Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For February 28, 2017 Tonight Trump appears before a Joint Session of Congress
to deliver his vision for America in first State of the Union Address (we can
expect zero applause from the blues who will be glued to their seats and the
only suspense from them will be can they in their devastated state refrain from
showing no class and boycotting the speech?); 39 days into his term and already
Blues led by the defeated Islamist anti-Semite Ellison and the scumbag accuser
Maxine Waters are calling for impeachment (no wonder Trump is bemoaning their
ultimate disappearance; Pelosi was on a full snit fit with cries that Trump is
trying to make America sick again;
while we are moving full speed ahead to build a wall on our
Southern border, news out of Europe is that EU charities are encouraging
traffickers to set sail with boats overloading with migrants from Africa to Europe under barbaric
conditions and dangers; Mardi Gras at New Orleans was marred by another vehicle
e plowing into a crowd of high school band members; ranking of all 50 states
came out to add spice and interest at cocktail party conversations (for what it’s
worth Massachusetts is number 1, California number 23 (with the government
sector near last even with not a single Red state wide office and overwhelming
majorities by Blues in both state houses of the legislature) https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings;
almost like a stuck record, the carnage in Chicago continues unabated through
February 27, rising to 517 shootings with 98 persons dead (God help those poor
minorities being shot mostly by minorities when the weather gets warmer and the
shooters’ aim gets really better and there is more daylight.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Art
Mooney, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from the
National Organization of Rare Disorders, while regaling your guests with your
abilities as a deipnosophist, 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. Rare Disease Day—first observed on 3/29/2008 to promote awareness of the needs of
those patients that are suffering from diseases that affect a very small
portion of the population thereby making it difficult to conduct research on
trying to find a cure given the market size.
2. Tailors’ Day—clothes may or may not make the man but they provide sources of
income for thousands upon thousands of garment workers and tailors; observed on
this day as it is the birthday of Elias Howe on 1845 of the sewing machine.
3. 1948 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1948 on a run of 3 weeks
in that position “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover” by Art Mooney. Here is a recording of him performing the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NobGWZEkKsk
Do not ask me why the song was not released to time with a number one ranking
on St. Patrick’s Day.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “deipnosophist ” which means a person skilled in the art of after dinner
conversation which you will if you regularly read Ridley's Believe It Or
Not-This Day In History.
5. Stoning
Ends Rolling—celebrating the birth on this day in
1942 of Brian Jones, the founder of the Rolling Stones whose drug and alcohol
use caused the band to ask him to leave in June of 1969; one month later he was
found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool.
On this day
in:
a. 1827 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was formed as
the first railroad to offer commercial freight and passenger service.
b. 1847 regular steamboat service between the West Coast and the
East Coast was inaugurated when the SS
California steamed into San Francisco Bay four months and twenty-two days
after it had left New York Harbor.
c. 1940 the first college basketball game to be televised was
won by University of Pittsburgh 47-37 over Fordham in Madison Square Garden.
d. 1954 the first color TV sets using the NSTC standard went on
sale to the public.
e. 2004 over one million Taiwanese participated in the Hand to Hand
228 Incident rally, creating a human chain 500 kilometers long across the
island to commemorate the 228 Incident where some 30,000 civilians were
massacred by Chiang Kai-shek’s armed forces that had fled to Taiwan from Mao’s
Red Chinese.
Reflections on rare diseases from the National Organization of Rare
Disorders: “Alone we are rare. Together we are Strong.” Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
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