Friday, March 31, 2017

Should PP Be Jailed or CMP?

Xavier Becerra was appointed as California’s AG to Kamala’s shoes fill
As one leftist ideologue heads to Boxer’s Senate seat on the Swamp Hill
To tweet daily and join Schumer trying to the Trump agenda kill
Troubling actions by Becerra that send an overreaching chill
Planned Parenthood in addition to women’s health services is an abortion mill
CMP rightfully believes they harvest aborted fetal parts to their coffers fill
To the left Planned Parenthood can do no harm
Any attempt to hinder their abortions raises a major alarm
If asked by a reporter if they sold body parts these butchers with a straight face would lie
To expose the truth these citizen reporters would have to do it on the sly
To sell fetal body parts is a crime
Yet to a misguided Becerra it is not PP but CMP founders that must do time
You know that a miscarriage of justice is occurring, a massive overreach
When the Los Angeles Times harshly condemns the acts in an editorial screech.
PP may have an expectation of privacy but the law cannot be against crime a shield
No matter how strong the support for PP the left chooses to wield
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March 31, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Back Up Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 31, 2017  While drama continues on the issue of Russian interference with an election that was lost by a totally failed candidate, with a total absence of message, compounded by arrogance and felonious behaviors that caused great disgust and rejection, Trump is moving forward on by executive order addressing the $347 billion trade deficit with China and its dumping and currency manipulation; the Hawaii judge appointed by Obama who extended his TRO will be appealed (how many tourists from the banned countries visit Hawaii to give the state standing?—most likely 0); Biden the proponent of the Biden Rule slamming picks of SCOTUS judges in the last year of a lame duck term is back in the news claiming that nine Reds told him it was wrong to block Garland’s nomination (given the charged partisan environment at the time and the perception that HRC was a shoo-in for the election look to the legacy enhancing ego of Obama that should have deferred any nomination until after the election and with consultation with HRC had she won as expected); in another news item that is chilling for those on highways an interstate truck driver was arrested for driving nonstop from Washington to Massachusetts thanks to copious use of meth, cocaine and LSD; in yet another example of a double standard, HRC who was castigated by Comey for being extremely careless with respect to her handling of classified material along with six of her aides retained her access to classified materials after she left her quid pro quo office at the State Department and kept it during the campaign (maybe the Senate should investigate her and Bill’s quid pro quo ties with the Russians as it may be more rational given her presumed victory that the Russian hacking and more likely than not a Russian electronic and paper trail that would have proved conclusively the quid pro quo of the uranium deal that stripped us of 20% of our uranium supplies and would have been a sword of Damocles over her head during her presidency); Massachusetts is joining the ranks of the anarchists with legislation introduced to become a sanctuary state; amazing when dollars get involved and a city may no longer lap at the federal trough as after Sessions announced that “sanctuary cities” will face a federal funding cutoff, Rockville, Maryland notorious for an alleged rape of a 14 yr old by a 17 and 18 yr. old illegal piously announced that they are not a sanctuary city; almost like a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through March 30 increasing by 9 to 728 and the death toll rising to 130 (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 to find and shoot victims) and yet nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be occurring to address this blight on blacks and minorities which is what racism from a black mayor really looks like (when will Chicago residents through the city council try to impeach this pathetic, inept mayor?).  
    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Roberta Flack, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Mark Twain, while hoping you are fully prepared to face any issues on a hodiernal basis, 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 Back Up Daycelebrating a way to really not get fooled the following day by a loss of data by backing up one’s data including photos; but once again this is an observance that should be followed daily not once a year.
2.  Transgender Day of Visibility—promoting since 2009 acceptance of transgenders especially those like Kaitlin Jenner who have come out of the proverbial closet.
3. 1973 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1973 on a run of 5 weeks in that position “Killing Me Softly With His Song” by the one and only Roberta Flack.  Here is a recording of her performing the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMzzw6IXH1s At 78 and proving that music is the fountain of youth still going strong and performing.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “hodiernal” which means something that most procrastinators abhor, relating to today.
5. Last Stage Coach Into Oblivion—bemoaning the birth on this day in 1940 of Barney Franks who with Senator Dodd co-authored a bill with great aims but in reality has shackled the ability or desire of banks to lend to the job creation engine of this nation—small business and with a president now in office who understands job creation will be gutted.
On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1492 in an example that Christianity has a history of intolerance, Queen Isabella of Castille ordered her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert or be expelled.
b. 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry with cannons primed forced Japan to sign a treaty opening up ports to trade with America.
c. 1917 to the joy of future cruise ship passengers the United States acquired the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
d. 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to bring true shovel ready projects to combat unemployment caused by the Great Depression.  
e. 1992 in an end to a naval strategy moment, the last U.S. battleship, the USS Missouri, was decommissioned and now resides as a museum in Pearl Harbor.    
Reflections on the need for battleships from the past: “If we had less statesmanship we could get along with fewer battleships.” Mark Twain If he was right might explain why Trump wants to cut the budget for the Foggy Bottom which was totally politicized under Clinton (the quid pro quo Wal-Mart) and Kerry. 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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Thursday, March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Bipolar Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 30, 2017  The House Intel Committee has imploded and many of us are waiting with baited breath to see what Nunes has seen on surveillance and unmasking of Trump Campaign and Transition Team members; Evelyn Farkas’ revelations on surveillance and unmasking raise great concern over the extent of involvement of Obama appointees and whether such surveillance was not for counter intelligence but rather had the sole purpose of obtaining information to damage the credibility of a Trump Presidency (already we have seen a total scorched earth policy over the Gorsuch nomination by biased partisan Blues); the Senate Intel Committee is beginning hearings today with assurances that it will be thorough and bipartisan (with ideologues like Kamala Harris don’t bet on it); while Michelle Dubois continues to take heat for notifying illegals on her Facebook of a pending ICE raid big city mayors almost all Blue were meeting with the head of Homeland Security over the issue of sanctuary cities (this will be a judicial blood bath if Trump tries to defund them and better yet seeks clawback of funds previously given (there are a lot of good lawyers at the DOJ—the lights should be burning late to see how to accomplish defunding or perhaps more efficiently confirm the legal basis for arresting mayors or sheriffs who fail to comply with detainers); in an example of complete anarchy, Sally Hernandez, the sheriff of Travis County, has indicated that she will only respond to detainers for  capital murder, aggravated sexual assault, and human smuggling which means assaults, attempted murder, kidnapping, manslaughter, second degree murder, robbery to name but a few violent crimes will not be honored and those illegals will be roaming the streets of Austin (fortunately the governor can cut back funding and a bill is in the state legislature put city officials in jail for not cooperating); Bill Di Blasio, the mayor we all like to despise, has announced that anyone in New York City who has served his or her sentence will be hired by the city (noble goal but what about the unemployed who have not committed crimes); talk about judicial overreach the Venezuela Supreme Court has ruled that the National Assembly with its majority consisting of opposition to a very unpopular quasi dictator Maduro is in contempt and has taken over its powers (what a mess as the country is in economic freefall due to Maduro’s socialist policies); almost like a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through March 29 increasing to 719 and the death toll rising to 124 after a respite of two days of no new deaths (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 to find and shoot victims) and yet nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be occurring to address this blight on blacks and minorities which is what racism from a black mayor really looks like.
    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to Celine Dion and America, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Celine Dion, while hoping you are fully prepared to debate any issues you face so you do not appear to be gobemouche, 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 Doctors Daycelebrating since 1933 the contribution to our health care system of doctors and celebrated on the anniversary in 1842 of the first case of general anesthesia of a patient during surgery.
2.  World Bipolar Day—promoting awareness of the disease that affects some 60 million around the world and seeking to remove the social stigma of suffering from the disease. It is celebrated on this day as today is the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh who was posthumously diagnosed as probably being bipolar.
3. 1972 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1972 on a run of 3 weeks in that position “A Horse with No Name” by America.  Here is a recording of the band performing the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “gobemouche” which means a gullible or credulous listener which Gruber thought us all to be.
5. My Heart Will Go On Forever—celebrating the birth on this day in 1968 of bilingual Canadian recording star Celine Dion, blessed with an incredible voice and stage presence. She is best known for “My Heart Will Go On Forever” from the movie Titanic.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIPqafd4As
On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1858 a wooden pencil with an attached eraser was patented by Hyman Lipman.
b. 1867 in one the great real estate deals of all times given the wealth in oil and fisheries that has been extracted there from, Alaska was purchased from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million ($.02 per acre).
c. 1939 the Heinkel 100 fighter plane reached a world speed record of 463 mph but fortunately for the Allies the plane was never put into production as it was 26 mph faster than the P-51 Mustang which ruled the skies over Europe once it incorporated a Merlin engine.
d. 1981 President Ronald Reagan narrowly escaped death after being shot by John Hinckley, Jr. who was found not guilty by reason of insanity and jailed in a federal psychiatric facility until being released in September of last year to live with his mother.  
e. 2012 in something that has become the norm not the exception, Visa and Master Card announce a massive data breach by hackers with over 10 million credit card numbers compromised.    
Reflections on what is important in life from the birthday girl: “After everything is said and done, at the end of the day it's about songs.” Celine Dion Great observation and since songs usually stem from poetry this poet is in total accord as we need more poets and less parasites. 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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Will Blue Senate Intel Be Bipartisan? Don't Bet On It

The House investigation of Russian involvement has imploded
A smoking gun in Obama’s surveillance of Trump has just exploded
Evelyn Farkas’ revelations on unmasking Trump team is chilling beyond belief
Trump’s claim of being surveilled upon is no longer met with disbelief
Obama changed the rules on dissemination to pass out classified info like candy
Granting to his appointees a tool to disseminate damning info on Trump that was more than handy
If the Senate Intel Committee is really going to do a bipartisan job, the surveillance of Americans by intercepts of communications under the guise of investigating communications with foreign entities must be critical part
Our democracy is a great risk when a government can surveill American conversations then in violation of the law unmask those individuals—a first step from the principles of our democracy to depart
Already one Blue is demanding financial ties between Trump’s son in law be included in the “investigation”
Despite vows of a thorough and independent investigation, look for the Blue members to go to any length to protect Obama from condemnation
It is outrageous but not an act of war as some Blue hotheads have piously proclaimed
That the Russians hacked into the DNC but any conclusions that such hacking caused HRC to lose is insane
We now find that the Blues in the Obama Administration to a man and woman were convinced that Trump could not win
They bought hook, line, and sinker the anti-Trump mainstream media and pundits’ bias spin
No evidence of collusion of Trump campaign and the Russians--for Blues a complete delusion
A slender reed of excuse for the rationale of HRC’s loss illusion
But growing concern that felonies due to unmasking of conversations that had no counter intelligence value or security goals
Only a means to intercept incidental communications to sink the Trump Ship of State on partisan Blue shoals
Subpoena Evelyn Farcas find the source of the unmasking leaks
The only proper course in order to convince the public that this time the truth is what the politicians seek
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/30/trump-ally-obama-official-should-be-subpoenaed-after-leaking-admission.html

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Give Melania and Baron a Break

The left is in a snit that Melania is waiting for school year end before into the White House as a resident appear
Give me a break let the kid finish the school year with his school mate peers
Nothing but silence from the left over a doubling of the national debt
8 years of stagnation and a foreign policy in ruins
Pity those on the ACA as it will implode, it is doomed
News surfacing that Obama staffers unmasked Trump staffers willy-nilly
Trump's claim of surveillance looking real and a lot less silly
A very frightening disturbing thought
Surveilling and unmasking Americans shows depth of Obama' moral rot
Time to crank up the FBI or Comey so politicized he should be fired
Time for Obama to from his idiotic shadow government retire
Time to fire up Sessions
To prosecute any Obama staffers involved in this unmasking transgression
Really time for the left, media and Blues to chill out and put a damper on this unprecedented level of Trump hate
Dog whistles for someone hearing the war drums of an illegal president to try to permanently remove our head of state
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It's Hold On To Your Hearts Schumer and Harris Show

When it comes to theater that will produce tears and sympathy the Blues are the kings
Call a press conference with Schumer and his latest lackey Harris and bring out the violin pity strings
Two sisters training for a marathon born here with tears in their eyes
An illegal alien father with two misdemeanors not specified
Was detained by ICE after dropping his daughters off at school
Harris in front of the cameras portraying the Trump administration as ignorant fools
It is hard to for the girls not feel empathy and pity
Explains why there are so many sanctuary cities
But as long as our border is not secure immigration reform will have no chance
An idea for this rabid duo of ideologues that might allow a compromise for immigration reform advance
You have to eliminate the economic magnet for people to enter this nation
You have to make it impossible to be part of the job force or welfare participation
If illegals can’t work because of e-verify
If businesses know they face jail and fines for hiring illegals, work they will deny
If only citizens can rebate money to their families back in their native lands
The incoming horde will be reduced to very, very small bands
For anyone here not legally not a dime for welfare   
It’s bad enough the school districts’ cupboards due to illiterate illegals are in many cases bare
Build the wall which in addition to illegals deterring it will slow the flow of illegal drugs to a mere drip
We might just free our youth and others from the opioid epidemic death grip
Increase deportation judges and give Trump what he wants in terms of additional Border Patrol and ICE staff
The number of illegals entering will be quickly falling off the charting graph
Relentlessly deport violent criminal illegals and if they somehow successfully return
Jail them for at least five years so a sense of deterrence they will learn
End the practice of sanctuary cities to detainer requests routinely ignore
When an arrested or convicted illegal of a violent crime is ready to walk through a jailhouse door
Then free of the open border curse
That will make this problem only worse
We could have a bipartisan debate on how many, what kind and who will do the best for America convene
How to assimilate and allow them to be part of the American economic dream
Recreate the bracero program that would let illegals come out of the shadows to find work and taxes pay
End the exploitation of illegals caused by their refusal to complain because of a fear that ICE will sweep them away
Create a path to citizenship for anyone under a young age to be determined by compromise
For those over that age send them to the bracero program and as long as crime free and supporting they can stay
Secure border and no more heart wrenching scenes for the camera by Schumer and Harris that we had to endure today
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Vomit On White Genocidist Ciccariello-Maher

Today is Vietnam Veterans Day
Brave men and women dodged bullets and shells heading into harm’s way
Only to be spit upon, sworn at by pampered college students safe at home
Ringing shouts of baby killers returning from Vietnam’s killing zone
Unlike World War II or the Korean War with the nation for the troops as one
The lack of support for our Vietnam troops can only stun
From Hanoi Jane pointing an AAA up into the Hanoi sky
An image suggesting she wanted the bomber pilots to be shot down and die
To the thousands occupying universities and marching by the thousands in the streets
Demonstrating not for victory but demonstrating for the soldiers’ defeat
It is hard to comprehend the depression and abandonment those men and women must have felt knowing the home front did not have their backs
Hard to comprehend their courage and bravery to saddle up again, lock and load and move out into the jungle for yet another never ending attack
But they did, again and again, through the paddies and through the ambush lurking jungle paths
For 12 or 13 months to for their nation and flag and buddy practice their deadly craft
Unwanted, unloved, despised, except by family and close friends
Praying each night in the field or firebase that their life would not soon end
Today we are involved in another war, a war on terror with no end in sight
No longer draftees but highly motivated soldiers eager to the forces of evil fight
A grateful nation frustrated by the rise of ISIS and the callousness of the VA
Worried that their sons and daughters or mothers and fathers are in harm’s way
Another news item that makes you want to wonder what colleges teach, makes you want to puke
That leftist George Ciccariello-Maher after his White genocide wish in line for another Drexel rebuke
This Drexel professor tweets that he wanted to vomit after a passenger gave up his first class seat
To a soldier in uniform maybe coming back from an Afghan tour having death or wounds once again beat
This “professor” is a complete loser who should be thankful the deplorables do not advocate for the academic left genocide
Disagree with the policy all you want but for heaven’s sake for receiving a bit of comfort don’t men and women in uniform deride
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March 29, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Vietnam Veterans Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 29, 2017  While both the Senate and the House appear loath to conduct any inquiry of the quid pro quo of Russia and the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s outrageous speaking fees in Russia while HRC was Secretary of State while 20 percent of our uranium assets ended up in Putin’s hands, it’s pedal to the metal time with respect to Russian influence in the elections and possible interaction by Trump campaign with Russia (lurking in the background and not getting as much attention is the involvement of Obama holdovers in government on why Trump Transition Team and Campaign members were being swept up by incidental monitoring and then unmasked which is a felony); Pierce College joined the ranks of the PC tyranny over free speech by preventing a student from handing out copies of the Constitution outside the school’s “free speech” zone and is now being sued by that student (let’s hope he wins big time to end this nonsense); while Christie dodged the bullet over the Bridgegate scandal and is slotted to head Trump’s commission on opioid addiction, two of his aides did not and they were sentenced to go to prison, one for 18 months and the other for 2 years plus 500 hours of community service; in yet another example on the growing spread of anarchy on the issue of illegal immigration, Massachusetts Representative Michelle DuBois got wind of an upcoming ICE sweep in Brocton and posted on her Facebook a warning to illegals in the area (she pulled the notification but continued to defend her actions); in North Carolina a Red state representative released a report that 320 illegals were licensed by the Secretary of State as notary publics with the power among others to attest to absentee ballots; on the refugee front news that individuals on the 9th Circuit, Washington, and Hawaii masquerading as judges should take to heart, the FBI has ongoing terrorism investigations on 300 refugees many of whom are from the countries Trump wants to ban and those investigations represent 30% of the active terrorism investigations (even more frightening is that the FBI is becoming stretched very thin by the magnitude of the investigations); in yet another example of incompetence in vetting, three Iraqi refugees applying for citizenship have been arrested for immigration fraud for failing to disclose that two of them were brothers of a kidnapper who held an American hostage in Iraq for a year in an underground bunker; almost like a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through March 28 increasing to 711 but the death toll remains stuck at 123 for the last two days (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 to find and shoot victims) and yet nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be occurring to address this blight on blacks and minorities which is what racism from a black mayor really looks like.
    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, including a poem in honor of Vietnam Veterans Day http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/11/tribute-to-marines-at-khe-sanh-on-this.html,  a music link to the Temptations, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from Zack Wamp, while bemoaning the fact that bi-partisanship has flatlined in the Swamp, 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 Mom and Pop Business Owners Day—celebrating the backbone of our economy and the driver of job creation, small business, and the dedication of small business owners to their employees and their community. Celebrate the day by shopping at a small business.
2.  Vietnam Veterans Day—honoring the service of the almost four million veterans who served in the Vietnam War, especially the 58,164 whose names are etched on the Wall.
3. 1971 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1971 on a run of 2 weeks in that position “Just My Imagination” by the Temptations.  Here is a recording of the band performing the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Z9-QCmZyw
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “flatline” which means to die and which perfectly describes what has happened to compromise and bi-partisanship in the Swamp.
5. Pedal to the Metal—celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of Eric Idle, noted British actor, comedian and co-creator of Monty Python and the Flying Circus still going strong, idle and definitely in the words of an English knight on the bridge “I’m not dead yet,” as he gets slowly hacked to pieces.  
On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1806 construction began on the Great National Pike, the first federal highway better known as the Cumberland Road was authorized to run 620 miles from Cumberland, Maryland on the Potomac River to Vadalia, Illinois.
b. 1847 American forces led by General Winfield Scott took Veracruz after a siege 20 days.
c. 1867 Queen Victoria gave her Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1 of that year.  
d. 1961 the Twenty Third Amendment was ratified which allowed residents of the District of Columbia to vote in presidential elections.  
e. 2014 the first same sex marriages were performed in England and Wales.    
Reflections on the disgraceful conduct of anti war protestors demonstrating not only against Vietnam War but also against those in uniform coming back from their tour of duty: “Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. Zack Wamp, former Republican member of the House from Tennessee. The Ridley Corollary is that in addition to thoughts and prayers we must unlike our former feckless president support them with our wallets. 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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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Blue Sanctuary City Mayors Pack Your Toothbrushes

The law on what cities, counties or states must do when they receive detainer requests is pretty clear
They cannot release aliens in their custody before the agents of ICE appear
Garcetti, Di Blasio, Lee and Emanuel and 300 plus majors across this land with their policies on illegals are violating immigration laws
Thumbing their noses at ICE in pursuant of their misguided open and porous border cause
Anarchy from mayors and supervisors should be something that should give us all a serious pause
A course of conduct that law abiding citizens should condemn strongly and not support with applause
Failure to comply with detainer requests is a felony and it is the law that Sessions must enforce
Arresting a few mayors and sheriffs for failing to respond to detainers would end this anarchy at its source
Cutting back federal funding assuming it can be done by executive action is like throwing the baby out with the bath
A sledge hammer approach when a laser like approach on a few officials would be the better path
The resistance to ICE and its detainers would crumble like a house of cards
We could build the wall, secure the border deport the criminals and focus on drugs and new illegals being from entry barred
Then a rational discussion of how to assimilate and who and how many migrants we need to our growth and prosperity safeguard
No path to citizenship for the illegals who crossed our border
Illegally in search of a better life but still in defiance of the rule of law and order
But now with the ability to work without fear of immigration sweeps
Coupled with stronger enforcement of voter fraud laws to the integrity of our elections keep
All starts with a secure border and illegal immigration slowed to a minute drip
Then and only then can you determine what we need in immigration reform to break another gridlock grip
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March 28, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Weed Appreciation Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 28, 2017  Chuck Schumer made the news in a way that most of us would regret, interfering with a couple’s quiet dinner in a trendy restaurant because the wife had voted for Trump, forcing them to leave and not content following them out into the sidewalk to continue his meltdown rants (what a total asshole; too bad the husband did not deck this pompous swamp creature) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/27/schumer-goes-off-on-trump-supporter-at-nyc-restaurant-witness-says.html); Sessions has thrown down the gauntlet against sanctuary cities that cuts in federal funding to them may be on the horizon as a result of such policies (unfortunately the knee jerk reaction of failed mayors like Emanuel and Di Blasio is vow to fight instead of doing what most Americans would want which is to honor detainer requests of illegals who have been jailed and are about to be released); lawyers for the two illegals arrested in Rockville, Maryland for the rape of a 14 year old are claiming she texted one of them that she wanted to have sex (typical ploy blame it on the victim); in a  like father like son moment the father of one of the perpetrators was arrested for being in this country illegally; a House seat in Montana and one in Georgia will be up for election shortly to fill vacancies created by Trump appointments (could be a harbinger of how we are viewing Trump’s early days in office and the effect of the botched attempts by the Reds to repeal Obamacare); talk about a real war on women especially Muslim women, the Center for Disease Control estimated that 500,000 young women have suffered or are at risk to suffer female genital mutilation in this country, a barbaric practice that will only increase as more and more refugees from the Middle East are located here (what is mind boggling is that at the state level only 24 states outlaw the practice but 26  do not); as expected the Huskies thwacked the Quacks and join Stanford, South Carolina and Mississippi in the Women’s Final Four—Go Stanford; almost like a stuck record or a remake of Groundhog Day, Chicago style,  the carnage in Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through March 27 increasing to 707 but the death toll remains stuck at 123 (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 to find and shoot victims) and yet nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be occurring to address this blight on blacks and minorities which is what racism from a black mayor really looks like.
    As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Simon and Garfunkel, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote from will.i.am, while thankful that today if you work out in the gym to forestall Type II that you have remembered to pack some empasm in your gym bag, 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.  Weed Appreciation Day—celebrating not pot which is becoming legalized in more and more states but those weeds like dandelions, chicory or blackberries that are useful to humans as opposed to weeds that one has to continue to pull out to preserve one’s garden. Yesterday’s word of the day deracinate would have described the process.
2.  American Diabetes Association Alert Day—created by the American Diabetes Association to promote awareness of the growing tide of Type II Diabetes and steps to avoid the disease. Here is a link to determine your risk factors:   http://www.diabetes.org/are-you-at-risk/alert-day/?referrer=https://www.google.com/     
3. 1970 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1970 on a run of 6 weeks in that position “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkel.  Here is a recording of the duo performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNgn4r6SOA
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “empasm” which is a perfumed powder sprinkled on one’s body to mask the odor of sweat.
5. Cowboys Rule—celebrating the birth on this day in 1986 of Stefani Germanotta but known to her fans as Lady Gaga, one very precocious artist and song writer who learned to play the piano at age four and was singing in New York City nightclubs at the age of 14. Was the featured act for Super Bowl L and LI halftime shows but like so many artists she is definitely not one of the “deplorables” who supported Trump. If you want to impress her on a first date ride up to her residence on a horse wearing a cowboy hat and denims and she loves men that are cowboys.  
On this day in:                                                                                   
a. 1910 Henri Fabre became the first person to takeoff in a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, taking off from a water runway at Martigues, France and to his delight returning safely to land in the water.
b. 1933 Imperial Airlines City of Liverpool on a flight from London to Brussels had the misfortune to become the first plane destroyed by sabotage when one of the passengers or crew started a fire on board the aircraft while it was still enroute. The likely suspect was seen jumping to his death without a parachute just before the plane crashed into the ground killing all on board.
c. 1969 poet and Nobel Laureate Giorgio Seferis went on the BBC to broadcast his opposition to the military junta ruling Greece.
d. 1978 SCOTUS in Stump v Sparkman held that a judge who approved the sterilization of a 15 year old minor without her knowledge and with any examination of the facts behind the mother’s sterilization petition and without counsel appointed for the minor was immune from a suit by the minor when she discovered after marriage that she had been sterilized had judicial immunity from litigation.  Really a bad decision that left a young woman with no recourse
e. 1979 in a someone up there must be watching over us moment the Unit 2 of a nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island suffered a loss of coolant and a partial melt down of its core but fortunately no radiation was released and no workers or residents of the surrounding communities were injured or killed.     
At least two or three out of five are within our own lifestyle control and all are if we start electing officials who cut government spending and taxes and reduce or eliminate job killing regulations:There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.” will.i.am, noted Hip Hop artist.
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