On the Hunter
Biden Burisma Scandal Front, Merrick Garland is being grilled by the House
Judiciary Committee, refusing to answer such questions as why did you let the
failure to report Burisma income on your taxes? to instead refer them to David
Weiss. Garland is being referred to as the “head of the snake” with calls for
his impeachment (Given the fact that he was in a major snit fit with Reds for
not having the Senate vote on his confirmation and harbors to this day an
unsatiable thirst for revenge, he never should have been put in a position to
implement that revenge).
On the Republican primary
front, despite the legal baggage of 4 indictments and moves by Blue elected
officials to ban Trump from their primary ballots for supporting insurrection
which he has not been charged with nor obviously convicted, Trump leads 60% among
Red voters compared to De Santis at 13%, Ramaswamy at 11% and Haley in 4th
but still in double digits. The Red’s problem will remain in the general that
to win, Trump if he is the nominee will need large numbers of Indies to support
his candidacy. But he is skipping the 2nd debate to visit striking
UAW workers an act which Biden so far has refused to do.
On the 1st
Amendment Separation of Church and State Front, the state of New Jersey is
bringing legal action against the town of Ocean Grove for closing its beaches
on 12 Sundays until noon so the residents can go to church. If the beaches were
closed because they were rented out to hold a beach church service for
attendees that might be permissible but closing the beaches preventing people
not wanting to attend church services seems to be a violation of the 1st
Amendment.
On the
crime front and the need to be packing yesterday on Ridley's Believe It Or Not
I brought readers news of a carjacking of Aston Martin as it was being driven
into a man’s home garage in Westport, Connecticut. The need to be packing in
Chicago is alive and well as surveillance video shows two cars crossing lanes of
traffic to block an idling car at night from moving and with a gun drawn, drag
the driver out and all three cars speed away in less than 2 minutes, leaving
the driver face down in the street while cars passed by probably oblivious to
the carjacking.
On
the housing affordability front, the Fed at its September meeting elected not
to raise the Federal Discount Rate which means home mortgages will not rise but
if anything there is not a reduction in the future with possibly a 25 basis point
increase in November which means high mortgage rates will continue making it
harder to purchase homes given the higher mortgage loan interest rates.
On
the homeless front, Blue Sacramento D.A. Thein Ho has filed a civil suit
against Blue run Sacramento for allowing the 250% increase in the homeless in
Sacramento that “allowed, created and enabled a public safety crisis regarding
our unhoused" in the 16 major homeless tent cities that exist in
Sacramento which according to the law suit has more homeless than San
Francisco.
On
the transgender marketing disaster front, Bud Light sales are still down 30%
and show no sign of rebounding but the hundreds of employees laid off due to
the sales slump are blaming Anheuser Busch not for the association with Dylan
Mulvaney but rather for the company not doubling down on their decision and
support Dylan Mulvaney. The problem for Bud Light all the new slick commercials
of football fans with their Bud Light
cans are trumped by Kid Rock blasting away at a row of Bud Light cans
with an AR-15.
On the
strike front, the Writers Guild Association and the studios have returned to the
bargaining table and on the UAW strike front, Ford has settled with the
Canadian UAW but on the negative side, GM has announced 2,000 strike related layoffs and Stellantis
will be laying off 380 workers shortly. The union is demanding a pay increase
of 40% and a 32 hour work week while the Big 3 are proposing 20%. The UAW must
be oblivious to the fact that such proposals may render the Big 3 unable to effectively
compete with nonunion auto plants and imports from overseas.
On the malaria
front which kills some 600,000 people a year, thanks to the drug artemisinin derived
from the wormwood plant, in Bangladesh from 2008 to 2020 malaria cases have
declined by 93% but before the corks could be popped a new malaria strain
resistant to the drug has popped up in Myanmar which unfortunate soon find its
way into Bangladesh.
September 20, 2023
Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National Gibberish
Day: Clueless who created this day or when it was created but today
its most well-known down practitioner of nonsensical speech or gobbledygook is
none other than the word salad queen—VP Kamala Harris.
Word of the Day: The word of the day
is “aurilave” which is an instrument for cleaning the
ear which is an absolute necessity if one has excessive ear wax and wears
hearing aids that when coated with ear wax do not function well.
Song of the Day: The
number 1 song on this day in 1986 was “Stuck With You” by
Huey Lewis and the News on a run of 3 weeks to share number 1 status with 29
other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 20 acts achieved number one
status for the first time. Here is a video recording with lyrics of Huey
Lewis and the News performing “Stuck With You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08ZwySCoJ8
September 20 Birthdays: “A Christian in the
Den of Media Lions”—Ainsley Earhardt, born on
this day in 1976 in Spartenburg, South Carolina to become a reporter for CBS
affiliate WTLX while still in college and then off to San Antonio in 2005 to
become a weekday morning and noon anchor
newscast anchor for KENS TV where she found time to sky dive from the Air Force
Academy and fly in the back seat with the Golden Knights. An author of 3
children’s books she has been with Fox since 2007 and currently is a co-host of
Fox and Friends. She is believed to be in a dating relationship with Fox’s
Sean Hannity.
September 20
Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2019 4 million people around
the world engaged in climate change strikes and protests/Calling on governments
and industry to the increase in carbon emissions arrest/The largest protest in
the history of the planet but as expected one nation was MIA/China pedal to the
metal to coal power plants build had no official events only a few students picking up trash on
display/If we are to fight climate change it has to be the hands of all nations
on deck/China and India not joining in to the max will any progress of the U.S.
and other industrialized nations will be wrecked.
2. On this day in 2017
Hurricane Maria after hitting Dominica as a CAT 5/Made landfall as an upper end
CAT 4 in Puerto Rico leaving behind 2975 victims who did not survive/It was the
deadliest and costliest hurricane in the 21st Century/Coming just 2
weeks after Irma, with some $90 billion in damages, huge hits on insurers’ and
Puerto Rico’s treasury/Massive outages of electrical power/ Unrestored for many
months leaving many in the dark to cower.
3. On
this day in 2011 the U.S. Military ended its “don’t ask, don’t tell”/No longer
would gay and lesbians live in the fear of the dishonorable discharge hell/The
blood of a lesbian or gay is red/Not some other color instead/Like straights
they should be allowed to in the military without discrimination serve/Given
the growing dangers we face around the world a welcome to all willing to fight
to our freedom preserve.
4. On
this day in 2001 with the attacks of 9/11 etched in peoples’ minds/ President
Bush declared a “War on Terror” wherever its forces we could find/We demanded
the Taliban to us Osama bin Laden surrender/They refused and on October 18,
2001 we started bombing Taliban defenders/In December we fought the battle of
Bora Bora hot on Osama’s trail/Came close to capture but in the end failed/Bush
with his War of Terror then squandered his political capital to in the search
for Hussein’s nonexistent WMD’s/Invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003 to overthrow
Hussein and declare on May 1 victory/A claim that would soon prove most
hollow/Due to his War on Terror another more deadly terrorist group ISIS would
quickly follow.
5. On
this day in 1971/After making landfall in Nicaragua the day before Hurricane Irene was not done/It
crossed into the Pacific to as its Hurricane status was restored/Now named
Olivia the first recorded hurricane spawned in the Atlantic to cross into the
Pacific to dissipate on Baja California’s shores.
Quote on the War on
Terror by Joel Richardson and Susan Crimp, authors Of Why We Left Islam:
“President Bush and others are dead wrong when they say that Islam is a
great and peaceful faith that has been hijacked by a few extremists. In fact,
Islam is a vile and violent faith that establishes extremism and that has been
hijacked by the pretend Muslims who, by their own human decency, have given
this barbaric superstition the appearance of legitimacy to the uninformed.”
© September 20, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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