with no known cure as of yet.                 
 2. National Camera Day—celebrating the invention of the camera which has changed the world by creating records of what the world really is or what the viewer would like to alter it to be and through the use of body cams, security cams, and ubiquitous cell phone cams has made the world a much safer place albeit with some loss of privacy as collateral damage.
 3. 1958 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1958 with 7 weeks in that position was “The Purple People Eater* by Sheb Wooley. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE The noted singer and actor was forced into retirement in 1999 and four years later at the age of 82 on September 16, 2003,the leukemia Purple People Eater visited him for the last time.   
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o” to words beginning with “p” is “perstringe” which means to restrain or censure which describes to a tee what Pelosi needs to do with the antics of AOC, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
5. Don’t Hold the Mayo—celebrating the birth on this day in 1861 of noted American surgeon William James Mayo, co-founder of the world renowned Mayo Clinic.
 As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,  a music link to Sheb Wooley, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you avoid are not subject to perstringe; at work, a quote by Tim Cook on the iPhone, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 need only contact me for details.
    On this day in:                                        
a. 1880 France annexed Tahiti.
b. 1956 the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was passed which created our Interstate Highway System.
c. 1975 Steve Wozniak tested his prototype of the Apple I computer.
d. 2006 SCOTUS in Hamsden v. Rumsfield ruled that the trial of Guantanamo detainees by military tribunals was unconstitutional.
e. 2007 Apple released its first mobile phone the iPhone.
Reflections on the iPhone: “I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's become so integrated and integral to our lives, you wouldn't think about leaving home without it.” Tim Cook, president of Apple and commencement speaker at Stanford this year.
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June 29, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Friday, June 28, 2019

Celebs Not Held In Esteem When Off Script


Alyssa Milano typifies the celebrity world’s flaw
Because while in a movie or singing we hold them in awe,
They think when they take positions off script, we should hold their opinions in high esteem
Ignoring the fact that knowing a script by rote does not in any way mean we should hold their ideas as supreme
Due to the passage of the Georgia fetal heart bill Alyssa has advanced the Lysistrata like position
That Georgia women should sex strike to ban sexual acts from coming to fruition
Maybe as to all male legislators who backed the bill
But as to all men somewhat too extreme and shrill
No wonder despite all the hype, photo opts and PR ink
Most Americans could care less what celebrities think
Too often overpaid and in the lives of mere mortals out of touch
Phonies from a different universe and totally unreliable in the clutch
© June 28, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Wealth Tax Supported By Super Rich?


At some point in time no matter how great the meal
A body becomes sated and if continuing picks at his food with little zeal
Maybe the same is true of continued accumulation of wealth
Whether earned through hard work and risk or by inherited stealth
When you have assets in the millions from deprivation one is largely immune
On consumption there is a limit to how many toys or mansions and the number of rooms
As long as all wealth is at risk and  some wealth is held in T-Bills or insured accounts
Regardless of the bankruptcy leveling winds you will still have comfort dollars to count
How many buildings on college campuses in your name
Until overflowing is the cup of adulation and fame?
Your favorite college or charity has enough endowment that fulfillment of its goals will never wane
The good work done to the general population will always continue to reign
How many foundations must you in your name create
To wage a holy war against disease to cause it to abate?
How many scholarships must you endow
Before a grateful nation before you bows?  
At what point the realization finally dawns
Time to spread the wealth like fertilizing a new lawn?
If you keep wealth and pass it on to your kids the disease of spoiled lack of incentive rich kid infects
An entrepreneur who built his fortune from intellect, hard work, luck and risk will that path reject
The conundrum is how to shed wealth but to the recipients who waste not and make it grow
When if in government programs too much waste and fraud and the funds grow low
Maybe you divide  among family, wealth tax income equality and philanthropy in percentages to have the most impact
Three prongs like a trident to the social needs of this great country attack
© June 28, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

June 28, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Body Piercing Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 28, 2019 Iran is probably shaking in its boots as the Senate voted 50-40 not to approve a resolution requiring Trump seek approval before military action against Iran; the body of MacKenzie Lueck has been found and Aoola Ajayi has been arrested (a handyman has come forward and revealed that Ajayi had contacted him to build a concealed room complete with hooks); Harris played the race card in spades on Biden and a man who has fought for racial justice looked like a gutted fish after Harris attacked him relentlessly all the way to the bank (second best day fund raising day for her); while the Blues running for president as expected  continue to hold on for dear life to the collusion delusion, former President Jimmy Carter  who really should know better has thrown his 94 year mind into the ring by claiming Trump is illegitimate because of Russian intervention (the years of being involved in nuclear submarines may have finally impacted his mind); in only the 4th time in history astronomers detected an asteroid the size of a car before it blew up entering the atmosphere with a force of 6,000 tons of TNT; while Venezuela is being plunged into total economic darkness, the path of the total solar eclipse expected July 2, 2019 will hit South America far to the south; the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team beat France 2-1 by Rapinoe’s two goals in the quarterfinals today; SCOTUS has agreed to hear the Trump Administration’s attempt to end DACA next term (will be heard during the 2020 election race which should be a polarizing event in the race); at the G-20 Trump will be meeting with Putin and with Chinese President Xi Jinping (markets are waiting with baited breath to see what progress if any on trade issues will develop); through June 27, 2019 1197 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 225 have died (what makes the Smollett case so frustrating and why the appointment of a special prosecutor should be applauded,  is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder has a suspect being charged this year).
1. Insurance Awareness Day—have no idea where, why or who originated this day but must have been either an insurance company or broker who wanted to create awareness of the need to protect life and property with insurance.                 
 2. International Body Piercing Day—celebrated on the birthday of the “Granddaddy of Body Piercing,” Jim Ward who was born on this day in 1941 but I am clueless as to when or who created it only that in promotes the use of body piercing as an essential element of fashion in a growing number of people. 
 3. 1957 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1957 with 4 weeks in that position was “Love Letters in the Sand* by Pat Boone. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ENzT9k1LRs The noted singer, actor and writer is still going strong at 85 which he celebrated on June 1 of this year.   
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o” to words beginning with “p” is “perspicacious” which means astute or clear minded which is what we need in our leaders but sadly too often find lacking.
5. Receiver Cross:—celebrating the birth on this day in 1961 of hard throwing quarterback for Stanford and the Denver Broncos John Elway whose receivers often had small crosses on their chests after catching a bullet from Elway.
 As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,  a music link to Pat Boone, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you avoid are perspicacious in your dealings with issues; at work, a quote by John Kasich on affirmative action, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 need only contact me for details.
    On this day in:                                        
a. 1969 the Stoneham riots between police and gay attendees at a gay nightclub began in New York City, marking the beginning of the Gay Pride Movement.
b. 1978 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Bakke v. The Regents of the University of California  that admissions based on quotas was unconstitutional.
c. 1987 for the first time in modern history a civilian target was targeted with chemical weapons, mustard gas, when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
d. 1997 Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the third round of a Heavyweight Championship Fight.
e. 2001 Slobodan Milosevic was extradited to stand trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for  former Yugoslavia and after undergoing a 5 year trial died in his cell from a heart attack without a verdict.
Reflections on affirmative action: “Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.” John Kasich, former governor of Ohio and sadly so right on this issue.
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June 28, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Thursday, June 27, 2019

What's Good For The Common Geese Not Good For The Blue Ganderst


When it comes to hypocrisy, the Blues seem to always win the prize
While Blues are pushing single payer and private insurance’s demise
Are they prepared to pay the pain of long wait times?
Are they willing to for health care stand in line?
To no surprise the answer to both questions is a resounding no
Classic case of what’s bad for you is not where I will go
Only De Blasio who has not a snowball’s chance in hell
Or Warren are willing to accept what to us the Blues to us are trying to sell
At least the other Blues are not repeating the big lie that if you like your health plan you can keep it
But deceptively remaining silent hoping we won’t learn that for them from their insurance they will not quit
Americans should be tired of by the Blues being snowed
Come 2020 we should rise up as one and to their nominee and down ballot say no.
© June 27, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet   

Middle Class Taxes Up Under Medicare For All


Under Sanders the Middle Class will be floored with a one two punch
Evidence that Sanders on his ideas of health care is out to lunch
Medicare for all is a great concept until how to pay for it is raised
Raising taxes on the Middle Class will send a proponent’s candidacy into an early grave
Sanders has admitted Medicare for all will raise taxes for the Middle Class
But here is punch number two that will cause them to squeal and gasp
13+ million or more illegals will be covered under his universal Medicare
That additional cost is a cost most taxpayers will not want to bear
Lost in the fine print and experience of single payer plans
Is the vast increase in time to wait before an appointment in a doctor’s office to land
Look to the experience of wait times at the VA
Patients dying while waiting for appointments on display
Trump hearing Sanders and seeing the Blues on alien healthcare raise their hands
Said game over as voting taxpayers will insure that the Blues from the Oval Office be banned
© June 27, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Swalwell Rips Buttigiege Over South Bend Shootingrip


Body cameras were supposed to end the wrongful death law suit trend
But not the case when they are not turned on in the case of shooting Logan in South Bend
Officer O’ Neill responding to a report of cars being damaged came upon the scene without siren turned on
Body camera linked remained off so no video record of whether Logan’s knife was or was not drawn
The officer said he was retreating while Logan with a knife pointed continued to advance
Fearing being stabbed did not want to take the potentially fatal chance
Fired two shots one of which in the abdomen struck
Another officer took Logan to hospital in three minutes but he was out of luck
The city is 24% black but black officers total only six percent
Protesters of the shooting into the streets quickly went
Blacks too often do not believe accounts of shootings by officers of the law
Body cameras whose on switch is linked to a siren is a fatal flaw
Mayor Peter from Swalwell over not firing the officer took a lot of flack
Facts not in and a rush to judgment to side with the feelings of the family of a dead black
Defect on the camera switch needs to be fixed and in all confrontations the camera must be on
Or protests in the streets and wrongful death suits will in such shootings be spawned
© June 27, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet  

June 27, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National PTSD Awareness Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 27, 2019 In a sign that Americans are fed up with the crisis at the border, Pelosi has caved and will bring the Senate passed funding bill with no restrictions on border enforcement which will most likely pass despite the howls of AOC; 10 wanna-bes appeared on the stage to face Rachel Maddow’s pro left softball questions on which to rage (slammed for softball questions when it looked more like them playing T-Ball not in any way to prepared to debate Trump in the fall); in a surprise move two Mostly Slanted Negative Biased Cack news pundits declared Trump the winner in last night’s softball debate tournament; the charge of open border support must be getting under the Blues’ skin as De Castro who supports decriminalizing illegal border crossings claims with a straight face that he is not in favor of open borders as he slammed O’Rourke; De Blasio touted his call for a 70% tax rate on the wealthy while Rep Gabbard’s Google searches have increasd exponentially as Americans learned that she had volunteered to serve in a medical unit in a combat zone in Iraq for 12 months; new leaders at ICE as the head of DHS is immersed in hot water over allegations he leaked information about planned ICE raids and fought to have ICE agents stand down; SCOTUS punted on the issue of a question of including immigration status of respondents and sent the case back to the District Court for more fact finding on the rationale behind the question (California with its leading number of illegals must be pleased its loss of residents fleeing the state will be offset by illegals who cannot vote in the first place); in some unpleasant news for Boeing, the FAA has found some new software glitches in its 737 Max line further delaying its return to service;
through June 26, 2019 1192 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 224 have died (what makes the Smollett case so frustrating and why the appointment of a special prosecutor should be applauded,  is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder has a suspect being charged this year).
1. National PTSD Awareness Day—observed on the day since 2014 to promote awareness and seek cures and  treatment for the 6% of our population that will experience an event that will create post traumatic stress syndrome in their lifetime.                 
 2. National HIV Test Day—celebrated first on June 27, 1995 to encourage people to test for the presence of the HIV virus since you cannot stop the spread or begin recovery if you do not know you are infected. 
 3. 1956 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1956 with 6 weeks in that position was “The Wayward Wind* by Gogi Grant. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_4IzbsbOM The restless wind stopped blowing on her face at the age of 91 on March 10, 2016.   
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o” to words beginning with “p” is “persiflage” which means idle chatter which is what you want to avoid in the work place when you have deadlines.
5. Blind and Deaf But Not Dumb:—celebrating the birth on this day in 1880 of noted author, suffragist, and activist Helen Keller who infected with a disease that left her deaf and blind but she overcame these difficulties to lead a very productive life.
 As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,  a music link to Gogi Grant, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you avoid persiflage at work, a quote by Helen of what can be seen, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 need only contact me for details.
    On this day in:                                        
a. 1950 in response to the invasion by North Korea, the U.S. decided to send troops to South Korea to repel the invasion..
b. 1974 President Richard Nixon made a state visit to the Soviet Union, the first president to do so but the trip did not prevent the continuation of the Watergate investigation and his subsequent resignation.
c. 1976 El-Al Flight 139 was diverted by hijackers after leaving Athens and diverted to Benghazi where it was flown to Entebbe,  Uganda where later Israeli commanders landed to rescue all but four of the 102 Jewish hostages who remained.
d. 2007 Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister of the U.K. after serving 10 years.
e. 2008 Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was reelected as president in a landslide after his opponent had withdrawn a week earlier due to violence his supporters; facing impeachment 10 years later and under house arrest, he resigned in 2018.
 Reflections on what can be seen: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller
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 oe 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 for just This Day in History go to www.Alaskanpoethistory.blogspot.com.
June 27, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Open Border Collateral Damage

When Pelosi implies if you get across can stay
Illegal migrants may not see light of next day

June 26, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Refrigeration Daydl

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 26, 2019 What a difference over 100,000 apprehensions of illegals a month makes as the Blues and their MSM lackeys have finally shed their false narrative that the crisis on the border is a Trump manufactured crisis and have now asserted there is a humanitarian crisis and have blamed Trump for it and the House response to the Border Patrol’s request for more agents, judges, and shelters is a $4.8 billion aid bill that does nothing to allay Border Patrol’s concerns, hinders the building of more security measures and funds legal services of illegals contesting asylum denials (Blues won’t admit they are for open borders but all of their acts and nonacts clearly support that position and all the negative consequences that stem from it like crime, drugs, gangs, lower wages and employment especially among blacks and Hispanics); in a Kavanaugh sexual assault déjà vu allegation, a 75 year old woman E. Jean Carroll, who is promoting her book What Do We Need Men For, has made the accusation that Trump groped her 23-24 years ago in a York City building but never reported it until now and admitted to Anderson Cooper that she found the incident sexy (MSM salivating all open this but looking life fools for rushing to interview without corroboration); a House Committee led by Rep. Cummings has issued a subpoena to Kellyanne Conway over alleged Hatch Act violations on strict party lines other that RINO Amash voting with the Blues setting yet another battle between the House and president over the applicability of the doctrine of Executive Privilege and the right of federal employees to voice their opinions on appearances on news shows; Mueller will testify before Nadler’s Judiciary Committee on July 27 in what should be an explosive hearing with Reds primed to exploit the bias of Mueller’s team, the origin of the anti-Trump dossier and its role in the FISA warrants, and the corruption in the FBI in the Trump investigation (or as Trump would say witch-hunt); the optics of the failure of the Blues to act on border security ware starkly portrayed as a man and his daughter drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande (yet another example of the dangers of a perceived open border presented by Blues to illegals living in Central America):
                                               
                                         

Beth Chapman, the wife of Dog the Bounty Hunter Chapman, is dead from throat cancer after being put in a medically induced coma several days ago; chilling news to high taxing, high spending governors like Newsom and Cuomo, low tax states are ramping up efforts to attract residents from high tax states to move due to the SALT $10,000 limitation on deductibility on state and local taxes (Newsom’s problem is exacerbated by his proclivity of spending for benefits to illegal aliens while the state leads the nation in homelessness); Natalie Harp who has battled bone cancer most of her life was called up on stage at the Faith and Freedom Conference that Trump was speaking at to credit Trump for being her Good Samaritan by passing the Right to Try bill which has given her the ability to fight her cancer that before had her in a life of pain and confined to a wheel chair through June 25, 2019 1187 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 223 have died (what makes the Smollett case so frustrating and why the appointment of a special prosecutor should be applauded,  is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder has a suspect being charged this year).
1. International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking—created by the U.N. General Assembly in 1987 and celebrated on this day since 1989 to promote awareness of the dangers to users and society of the use of illegal drugs and the abuse of legal prescription drugs in order to try to reduce the deaths and other harmful effects arising out of the use or abuse of drugs.                 
 2. World Refrigeration Day—created by the U.N. due to the support of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers and first celebrated on this day in 2019; the world would be a much less comfortable place without the efforts of these professionals in our cars, homes, plants, offices, indoor places of entertainment or shopping. 
 3. 1955 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1955 with 7 weeks in that position was “Cherry Prink (And Apple Blossom White)* by Prado Perez and his Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj64NlRnpDY Prado Perez known as the King of Mambo died at age 72 on September 14, 1989 from a stroke but his music and Orchestra live on with his son as conductor.   
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o” to words beginning with “p” is “perscrutation” which means a thorough investigation which is what Trump had to endure on the collusion delusion and Hillary did not on her illegal private server she used to hide classified information.
5. No Longest Yard:—celebrating the birth on this day in 1980 of noted quarterback Michael Vick whose promising career with the Atlanta Falcons was put on with a 23 month suspension due to sentencing to federal prison for dog fighting matches in 2007 with no football played there ala Burt Reynolds as Paul Crewe in The Longest Yard. He bounced back after release to play with the Philadelphia Eagles (Comeback Player of the Year 2010), New York Jets and ending with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2015, with a record for rushing yards by a quarterback of 6,130 yards.
 As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,  a music link to Prado Perez, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you approach problems with perscrutaton to find the solutions thereto, a quote by James Watson on the benefits of the Human Genome Project, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 need only contact me for details.
    On this day in:                                        
a. 1948 William Shockley filed a patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bi-polar transistor.
b. 1974 the Universal Product Code on a package of Wrigley Chewing Gum was scanned for the first time at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
c. 2000 the Human Genome Project announced a “rough draft” of the sequence.
d. 2003 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Lawrence v. Texas that the prohibition of homosexual activity between consenting adults is unconstitutional.
e. 2015 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges that the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the 14th Amendment guarantee the right of same sex couples to marry.
 Reflections on benefits of the Human Genome Project: “The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.” James D. Watson the co-discoverer along with Francis Crick of DNA
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June 26, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Alfred E. Newman on a Campaign Deja Vu


Mayor Pete announced and became the darling of the progressives
Young, articulate, a vet in accord with them on LBGT rights aggressive
Not in the closet but married to his partner and openly gay
An unknown he quickly climbed in the polls and looked to be on his way
No longer under the radar this Mayor of South Bend
Then something happened that took the air out of the sails of this phenom trend
Trump took notice and on him a name pinned
Cast doubt then and there if he had a chance to win
Mayor Pete with a last name no one could easily pronounce
Must have rolled his eyes in despair when his name Trump chose to announce
In Trumpspeak Mayor Pete will be “Alfred E. Newman” as now known
Compared to the cover on Mad from here you could hear Pete groan
Dukakis looking like Alfred E. Newman in a M-1 tank met his Waterloo
Trump must have known the label stuck on Pete would be an election déjà vu
No one wants a grinning fool to the White House occupy
Soon his rise in the polls reality began to deny
Insult to injury occurred when a black was shot by police in South Bend
Rushing to a town hall to meet with angry blacks, he brought his campaign to a temporary end
Instead of standing erect, tall and strong
He chose the optics that were clearly wrong
Behind a desk peering into the crowd
Facing black hecklers angry and loud
A chair behind a desk morphed into Newman’s tank
He began his fall from the up and coming wanna-bes rank
He calling for the FBI to investigate the shooting
Riled the police union who would like to give him a swift booting
Even without the name and the shooting, it’s hard for a big city or  small town mayor
To climb over other more experienced politicians to sit in the Oval Office chair
Look only to the example of Mayor De Blasio whose race makes Don Quixote seem a winner
No matter what De Blasio tries he will come as a big time loser on the voters election spinner   
© June 25, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

June 25, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Vitiligo Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 25, 2019 The bloom may be off the rose for Mayor Pete and his campaign may be headed for defeat as he was heckled by blacks for the shooting of a black and his police union for calling for FBI on the shooting is fighting back (shades of Dukakis’ Alfred E. Newman moment in a M-1 tank); Stephanie Grisham who was formerly spokeswoman for Melania Trump has been named to replace Sarah Sanders; Biden is facing rough sledding as “Middle Class Joe” as it was revealed he made millions giving speeches after leaving office, has purchased a $3,000,000 beach house and living in a 12,000 square foot mansion  and a NYT columnist blasts Biden’s appearances as an actor who can’t remember his lines (you have to be in trouble when the left leaning NYT attacks you); Booker has revealed once again his lack of spine in pursuing the nomination after attacking Biden’s remarks on working with segregationists opened up possibility of meeting with noted anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan who has called Jews “termites”; on the collateral damage front on Blues’ plan to increase federal minimum wage to $15 an hour a franchisee of Hooters in Florida and Alabama has written an op-ed that the plan will put him out of business (plan must be also eliminating or reducing tip credit which allows employers to count tips up to $5.12 per hour); Trump ran on transparency when it came to justices and produced a list of potential conservative SCOTUS nominees but Biden the front runner has a list which he has as of yet refused to reveal (Red ads soon coming out to blast him over his secrecy); Blues on a open border are like a Massiff that won’t release his powerful grip on a bone and have loaded up the $4.8 billion emergency funding bill for humanitarian aid to the illegals with restrictions on enforcement of our immigration laws that may result in veto by Trump (the most effective humanitarian aid is a clear message that if you come here illegally you will be deported); Megan Rapinoe, a star player for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team is being blasted by Trump for her refusal at the World Cup to stand for the National Anthem, put her hand over her heart or sing it (thank you very much Colin Kaepernick for starting this mess); the Russian Bear keeps coming out of its lair as one of its more advanced cruise missile frigates has docked on a visit to Cuba; through June 25, 2019 1177 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 222 have died (what makes the Smollett case so frustrating and why the appointment of a special prosecutor should be applauded,  is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder have a suspect being charged this year).
1. National Catfish Day—created by the U.S. Congress by proclamation and celebrated since 1987 to recognize and promote the aquaculture of catfish as an inexpensive sustainable source of protein and the creator of thousands of jobs.                                  
 2. World Vitiligo Day—created in 2011 to promote awareness of the defect which causes a loss of pigmentation and affects 1-2% of the population, the most famous of which is Michael Jackson who died on this day in 2009. 
 3. 1954 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1954 with 10 weeks in that position was “Little Things Mean a Lot” by Kitty Kallen. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C7SzKv2uLU   She lost her voice at the London Palladium for 4 years in 1955 but came back under a pseudonym singing in small venues to record 13 career hit songs but lost her life at age 94 on January, 7, 2016.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o” to words beginning with “p” is “pernor” which means one who takes rents or received benefits from estates, properties or other things of value which if in California with its sky high rents means if a pernor you are in seventh heaven.
5. Sing a Song of Vanity:—celebrating the birth on this day in 1945 of noted singer and songwriter Carly Simon who was once married to James Taylor and is still performing today. Here is a recording of her number one song “You’re So Vain” the second verse of which she revealed in 2015 was about Warren Beatty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g Here is the 4th verse she wrote for the song that she never included and to this day the person mentioned has not been revealed:  “A friend of yours revealed to me that you’d loved me all the time / Kept it secret from your wives / You believed it was no crime.
 You called me once to ask me things / I couldn’t quite divine / Maybe that’s why I have tried to dismiss you, tried to dismiss you / And you’re so vain.”
     As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,  music links to Kitty Kallen and Carly Simon, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are wise enough to have become a pernor, a quote by Bruce Cummings on the lack of exit plans for wars, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 need only contact me for details.
    On this day in:                                        
a. 1910 Congress passed the Mann Act which outlawed the transportation of females across state lines for “immoral purposes” a vague standard that was used to selectively prosecute those out of favor for years; it was amended to delete “immoral purposes” with “any sexual act for which a person can be charged with a criminal offense.”
b. 1950 the Korean War began with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
c. 1978 the rainbow flag was flown for the first time in San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade.
d. 1984 Prince released his most successful album Purple Rain which sold 1.5 millions copies.
e. 1998 in a blow to fiscal sanity SCOTUS ruled in the case of Clinton v. United States that the Line Act Veto of 1996 was unconstitutional.
 Reflections on wars including the Korean War: “In fact the United States has had no exit strategy since 1945, except in places where we were kicked out (Vietnam) or asked to leave (the Philippines): American troops still occupy Japan, Korea, and Germany, in the seventh decade after the end of World War II. Policymakers – almost always civilians with little or no military experience (Acheson is the archetype) – get Americans into wars but cannot get them out, and soon the Pentagon takes over, establishes bases, and the entire enterprise becomes a perpetual-motion machine fuelled by a defence budget that dwarfs all others in the world.”
― Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History Wise observation but in Vietnam we did not leave soon enough and over 58,000 soldiers paid the ultimate price and in the Philippines World War II preempted our decision to leave in 1946.
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 oe 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 for just This Day in History go to www.Alaskanpoethistory.blogspot.com.
June 25, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet