Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 27, 2018 Steve Wynn has
just resigned as finance chair for the RNC; like spoiled brats who were not
picked to join a pickup game, a growing number
of Democrats are announcing their plans to boycott Trump’s first SOTU speech
while other misguided idiots at the Lincoln Memorial are protesting the tax
cuts while American Family Insurance became the latest company to join the tax
cut bonus parade announcing that its 11,000 employees would receive a $1000 bonus;
CNN has just earned a new acronym to supplement its Cack “News” Network—Cuckold
“News” Network for its idiocy in promoting cuckolding (major problem in the
black community is the absence of fathers either because they are in jail, if in
Chicago dead, or MIA and CNN is promoting the humiliation of men by encouraging
wives to have sex in front of them—no wonder one of its “stars” is rightfully
named Lemon); Clinton is back in the news again looking very old and irrelevant
and hit by allegations she ignored during her pathetic 2008 campaign allegations
of sexual harassment by a senior adviser to her against one of her young
campaign workers (the H in HRC stands, as it always has, for hypocrite); on the
school shooting front the gruesome totals at Marshal County High School are two
dead and 14 shot and wounded (Preston Cope the father of Brian Cope who died
while en route to the hospital rushed to the school and recognized his socks on
a stretcher and was able to tell him he loved him one last time (Red and Blue
reaction unlike other school shootings was to introduce legislation in Kentucky
to have armed guards at all schools to protect students); on the sports front
advertisers are crossing their fingers that Trump does not tweet his opposition
to any player not standing for the national anthem during the Super Bowl and
Bob Costa is in hot water with NBC for the observation that football destroys
brains (unfortunately repeated concussions arising out of collisions of big
athletes running at full speed do exactly just that); in Chicago through
January 26, 2018 178 people have been shot of whom 30 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to Men at Work, factoids of interest for this day in
history, learning another meaning for lighter and a relevant quote by Anna Reid
on the 872 day siege of Leningrad during World War II, 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. Auschwitz Libration Day—commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on
this day in 1945; but sadly such liberation did not come soon enough for the
1,082,000 (1/6th
of the total Holocaust
victims) Jews, Poles, Romanis, Soviet POWs and other nationalities that were
gassed before the Red Army arrived.
2. Vietnam Peace Day—commemorating the cease fire resulting from the Paris Peace
Accords that began at midnight on this day in 1973 which enabled the U.S. to
withdraw its troops from South Vietnam and cease hostilities and end the nightmare
that was ripping the country apart.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lighter” which has nothing to do a
device to light a cigarette but rather is an open boat used to load or unload a
ship which typically is moored offshore or has cargo that needs to be further
transported over shallower water.
5. In The Genes--celebrating the birth on this day in 1964 of Bridgett Fonda, granddaughter
of Henry Fonda, daughter of Peter Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda who first
appeared on the screen in Easy Rider
playing a five year old child in a commune and went on to become an
accomplished actress who retired from the business after suffering a broken vertebra
following a severe automobile accident.
On this day in:
a. 1944 the Soviet Red Army after 872 days lifted the siege of
Leningrad, the longest siege in history and the most costly in terms of
military and civilian casualties (over a million Soviet civilians died from
bombs, shells and starvation.
b. 1967 astronauts Gus Grissom (infamous for having his Mercury
7 Capsule hatch open prematurely after splashdown in the ocean to be sunk), Ed
White, and Roger Chafee are burnt to death during a test of their Apollo 1
Spacecraft while on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.
c. 1980 with Canadian assistance a fake film crew was formed in
Tehran consisting of 6 American diplomats that had escaped capture when the
American Embassy was seized, 1 Irishman and 1 Latin American were spirited out
of Iran on a Swiss Air flight; the effort was memorialized by 2012 film Argo.
d. 2000 Bill Belichick was hired as the head coach of the New
England Patriots and will be trying to add to his record of 5 Super Bowls wins
as a head coach next Sunday.
e. 2002 the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library
of Congress announced the first 50 selections for the National Recording Registry.
Reflections on the
effect of the siege of Leningrad through the eyes of a 12 yeaar old child. “One
of the most oft-quoted records of the siege, scribbled in pencil over the pages
of a pocket address book, is that kept by twelve-year-old Tanya Savicheva:
‘28 December 1941 at 12.30 a.m. – Zhenya died. 25 January 1942 at 3 p.m. –
Granny died. 17 March at 5 a.m. – Lyoka died. 13 April at 2 a.m. – Uncle Vasya
died. 10 May at 4 p.m. – Uncle Lyosha died. 13 May at 7.30 a.m. – Mama died.
The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left.’” Anna Reid Leningrad, The Epic Siege of World War II
1941-1944
Unfortunately,
although she was one of 140 children rescued from Lenigrad, her story does not
end happily as she ended up dying from intestinal tuberculosis in a hospital on
July 1, 1944. Please enjoy the poems on
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