alaskan poet: July 2015

Friday, July 31, 2015

Killing of Cecil and the Sale of Fetal Body Parts

It the best of times and the worst of times

Sounds like the beginning of The Tale of Two Cities Line

But used here the metaphor is about public reaction

Of two tragedies now getting media traction

One involves a huge majestic lion from his sanctuary lured

To at the hands of a dentist out 50 grand his death insured

And since as neighbors to Cecil there was another pride

His six cubs were also sentenced to a certain death ride

Fortunately the outcry was instant, prolonged, angry with death threats forcing the dentist to hide

The media focus increasing faster than a Bay of Fundy incoming tide

The other involves hundreds of thousands of deaths

And videos so shocking and gruesome they will take away your breath

Planned Parenthood is for many fetuses their last stop, the on the tracks of life the last station

Its abortion factories perform over 40 percent of the abortions in this nation

But sadly e the media gave little to the story, gave it little attention

On the back pages off the air but save for Fox only a passing brief mention

But we now know that Planned Parenthood caught on tapes is in the business of selling fetal parts

How far can we allow this nation to any claim on bioethics and humanity depart?

As these medical directors over haggling prices feast on fine wine and brie

Worse to the tune of $500 million yearly our tax dollars are financing their killing spree

One shows a doctor telling how to conspire so the sales can be concealed

To describe not as sales but as part of ongoing research deals

Selling fetal body parts is a federal crime

The doctors on the tapes released and to be released should serve time

Along with the head executives of Planned Parenthood

As to this conspiracy there is no way they could have not known or misunderstood

The Reds have introduced bills to end the $500 million payments and to women’s health clinics transfer

Medicine should be about not death but healing and finding cures

Any Blue Senator or Congressman who opposes, all men and women of conscience should take note

And come out in droves in November and against them especially Kamala Harris investigating CMP vote

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Sounds Of Silence From DNC

The head of the DNC is never slow to attack Reds with caustic inflammatory words

Like the charge Scott Walker was hitting women with the back of his hand—patently absurd

But yesterday a question of what is the difference between Blues and Socialists she was asked

Repeated again and again and she would not or perhaps could perform up to that verbal task

Was she being grilled by a rabid conservative Hannity from Fox?

No Chris Matthews of MSNBC noted for being on conservatives a ruthless pox

As Hillary slides further and further to the left pushed by the Bern

Becomes more and more difficult for any difference to remotely discern

Moderate Blues are a dwindling species almost extinct

As this nation with its soaring national debt moves closer to a Greece like insolvency brink

As Hillary’s credibility continues to sink like a huge stone

While she continues to insist on her emails she has nothing for which to atone

Giving us a preview of the iron curtain transparency in her presidency would surround

Yet another reason to go with incompetency and dishonesty she must never occupy White House grounds

The Bern is catching up; she is losing to Reds in swing states

The flow of scandals and mistrust of her increases and will not abate

A news flash for Debbie Wasserman Schultz your silence may mean the difference is zero or so thin you need a microscope to see

Even as Blues push to grant citizenship for illegals, we are not ready for socialism in the home of the brave and land of free

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Biden May Run Hillary Relief

The shadows of deception and dishonesty for Hillary should cast a chill

Like the famous groundhog more winter to be see in the till

Already the leaves of her coronation color are falling dead to the ground

As her scandals and dishonesty do not lessen but continue to abound

Biden has just lost a son and to get into the race may be a heavy lift

But clearly from this dishonest and untrustworthy wanna be queen the voters are starting to shift

Biden regardless of gaffs is an honest man with a very large integrity chip

Hillary lacks completely and seeks only from chalice of regal power to sip

If Biden despite personal grief

For love of country runs to give us Hillary disaster relief

Better than even bet

That the slams on Obama he will not forget

Payback time for the DOJ

For her release of classified material to bring on the FBI

Ridley's Believe It Or Not July 31 History National Mutt Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—July 31, 2015 Trust your Friday gateway to another summer weekend is proving to be a great one and as always, I hope you enjoy Friday’s somewhat meager holidays and observances, factoids of interest, a music video by The Doors, a relevant quote by Jim Morrison, looking forward to enjoying some jelly beans ala Ronald Reagan, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. System Administrator Appreciation Day—celebrating since 2000 a day to promote recognition of the contribution of one’s IT professionals that keep one’s computer and peripherals running properly and without crashes.

2. National Mutt Day—celebrating man's best friend that does definitely need to have an expensive pedigree, especially if you save a canine life by adopting a mutt from the pound.

3. 1967 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1967 on a three week run in that position another great classic of the 60’s Light My Fire by The Doors. Here is a link to The Doors performing Light My Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deB_u-to-IE

4. Jump for Jelly Beans Day—celebrating among Ronald Reagan’s many contributions to this nation, his love of jelly beans and the huge jar of assorted jelly beans he kept in the Oval Office.

5. Maverick Sharks Can Be Billionaires Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1958 of Mark Cuban, a very successful entrepreneur who after selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for almost $6 billion invested in a variety of successful startups on the Shark Club and with Ross Perot purchased the Dallas Mavericks.

On this day in:

a. 1703 Daniel Defoe author of Robinson Crusoe and over 500 books, journals and pamphlets was placed in a pillory but according to legend and perhaps since he was also a poet was not pelted with noxious objects but rather flowers and then toasted to his health.

b. 1790 the first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.

c. 1970 in a day known as Black Tot Day, the Royal Navy ended its centuries old tradition of a daily rum ration for its sailors.

d. 1990 Nolan Ryan became the 20^th pitcher to win 300 games.

e. 1991 in a no more complaints about woman drivers day, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of allowing women to fly combat missions.

Reflections on a meager day for holidays and factoids from the lead singer of the Doors who lit the fires of the children of the 60’s: “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”’
Jim Morrison Hope your day today is maskless.

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Valeria Harper Out Of A Coma

In our youth we are immortal and the idea of the thief in the night

Is a potential reality so far removed from our sight

If you are self viewed as immortal no need to ever contemplate a savage survival fight

But as the summer turns into fall and the chilling winds begin to bight

The human spirit begins to forge against any foreseen or unforeseen blight

In the play of life rare is the chance for a human to write his or her final script

When age or disease want to turn the stage into a crypt

Valerie Harper was diagnosed as a victim of cancer’s often fatal might

Three months to live in 2009 but decided a stage would be a better site

Did not quit, fought and back to the stage to avoid the mortal bite

A great talent but a fighter who would not quit and was winning in a delaying fight

Cancer be damned she would dance with the stars under the TV lights

Six more years of her talent for us mere mortals watching to excite

News today is that in a coma to a hospital but not yet ready for last rites

At 75 released and now resting for the night

We mere mortals can only admire and hope for more performances to the applause ignite

And pray God likes His balcony seat and is not ready for a higher stage for you to invite

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Another Iranian Deal Choice?

Obama in trying to sell his pathetic unknown side agreements Iran nuclear deal

In the classic straw man tactic tries to frame it in ways to reality steal

With his great speech-making flair

With pauses and glances and gestures in the air

War or this deal that’s the only choice

And with legacy driven flair seeks to drown out all other voices

We are in this corner because Kerry and Obama in the Persian bazaar were fleeced

Especially when Iran’s support of terror, death to us or Israel will not cease

When in our history has a President the elected representatives of the people decided to circumvent?

An agreement under law to be reviewed by the Congress but instead to the U.N. sent?

Here are some other choices which might work assuming we had a CinC who by our foes could be feared

U.S. sanctions remain, we start exporting our growing production of natural gas and crude to away from Iran steer

Their oil fields are like old men in the winters of their life as to production hobbling with canes

Whatever chance against us in an oil war they would be flushed down the drain

Whatever crude that could with great effort extract from underneath the ground

Buy it from us at discounts so their oil market as long as the mullahs rule will not rebound

Internet and Social Media Free Iran needs to blossom and encourage the youth to against these feudal mullahs rebel

So many youth in Iran into the 21^st Century want to be propelled

But after Obama on supporting past change missteps

That they may not forget

May be difficult but worth an attempt

A realistic threat of an Iran with nukes as the new parking lot might remove a bit of the mullahs’ contempt

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Fetal Parts Awaiting Sale In A Petri Dish--Defund

How callous do we as a species have to become before our humanity we must purge

Fetal parts as parts of the profit harvest no matter your views on abortion federal funding of Planned Parenthood we must purge

Another video once again with any sense of dignity for life totally disdained

Those cells in a Petri dish, poked at laughed at, sold and the worthless remains flushed down the drain

Abortion should be only in the early stages when a fetus born early could not survive

Should be the right of any woman to make the tough call when that fetus has no chance to survive

Planned Parenthood has become the fetal equivalent of Soylent Green

Erasing any sense of our humanity from our human scene

Disguising profit as the cost of research or loading up “recoverable” “costs”

Just exposes what we as humans sacrificing our humanity seed corn have lost

When the left whose moral compass on these gruesome videos has been shredded and shed

Attacks these videos as weirdo attacks, will they ever recover any of the human dignity in a common grave they have just buried dead

Defund, defund; if Stem Search wants to evade the federal law against the sale of body parts

Let it go alone and from making taxpayers accomplices in this horrific crime, they must depart.

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UBS Another Hillary Scandal

Arrogance, dishonest, paranoid, unlikeable—just a few of Hillary’s character faults

But she is not stupid any more than the Salton Sea is a body of water without salt

Finding a smoking gun email with an illegal quid pro quo connection will be a forlorn hope

Once again she and her husband are intelligent, certainly not a pair of dopes

But the pattern of conduct involving UBS and the Clintons smells and stinks

Even the most partisan Blue a quid pro quo would most likely think

UBS had just paid a $750 million fine to the U.S. and was in a continuing dispute with the IRS

Who was seeking with 52,000 Swiss accounts totaling $18 billion tax fraud address

To the rescue under the claim that the Swiss asked her to intervene

Hillary knowing there was money for Bill and the Foundation arrived on the negotiating scene

A settlement was reached with account information for one tenth of the accounts

Very quickly the dollars into Bill’s speaking pocket and the Foundation reached staggering amounts

From $60,000 to $600,000 to the Foundation and to Bill for Q&A sessions one and half million bucks

Plus as icing on the cake $32 million loaned to participants in programs of the Foundation for entrepreneurship and those out of luck

UBS of course has denied any connection to the funds that to the Clintons flowed

UBS is not stupid either and would never admit to any bribery intentions show

Pattern of conduct committed again and again during her tenure as Secretary of State

Millions upon millions of donations and speech fees being heaped on the Foundation’s and the Clintons’ money plates

No wonder her poll numbers continue to erode and Biden may now decide to run

As more and more Americans due to her dishonesty will either not vote or if voting her candidacy shun

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IRS Chief Facing Contempt

Under Holder’s protect-Obama-at-all-cost DOJ

Any investigation of the IRS could be counted on to slowly but surely fade away

A bogus excuse that Lerner’s computer had crashed and all her emails were lost

Followed by another lame excuse that the IRS was doing everything to recover despite the cost

Followed by revelations that despite orders to records retain

IRS employees dumped thousands of documents down the electronic drain

If one would listen to the tapes of Koskinen when before Congress he testified

Even setting aside the outrage over his arrogance more likely than not he lied.

Thanks to FOIA and brave independent IGs, the pursuit of justice has not stopped

Despite the lack of a smidgeon of corruption public interest in this case has not stopped

A federal district judge after a large number of Lerner emails have been recovered

At offsite storage sites that any IP person would know that’s where they would be discovered

Ordered the IRS to produce the emails

Yet deadline, after deadline the IRS failed

For Koskinen a potential contempt of court citation may soon be in place

Nothing like a little time in jail to win that grin off his arrogant face

He has lied to Congress and their lawful demands he has defied

He should be impeached if he does not resign and say goodbye

When it comes to the IRS targeting scandal Lynch so far seems to be of the same cloth

Even though the targeting and intimidation of conservative groups cut a large swath

For the preservation of the democracy one hopes that observation is wrong

And that Lynch returns the DOJ to an agency of justice where impartiality is strong

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Ridley's Believe It Or Not July 30 History International Friendship Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—July 30, 2015 Trust your Thursday is proving to be a great one and as always, I hope you enjoy Thursday’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest, a music video by The Beatles and The Troggs, a relevant quote by Olivia Butler, looking forward to enjoying some cheesecake, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. International Friendship Day—celebrating since 1958 a day to promote friendship in nations around the world. To have a friend one needs to learn how to be a friend.

2. National Paperback Day—celebrating the publication by Penquin Books of its first paperback book on this day in 1935; given the rise of NOOKS, Kindels and iPads with the ability to read e-books may be a holiday of diminishing followers. In the honor of the day here is a link to the Beatles performing Paperback Writer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taADLPtyDb0

3. 1966 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1966 on a two week run in that position Wild Thing by The Troggs. Here is a link to The Troggs performing Wild Thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hce74cEAAaE

4. National Cheesecake Day—celebrating a great American desert classic which packs a lot of calories.

5. There Is Ford In Your Future Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1863 of the man who founded the Ford Motor Company and established the first modern assembly line to manufacture automobiles and in so doing was able to raise wages to an unheard level of $5.00 a day.

On this day in:

a. 1733 the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the American Colonies was established in Massachusetts.

b. 1916 the Black Tom Island Munitions Depot was sabotaged by German agents with explosions killing five and felt as far away as Philadelphia.

c. 1930 at Montevideo, Uruguay, Uruguay won the first FIFA World Cup and probably the last free of bribes by host countries to FIFA.

d. 1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot of the Manchus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and was never seen again.

e. 2003 the last Volkswagen Bug rolled off an assembly line in Mexico.

Reflections on friendship on this international Day of Friendship: " Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

Octavia Butler, noted American science fiction writer.

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Francisco Sanchez' New Alien Friend Razo

Move over Francisco Sanchez you have a new illegal alien celebrity mate

Juan Razo an example of the violence Obama’s open border equates

Stopped three weeks ago but by Ohio deputies but by the Border Patrol told to release him

Goes on a crime spree with the results deadly and grim

A woman shot, another woman killed, a young girl almost raped

Now in jail with a bail so high a trial he will not escape

Not all illegals are here with criminal intent

But rather the desire to find a job with money earned to back to their family sent

If Coulter’s facts in Adios America on illegal alien crime are correct

Obama’s refusal to deport or secure the border is an idea we must reject

Immigration law is not like an all you can eat buffet to feast on items you like to taste

While ignoring items you dislike and passing them by and letting them go to waste

Another example of Obama’s fatal flaw

Use of his vaunted pen, ignore or fail to enforce disliked laws

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Ton Of IRS Corruption Not A Smidgeon

When it comes to delusion, Obama and his administration in la-la-land dwell

When the myth of transparency in his administration he continues to try to sell

After years of lies, deceptions, and obfuscations, Lerner emails are finally seeing the light of day

The targeting of conservative groups by the IRS to silence them clearly on display

Without the emails Obama could look O’Reilly sincerely in his eyes

And not a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS deny

In a polished act he could when the story first broke

He expressed outrage and pledged to get to the bottom—what a joke

History will record that when the IRS

Attempted to conservative groups suppress

It put our democracy’s continuation under great stress

Dissent to be silenced aided by a nonindependent DOJ and fawning press

FOIA requests responded to in the slow walk mode

Obama’s pick and choose law enforcement, the rule of law corrode

Under another imperial presidency of Hillary if her private email server is a clue

Her administration will be hidden like lead windows from our view

Would be okay if we mere mortals had x-ray eyes

We don’t so any attempt at transparency will be frustrated and denied.

Chakka Fattah Indicted For Fraud

Chakka Fattah is the new poster child

Of graft and corruption run wild

And yet another example of why we need limits on the term billets

No matter the reform minded at inception ideals the more they stay greater chance to pivot

A reform-minded Blue at inception

Appropriations committee post and landslide elections

Now indicted for fraud and siphoning federal funds to repay his campaign debt

To the dismay of the voters who on him had placed the voting bet

A million dollars of campaign debt alleged to have been repaid

From honesty and integrity this former rising star has really strayed

Too much power, too much money from the federal trough to disburse

No wonder Fattah fell under the sway of the corruption curse

In passing one might question Fattah’s mental state

To leave a district for life to run for mayor with far less power there to him await

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18 Minutes Erased 2 Months Missing Emails

A gap of only 18 minutes on the Nixon Tapes
Put Nixon under a cloud of impeachment that he could not escape
Knowing he would be found guilty when impeached
He appeared before the nation on TV with a resignation speech
Ironic that Hillary as a young lawyer worked on the Watergate Hearing staff
Who is viewed as dishonest by more each day and about as likeable as an infection of staph
Cannot escape the scandal of her private email server and a two month missing email gap
Her credibility thread on her justification for it is about to fray and snap
No emails during May and June as Libya was starting to explode
Attacks on our embassy and a British convoy moving down a road
Yet so far not a single electronic note
The possibility that she was not communicating with her staff is completely remote
More so than ever we need to have the server turned over which she continues to refuse
She is hiding the truth for if released she knows in November she will lose
Fortunately, Linda Tripp has broken her silence and given us another glimpse as to the workings of her mind
And why as to her coronation, we must respectfully and forcefully decline
Sadly the chances of this DOJ prosecuting for illegal release of classified information are slim
Unless Obama who does not like her decides he does not want her to win.
© July 29, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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Friday, July 31, 2015

Killing of Cecil and the Sale of Fetal Body Parts

Sounds Of Silence From DNC

Biden May Run Hillary Relief

Ridley's Believe It Or Not July 31 History National Mutt Day

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Valeria Harper Out Of A Coma

Another Iranian Deal Choice?

Fetal Parts Awaiting Sale In A Petri Dish--Defund

UBS Another Hillary Scandal

IRS Chief Facing Contempt

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Ridley's Believe It Or Not July 30 History International Friendship Day

Francisco Sanchez' New Alien Friend Razo

Ton Of IRS Corruption Not A Smidgeon

Chakka Fattah Indicted For Fraud

18 Minutes Erased 2 Months Missing Emails

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