On the Hamas
Israel War front, the long awaited invasion of Gaza is about to begin with many
Gazans still in the path of the invasion as Hamas has erected roadblocks to
prevent their leaving as they want dead Gazans killed by the Israelis to
mobilize world opinion against them. Iran is warning that an invasion by Israel
will open the “Gate of Hell” while Israel is evacuating communities near the
Lebanon border fearing an invasion by Hezbollah. To complicate matters Putin is
reaching out to Netanyahu and China may be proposing a state visit by him. Secretary
of State Blinken is in Israel promising the U.S. stands with and will continue
to stand with Israel in this war (if Americans start to see thanks to Hamas
large numbers of Gazan civilians killed in collateral damage likely to be
caused in urban house to house fighting query how long that resolve will last).
On the House Speaker front, it
looks like the Republicans will have the House vote on Tuesday with Jordan
having a tough row to hoe needing flip some 55 Reds who voted against him. If
the Reds want to preserve any chance of not being swept out of office en masse
in 2024, they need to end this clown show and get behind Jordan. We cannot have
the impasse of not having a Speaker for the House’s business to get done.
Moreso than ever we need an annex to Reagan’s 11th Commandment that
the loser in a Red primary or race for
the Speaker supports the Red winning the most votes.
On the hypocrisy front, Squad Rep. Cori
Bush a crusader to “defund the police” has shelled out over $500,000 dollars
for private security services and after getting hit with a FEC complaint over
payments to her husband for security services continues to pay him but has
reclassified payments as “wage expenses”. Her use of campaign funds to enrich
family members is right out of the playbook of Maxine Waters who is notorious
for doing the same thing.
On the cracks in dam holding
back rising Biden should withdraw waters among Blue voters, the anchor of 60
Minutes Scott Pelley observed that Biden seems “tired” which probably why Politico
Jonathan Martin published a piece detailed that Blue consultants are
worried about the negative effects Biden’s age will have on voters, 73% of whom
in an October Monmouth poll opined he was too old to run again, which was not
helped be seeing him imitate a jog walking to a podium only to almost fall
holding on to a railing trying to walk up 3 steps.
On why Israel feels Hamas must be wiped out to
the last terrorist where ever they may be found as a family of five in Kfar Aza
were murdered by Hamas in each other’s arms:
Biden will visit Israel to reassure
Israel of U.S. support and to urge restraint to avoid Gazan casualties and
probably urge a ceasefire that without Hamas agreeing to allow Gazans to move
out of the invaded will result in significant Gazan casualties if it continues.
Look to Netanyahu to resist any ceasefire until a large number of Hamas have
been sent to Paradise and their tunnel complexes significantly destroyed.
On the home entertainment
front, Best Buy announced after the holidays it will end its sale of DVD’s and
Blue-Ray discs.
On the investor fraud front, the
trial of Sam Bankman-Fried is in its second week and the jurors have listened
to a parade of his former associates, subordinates and former girlfriend who
testified to his culpability and fraud with the big question still remaining will
he testify that he had no intent to defraud investors only that he was
overwhelmed. His lawyers have tried and failed to get the trial delayed because
he has been unable to obtain Adderall which he claims he needs to be able to
concentrate on the damaging testimony being levied against him.
On entertainment tell it all front,
Jada Pinkett Smith is on a book tour of her Book Worthy which among
other tidbits she slammed rumors that Will Smith is gay and revealed that she
and Will Smith have been separated for 7 years which calls into question his
slapping incidence at the Academy Awards supposedly defending his wife.
On the antisemitic bias on universities the
Wexner Foundation founded by billionaires Leslie and Abigail Wexner have
terminated its long association with Harvard due in part to the failure to
condemn Hamas for its slaughter of Israelis (Harvard’s endowment is so huge
this is a mere drop in the bucket but hopefully will cause elite universities
to rein in the leftist drift and attacks on the free speech of conservatives).
October 16, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National Learn a Word Day which is celebrated on
October 16 each which is the birthday of America’s noted lexicographer, Noah
Webster born on this day in 1758 but I am clueless who created this observance
or when but I do know that Ridley's Believe It Or Not will have a new and
interesting word to learn each day.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day as we proceed with words starting with “b” is “barratry” which means inciting a riot or violence which with
respect to January 6 despite belief to the contrary by the left Trump was not
charged.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1962 was “Sherry”
by Frankie Vallie and The Four Seasons on a
run of 5 weeks to share number 1 status with 20 other songs achieving
number 1 ranking while 14 acts, including The Four Seasons, achieved number one
status for the first time. Here is a recording of Frankie Vallie and The Four
Seasons performing “Sherry”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMcWldfg28s
October 16 Birthdays: “Almost
Blew Out the 77 Candles”: Suzanne Somers noted singer, actress and business
woman born on this day in 1946 in San Bruno, California to die on October 15,
2023 after a 23 year fight with breast cancer whose struggle utilized
alternative treatments which the American Cancer Society had the gall to
criticize her. Best known for her starring role in Three’s Company with
John Ritter and Step by Step and her company with her husband
Thighmasters. October 16
Historical Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 1995 the Million Man March of African-Americans occurred in
Washington, D.C./To promote in the black communities atonement, reconciliation,
and unity/To call for an end of the 3
strikes an urban black child was saddled with at birth/Insufficient prenatal
care, substandard educational institutions and parents trying to find jobs facing
a massive dearth/837,000 thousand gathered at the National Mall/Totally
peaceful without any violence to cast a pall.
2. On
this day in 1991 in Killeen, Texas at a Luby’s Cafeteria/ George Hennard armed
with 2 semi-automatics drove his pickup through the front window to send
patrons and staff into hysteria/A sick misogynist to his core/shot 50 people 23
who died and when asked by police to surrender—“No I want to kill more”/Wounded
twice and with only 1 bullet left he shot himself if the head/If 1 patron who
watched her parents die had had a permit for her .38 in her parked car, a lot fewer
wounded and dead.
3. On
this day in 1975 3 year Rahima Banu Begum in Bangladesh became the last person to be
infected naturally with small pox/thanks to worldwide efforts for years to
vaccinate the disease in nature had been blocked/This little girl was treated
and survived and is now virus free/Unless samples of the virus under lock and key escape this deadly
disfiguring disease again we will never see.
4. On this day in 1962 President Kennedy
was shown photos of Cuba taken on October 14 by a U-2 plane/Showing missiles
capable of carrying nuclear warheads that could on almost all of the contiguous
rain/For 13 days the world inched closer to a nuclear war than ever before/The
Soviets fortunately backed down aided by a secret deal for us to remove Jupiter’s
from Turkey and Cold War was again restored.
5. On
this day in 1916 Margaret Sanger opened her first family planning clinic in
Brooklyn to promote contraception to unwanted births prevent/To eliminate women
resorting to dangerous back alley abortions to be sent/A negative eugenicist to
her core but not on racial lines/A foe of abortions when controlling unwanted
pregnancies by contraception would do just fine.
Quote
on the Cuban Missile Crisis from Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Day: A Memoir
of the Cuban Missile Crisis: “When Khrushchev asked
whether his brass hats would guarantee that keeping the missiles in Cuba would
not bring about nuclear war, they looked at him, he later told Norman Cousins
of the Saturday Review, an informal emissary between Kennedy and Khrushchev,
“as though I were out of my mind or, what was worse, a traitor. So I said to
myself, ‘To hell with these maniacs.’”
© October 16, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet”
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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