Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 27, 2019 Chicago
police department and mayor continue to fume over prosecution’s decision to
drop case against Smollett after Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff
interceded on his behalf with Kim Foxx the state’s prosecutor while he
continues to show no remorse and continues to lie about the incident (video of
Michelle dancing with Smollett adds credence to the idea of two classes of
justice one for mere mortals and the other for the Obamas, Clintons and their
friends); Kamala Harris with a straight face indicated she was confused over
the decision when it had to be clear to her that money and connections walk and
justice for all merely talks); CNN continues to shovel cack as Chris Cuomo and others
at CNN continue to push their propaganda narrative that the Mueller Report was
wrong that there was collusion with the Russians; ESPN’s pivot away from
injecting politics was dealt a blow when Max Kellerman excoriated Tiger Woods
for opining that we should respect the office of the president calling a man
who went to Stanford “dumb”; the Trump administration will soon be proposing
reform of Fanni Mae and Freddie Mac; amid reports that the Border Patrol is
releasing illegals from detention because of overcrowding the MSM and the Blues
continue to ignore the pleas of the Border Patrol that there is a crisis of unprecedented
proportions and tout the false narrative that there is no crisis https://www.foxnews.com/us/large-illegal-immigrant-groups-crossing-us-mexico-becoming-daily-occurrence-pushing-agents-to-breaking-point;
Tommy Hilfiger has just joined The Gap, Lord and Taylor and Ralph Lauren in
closing their flagship stores on Fifth Avenue as the decline in brick and
mortar continues to devastate the retail sector; Wendy Williams who recently
revealed her struggle with drugs and alcohol had left a rehab facility to be
found drunk and rushed to the hospital after her husband’s mistress had given birth
to a baby; we send legislators to the Swamp to legislate not to become
spineless wimps to vote “present” as 43 Blues and Bernie Sanders did on the
Green New Deal passed by the House (I believe that all Blue presidential candidates
led by the illegal alien supporter Queen Kamala Harris voted shamefully “present”);
Rockland County in New York, hit by a measles epidemic, has banned all minor
children from public places (another example of the anti-vaccine zealots’
endangering the public health of this nation); the struggle over abortion and
the judicial activism to hinder the states’ abilities to restrict or regulate
it is alive and well as a federal judge William Osteen, appointed by President
Bush has struck down North Carolina’s law to prohibit abortion after 20 weeks except
in limited cases to protect the health of the mother; as of March 29, 2019 392
people have been shot in Chicago of whom 67 have died (what makes the Smollett
case so frustrating is that it forced the city of Chicago to allocate scarce
detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting in murder have a
suspect being charged this year).
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Simon
and Garfunkel, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact if
you are in front of a jury, the pais would be favorably disposed to your case;
a relevant quote from Dennis Powers on one of the tsunamis created by the Good
Friday Earthquake, 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 Whisk(e)y Day—celebrated since 2009 on
the birthday of noted beverage critique Michael Jackson and in parenthesis as
Scottish, Canadian and Japanese whiskies have no “e” but American and Irish do.
2. World Theatre Day—created by the
International Theatre Institute in 1961 create awareness of the importance of
the theatre to our culture and promote theatrical performances around the
globe.
3. 1970 Number One Song—the
number one song on this day in 1970 on a run of 7 weeks in that position
was “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkel. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA
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
“pais” which means a panel from which a jury is drawn which explains the rise
in high priced jury selection consultants in an effort to stack the odds of a
favorable verdict.
5. The Octaves Have It But Not Perfect—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1970 of noted singer Mariah Carey who has sold over
200 million records and is one of the few singers to sing in four octaves but
capable of making big mistakes when her 2016 New Year’s Eve lip synching Times
Square performance was a disaster.
On this day
in:
a. 1964 on Good Friday an earthquake registering at 9.2 struck
Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and causing massive damage to Anchorage
and almost leveling Valdez and killing 12 with the resulting tsunami slamming
Crescent City, California.
b. 1977 a KLM 747 and Pan Am 747 collided on a fog shrouded
airport in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing all 583 persons on board.
c. 1981 Solidarity staged a warning strike in Poland when 12
million Polish workers walked off their jobs for 12 hours.
d. 1990 the U.S. began broadcasting anti-Castro messages on TV Marti
to Cuba.
e. 1998 in a let the good times for the elderly roll, the FDA
approves the use of Viagra for erectile dysfunction.
Reflections
on one of the tsunamis spawned by the Good Friday Earthquake:” "It was like a violent explosion. A thunderous roar
mingled with all the confusion. Everywhere we looked, buildings, cars, lumber
and boats shifted around like crazy. The whole beachfront moved, changing
before our very eyes. By this time, the fire had spread to the Texaco bulk
tanks. They started exploding one after another, lighting up the sky,"
recalled Peggy Coons in The Raging Sea by Dennis Powers.
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© March 27, 2019 Michael
P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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