25,000 Feet Without A Chute

Is it a plane, is it a rocket, is it Superman?

Coming back to earth at 125 miles an hour

Pulled by gravity’a power

No it looks like Superdaredevil defying death

At 25,000 feet the net below is unseen

Winds want to push him off course

His wife peering skyward

Heart racing, holding her breath

Faster and faster pushed to the left

Then pushed to the right

The speck growing in size

Net now visible

Will it hold, will it break?

On target a hundred feet away to  a quick  flip onto his back

Into the net quickly slowing down

Almost hitting the ground

Net did not reject

This daredevil survived, he passed the ultimate test

Ever since  Icarus and Daedalus man has sought to with gravity toy

The thrill of jumping into space a sense of freedom to enjoy

Luke Aikens has just had the ultimate thrill

Once again for him gravity did not kill.

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July 31, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Ranger Day

Only 100  days to go before we elect a new president and 239 days since Hillary has held a formal press conference (although she has finally consented to an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News tonight, where is the outrage of the press?); if you thought we might have a rational discourse on the issues that face us on the campaign, think again rhetoric heating up as Clinton bus heads through PA and Ohio focusing on Trump’s temperament making him unfit to be commander in chief; as continues to talk about himself and blew a real chance to respond appropriately the Indian immigrant father who lost a son in the U.S. military fighting for our freedom  and while targeting Sanders supporters hurls insults at him for having blown it and being worn out (where are the master of the art of the deal’s campaign advisers?); on the independence from Wall Street front, Hillary picked up $48 million in contributions from Wall Street to Trump’s pocket change of $17 thousand while the Koch Brothers will not be donating a dime to the Trump campaign and instead will concentrate on keeping the Senate Red; the Department of Justice is finally acting like one in order to preserve its budget by warning that sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE as required by law will lose federal grants to their law enforcement agencies; tragic accident over the skies of Texas as a hot air balloon crashed killing all 16 aboard; in what has to be the ultimate dare devil feat, Luke Adkins without a parachute jumped from a plane at 25,000 feet and successfully landed in a 100’ by 100’ net and lived to jump up and hug his wife; in a sign that Muslims in France are getting fed up with the senseless killings by ISIS, the local Muslim community announced it would not bury the beheader of the French priest and throughout France Muslims were seen attending Mass as a show of solidarity; the Olympics starts this Friday and to everyone’s surprise no more Russians have been added to the list of banned athletes.

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    As always, I hope  you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a  music link to Paul Anka, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Whitney Young, Jr. while looking forward to enjoying some cotton candy, blessed with a positive attitude and  secure in  the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events 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. World Ranger Day—celebrating since 2007 (the 15^th anniversary of the founding of the 63 nation member International Ranger Foundation) not the Texas Major League Baseball team but the park and forest rangers who toil to preserve and protect our natural and cultural treasures.  

2. Uncommon Musical Instrument Awareness Day—honoring the ability of humans to think outside the box and in the pursuit of music to play a wide variety of instruments you will never see in a band or symphony. Open up this link and scroll down to see the group Stomp playing music with such “instruments” as trash cans and sticks. http://www.dailyholidayblog.com/2013/07/uncommon-instrument-awareness-day-celebrate-the-unusual/   

3. 1959 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1959 on a run of four weeks in that position “Lonely Boy” by Paul Anka. Here is a link to Paul Anka  still singing at 75 performing the song before a group of gum chewing teeny boppers.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKcCaCgMLBE

4. National Cotton Candy Day—celebrating a great way to feed your sweet tooth first introduced as we see it made today at the 1904 St. Louis Fair. 
5. In A League By Himself—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1921 of Whitney Young, Jr. who became the president of the National Urban League promoting racial equality in the workplace, housing and education but died way too soon by drowning in Lagos, Nigeria while at a conference.    

On this day in:

a. 1790 the first of what today stands at over six million U.S. Patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. 

b. 1874 Francis Patrick Healy became the first person of African-American descent to become president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.

c. 1970 the official rum ration aboard ships of the Royal Navy was ended.

d. 1991 the U.S. and the Soviet Union sign the START I the first treaty to require reduction in their respective nuclear arsenals.  

e. 2007 the British Army ended Operation Banner, its longest deployment in history, lasting almost 38 years when it withdrew its troops from Northern Ireland originally sent in 1969 to keep the peace between Protestants and Catholics.  

Reflections on advice on how to achieve racial progress that BLM should really listen to from a who had he not gone swimming would be celebrating his 95^th birthday today: “You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program.”  Whitney Young, Jr. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

Hard To Defend Main Street With $48 Million From Wall Street

When it comes to hypocrisy, Hillary is the queen number one

48 plus million from Wall Street to fuel her campaign run

While Trump has received mere pocket change of 19 grand

Yet Hillary wants us to believe she’ll fight Wall Street ravages of Main Street Land

No wonder she has refused to release her speech transcript for Goldman Sachs

Most likely soothing words that she will always have their back

One hundred days to go and the rhetoric is heating up

Any chance of any discussion of issues drowned out and in lockup

This will be a nonstop attack on Trump to portray him as temperamentally unfit

To anywhere near the launch codes sit

Watch for the anti-Goldwater nuclear TV ad to reappear

Hillary’s campaign will not be about unity but total fear

Fueled by the flood of money from Wall Street to this election ice

To prevent attacks on their privilege will pay any price.

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July 30, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Support Public Education Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 30, 2016. Only 100  days to go before we elect a new president and 238 days since Hillary has held a formal press conference (where is the outrage of the press?); both parties are on the campaign trail as Russia is implicated in hacking into Hillary’s campaign; if you thought we might have a rational discourse on the issues that face us on the campaign, think again rhetoric heating up as Clinton bus heads through PA and Trump in Colorado vows to take the gloves off; 6 municipal workers in Democratically controlled Flint have been charge in the lead contamination crisis; California with the growing spread of the idiotic movement toward sanctuary cities may lose $148 million of federal funds; so typical of a country that cannot be trusted all of Russia’s weightlifting team joined its track and field team in being banned from the Rio Olympics due to doping; for those of us who thought we could escape our problems on Earth by heading out to Mars, think again—study revealed that astronauts who went to the Moon and were exposed to solar radiation have had disproportionate cardiovascular problems; in Southern California major wildfires continue to rage out of control; on a good news front the suspected killers of the San Diego cop killed literally moments after the moment of silence for fallen police officers was interrupted by the BLM have been taken into custody.

    Going to www.lyingcrookedhillary.com is a great way to start your day along of course with www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com

    As always, I hope  you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a  music link to Perez Prado, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from ben Quayle while looking forward to enjoying a slice of cheesecake, blessed with a positive attitude and  secure in  the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events 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. National Paperback Book Day—celebrating the publication by Penquin Books of the first paperback high quality publication on this day in 1935.

2. National Support Public Education Day—honoring the need to support out public schools which in the inner cities are clearly failing and across this land are under attack by the teachers’ unions leadership who blindly support Blues and fight reform, teacher accountability and charter schools which provide inner city children with their only real hope to escape lousy education tooth and nail.

3. 1958 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1958 on a run of only one week in that position “Patricia” by Perez Prado. Here is a link to Perez Prado performing the song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0A6KCLO_54

4. National Cheesecake Day—celebrating a great way to end a meal and remind yourself that a trip to the gym would be in order.
5. I’ll Be Back Next Year Also—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1947 of Arnold Schwarzenegger, of Terminator and governor of California fame.    

On this day in:

a. 1619 the first representative assembly in North America the House of Burgesses at Jamestown, Virginia convened for the first time. 

b. 1932 Disney’s animated cartoon Flowers and Trees premiered; it was the first cartoon to use Technicolor and won an Academy Award for best animation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWEzHE7wn7U 

c. 1956 President Eisenhower signed a joint resolution of Congress establishing as our national motto the phrase In God We Trust (could you even begin to fathom with the ACLU how difficult that would be today to accomplish?)

d. 1965 to the joy of millions of geezers and to be geezers Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 which established Medicare and Medicaid.  

e. 2003 the last “old style” Volkswagen rolled off the assembly line in Mexico.  

Reflections on Medicare after its 51 years in existence: “And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode. Ben Quayle son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and former Congressman from Arizona.    Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Another Russian Hacking Of The Blues

Once again the U.S. when it comes to cyber security plays the role of the fool

First the DNC and now the DNCC were subject to sophisticated hacking tools

The initial finger points not to young hackers seeking a thrill

But once again to our friends the Russians flexing against us their cyber ill will

From a time long ago when gentlemen did not open other people’s mail

Our world has sunk to a low that no data is safe and may be hacked into without fail

Russia denies FireEye’s looks-like-another-Russian-hacking report

Piously declaring any attempt to influence our election they would not resort

So now our FBI stretched to its limits by jihadist terror plots on us beset

Must find the assets to somehow counter this potential Russian hacking threat

As our economy in the 1.2 percent growth range continues to wallow

Any cries of revenge or the need to prevent will ring hollow

This poet believes that Hillary’s emails server has been hacked by the Russians and the Chinese

Hold onto your hats for a potential October Surprise of a leak of 30,000 emails that may reveal the quid pro quo Foundation sleaze

Her campaign for presidency would be cut off at the knees

As much as many of us would be outraged over foreign election meddling the result many of us would not disagree.

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Hillary 4.0

Marshall McCluhan once made an observation that was very sage

He observed that the media was the message

In politics as in business the packaging trumps and sells the contents

Hillary’s speech at the end of the DNC was to that idea an affirming testament

Hillary 4.0 as a warm caring mother without a deceptive bone in her body was presented

A leader for all Americans regardless of party to work to send them to the unity tent

Reaching out to Sanders supporters who were still in a foul mood

Not happy with her or the DNC with its hacked emails revealing they had been screwed

Her tones were softer, less strident

The first 100 days detailed on how infrastructure money would spent

Paid for by the corporations and the highest one percent

No more relying on increasing debt from money by the Chinese lent

But rhetoric and divisiveness are hard to in one moment quickly and forever shed

She attacked 22 times the new leader of the Reds

Implying the person who when baited is far too quick to respond with a tweet

Cannot be trusted with the launch codes and the world in the blizzard of a nuclear winter will go down to defeat

The campaign of 1964 all other again with the little girl in a mushroom cloud to disappear

She really tried to stoke what has to be most people’s number one fear

At least it was a try, a step in the right direction

For all the repackaging for her sadly there are not enough porters to dispose of her baggage of deception.

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July 29, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Tiger Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 29, 2016. Only 175 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 237 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference (where is the outrage of the press?); nice speech for Hillary at DNC last night but a speech cannot wash away the baggage of four decades of scandal, deception and dishonesty; as two San Diego police were being shot, one fatally, last night the BLM agitators in the convention hall interrupted a moment of silence for fallen police officers; under Obama’s pathetic leadership and failed policies, the economy grew at 1.2 percent in the second quarter; after taking millions from Wall Street Hillary with a straight face announced once again that Wall Street can never be allowed to damage Main Street; in all a lot of vague empty promises, a lot of attacks on Trump, and a lot of appeals to Sanders; at least after the first three days of being a endangered symbol there were a lot of American flags being waived.

       On the non political front, Florida confirmed that 4 cases of the Zika virus have occurred in the Miami area (thank the Blues in the Senate for blocking funding for Zika prevention); Rio Olympics to open in a week under a cloud of potential Islamist terror threats; IRS is investigating Facebook’s valuation of transferred assets overseas (company may face claims of unpaid taxes of several billions of dollars).

       Going to www.lyingcrookedhillary.com is a great way to start your day along of course with www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com

    As always, I hope  you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a  music link to Elvis Presley, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Mike Taibbi while looking forward to enjoying a plate of lasagna, blessed with a positive attitude and  secure in  the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events 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 Tiger Day—observed since 2010 to promote awareness of the need to protect tigers whose habitat is under extreme stress due to expanding human population.

2. Rain Day—honoring the lore that on July 29 in Waynesburg, PA since the mid 1800’s it always seems to rain on that day and applauding the ingenuity of Americans to turn any occurrence into a festivity to attract tourists to spend money in their town; this is probably the only event on the planet where success is measured by whether it rained. Waynesburg may be skunked today, however; there is only a 20 percent chance of rain according the weather forecasts.

3. 1957 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1957 on a run of seven weeks in that position “Teddy Bear” by Elvis Presley. Here is a link to Elvis performing the song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkDbk-egHH4

4. National Lasagna Day—celebrating that great layered pasta dish dating back to the Romans but until the Spanish returned from Peru in the 1500’s the dish lacked tomatoes. 
5. Trust Someone Under 30—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1938 of Peter Jennings who at 26 became the youngest news anchor at a major television network (ABC) only to quit after three years of competing with the likes of Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley to become a foreign correspondent. Sadly, he was a smoker and although he had quit in 1981 picked up the habit after 9/11 and died from the disease in 2005 at the age of 67.    

On this day in:

a. 1836 the dedication of one of Paris’ iconic landmarks, the Arc de Triomphe, was dedicated.  

b. 1958 President Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act which created NASA.  

c. 1976 David Berkowitz, aka the son of Sam, killed the first of his six serial killing victims in New York City.

d. 1981 Lady Dianna Spencer and Charles the Prince of Wales are married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in a ceremony watched on TV by some 700 million people.   

e. 1987 Prime Minister Thatcher and President Mitterrand signed an agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel to link the two nations. 

Reflections on smoking from a colleague of Peter Jennings who after decades managed to quit and stay smoke free. “I guess what’s different is that now I want to live as long as I can. There are stories I want to cover or at least see how they turn out.  More things I want to write, places I want to travel to. I want to sail some more, get better at golf, enjoy my marriage and continue being a father.  Forget about getting hit by that bus: I want to live.” Mike Taibbi    Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Hillary Faces Storms Weather and Political

As the Blues sans Sanders Army moves toward its Hillary election goal

Maybe Mother Nature not impressed by their tribute of war of coal

Or maybe she is trying to douse the passions of the anti Hillary flames

Give Hillary a unity boost to the White House for her campaign train

After days after days of stifling oppressive heat

The City of Brotherly Love faces rain coming down in sheets

Talk about a monkey wrench

Attendees to get totally drenched

Bernie’s Army has rain notwithstanding vowed to protest Hillary and the DNC outside

While others inside try to chant her down and deny her coronation ride

The RNC with all its excitement of Cruz going off script

Seems to be unifying while the Blues seem to be burying the goal of unity in a crypt

The curtain on this drama is coming down

Soon like the Phoenix to rise again in all the campaign towns

Bernie or Jill but Never Hill

Shades of Ralph Nader in 2000 they have made the sequel

As against the DNC Bernie supporters continue to rebel

In 2000 Bush took Florida by 571 votes and won the White House

With almost 100,000 Floridian votes Gore’s flame of winning was thoroughly doused

The Greens sans Nader are on the voter prowl chanting “Bernie or Jill but never Hill”

Great slogan showing the DNC with Bernie supporters has spent its goodwill

A cynic knowing what happened in 1998 a year that missed the love story cut

Might add “interns here comes Bill, keep your doors shut!”

The Green Party led by Jill Stein is peeling off Bernie’s troops

Trying to get them to flee the pro Hillary coops

While Trump is also over trade trying to get them to turn

Everyone wants a piece of the supporters of the Berne

For Hillary on the last day of the convention one speech no matter how great

Does not a lifetime of deception and dishonesty overtake

Lurking in the wings of this theater is maybe another Deep Throat who will leak

The close conspiracy between the HRC campaign and the DNC to insure she would win the nomination she seeks  

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Blues Have The No Biden Blues

Lost in all the rhetoric slamming Trump and the Bernie supporters preparing to bail

Is the sense by many Democrats that they are putting the wrong person on the legacy saving trail

Joe Biden may not be perfect and he has entertained us with his many gaffs

But he has integrity, honesty, likability and from time to time makes us laugh

Touched by a tragedy that killed his daughter and wife

Armed with his faith he managed to survive and keep on with his life

Watching his speech and knowing that Hillary as a candidate has so much baggage that is flawed

Many a Blue are bemoaning the fact that because of his son’s death from a run he had to withdraw

Hillary is the Austria-Hungary equivalent of Germany’s ally in World War I

A corpse of a candidate that voters Reds and Indies detest and Bernie Blues will shun

The rust belt Blues that are streaming over to Trump

Means that Obama’s cherished legacy is heading for the dump

Biden would have Trump’s Blue collar appeal train derailed

Hillary’s appeal to Bernie supporters is doomed to fail

In an election where every vote count, playing the race card and gender card ad nauseam will not tip the scales

No matter how great Hillary’s speech or Chelsea’s intro, can’t create a record or erase or 4 decades of deception and a belief she belongs in jail.

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July 28, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Hepetitis Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 28, 2016. Only 176 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 236 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference (where is the outrage of the press?) a fact which Trump pointed out yesterday morning at his press conference of over an hour in front of a potentially hostile press in what has to rank as one of the best press conferences this poet has witnessed in a very long time; feel sorry that a true patriot Leon Panetta was drowned out by rabid attendees at the DNC; Trump was slammed again and again by Blumberg, Biden and Obama as not being fit to be president while Obama insulting the legacies of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Eisenhower and LBJ touted Hillary as the most qualified person ever to run for president (she is certainly more qualified than Obama but other than that quite a stretch); a tidbit on the DNC is that per a Hillary edict, no uniformed police were to be seen in the CNC hall; Trump is not going dark and is on the stump today; three days into the convention and not a word on ISIS as the world remains in flames due to this radical Islamist ideology—we need to start praying for the next president for Obama’s two terms have created a mess of unfathomable proportions to deal with this barbaric force that threatens civilization.

      On the you should be outraged front, in Alexandria, Virginia a female cop in uniform was denied service at a Noodles and Company restaurant  http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/07/noodles-and-company-denies-service-to.html and the VA spent $20 million on art work while vets were dying because of wait time.

    Going to www.lyingcrookedhillary.com is a great way to start your day along of course with www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com

    As always, I hope  you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a  music link to Elvis Presley, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Doctor Dinesh Kini while looking forward to munching on a milk chocolate bar, blessed with a positive attitude and  secure in  the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events 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. World Hepatitis Day—a UN observance creating awareness of the alphabet diseases of Hepatitis A, B,C, D, and E that affect over 400 million and kill if untreated almost 2 million per year.

2. Buffalo Soldiers Day—honoring since 1992 the first black regiments formed in the U.S. Army in 1866 and existed until being disbanded in 1951 when Truman ended by Executive Order segregation in the U.S. Army.

3. 1956 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1956 on a brief run of only one week in that position “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” by Elvis Presley. Here is a link to Elvis performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw

4. National Milk Chocolate Day—celebrating that great candy bar which became possible in 1879 upon the invention of the conching machine which enabled the production of a creamy smooth chocolate.
5. Before Melania There Was Jackie—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1929 of Jacqueline Kennedy who brought incredible beauty and grace to the White House much in the same way Melania Trump would but unknown to most Americans was a three pack a day chain smoker who died far to early of cancer at the age of lung cancer at the age of 65.    

On this day in:

a. 1854 in a passing of an era the last all sale U.S. warship, the USS Constellation was commissioned.

b. 1868 the 14^th Amendment was ratified granting African-Americans the right of citizenship and guarantying equal protection of the laws.  

c. 1932 President Hoover orders the army to evict the squatters of the Bonus Army from the Washington Mall.

d. 1945 in the fog, a B-25 bomber crashes into the 79^th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14 and wounding 25.  

e. 1965 in the mission creep to disaster of the Vietnam War President Johnson announced he was increasing U.S. troop levels from 75,000 to 125,000. 

Reflections on hepatitis on World Hepatitis Day: “HBV is 100 times more infectious than HIV. Both HBV and HCV can remain in the patient’s blood for years without any symptoms, and by the time the disease is detected, the patient would already have a severe form of liver disease. But both viruses are treatable, and results of the treatment, lasting from about 28 to 48 weeks and including anti-viral tablets with sometimes weekly interferon injections, are very good.” » Dr Dinesh Kini, noted renown physician in the fight against hepatitis.    Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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Mosby Failed In Quest To Be Celebrity Star--Disbar!

Marilyn Mosby represents the absolute worse of our criminal justice system which in Baltimore appears to be broke

A power hungry D.A.  who in pursuit of her own celebrity and higher office desires the flames of racial divide stoked

It is tragic that in police custody, Freddie Gray died

But Mosby the probable cause bar to charge defied

The city paid over six million to settle a for certain wrongful death case to be filed

Larger than the sum of all cases in the last five years before Mosby’s publicity suit even went to trail

Although the agreement would have included a non admission of liability clause

The average juror would have concluded that the Baltimore PD broke the laws

After 0 for 3 the state came to its senses and all charges were finally dropped

 Mosby the coward sent an underling to feel the court’s wrath yet continued to defend her charging these innocent 6 cops

Worse she hypocritically pointed her finger of blame

At the lack of “independent” police investigation--talk about an excuse so lame

The charged cops have filed suit for malicious prosecution against this incompetent publicity seeking D.A.

Hopefully the city will fire Mosby and will settle along the lines of the dollars paid to Freddie Gray

As to Marilyn Mosby her quest for celebrity status should be forever discarded to the trash

If the Bar in Maryland has any integrity, she should feel the sting of the disbarment lash

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Noodles and Company Denies Service to Alexandria Cop in Uniform--Shame

How much longer can we expect our police to in essence suck it up?

When too often the doors to public meals are shut

Noodles and Company in Alexandria refused to a female cop in uniform serve

A slap in the face to those who put their lives on the line to protect and serve

The Civil Rights Act prevents discrimination at the lunch counter due to the color of one’s skin

But not based on the color of one’s shirt which should also be a mortal sin

Remove the thin blue line and into anarchy we quickly descend

Noodles is just another example of an anti-cop disturbing trend

A simple question to the Noodles board and management team

Denied service why should the blue line respond when they hear the 911 screams?

Fire the chef and immediately to your diversity training this simple mandate assert

We serve with dignity all regardless of the color of their skin or the color of their shirt

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Trump Press Conference Look Like JFK 235 Days And Counting

Trump may have his warts and a tendency to tweet from the hip

But one thing is clear in his amazing campaign to the nomination trip

When it comes to press conferences he is devoid of fear

While from the press Hillary’s handlers are always trying to steer

At the end of July 27 236 days will have come and gone without a single conference with the press

At the start of his press conference today he wondered out loud what is Hillary trying to suppress

Like factories touting safety post a sign daily that tout the number of days since the last accident

The Reds should post a sign of the number of days since the days of a press conference with this deceiving candidate for president

The 4^th Estate is being reduced to mushrooms held in the dark under  speeches and ads spread

While Trump without delay wades into press conferences taking multiple questions, often hostile, instead

From the early days of the rope-a-press to the stealth debates scheduled so no one would watch

When it comes to the role of the free press holding government’s feet to the fire as to Hillary completely botched

When Obama holds a press conference it’s like watching a professor drone on in a lecture

On and on to limit the number of questions raised, always looking for a way to the American people and the press hector

Hillary has avoided the press like the e-bola plague and viewed them with disdain

Large speed bumps in the way of her ermine fitting for her coronation reign

Compare the number of questions Trump took today

That Kennedy would take and one would have thought Kennedy was on display

Accents may be different, Trump heavy and in better shape

Style aof answering and number of answers almost the same and as a side note both with wives that would make you gape  

If our “free press” continues to grant to Hillary a “get of press conference card”

Allows her on issues like her private server spread her deceptions without calling her on those canards

They have ceased to properly do their job

Which is against candidates and officials the tough questions lob

Our “free press” save Fox will be reduced to cheerleading lap dogs parading as journalists but clearly mistaken

On a path littered with the tattered scraps of our Bill of Rights to dark places where we should not want to be taken

© July 27, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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July 27, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Bagpipe Appreciation Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 27, 2016. Only 177 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term and 236 days since hiding Hillary has held a formal press conference a fact which Trump pointed out this morning at his press conference of over an hour in front of a potentially hostile press in what has to rank as one of the best press conferences this poet has witnessed in a very long time; Hillary must be sweating blood wondering if the Russians hacked into her private server and have the 30,000 plus emails that she saw fit to delete and will release, many of which may reveal the quid pro quo corruption of her and the Clinton Foundation; despite the show of unity by the Sanders camp, beneath the surface many Sanders supporters will not support Hillary especially since some of the DNC leaked emails reveal bias against Israel; touching moment with respect to the mothers who had lost children to police shootings or gang violence but probably due to BLM influence no mothers of policemen killed in the line of duty; finally the DNC put some American flags on stage; nice love speech by Bill but still no  discussion of radical Islam terror even as the FBI announced a warning that we are facing a worldwide  Diaspora  of radical Islam.

On the crime front, Hinckley was released and all of the charges against the police in the Freddy Grey death were dismissed, prompting Trump in his press conference to suggest that the Baltimore should be prosecuted.

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    As always, I hope  you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,  music links to Bill Haley and His Comets and the NYPD Bagpipe Band Jaggar, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Alfred Hitchcock while looking forward to sipping a fine Scotch while listening to your favorite bagpipe tune, blessed with a positive attitude and  secure in  the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events 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. National Transatlantic Communication Day—commemorating the first sustainable transatlantic telegraph cable on this day in 1866 thanks to the risks taken by Cyrus Field.

2. Bagpipe Appreciation Day—celebrating that great musical instrument that emits a continuous migraine inducing sound akin to stepping on the tails of a hundred felines but without which a St. Patrick’s Day Parade is second rate and a funeral of fallen first responders is lacking. Here is a link to one of my favorites Garry Owen (the theme of the 7^th Cavalry).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNwu8qRllJ0

3. 1955 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1955 on a run of 8 weeks in that position “Rock Around The Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets, the father of rock and roll. Here is a link to  Bill Haley and His Comets performing the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw

4. National Scotch Day—celebrating the perfect drink to go with bagpipes especially if one is of Scottish heritage.
5. Is It Talent Or Drugs?—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1975 Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod to his fans, who became the youngest player to reach 500 home runs but after being suspended for a year due to doping has only 9 this year, leaving at 696 but still enjoying over $25 dollars on his contract.    

On this day in:

a. 1666 to the displeasure of the Americans, the English Parliament passed the Navigation Act which required that any cargo shipped to the American Colonies had to be shipped by English ships leaving from English ports.

b. 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State) was established. 

c. 1890 a very troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh shot himself and died two days later.

d. 1981 six year old Adam Walsh was kidnapped from a Sears Department Store in Hollywood, Florida and his decapitated head was found two weeks later. His death although tragic was not in vain as it spurred the creation of the Code Adam program by retailers, public facilities and amusement venues on what do in the case of missing children, the formation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the passage of the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act.  

e. 1996 a pipe bomb that killed one person and injured over one hundred detonated in Atlanta, Georgia during the Summer Olympics, planted there by one deranged individual Eric Rudolph who wanted to have the Olympics cancelled due to the government’s funding of abortion. 

Reflections on the bagpipes on Bagpipe Appreciation Day: “These are bagpipes. I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately the man made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.” Alfred Hitchcock.  Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

© July 27, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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