On the crime does not pay
front, Ethan Nordean, a leader of
the Seattle chapter of the Proud Boys and labeled the undisputed leader of
those storming the Capitol, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and 3 years of
supervised releasee, less than half of what prosecutors had sought. Dominic Pezzola, a member of the Proud Boys and
one of the more recognizable faces of the riot at the Capitol, was sentenced to
10 years in federal prison and 3 years supervised release, 9 years less than
prosecutors had sought.
On the commercial office space
front, landlords and downtown shops must be jumping for joy as during the
pandemic working at home caused office occupancy to plummet to barely above 40%
in cities like San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and New York with Houston on top
but only at 60%. Now employers in both the private sector and government are
demanding more and more workers telecommute less and in the office spend more
time.
On the like winning the lottery
front, in 2017 a woman who wisely wanted to remain anonymous, in a thrift shop
bought a used white frame with a painting for $4 later to discover the painting
was an original painting by Andrew Wyeth which she is now going to sell and
which it is projected will generate at least a $250,000 purchase price.
Conservatives’ major complaints against social media have
been the shadow banning or the outright banning of what Facebook and pre Musk
acquisition of X, formerly Twitter of what the social media companies deemed to
be “misinformation” which compared to the reaction of repressive countries like
Saudi Arabia is a soft wrist tap. News out of that paragon of tolerance Saudi Arabia is that the Saudis are imposing 20-40 year prison sentences on social
media users criticizing the government and the case of a retired 50+ year old
teacher, Mohammad Alghamdi, sentencing him to death.
On the rat birth control front, in
New York City, the effort after a month long trial was proved to be failure
after a 20 bait stations laced with contraceptives did result in the desire
effect of less pregnant rats for the sad and disgusting fact that there is too
much trash containing too much food on the streets.
On the Green Energy front,
Newsom’s ambitious plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels for electricity has
finally run into the face of reality, especially during the record heat waves
California has been experiencing. Without fossil fuels we are doomed to massive
blackouts so the California Public Utilities Commission has voted to increase
the amount of natural gas in the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Unit to
almost 46 billion cubic feet.
On the sports front another stellar player
on the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, Jacki Ernst, the only women to win 2 Soccer
Player of the Year Awards and 1 Young Female Soccer Player of the Year Awards
has announced her retirement.|
On the music front which like water and wine
have often thought to be able to dissolve barriers that exist to divide us, in
Nashville it looks like the opposite is occurring as Reds and Blues are at each
other’s throats.
On the school shooting front after
a professor at the University of North Carolina was shot and killed, the school
paper at UNC was struggling for the right front page headline to come up with
screen shots of the numerous text messages generated during the lockdown which
brought into focus the fact that so far this year from K-12 through
college 86 shooting incidents have
occurred resulting in 27 fatalities and 57 injuries:
On the sports front, the Stanford
Cardinal was not looking ahead to the USC game next Saturday to focus on the
Hawaii’s Rainbow Warriors to open its season with a 37-24 win against a truly
one dimensional team that passed for 355 yards in 30/53 attempts and gained a
-5 yards while Stanford passed for 248 yards in 25/36 attempts and rushed for
163 yards, with Ashton Daniels rushing for 42 and Casey Filkins who rushed for
67 yards but who left late in the game on a golf cart. Stanford display its up-tempo
game throughout and scored 1 of its touchdowns in a truly un-Shaw like manner
with a flea-flicker pass.
September 1, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays:
National College Colors Day: Created
on September 1, 2005 by Collegiate Licensing Authority to promote
appreciation of the benefits of colleges and universities to our society and
promote awareness of alumni’s and students’ affiliation with a given college or
university.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “athwart” which
means in opposition to which sadly describes all too often the positions of our
two political parties in relation to each other.
Song of the Day: The
number 1 song on this day in 2001 was “Fallin’”
by Alicia Keys on a run of 3 weeks to share number 1 status with 148 other
songs achieving number 1 ranking while 12 acts, including Alicia Keyes
achieved number one status for the first
time. Here is a music video with lyrics
of Alicia Keys performing “Fallin’”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc
September
1 Birthdays: “Shaping the Law Not Just Reacting to It”—
Alan
Dershowitz, Born on
this day in 1937 in New York City to become a noted trial lawyer,
constitutional law expert, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, author, member of the “Dream Team” of OJ Simpson, and
contributor to Fox News and alert and sharp as at 86.
September 1 Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2004 in Beslan, Ossetia, 32 or more heavily armed terrorists stormed
a school/Taking some 1200 teachers, students and parents as Chechnya independence
hostage tools/Shot and killed many of the male hostages that were most
physically fit/Made their demands that from Chechnya Russia must quit/3 days of
negotiations went nowhere/On the third day as the sounds of gunfire, grenades
and rockets filled the air/Russian troops stormed the school killing 31
terrorists/But when the smoke had cleared 750 hostages had been wounded and 334
, including 184 children ceased to exist.
| 2. On
this day in 1983 Korean Air Flight 907, a 747, had into Russian airspace
strayed/Soviet jets fully armed were scrambled and heading the planes way/A 747
in no way can be mistaken for a fighter or a bomber with cabin lights and navigation
lights flashing/No warning only the firing of 2 air to air missiles to send the
747 crashing/ Breaking apart and killing all 269 on board/In typical Soviet
behavior the Soviets recovered the flight recorder which until after the Soviet
Union dissolved the Russians to from South Korea and the United States
continued to hoard.
3. On
this day in 1974 on a New York City to London flight/The SR-71 broke every Transatlantic
crossing speed record in sight/Flying at 1,435.587 miles per hour/Making
the Concorde look like it was powered by propeller power.
4. On this day in 1973 a submersible 76 hour
rescue attempt came to a success/ Pisces III while laying Transatlantic
cable had sunk 1600 feet below the surface when an attached tow line had parted
under stress/In the cold dark with limited oxygen slowly being consumed/A race
against time to avoid a fatal doom/ Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson were
barely moving not speaking to not run out of air/Finally towed by another Pisces
to the surface with 12 minutes of oxygen left to spare.
4. On
this day in 1967 at Khartoum, Arab nations signed the Declaration The Khartoum Declaration/In
response to Israel’s victory in the 6 Day War that prompted their collective condemnation/And
the 3 noes-no recognition of Israel, no Israel peace and no negotiation with it/And
demands that denial of Palestinian rights in their own lands Israel quit.
5. On
this day in 1923 on the Kantō Plain in Japan a 7.9 earthquake took
place/Massive destruction in Tokyo and Yokohama with large numbers of building
needing to be replaced over 140,000 people lost their lives from fires and tsunamis;
Japanese mobs attacked Koreans blaming them for the quake and rumors of
poisoning wells killing some 6-10 thousand and prompting the Japanese Army to
take 22,000 into protective custody to keep them alive/One ray of hope in a sea
of debris/Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel damaged but still standing to become
the interim American Embassy.
Quote on the Kantō Plain
Earthquake by President Grover Cleveland who was also the head of the Red Cross
that raised $12 million: “An overwhelming disaster has overtaken the people
of the friendly nation of Japan. The cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, and
surrounding towns and villages, have been largely if not completely destroyed
by earthquake, fire and flood, with a resultant appalling loss of life and
destitution and distress, requiring measures of urgent relief.” T there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will
be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand… it’s
not the war in Ukraine; it’s the war in Europe. We are defending our country,
our land. We are not attacking anyone because that is immoral.”
© September
1, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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