Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For May 14, 2019 Comey and those involved in the failed attempt at the FBI
to take down a sitting president should be sweating blood as Barr has named a
District Attorney in Connecticut Durham to investigate the origin of the
Russian counter intelligence probe who in stealth mode has already been
investigating; another Blue, Montana Governor Bullock, has thrown his hat into
the crowded field of 22 candidates pursuing the Quixote dream of becoming
president with many of them like the illegal alien supporter queen Kamala
Harris promising full medical care to illegals (what this leftist ideologue
fails to grasp is the reality that Medicare for all including illegals means Medicare
for none, including the millions of seniors who have paid into the system);
Rashida Tlaib continues to disgrace the House with here anti-Semite remarks
with the idiotic claim that her Palestinian ancestors provided a haven for Jews
fleeing from the Holocaust (this anti-Semite on late night TV was claiming that
anyone who slams her anti-Semite claims is a racist idiot and should be talked
down to like 4th graders); AOC and Sanders fresh off their idea to
cap credit card rates and thereby closing ability of high risk borrowers to
obtain credit and increase bank’s risk have come up with the “brilliant” idea
of allowing the Post Office to offer banking services such as loans and savings accounts when the Postal
Service continues to lose billions and is devoid of expertise in that field;
disgraced pervert Anthony Weiner will soon leave a halfway house and register
as a sex offender; Megan Rapinoe a star on the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team is
being slammed for her taking a knee as the team begins its defense of its World
Cup Championship; on the political correctness front the Texas Senate is moving
forward with a bill banning discrimination by businesses like Chick-Fil-A based
on its religious beliefs (hopefully the Texas House will come to its senses and
pass the bill also); on the academic political correctness front spoiled
students at Harvard have forced the university to not renew a house dean
position of a Harvard professor whose has joined the Harvey Weinstein defense
team because students felt threatened (what a total crock making a mockery of
the proposition of innocent until proven guilty and the 5th Amendment
right to a fair trial; replaying the past when Coca-Cola contained cocaine, a
heir to the Coca-Cola fortune was arrested when a search of his private jet in
St. Kitts uncovered 5,000 marijuana plants and $1.3 million of cannabis on board;
44 states and Puerto Rico have filed and
anti-trust suit against generic drug manufacturers alleging price fixing and
collusion; through May 12, 2019 775 people
have been shot in Chicago of
whom 151 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).
1. Dance
Like a Chicken Day—dedicated
to the “Chicken Song” written by accordion player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland
in 1955.
2. Stars and Stripes
Forever Day—celebrating
the first public performance of John Phillip Souza’s most famous march “The
Stars and Stripes Forever” on this day in 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on
the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of George Washington.
3. 2009
Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 2009 on a run of 12 weeks in
that position was “Boom Boom Pow” by the Black Eyed Peas. Here is a recording
of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m48GqaOz90
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 “parvanimity” which means smallness of mind
which unfortunately describes many of our politicians to a tee.
5. Dream
Lover—celebrating the birth on this day in 1936 of
noted singer and songwriter Walden Robert Cassotto better known to his fans as
Bobby Darin having taken the last name by looking at the neon sign for a
Mandarin Chinese food restaurant where the “man” was not working. He was a
sickly children and fought several bouts with rheumatic fever overhearing a doctor’s
prediction that he would not live past 16 which spurred him to a short meteoric
career which ended on December 20, 1973 after having open heart surgery to
repair a rheumatic fever damaged heart valve from which he never regained consciousness.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Black
Eyed Peas, factoids of interest for
this day in history, the fact that you are not cursed with parvanimity,
and a relevant quote from Chief Justice William Rehnquist on DUI, 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.
On
this day
in:
a. 1878 the last
witchcraft trial in the U.S. began in Salem, Massachusetts after being filed by
Lucretia Brown against Charles Spofford, only to be dismissed by the judge in
favor of the defendant.
b. 1913 the
Rockefeller Foundation was issued a charter by New York and commenced
operations with a $100 million donation by John D. Rockefeller (the equivalent
of $2,581,292,929 in today’s dollars.
c. 1961 the Freedom
Riders Bus was firebombed near Anniston, Alabama and the riders attacked by an
angry mob of whites.
d.
1973 Skylab, America’s first space
station was successfully launched into orbit.
e. 1988 near Carrolton,
Kentucky Larry Mahoney with a BAT of .24% two hours after the crash drove this
truck into a bus used by a church group, killing 27 people aboard it. He was
convicted of manslaughter and served 10 years 11 months and in a silver lining
the crash led to the formation of MADD and increased sentences for DUI.
Reflections
on dui from Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 1990: "No one can seriously
dispute the magnitude of the problem...drunken drivers cause an annual death
toll of over 25,000." --from the Supreme Court decision allowing sobriety
checkpoints.
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.
© May 14 , 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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