Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For June 28, 2017
The Senate’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare is on life support as
McConnell announced the vote will be delayed while the president is mounting a
full court press to convince Republicans to support it and pointing out the
obvious that Schumer has no interest whatsoever in negotiating and is only
interested in obstruction; Susan Rice who has zero credibility threw out the
race and gender card due to the outrage over her role in unmasking Trump
transition team officials and Trump supporters (probably did so knowing that
the Obama Presidential Library informed Judicial Watch that Susan Rice’s
documents pertaining to her role in unmasking will be sealed for five years—what
are they trying to hide?); the New York Times,
once a respected newspaper and now an anti-Trump advocacy rag like the Washington Post has been sued by Sarah
Palin for defamation by editorializing that she incited the shooting of Gabby
Gifford (Sullivan v. New York Times may need a revisit and this may be
the case for that visit given the growing perception that the press has become
totally immersed in advocacy and bias shielded by “unnamed sources?” as opposed
to objective reporting); on the PC front complaints that in the movie Dunkirk there are no actors of color
because the BEF was probably all white; on the real war on women front, papers
have been filed in Santa Clara to collect signatures to recall Judge Persky due
to his slap on the wrist six month sentence of Brook Turner for assaulting an unconscious
woman; 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 27 increasing by 18 to 1738 with the death
toll increasing by 4 to 305, 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, a music link to the
Jackson Five, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping that the
issues you face today are not implex ones, a relevant quote from Elon Musk, 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.
International Body Piercing Day—a
new observance to promote body piercing and honor the accomplishments of one of
the pioneers of the art, Jim Ward who was born on this day in 1941.
2. International
CAPS Lock Day—CREATED BY DEREK ARNOLD IN 2009 TO POKE FUN AT PEOPLE WHO HAVE
THE IRRITATING HABIT OF USING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS IN THEIR COMMUNICATIONS.
3. 1970 Number One Song—the number one song in
1970 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “The Love You Save” by the
Jackson Five. Here is a performance by the group segmented over the years of
the song: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=jackson+five+the+love#id=1&vid=0c72fbded1a1259cb18323a7275be4a2&action=click
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “implex” which describes health care
reform to a T—not simple, complicated, involved.
5. On
to Mars While We Still Have Time—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1971 of Elon Musk, multibillionaire who founded Tesla and SpaceX
and who will be a driving force in sending humans to Mars and better yet through
underground tunnels send them where they want to get far faster than they are
able to travel today on our traffic clogged streets.
On this day in:
a. 1902 Congress passed
the Spooner Act authorizing President Roosevelt to acquire from Columbia rights
in Panama to build the Panama Canal.
b. 1914 Austrian Archduke
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by Serbian nationalists
in Sarajevo which led to World War I which was ended five years to the day of
the assassination by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
c. 1950 despite blowing
the bridges over the Han River stranding the South Korean 5th
Division on the other side, Seoul was captured by North Korea and retreating
South Koreans started to execute some 100,000-200,000 communist sympathizers or
suspected sympathizers in what became known as the Bodo League Massacre.
d. 1969 following a raid
by police on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, rioting broke
out for two days; the riots known as the Stonewall Riots marked the beginning
of the Gay Pride Movement.
e. 2004 the U.S. led
coalition handed over civilian rule to the Iraqis.
Reflections on how to solve
environmental problems from the birthday boy that Obama’s EPA should have
listened to: “ “I'm very pro-environment, but let's figure
out how to do it better and not jump through a dozen hoops to achieve what is
obvious in the first place.” Elon Musk 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.
© June 28, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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