Saturday, August 28, 2021

Gavin Is In a Panic as He Will Be Sweating Pain Race Card Toss Has to Refrain

 

On the Gavin Newsom recall Newsom is in a major snit fit
With a black Larry Elder as the leading recall candidate he has to the race card toss quit
But from his depleted quiver the anti-Trump arrow he seeks to draw
But won’t conceal Newsom’s COVID-19 handling flaw
He must sense trouble as objections to his handling of the pandemic grew
Shaking in his boots as slams mounted from the valued likes of Doctor Drew
Whose attacks against Newsom should motivate recall voters to vote yes
Ask the jobless workers who could not get unemployment checks if he caused most of this mess
 What the Blue ads fighting recall have totally missed
This is not a Red antivax conspiracy we must choose to dismiss
Rather it’s across the board fed up with Newsom’s hypocrisy of do as I say not as I do
I can send my kids in to in class private learning since I am above the law as the top Blue
Nor is it a plot like the few rotten apples that stormed through the capitol doors
No this a revolt across party lines that incompetence and arrogance we can no longer ignore
With Newsome there is nothing new
Only failed high taxes over regulated anti-business edicts we must rue
Thank God we have a candidate named Larry
On September 14 Gruesome Newsom’s office time we bury
© August 27, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Friday, August 27, 2021

A Photo of Failure Is Worth a 1000 Words Even If the Words Rhyme

 

On Biden’s failed cut and run withdrawal strategy the chickens of failure have just come home to roost
The drumbeat for the 25th and resignation based on signs of growing dementia have been given a boost
Dementia is a terrible condition that no one should have to suffer
But maybe as the memory banks are emptied from reality a possible buffer
During his press conference yesterday that buffer may have been breached
The enormity of his failures on withdrawal may have his surviving neurons reached
Head down, eyes closed hanging on to his closed briefing books
The image of a man overcome by events, an admission of failure look
In the Wilson Era the effects of a stroke on the mind from the public easier to conceal
 No internet, no cable news 24/7, no social media, no radio, no TV so easy to  truth of mental impairment not reveal
Biden should and must take the mental cognitive test that Trump passed
If not growing concerns based on watching him casts great doubt on how long his presidency can last
If he passes it more power to him and concern over his mental failings can be put to bed
And the disagreements and attacks should move to his policies and implementation instead
No Red or Indie on removal of Biden should in the slightest rejoice
In addition to empathy for the disease, realization with Harris it is a suboptimal Hobson’s choice
But sadly it is a choice that we must elect
A continuing descent into Alice in Wonderland dementia we must reject
© August 27, 2021 The Alaskanpoet


Images of Presidential Legacy Moments

 A presidency or his legacy is often defined in optics that forever in our memories last
Lyndon B. Johnson after Tet addressing the nation telling us no reelection votes for him can be cast
Richard Nixon on the effective day of his resignation climbing steps up Marine 1 in disgrace
Turning with his arms outstretched with fingers in V’s to his supporters face
For Jimmy Carter images of our Embassy in Tehran being overrun
Followed months later by a deadly failed rescue attempt that drove voters to his presidency shun
For Bill Clinton his TV pronouncement that with Monica Lewinsky sexual relations he denied
As the revelations of the Blue Dress came out back on TV to admit he had lied
For Barack Obama the passage of his Obamacare
With scenes of the rollout in front of Sibelius of the systems crashing live on air
For Donald Trump the images fused together in a daily 24/7 discrediting opposition attempt
Ending with the January 6 assault on the Capitol which greeted a second failed impeachment and scathing MSM contempt
For Biden the images have been coming fast and furious of mental acuity in rapid fade
And a growing flood in the thousands of illegal aliens to our safety and prosperity degrade
And finally what could be the coup de grâce
images of Afghans clinging to departing planes
A cut and run withdrawal lack of planning for which verged on the insane
Topped finally on Thursday with suicide bombings at the airport by  ISIS-k who Taliban checkpoints escaped
13 American servicemen lost their lives and 18 wounded along with 90 dead Afghans packed at an entrance gate
The political cartoonist shows our flag at half-mast
Honor our dead and perhaps a Biden Presidency that can no longer last.
And the camera at a press conference shows Biden’s head in his hands
Doubtful this deadly failing can his presidency withstand
© August 27, 2021 The Alaskanpoet



                                                                              

August 26, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Women's Equality Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 26, 2021       

            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 215 million at  215,143,620 cases (214,670,628 yesterday); 18,211,057 of which are active, 196,932,563  closed with 192,449,805 recoveries (97.72% and 97.72% yesterday, and 4,482,758 deaths (2.28% and 2.28% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 39 million at 39,178,558 (39,145,788 yesterday)  with 7,848,514 active cases of which 24,676 are serious or critical, (24,579 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus to .314 % of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 4,595, 31,330,044 closed, with 649,800 deaths (2.07% and 2.07% yesterday) and with 30,680,244 recoveries (97.93% and 97.93% yesterday). Our death rate percentage is no longer stuck at 2.08% since July 12, 2021 and now .21% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady   but slow climb to 1950 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5912 the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting to have a fatality rate of 9.26% of total cases now; Hungary the new number 2 has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase now slowing down and improving slightly to  3.77% of its closed cases have died (3120), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2702),   Brazil (2691) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2430),  Columbia newly added to the list  (2417),   Belgium (2176), Italy (2136),  Poland (1993), and Mexico (1958) and slightly better than the UK which we just passed on the 18th  (1935),  Chile (1905), Romania (1806), Ecuador newly added to list (1790), Spain (1793), Portugal (1739), France (1738), Bolivia (1548),  Sweden (1439) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1256). 
              Tests: We have now conducted 573,846,521 tests (1,722,069/M) just passed by France at 1,856,968 who is now 1st  on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains as king of the mountain with respect to tests at 3,890.297/M.
               CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys  that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which has been passed by Argentina and newly added Columbia but passed the UK  to move up to 10th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  tied with the U.S. at 1958/M with a fatality rate of 8.92% of closed cases and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                     Guatemala:  Active Cases:  51,158 Deaths/M 635
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 217,996 Deaths/M 868
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   11,448 Deaths/M 440   
             US Vaccinations: As of 8/26/2021 365.8 million doses, up from .860 million per day to .878  million per day (down to 4 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 98,026  per day (95,556 yesterday) which means if the rate does not increase it will take us still some 3 months to have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 47,513,170 total doses have been given (87.3%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 84.3%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has  not moved from 13th tied  of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 55.3% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 51.9% has  not moved from 16th  
Place. A  long way to go still to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
              Non  CV News: The State Department with its warning yesterday of terrorist threat hit the nail on the head as today a suicide bomber believed to be from ISIS-K who was able to pass through Taliban checkpoints detonated a suicide vest to kill 12 Marines and 1 soldier and wound 15 plus killing and wounding an unspecified number of Afghans ( the death toll is three times the number KIA in 2020 and Biden will addressed the nation today at 2:00 as some 1000 Americans are still awaiting evacuation and took questions after revealing he was instructed to call on certain reporters); Biden insisted that the mission of evacuation will continued and announced the U.S. would “hunt those responsible for the bombing down” raising the obvious questions of how when after the 31st we will have no assets in country;  if body language could speak at Biden’s press conference we saw the picture of a man acknowledging defeat:   
Pelosi in her typical fashion tweeted not about the bombing but Women’s Equality Day as the House fled the Swamp for Labor Day Weekend (sadly in the Woke cancer that is infecting our Armed Forces, the Sergeant Major of the Army, Michael Grinston was extoling the virtues of diversity by having female soldiers);  Canada has suspended its evacuation efforts after evacuating 3,700 with great regrets it cannot continue; sadly do not be surprised if as a result of the attacks and the likelihood of more that Biden will announce the end of evacuations of Americans (the evacuation of Afghans has been already effectively stopped due to Taliban checkpoints); as Niki Haley and other Reds demand Biden resign over the Kabul attacks we now know why he picked this inept chuckler—best insurance policy against impeachment as she would be even worse than Biden and with her misguided brain still functioning would be more able to implement them; the terrorist attack rattled the markets and after opening and advancing up in the opening hours, tanked with the Dow down almost 200 points at the close; we have been spared the idiocy of seeing vaccinated Newsom supporters wearing masks stuck in their cares at a Newsome/Harris rally as it has been cancelled; in a aping the cartels charging $5,000 to bring an illegal across our South border, Erik Prince the former Navy Seal who founded Blackwater has offered to pick up stranded Americans and drive them to the airport to flee in a chartered aircraft for $6,500 a head (howls of outrage from Psaki over private enterprise profiting on Biden’s failures; on the Woke front under the guise of diversity Verizon is pushing CRT on employees forced to take the class and adding defunding the police to curriculum (deprived black and brown communities of police protection while proponents of CRT have access to private security is racism of the nth degree; as Biden grovels to the Taliban leave it to political cartoonist to graphically display how pathetic Biden has become:

               Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through August 25, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2982 persons shot of whom 517 have died.
               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a  music video link to  “Genie in a Bottle”  by Christina Aguilera, that your efforts to accomplish what you believe in are sempiternal and a quote by Betty Freidan on how to achieve goals, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Labor 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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
              1.  Women’s Equality Day—commemorating the signing of the proclamation by the Secretary of State on this day in 1920 that the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote and the creation by Presidential Proclamation signed by Richard Nixon on this day in 1972 establishing Women’s Right Day.
              2.  
National Toilet Paper Day—celebrating that essential item of hygiene that the pandemic proved to be so valued that it was usually the first item to disappear from the shelves and was invented by Joseph Gayetty to first hit the market in sheet form in 1857. Some 30,000 trees are used daily to produce toilet paper.
              3. 1999 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1999 on this day was “Genie in a Bottle” by Christina Aquilera for 5 weeks in that position to join 14 other songs that achieved number 1 status and 10 other acts who achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlLybox4To   Christina, a  40 year old American singer and song writer, has been dubbed the  Voice of the Generation with 75 million record sales to her credit.

              4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “sempiternal” which means of never-ending duration which sadly describes what our war against terrorism seems to be.
              5. 
Mission of Charitycelebrating the birth on this day in 1910 of Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu better known for her humanitarian work as Mother Teresa who founded the Missions for Charities, won a Nobel Peace Prize and was canonized by the Catholic Church.

              On this day in:
               a. 1983 the final eruption of Mount Krakatoa began its final paroxysmal stage which ended on the 27th with over 70% of the island destroyed and collapsed into the sea.
               b. 1970 on the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, NOW organized a nationwide Women’s Strike for Equality with 50,000 protestors marching in NYC.
              c. 1980 as part of an extortion scheme Harry Birges planted a bomb with 1000 pounds of explosives in the Harrah's Casino at Stateline, Nevada which blew up when the FBI tried to disarm it, destroying most of the casino but killing and injuring no one. Birges was caught, tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison where he died from liver cancer.    
              d. 2009 Kaycee Dugard who was kidnapped when she was 11 was found after 18 years ; her abductor Philip and Mary Garrido were arrested and ultimately plead guilty to kidnapping and rape and Philip was sentenced to 436 years to life and Mary 36 years to life which means both will be eligible for parole in 2034 when Philip assuming he is not killed while in prison will be 83 years old.
               e. 2015 TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward, employees of the CBS Affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia were shot and killed by a former disgruntled employee of the station who had been fired while conducting a live interview. The killer fled but was cornered later and took his own life with a shot to the head.
              
Reflections on the Women’s Strike for Equality: “The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.” Betty Friedan, who organized the Women’s Strike for Equality March in 1970. 
         
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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Newsom Lucky Kabul Bombing Cancelled Harris' Campaign Appearance

 

Newsom must be thankful that the Lord works in mysterious ways
By events at Kabul Airport thousands of miles away
He was saved from the stigma of appearing with a VP who in every assignment has failed
Either due to being MIA diverted on the false roots of illegal immigration trail
Or almost as bad as Biden’s pauses and speaking gaffes
Harris guilty of responding to unwanted facts with uncontrollable laughs
Scratch her caring and fighting for the people façade
And you find a Hillary like unlikeable fraud
With 13 deaths of servicemen deaths today at the Kabul airport
Do not be surprised to see that Biden will his campaign trip abort
We were once known as the Golden State
A magnet for those who sought great schools, highways, weather and prosperity that would await
Now degenerated to the likes of a Banana Republic as a one party Blue state
Whose policies have made us truly second or third rate
Highest taxes, most regulations, highest homeless, most needles and feces in the street
Most virus shut down businesses,  most closed classrooms, most delayed unemployment checks only good weather to us greet
Time to downfall from prosperity and quality of life stall
For the person most responsible vote for the recall
Time to turn the iron pyrite back into gold
Only way is to approval of Newsom’s remaining in office withhold
© August 26, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Nance With His #DealWithIt Wins Callous Tweet of Year Award on Marines Kabul Airport Deaths

 

Malcom Nance an “intelligence analyst” for MSNBC has just descended to new lows
His views on the bombing in Kabul we should into the trash bin stow
When only first news indicated 4 Marines at the hand of a suicide bomber were dead
He tweeted not anger but in essence no big deal #DealWithIt instead
This anti-Red conspiracy monger of plots under every stone
If he had any decency to the families of the dead and wounded he would atone
But this biased idiot has in the past zero empathy to deaths ever shone
His tweet is but another example  of MSNBC deranged bias shown
If he had integrity which I suspect he completely lacks
He should watch the grieving relatives who wish they could have their Marine back
This man of bias belongs not on the air
His objectivity cupboard is empty, totally bare   

© August 26, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Suicide Bombings Kill at Least 10 Marines at Kabul Airport Compared to 4 KIA in All of 2020

 

In Kabul outside the airport a suicide bomber killed at least 10 Marines and wounded dozens more
Bad enough we had the roadblocks of the Taliban now suicide bombing threats we cannot ignore
For once our State Department seemed to correctly assess the threats of a terrorist attack
Urgent warnings not to come to airport and if at the gates to their shelters in place go back
The question that Biden is not mentally competent to be asked
What happens to the Americans who fail in the get out by August 31 task?
How quickly will the Taliban take revenge upon the interpreters and translators who for us fought
To be tracked down, arrested and then as a chilling warning to all lined up against a wall and shot?
Are we facing a Tehran Embassy hostage taking of Americans déjà vu for the hundreds of Americans who could not leave
Insult to injury as the Taliban continue to rub our noses and further humiliation of this nation achieve?
Calls among Red that Biden should resign
As his policies and mental fading are daily maligned
But that is an unrealistic demand and the result would be worse
Instead of a dementia infected man we would have the inept woman with the laughing curse
This great nation is going to have to suck it up, fight Biden in the courts  tooth and nail
And find the best and brightest to send out on the campaign trail
Flip the House and Senate in 2022 and Newsom recall
Hope Feinstein also mentally fading resigns a Red then picked to Biden’s agenda to maul
© August 26, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

August 25, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Lamington Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 25, 2021       

            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 212 million at  214,670,628 cases (213,665,862 yesterday); 18,179,992 of which are active, 196,490,736  closed with 192,015,737 recoveries (97.72% and 97.72% yesterday, and 4,474,999 deaths (2.28% and 2.28% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 39 million at 39,145,788 (38,818,980 yesterday)  with 7,821,577 active cases of which 24,579 are serious or critical, (23,663 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus to .314 % of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 4,692, 31,324,211 closed, with 649,625 deaths (2.07% and 2.07% yesterday) and with 30,674,586 recoveries (97.93% and 97.93% yesterday). Our death rate percentage is no longer stuck at 2.08% since July 12, 2021 and now .21% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady   but slow climb to 1950 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5909 the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting to have a fatality rate of 9.26% of total cases now; Hungary the new number 2 has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase now slowing down and improving slightly to  3.77% of its closed cases have died (3120), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2702),   Brazil (2691) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2430),  Columbia newly added to the list  (2417),   Belgium (2176), Italy (2136),  Poland (1993), and Mexico (1950) and slightly better than the UK which we just passed on the 18th  (1933),  Chile (1902), Romania (1805), Ecuador newly added to list (1789), Spain (1789), Portugal (1739), France (1738), Bolivia (1546),  Sweden (1439) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1256). 
              Tests: We have now conducted 573,510,688 tests (1,721,089/M) just passed by France at 1,856,179 who is now 1st  on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains as king of the mountain with respect to tests at 3,876,207/M.
               CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys  that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which has been passed by Argentina and newly added Columbia but passed the UK  to move up to 10th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  tied with the U.S. at 1950/M with a fatality rate of 8.94% of closed cases and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                     Guatemala:  Active Cases:  51,158 Deaths/M 635
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 216,871 Deaths/M 863
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   11,457 Deaths/M 439   
             US Vaccinations: As of 8/24/2021 363.9 million doses, up from .854 million per day to .860  million per day (down to 4 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 95,556  per day (99,029 yesterday) which means if the rate does not increase it will take us still some 3 months to have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 47,304,100 total doses have been given (88.1%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 85.1%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has  moved   from  10th tied with Virginia to 13th tied with Minnesota and Virginia of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 55.1% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 51.6% has  not moved from 16th  
Place. A  long way to go still to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
              Non  CV News: Blinken admitted that the State Department does not have an exact number of Americans still in Afghanistan but believes it to be around 1000 and is warning Americans they must leave immediately while in a Catch 22 situation is advising Americans not to be outside the gates because of security threats (because the State Department closed the Embassy assembling there for chopper evacuation to the airport is probably not feasible); when asked by Peter Alexander of NBC what he would do if Americans were  still in Afghanistan after the 31st , Biden partially aped Harris not with her characteristic idiotic laugh but a smirk and a “You’ll  be the first person I call” answer which the embarrassed WH staff  cut the audio so the American public would not hear (when will this failure realize his handling of the crisis is no laughing matter; Psaki is faced with an impossible job on the questions pertaining to the evacuation but on the issue of Americans being stranded she seems total ignorant of the fact and continues to deny it; adding to the misery of the spiking COVID-19 cases due to the Delta Variant, we now have a salmonella outbreak in 17 states linked to Italia meat (hold the salami on the pizzas and replace with anchovies); the world thinking of buying into the new spin that the Taliban is different needs to take a deep breath as a Taliban mouthpiece inanely ala Baghdad Bob that this is no proof that Osama Bin Laden was behind the 911 attacks; in an example of one bad apple contaminating the lot, the idiots who awarded Cuomo his Emmy must be sighing in relief that they rescinded it before the replacement governor added 12,000 new CV deaths as Fox report Janice Dean who lost her mother and father in-laws in a New York nursing home due to COVID are demanding the DOJ investigate the scandal of deaths Cuomo caused; a desperate Newsom is rolling the dice to have Chuckles Harris campaign with him in the Bay Area in a rally in which attendees have to remain in their cars but must be vaccinated or have negative test to attend (does the term overkill apply here?); mess Biden got us into in Afghanistan keeps getting worse but a political cartoonist graphically portrays the stench of his failure:                            
               
Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through August 24, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2977 persons shot of whom 515 have died.               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a  music video link to  “This Boy Is Mine”  by Monica and Brandy, that your semantemes are well chosen and quote by members of and beneficiaries of the Cajun Navy, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Labor 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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
           1.  Lamington Day—created by created by the National Trust of Queensland to celebrate a pastry to celebrate a pastry created by the chef of Lord Lamington, the governor of Queensland, Australia from 1896-1901 which consists of a sponge cake dipped in chocolate and coated with diced coconut.
           2.  National Second Hand Wardrobe Day—celebrating the efforts of charities to raise money for their causes by the sale of donated second hand clothing often designer quality which usually is in great shape and sold at a fraction of its cost in department stores.   
          3. 1998 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1998 on this day was “This Boy Is Mine” by Brandy and Monica for 13 weeks in that position to join 15 other songs that achieved number 1 status and 8 other  acts who achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “This Boy Is Mine by Monica and Brandy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSIOp_K5GMw   Monica is nearing her 41st birthday and had to overcome the suicide of a boyfriend while the two of the were visiting his brother’s gravesite. Brandy like Monica comes from a musical family and has had a successful solo career and going strong releasing albums at age 42.
          4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “semanteme” which means a word expressing an idea like a noun, which too often in today’s politically charged neighborhood are not carefully chosen.
            5.  Man With a Golden Batoncelebrating the birth on this day in 1918 of Leonard Bernstein, the first American born conductor to head a major symphony and the first to bring classical music to the masses via television but a heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema in his 50’s and died from a heart attack on October 14, 1990, 5 days after putting down his baton for good and retiring from conducting.
         On this day in:
         a. 1916 the U.S. National Park Service was founded.
         b. 1950 in order to preempt a threatened strike on the nation’s railroads when the nation had just entered the Korean War, President Truman ordered the Secretary of the Army, Frank Pace, to seize control of the nation’s railroads.
         c. 1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party, was assassinated by a former member of this right wing fringe group.
         d. 1997 Ergon Krenz, the last communist leader of East Germany, was convicted for his “shoot to kill” order to prevent East Germans from trying to escape from East Berlin and sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison.
         e. 2017 Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas as a CAT 4 Hurricane and causes massive flooding, kills 116 people, causes some $125 billion in damages and highlighted the rescue efforts of an ad hoc group of Louisiana boaters called the Cajun Navy. 
        Reflections on the work by the Cajun Navy in times of hurricane disasters: “And as it turned out, we couldn’t have done without those guys. They were a tremendous asset.” Livingston Parish President Layton on earlier concerns of having the Cajun Navy volunteering: “And as it turned out, we couldn’t have done without those guys. They were a tremendous asset.” Among the rescuers was Jere Delaune, an auto-body shop owner who helped ferry an estimated 200 people and their pets to higher ground. When a woman plucked into his boat asked if he had taken to the flood waters to help family, his reply was succinct: “All these people here, they’re humans. They’re all my family.” Jere Delaune, Cajun Navy volunteer who moved 200 some people and their pets to higher ground when asked if he was saving family. “God put us where we needed to be,” Cajun Navy volunteer Joey Bernard who rescued an injured sheriff’s deputy thrown from his boat and hanging on a tree limb for dear life.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

SCOTUS Invalidated Biden's Reversal of Stay In Mexico Policy For Asylum Seekers

 

Trump policies on asylum seekers were working to prevent the surge at the border
If applied for asylum you did not get released into the interior with a return for hearing order
You had to go back into Mexico to then wait until your case could be heard
On taking office like stopping the wall and cuffing ICE dropping that policy was absurd
SCOTUS has just handed Biden’s inane open border in reality a grave defeat
No longer do asylum seekers get to roam free in this nation until a court date in the far off future will them greet
Do not be surprised that the cartels will soon get the word and illegals will no longer pay
If upon arrival they are turned back and removed and across the border they have to stay
The border states and those who believe tin secure borders should not be yet jumping for joy
Like the SCOTUS ruling that it was unconstitutional to ban evictions Biden ignored and used a CDC ban to deploy
A step in the right direction but we must hope the open border surge Americans will retain
And will punish the Blues in 2022 by flushing their control of House and Senate down the drain.
August 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Pelosi Goes Through Propelled by Botox on 2 Members of Congress Afghanistan Trip to Check on Withdrawal

 

If money is the mother’s milk of politics, hypocrisy is the cream
The master of the big H is the one and only Botox Queen
In Napa Valley Pelosi was holding her dining fund raising court
Large outdoor table elbow to elbow to pay thousands for Pelosi to Blue candidates support
The servers all wore masks but the donors no masks did they don
Napa Valley infections have been rated high—too many in ICU’s or dying and then to Forest Lawn
Pelosi is either too stupid to care about the optics of donors without masks
Or so vain she wants her Botox treated face to be admired while on her donations collect task
When two members of Congress one Blue and one Red
Have the nerve to go to Afghanistan to check on Americans trying to have fled
Two vets now in Congress exercising their oversite Constitutional craft
Have put themselves in this tyrant’s unrestrained wrath
Do not surprise if retribution for their trip will be so swift
Loss of committee assignments may be her how-dare-you gift
She claimed they were on a rogue mission that put our mission troops at risk
While touting her party’s role in new spending while Americans are at risk
This autocrat of hypocrisy, misstatements and lies
Thank God indications that another term as Speaker she will not try
Her last hurrah will be to try to help Newsom avoid a needed recall
To save her ego when Blues lose their majority due to Biden’s disaster in 2022 fall
August 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Trudeau's Minister Calls Taliban "Our Brothers" Huh?

 

Canada’s Maryam Monsef is raising eyebrows once again
First trying to as the first Afghan minister trying to pretend
When not born there but in Iran instead
Now calling Taliban “our brothers” rather than Sharia fanatics mired in blood shed
If the Taliban are Canada’s brothers they make “black sheep” look white as pristine snow
Despite Monsef’s plea to end femicide doubt the Taliban will allow Afghans to go
A Sharia curtain much more dangerous and deadly than Stalin’s Iron Curtain is about to descend
The freedoms achieved by women, nonbelievers and journalists over 20 years will soon end
Under these relics from the 7th Century, education and careers for women will be a fading memory of the past
Even as the Taliban may consider its brutal repressive images to try to recast
Watch for the Sharia curtain to any news and views of the suffering to soon be endured
To be shut down after failed attempts by the Taliban to reality to the West distort and blur
Churchill facing disaster at Dunkirk did not impose an evacuation deadline date
The ships and boats kept crossing the channel to save the men on the beaches in lines in wait
Until the rear guard could no longer the German approaches to the beaches block
Today sadly we must to Kabul evacuation fast forward the clock
With Biden agreeing to a date rather that a mission coming to an end
Then groveling like a weak pathetic president pleading with the Taliban to the deadline extend
How many Americans wanting to leave will most likely be trapped in harm’s way?
Like the thousands of our Afghan allies who the Taliban will most likely imprison or slay
And our #MeToo Movement like the likes of Rubin blinded by their Biden sycophantic traits
Will utter only the sounds of silence as women in Afghanistan are condemned to their fate
August 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

August 24, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not William Wilburforce Day

 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 24, 2021       

            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 212 million at  213,665,862 cases (212,864,443 yesterday); 17,980,784 of which are active, 195,675,078  closed with 191,215,378 recoveries (97.72% and 97.72% yesterday, and 4,459,700 deaths (2.28% and 2.28% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 38 million at 38,818,980 (38,548,513 yesterday)  with 7,691,459 active cases of which 23,663 are serious or critical, (23,296 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus to .314 % of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 5,608, 31,217,521 closed, with 646,704 deaths (2.07% and 2.07% yesterday) and with 30,570,817 recoveries (97.93% and 97.93% yesterday). Our death rate percentage is no longer stuck at 2.08% since July 12, 2021 and now .21% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady   but slow climb to 1941 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5909 the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting to have a fatality rate of 9.26% of total cases now; Hungary the new number 2 has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase now slowing down and improving slightly to  3.77% of its closed cases have died (3120), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2690),   Brazil (2683) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2422),  Columbia newly added to the list  (2414),   Belgium (2176), Italy (2135),  Poland (1993), and Mexico (1943) and slightly better than the UK which we just passed on the 18th  (1931),  Chile (1901), Romania (1804), Ecuador newly added to list (1788), Spain (1782), Portugal (1738), France (1733), Bolivia (1545),  Sweden (1438) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1255). 
              Tests: We have now conducted 569,090,574 tests (1,707,574/M) just passed by France at 1,708,071 who is now 1st  on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains as king of the mountain with respect to tests at 3,864,101/M.
               CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys  that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which has been passed by Argentina and newly added Columbia but passed the UK  to move up to 10th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  at 1943/M with a fatality rate of 9.09% of closed cases and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                     Guatemala:  Active Cases:  48,656 Deaths/M 630
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 215,436 Deaths/M 860
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   10,802 Deaths/M 438   
             US Vaccinations: As of 8/23/2021 363.3 million doses, down from .889 million per day to .854  million per day (down to 4 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 95,029  per day (99,555 yesterday) which means if the rate does not increase it will take us still some 3 months to have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 47,250,789 total doses have been given (88.0%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 84.9%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has  moved  up from  13th tied with Virginia to 10th tied with Virginia of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 55.0% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 51.5% has  moved from 17th to 16th  
Place. A  long way to go still to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
              Non  CV News: The humiliation of the U.S. with Biden keeps getting worse as a groveling Biden bowing to the Taliban’s demands will not extend our presence in Afghanistan even if Americans trying desperately to leave the country are trapped; the Biden Administration has frozen $7 billion of Afghanistan assets to prevent the Taliban from getting their hands on them; Afghan former president Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan with his hear and supposedly some $169 million in cash which has the Reds demanding he be brought to justice for embezzlement (will the U.A.E. turn him over to us or to the Taliban?); Harris’ anticipated trip to Vietnam from Singapore was delayed for 3 hours due to reports of Embassy personnel in Berlin exhibiting symptoms of the “Havana Syndrome” (like a well-trained VP Harris is praising Biden for his “courageous” stand on Afghanistan while our allies are ridiculing Biden); in a better late than never moment, the idiots who cheapened the Emmy Award have finally come to their senses and rescinded the award given to disgrace Governor Andrew Cuomo; words have consequences as AP refers to the launchers of balloon bombs into Israel from Gaza as “activists” not “terrorists”; Avenatti has dodged the bullet in his fraud trial as the federal judge hearing the case declared a mistrial as the prosecution withheld financial documents Avenatti was entitled to see in his defense; those trusty Taliban like the East Germans who put up the Berlin Wall to East Germans from crossing into West Berlin then fleeing into West Germany have announced intention to ban Afghans from Kabul Airport; WAPO’s ultra-left Jennifer Rubin has become a Taliban shill, reminds us of Tokyo Rose or Axis Sally; Oregon’s Blue Governor has lowered the boom and has issued at edict that masks in public places outdoors will be required regardless of vaccine status (watch for vaccine mandate to follow soon and wonder if the nightly rioters in Portland will comply which they probably will to hide their identity while committing criminal acts; the music of the Rolling Stones will last forever but their members will not as 80 year old Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has just died at home with his family and friends.
 
                  Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through August 23, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2966 persons shot of whom 512 have died.
               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a  music video link to  “I'll Be Missing You"  by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans feat. 112, that you are not fearful of secouth situations and a quote by President Truman on how not to fight communism, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Labor 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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
              1.  William Wilburforce Day—created by Wilburforce University, a historically black college in Ohio, in 2011 to honor  William Wilburforce, a British 19th Century member of Parliament and tireless abolitionist who tirelessly worked to end slavery in the British Empire.
              2.  
Can Opener Day—in a real chicken and egg conundrum the Dutch started canning salmon by the end of the 18th Century but opening the cans required a hammer and chisel and it was not until 1855 that the first primitive can opener was patented in Great Britain and not until 1870 that the rotating wheel can opener was patented and not until 1931 was there a can opener with 2 wheels and handles that when gripped together would hold the can while it the lid was opened to enable the diner to enjoy the canned contents therein.
              3. 1997 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1997 on this day was “I’ll Be Missing You” by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans feat. 112 for 12 weeks in that position to join 9 other songs that achieved number 1 status and 4 other  acts who achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 and one of which The Notorious B.I.G. who became the 5th artist to reach that status posthumously . Here is a music video of “I’ll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans feat. 112:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMtZm2YuBE  Puff Daddy is a singer, rapper and record producer with 6 children and going strong at 51 years old. Faith Evans was married to The Notorious B.I.G. until his murder in a drive by shooting which has never been solved and has sold 20 million records. 112 was a R&B quartet.
           4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “selcouth” which means strange or unusual a trait that causes people not curious or adventuresome to shy away from.

              5.  Iron Man Without a Bike, Swimsuit or Running Shoescelebrating the birth on this day in 1960 of the man called the Iron Man, Cal Ripken, Jr. who played MLB for the Baltimore Orioles for 21 years and broke Lou Gehrig’s record for continuous games and continued to add games to end his own record at 2632 consecutive games a record that will stand most likely for a very long time and may never be broken.

              On this day in:
               a. 1954 the Communist Control Act outlawing the American Communist Party went into effect.
               b. 1967 Abbie Hoffman of the Youth International Party leads a group of protestors into the gallery of the New York Stock Exchange and disrupts trading when they start tossing onto the floor dollar bills which cause the traders to start scrambling to pick up the currency floating down to them.
          
c. 1995 Microsoft released Windows 95 to the general public in North America.
               d. 1998 in a “big brother is tracking you moment” the first RFID was implanted in a test on a human being in the United Kingdom.
               e. 2006 the International Astronomical Unit redefines what constitutes a planet and Pluto is downgraded to a “dwarf planet”.

 
              Reflections on how not to fight communism: “[we are] going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat.” President Harry S. Truman Wise thoughts especially when your apply them to the threat of turning the nation into a left wing totalitarian country to deal with a perceived right wing white supremacist threat.
              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 on the 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 go to  Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Siegfried Line Song For Elder as Newsom May Be Toast

 

Newsom seems to be getting more and more peeved
First  recall supporters were able to on the ballot the recall achieve
And now Google searches on Elder  and the French Laundry are going off the charts
Could it be that Gavin sees the writing on the wall as from Sacramento soon he will depart?
He is an arrogant politician whose ego and distain for the voters knows no bounds
His closures and lockdowns coupled with EDD meltdown were unsound
And while the mere mortal voters could only dine at home alone
He was wined and dined at the French Laundry for a lobbyist birthday bash to quid pro quo skill hone
If Elder had a campaign song it could be an ape of this
Fire up the voters who want to from office Newsom dismiss
“We're going to hang out the washing on the French Laundry Line.
Have you any dirty washing, Gavin  dear?
We're gonna hang out the washing on the French Laundry Line.
'Cause the washing day is here.
Worked for the Brit soldiers in World War II
May work now as Newsom as governor is through
© August 24, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

America Is Not Back But Our Back and Biden's Back Is Being Shown to All

 

After his inauguration Biden was quick to our allies and foes proclaim
“America is back” After all of the supposed Trump juvenile missteps we are back in the diplomacy game
After watching Biden’s performance on the Afghanistan withdrawal snafu
We need a modification to the slogan issued by our mentally fading top Blue
The slogan is not “America is back” but rather “America’s back”
That’s what our allies and foes have seen and will see due to his leadership lack
And what the nation and the press see after his attempting soothing address
Of a bumbling, stumbling, lapsing teleprompted speaker in mental distress
Followed quickly by his tottering back walking away as questions are shouted at him
Worse each day that even more and more of his MSM sycophants have ceased their fawning spin
Watching him even with a teleprompter is like watching a download with not enough speed
The frames pause, freeze as his eyes closed looking down trying to pull up the words he needs
Had he picked Gabbard, Warren or Klobuchar all of whom could answer questions asked
And regardless of their policies would be capable of stepping in and fulfilling the Oval Office task
We could without fear of total disaster invoke the 25th as he mental condition gets worse
Now no way can we be subjected to an uncontrollable laughing Harris curse

© August 24, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

In Desperation Newsom Has Harris and Biden Campaigning Against Recall

 

Newsom must be in a panic mode
As against Elder cries he is a black white supremacist Blues unload
Reached out to Harris for her to campaign against recall
When most people on her performance thus far should be appalled
Having her and Biden campaigning for him
May well insure that the recall will win
Instead of a capable woman an aneurism away
We are left with a chuckling inept clown on display
With each chuckle on questions she seems further over her pay grade
Thus far on the border MIA fiasco she typifies the Peter Principle in spades
Embellished her role on Biden’s cut and run to withdraw
Then disappeared from sight and sound when Taliban surge revealed it to be flawed
What a dynamic duo we now have—she with her uncontrollable laughs
And Biden with his dementia induced increasing gaffes
While our foes watching his gaffes and her laughs
Know it will be them not us who will have the last laugh
 August 24, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

August 23, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Cuban Sandwich Day

 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not August 23, 2021       

            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 212 million at  212,864,443 cases (212,594,579 yesterday); 17,917,801 of which are active, 194,946,932  closed with 190,497,765 recoveries (97.72% and 97.72% yesterday, and 4,448,867 deaths (2.28% and 2.28% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 38 million at 38,548,513 (38,545,144 yesterday)  with 7,430,208 active cases of which 23,296 are serious or critical, (23,302 yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now on a serious upswing due to Delta virus to .314 % of active cases and now a first dip in the number of serious or critical cases to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 5,975, 31,118,205 closed, with 645,068 deaths (2.07% and 2.07% yesterday) and with 30,473,137 recoveries (97.93% and 97.93% yesterday). Our death rate percentage is no longer stuck at 2.08% since July 12, 2021 and now .21% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady   but slow climb to 1936 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5904 the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting to have a fatality rate of 9.26% of total cases now; Hungary the new number 2 has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase now slowing down and improving slightly to  3.77% of its closed cases have died (3119), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2681),   Brazil (2681) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2416),  Columbia newly added to the list  (2412),   Belgium (2174), Italy (2133),  Poland (1993), and Mexico (1940) and slightly better than the UK which we just passed on the 18th  (1928),  Chile (1899), Romania (1803), Ecuador newly added to list (1782), Spain (1777), Portugal (1736), France (1732), Bolivia (1544),  Sweden (1438) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1254). 
              
Tests: We have now conducted 566,435,673 tests (1,699,911/M) just passed by France at 1,708,081 who is now 1st  on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark, Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains as king of the mountain with respect to tests at 3,820,808/M.
               CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys  that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which has been passed by Argentina and newly added Columbia but passed the UK  to move up to 10th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  at 1940/M with a fatality rate of 9.09% of closed cases and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                     Guatemala:  Active Cases:  50,199 Deaths/M 629
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 213,083 Deaths/M 852
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   10,817 Deaths/M 435   
             US Vaccinations: As of 8/22/2021 362.7 million doses, up from .845 million per day to .889  million per day (down to 4 months to go for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 99,555  per day (94,540 yesterday) which means if the rate does not increase it will take us still some 3 months to have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 47,163,521 total doses have been given (87.8%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 84.8%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has not moved  up from  13th tied with Virginia of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 54.8% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 51.3% has  moved from 16th  to 17th  
Place. A long way to go still to get to herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
              Non  CV News: Harris in Singapore after touting her role in the withdrawal decision became mute and deaf when asked to comment on the chaos indicating not the time while her host the President of Singapore indicating the withdrawal had gone awry (Biden must be delusional to think Harris will bolster nations in the region to have the confidence that the U.S. has their backs when it comes to Chinese potential and desire for aggression (once again Chuckles was laughing on Afghanistan before trying to with a straight face explain what our priorities there were—laughter as a reflex shows she is out of her league and the issue is above her pay grade of competence); Biden has assured us all Afghan refugees will be vetted thoroughly before being allowed to leave temporary military facilities for resettlement (given that 0 vetting is occurring on our Southern border for “refugees” most of home are economic refugees which asylum is not to be granted Americans should be doubting big time that  promise will be followed); Cuomo is out of office at midnight lashing out at the New York AG and denying any sexual harassment on his part (pathetic that he cannot see the gravity of the accusations and despite the deaths caused by his nursing home edicts he will be sucking down his $50,000 a year pension and relishing his idiotic book deal); finally the American troops are aping what other countries are doing—leaving the airport to locate Americans to bring them to the evacuation from the airport as the Pentagon is urging the White House to extend the August 31st deadline to have all Americans out (sad that thanks to Biden we are on our knees begging for the Taliban’s help to get our people out); vaccine mandates are soon going to be the norm as the FDA has removed the conditional approval for the Pfizer vaccine and given it its full approval; Meghan McCain rightfully compares Harris to Joaquin Phoenix’s mentally troubled  laughing character in the 2019 film The Joker https://www.foxnews.com/media/meghan-mccain-kamala-harris-joaquin-phoenix-jokeras Biden’s worsening dementia raises concerns over who if anyone is minding the store leave it to the political cartoonist to given us the answer:
                                                                      

             Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through August 22, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 2957 persons shot of whom 512 have died.
               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a  music video link to  “Macarena”  by Los del Rio, that your seity is still intact and a quote by Cesar Chavez on unionizing, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Labor 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. Please contact me for details on pricing.
              1.  International Day For Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition—created by UNESCO in 1998 to commemorate the Slave Revolt in Haiti on this day in 1791 that set in motion the ultimate end of legalized slave trading although slavery still exists without legal sanction in parts of the world.
              2.  
National Cuban Sandwich Day—created by Christopher Spata, a feature editor for the Tampa Bay Times in 2016 to promote that Cuban variation of the ham and cheese sandwich that appeared in cafes in Ybor City in Tampa Bay and Key West that catered to Cuban immigrants.
              3. 1996 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1996 on this day was “Macarena” (Bayside Boys Mix) by Los del Rio for 14 weeks in that position to join 8 other songs that achieved number 1 status and 7 other acts who achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “Macarena” (Bayside Boys Mix) by Los del Rio:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWaymcVmJ-A Los del Rio is a Mexican duo and “Macarena” (Bayside Boys Mix) was their only number one song in the U.S.
            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “seity” which means one’s individuality which is a trait one should never lose.           
             5.  Black Mambacelebrating the birth on this day in 1978 of noted basketball guard for the Los Angeles Lakes, Kobe Bryant who became the first guard in NBA history to play 20 and who sadly had his life cut short while heading to with his daughter going to play in a girls’ basketball game when the helicopter he was in crashed in the fog outside of Calabasas on January 26, 2020 killing all aboard.

              On this day in:
               a. 1904 to the joy of motorists living in areas with winter snow and ice driving conditions, the automobile tire chain was patented.
               b. 1970 in the largest farm worker’s strike in U.S. history Cesar Chavez  and his United Farm Workers Union went on strike, called the Salad Bowl Strike, against lettuce growers which strike lasted until March 26, 1971 and was marked by pickets and consumer boycotts and resulted in the passage in California of the California Labor Relations Act.
          c. 1990 East Germany and West Germany announced they would reunite on October 3, 1990.
               d. 1991 the World Wide Web was opened to the public and the internet age was off to the races.
               e. 1994 Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I who flew for France not the United States who only accepted white pilots and flew 20 combat missions and is believed to have shot down 1 or 2 German planes, was posthumously granted a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
 
              Reflections on unionizing farm workers: “There are vivid memories from my childhood – what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose, if I wanted to be fair, I could say that I’m trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers.”There are vivid memories from my childhood – what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose, if I wanted to be fair, I could say that I’m trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farmworkers.”  Cesar Chavez
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