Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 29, 2019 Unicorn
LYFT has gone public and will begin trading today at approximately 7:45 EDT; just
when you thought that Pelosi might try to govern her unruly divided flock by
telling them impeachment was not worth it, she reverted to her true form,
praising and defending lying Schiff for his work as chair of the House Intel
Committee as all Republicans on it demanded his resignation for his lying on
the issue of collusion and slammed AG Barr’s summary for being condescending
and arrogant (ironic that Barr has committed to release all of the material in
the Report he can subject to holding back on sources and methods, grand jury
material and classified material so why is she on the attack?); San Francisco
awash in used needles, urine and feces in the street and homeless on the
sidewalks is facing a NIMBY backlash to a proposed homeless shelter in the form
of a crowd funding effort to fight it that has already raised $60,000
(naturally this effort is in Pelosi’s Congressional District); on the public
school brainwashing front, an unnamed Houston school teacher of 7th
graders has given the students an assignment to review several essays critical
of Trump and then check multiple choice conclusions that include that Trump responses
that he should be impeached with none complimentary or objective or neutral
(needless to say parents are outraged and this peudo teacher has sadly received
death threats); Harry Reid is suing the maker of a fitness device for causing
him to fall, losing his eye sight and forced to retire from the Senate and is
also in the news for failing to endorse Elizabeth Warren and blasting AOC 70%
tax on the wealthy proposal saying Americans will not support quick radical
change (bring the temperature to boil slowly so the lobster dies before it’s
too hot to escape the pot); Nicolas Cage after being married and divorced three
times has come up with the perfect minimize the alimony strategy-move to annul 4th
marriage after 4 days; Elizabeth Warren is praising the resignation of Wells
Fargo CEO Allan Sloan and demanding an investigation of crimes committed under
his leadership at Wells Fargo (shareholders may have to brace themselves on this
news); many Blues are replacing POW/MIA flags with Transgender Equality flags
in their offices to protest Trump’s ban of transgenders serving in the
military; as of March 27, 2019 405 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 70
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 America,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that we need more action
and less palabra in the Swamp; a relevant quote from Vivek Wadhwa on the
dot.com bubble 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. Vietnam War Veterans Day—honoring the service of
Vietnam War Veterans since March 29, 1974 in a miserable war in which over
58,000 Americans lost their lives and hundreds of thousands were wounded before
the last combat and support troops were withdrawn on March 29, 1973.
2. No Homework Day—celebrated on the last
Friday to give all students a respite over the weekend from homework
assignments.
3. 1972 Number One Song—the
number one song on this day in 1972 on a run of 3 weeks in that position
was “A Horse With No Name” by America. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM
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
“palabra” which means word or idle talk which probably describes most politicians,
all palabra and no action.
5. In the Genes—celebrating or bemoaning
the birth of Billy Carter on this day in 1937 who became the poster child of
why presidents in some cases need to be only children and who while during
Jimmy Carter’s presidency he gained notoriety by starting a beer company Billy’s
Beer and was involved in a scandal with Libya which may have tanked Carter’s
reelection bid against Reagan. Sadly like his father and sister he contracted
and died from pancreatic cancer on September 25, 1988.
On this day
in:
a. 1961 the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution,
giving residents in the Swamp the right to vote in presidential elections was
ratified.
b. 1974 the Terracotta Army, a collection of terracotta
sculptures of soldiers and horsemen buried with Qui Shin Huang in 210-209 B.C.,
the first Emperor of China, to protect him in the afterlife was unearthed in
Shaanxi Province, China (definitely should be on one’s bucket list if it is
ever again on exhibit here).
c. 1984 the Baltimore Colts loaded up their possessions and
sneaked out of Baltimore in the night to move the team to Indianapolis.
d. 1999 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 at
10,006.78 for the first time during the dot.com bubble.
e. 2010 two female jihadists from Dagastan detonated suicide
bombs during morning rush hour in the Moscow Metro Subway 40 minutes apart,
killing 40 and wounding 100.
Reflections
on the dot.com bubble that was doomed to be popped:” During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company
public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections
for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous
investment bankers and their analysts.” Vivek Wadhwa noted technology pundit
and entrepreneur.
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 29, 2019 Michael
P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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