Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November
9, 2016 Finally
the people have spoken and the pollsters and pundits rightfully should be
looking for new jobs as they completely blew it and the lobbyists should be
filing claims with their local unemployment office as the swamp will soon be
drained; Donald Trump is our next president who will face a difficult task in
trying to unite this country. At least he will have an “ally” hopefully in the
Senate and House as Republicans retained control of both although we in
California will be plagued with another rabid ideologue Harris who defeated a
more moderate Blue Loretta Sanchez. For those rabid Hillary supporters in
California, they can take some solace in the fact that the voters approved the
legalization of recreational marijuana. The question of the hour will be
whether Obama pardons Hillary and Bill Clinton in a Ford like manner (assuming
of course they and their daughter and anyone affiliated with them or the State Department
sever all ties with the Foundation) or whether Trump will announce that his
Justice Department will not prosecute assuming the Foundation is dissolved as a
step toward unifying this bitterly divided country. Honesty, integrity, and
transparency matter more than the amount of ads and ground game, a truism that
must be troubling Hillary this morning big time.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Mariah Carey, factoids of
interest for this day in history, a
relevant quote from Cal Thomas, while
looking forward to enjoying a slice of scrapple (killer and easy recipe below),
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 Freedom Day—commemorating the
fall of the Berlin Wall and the independence of Central and Eastern European
from the communist rule of a dissolved Soviet Union; observed since 2001.
2. National Chaos Never Dies Day—another whimsical observance that
should not be observed on the day after election of a president and the end of
the chaos of a bitter and long fought campaign process.
3. 1990 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1990
on a run of 3 weeks in that position “Love Takes Time” by Mariah Carey. Here is
a recording of Mariah Carey performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkDpwF6-QiA
4. National Scrapple Day—great way to use
pork trimmings like liver, heart, and skin that are mixed with corn meal to
form a mushy load that is then fried and served with eggs and pancakes for
breakfast. Here is a killer recipe for scrapple: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/scrapple-recipe.html
5. To Bedlam and Not Back—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1928 of poet Anne Sexton who published her first book of poetry To
Bedlam and Part Way Back and the Pulitzer Prize Winning collection of poetry Live and Die; sadly she committed suicide
on October 4, 1974.
On
this day
in:
a. 1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod,
Massachusetts.
b. 1857 The Atlantic was founded at Boston, Massachusetts and is still publishing today.
b. 1857 The Atlantic was founded at Boston, Massachusetts and is still publishing today.
c. 1906 Theodore Roosevelt became the
first sitting president to make a trip outside the United States when he
visited Panama to check on progress of the Panama Canal.
d. 1967 the first issue of Rolling Stone was published.
e. 1998 a federal judge approved a
settlement by 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay $1.07 billion to investors for
price fixing on the NASDAQ.
Reflections on why Hillary lost and Trump won yesterday: “One of the reasons people hate politics is that
truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. Cal Thomas, noted syndicated columnist and
pundit. Trump was not perceived to be a politician; Hillary was the embodiment
of a politician with the albatross of 30 plus years of scandals, concealment and
dishonest so he won and she did not. 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.
© November 9, 2016, Michael P. Ridley
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