Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 30, 2019 Biden continues to display why he would be
in elected the Gaffe-in Chief when at a fund raiser in Seattle at the home of a
gay activist he stated that progress had been made by the GBGT community since
a joke by a businessman about a gay waiter 4 years ago would no longer be acceptable,
a comment not well received by the gay supporting audience; Castro has the gall
in view of resistance by his party and Obama appointed federal judges to Trump’s
attempts to seal the border to claim Trump has failed in his attempt to secure
the border (what a dismal hypocrite); Trump, Jr. was also attacked by Trump for
retweeting the obvious that Harris did not descend from American slaves by from
slaves of rich Jamaicans where slavery was abolished in 1834 with all slaves emancipated
in 1838 (if we are dumb enough to pass reparations, Harris will be sol to receive any); Trump and Kim met at the DMZ
in a photo op to push the narrative that talks on denuclearization are continuing
which the Blues castigated almost en masse that he was coddling dictators yet
on the other side of their hypocritical mouths they demand diplomacy instead of
military action with respect to Iran; in a sign that lake water purity is improving
in Lake Erie and the Great Lakes, millions of May flies have been swarming in
Ohio in swarms large enough to be detected on local weather radar systems;
Bernie Marcus the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot at age 90 is supporting
Trump, calls Sanders a clear and present danger to entrepreneurship and will
donate the bulk of his estate to his Marcus Foundation which among other things
is funding research in autism; Schwarzenegger’s love child was not invited to
his daughter Christine’s wedding with Chris Pratt as his two daughters have no
relationship to their half-brother; while the Blue candidates are in a rush to
judgment to adopt Medicare for all, Congressman Tim Ryan, barely registering in
the polls is castigating the plan which would end private insurance as “not the
way to go”: the political hack head of the DNC Tom Perez is defending the plan
to include medical care for illegals as it is not a “handout” (ignoring the fact
that millions who work illegally without social security are paid under the
table and contribute nothing in taxes on a drain on our social services); through
June 29, 2019 1247 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 229 have died
(what makes the Smollett case so frustrating and why the appointment of a
special prosecutor should be applauded, is that it forced the city of Chicago to
allocate scarce detective resources when in only 9% of the shootings resulting
in murder has a suspect being charged this year).
1. International
Asteroid Day—created in 2004 to commemorate the striking of the Earth at Tunguska,
Siberia on this day in 1908 by an asteroid that was the largest and most
damaging asteroid in modern times and to raise awareness of the need to create
defenses against strikes from major sized asteroids.
2. Social
Media Day—created by Mashable on June 30, 2010 to create awareness of the
impact of social media on global communication and increasingly to create
awareness of the ability of social media to censor conservative ideas and
impact election by driving viewers away from conservative sites.
3. 1959 Number One Song—the
number one song on this day in 1959 with 6 weeks in that position was “The Battle
of New Orleans* by Johnny Horton. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CnPv_1SVh0
The noted singer lost his battle with life as his career was taking off on
November 5, 1960 when he was killed at the far too early age of 35 on a highway
bridge in Texas by a drunk driver.
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 “pervicacious” which means obstinate which describes
the MSM anti-Trump bias in spades.
5. World’s Oldest Teenager—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1929 of the World’s Oldest Teenager, Dick Clark, host of American
Bandstand for almost 30 years, several game shows and New Years’ Eve
celebrations in Time Square until slowed by a stroke in 2004; Father Time
crossed the stage for him at age 82 on April 18, 2012 following prostate
surgery.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Johnny
Horton, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you avoid
being pervicacious in your discussions of issues; at work, a quote by Amy
Schumer on social media, 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. 1953 the first
Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
b. 1966 the National
Organization for Women was founded.
c. 1986 SCOTUS in Bowers
v. Hardwick ruled that states could ban homosexual acts between consenting
adults, a case which was overruled by SCOTUS in 2003 by Lawrence v. Tribe.
d. 1990 East Germany and
West Germany merged their two economies.
e. 2013 19 firefighters
died fighting wildfires near Yarnell, Arizona.
Reflections on social media
by a comedienne whose party wants to shadow ban conservative thought: “I'm
super grateful that there wasn't social media when I was a kid, but that sort
of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It's bullying. It's the comments here
and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don't even mean
to be a mean-spirited comment, but they'll just kind of say it to you in
passing.” Amy Schumer cousin of Chuck Schumer.
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June 30, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
