Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 8, 2017 on the 117th anniversary of the hurricane that
hit Galveston, Texas and killed 12,000 people the time to get out of Dodge is just about up as Irma has a direct
line on Miami and southern Florida (if you know anyone there call and urge them
to leave now); the property management firm that manages Colony Part, West Palm
Beach wins the heartless idiocy award for refusing to allow renters from
boarding up windows and refusing to put up shutters (hope the tenants who will
lose their personal property when the windows are blown out sue these idiots
for every last dime); Hillary has been caught on tape in an interview with the
Clinton News Network in 2014 urging that illegal alien minors should be sent back
to the countries they came from while advocating today that the “Dreamers”
whose parents have avoided deportation should be allowed to stay which is why
the Blues if they want the Dreamers to stay have to support the Wall and such
other measures as may be needed such that illegal immigration for all intent
and purposes is ended; shades of the abuse of power by J. Edgar Hoover that may
have been aped by the former false poster child of integrity James Comey as the
FBI has been subpoenaed by the House for documents pertaining to the false Trump
dossier (Comey’s good buddy Meuller continues to investigate the wrong people
and is ignoring the real threat to our democracy—the unmasking by Obama lackeys
of Trump supporters) (Lois Lerner’s intimidation of conservative groups deju
vu, Lynch’s obstruction of justice and Comey’s sham “investigation” of
Hillary); just when you thought that the leftist celebrities could not top prior
pathetic and idiotic anti-Trump rhetoric, British actress Jennifer Lawrence in
promoting her new film that the deplorables should boycott in all sincerity is
claiming the last two hurricanes, Harvey and Irma, are Mother Nature’s
punishment for our electing Trump (what a lunatic idea); Equifax after a data
breach affecting 143 million customers is facing a class action law suit that
will be the largest in our litigation prone country and one wonders in the executives
who sold stock prior to the disclosure of the breach will be prosecuted for
trading on inside information; through
September 7, 2017 in Chicago the number of people being shot climbed to 2616,
and the death toll again on the rise to 448.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, a music link to the Weaver, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a relevant quote on illiteracy by Maya Angelou, hoping your salads are
topped in a juglandaceous manner, 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 Literacy Day—created
by UNESCO on November 17, 1965 to promote and encourage programs to create
literacy among the estimated 775 million people who are illiterate in this
world.
2. World Physical Therapy Day—created
by the World Physical Therapy to create awareness of the contribution of physical
therapists to our daily lives especially those who experience injury or the
wear and tear of aging.
3. 1950 Number One Song— the number one song in
1950 on a long run of 13 weeks in that position was “Good Night Irene” by The
Weavers with Gordon Jenkins. Here is a performance by the group of the song in
lovely black and white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSDyiUBrUSk
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “juglandaceous”
which means of or pertaining to those heart healthy walnuts we see advertised
on TV.
5. Stangelove Weak Heart—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1925 British comic actor Peter Sellers who made us laugh but abused
his body with heavy drinking and smoking but without having the nine lives of a
pink panther to die of a heart attack at the age of 54.
On
this day in:
a.
1892 the Pledge of Allegiance was recited for the first time.
b.
1914 British private Thomas Highgate had the dubious distinction of being the
first British soldier to be executed for desertion during World War I.
c.
1930 to the joy of gift wrappers everywhere, 3M began marketing its Scotch
transparent tape.
d.
1944 in a chilling reminder of the vulnerability to attack by rockets, the city
of London was hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time which unlike the slower
V-1 was impossible to shoot down.
e. 1974 in a move that probably cost him the election against
Jimmy Carter in 1976 but was critical to unite the country, President Ford
pardoned former President Nixon who had resigned to avoid impeachment.
Reflections illiteracy:
“Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the
abolition of slavery.” Maya Angelou, noted American poet. Absolutely spot on on
this; anyone who cannot read is unemployable, mired in ignorance and isolated
from many aspects of a functioning social order based on literacy.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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8, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the
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