Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 2, 2016 Finally
only 232 days to endure President
Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Political theater in really high gear with
Hillary’s “lead” over Sanders in California now having evaporated to two
percent (a statistical dead heat) as she prepares to give a major foreign
policy address claiming Trump is not fit to be commander in chief; Trump is
already burning up the Twitter wires with preemptive attacks on her (needs to
have spell check to spell “judgment” correctly) and is facing his equivalence
of the Clinton email scandal with a fraud suit against him with respect to
Trump University; in what has to be a record, Hillary has not held a press
conference since December 4, 2015; President Obama was stuttering profusely as
he compared Trump supporters to a bunch of “Okie Dokes” (people who fall for
scams); we now find that ala Katie Couric’s deleting of 8 minutes of Under the Gun, the State Department
admitted it deleted portions of a press conference video admitting that the
administration had lied on a key point in the Iran nuclear deal. On the non
political theater front, the media is in a frenzy over the killing of a gorilla
to save a toddler who fell into the gorilla pit at the Cincinnati Zoo while giving
almost no coverage to the 69 people shot, 6 of whom died, in Chicago over the
Memorial Day Weekend.
As always I trust your Thursday is off to a great
start and that you will enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to
Ray Charles, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from George Clooney, while
looking forward to enjoying a bowl of
rocky road ice cream, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that, if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like FATHERS’ DAY, GRADUATIONS, 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.
American Indian Citizenship Day—celebrating that on this day in 1924
all American Indians born here became American citizens, not just those who had
served in the military or who had married an American citizen.
2.
International Sex Workers Day—commemorating the
protest and occupation of a church in Lyons, France of some 100 prostitutes on
this day in 1975 to protest working conditions and violence against them. If
you see someone today walking with a red umbrella, there is a good chance that
that person may be a member of the world’s oldest profession.
3. 1962 Number One Song—celebrating the number
one song in 1962 on a run of five weeks in that position I Can’t Stop Loving You by Ray Charles. Here’s a link to Ray Charles performing the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQXsM1l2wZ8
4. National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day—celebrating this
poet’s favorite ice cream especially when served with some berries or fruits.
5. Shades
of Gray—noting the
birthday on this day in 1740 in Paris of the author, philosopher, and playwright
Marquis de Sade also best known for his acts of sexual cruelty and debauchery (to
which he was introduced by his uncle, an abbot in the church, at the age of 6
and giving us the word “sadist.” His sadistic behavior practiced on prostitutes
is exactly the sort of behavior that the ladies of the night would have marched
against on this day in 1975. He spent the last years of his life in an insane asylum,
in typical de Sade fashion having a relationship with a 14 year old daughter of
one of the employees there.
On this day in:
a. 1662 in a dark day
for religious tolerance Bridget Bishop’s trial for witchcraft began in Salem,
Massachusetts; she was found guilty and hanged on June 10, 1662 the first of 20
people subsequently found guilty and hanged.
b. 1774 the Quartering
Act of 1974 was enacted which allowed the colonial governor to quarter British
troops in unoccupied homes, barns and other structures if other accommodations were
not available. The act was deeply resented and along with the Stamp Act and
British attitudes toward the Colonies was a driving force to move the colonies
to rebel against the Crown and its repeal in March of 1776 was a classic
example of too little, too late but remains part of our history embodied in the
Third Amendment.
c.
1835 P.T. Barnum
and his circus began its first tour of the United States.
d. 1886 President Grover Cleveland married
Francis Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to marry in the
White House.
e. 2004 Ken Jennings won the first of his
74 consecutive wins on Jeopardy, winning
$2,520,000 before being defeated by
Nancy Zerg; his second place finish to her netted him a paltry $2,000.
Reflections on the Salem Witch Trials from an
actor’s perspective: “I believe in all the
qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events
in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the
conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake,
and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.” George Clooney
Unless of course they happen to be conservatives in which case they are witches
as should be burned and the stake or at least hounded and ridiculed by the
media.
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