The
President and Jill have interrupted their Lake Tahoe vacation as guests at
Billionaire Tom Steyer’s mansion and have landed in Hawaii to board Marine 1 to fly over Maui to view the damage and then
land in Kaanapali to meet with first responders, government officials and
survivors in an attempt to recover from his lack of empathy “no comment” when
first asked about the fires and to insure Maui residents that the federal government
will be in lockstep with recovery efforts. He will also announce the appointment of FEMA
District 9 Director Bob Fenton as the Chief Federal Disaster Coordinator to oversee
federal recovery efforts. Democratic Hawaii Governor Josh Green appeared on “Face
the Nation” Sunday to acknowledge that mistakes were made in responding to the
fires but blamed climate change for amplifying those errors and regretted that
the sirens were not sounded as the fires approached Lahaina. It appears that
the death count still stands at 114 as searchers aided by 41 cadaver dogs comb
through the burnt out destruction.|
As Tropical Storm Hilary was starting to
deliver rain and gusting winds, Southern California was hit with a 5.1
earthquake 4.3 miles southwest of Ojai. Widespread flooding occurred in the
Palm Springs area and 911 service was knocked out with flash floods still a
danger. Numerous water rescues from flooded residences have been made as this
now post tropical storm continues to move toward Idaho and Oregon with the
ability to drop a goodly amount of rain. The good news is that Hilary seems to
have caused so far only one death and that was in Mexico of someone trying to
cross a flooded stream. The “Friendliest Place on Earth” closed early yesterday
to the disappointment of those intrepid visitors paying Disneyland’s atrocious
admission charges and the LAUSD indicated that none of its schools would be
open on Monday.
Spain’s World Cup Championship
team already in controversy over players complaints of lack of professionalism
and preparation and other issues of their coach is hit with another controversy
during the awards ceremony when the president of the Spanish football
federation, Luis Rubiales, kissed Jenni Hermoso, a striker of Spain’s
soccer team.
On the crime front, UK Neonatal
Nurse 33 year old Lucy Letby who was convicted of killing of 7 babies and
attempting to kill 6 more from June 2015 and June 2016 by a jury after 22 days
of deliberation was sentenced to life without possibility of parole. On the other
side of the Pond, 41 year old respiration therapist Jennifer Hall who had been
charged with first degree murder for killing 75 year old Fern Franco and 37
year old David Harper who were 2 of the 9 patients at the Hedrick Medical
Center in Chillicothe, Missouri who had died from medically suspicious
circumstances in the 5 months she had worked there in 2002, copped a plea deal
of 1st degree involuntary manslaughter. She made headlines when
arrested in 2022 in her mug shot with the logo “I don’t f***ing care” and will
now begin serving 18 years hoping she earns good behavior to be reduced and
earlier be released on parole.
On the defund the police front
Portland City Commissioner who fervently advocated the reduction of the funding
for cops and falsely charged that police themselves were setting fires during
the George Floyd riots but fortunately was defeated in November of 2021 by a
pro police candidate and in a hit and run collision in Portland a witness wrongfully
identified her as the hit and run driver which identification was leaked by police
to the newspapers prompting her to sue the city and the PPD which suit has been
settled for hundreds of thousands of dollars. In Austin, another city with a
very liberal city council behind the defund the police movement, crime is going
through the roof and the number of officers needed to make the streets safe cannot
be hired or retained. The APD believes that it needs 2000 officers for a
growing city the size of Austin but only has 1475. In a move to combat rising
crime, the Texas DPS entered a partnership with the APD enabling them to respond
to emergencies which was lowering crime by 28% Blue Austin Mayor recently cancelled
the partnership after praising the results 2 days earlier because it did not
comport with “Austin values”(so being murdered, or assaulted or having your
vehicle car jacked does?).
Oliver Anthony’s song “Rich Men
North of Richmond” is still racking in viewers but in a Deliverance event
Billy Bragg has just given us the dueling rich men songs with “Rich Men Earning
North of a Million” which has a very pro-union leftist slant. Here are links to
both songs to help you shape your political views: Oliver Anthony:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro Billy Bragg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY
On the safety front if you drink don’t drive
take Uber or the train. But if you are dumb enough to drink and then drive, try
to avoid the train as this idiot did not with a BAC twice the legal limit in
Taiwan after waking up in the morning to drive to get breakfast to run into a
speeding train and receive minor injuries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY
August 21, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Poet’s
Day: Created on this day in 2001 by C. Daniel Rhodes of Hoover,
Alabama to promote the reading and creation of poetry in its numerous forms. Best
celebrated by reading preferably out loud to savor the metrics and rhythm and
if you lack a favorite poet, you can always go to my blog www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “asthenopia” which
means muscular weakening of the eyes causing headaches and eyestrain from
spending too much time in from of a computer without wearing computer glasses
or pouring over small text trying to read it.
Song of the
Day: The number 1 song on this day in 2010 was “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem feat.
Rihanna on a run of 7 weeks to share number 1 status with 16 other songs
achieving number 1 ranking while 9 acts achieved number one status for the
first time. Here is a music video of Eminem feat. Rihanna performing “Love the
Way You Lie”: https://imvdb.com/video/eminem/love-the-way-you-lie
August
21 Birthdays: “Lightning Bolt on Land”—Usain Bolt, Born on this day in 1986 in Sherwood Content,
Jamaica and considered the best sprinter of all times, having won the Gold
Medal in the 100 m and 200 in three Olympics 2008, 2012 and 2016. Has retired from
track racing to pursue commercials, an electric scooter which discontinued operations in 2022
after 3 years and producing records.
August 21 Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2017/For the first time since a solar eclipse in 1918/a total
eclipse made landfall on the Pacific Coast/ And residents in the east its
exiting in to the Atlantic could also toast/And for those who into the Sun like
to gaze/For the first time since July 4, 1776 path of totality only within the
U.S. to viewers amaze.
2. On
this day in 2000 after posting U.S. Open and The Masters wins/In rarefied golfing
stardom to find himself in/The 82nd PGA becoming the third Masters
on his winning titles to appear/Not since Ben Hogan in 1953 had a golfer won 3
Majors in one year.
3. On this day in 1968
Marine PFC James Anderson, Jr. posthumously received the Congressional Medal of
Honor Award/For on February 27, 1967 in Operation Prairie III jumping on a grenade
at him and his squad of Marines hurled toward/This Marine dreaming to be a
minister left college to enlist in the Marines/Befitting of a potential man of
the cloth to with his body prevent a death scene/The Medal of Honor would be
the first awarded to a Marine of African American descent/Who now looks down
from above praying for the time Americans of all races are no longer into
combat then into caskets sent.
4. On
this day in 1831 in Southampton County Turner’s Rebellion by slaves began/Into
lands the rebellion had to be suppressed by militia and whites well-armed bands/In
an orgy of reprisals for the deaths of 55-65 whites, white mobs killed 120
blacks many of whom had nothing to do in the rebellion’s short fights/56 blacks
were tried for committing rebellion and executed including Turner who had gone
into hiding and captured in 6 weeks/Laws quickly passed limited ability of
blacks to learn to read and write and if black minister wanted to preach a
white minister had to be there to hear him speak.
5. On
this day in 1791 a secret vodou ceremony being led by Dutty Boukman, a vodou
priest was interrupting by a tropical storm of lightning and thunder/Signals claimed
by Boukman for slaves to rise up against their French owners to in the name of freedom kill and
plunder/Known as the Haitian Revolution it was the largest rebellion of slaves
since Spartacus/Unlike Turner’s rebellion, the French to have the rebellion
crushed could not their military trust/200,000 Haitians died fighting the
French, British and settlers to independence of Haiti deliver/75,000 French and
45,000 soldiers died mostly by Yellow Fever and its nausea, fever and chilling
shivers/But finally on January 1, 1804/French rule in Haiti was no more.
Famous Quote on Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, an ardent abolitionist and soon-to-be colonel of the
Union’s first Black regiment, 1861: “Swift
and stealthy as Indians, the Black men passed from house to house,–not pausing,
not hesitating… In one thing they were humaner than Indians or than [whyte] men
fighting against Indians,–there was no gratuitous outrage beyond the death-blow
itself, no insult, no mutilation; but in every house they entered, that blow
fell on man, woman, and child,–nothing that had a [pale] skin was spared. From
every house they took arms and ammunition, and from a few, money; on every
plantation they found recruits… The troop increased from house to house,–first
to fifteen, then to forty, then to sixty. Some were armed with muskets, some
with axes, some with scythes; some came on their [enslavers’] horses. As the
numbers increased, they could be divided, and the awful work was carried on
more rapidly still. The plan then was for an advanced guard of horsemen to
approach each house at a gallop, and surround it till the others came up.”
© August
21, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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