On the
Hamas Israeli Ceasefire front, on the second day of the ceasefire, after some
earlier charges that the IDF was not observing the cease fire on the issue of
allowing aid trucks with humanitarian aid to enter Gaza although 50 have been
admitted since Friday, 20 more hostages,
13 Israelis and 7 non-Israelis in exchange for 39 Israeli held prisoners are
being released with the parties to the conflict still wondering what will occur
when the limited ceasefire is terminated.
On
Hamas Israeli War Protest front pro-Palestinian protests in London have
occurred to the 7th week with tens of thousands joining the
protests. In Nantucket where Biden was hoping to escape for Thanksgiving
pro-Palestinian protestors have found him these last two days demanding a cease
fire and accusing him and his polices of supporting genocide of Palestinians.
In Atlanta pro-Palestinian protestors refused to disburse and were arrested.
On the presidential
election from, the Blues are continuing to hear the alarms go off on the issue
of Biden’s age which is also a code word for concern over his cognitive
competency and the NYT continues to warn Blues that black and Hispanic support
for Biden is eroding and growing for Trump.
On the worker safety front
in Northern India 41 workers have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel for 13
days but today received the bad news that the drilling machine being used to
try to reach them has broken down and cannot be repaired.
On the college football
sports front, highly touted Texas freshman Archie Manning the nephew of Payton
and Eli Manning made his debut with Texas leading Texas Tech 50-7 to play the entire 4th
quarter with the Texas fans in 7th heaven as the phenom complete 2
of 5 passes for 30 yards and ran for 13 yards.
On
the horses should not fly front a Air Icelandic Charter Flight enroute to
Europe carrying 15 horses had to turn around and return after one of the horses
became terrified due to turbulence. Sadly, the plane managed to land but the
terrified horse was so injured that the horse had to be euthanized. On
the potential schism front facing the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has warned a
Synod of German Bishops that doctrines that oppose teachings of the Church like
homosexual relationships or female priest must be abandoned.a
On Saturday Stanford and
Cal played their last football games as members of the PAC12 before joining the
ACC in 2024 saw Stanford being crushed by Notre Dame at Stanford Stadium 56-23
while Cal upset favored UCLA 33-7 to end their season at 6-6 and become bowl
eligible—Go Bears!
November 25, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Small
Business Saturday: Created by American Express in conjunction with the
National Historic Preservation Trust in 2010 and first celebrated on the
Saturday after Thanksgiving, 2010 as the
economy was coming out of the Great Recession to promote shoppers’ shopping at
small businesses which are the backbone of our economy.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day as we continue with words starting with “b” is “bismer” which means
a person worthy of scorn which describes too many of our rabid partisans on
both sides of the aisle who put gridlock above solving issues important to voters.
Song of the Day: Leaving
the number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number
song in 2022 in the U.S.A. was “Anti-Hero” by Taylor
Swift on a run of 6 weeks to share number 1 status with 13 other songs, 12 of
which were performed by artists for the first time. Here is a recording with
lyrics of Taylor Swift performing “Anti-Hero”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kbLwvqugk
November
25 Birthdays: “Take Five Means a Rest Not Packs”—celebrating the birth on this day in 1924 of
Paul Emil Breitenfeld, better known to his fans as Paul Desmond, in San
Francisco who went on to become a note member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet but
was a heavy drinker and chain smoker who died of lung cancer on May 30, 1977.
November 25 Historical
Events in Rhyme
1. In the
afternoon of this day in 1984 at the Notting Hills Recording Studio 36 artists
gathering to end famine grief/Recorded “Do They Know It’s Christmas” raising
funds for Ethiopian Famine Relief/Record was well received and 24 million were
given to famine prevent/Aid to starving Ethiopians which was like manna from
heaven sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fSknbR7Y4
2. On
this day in 1963 at Arlington National Cemetery President John Fitzgerald
Kennedy is laid to rest/The eternal flame was lit to the eternity of his goals
to suggest/A mournful nation awash in grief/No more Camelot with flags flying
to bring relief.
3.
On this day in 1960 Patria, Minerva and Maria Terresa, 3 of the 4 Mirabal
Sisters who were active in the opposition to Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo
were assassinated on his orders/An act that outraged the general population and
led to his assassination May 30, 1961 following widespread disorder/El Jefe will
go down as a bismer tyrant/ While Patria, Minerva and Maria Terresa are honored
with a UN created International Day for the Prevention of Violence solemn
event.
4. On
this day in 1926 just when in late November you thought it was time to leave
the tornado shelter/27 tornadoes hit the South with victims fleeing helter
skelter/And when the funnels no longer touched the ground, 107 dead and from 451
injured, moaning and groaning cries and sounds.
5. On
this day in 1864 8 Confederate Operatives as the Confederate Army of Manhattan
known/tried to set 21 fires including 19 hotel in Manhattan hoping that they
would spread quickly windblown/Effort failed as fires failed to start or were
quickly put out/7 managed to flee NYC by well-planned escape routes/Except for
Robert Cobb Kennedy who after fleeing tried to return to Richmond from Canada
as was caught/Made some incriminating statements and was hanged in a noose with
the hangman’s knot.
Quotes on
famine and the efforts of Band-Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas.”
Michael Buerk, the BBC
journalist whose report so moved Geldof on that chilly October night in 1984 to
produce the song: “The great Ethiopian famine changed everything and nothing.
It fundamentally altered the rich world’s sense of its responsibility to the
hungry and the poor, but didn’t solve anything,” A quarter of a century on,
we’re still arguing about the roots of the problem, let alone the solution,
and—though there has been progress—Ethiopia’s food insecurity gets worse, not
better.”
Bono:
“Aid is just a stopgap. Commerce [and] entrepreneurial capitalism take more
people out of poverty than aid. We need Africa to become an economic
powerhouse.”
November 25 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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