Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 4,
2019 the federal agency that was overseeing federal funding for the bloated
over budget Bullet Train that Newsom has partially pulled the plug on from L.A.
to Bakersfield has filed a two week notice to terminate the almost $1 billion
in funding for the Bullet Train and exploring means to recover the $2.5 billion
of federal funds already spent on this boondoggle; Rep AOC has been caught in
the Federal Election Law cookie jar with news that her campaign manager moved
almost a $1 million into a private non PAC corporation which is illegal and
hopefully merit jail time for him and a
large fine for her; she is also in favor of impeaching Trump and demanding that
Congress investigate his finances as opposed to collusion with Russia; Hillary
has finally accepted the fact that she
is an unliked lousy candidate and will not join the crowded field of Blue
candidates for president but unfortunately thinks we care what she thinks as she
“is not going anywhere; Alabama is recovering from tornadoes that killed 23
people; Rand Paul indicated he will vote against the Declaration of National
Emergency along with three other Republicans which means it will fail to face
certain Veto which will not be overturned in either the Senate or House; as the
market concerned over the Sino-American trade war tanked on Monday, growing belief
that we are closer than ever to a trade deal; Vale, Brazil’s largest mining company
fired auditor who refused to certify the tailings dam that collapse January of
this year and found a certification firm that would instead of taking steps to
solve the underlying problem that at least 30 people lost their lives with 300
missing; Trump has announced the end of preferential trade status with India
and Turkey in 60 days to the displeasure of Turkey but not India what has
stated that the program was far underdeveloped nations which India is not; Ben
Carson has announced he will be leaving HUD at the end of Trump’s first term.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Perry Como, factoids of
interest for this day in history, the fact you never forget to osculate
your spouse on leaving for work and a relevant quote from Richard Corliss on
texting and grammar, 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. National Grammar Day—created
by Martha Brockenbrough the founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good
Grammar in 2008 to promote good grammar.
2. Holy Experiment Day—commemorating
a day to do something religious like pray, invite someone to your church, mosque
or synagogue or consider a new religion.
3. 1951 Number One
Song— the number one song on this day in 1951 on a run of 1 week in that
position (but returned to number 1 ranking for 5 weeks on March 17 was “If”
by Perry Como. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPqhvhlhCcs
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 “osculate” which means to kiss which is good thing to do with one’s
spouse or significant other.s
5. In Perils—celebrating the
birth on this day in 1889 of the “Queen of the Silents” Pearl White who started
acting at age six and best known for her Perils
of Pauline and retired to France in 1923 and retired from films in 1924, dying
at the age of 41 from liver failure.
On this day
in:
a. 1966 John Lennon in an interview
with the London Evening Standard declared
that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus now.”
b. 1985 the FDA approved a blood
test to detect the presence of the HIV virus which has been used to detect the
virus in blood donors.
c. 1998 SCOTUS in the case of Oncale
v. Sundowner Offshore Services ruled that the laws prohibiting sexual
harassment in the workplace applied to harassment between two persons of the
same sex.
d. 2009 the International Criminal Court
issued an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan for crimes against humanity
committed in Darfur to obtain the dubious distinction of being the first
sitting leader of a state to be so charged since the court was formed in 2005;
sadly this thug has yet to be arrested much less tried.
e.
2018 former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are infected with
the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury, England causing a diplomatic uproar
resulting in the expulsion of diplomats the U.K. and Russia.
Reflections on texting and the decline of good grammar: “Texting has
reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of
ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.”
Richard Corliss Noted film critique and editor for Time Magazine
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.
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.
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March 4, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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