Saturday, February 8, 2025

Vaccination Rates Down and Flu Cases Off the Charts With 13,000 Deahs

 

This season is  proving to be a bad year for the flu according to the CDC
Through October,  24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 cases ending in fatalities
Public Health Officials were thrilled that cases of COVID-19 and RVC were on a downward trend
But the rise in flu cases and deaths brought any celebrations to a quick premature end Not sure yet whether a deadlier and more contagious strain of the flu is now here
But only 44 % of adults for flu vaccines chose to with their arms bared to the needle appear 
And children whose immunes systems have not grown to in virus attacks be all hands on deck
The percentages for vaccinations dropped from 50 to 45 percent that their parents would elect
Whether the vaccine is more or less able to the flu virus attack and contain
Is not yet known but the lower vaccination rates the more likely that flu epidemics will reign

© 2/8/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Trump Signs an Executive Order Banning Transgenders Born as Males From Competing in Females' Sports

 

Every Blue with a daughter or granddaughter playing or trying to play on a school sports team must be silently overjoyed
Especially those Blues lacking a good deal of spine fearful of the wrath that Hakeem Jeffries against those opposing transgenders in females’ sport will employ
When it comes to opposing Reds and Trump, Blues must vote together as one team
Or face committee assignment purgatory from minority dictator Hakeem
Now able to with a straight face proclaim the transgenders are females line
Ignoring the more muscle mass and larger heart and lungs the being a male defines
Trump signing an executive order banning transgenders with a birth certificate that labels them a male from competing in female sports
If a school ignores his order that school is in violation of Title IX and federal funding to that school the funding officials will abort
The NCAA reacted with hyper speed ruling that transgenders could not as females compete
Now the authorities at the state level must ape the NCAA and the end of transgenders with male equipment intact on the field and in the women’s locker rooms will be complete
Riley Gaines who has been attacked and endured all manner of abuse as a Horatio at the sports bridge preventing the transgender barbarians from coming across
Enabling common sense to prevail and hand the transgender fad movement a crippling loss
She deserves all manner of praise and after she turns 25 in April of this year
We should hope she runs for Congress as an intelligent, well versed speaker who would be a counterweight to the leftist inanities that from AOC’s lips usually appear

© 2/6/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Stoners' Long Term Use Destroys Memory Functions and Smoking It Leads To Greater Chances of Heart Attacks and Strokes

 

In the U.S. more and states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana’s recreational use
Studies are being undertaken to reveal brain damages when stoners chose to abuse
Daily usage attacks the memory functions of the brain
The ability to recall facts to solve problems goes done the drain
With DEI and its mediocracy on its way to the trash can
Lifetime stoners trying to hurdle the “best and the brightest” barriers are going to have difficulty in finding jobs in this land
Add to a lifetime of marijuana use starting in college or earlier in high school
The fact that education today is failing too many who are not learning life coping tools
To find and keep a well-paying to a family support
Instead living paycheck to paycheck going into debt and coming up short
The news about adverse brain effects is not the end of the gift that keeps on giving
Stoners smoking marijuana have a 25% greater chance or a heart attack and 42% greater chance of a stroke, events which are not helpful to stay living

© 2/4/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

American Airlines Pilot Calming Pre Flight Speech Before Takeoff To Miami Was Taped and Viewed by 6.5 Million

 

With 2 back to back aircraft disasters in the U.S.
It should come as no surprise that passengers boarding are undergoing a lot of anxiety stress
Which is probably not soothed by the flight attendants memorized list of safety features in the event of a crash
When videos of the collision over the Potomac causing the chopper and the plane to burst into flames as into the river they smashed
Or the video of the medavac Lear Jet diving straight into the ground
Killing all aboard the Lear, injuring 24 on the ground and massive fires spreading all around
The American Airlines pilot must sensed the stress of the passengers wondering why they were on this flight
Nerves causing shaking, blood pressure rising and pulse rate climbing out sight
Here’s what the non-poet pilot said to trying to the anxiety calm
That passengers would believe they were in good hands and free from deadly harm
“[You] may be fearful about flying, and that's certainly understandable, but just please know that my first officer and our flight attendants and myself place your safety and the responsibility of carrying you to Miami, to your families, your vacations, your gates, at the highest level. I have no higher calling than carefully, professionally transporting you today so with that, relax and enjoy the beautiful evening that we get to fly in. We'll begin shortly [and] welcome aboard”
The normal chatter of passengers ignoring the normal safety instructions was not heard
As passengers listened intently to the pilot’s sincere calming words
A flight attendant taped on TikTok the pilot’s speech
That 6.5 million TikTok viewers it reached
© 2/4/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Jordan Day Wearing Sweets Slammed by Social Media Fashion Police For Denigrating the Sport

 

In the business world and in the political world to a large extent
Mark Twain’s quote “Clothes make the man” explains why to improve others’ perception more money on clothes is spent
In the political arena Senator Fetterman discards the rule except on the Senate Floor
Where he needs to wear coat and tie to get the sergeant at arms or doorkeeper to open the door
In professional sports there are clothing rules primarily linked to sponsors edicts and in golf played on elite country clubs the rules that for members exist
Why during a PGA event no matter how hot or humid the temperature is comfortable shorts the golfers must resist?
Today at Pebble Beach Jordan Day was dressed in gray sweats over a white T-shirt
Prompting howls of displeasure on social media that the proper respect for professional golf he had hurt
Jordan finished tied for 8th so his apparent casual garb did not adversely affect his play to earn $368,500 from the players’ purse
The PGA is on a crusade to entice more players to take up the game which is hindered by the pros subject to the fashion police curse
© 2/2/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

 

Punxsutawney Phil Saw His Shadow Predicting 6 More Weeks of Winter on the 11 Anniversary of Mayor di Blasio Dropping Staten Island Chuck and Killing the Weathermarmot Mareb opping i ith e more

 

Today is Groundhog Day when Punxsutawney Phil appears from the ground to predict
When winter will end and humans suffering the winter chills will be warmed when the first day of Spring hits
Today before a raucous crowd of locals and tourists at Pennsylvania’s Gobbler's Knob
He saw his shadow on the ground so spring 6 weeks early residents will be robbed
He has become such a tourist attraction that other locals ape the event
With their own named ground hogs to predict when the first of spring to their locale will be sent
Staten Island Chuck: Lives in the Staten Island Zoo in New York City. Chuck is known for his accuracy, but his behavior can be unpredictable. 
General Beauregard Lee: Georgia's official weather prognosticator, Lee lives in Weathering Heights, a groundhog-sized mansion in Jackson, Georgia. 
Buckeye Chuck: Located in Marion, Ohio.
Flatiron Freddy: A stuffed groundhog in Boulder, Colorado. Freddy is carried to the Chautauqua Ranger Station by his handlers to predict the weather. 
Jimmy the Groundhog: Located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 
Stormy Marmot: One of the few famous groundhogs west of the Mississippi. 
Woodstock Willie: Located in Woodstock, Illinois. 
Potomac Phil: Located in Washington, DC.
In this cast of Weathermarmots who predict when spring will arrive
There was one of great fame and notoriety who sadly is no longer alive
Bill di Blasio, probably the worst and most despised ever New York City Mayor
In an attempt bolster his sinking ratings on Ground Hog Day 2014 lifted Charlotte in the role of Staten Island Chuck into the air
To better see if her shadow on the ground was there
Holding her with a weak grip
Dropping out of di Blasio’s hands she slipped
Falling hard to the ground and a week later from injuries her heart quit
Other mayors have ruined their cities like di Blasio but only one can claim
He killed New York City’s tourist attraction Staten Island Chuck to his lasting shame

© 2/2/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

 

 

101 Freeway Blocked by Hundreds of Misguided Leftists Protesting Deportation of Illegal Aliens

 

Americans who have lost loved ones due to illegal alien felons are breathing a sigh of relief
In the first week ICE has been arresting over 7,000 illegal alien felons though not soon enough to prevent parents of murdered kids unbearable grief
One of the many reasons that Trump won is that Americans were sick of open borders and did not feel safe with illegal aliens’ crime
Were outraged during the Biden Harris years of lies that the border was secure time after time
Even among the most liberal Blues finding someone who does not want to deport illegal alien violent felons is very rare
Ice’s deportation raids of violent felons are for almost all of us a needed breath of fresh air
But in Blue State California where Gruesome Newsom with his super gel
Wants to Trump proof and ICE proof deportation of illegals, residents will be exposed to a never ending Hell
On Sunday morning hundreds of protestors waving Mexican flags and signs claiming “No human is illegal on stolen land”
Shut down the highly congested 101 Freeway on both lanes in a vain effort to the deportations
countermand
Rather that deport illegals when the border is not secure with an incomplete wall
Defense Secretary Hegseth is calling to send illegals arrested to Gitmo to the surge and reentries really stall
Trump has declared a National Emergency which should give states  the right to call out their National Guard to in border and citizens’ security aid
While ICE should be using social media to reach home nations to show the incarceration that awaits to reduce the parade
© 2/2/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet