Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 3, 2019 On
the Congressional front, Nadler, who is about as bipartisan as a poisonous
adler ignores what by law the AG on Mueller’s report can release, has issued
subpoenas demanding release of the full, classified material and sources and
methods and all, totally unredacted Report (what a political hypocritical stunt
beneath the dignity of Congress); lying Schiff is doubling down that he has
evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians and his acts are unpatriotic and
corrupt (déjà vu of McCarthy’s rants about Communists in the State Department
and Army for which he was castigated for having no decency and censured-time
for this lying hack to put up or shut up, resign as Chairman and fade away into
deserved obscurity); in an address to Congress that Blues and the MSM does not
want you to hear and under the mantra of fake news will be omitted, the NATO
Secretary General indicated Trump’s approach to NATO is working and the member
nations are increasing their defense spending and more nations are reaching the
required 2% of GNP for defense; Beto O’Rourke gives another example of why he
is perceived as a spineless dork, walking back his opposition to Sharpton’s
demand for reparations, indicating he is amenable to studying the issue;
Huffman and Loughlin, mothers of students involved in the college admissions
scandals may be in hot water with the IRS for disguising their bribes as
charitable contributions; Brunei’s feudal sharia law code includes death by
stoning for adultery and homosexual sex (for once Clooney got it right urging a
boycott of all hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei by celebrities); Maduro and
his thug allies are ratcheting up the pressure against rival Juan Guaido by removing
his parliamentary immunity (do not be surprised in Juan is assassinated in the
near future and the country slides into economic oblivion due to its socialist
policies); the head of the DHS has returned to the U.S. continuing to raise the
alarm of a crisis as former Obama DHS officials weigh in to the same effect and
Trump plans a border visit to the border as plans move forward to close the
border due to Mexico’s unwillingness to stop the flow of immigrants across its
southern border while the Blues with their heads in the sand supported by their
MSM lackeys continue to blindly and deafly assert there is no crisis (a total
bunch of hear no crisis, see no crisis and behind their walled communities and
homes feel no crisis); Joe Biden whose campaign is on the verge of collapsing
before even announced appeared on video acknowledged time have changed and he
will in the future be much more mindful a person’s personal space; as of April
2, 2019 444 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 80 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 Daryl
Hall and John Oates, factoids of interest for this day in history, the
fact that you in your acts today are largely palmary; a relevant quote from a Harry
S. Truman on the Marshall Plan, 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. Global
Day of Engineers--celebrated on the first Wednesday in
April to honor the contributions of engineers to our society, culture and
economy.
2. American
Circus Day—commemorating the first performance
by a circus in the United States by John Ricketts in Philadelphia in 1793.
Although Barnum and Bailey closed its tents in 2017 there are still many
circuses in the U.S. that tour some with animal acts and others with none.
Great entertainment unless you are near the tiger cage and the animal decides
to relieve itself.
3. 1976
Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1977 on a run of 2 weeks
in that position was “Rich Girl” by Daryl Hall and Rich Oates. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHE65RAkSY
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 “palmary”
which means praiseworthy, an adjective sorely lacking in describing the actions
of politicians.
5. Name Is
Not A Baby Game—celebrating the birthday on this day
in 1971 of noted Olympic two time medal winner Picabo Street who after winning
a gold in 1998 ran into a fence in the World Cup fracturing her leg in several
places to come back to qualify to race in the 2002 Olympics but sadly finished
16th in her event and retired shortly thereaft.
On this day
in:
a. 1948 in a diplomatic move designed to prevent the
Soviet Union from expanding its influence in Europe devastated by WWII, President
Truman signed the Marshall Plan committing $5 billion in foreign aid to 16
nations.
b. 2000 In the anti-trust case of United States v.
Microsoft SCOTUS ruled that Microsoft had violated the anti-trust laws by
keeping an oppressive thumb on its competitors.
c. 2010 Apple released the first generation iPad, a tablet
computer.
d. 2016 a leak of documents which became known as the Panama
Papers from a tax law firm in Panama revealed the existence of over 214,000
offshore entities created most likely to avoid taxes.
e. 2018 in a rare case of a female mass shooting Nasim Aghdam
entered You Tube’s headquarters in San Bruno and shot and wounded three people
before turning the pistol on herself and shooting herself to death.
Reflections on the Marshall Plan from the person who signed it
into law: “I believe that, in years to
come, we shall look back upon this undertaking as the dividing line between the
old era of world affairs and the new -- the dividing line between the old era
of national suspicion, economic hostility, and isolationism, and the new era of
mutual cooperation to increase the prosperity of people throughout the world.
General Marshall will be known as one
of those who brought this new era into being. But he would be the first to
agree that it is more than the creation of statesmen. It comes from the minds
and hearts of all the people. Our peoples are united in their determination to
work together to deal with the basic problems of human life.” Harry S. Truman
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© April 3, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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