Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For March 21, 2019 Trump is using the carrot of federal research dollars to
force public universities to ensure the freedom of speech on their campuses is
not curtailed (UC Berkeley with its left wing mobs attacking conservative
speakers is the poster child of why this executive action is necessary);
conservative groups are meeting to plan action against social media giants
Google, Facebook, Twitter and others over their banning and restricting conservatives
from access on their platforms (all options are on the table from anti-trust
litigation to reinstalling the fairness doctrine to removal of immunity of
content); AOC whose ideas on the economy, immigration and climate change mean
doom to our way of life is going to be on the cover of Time touted as the “Phenom”; the failed ideology of ISIS still
lives but its Caliphate has been destroyed, something Obama refused to address
and seek to defeat but which Trump met head on and crushed; money is the mother’s
milk of politics and Trump in that regard is on a role raising millions for his
reelection bid with $35 million still in hand; Dukakis whose Alfred E. Newman
ad in an M-1 Abrams tank tanked his presidential bid was mocked by Trump at a
tank assembly plant in Ohio has fired back calling Trump the draft dodger in
chief; Maduro’s hold on power may be showing signs of slipping as 1000 military
personnel have fled into Columbia (only one percent but an encouraging sign if
it continues to grow); deaths from fentanyl pouring across the border with
Mexico are rising at exponential rates giving yet another reason for the
National Emergency Declaration and bolstering a case for the wall; as of March 20,
2019 358 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 58 have died.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, a music link to The Supremes, factoids
of interest for this day in history, the fact you are looking forward to
your pabulous time; a relevant quote from the Alaskanpoet on poetry, 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. World
Poetry Day—created by UNESCO to promote the reading of, creation of and
appreciation of poetry.
2. International Day
for the End of Racial Discrimination—created by the General
Assembly in 1999 to promote the end of racial discrimination.
3. 1965 Number One
Song—the number one song on this day in 1965 on a run of 2 weeks in
that position was “Stop in the Name of Love” by The Supremes. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBkiBbO4_4
4. Word of the Day—today’s
word of the day as we move from words beginning with “o” to words beginning
with “p” is “pabulous” which means of or pertaining to nourishment which describes
for politicians what money represents.
5. In a League of
Her Own—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your political view the
birth on this day in 1962 of noted “comedian” and actress Rosie O’Donnell best
known for her role in A League of Their
Own, her lesbian marriages and her rabid anti-Trump rhetoric.
On this day
in:
a. 1952 Promoter Alan
Freed presented the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio which was recognized
as the first major rock and roll concert in this country.
b. 1960 in
Sharpville, South Africa police opened fire on black South African
demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
c. 1970 the first Earth
Day proclamation was issued by Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco.
d. 1980 in response to
the Soviet’s invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter announced that the
U.S. would boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics.
e. 2006 Twitter is formed
to the future joy of Donald Trump.
Reflections on World Poetry Day: “An
apple a day helps the body to keep the doctor away/ But a daily poem allows for
the soul to be blessed with tranquility to stay/ Be it in full rhyme or free
verse/ We all need the soothing poems to rid the mind of prose’s curse” Michael
P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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.
© March 21,
2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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