© December 13, 2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
On the Ukraine War front, Zelensky
was in Washington pleading for continuation of military aid package to
Ukraine must be accompanied with a major increase in funding to secure the
border even though Biden has earmarked for release $200 million already
approved. U.S. intelligence opining that Russia has lost a staggering 87% of
the troops it started the invasion of the Ukraine with which if the intel is
correct one has to wonder when Russian mothers seeing a constant stream of
coffins containing their sons calls it quits.
On Hamas Israel war front,
the General Assembly again overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding a cease
fire which Israel and the U.S. opposes. More talk of Israel pumping in seawater
to flush the Hamas terrorists using them as havens from IDF airstrikes. Only
problem is that the 100 Israelis and Americans still held hostage would likely
drown with the Hamas guarding them.
In the Red presidential race
the 2 dwarfs, de Santis and Haley, are campaigning big time to replace Trump as
the first test with the voters, the Iowa Caucuses nears. Chriss Christie bet
the farm on wining the campaign on winning in New Hampshire but Governor
Sununu’s endorsement of Haley should his campaign, leaving only Vivek Ramaswami
who appears less qualified to be presidential timber each and every day.
On the Toy safety front Amazon, Walmart
and Target have stopped selling water beads marketed to children when exposed
to liquid after ingestion they can swell multiple times to block the intestines
causing all sorts of problems.
On the economic front, the
Fed has elected to keep interest rates where they are for the rest of 2023 but
raised the possibility of 3 cuts in 2024 which would be good news for the real
estate market suffering under high interest rates.
December 13, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays:
National Popcorn String Day: Created by Foodimentary and first celebrated on this day in 2010 and
thereafter. It honors the tradition when getting the store to buy ornaments for
the Christmas Tree in the days of horses and buggies and wagons was difficult
or time consuming and had the added attraction of being able to be used as a
bird feeder after the Christmas Tree was taken down.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words
starting with “b” is “blewit” which means an edible
toadstool which given the fact that most toadstools can cause sever medical
problems which ingested including death one needs to be certain that one has a
blewit on their plate and not as a choice blown it.
Song of the Day: Leaving
the number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number
song in 2012 in the U.S.A. was “Diamonds” by Rihanna on
a run of 3 weeks to share number 1 status with 12 other songs, while 6 achieved
their 1st number 1 single. Here is a recording with lyrics of Lorde
performing “Royals”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc
December 13 Birthdays: “Beauty with a Pen
and a Voice Pared with a Catching Chief”: celebrating the birth on this day
in 1989 in West Reading, Pennsylvania, California of note and very wealthy
singer, songwriter, actress and businessperson who started writing songs at 14
and sang her first number 1 song “We
Are Never Ever Getting Back Together in 2013 and with her dating Chiefs’
Tight End Kelce has probably added a quicker step or 2 to his pass patterns.
December
13, Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2003 Saddam Hussein in his birthplace Tikrit/Was from his hiding
hole ripped/As a first step to the hangman’s noose for the crimes against
humanity in Iraq he chose to commit/Denied a request to be shot by firing
squad, on December 30, 2006 to the hangman’s noose he was forced to submit.
2. On
this day in 1988/After the U.S. closed its New York City entry gates/To PLO
Yasser Arafat to speak at the General Assembly in New York of the UN/The
General Assembly moved its meeting to Geneva so Arafat could attend/To in a
speech demand that Israeli occupation of land occupied in the 6 Day War come to
an end/And on behalf of the PLO to terrorism renounce and reject/But as October
7, 2023 revealed jihadists like Hamas and Hezbollah his path to peace would
reject.
3. On this day in
1977 the Purple Aces of Evansville University who had 5 NCAA Division II Basketball
Championships previously won/And who had moved up to be playing in NCAA Division
I/Crashed on takeoff heading to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders/The
entire team, coaches, staff and supporters became victims not death
evaders/Save Freshman David Furr out with an ankle injury and not on the
plane/But 2 weeks later in a car crash he would not escape the team’s fatal
karma reign.
4. On
this day in 1972 Apollo 17 Astronauts Cernan and Schmidt began their 3rd
and final EVA on the Moon to become the last humans to walk or drive on it/In
an Artimis 1 mission scheduled for November 2024 we will not land only orbit/To
in 2025 return to the surface hopefully before the Chinese/ Who like making
artificial islands in the South China Seas would to the Moon as a military
outpost seize.
5. On this day in 1937 the Chinese City
of Nanjing to the Japanese fell/To quickly become for its civilians a living
Hell/Thousands of women raped and then killed along with Chinese prisoners and
civilian men, women and children almost for sport/Japanese newspapers would the
results of the beheading contests of two Japanese officers gleefully report/Rightfully
called the Rape of Nanjing or the Massacre of Nanjing/Condemnation of Japan for
its crimes against humanity by the Chinese forever bring.
Quote by Iris Chang, Author of the Rape of Nanking: “Germany
is today a better place because Jews have not allowed that country to forget
what it did during World War II. The American South is a better place for its
acknowledgement of the evil of slavery and the one hundred years of Jim Crowism
that followed emancipation. Japanese culture will not move forward until it too
admits not only to the world but to itself how improper were its actions during
World War II.”
© December 13, 2023 Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not
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