As California goes so goes
the nation pundits once said and the reparations demands no longer confined to
California, Blues at the federal level are demanding trillions of dollars in
reparations to descendants of slaves which must make Japanese-Americans feel
that they got the short end of the stick when only living Japanese-Americans incarcerated
not any dependents received $20,000. This budget buster needs to be tossed into
the trash heap. When DEI is the Biden standard for picking judges, Senator Kennedy once again shredded a Biden
female nominee for the 9th Circuit on her lack of understanding of
Constitutional Law. This poet often slammed Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of
Chicago as Lori Lightweight, but her replacement, Brandon Johnson, seems more
like a Lightweights as he conflates the death of a Chicago member of the CPD shot
while coming home after duty with that of a black teen with a gun shot by
police and seems bent on defunding a good segment of the CPP. From leftist
Keith Olbermann’s podcast another biased blast against liberal Jake Tapper who
had the temerity to suggest that the FBI has been damaged by the Durham Report
demanding he be fired. Vets in NYC are slamming Governor Hochul and Mayor Abrams
for kicking vets out of a homeless shelter to provide space for illegal aliens.
In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals the Miami Heat beat the
Boston Celtics on their home court 123-116.
May 17, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: World Hypertension Day: Created by the World Hypertension League, an umbrella organization
of 85 groups promoting awareness of hypertension, and first celebrated on May
14, 2014 and thereafter on May 17 of each year. The day supports awareness of
hypertension which is called the “silent killer” and steps needed to combat it.
Word of the Day: the word
of the day is “anhidrosis” which means the inability to perspire which robs
a person while exercising of the ability to cool oneself.
Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 1990 was “Nothing
Compares to You” by Sinéad O'Connor on a run of 4 weeks to share with 25 other songs achieving number
1 ranking, while 15 acts, including Sinéad O'Connor
achieved their first number 1 ranking. Here is a music video with lyrics
of Sinéad O'Connor performing “Nothing Compares to You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAOKzvL8dgk
May 17 Famous Birthdays: Howard
Ashman, noted lyricist, playwright
and stage director who is best heralded as the creative force behind The
Renaissance of Disney having written the songs for Little Shop of Horrors, The
Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin but sadly his
creative genius was stilled forever when he died of HIV/AIDS on March 14, 1991.
Noted Events on May 17:
1. 1954—By a vote of 9-0 SCOTUS in the case of Brown v. The Board of
Education of Topeka Kansas ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
2. 1974—In a shootout with the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and police
forces in Los Angeles after two hours, 6 members of the SlA died and the 4000
or so rounds they fired fortunately hit no one.
3. 1990—The World Health Organization eliminated homosexuality as a psychiatric disease.
4. 2004—The first legal same sex marriage was performed in Massachusetts.
5. 2007—Trains from South Korea and North Korea crossed the 38th
Parallel which symbolic event sadly has done nothing to open up the “Hermit Kingdom
to the West.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Chief Justice Earl Warren ruling
in Brown v. Board of Education: “Segregation of
white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the
colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law,
for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the
inferiority of the negro group. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation
of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a
tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children
and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly]
integrated school system.”
© May 17, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoetwww.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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