Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 6, 2019 Moving ceremony at Normandy today with Trump
(great speech by him) and other leaders paying homage to the brave and courageos
troops that fought there on D-Day 75 years ago; in a you need to be sitting
down moment or you might fall down, both Jim Accosta and Joe Scarborough, harsh
and combative critics of Trump, paid him compliments for his address at
Normandy (wouldn’t it be great if those compliments could be the seeds of
compromise that would sprout into getting something done on the issues we need
to address as a nation like immigration and infrastructure); looks like Cummings
wife has been caught with her hand in the ethics jar as her charity was paying
substantial funds to her for profit corporation; Dana Loesch is a spokesman for
the NRA and she weighed in on the arrest of Scott Peterson claiming he was not the
only failure blaming the Sheriff Israel for a lack of training of his officers
(Peterson was a coward but a man with a pistol against a man with a semiautomatic
rifle is facing tough odds); Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached new highs
in Palmetto, Florida in a woman stabbing herself three times because she was
tired of living in a country under Trump; in Germany Niels Hogel, a nurse, was
sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 85 patients because it was a rush to try to
rescucitate them after inducing cardiac arrest that often failed (talk about a
lack of hospital quality control); Insys Therapeutics has admitted to bribing doctors
to prescribe its opioids and has agreed to a $225 million fine (executives guilty
of such behavior should go to jail and serve long time); despite howls from
leftist Blues like Kamala Harris, the illegal alien supporter queen, citing
funding shortages and the astronomical increase in illegals, DHS is cutting
back educational and recreational services for unaccompanied minors; through June
4, 2019 988 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 194 have
died (what makes the Smollett case so frustrating 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.
D-Day—celebrating
the parachuting and glider landings in Normandy by airborne units of the Brits
and Americans and the landing of 6 divisions of Americans, British and Canadians
on Omaha, Utah, Sword and Juno Beaches on this day in 1944 brought to France by
the largest armada in history.
2. UN Russian
Language Day—created
by the UN in 2010 along with the 5 other official working languages of the UN
to promote diversity and equal useage of the 6 officials languages with date
chosen for Russian to be the birthday of Pushkin, the poet considered by many to be the
father of Russian literature.
3. 1937
Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1937 is “September in the Rain”
by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians on a run of 4 weeks in that position.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLqODPIkWo4 Guy passed away from a heart attack on
November 5, 1977.
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 “peculation”
which means embezzlement, a really heinous crime.
5.
The Builder Always Wins--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1917 of Kirk Kekorian who was instrumental in shaping
the face of Las Vegas with large casinos and whose roulette wheel of life ended
on June 15, 2015 at 98.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to
Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians, 5 factoids of interest for this day
in history, the fact that you are not subject to any peculations, and a
relevant quote from Holger Erkhertz on D-Day from German eyes, 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.
1933 the first drive-in theater in the United States opened in Camden, New
Jersey.
b. 1942
in a battle that doomed the Japanese Navy, the U.S. Navy dive bombers sank four
Japanese carriers and the Japanese cruiser Mikuma.
c.
1946 the Basketball Association of America, the precursor to the National
Basketball Association was founded in New York City.
d.
1971 a midair collision near Duarte, California between a U.S. Marine Corps
Phantom F-4 and a Hughes Airwest Flight 706 claimed all 49 members of the crew
and passengers on Flight 796 and the pilot but not the radar officer.
e.
2005 SCOTUS in the case of Gonzales v. Raich upheld the ban of marijuana
including medical marijuana.
Reflections on D-Day from the side of
the Germans: “I was astonished at this sight. I wondered if I was hallucinating,
or if this was a delirium of some kind. I had never seen such an assembly of
ships, and I’m sure nobody will ever see such a thing again, perhaps not in
human history. The sea was absolutely solid with metal, that is no
exaggeration.”
― Holger Eckhertz, D Day Through German Eyes 2 Just as astounding had to have been unlike the German Army that used 1000s upon 1000s of horse nary a nag was used on D-Day
― Holger Eckhertz, D Day Through German Eyes 2 Just as astounding had to have been unlike the German Army that used 1000s upon 1000s of horse nary a nag was used on D-Day
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© June 6, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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