Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For June 25, 2017
Senator Sanders and his wife have hired legal counsel as new reports surface
that she fudged donor levels at Burlington College where she was president and
Senator Sander’s office put improper pressure on People’s United Bank to loan
the college $10 million to buy 33 acres of land; high drama over the weekend on
Obamacare repeal and replacement as 5 Reds are not backing the bill as it
stands (art of the deal master really needs to meet with the Reds and the rarest
of all senators a few moderate Blues and get a deal crafted); on the saber
rattling front, the Russians have warned the U.S. they will target U.S. planes
if they cross the Euphrates River into Syria; the Blues having been totally
scorched with the Russian collusion fiasco are bracing for a second shoe to
drop—the obstruction of justice is not with Trump but rather with Loretta Lynch’s clear messages to Comey make it a
probe not a criminal investigation and her failed secret meeting with Bill
Clinton on the tarmac (anyone who believed that HRC would have been indicted
and thereby destroyed Obama’s chance to preserve his legacy is someone who
believes in the trinity of myth—tooth fairy, Easter Bunny and the leprechaun
with a pot of gold); gay pride marches in cities across the land occurred on
this day; Rahm Emanuel’s top priority for Chicago remains making it the
premier sanctuary city in the country as the carnage continues unabated in June
with total shootings in 2017 through June 24 increasing to 1691 with the death
toll increasing to 294, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem
to completely ignore except for those fortunate enough to own a mortuary or an
emergency care center.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to the Association
and Carly Simon, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping that you incede
to your goals, a relevant quote from Charles Rangel on diplomacy, secure in the knowledge
that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like 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 Catfish Day—proclaimed
by President Reagan in 1987 to promote consumption of this unique American fish
which is the third ranked fish consumed in terms of pounds and from a
sustainability goal, 99 percent of which is farm raised.
2. World
Vitilgo Day—an observance in the making to create awareness of a condition
causing a person to lose his or her pigmentation on parts of that person’s body
with the date of June 25 chosen as it is the day in 2009 that one of the most
famous sufferers of the condition Michael Jackson died.
3. 1967 Number One Song—the number one song in
1967 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Windy” by the Association.
Here is a performance by the band of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsY8l0Jg3lY
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “incede” which means to advance
majestically which is something Hillary wanted to do all the way to the White
House but failed due to her unlikeability.
5. Sing
a Song of Vanity—celebrating the birth on this day in 1945 of noted singer Carly
Simon who is best known for her hit song “You’re So Vain” linked forever to the
total eclipse of the Sun on March 7, 1970 witnessed by this poet in New Haven,
Connecticut without the need for a Lear Jet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
On this day
in:
a. 1876 in a bad day for
the 7th Cavalry, Custer and his men were wiped out to a man by the
Sioux led by Crazy Horse at the Little Big Horn River in Montana.
b. 1910 in a let the
good times no longer roll Congress passed the Mann Act which prohibited the transportation
of females across state lines for immoral purposes; the ambiguous language was
used for decades to selectively prosecute politically undesirables.
c. 1950 North Korea
invaded South Korea (67 years later the world is still plagued with a third
generation fanatical thug starving his people to pursue nuclear weapons).
d. 1978 the rainbow flag
representing gay pride was flown for the first time at a San Francisco Gay
Pride Day Parade.
e. 1998 SCOTUS in the
case of Clinton v. City of New York ruled that the Line Item Veto Act of
1996 was unconstitutional, removing a really effective tool to reign in runaway
government spending that is killing our future generations with unsustainable
debt levels.
Reflections on a course of action with respect to North Korea we may
not be able to follow as the sands run out: “As a Korean War
Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always
support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.” Charles B. Rangel,
former long term Blue Congressman from Harlem. Sadly with respect to Kim Jong
Un diplomacy unless China steps up to the plate and closes its borders and
joins the U.S. in a blockade of North Korean ports and issues an ultimatum that
this lunatic and all members of his family are deposed, diplomacy will not work
and we will be forced to exercise a military option to terminate his autocratic
and ruthless rule. 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
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© June 25, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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