April 30, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Jazz Daya

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 30, 2019  Schumer and Pelosi met with Trump on the issue of infrastructure spending and signs are looking like a $2 trillion effort with a further meeting in 3 weeks to consider how to pay for it (Pelosi coy about whether they could come to an agreement while in a froth to investigate the president for his alleged transgressions); thousands upon thousands of Venezuelans are protesting in the streets demanding Maduro leave office as the U.S. ratchets up its demands that he resign in favor of Guiado who has called for a military uprising to overthrow Maduro; CNN aka the Cack News Network is seeing its rating being dumped in the ratings toilet as Fox continues to dominate cable news; Schiff has indicated he will send a criminal referral to the DOJ alleging that the founder of Blackwater and brother of Betsy DeVos Erik Prince perjured himself in front of Congress concerning a meeting with a Russian banker (Prince is also in the news for advocating private mercenaries to be engaged to overthrow Maduro); Pete Buttigieg is polling second in New Hampshire while being the subject of a hoax orchestrated lobbyist Jack Burkman and  blogger Jacob Wohl claiming a man named Hunter Kelly was sexually assaulted by Buttigieg; Sanders is in the news calling for Disney to share the profits from its Avengers: Endgame with its workers while videos have surfaced of him in the 80’s praising the socialist revolutionaries in Nicaragua, Chile and Cuba; The New York Times which was caught with its anti-Semite pants down corrected an op-ed that claimed Jesus was a Palestinian not Jewish; shades of Valeriy Borzov winning the 100 and 200 meter dash in the 1972 Olympics, white high school sprinter Mathew Boling of Strake Jesuit College Prep high school in Houston, Texas won a 100 meter dash in 9.98 seconds but did not set a high school record because the tailwind exceed acceptable limits; Rod Rosenstein has announced he will be leaving the DOJ on May 1; Trump has filed suit to block two banks from releasing financial information subpoenaed by the House; the FBI announced that it had thwarted a planned terrorist attack by an Army veteran who was radicalized and wanted to avenge the New Zealand mosque attacks;  through April 29, 2019 675 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 132 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, music links to TLC and Johnny Horton, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you will not commit a parapraxis, and  a relevant quote from Brian Vian on jazz, 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. Honesty Day—created by M. Hirsch Goldberg to promote honesty and straightforward communications in politics, relationships, consumer relations and historical education. Why on April 30? Appropriate to mark the end of a month that begins with April Fool’s Day to celebrate falsehoods and honors the inauguration of George Washington on this day in 1789.

2. International Jazz Day—created by UNESCO in 2011 to promote jazz and its role in uniting societies.  

      3. 1999 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1999 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “No Scrubs” by TLC. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM. The creative driver of the three girl band was “Left Eye” Lopez who was killed in an automobile crash in Honduras on April 25, 2002 at the age of 30,  

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 “parapraxis” which means blunder which describes our political climate to a tee.

5. Go North Young Man—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1925 of noted country western and ballad singer Johnny Horton best known for such songs as”Battle of New Orleans”, “Sink the Bismark” and my favorite “North to Alaska” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA Sadly his career at the peak of his fame was cut short by a drunk driver on November 5, 1960.

       On this day in:                                        

a. 1927 Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to have their footprints cast in concrete outside Grumman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

b. 1939 NBC began regularly scheduled television broadcasting in New York City with its first showing the opening ceremony with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the New York World’s Fair.

c. 2008 the skeletal remains found at Yekaterinburg, Russia were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of two of Tsar Nicholas’ children Alexei and Anastasia murdered by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918.

d. 2009 Chrysler filed for Chapter XI Bankruptcy.

e. 2019 Emperor Akihito of Japan abdicated his throne to be succeeded by his son Nuruhito. 

        Reflections on jazz: “There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ” ― Boris Vian, artist manager at  Association Management Consultants
        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.

© April 30, 2019  Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

The Man Without a Country Déjà Vu

In a chilling déjà vu of The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

An example of how in terms of cooperation with us Cuba fails

David Panaque, an illegal alien from Cuba, was supposed to have been to Cuba deported

Over two years ago after serving time but a slight problem arose and deportation was aborted

Cuba, alarmed with his criminal record, refused to take him back

Since he had served his time our ability to extend his prison stay ICE lacked

While under “supervision” he last month shot and killed a man at point blank

Cuba’s policy of not accepting dirty human laundry ICE manques

37,000 Cubans are awaiting deportation back to the island nation

Yet only in 500 cases has Cuba allowed that determination

If convicted and sentenced to death or life without parole

He will fail in killing another human soul

But if a lesser sentence imposed and Cuba does not relent

Back out on the streets and another life in the future possibly spent

© April 28, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

How To Fix Immigration System

The news on the border crisis just keeps getting worse

Yet Blues refuse to cross the aisle to a worsening disaster reverse

We face the likelihood of at least 1,000, 000 illegals crossing into this land

The adverse impact on our economy, safety, social services will be hard to withstand

The Blues are worse than MIA as their duty to defend the Constitution from all enemies is KIA

See no crisis, hear no crisis, behind their gated walls feel no crisis to this country on display

With MSM as lackeys for the Blues and leftist judges dishing up an injunctive brew

Scammed by asylum seekers our immigration policy is mortally sick

Yet if Blues dropped their 24/7 Trump resist, it is so easy to fix

Apply for asylum home country and if not applied or if denied

When caught immediately deported for laws against crossing defied

End the magnet of $100 billion of illegal alien aid

Add more agents and courts and build the Wall to our security upgrade

Newsome like most leftist politicians is out of his mind

Free medical care for illegals, surely he must be blind

Eliminate the inanity of sanctuary cities

Fine and jail those who hire illegals without pity

Admit temporary workers so critical vacancies can be filled

Tax the remittances sent home to reduce incentive to near nil

© April 28, 2019 Michael P. Ridley

A Time To Heal

Religious intolerance spawning violence continues to stalk the land

It is time for humanity to against it and its violence make a stand

A place of worship, a church, mosque, or synagogue should be a safe haven

From all manner of shooters and bombers who are completely craven

In Poway on the last day of Passover a small butcher’s bill

Only 3 wounded and 1 killed

In Sri Lanka 8 bombings killing 359 Christians

By jihadists on a Paradise one way ticket mission

In Kiwi land in 2 bombings a butcher’s bill of 29

Muslim innocents cut down by a heinous crime

1 shooting or bombing creates the need for revenge inflamed

No matter how many police the waves of killings are not tamed

Hard for Christians to be able to turn the other cheek

When their elimination from even the Holy Lands the jihadists try to seek

Too often from the imams only the sounds of silence do we hear

The chasm between the religions widens and will not disappear

Time for religious leaders of all faiths to forcefully teach

Killing another of a different faith means Paradise or Heaven you will not reach

The Paradise or Heaven you have in sacrificing your life have sought

Will fail and go completely for naught

A jihadist will find the gates of Paradise blocked

Condemned to eternal damnation with pigs as a shock

Christians and Jews will find the gates of Heaven closed

Into Hell and the fires of Hell across their souls for eternity to blow

© April 28, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

April 28, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Worker Memorial Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 28, 2019  AOC may tout herself as a breath of save the planet fresh air but her ethics are that of a typical political hack for which she has been snared in having a fund run in Queens and pocketing the registration fees for her campaign; she has also waded in to support Bernie Sanders’ plan to allow felons to vote including terrorists like the Boston Bomber while they are still in prison; the Poway synagogue shootings John Earnest was supposedly motivated by the New Zealand mosques killings (another example of deranged people wanting to ape in a copycat fashion while a hero wounded in the leg was found in the likes of Almog Peretz who led several children to safety while the gunman was spraying bullets); Kamala Harris is back in the news pandering that she will fight to end right to work laws which are a great engine for growth and grant workers the ability not to join a union (SCOTUS has just ruled that unions cannot force nonmembers from paying union dues) and true to form threatened Congress that if they did not act, she would be executive fiat implement gun control regulations like background checks; Arnold Schwartzenegger is a proud father as his “love child” son has graduated from Pepperdine University; the Oracle of Omaha must have great genes in addition to his stock picking skills as his daily diet includes 5 Cokes, MacDonald’s and Dairy Queen; Trump and White House staffers will again skip the White House Press Conference Dinner (who can blame him for not wanting to listen to some politically biased comedian personally attacking him); the child sexual abuses plaguing the Catholic Church are alive and well as the Archdiocese of New York released the names of 115 priests and 5 deacons against whom there is credible accusations that they have sexually abused children;  through April 27, 2019 659 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 127 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 Celine Dion, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are free of paranym, and  a relevant quote from Joe Klein on torture at Abu Ghraib, 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. Workers Memorial Day—created by the AFL-CIO to honor the memory of the thousands of workers killed or maimed while on the job and to promote worker safety.

2. Great Poetry Reading Day—celebrating reading great poetry especially in conjunction with romantic poems written on Kiss Your Mate Day with a suggestion that www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com is the place to go.

     3. 1998 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1998 on a run of 2 weeks in that position was “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIPqafd4As.

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 “paranym” which means a word whose meaning is altered to conceal evasion which describes many of the slogans and speeches of politicians to a tee.

5. Burns Had An Eye For Talent—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1941 noted singer, dancer and actress Ann-Margaret Ollson better known as Ann Margaret who was nominated for an Academy Award in the movie Carnal Knowledge and was discovered by George Burns in Las Vegas.

       On this day in:                                        

a. 1952 General Dwight Eisenhower resigned as commander of NATO.

b. 1967 Mohammad Ali refused induction into the army and was stripped of his title and banned from boxing.

c. 1975 Cao Văn Viên the South Vietnamese head of the armed forces for South Vietnam departed for the U.S. as North Vietnamese forces approached Saigon.

d. 1994 Aldrich Ames pled guilty to giving secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole where he now rots.

e. 2004 CBS aired a documentary on the sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib detention facility by American soldiers. 

        Reflections on the torture at Abu Ghraib: “If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.” Joe Klein, noted political columnist 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.

© April 27, 2019  Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

April 27, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Veterinary Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 27, 2019  Billionaire Tom Steyer has been blasted by Trump for his impeachment push that can’t find any buyers; William Rose attending the NRA speech by President Trump has proved the adage that guns and alcohol do not mix as he was arrested for allegedly throwing a cell at Trump while he was approaching the podium (he is undergoing mental evaluation while the Secret Service is investigating whether he meant any harm; all is not calm with the NRA as its president Oliver North announced that he would not serve a second term (Dana Loesch would be a logical choice to succeed him); Senator Kyrsten Sinema has indicated she is a no vote on impeachment (she won a close race in a Red state and can read the tea leaves and probably would like a second term); breast cancer surgeon Rachel Wellner was awarded $1.2 million against the NYPD for excessive force; on the academic PC front Cal State University Long Beach is ditching its mascot Prospector Pete on grounds that the California Gold Rush harmed indigenous people (without the Gold Rush California would still be part of Mexico); China is funding a 250 mile railroad from its Yunnan Province to the capital of Laos Vietianne with work done mostly by Chinese; on the anti-Semite front, a man has been arrested for a shooting incident that killed 1 and wounded 3 at a synagogue in Poway, California;  through April 25, 2019 643 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 126 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 The Notorious B.I.G., factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are free of any paralogising, and  a relevant quote from Whitney Houston on being a teacher or a vet, 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 Veterinary Day—created by the World Veterinary Association in 2000 and celebrated on the last Saturday in April to honor the contributions of veterinarians to the health and well being of our pets.

2. Independent Bookstore Day—celebrated on the last Saturday in April to promote shopping at independent bookstores and used bookstores that expose a wide range of selections to the reading public and are alive and well in the era of digital books.

3. 1997 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1997 on a run of 3 weeks in that position was

“Hypnotize” by The Notorious B.I.G. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glEiPXAYE-U.

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 “paralogise” which means to reason falsely which describes AOC’s thought process to a tee.

5. Who Is Spartacus—celebrating or bemoaning as the case may be the birthday on this day in 1969 of Senator and Presidential primary candidate Cory Booker who for a gift  on his 50^th birthday needs to be freed of his proclivity to paralogize when in comes to immigration and the economy.

       On this day in:                                        

a. 1974 10,000 marched in Washington, D.C.,  calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon.

b. 1981 Xerox PARC introduced the computer mouse.

c. 1987 the U.S. Department of Justice banned former Nazi Austrian President Kurt Waldheim and his Nazi wife Elizabeth from entering the U.S. due to his role as a Nazi deporting Jews to death camps during World War II.

d. 2005 the Airbus 380 flew its test maiden flight.

e. 2018 the Panmunjom Declaration was signed by North Korea and South Korea bringing an end to the Korean conflict. 

        Reflections on dreams of becoming a veterinarian: “I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.” Whitney Houston What a great voice and what a tragedy her early death was.

        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.

© April 27, 2019  Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

Short Memory Joe of Obama Scandals

Joe Biden is the undisputed master of the gaff

Like Trump’s tweet habit probably cannot be controlled by staff

His opening campaign salvo claims Obama’s eight years were free from scandal

Such a short memory on how Fast and Furious was handled

Or in a blatant effort to conservative views suppress

He unleashed upon the Tea Party his weaponized IRS

Or the total incompetence of his DHS

To create a website for the ACA that was the laughing stock and did not impress

Or letting a quid quo pro queen at Secretary of State fill up her and her foundation’s purse

While we were fleeced in the Uranium One transfer how could it get worse

On Benghazi asleep at the switch pedaling the it's a video as the cause

An Ambassador and three Americans dead because of stand down order flawed

Joe has jumped on the 20^th donkey in hopes of to the White House be riden

Not realizing the his party has moved so far to the left to no longer accept Biden

AOC is usually completely in her views out to lunch

In capability to the trillions for the Green New Deal crunch

But here on Biden she claims his candidacy would be motion back

She’s right to rising unemployment and a job creating growth rate to lack

Back to the growth rates during the Obama years of less than three percent

Millions added to poverty and millions to the food stamp lines being sent

For 8 years on both the domestic and foreign front

No home runs, triples or doubles only a few singles and fouls on second strike bunts

© April 26, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

April 26, 2019 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Intellectual Property Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 26, 2019 Brennan is outraged that allegations are swirling that the CIA was instrumental in using the Anti-Trump Steele Dossier to obtain FISA warrants, calling Trump sociopathic (of the great derelictions of duty by Mueller and his band of Blue hacks was his failure to probe in the creation and dissemination of the dossier);  Cook County Judge Marc Martin has castigated Kimberly Foxx for a double standard of justice by prosecuting a woman for filing a false police report but dropping charges against Smollett as her ethics head has resigned (wonder if the fact that Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff’s contacting her had anything to do with the decision?); the gaffer in chief Joe Biden has opened his campaign with a softball appearance on the clueless The View while one of his top campaign advisers Simone Sanders has been caught on tape in November of 2016 after the November 2016 election that the Democratic Party should not be led by white men (time for Biden to start appearing in black face?); on the issue of immigration finally the rays of sanity are being revealed in the Sunshine State as a bill banning sanctuary cities is moving toward being voted on; Newton, Massachusetts District Court Judge Shelley Joseph and her court officer Wesley MacGregor have been indicted for obstruction of justice by aiding an illegal to escape from ICE out the back door of her court room; on the anti-Trump 24/7 front the Washington Post has slammed Sarah Sanders for holding a mock press conference for children of the press corp and staffers on Bring Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day; Illegal alien from Honduras Carlos Zuniga Aviles, who has been charged with murdering a 4 month old infant after paternity tests proved he was not his son, had been previously deported 5 times through our porous open border; an illegal alien has been arrested in the brutal murder of San Jose resident Bambi Larson in February and in a brilliant sting operation at a bogus University of Farmington in Michigan over 600 illegal aliens from India have been arrested or are voluntarily leaving after signing up for computer classes (when will the Blues come on board with border security so we can create more opportunities for merit based immigration to fill the jobs that are open?); on the public health front, hundreds of students have been quarantined at UCLA and Cal State L.A. due to measles (painful reminder what can happen when the vaccination rate falls); through April 25, 2019 639 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 125 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 Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are free of any paragnosia of why socialism is doomed to fail, and  a relevant quote from Svetlana Alexievich on the Chernobyl disaster, 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 Intellectual Property Day—created by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2000 to promote awareness of how patents, copyrights, trademarks and designs impact our daily life and to celebrate creativity  and the contributions of creators and innovators to society.

2. National Arbor Day—celebrated on the last Friday in April and started in 1872 Julius and Caroline Morton who proposed that the state of Nebraska create a day dedicated to the planting of trees which was a great success such that it became a state holiday on April 22, 1875 the day of Morton’s birthday.

3. 1996 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1996 on a run of 16 weeks in that position was “One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxRyNvTPr8.

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 “paragnosia” which means a misunderstanding which is what the left will gravely suffer if they believe socialists can win the presidency of this nation.

5. King of Queens--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1965 of noted comedian Kevin Knipfing better known to his fans as Kevin James and best known for his starring role on King of Queens. He is still making people laugh on the silver screen and on TV.

       On this day in:                                        

a. 1956 the SS Ideal X, the world’s first container ship set sail from New Jersey bound for Houston, Texas.

b. 1981 Doctor Michael Harrison at the University of California Medical Center performed the first open fetal surgery on a fetus still in the womb.

c. 1986 Reactor Number 4 at Chernobyl in the Ukraine experienced a core nuclear meltdown and spewed radio active material into the atmosphere making it one of the worst nuclear power plant disasters of all time.

d. 2005 under international pressure Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000 troops from occupation duty in Lebanon, ending 29 years of military domination of that ravaged country.

e. 2018 at Bill Cosby’s retrial following a mistrial, Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of sexual abuse and later sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison which sentence and guilty verdict is under appeal. 

        Reflections on the disaster at Chernobyl providing a hint of the effects of socialism and communism:  “It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population. The literature on the subject is pretty unanimous in its opinion that the Soviet system had taken a poorly designed reactor and then staffed it with a group of incompetents. It then proceeded, as the interviews in this book attest, to lie about the disaster in the most criminal way. In the crucial first ten days, when the reactor core was burning and releasing a steady stream of highly radioactive material into the surrounding areas, the authorities repeatedly claimed that the situation was under control. . . In the week after the accident, while refusing to admit to the world that anything really serious had gone wrong, the Soviets poured thousands of men into the breach. . . The machines they brought broke down because of the radiation. The humans wouldn't break down until weeks or months later, at which point they'd die horribly.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

        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.

© April 26, 2019  Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

April 24. 2019 Ridley's BBelieve It Or Not Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day 3

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 24, 2019 the Sri Lanka Easter bombings are the terrorist gift that keeps on giving as the death toll has now risen to 359 as the FBI is on the ground there assisting Sri Lanka authorities after ISIS has claimed responsibility; AOC must be spending too much time with her two Congressional radical Muslim friends as on Sri Lanka Easter bombings only sounds of silence on her end; Scott Israel whose hands reek with the smell of blood of the students killed at Parkland while his deputies cowered outside the school has been slammed by the Florida Supreme Court who upheld the governor’s right to suspend him for malfeasance; the U.S. is being plagued with an e-coli outbreak in ten states from hamburger meat (time to make sure one’s burgers are cooked well done); AOC remains remarkably consistent when it comes to her making a complete fool out of herself by in a sparsely attended town hall claiming that the VA provides excellent medical care to veterans (she as a proponent like Sanders of a single payer system has to make that false claim as the quality and availability of health care under a government run health care system would be a disaster); Boeing is being hammered by the 737 Max groundings due to two fatal plane crashes with earnings down $1 billion; on the automobile safety front the U.S. is expanding its investigation to over 12 million autos where collision air bags may be defective and not deploying when a crash occurs; Kim is meeting with Putin today in Russia on economic issues between the two countries but probably not on the need to denuclearize North Korea (if Russia enters into new trade agreements do we have anyt additional sanctions to employ against Russia?); enroute to a opioid summit President Trump announced he would fight the subpoenas issued by the House committees which are hell bent on continuing to do a post Mueller investigation of him and his finances (impeachment is the new scarlet letter that will hopefully sink the Blues in 2020); through April 23, 2019 627 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 120 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 R. Kelly, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you enjoy parabolists’ parables, and  a relevant quote from Patrick Kennedy on the Armenian Genocide, 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. Armenian Genocide Rembrance Day—commemorating the genocide by Turkey of its population of Armenians which began when Turkey started to expel Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople on this day in 1915 and which was first observed 1919.

2. Fashion Revolution Day— created in 2013 by two UK fashion designers Carry  Somers and Orsola de Castro in response to the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1133 garment workers and injured another 2,000 on this day in 2913 and celebrated on this day in 2014 to urge safer working conditions for garment workers around the world.

3. 1994 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1994 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Bump ‘n Grind” by R. Kelly. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXxkNaRkp8

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 “parabolist” which means the teller of parables, the most famous of whom was Christ.

5. A Sticky Wicket For Sure--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1973 of Sachin Tendular, considered by many to be the best cricket player of our life time who fortunately for opposing teams has retired from the sport.

       On this day in:                                        

a. 1953 Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

b. 1957 the Suez Canal is officially reopened after the insert of UB Peacekeepers.

c. 1990 8 U.S. servicemen died in a failed operation Eagle Claw designed to rescue the hostages held at the American Embassy in Tehran.

d. 1996 The Anti Effective Terrorism Death Penalty Act making it far easier to execute terrorists who committed terrorist acts against the U. S. was passed by the Congress.

e. 2004 in an act which Kim should take to heart, the U.S. lifted economic sanctions against Libya due to its abandonment of its nuclear weapons program.    

        Reflections on the Armenian Genocide which the Turks to this day have yet to accept as a fact: “Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.’ Patrick J. Kennedy son of Ted Kennedy and from Representative

        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.

© April 24, 2019  Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 24, 2019 the Sri Lanka Easter bombings are the terrorist gift that keeps on giving as the death toll has now risen to 359 as the FBI is on the ground there assisting Sri Lanka authorities after ISIS has claimed responsibility; AOC must be spending too much time with her two Congressional radical Muslim friends as on Sri Lanka Easter bombings only sounds of silence on her end; Scott Israel whose hands reek with the smell of blood of the students killed at Parkland while his deputies cowered outside the school has been slammed by the Florida Supreme Court who upheld the governor’s right to suspend him for malfeasance; the U.S. is being plagued with an e-coli outbreak in ten states from hamburger meat (time to make sure one’s burgers are cooked well done); AOC remains remarkably consistent when it comes to her making a complete fool out of herself by in a sparsely attended town hall claiming that the VA provides excellent medical care to veterans (she as a proponent like Sanders of a single payer system has to make that false claim as the quality and availability of health care under a government run health care system would be a disaster); Boeing is being hammered by the 737 Max groundings due to two fatal plane crashes with earnings down $1 billion; on the automobile safety front the U.S. is expanding its investigation to over 12 million autos where collision air bags may be defective and not deploying when a crash occurs; Kim is meeting with Putin today in Russia on economic issues between the two countries but probably not on the need to denuclearize North Korea (if Russia enters into new trade agreements do we have anyt additional sanctions to employ against Russia?); enroute to a opioid summit President Trump announced he would fight the subpoenas issued by the House committees which are hell bent on continuing to do a post Mueller investigation of him and his finances (impeachment is the new scarlet letter that will hopefully sink the Blues in 2020); through April 23, 2019 627 people  have been shot in Chicago of whom 120 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 R. Kelly, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you enjoy parabolists’ parables, and  a relevant quote from Patrick Kennedy on the Armenian Genocide, 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. Armenian Genocide Rembrance Day—commemorating the genocide by Turkey of its population of Armenians which began when Turkey started to expel Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople on this day in 1915 and which was first observed 1919.

2. Fashion Revolution Day— created in 2013 by two UK fashion designers Carry  Somers and Orsola de Castro in response to the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1133 garment workers and injured another 2,000 on this day in 2913 and celebrated on this day in 2014 to urge safer working conditions for garment workers around the world.

3. 1994 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1994 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Bump ‘n Grind” by R. Kelly. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXxkNaRkp8

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 “parabolist” which means the teller of parables, the most famous of whom was Christ.

5. A Sticky Wicket For Sure--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1973 of Sachin Tendular, considered by many to be the best cricket player of our life time who fortunately for opposing teams has retired from the sport.

       On this day in:                                        

a. 1953 Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

b. 1957 the Suez Canal is officially reopened after the insert of UB Peacekeepers.

c. 1990 8 U.S. servicemen died in a failed operation Eagle Claw designed to rescue the hostages held at the American Embassy in Tehran.

d. 1996 The Anti Effective Terrorism Death Penalty Act making it far easier to execute terrorists who committed terrorist acts against the U. S. was passed by the Congress.

e. 2004 in an act which Kim should take to heart, the U.S. lifted economic sanctions against Libya due to its abandonment of its nuclear weapons program.    

        Reflections on the Armenian Genocide which the Turks to this day have yet to accept as a fact: “Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.’ Patrick J. Kennedy son of Ted Kennedy and from Representative

        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.

© April 24, 2019  Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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