Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For November 27, 2018 The mid terms
will officially end today as voters in Mississippi are going to polls in a
runoff for senator after Trump held two rallies yesterday for the Republican
candidate (if she wins the Republicans will have picked up two seats); Jim
Acosta is back and still up to his old antics, sparring with Sanders argumentatively
and violating the one question rule promulgated by the White House; GM’s
closing of plants and laying off thousands due to its discontinuance of its
Impala and Cruze lines has raised the ire of President Trump who has raised the
possibility of terminating subsidiaries; former Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane
has been ordered to report to jail to start serving her 10-23 month prison
sentence for leaking grand jury material then lying about it (pretty despicable
breach of the public trust); Putin is back to his old aggressive tricks as
Russia has fired on Ukraine’s ships and seized 24 sailors prompting Trump to
threaten to cancel his upcoming meeting with Putin; on the pc censorship front
Twitter was raked over the coals for permanently banning Iraq vet Jesse Kelly
on the Tucker Carlson Show last night and surprise Twitter reinstated him (this
sort of censorship has got to come to an end and the only tweets that should be
banned are those inciting violence); the leftist MSM and Blues continue to go
ballistic over the fact that the Border Patrol after being pelted with rocks
and bottles used tear gas to disperse and angry mob of asylum scammers trying
to rush the border; Emanuel’s announcement that he will not seek reelection has
not curbed the gun violence as through November 26, 2018, 2723 people mostly of
color have been shot by mostly people of color, of whom 457 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
Four Seasons, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that
you have no need to bring a noxal action against someone today and a
relevant quote from Caroline Kennedy on kindness, 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. Giving Tuesday—created by the Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in
response to the commercialism celebrated by Black Friday and Cyber Monday;
giving to those less fortunate is a great way to enjoy the gift of peace.
2.National Electric Guitar Day—celebrating the contribution to
music of this unique instrument popularized by the late great Jimi Hendrix who was
born on this day in 1942 but despite his talent was a heavy drug and alcohol
user and had his cord unplugged for good after taking 18 times the normal dose
of sleeping pills on September 18, 1970.
3. 1962 Number One
Song— the
number one song in 1962 on a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by the Four Seasons. Here is
a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8yvnqHmFds
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 “noxal” which means of, like or
pertaining to a wrongful injury by an object or animal of another.
5. Last of Camelot--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1957 of Caroline Kennedy the last surviving child of
President Kennedy and former ambassador to Japan.
On this day in:
a. 1965 in a reinforcing a lost cause the Pentagon advised
President Johnson that to succeed in South Vietnam, American troop strength
would have to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000, advice which sadly the
president followed and exceeded.
b. 1968 Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play in a
professional men’s basketball game for the Kentucky Colonels against the Los
Angeles Stars inbounding a pass to a teammate who immediately called a time out
as the 5’3” Early returned to and remained at the bench.
c. 1975 after announcing a £50,000 reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of IRA members responsible for shootings
and bombings in the U.K. Alan Whirter, the co-founder of The Guinness Book of Records, was assassinated by the Provisional
IRA.
d. 1978 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor
Harvey Milk were shot and killed by Dan White who used the Twinkie defense to escape
being convicted of murder to receive a 7 year sentence for manslaughter.
e. 2015 Robert Dear, Jr. entered a Planned Parenthood facility
in Colorado Springs, Colorado and shot and killed 3 people and wounded 9 others
before surrendering to a SWAT team; a judge ruled he was incompetent to stand
trial and ordered him to be confined to a state mental hospital where he
remains today.
Reflections on what this nation needs in
addition to prosperity: “As much as we need a
prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.” Caroline
Kennedy. Wise advice from someone who has known tragedy in her family on
something in our divisive society is totally lacking.
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.
© November 27, 2018, Michael P. Ridley aka the
Alaskanpoet
Alaskanpoet for Hire, Poems to Admire
Poet Extraordinaire Beyond Compare
No comments:
Post a Comment