Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 11,
2019 Canada has not escaped the PC quagmire as a university professor at the
University of Quebec at Montreal has filed a complaint against the Quebec City
police department for having a poster of Chuck Norris’ Invasion U.S.A. affixed to one of its squad cars; Mayor de Blasio
was caught making a fool of himself flapping his arms to disgraced alleged
sexual predator R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” while visiting a church in
South Carolina; an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashed shortly after take
off from Addis Abba.killing all 157 aboard; in a Jonah and the whale moment Rainer
Schmipf was snorkeling off the coast of South Africa when he was engulfed in a
whale’s mouth who fortunately realized he could not swallow him and spat him
out; the Cack News Network for its defamatory and slanderous attacks on Nick
Sandmann and the Covington Catholic School students is above to be hit with a
$250 million lawsuit (maybe this news network which masquerades as journalism will
learn a lesson and stop the spread of fake news); in a sad moment Olympic
silver medalist Kelly Caitlin has committed suicide at 23; Sanders continues to
pander to the left promoting Medicare for all but in an apparent rift with AOC
was silent on her Green New Deal at a rally in New Hampshire (Medicare for all
will be the end of our ability to schedule medical visits without weeks of waiting
in line or have medical care rationed); leftist Juan Castro has joined the
reparations movement for African American descendants of slaves which if the reparations
for Japanese-Americans is a yard stick of $20,000 for only 2- 3 years of
internment will bankrupt this nation; after a 3 ½ year investigation Seattle
police have arrested 6 and rescued 26 women victims of sex trafficking
involving massage parlors in Seattle; Lowndes County Sheriff’s Deputies stopped
two Columbian males for weaving in an out of lanes and discovered $500,000 in
cash in the car most likely from a drug deal; As of March 9, 2019 308 people
have been shot in Chicago of whom 49 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra McGuire
Sisters, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact you do not
suffer from ostosis; a relevant quote from Rudolf Höss on cremation
problems at Auschwitz, 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. Johnny Appleseed Day—commemorating
the planting by 18th Century nurseryman John Chapman of apple seeds
in large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario, Indiana, Illinois and the
northern counties of West Virginia.
2. World Plumbing Day—created by the World Plumbing Council in 2010 to promote
indoor plumbing in parts of the world where it does not exist and to extol the
skill of plumbers.
3. 1956 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in
1956 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Lisbon Antigua” by Nelson
Riddle and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNBRcOoxK0.
Nelson Riddle whose 3rd Grammy was awarded posthumously died from cirrhosis
of the liver at the age of 64 on October 6, 1985.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we move from words beginning
with “n” to words beginning with “o” is “otosis” which means mishearing of
speech a trait found in many politicians when it comes to listening to their
constituents needs.
5. More Not Less—celebrating the birth on this day in 1962 noted actress Demi
Gene Guyness, better known to her fans as Demi Moore; once married to Bruce
Willis she had three daughters with him. She is best known for St. Elmo’s Fire and Ghost.
On this day
in:
a. 1946 the first commandant of Auschwitz,
Rudolf Höss, was captured by British
soldiers and was charged with crimes against humanity and convicted to face the
gallows on April 16, 1947.
b. 1978 at least 37 Israelis are
killed and more than 70 wounded in a Fatah hijacking of an Israeli bus which
prompted Israel to invade Lebanon up the Litani River.
c. 1999 Infosys became the first
Indian company to be listed on NASDQ.
d. 2004 3 days before Spain’s general
elections Al-Qaeda cells in Madrid exploded a series of bombs on Madrid’s
subway system, killing 193 and wounding more than 2,000; 20 out of the 29 defendants arrested
were found guilty.
e. 2012 Staff Sergeant Robert Bates
shot and killed 16 Afghani citizens and wounded 6 others; he was arrested,
tried and sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
Reflections Auschwitz by one very evil and sick man: “Burning
2000 people took about 24 hours in the five stoves. Usually we could manage to
cremate only about 1700 to 1800. We were thus always behind in our cremating
because as you can see it was much easier to exterminate by gas than to
cremate, which took so much more time and labor.” Rudolf Höss Please enjoy the poems on events of interest
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March 11, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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