Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 10, 2019 A helicopter was forced to make a crash landing on the roof of the AXA Equitable Building in New York City, killing one person and starting a fire that was quickly put out; Joe Biden may be he leaing Blue but he is
attacking scorn from other Blue candidates like chum on the water attracts
sharks over his light campaign schedule, missing a big event in Iowa and his
trying to link himself to Obama (you think this is a frenzy wait until the
drumbeat over his quid pro quo for his son Hunter in Ukraine and China gets
more air time as Trump should worry that someone who can easily beat given his
pediculous record on the economy); while tourists in Dominican Republic seem to
be dying recently like flies, former Boston MLB player was shot and wounded in
a Dominican Republic bar but out of danger; another crack in the glass ceiling
as Brigadier General Laura Yaeger became the first woman to lead a U.S. Infantry
Division; Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles
Times not known for being anti-Blue, slammed Mayor Garcetti and other Blue
administration over the homeless explosion in L.A. while scarce public resources
are going aid illegal aliens in this city and state; Kyle Chrisley a star on Chrisley’s Family Knows Best has had meth possession charges in Oklahoma
dropped but faces a warrant from Georgia for threatening his ex-wife; in a sign that
people are fed up with China’s repressive regime, hundreds of thousands of Hong
Kong residents (1 in 7) in went to the streets to protest a proposed
extradition act by China enabling it to extradite Hong Kong residents back to
China;
the Venezuela
border with Columbia opened after 4 months and thousands fled across to buy
food, medicine and other necessities that are unavailable in Maduro’s
tyrannical failed country; John Dean, former White House Counsel to Nixon and
now a Cack News Network contributor and rabid anti-Trump is returning to
Capitol Hill to testify on his perceived parallels to the obstruction of
justice of Nixon and Trump (total showboating as he has squat firsthand
knowledge about Trump’s dealings in this Mueller witch-hunt); through June 9,
2019 1057 people have been shot in Chicago of whom 199 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. Alcoholics Anonymous Founders Day—celebrating in Dayton, Ohio the
founding of Alcoholics Anonymous a self help organization that has helped millions
to cope with the scourge of alcoholism on this day in 1935 by Doctor Bob Smith
and Bill Wilson.
2. Ball Point Pen
Day—celebrating
the filing of a patent for a ball point pen on this day in 1943 with the European
Patent Association by the Bíró brothers, László and György, who are
credited with the invention of the ballpoint pen which has totally supplanted
in terms of number and lack of mess the fountain pen.
3. 1941 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1941 was “My Sister and I” by Jimmy
Dorsey and His Orchestra on a run of 1 week in that position. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrAZmmTzYrg
Unfortunately this smoker had his baton taken away permanently by lung cancer
on June 12, 1957 while his last song “So Rare” was number 2 on the charts
representing his attempt to branch out into rock music.
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 “pejorate” which means to worsen which describes
to a tee what is happening on our southern border due to Blues’ refusal to
cross the aisle and solve the problem on an open border and illegal immigration.
5. Ace of the Yellow Brick Road—celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1922 of noted performer Frances Gumm better known to
her fans as Judy Garland who began performing in vaudeville at 2 ½, was most
noted for her role as Dorothy in The
Wizard of Oz, married 5 times and sadly battled addiction and alcohol abuse
to die of an overdose on June 22, 1969.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Jimmy Dorsey and His
Orchestra, 5 factoids of interest for this day
in history, the fact that you hope the voters will end the Blues’ attempt to
pejorate the border crisis; a quote by the Roman poet Ovid on the use of
alcohol versus naps.
On this day
in:
a. 1944 the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich delayed by French guerillas
while trying to reach Normandy to fight the Allies massacred 642 men, women and
children at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane.
b. 1963 President Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act
which banned pay discrimination based on sex.
c. 1964 the U.S. Senate ended a 75 day filibuster by Southern
Democrats to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
d. 1977 James Earl Ray convicted of the assassination of Martin
Luther King escaped from Bushy Mountain Prison in Petros, Tennessee but was
recaptured three days later.
e. 1991 11 year old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South
Lake Tahoe and was not found until August 26, 2009 when her kidnapper Phillip Girrido
was arrested along with his wife and both of them pled guilty to kidnapping and
rape (she had two daughters from his rapes) and were sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Reflections on avoiding the use of alcohol: “There’s more
refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the
alcohol ever distilled.” Ovid, noted early Roman poet.
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 for just This Day
in History go to www.Alaskanpoethistory.blogspot.com.
© June 10, 2019 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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