On the
Political front Haley is warning fellow Reds despite their support for Trump in
the primaries, the multiple indictments will hobble him and Indies that are
absolutely essential for him to win and he will lose in the general election.
Worse given his physical and mental frailty, Biden really is a shill for a
Harris Presidency as he will not be able to serve his full term.
On the medical front, COVID-19
cases with a new variant are on the rise and hospitals are reinstituting their
mask mandates.
On the weather front Tropical Storm
Idalia, 80 miles off the coast of the Mexican island of Cozumel in the Caribbean
is growing in strength and should be a CAT 2 Hurricane on Tuesday before if
makes landfall on Wednesday near Tampa to temporarily erase Florida’s nickname
as the Sunshine State. Governor De Santis has declared a state of emergency in
33 counties and power companies will start prepositioning linemen on Monday.
On the crime front in Washington,
D.C. a 16 year old was arrested for allegedly committing 3 armed carjackings, 7
armed robberies and 1 kidnapping in a 26 hour period. Ex-Navy Seal Member of
Team 6 Robert J. O’Neill, who is best known for his claim to be the Seal that
killed Osama bin Laden, was arrested for a misdemeanor assault and public
intoxication in Frisco, Texas.
On the sports front, San Diego
Third Baseman Manny Macho popped out with two men on base as the Padres were
rallying back from a 3 run deficit to walk back to the dugout with his bat and
destroy the watercoolers there in a frenzy. 26 year old Simone Biles at the
U.S. Gymnastics Championships in San Jose won the All-Around Title for the 8th
time setting the record for the oldest gymnast to win and breaking Alfred Jochim’s
record of 7 set in 1933.
On the entertainment/extortion
front the producers of the Blind Side effectively blocked Michael
Oher’s blitz that the Tuohy Family received millions from the movie by stating
the Tuohy Family, including Michael Oher, received some $767,000. Oher had recently
demanded the Tuohy’s pay him $15 million or he would file negative stories
about them. Condolences to Sandra Bullock who played Leigh-Ann Tuohy in the movie
and received an Oscar who has been swept into this brouhaha while losing the love
of her life to ALS and has heard the idiotic demands that she return her Oscar because
of the false allegations of the Tuohy’s misconduct.
August 27, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The
Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National
Petroleum Day: A truly bete noire holiday to Biden and his zealot
climate change warriors celebrating the discovery of the black gold in Titus
Ville, Pennsylvania on this day in 1858 by Edwin Drake.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “athermic” which
means heat resistant a quality that the tiles on a Space Shuttle enabled it to
return to Earth through the atmosphere without burning up.
Song of the Day: The
number 1 song on this day in 2004 was “Lean
Back” by Terror Squad on run of 3 weeks to share number 1 status with 11 other
songs achieving number 1 ranking while 13 acts, including Terror Squad and Soulja
Slim posthumously, achieved number one
status for the first time. Here is a music video with lyrics of Terror Squad
performing “Lean Back”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajmI1P3r1w4
August
27 Birthdays: “From the Spy Who Loved Me to the Spy Who Loved Ringo”—Barbara
Goldbach, Better Known to Her Fans as Barbara Bach, Born on this day in 1947 in New York City, was
a noted well sought after model and actress who appeared in 28 films including
as a Bond Girl in the movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Bach
married Ringo Starr on April 27, 1981 and the two are still married today/after
years of struggling with alcohol and drug use, both of them checked into a 4
week rehab program and both are still sober with the urge to drink or use at
bay.
August 27 Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2011 we were not listening to “Good Night Irene” a Weavers Song/but
to a Hurricane Irene weakened but still somewhat strong/To make one landfall
then for ramping up in the Atlantic to a second landfall return/To a property
damage bill of $14.2 billion and a butchers’ bill of 58 deaths earn.
2. On
this day in 2003 the 6 nation conference to reach a peaceful resolution of
North Korea’s plan to deliverable nuclear weapons achieve/Convened for days but little progress on the need to North
Korea’s threat of nuclear weapons relieve/Consistently through the years on the
West’s cease development of nukes demands/The North Koreans response is more
like “pound sand”/When the North Koreans threaten they will destroy us with
nukes and to stop their development take a hike/ Is it not time to deliver a massive
deadly preemptive nuclear strike?
3. On this day in 1991
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ceded to the Soviets in a secret deal/Announced Soviet
rule had just been repealed/And Moldavia ceded to the Soviets to cement the
Soviet/German nonaggression pact/Declared independence from a crumbling Soviet
Union as the new political reality fact.
4. On
this day in 1979, 18 British soldiers were slain by the Provisional IRA/But the
butcher was not ready to go home to not look for more Brits to slay/Fishing for
lobster with family members and guests from the harbor at Mullaghmore/Lord
Mountbatten’s boat carried a lethal bomb that exploded when he was a couple
hundred yards offshore.
5. On
this day in 1928 The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact by 15 nations was signed/Calling
on nations with disputes to not resort to war but to keep disputes to negotiations
confined/A noble goal which by the Italians in Ethiopia quickly ignored/Lacked
any enforcement mechanisms when an illegal war broke out to a peace restore.
Quote on the Kellogg-Briand
Peace Pact by Political scientists Julie Bunck and
Michael Fowler in 2018 Who
Argued That the Pact Was: “….an important early venture in multilateralism. ... International
law evolved to circumscribe the use of armed force with legal restrictions. The
forcible acquisition of territory by conquest became illegitimate and
individual criminal liability might attach to those who pursued it. In
criminalizing war Kellogg–Briand played a role in the development of a new norm
of behavior in international relations, a norm that continues to play a role in
our current international order.”
© August
27, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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