Terrible Movie at the Sinema

Krysten Sinema has insulted Arizona voters by calling the state the meth lab of politics

Makes one question after statement her judgment and whether she is mentally sick

Add to that her assertion that it is okay for Americans to go join the Taliban

Who in the longest war in our history were and still are killing Americans in Afghanistan

And one would think that her opponent Martha McSally, a decorated A-10 vet

Would have a double digit lead but that has not been the case as of yet

McSally trails Sinema by less than 1 percent within the margin of error

A Sinema win would be for the Reds a real bad news bearer

Sinema’s positions are left of center and for illegals a citizenship path

Be prepared for her working for an open border if elected to practice her left of center craft

Her plans are like a bad movie that in the cinema you would want to avoid

Electing her and flipping the Senate would be the economic gains would be destroyed

If elected she was right that  Arizona is a crazy state

Voters on meth with a death wish to its economic growth deflate

© October 31, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet  

How To Turn Illegals' Caravan Back

Just when the Blues were pivoting to focus on health care

Trump responds by sucking the oxygen out of the political  air

Aided by the optics of an invasion caravan tearing down a Mexican border fence

More and more Americans appalled and are taking offence

Trump plans to by executive order eliminate for children of illegals born here birthplace citizenship

Subject to the jurisdiction means if a child of illegals the parents host country the child must submit

On this point legal scholars may disagree but the focus to illegal immigration has made a turn

Blues now have to defend their open border plans and their true feelings on immigration the voters will learn

The myth of seeking asylum by one illegal was revealed

Speaking in Spanish his desire to be in the caravan was for work a fact he did not conceal

Absence of work in Honduras is not a valid asylum ground

If we did not have a backlog of 750,000 cases he would be turned around

The long term fix on caravans of unskilled illegals seeking work

Is to foster capitalism and end corruption that Central American officials are wont to shirk

The short term fix is even if in lame duck mode asylum must be, in the illegals’ home country, sought

Without asylum approved in our embassy back home automatic rejection here and deportation if caught

© October 31, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Lemon Is A Lemon

Don Lemon of CNN is one of those rare people who is aptly named

When it comes to objectivity lacking he is without shame

On a rant with fellow biased anti-Trumpster

He made a claim that belongs in a trash dumpster

According to this broken down “journalist” white men are the biggest threat to this nation

True to form Chris Cuomo nodded his head in agreement as opposed to a condemnation

Lemon is the poster child of identity politics at its worst

Trapped in blaming a racial class one sin fits all curse

White men as a class according to Lemon are responsible for all the nation’s problems

Individual traits be damned, if you were born white totally right for you to be condemned

If an evil threat in Lemon’s world for violence as a target you are fair game

Murder and mayhem by a perpetrator merits not a whit of blame

That view is a crock

Lemon on the air should be blocked

Like an auto he should be confined to the airways junkyard heap

While the rest of us strive to his biased views defeat

© October 31, 2018 Michael P. Ridley  

October 31, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Halloween

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 31, 2018 It’s panic time for Claire McCaskill as she is trying to distance herself from “crazy Democrats” like Chappelle-Nadal who has expressed hope that Trump will be assassinated (to no avail as her opponent continues to widen his lead); CNN which rightfully should be called the Cack News Network is back in the news when aptly named Lemon which is a name for a unreliable car claimed that the biggest threat to this country is white men while discussing the issue with a privileged and biased fellow “journalist” Cuomo (this lemon of a journalist was condemned for his pathetic remark); good news for Marsha Blackburn who is pulling ahead of her Blue opponent but the Taliban supporting queen Kyrsten Sinema is leading an A-10 pilot combat veteran McSally (John McCain must be rolling in his grave with that news); on the you are never too young to fight front a disturbing video of the daycare center Adventure Learning in St. Louis of preschoolers being urged to fight has surfaced; Trump is proceeding forward with his plan to terminate by executive order birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens (look for court challenges that will go to the Supreme Court); the caravan of illegals is still inching toward the border full of desperate illegals that are fleeing the lack of jobs in Honduras which is not a valid reason for asylum (Congress could solve this problem with legislation requiring asylum applications to be adjudicated at the embassy or consulate in the host country and without such adjudication face immediate deportation); North Korea is reportedly ready to allow inspectors to visit the nuclear test site that it has shut down which is a good sign; on the false news front Robert Mueller has reported to the FBI for investigation a claim by a women that he had inappropriate sexual relations with her (time for him to release his report immediately after the midterm to end this expensive witch-hunt); Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through October 29, 2018, 2560 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 422 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Mills Brothers,  factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are free of nimiety in your diet  and a relevant quote from Mason Cooley on the difference between clothes and costumes, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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. Halloween—celebrated by the youth trick or treating in costumes and by adults in costumes at Halloween parties.

2. National Girl Scouts Founders Day—celebrating the birthday of Juliette Low who founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia in 1915.

3. 1943 Number One Song— the number one song in 1943 on a run of 12 weeks in that position was “Paper Doll” by the Mills Brothers. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42mQhMAg-7s

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we moved from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n” is “nimiety” which means excess which describes the amount of political rhetoric we hear coming out of the Swamp.

5. Halloween’s Favorite Treat—celebrating the birth on this day in 1950 of Canadian born actor John Candy who appeared in 40 fills but was way too overweight and a heavy smoker who died at the age of 43 of a heart attack in his sleep after just completing the movie Wagons East.

    On this day in: 

a. 1956 Britain and France begin bombing Egypt to force reopening of the Suez Canal.

b. 1968 citing progress in the Paris Peace Talks with North Vietnam, President Johnson, who was not running for reelection, announced the cessation of bombing of North Vietnam, effective November 1.

c.  2002 a federal grand jury indicted Enron’s former CFO Andrew Fastow for 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice for which he plead guilty too and entered a plea agreement requiring forfeiture of $23.8 million in assets and a six year sentence of which he served a little more than 5 years.

d. 2011 in a too many mouths to feed moment, the population of the Earth reached 7 billion.

e. 2017 an Islamist in a rented truck mowed down 19 people on a bike path in lower Manhattan, killing 8 before being  wounded; he still has not gone to trial where he will face the death penalty if convicted.

    Reflections on Halloween: “Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” Mason Cooley, noted American aphorist noted for his witty aphorisms.

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Roses and Stones in Pittsburgh

President Trump and Melania laid roses and stones

For a violent anti-Semite attack to atone

While leftist shouters claimed Trump was to blame

They merit condemnation and total shame

11 people died at the Tree of Life Synagogue

Yet the left spews its Trump’s fault monologue

We are rapidly as a nation falling into a blame abyss

Where accountability for hate the pundits quickly miss

The MSM may bear the most of the rhetoric guilt

But they are not alone in the bias built

Both Reds and Blues

Have their part in how the bias grew

It is time the adults gather into the room and the over the top rhetoric comes to a stop

If not our faith in our political systems and rulers will come to a complet and utter stop.

 © October 30, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

October 30, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Mischief Night

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 30, 2018 Sadly, the rabbi of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh is receiving hate mail for welcoming President Trump and Melania to come to his synagogue to meet with families of the 11 victims killed by anti-Semite Bowers; as two more caravans of illegal aliens are forming in Central America, news from the one in Mexico is that morale is plummeting and more and more people are dropping out opting to remain in Mexico or return to Honduras (Trump is stirring the pot as he announced his intent to by executive order rule that children of illegal aliens born here are not citizens a move to surely prompt legal challenge by the ACLU); conservatives have been handed another reason to get out the vote as leftist Barbara Streisand has indicated that she is thinking about moving to Canada if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate; on the Hollywood Hysteria front actor James Cromwell is spreading fear that their will be blood the in the streets if the Blues do not retake Congress (what a crock); police have recovered from Cesar Sayoc a list of 100 mail pipe bomb targets (this deranged individual should spend the rest of his worthless life in prison); the killing of two African-American shoppers at a Kroger supermarket in Jeffersontown, Kentucky is being investigated as a hate crime; Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through October 28, 2018, 2559 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 421 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        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, the fact that you are free of the need to nim  and a relevant quote from H.G. Wells on intentions of aliens, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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. Mischief Night—celebrated in England in the 19^th Century as a way to practice harmless mischief like egging a house or coating a tree with toilet paper perhaps as a way to encourage a home owner to stock up on treats for Halloween.

2. Candy Corn Day—celebrating the ubiquitous Halloween candy first made by the Wunderlee Candy Company in the 1880’s.

3. 1942 Number One Song— the number one song in 1942 on a run of 11 weeks in that position was “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Ozdqzjigg

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we moved from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n” is “nim” which means to steal which is what our politicians are doing to future generations with their runaway deficit spending.

5. Like Father Like Daughter—celebrating the birth on this day in 1981 of Ivanka Trump, the First Daughter and successful entrepreneur and author who sadly is often vilified by the left.

    On this day in: 

a. 1938 Orson Welles broadcasted H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, creating widespread anxiety that Earth was being invaded by aliens from Mars.

b. 1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color line in Major League Baseball.

c.  1947 the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades was executed in Geneva, Switzerland.

d. 1961 due to violations of Lenin’s precepts the body of Joseph Stalin was moved from Lenin’s Tomb and reburied nearby with a plain tombstone.

e. 1995 Quebec voters by a slim margin of 50.58 to 49.42 voted to remain a province of Canada.

    Reflections on the War of the Worlds: “Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious

eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.” H.G.Wells.
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Trump Blamed For Synagogue Killings Huh?

As predictable as the Sun rising in the East, the left and MSM was too quick to proclaim

It’s Trump’s fault that Bowers entered a synagogue and shot eleven with deadly aim

This president unlike his predecessor has warm relations with Israel’s prime minister

Obama had a strong dislike for the Jewish state and thought its policies toward Arabs were sinister

This is a president who did what numerous presidents had failed to do

He moved our embassy to Jerusalem, the most holy city for the Jews

To hold him responsible for the anti-Semite Bowers who killed

Another example of the extreme bias against Trump the MSM has instilled

Resist, resist and any coverage of success suppress

R.I.P. a once fair and objective free press

Trump perseveres to do what for the country is right

Waging a relentless war on regulatory job killing blight

Policies implemented to lift people out of job losses plight

For economic growth he is in for the long term fight

Hounded without mercy by the MSM biased press

Appealing directly to voters to Blue obstruction in 8 days redress  

© October 29, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

October 29, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Internet Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 29, 2018 Sarah Sanders blasted the MSM for its attacks on Trump as being the reason for the pipe bomb mailings and the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue (ironic that the anti-Semite shooter Bowers was treated for his wounds by Jewish medical personnel); the season of hate continues as the Republican headquarters in South Daytona was hit by four bullets this weekend (time to tone the rhetoric down before someone is killed); the Pentagon announced it is increasing American military presence on the border to over 5,000 troops to put teeth in the message that the caravan of illegal aliens will not be allowed to enter this country; the left continues to act with no respect interrupting a campaign event by Red Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn during a moment of silence for the victims of the Tree of Life shooting; the flood of refugees from the Middle East has claimed another victim—Angela Merkel under fire for the admission of a million refugees who announced she was stepped down as chancellor; tech stocks tanked on the news that the UK would introduce in 2020 a digital services tax of 2% on online e-commerce and social media platforms earning more than £$500 million in revenues; to the concern of the dozens of Blue presidential wanna-bes, Clinton’s waffling on whether she would run in 2020 is throwing a monkey wrench in their plans; Mueller’s millions wasted collusion delusion probe is winding down with a report to be released soon after the midterms in the absence of any agreement of Trump to be interviewed by Mueller’s team; in a win one for the good guys a father was leaving a McDonald’s in Birmingham, Alabama after having a meal with his two sons as a masked gunman was entering and began firing at employees and customers only to be shot and killed by the father who along with his son was wounded but not life threatening; Cesar Saydoc may be in jail but the pipe bombs he mailed keep coming as the 14^th on was intercepted at an Atlanta mail processing facility; Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through October 28, 2018, 2554 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 421 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Freddy Martin, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are free of nihilism  and a relevant quote from Alexis Ohanian on the internet revolution, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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. International Internet Day—created in 2005 to celebrate the first electronic transfer of a message from one computer to another on this day in 1969 and the rest is history.

2. World Stroke Day—created by the World Stroke Organization in 2006 to promote awareness of life style choices leading to strokes and promoting efforts to minimize the results of strokes.

3. 1941 Number One Song— the number one song in 1941 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Piano Concerto in B Flat” by Freddy Martin. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckgH8UlIu1k

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we moved from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n” is “nihilism” which means a denial of reality which is what politicians on both sides of the aisle are guilty of when it comes to solving the problems associated with runaway spending.

5. Jaws of Life—celebrating the birth on this day in 1947 of Richard Dreyfus noted American actor famous for his role in American Graffiti, Jaws, and The Goodbye Girl who struggled with alcohol and drugs early in his career.

    On this day in: 

a. 1863 at Geneva, 18 nations met to form the International Red Cross.

b. 1994 Francisco Martin Duran fired 29 shots from an assault rifle at the White House in an attempt to kill  President Clinton; he was tackled by three bystanders and held until the Secret Service arrived, tried, convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison and is expected to be paroled in 2029.

c.  1998 with the launch of Discovery’s 25^th space shuttle mission ATSC HDTV service was inaugurated in the U.S. The mission was also notable for returning 77 year old John Glenn back into space as the oldest human to fly into space.

d. 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the U.S. killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly and causing $70 billion in damages.

e. 2015 China announced the end of its one child policy after 35 years.

    Reflections on the internet that is only 49 years old today: “To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.
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11 Killed at a Synagogue in Pittsburgh Sad

The naming of a baby at a synagogue should be a celebration to enjoy

Not the scene of a mass shooting that 11 lives were destroyed

What evil lurked in the mind of Bowers

How twisted that he thought he had the right and power

To gun down 11 innocents in a synagogue

As we missed his anti-Trump anti-Semitic Gab blogs

Speech advocating violence is not free speech to protect

Death based on religion is an act all sane people must reject

Thank God for first responders quickly on scene

Who wounded Bowers and from his guns weaned

While the flag at the White House flies at half mast

A grieving nation and Pittsburgh wonder how long the scourge of violence will last

© October 28, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Red Wave in Failed Economic State Connecticut?

Connecticut is a failed economic basket case a story voters need to hear

Economic growth has fallen since 2009 at .5 percent per year

Unfunded public pension liabilities at the second highest per capita in the nation

The Trump recovery has left the state with its high rate of corporate tax at the economic growth station

Companies from the state in full on flee mode

Seeking lower tax havens for their business abode

Second in the nation in residents voting with their feet and seeking the nearest exit door

While a Blue governor who is retiring continues to the link between higher taxes and no growth ignores

A three way race now neck and neck between a Red former head of GET and UBS

Is running on a pledge to reduce taxes and with zero based budgeting to spending repress

His opponent, a Blue, has the worn-out playbook of identity politics and higher taxes to fund more social projects

Failed ideas and a collapsing economy that the voters should reject

Connecticut borders Massachusetts on its northern border

A state which has lowered taxes to 5.1 % with income, population and tax revenue growth in fine order

The Red candidate is waxing the Blue among Indies by double digits percent

Great chance for a Red to Hartford will be sent.  

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

Can't Blame Trump for the Pipe Bomber

Catching the Unabomber took almost 20 years

Cesar Seyoc was captured in less than a week as his pipe bombs spread fears

Hats off to the FBI for stellar work and determination

We may castigate its leaders for politicization but the field agents deserve praise not condemnation

Fingerprints and DNA on bomb packages were recovered

Soon a matter of days and his identity was discovered

Reds’ hope that the pipe bomb plot was a Blue false flag

Launched in desperation as hopes for flipping Congress sagged

Will be thrown in the trash heap of historical conspiracy theories

Another reason why a rush to judgment should make us all leery

When a Sanders supporter Red Congressmen at a baseball game practice tried to kill

We heard not a pip from Reds that Sanders was at fault with voices angry and most shrill

Doubt history will repeat itself as the left will on Trump pile on blame

That his rhetoric incited these violent acts and Seyoc’s thirst for blood was not tamed

If that is the case and early indications suggest the answer is yes

Shame on the left and their puppet MSM for failing to such over the top rhetoric repress

© October 26, 2017 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet  

October 26, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Deployment Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 26, 2018 On the pipe bomb front the number of suspicious packages addressed to top Democrats or Trump critics has risen to 11 with one addressed to Cory Booker and James Clapper the latest as the FBI in an all hands on deck mode to track down the sender has announced the arrest  of a suspect Cesar Sayoc, a registered Republican with a criminal history (watch the left go ballistic in increasing its blame of Trump for causing the mailing of the crude bombs not designed to go off only spread fear); Meghan Kelly may soon be out at NBC over her comments that wearing a blackface mask for Halloween was not racist; on the accountability front the NFL has fired referee Hugo Cruz for a failure to call a illegal procedure during the Chargers Browns game on October 14 that led to a Chargers touchdown; as the migrant caravan continued north, Trump is considering an executive order that will bar migrant asylum seekers from entering the country (watch for the liberal 9^th Circuit judges to issue TRO’s against any such order as Congress fails to fix our scammed immigration and asylum system); embattled Claire McCaskill who champions herself as a supporter of vets is in the adverse spotlight as her husband’s company is in the spotlight for receiving funds for veterans’ housing and evicting vets for nonpayment of rent; Andrew Gillum the Blue candidate for governor of Florida while denying he is anti-police indicated that whenever police unholster a gun, taser, or baton they have gone too far (what are they expected to do when confronting an armed and dangerous suspect? Act like an unarmed London bobby?); Democratic candidate for governor in Illinois J.B. Pritsker has donated $80 million to his campaign, a record which underscores the corruption in campaign finance; Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through October 24, 2018, 2509 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 415 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        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, the fact that your home is free of niff  and a relevant quote from Karl Rove on the effect of Democratic obstruction of the Patriot Act, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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. Frankenstein Friday—created by Ryan MacCloskey in 1997 to celebrate Mary Shelley and her creation of Frankenstein.

2. National Day of the Deployed—created in 2006 to honor the thousands of American troops who are deployed to protect our freedoms including the 800 being deployed to our southern border to curtail the migrant caravan trudging north.

3. 1940 Number One Song— the number one song in 1940 on a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Only Forever” by Bing Crosby. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCt6hkCUic

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we moved from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n” is “niff” which means an unpleasant smell which describes the corruption in the Swamp to a tee.

5. What Happened—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your political point of view the birth on this day in 1947 of Hilary Rodham Clinton who still has not gotten over her loss to Donald Trump and may be delusionally contemplating a rerun against him in 2020 as an increasing number of Democrats wish she would fade into oblivion.

    On this day in: 

a. 1958 in a making the world smaller moment Pan American Airlines made the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707.

b. 1970 Muhammad Ali returned to the ring after a three year hiatus due to draft evasion by defeating Jerry Quarry.

c. 2001 the U.S. passed the USA Patriot Act in response to the 9/11 attacks.
d. 2003 the Cedar Fire, the third largest wildfire in California history burned 250,000 acres in destroying 2,200 homes and killing 15 people.

e. 2004 Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for use in Play Station 2.

    Reflections on the Patriot Act as we approach the Mid Term elections in less than two weeks: “I think it is dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act like they are obstructing everything else is bad for them politically.” Karl Rove, noted Republican political commentator.

    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 www.Alaskanpoethistory.blogspot.com for just This Day in History.

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Asylum Seekers Reform Act Needed

The caravan of illegals trudging up Mexico toward our southern border continues to expand

The vanguard of an invasion that if not stopped will devastate our standard of living and safety in this land

We are running out of time for Congress to act

To reform asylum requirements to send them back

McConnell must rescind the filibuster rule

To give him the majority voting only tool

Call it the Asylum Seekers Reform Act

No one gets asylum if approval from our consulates in Central America a seeker lacks

Immediate deportation no ifs ands or buts

To illegals seeking to come here the border is shut

Prioritize fining and jailing employers who hire illegals to work here

Pass legislation to implement e-verify so employers can to the rules adhere

For good measure to those nations who do not assist in curtailing illegals from their countries fleeing

Cut foreign aid and collect a heavy tax on remittances to those nations to reduce amount of funds kin will be receiving

If we do not do this and build the wall our nation will be swamped by an illegal alien Central American horde

Our way of life trampled like the running of the bulls and too many of us gored.

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

Pipe Bombs to Dems A False Flag?

A false flag is a covert operation designed to deceive

Makes the victim that another person was responsible believe

Question now has arisen whether the pipe bombs sent was a false flag

Sent by leftists to rally their base and turn off Reds as their flipping hopes sag

As a conspiracy theory may be off base

Credible for an ends justifies the means party as the Blue Wave has been erased

Nothing like a false flag smear

Spreading concern and fear

Nothing better to sink Reds on the campaign trail

Than being portrayed as being behind sending pipe bombs in the mail

The MSM media was quick to without any facts

Blame Trump for the violent on Dems attacks

The FBI may still be one of the best law agencies on Earth

But as the Unabomber case proved it will take time to prove their worth

People may believe that since the targets were Dems

It is the Reds and Trump that they should at the polls condemn

Ignoring that the Reds have condemned violence of any kind

While the left to the dangers posed by Antifa mobs is totally blind

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

October 25, 2018 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Wear Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For October 25, 2018 On the pipe bomb front more packages delivered to prominent Democrats and anti-Trump critics like De Niro as the FBI is on an all hands on deck effort to uncover who has been sending the devices while the MSM with absolutely no facts has ignored Trump’s condemnation and jumped on the blame Trump bandwagon for the violence (do not be surprised if since the devices were not designed to explode that this may be a classic false flag designed by the left to damage Reds in the midterm); as the caravan which has swelled to 14,000 illegals trudges toward our southern border, the Pentagon has ordered hundreds of troops to the border (what is needed is an emergency session of Congress with the nuclear option in the Senate to reform our asylum law to require petitions for asylum to be file in seekers’ home countries at our consulates and if not immediate deportation or we will face even larger massive caravans from Central America); on the political correctness front, Megyn Kelly is in hot water with NBC for defending people who wear blackface masks on Halloween and may be yanked from her NBC morning show (she should have never left Fox and is looking at a $23 million annual salary loss); the New York Times that once was the paper that lived up to its logo of “All the News That’s Fit to Print” has stooped to new lows with its upcoming publication of a short story of Secret Service complicity with a Russian in the assassination of President Trump (no wonder Trump uses the charge of Fake News in criticizing the MSM); CIA director Gina Haspel has listened to the audio recording of Khashoggi’s murder in the Saudi consulate in Turkey and will brief the president (look for a dicey twist in the U.S. Saudi relations and possible push to have the Saudis remove the Crown Prince); on the sports front the Dodgers’ bull pen failed them once again as the Red Sox beat the Dodgers 4-2 to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series; Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has not curbed the gun violence as through October 23, 2018, 2505 people mostly of color have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 414 have died (when will Chicago get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of mostly people of color by mostly people of color).

        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are not niddering individual  and a relevant quote from Judith Lewis Herman on domestic abuse, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like college graduations, 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. Wear Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Day—celebrated on the third Thursday of the third full week in the month of Thursday since 2010 to promote awareness of the disturbing fact that one in three women will be the victim of domestic abuse and one in four men will share the same fate and to promote means to end this tragedy.

2. International Artists Day—celebrating since 2004 the contributions artists have made to society, making the world a better place.

3. 2018 Number One Song— the number one song in 2018 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was “Girls Like You” by Maroon 5 feat Cardi B. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOTlE1K90k

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we moved from words beginning with “m” to words beginning with “n” is “niddering” which means to exhibit shameful fear or timidity which Reds must not show in the face of Blue attacks to keep control of the House and Senate.

5. Butcher of Lyon—bemoaning the birth on this day in 1913 of Klaus Barbie who rose to infamy as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France where historians calculated he was directly responsible for the deaths of 14,000 Jews and French resistance fighter; spirited out of Europe by the CIA to Bolivia to spy on Communist infiltration, he was finally extradited to France after the overthrow of Bolivian dictator Tejada where he stood trial, was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison where he died from leukemia on September 25, 1991.

    On this day in: 

a. 1918 the SS Princess Sophia after being grounded on Vanderbilt Reef 46 miles north of Juneau, Alaska sank with the loss of all 346 aboard.

b. 1962 Adlai Stevenson exposed Soviet lies when he displayed photographs at the UN Security Council showing the existence of intermediate range missiles being installed in Cuba.

c. 1971 the UN seated the Peoples Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China.
d. 1977 Digital Equipment Corporation released operating system Open VMS 1.0.

e. 1983 the U.S. and several of its Caribbean Allies invaded the island of Grenada after a communist led coup overthrew tha government of Maurice Bishop and killed him and several of his supporters.

    Reflections on domestic violence: “The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trama and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence-From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror No woman should ever have to be abused and stay in an abusive relationship.

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