Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 9,2018 Walmart, the
world’s largest retailer announced it had agreed to purchase 77 % of India’s
Flipart for $20 billion to go head to head with Amazon in India; rattling of
sabers from the rogue theocrats in Iran as the country vows to increase
spending on its ballistic missile program after Trump announced pull out of
Iran Nuke deal and Israel put its military on full alert in the Golan Heights;
Gina Haspel will face a barrage of posturing sound bites on the Hill today
testifying before the Senate on her confirmation (despicable at this crucial
time in our history dealing with North Korea that the obstructionist Blues are
continuing to fight tooth and nail on Trump nominees no matter how qualified);
the House has run out of patience with Rosenstein and Sessions and appears
ready to hold them in contempt for failing to turn over documents needed to
fulfill their valid Constitutional oversight function; it is always hard to read
the tea leaves in contested primaries but it would appear that both parties
elected more center candidates last night (Pelosi we need you on deck pushing
the progressive agenda); the Mormon Church announced that it was severing its
century old relationship with the Boy Scouts of America and transferring it
450,000 boys to a gospel based group; more evacuations on the Big Island of
Hawaii as two more volcanic vents opened, destroying dozens of homes; Pompeo is
in North Korea working on details for an upcoming summit and is expected to
return with three Americans that have been held by the rogue regime; finally
some sanity in bureaucracy as the head of the CDC Dr. Redfield asked for and
received a $165,000 pay cut from a bloated $375,000 salary; New York is moving
quickly to replace disgraced Schneiderman with a progressive AG that will
continue the obstructionist lawsuits against the Trump agenda; in Chicago
through May 7, 2018, 839 people have been shot, of whom 139 have died.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Tony
Orlando and Dawn, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact
that if you don’t watch the MSM your day will be free of maledicent outbursts and
a relevant quote by Grace Gummer on the the value of parents, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Mothers’
Day, 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 Receptionist Day—celebrating since 1991 the role of and importance of
receptionists as that person is usually the first person a customer or
potential customer comes in contact with but sadly the profession is being
decimated by voice mail and voice recognition software as a filter to get to a
human being.
2. Victory Day—celebrating the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Soviets
and celebrated in the former Soviet Union one day after V-E Day to end
hostilities in World War II.
3. 1973 Number One Song— the number one song in 1973 on a run of 4 weeks in that
position was “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree” by Tony Orlando
and Dawn. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ouKAhxZbQ
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “maledicent” which means cursing which most of us want to
do after listening our elected officials or nonelected bureaucrats.
5. It’s In The Genes—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1986 of noted theater,
movie and television actress Grace Gummer who bears a striking resemblance to
her mother Meryl Streep.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1960 in a let the good times roll moment the FDA approved
Searle’s Enovid as an oral contraceptive.
b. 1970 upwards of 100,000 demonstrators marched on the White
House to protest the Kent State shootings by the Ohio National Guard and the
incursion by South Vietnamese and American forces into Cambodia.
c. 1974 the House Judiciary Committee opened formal impeachment
hearings on President Richard Nixon.
d. 1980 five masked gunmen held robbed a Security Pacific Bank
in Norco, California and fled prompting the largest shoot out and pursuit in California’s
history leaving two robbers dead, one sheriff’s deputy dead and nine wounded
and 33 police cars heavily damaged but in the end the three surviving robbers
were captured after 4 days and were sentenced to life without possibility of
parole.
e. 2015 Russia staged its largest military parade in Moscow to
celebrate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
Reflections on the role
of parents: “I'm just lucky to have great parents. My sister's an actress. My
brother's a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven
family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.” Grace Gummer Please
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good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go
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