March 31, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Backup Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 31, 2018  Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 31, 2018  On the sports front the Cinderella team for the Dance was ousted by Michigan who will await the winner of Villanova Kansas game;more protests in Sacramento over what seems to be an excessive and unwarranted use of force by two cops, one black, one white killing Stepfon Clark who was shot 20 times for showing his hands with a cell phone in one hand (so far peaceful but already a pathologist hired by the family released an autopsy conflicting the account of the police); the Cold War is getting hotter as we inch closer in Syria to having Russians shooting at U.S. forces and vice versa which is yet another reason to have Assad eliminated; Johnetta Benton, a sixth grade teacher from the same school that brought you a teacher compelling students to write letters to Congress demanding stricter gun control, was caught on a phone video making a 15 minute rant attacking whites and Trump for his slogan make America Great Again (ignoring the devastating effects of the Obama no growth economy on black and minority communities); the lobbying firm known as the Washington Post and Amazon were in Trump’s crosshairs for fake news and fleecing the Post Office of billions in bogus billings and states in billions of lost tax revenue; Moonbeam Brown was castigated in his attempt to protect 5 violent illegal aliens from deportation by pardoning them; some sanity in the otherwise leftist leaning judicial system, as a federal judge has refused to fast track the Stormy Daniels case against Trump and will not expedite depositions of Trump; in Chicago through March 30, 2018, 523 people have been shot, of whom 93 have died.

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Peggy Lee; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your heirs will not be burdened with a lot of personal property to dispose of to hold a lythcoop and a relevant quote by James R. Jones on why LBJ chose not to run again,  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. World Backup Day—celebrating the cyber equivalent of the old adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” of a daily backup in the cloud or on hard disk prevents  terrabytes of digital misery. Don’t be a fool tomorrow; back up today.

2. Cesar Chavez Day—celebrating the contributions of labor activist and organizer, Cesar Chavez, to promote wages and safety conditions for farm workers. Declared by President Obama to be a federal holiday in 2014.

3. 1948 Number One Song— the number one song in 1948 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Manana (Is Good Enough To Me)” by Peggy Lee.  Here is a recording of the song:  

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lythcoop” which is an auction of household goods which after quarreling among the heirs as to what they would want to keep is the next step followed by donation to charities.

5. The Little Man Big Footprint—celebrating or bemoaning the birth on this day in 1948 Al Gore former vice president of the United States but fortunately for us a loser to Bush in 2000 and now an environmental activist always hectoring us mere mortals to add less carbon to the environment while he jets around in his private jets.

         On this day in: 

a. 1931 a Fokker III wooden trimotor operated by Transcontinental and Western Air lost a wing in flight and crashed at Bazaar, Kansas, killing all 8 aboard including Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne creating a firestorm of outrage that led to the rapid phasing out of wooden frame planes to be replaced by all metal frames and the abandonment of the practice of withholding data on air crashes from the public.

b. 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps was established to fight rising unemployment sweeping the nation during the Great Depression.

c. 1959 the 14th Dalai Lama fled from Tibet into India to seek asylum. 

d. 1968 after addressing the American public on how to limit the Vietnam War, President Johnson dropped a bombshell that he would not run for reelection nor accept his party’s nomination.

e. 1992 in an end of an era moment the USS Missouri, the last active American battleship was decommissioned to ultimately become a floating museum at Pearl Harbor.

Reflections on Johnson’s electing not to run for reelection. “And he kept coming back to Vietnam - a blot on his Administration he wanted to remove. As an active candidate, he reasoned, he might miss or postpone an opportunity to achieve peace. ‘What if we're late in the campaign and I have to make a decision that might result in a peace settlement but will be politically risky,’ one night in March. ‘'I want my hands free to do what's necessary to end this thing.’ he mused.” James R. Jones, President Lyndon Johnson’s Chief of Staff. 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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March 30, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Good Friday

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 30, 2018  On the Good Friday front pubs in Ireland will be able to sell their pints, breaking a century of no sales of alcohol; on the Walter Mitty front an accountant, Scott Foster, who is also a recreational goalie had to suit up and play the final 14 minutes as goalie for the Chicago Blackhawks who lost their goalies during the game and block 7 shots to preserve the Blackhawks’ win; new data from watch dog groups indicate that while our life expectancy is decreasing but in the case of people receiving government benefit checks ramping up into the billions as death does not seem to terminate checks due to total incompetence by such agencies as Social Security; Russia has performed a second test of its Satan ICBM with range to hit a target anywhere in the world and purportedly immune from being shot down by a missile (just what we don’t need is another arms race especially burdened with a huge national debt thanks to Obama and Bush’s war in Iraq); on the gun control front, some sanity as the feds moved quickly to yank Sanliang Sun’s F-1 Visa after he purchased a sniper  rifle, dyed his hair and stopped going to classes and University of Central Florida due to their concern that he was about to commit a mass murder and on the gun control and PC insanity front a seventh grade teacher in Georgia assigned his students an assignment to write members of Congress demanding stricter gun laws (writing Congress is a good experience, being forced to take a particular position favored by a teacher should merit dismissal); despite growing clamor from Reds that Sessions appoint a special counsel to investigate FISA abuses by the Obama Administration and the sham handling by the DOJ and FBI of HRC’s private email server, Sessions has  declined and announced a career Assistant Attorney General in Utah will lead an investigation (anyone who believes that the DOJ can investigate itself when Rosenstein’s fingerprints are all over the FISA abuses must believe in the tooth fairy); Jeff Zucker the head of the Cack “News” Network and when it comes to any shred of objectivity is a total f**ker has approved a deal to license the CNN name to CNN Turk which is owned by a rabid pro Erdogan group (in an unstable Middle East we do not need another Islamist dictator becoming increasing anti-American); Stephon Clark, the unarmed black father shot 20 times almost instantly after he complied with theirHa order to show his hands by two Sacramento police officers, one black and one white, was buried yesterday amidst peaceful protests which given Al Sharpton’s presence was a great relief to the community (pedal to the metal on the investigation by the D.A.’s office and Internal Affairs to see whether criminal charges should be filed in addition to the wrongful death suit that most certainly will);  in Chicago, a city on this Easter Weekend that is probably praying that it will be peaceful, through March 29, 2018, 519 people have been shot, of whom 93 have died but in what has to be a miracle from March 26-28 no one died after being shot.

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Ted Weems and His Orchestra; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that if you have the flu it is lyterian, a relevant quote by Elon Musk on the one year anniversary of a Falcon 9 reflight and today’s Falcon 9 successful launch of 10 satellites on colonizing Mars in 2024,  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. Good Friday—commemorating the crucifixion of Christ in a world where Christians are under increasing attack and assault.

2. National Doctors Day—celebrating the contributions of doctors to the health of this nation with this day chosen as it marks the anniversary of the first use of ether in surgery by Doctor Crawford Long on this day in 1842 in Jefferson, Georgia to remove a tumor from the neck of James Venable.

3. 1947 Number One Song— the number one song in 1947 on a run of 12 weeks in that position was “Heartaches” by Ted Weems and His Orchestra.  Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxe5OmWSJcc

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lyterian” which is an ending of a disease which is a word on this National Doctors Day or any day a patient would want to hear from his doctor describing his or her disease.

5. Murder In Chicago Nothing New—celebrating the birth on this day in 1914 John Lee Curtis Williamson, a noted and influential black blues singer and harmonica player better known to his fans as Sonny Boy Williamson, but like so many blacks and minorities in Chicago today, he was shot and killed walking home from his performance in the Plantation Club on the Southside of Chicago one and a half blocks from his home in a robbery attempt.

         On this day in: 

a. 1867 the U.S., in one of its best real estate deals, purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cents and acre.

b. 1939 the Heinkel 100 fighter set a world speed record of 463 mph but in a move that Hitler, Goering and the Luftwaffe would later rue big time, the plane was never put into production to sweep the skies of P-51 Mustangs that were 23 mph slower.

c. 1961 the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs prohibiting the production of narcotic drugs and drugs with similar effects except under license for specific purposes such as research or medical treatment was signed in New York City (unfortunately as the deaths in the U.S. skyrocket, the Convention has done little to prevent the massive quantities of opioids coming into this nation through our porous border).

d. 1981 in his famous “Honey, I forgot to duck moment,” President Ronald was near fatally shot by John Hinkley, Jr. outside a Washington, D.C. hotel (found not guilty by reason of insanity, Hinkley was finally released from institutional psychiatric care in 2016 but remains subject to a very short quasi probation leash).

e. 2017 SpaceX launched the first  successful reflight of a Falcon 9 rocket (celebrated the anniversary today with another reflight launch of a rocket with 10 satellites aboard).

Reflections on why it is a good idea to watch your diet, exercise, avoid all tobacco and moderate your drinking to be around here in 2024:” “In 2024 we want to try to fly four ships [to Mars]. Two cargo and two crew. The goal of these initial missions is to find the best source of water, that's for the first mission, and then the second mission, the goal is to build the propellant plant. So we should, particular with six ships there, have plenty of landed mass to construct the propellant depot, which will consist of a large array of solar panels, a very large array, and then everything necessary to mine and refine water, and then draw the CO2 out of the atmosphere, and then create and store deep-cryo CH4 and O2.” Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla 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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March 29,2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Vietnam War Veterans Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 29, 2018  On the war on MS-13 front the feds have just arrested 4 gang members in Las Vegas who have been charged with 12 murders in the area (each day the wall is not built, more ICE agents not added and unaccompanied minors a hot bed recruitment pool, the more we are at mortal risk, risk that well protected and misguided leftists like Becerra in California are immune to); another
Charles Manson déjà vu or another example of how degenerated our society has become but it seems the Nicolas Cruz is being inundated with proposals by female teens (probably more attention than he ever received when a student in high school); nothing like a bitter divorce and old age to bring out the worse in a Swamp denizen, former 80 year old Red Senator D’Amato secretly recorded by his estranged wife who was recovering from neck surgery in a hospital over who should sign up their 10 year old son for Little League http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/29/al-damatos-estranged-wife-records-ex-senators-profanity-laden-outburst-in-hospital.html; trying to prove the adage that members of Congress are clowns, Blue Sanders and Obama supporter and former professional clown Steven Lough has thrown his red nose into the ring and is running for Congress; newly released text messages involving Strzok and Page clearly indicate collusion between the DOJ, FBI, members of the Obama Administration and top Democrats in instigating the phony Russian collusion used to appoint what is looking more and more like a special witch-hunter Robert Mueller;  within hours the funeral for Stephon Clark will be held in Sacramento as that town braces for violence after firebrand Al Sharpton delivers the eulogy (do not want to rush to judgment but 20 shots fired almost immediately by two police officers, one white and one black, after Clark complied and showed his hands one of which contained only a cell seems an unreasonable use of deadly force); in Chicago through March 28, 2018, 514 people have been shot, of whom 91 have died.

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Frankie Carle and His Orchestra; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you have not booked a flight to Fairbanks if you are lygophobic and a relevant quote by Graylon Carter on the Vietnam War,  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. National Vietnam War Veterans Day—celebrating the exit of the last American troops from South Vietnam on this day in 1993 to finally end a nightmare that never should never have occurred.

2. Smoke and Mirrors Day—celebrating the use of a hidden projector to create the illusion of something being there that isn’t, first described in 1770 by Johann Georg Schrepfer and now routinely used to describe the deception foisted on us mere mortals living outside the Swamp by politicians and bureaucrats.

3. 1946 Number One Song— the number one song in 1946 on a run of 6 weeks in that position was “Oh! What It Seemed To Be” by Frankie Carle and His Orchestra.  Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G4kT6HK6oI

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lygophobia” which is a  fear of darkness and a good reason not to live north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska where during the winter it sets and is not seen again for almost 90 days.

5. The Secret Service Always gets Their Lady—celebrating the birth on this day in 1964 of former Nevada Attorney General who has never served in the private sector, Catherine Masto, who met her husband who was a Secret Service Agent planning a President Clinton trip to Nevada and with Reid’s endorsement won a seat in the Senate in 2016.

         On this day in: 

a. 1974 the Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi Province, China.

b. 1984 during the early morning hours, the Baltimore secretly loaded their equipment into 15 Mayflower moving trucks and sneaked out of the city to Indianapolis.

c. 1999 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 (10,006.78) for the first time in its history.

d. 2010 two female jihadist suicide bombers detonated their suicide belts in the Moscow Metro Subway, killing 40 and wounding some 100.

e. 2017 the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treat of the European Union to commence Brexit.

Reflections on the Vietnam War:” Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.” Graydon Carter, noted Canadian journalist and former editor of Vanity Fair for 25 years. 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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L.A. Curate

Ever since humans came down from the trees and walked into caves to get out of the rain

We humans have had a need for art to be woven into our brains

To rise above the reptilian fight or flee parts

To seek the escape to higher pleasure afforded by art

A need to paint on cave walls images of our great hunting skills

Larger than life portraits of our many kills

Or examples of conquered subjects bowing to our will

Images and art to warm the cold cave chills

Like 2001 we have evolved to a myriad of media of art still

Canvass, clay, paper, ceramic, sculpture—the endless list to our artistic side thrill

A never ending harvest, a bounty of art throughout L.A.

To emote, to soothe, to wonder, to for a moment the rat race slay

So many galleries and artists in the haystacks to try to find

With so little free time our art lover is almost blind

There is an answer, there is another way

To find the art needle in a crowded traffic clogged L.A.

Open up an app that bears the L.A. name

Like a moth hone in on the siren flickering artistic flame

No more aimless wandering burning gas for the empty pit of a blank wall to allay

So easy to home or office walls or shelves curate

L.A. Curate the best and only way to your art needs sate

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Attractive Lady On A Train

On a train heading for a meeting in Downtown L.A.

In Café Car across from an attractive lady

 with active phone facials to display

Too many humans view conversations with a poker face

Any emotions shut down, no hints of the cards in place

OMG’s in a steady stream

Issues with a plumbing broken seam?

Pipes with leaks a plague ever since Roman times

When will we nonplumbers view leaks through a ceiling as a crime

Too many of the bright

Go to college instead of making a seal tight

So much expression in her face moving air like a fork that tunes

So much energy--would like to meet her but we will be in L.A. too soon.

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March 27, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Whisk(e)y Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 27, 2018  On the 2^nd Amendment front, retired former SCOTUS Justice Stevens is advocating a repeal of the 2^nd Amendment which will make the criminals and politicians happy that they will not face an armed population of law abiding citizens; Zuckerberg in hot water for the release of personal data of some 50 million users as the FTC has acknowledged that the company is under investigation and Congress has made a formal request for him to appear before it (Facebook stock which reached a high of $195 a share in late January of this year has lost almost 25% of its value); Brett Bruen who was Obama’s director of global engagement from 2013 to 2015 told CNN that he was ignored by Obama’s National Security Council when he warned them that Russia had interfered with Ukraine’s election and would do the same thing with ours (typical of the fecklessness of Obama who in typical narcisstic fashion has been calling for a million young Obama’s to further human progress); Al Sharpton who will be giving the eulogy for Stephon Clark shot 20 times by two Sacramento police officers received news that his half brother had be arrested for capital murder in Alabama; the Orange County Sheriff has told Becerra and the leftist kooks that run Sacramento to take a hike as he will be releasing the names of inmates to be released and if they are illegals hopefully ICE will be waiting to deport them; on the illegal alien front twice deported scumbag Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian was arrested in Seaside, Oregon for the rape of a 14 year old girl but was dumb enough to show up for a hearing after he bailed out on the same day he was arrested and was snatched by ICE; in Chicago through March 26, 2018, 499 people have been shot, of whom 91 have died.

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Andrews Sisters; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you do not have the misfortune being a lychnobite and a relevant quote by W.C. Fields on whiskey and snakes,  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. World Theatre Day—created by the International Theatre Institute in 1961 to promote awareness of the importance of theaters in our culture.

2. International Whisk(e) Day—created by several whisk(e)y writers in 2009 at the Whiskey Festival in the Netherlands in honor of noted whisk(e)y taster and reviewer Michael Jackson and the qualities of Scotch, Japanese and Canadian whiskies and Irish and American whiskeys and to promote awareness of Parkinson’s Disease which claimed the life of Jackson.

3. 1945 Number One Song— the number one song in 1945 on a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Rum And Coca Cola” by the Andrews Sisters.  Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxL2uNr7bk

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lychnobite” which is a person whose circadian rhythm is fouled up because of working at night and sleeping during the day.

5. Take Me To The Movies—celebrating the birth on this day in 1963 of Quentin Tarantino, noted director and screenwriter, whose movies include Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol 2 and Inglorious Basterds.

         On this day in: 

a. 1964 the most powerful earthquake to hit North America, the Good Friday Earthquake, struck Southcentral, Alaska, killing 125 people and destroying large parts of Anchorage and leveling the town of  Valdez, the southern terminus of TAPS.

b. 1975 after years of litigation, construction on the Trans Alaska Pipeline System finally began.

c. 1998 in a boost to Bob Dole’s acting career, the FDA approved the use of Viagra for erectile dysfunction.

d. 1999 a F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bomber was shot down by a Serbian SAM, the first and only F-117 to be lost in combat.

e. 2016 a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at Gyusgab-e-lqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan, killing over 70 and wounding some 300, mostly Christians celebrating Easter.

Reflections on whiskey. ”Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.” W.C. Fields. 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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Cats of Copy Near the Swamp?

Whenever there is a mass shooting, bombing or other heinous crime

Police always fear the copycat killer seeking some fame in the spotlight time

Totally sick and brings into question why the killing or maiming someone wants to ape

A life without meaning, a life without power and sense of trapped and needing to escape?

Austin had been held hostage by a sociopath for several days

Bombs left to explode, bombs exploded by trip wire, feeding a need to maim and slay

The Austin bomber has not yet been buried and the cats of copy may be hissing

Packages containing explosives sent to three military bases another respect for human life dissing

All three were deemed suspicious and rendered safe

Lucky this time as the veneer of civilization is once again subject to chafe

Let’s pray this bomber or bombers now by a swarm of FBI being sought

Before any additional bombs go off is quickly caught

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Gloom and Doom From the Schume

Schumer and his lackeys continue the gridlock and obstructionist game

With zero ideas to put on the table, of their tactics they should be ashamed

Blocking ambassadorships left and right

Including an openly gay nominee that given their base should not merit a fight

But Schumer is so bent out of sorts that Trump won

Worse under his tax cut, a real revival of the economy has begun

You know something is wrong with the Blues

Still holding firm on their obstructionist views

When our ally Germany is complaining more and more

After four months Trump’s nominee to Germany by the Blues is being ignored

In typical Swamp fashion Tillerson was hammered for too many positions not met

While blocking and delaying appointees hoping their obstruction the voters would forget

The only question before McConnell should be not if but when

When does he invoke the nuclear option with simple majority to prevent filibuster on appointees from being used again and again

Red voters want it put in place sooner than later Mitch

Red voters are sick of the Blues throwing nation’s into the Swamp’s ditch

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Fowl Over Color In Sweet Sixteen

Sweet 16 At The Hub Kitchen & Tap

A Stanford recon patrol claiming TV seats at the Hub

Grabbing tables for Happy Hour for reduced prices for spirits and grum

On TV a classic March Madness to await

Will color or a fowl be the winning fate?

Fans trickling in on a Friday eve

Hoping their team an invite to the final four dance would receive

Sweet 16 used to be a be a girl’s into adulthood sweet stepping stone

Now a ticket to the Elite 8 or a sad depressed ticket back to a college home

March Madness is gripping this nation

Millions in productivity lost between total despair or true elation

Counting down the minutes for a C versus C conflict to begin

Hopping Tara and her band of hoop warriors would win

Cardinal against the Cardinal in the Cardinals’ back yard
A last chance for a championship for Senior Brittany McPhee
A whirlwind of motion on the court and a deadly drainer of threes 

Winner to go to the Elite 8 against the Beavers and a win there not hard

It will soon be tip off time and if the Cardinal wins

There victory will be forever heralded in rhyme

If perchance the ball does not bounce Stanford’s way

A poem on its loss will most likely into the unwritten shadows fade quickly away  

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Post poem PS: Sadly it was not Stanford's night; the Cardinal not only lost, it was crushed by Louisville and Asia Durr 86-59 probably making Tara rue the fact that the planned game the two teams were going to play was not due to scheduling times that would have forced Stanford players to miss classes.

March 26, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Purple Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 26, 2018  On the 2^nd Amendment front, Remington, the oldest firearm manufacturer in the U.S. has filed for Chapter 11 citing declining sales and the burden of the wrongful death suits filed against it by the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shootings; while the world faces major issues involving relations with Russia and growing tensions with it as the U.S. starts expelling Russian diplomats and closing the Russian consulate in Seattle, the MSM remains fixated on Stormy Daniels and the consensual sexual encounter she alleges to have occurred with Trump years ago; California being driven into the ground by Blue leftist taxes and regulations that have companies and middle class residents leaving in droves has been exposed as the magnet for the homeless and a plan to create a replacement tent city for the tents removed along the Santa Ana River to the Irvine Great Park has residents up in arms in protest (homelessness is a major problem in the once Golden State that is exacerbated by the job killing environment in the state and the high cost of housing); on the inane political ideas front, the Libertarian candidate for governor in Michigan is proposing to arm the homeless with shotguns to reduce crime (a quick survey of the homeless will reveal that many of them are mentally and emotionally challenged, prone to substance abuse and are exactly the type of people that even the most ardent 2^nd Amendment supporter would agree should have no access to firearms); in another example that Trump is serious about upgrading and rebuilding the military, Virginia Class attack submarines are being upgraded to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles with nuclear warheads; on the FBI discrediting front breaking news that the father of the Pulse Club shooter who killed 49 people was a former FBI informant (why did they not know of his son’s proclivities for violence?); in Chicago through March 24, 2018, 489 people have been shot, of whom 91 have died.

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you have escaped any luxations and a relevant quote by Abhijit Naskar on Joan of Arc and epilepsy,  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. Purple Day—promoting awareness of the difficulties and needs of people who have to deal with epilepsy; if you see someone wearing purple, good chance they are advocating for the needs of understanding epilepsy as opposed to the Reds and Blues coming together to end partisan gridlock that plagues the Swamp.

2. Legal Assistants Day—celebrating the excellent work done by paralegals to provide support for lawyers and lower the costs to clients. Not sure where the observance came from but suspect it originated from a client comparing the costs incurred by a paralegal as opposed to a high priced lawyer.

3. 1944 Number One Song— the number one song in 1944 on a run of 7 weeks in that position was “Besame Mucho” by Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra.  Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmTKkKeznzU

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “luxate” which means to dislocate a joint like a shoulder which too often happens when playing football.

5. Thousands of Pages Searched in Seconds—celebrating the birth on this day in 1973 of Larry Page who while at Stanford with Sergey Brin founded Google and is worth more than $48 billion.

         On this day in: 

a. 1351 in a classic example of how to wage war to minimize casualties, 30 French knights fought and defeated 30 English knights to see which country would rule Brittany; total dead 15 as opposed to clashing armies that would have left hundreds dead on the battlefield. b. 1967 10,000 people gathered for one of many be-ins in New York City’s Central Park.

c. 1982 ground breaking ceremonies were held for the Vietnam War Memorial.

d. 2005 some 300,000 Taiwanese protested in Taipei over the passage of the Anti-Secession Law which formalized China’s policy to use non peaceful means in the event of a declaration of independence by Taiwan.

e. 2017 anti corruption rallies occurred in 99 cities blaming Putin for the endemic corruption in Russia; sadly the corrupt Putin was “reelected” in recent elections.

Reflections on one of the effects of epilepsy: “Even though the world hails Joan of Arc as some sort of hero, which she undoubtedly was, what pains me the most is that her pathological condition ultimately led to her demise at the age of only nineteen.” 
Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost  A very plausible explanation for the auditory voices and visions she experienced that caused her to lead French forces against the English. 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.             

© March 26, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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March 25, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Medal of Honor Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 25, 2018  On the 2^nd Amendment front, hundreds of thousands across America participated in the March for Our Lives demonstrations (deju vu moments of  protests by Americans against the Vietnam War); on the sky is falling front the 19,000 pound Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 with which China lost contact in 2016 is expected to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and crash if it does not disintegrate somewhere in Western Europe next week; on the nonassimilation front Iraqi Abdulah Hishwami and his wife Hamdiyah Hishwami have been arrested for torturing their 16 year old daughter with hot oil, broomstick beatings and choking for refusing to accept an arranged marriage for which the parents were to receive $20,000 (the only silver lining in this sordid tale is that the teenager and her 5 very young siblings were placed in protective custody and the story may put dampers on the urging of the left to admit more unvetted refugees who will not assimilate into our culture); on the war against drugs front, a man was arrested in a White Castle restaurant in New Jersey making meth in soda bottle (very dangerous way to do it as it is prone to explode or burst into flames); on the storm front, the Daniels one not the meteorological one, Stormy Daniels, the porn star who has alleged a relationship with President Trump will be on 60 Minutes tonight; in Chicago through March 24, 2018, 482 people have been shot, of whom 91 have died.

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Harry James and his Orchestra; factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you can change channels when the airways are filled with lutaceous political ads and a relevant quote by Danica Patrick on how to be remembered,  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. National Medal of Honor Day—promoting this nation’s highest award for military valor established by the Navy on December 21, 1861 and the Army on July 12, 1862 and first awarded by the Army on this day in 1863. Of the 3,517 that have been awarded through October 2017, 621 have been awarded posthumously.

2. International Day of the Unborn Child—established by Pope John Paul II as “a positive option in favor of life and the spread of a culture for life to guarantee respect for human dignity in every situation.” Obviously not observed by the left as they blocked the defunding of the abortion factory aka Planned Parenthood.

3. 1943 Number One Song— the number one song in 1943 on a run of 13 weeks in that position was “I’ve Heard That Song Before” by Harry James and his Orchestra.  Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5S9iXmMek

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lutaceous” which means of, like or pertaining to mud which in the upcoming midterms you count on filling the political ads on TV.

5. Fast Woman, Sip Your Dreams—celebrating the birth on this day in 1982 of Danica Patrick, trail blazing female race car driver, Go Daddy model and aspiring vintner with her Somnium Vineyards.

         On this day in: 

a. 1965 thanks to federal court orders, Civil Rights marchers led by Martin Luther King, Jr. completed their 50 mile 4 day march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital at Montgomery.  b. 1969 during their honeymoon in Amsterdam, Yoko Ono and John Lennon commenced their Bed-in-for-Peace which lasted until March 31.

c. 1979 the first Space Shuttle, Columbia, was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to be readied for launch on April 12, 1981.

d. 1995 WikiWikiWeb the world’s first wiki was made public by Ward Cunningham.

e. 1996 the European Union bans the import of beef from Britain due to widespread mad cow disease among its cattle herds.

Reflections on leaving legacies:”I don't want to be remembered for the things that didn't go as well, I want to be remembered for the things that went well.” Danica Patrick Spot on but to leave a legacy of things that went well, one always needs to learn from the things that did not. 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.             

© March 25, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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Poet Extraordinaire Beyond Compare

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