Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For September 2, 2017 Trump
and Melania are visiting Houston and Louisiana to meet with flood victims,
first responders and the Cajun Navy and see first hand the devastation caused
by Harvey and hopefully will be spared the idiotic comments by the MSM over Melania’s
stilettos or Trump’s lack of compassion; on the good news front, Florence a
large human extermination type asteroid 2.7 miles in diameter is passing safely
by our planet at a distance of 4.4 million miles; Houston and surrounding areas
devastated by Harvey are slowly digging themselves out as the death toll as
waters recede has climbed to 45 (not out of the woods yet as evacuations urged
for people living near dams that may fail); if anyone believes in the power of
prayer now would be a could time to start flexing one’s prayer muscles as
Hurricane Irma now a Cat 3 and projected to grow to Cat 5 is headed toward us
and if it does not swing north toward Bermuda and instead hits Florida, the
East Coast or God forbid enters the Gulf of Mexico and makes landfall in Texas
we will be in a world of hurt; on the PC front Liganore High School in
Fredrick, Maryland has banned students from wearing feathered headdresses at its
athletic events and the private Green Acres School in North Bethesda, Maryland
has instructed parents not to allow their kids to wear Washington Redskins’
gear to school; George Clooney, an avid supporter of HRC’s campaign is out with
a new movie he has directed Suburbicon which
would be a perfect movie for deplorables to boycott (enough of lining the Hollywood
leftist’s pocket books with our hard earned dollars while conservative performers
are for all intent and purposes boycotted by producers and directors); the UN
has finally gotten its act together by issuing a blistering report on Maduro’s
human rights abuses in Venezuela (one hopes that the refineries that have shut
down due to Harvey are the ones that refine oil from that failed state); through
September 1, 2017 in Chicago the number of people being shot climbed to 2558, and
the death toll again on the rise to 439.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Bing
Crosby, factoids of interest for this day in history, a relevant quote by Mark
Harmon on effort, hoping that Congress acts in a jiffy on the Trump agenda and
Harvey recovery funding as opposed to gridlock, 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. Victory Over Japan Day—celebrating
the signing of the formal surrender documents by the Allies and the Empire of
Japan on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
on this day in 1945.
2. Franchise Appreciation
Day—celebrating that form of business relationship that enables a
franchisor to rapidly expand the number of outlets selling his trademarked
goods or services without the expenditure of large amounts of capital until the
income from the franchisees and the sales of franchisees enables the company to
expand the number of franchisor owned outlets.
3. 1944
Number One Song— the number one song in 1944 on a run of 9 weeks in
that position was “Swinging on a Star” by Bing Crosby. Here is a performance of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDs067081E
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “jiffy” which means a unit of time equal
to 1/100 of a second or any small amount of time; when it comes to getting needed
legislation passed jiffy is a concept totally alien to the Congress especially
the Senate.
5. One
Good Reason to Have a Sister—celebrating the birth on this day in
1951 of Mark Harmon noted TV actor who got a break to appear on TV since his
sister Kristin was dating Ricky Nelson but ignoring the adage that you don’t
bite the hand that feeds you, Harmon got involved in a bitter custody case over
Kristin’s youngest son Sam due to her rehab over drug use which he dropped
after she raised allegations that Harmon’s wife Pam Dawber was using cocaine.
On this
day in:
a. 1666
the Great Fire of London broke out and raged for three days, destroying 10,000
buildings in the process.
b. 1870
Prussian forces at Sedan, France decisively defeated the French and captured
Napoleon III and 104,000 of his troops, effectively winning the Franco-Prussian
War.
c. 1901
Vice President Teddy Roosevelt at the Minnesota State Fair uttered one of his
famous lines, “Speak softly but carry a big stick.” Sadly under Obama we
endured, “Speak loudly but carry no or a very small stick which I am afraid to
use.”
d. 1946
the Interim Government of India charged with the transition of India and Pakistan
to independence from British rule on August 15, 1947 was formed with Nehru as
Vice President with the powers of Premier.
e. 1987 the trial of
Mathias Rust charged with landing his private plane in Red Square on May 27, 1987
commenced; he was found guilty and sentenced to 4 years but released after
serving 14 months. His breach of the vaunted Soviet air defense system resulted
in the dismissal of several high ranking members of the Soviet military.
Reflections on how to succeed from the man celebrating his birthday
today: “I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look
in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave
it less, that would disgrace you.” Mark Harmon 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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2, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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