Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 23, 2019 HRC continues to play
the role of Marvin K. Moody and will not leave the political scene indicating
that nothing could be clearer than Trump obstructed justice (if anyone can
assert that anyone else would have been indicted it would be this nonindicted
felon for her handling of classified material on her server and her destruction
of emails subpoenaed); Sanders has expanded his call to let felons vote while
in prison and included the Boston Bomber currently on death row (Sanders as the
face of the new Democratic Party has lost his mind on this issue); Blues had
their conference call yesterday as Pelosi is trying to put a damper on calls
for impeachment of Trump which zealots like Maxine Waters and Elizabeth Warren
(whose campaign seems to be going nowhere) are clamoring for (given what
happened to the Reds after their failed impeachment of Bill Clinton this pro
Trumper hopes that the Blues impeach Trump and then crash and burn in the 2020
elections); AOC’s delusions continue to defy any test of sanity as she defended
the VA’s health care at a town hall (she obviously has not talked to any
whistle blowers or the families of vets who had to bury a vet because of delay
in seeing a doctor causing a disease to become fatal or a delay causing a
suicide); AOC’s inane remarks have prompted three Red challengers in her
district who are reputed to have the back of a wealthy donor (I am sure that
Pelosi would leap for joy if AOC gets tossed in 2020); the city by the bay has
become the city of feces, urine and used needles with a map showing their location
in parks, sidewalks and streets to prove it; the death toll in Sri Lanka’s
Easter bombings has risen to 321 and the number arrested now totals 40 as the
government warned there are people with explosives still on the run (sadly the
heinous ideology of radical Islam is still alive and well and defying all
efforts to eradicate it https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2019/04/sri-lanka-easter-bombings.html;
on the measles epidemic front in New York City, five parents have filed a law
suit to block the city’s requirement that children under the age of 18 be
vaccinated before entering public places; Mohammed Zahran, a radical Muslim
cleric whose on line sermons include the call that non-Muslims be eliminated,
is being identified as one of the suicide bombers and the mastermind behind the
eight bombings on Easter in Sri Lanka; Smollett is still in the adverse legal
news was the two brothers involved in the hoax have sued his attorney for
defamation; on the legal front the 6th Circuit has ruled that
chalking a vehicle of a public street as a basis for determining whether the
vehicle has exceeded time restrictions on parking violates the 4th
Amendment and questions from SCOTUS in oral argument suggest that the court
will overrule the 9th Circuit and allow the Census Bureau to include
questions on citizenship (California with the largest number of illegals will
be hit the hardest if illegals are tossed out from the calculation in determining
population and thereby determining the amount of federal aid a state receives
and given the fact that illegals are costing the nation $100 billion in federal aid, reversal would be
a good step in reducing the incentive to come here); through April 22, 2019 622
people have been shot in Chicago of whom 118 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 Snow,
factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you are free
from parablepis if you are a scribe, and a relevant quote from Frank
da Cruz on the occupation of Columbia by
students protesting the Vietnam War, 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 Pixel-Stained Techno-Peasant Day—created by author
Jo Walton on this day in 2007 to promote the posting on the internet of
professional quality writings for free.
2. UN English Language Day— created by the UN to promote the usage of
English as one of the organization’s six official languages.
3. 1993 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1993 on a run of 7 weeks in
that position was “Informer” by Snow. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNsDDYY-C-o
This
Canadian reggae artist is still going strong at 49.
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 “parablepsis” which means an error by a
scribe in copying text because of a mistake in skipping over it or looking to
the side.
5. Induction May Kill You--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1936 of noted singer and
song writer Roy Orbison best remembered for “Pretty Woman” and “Only the Lonely”
who was a heavy smoker after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 1986 died of a heart attack on December 6, 1987.
On this day
in:
a. 1914 the Chicago Cubs played their first game at Wrigley
Field then known as Weeghman Park.
b. 1941 King George II and the Greek government evacuated
Athens ahead of the invading Wehrmacht.
c. 1968 students protesting the war in Vietnam took over the
administration building at Columbia University and shut down the university for
a week before being violent ejected by the NYPD with over 700 being arrested.
d. 1985 in a reaffirmation of the adage “if it’s not broke don’t
fix it” Coca Cola changed its recipe in a move that was not well received by consumers
and was forced to pull the new product off the shelves in three months.
e. 2005 the first YouTube Video “Me at the Zoo” was released by
user “jawed.”
Reflections on the
occupation of Columbia University by a student who was there: “I spent the week
in Low Library. There was a carnival atmosphere the first day, with press
photographers and reporters from magazines, the local newspapers, etc
(the Post was fair, the News was atrocious,
but the Times was beyond belief – small wonder, considering
the connections. There was an unforgettable, Felliniesque visit from a faculty member
who swooped the window in full academic regalia Batman like, to
"reason" with us. Security guards and office workers brought us
snacks.Life magazine (May 10, 1968) ran a cover story featuring
pictures taken in Low, including my favorite: a group of us seated on the
carpet, each with a Grayson Kirk face, complete with pipe (from President
Kirk's desk drawer, which was stocked with dozens of 8x10 glossy book-jacket
poses).” Frank da Cruz, student at Columbia in 1968
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© April 23,, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the
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