Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 23, 2019 While Blue run cities are awash in
homeless, San Diego the largest city run by a Red Mayor has seen its homeless
population drop by 6% while to the north L.A.’s homeless population has soared
by 16 %; another Don Quixote, retired admiral and former Congressman Joe Sestak,
has announced he is running for president on the Blue ticket bringing the total
to 25 ( he will have the distinction of probably being the only sane person among
this pathetic group of leftists); another police officer gunned down, this time
in Sacramento in an ambush that took the life of rookie officer Tara O’
Sullivan with the alleged suspect Adel Sambrano Ramos with a criminal rap sheet
in custody after an eight hour standoff; in a glowing example of persistence can
pay off, Wilkin Castillo, injured while playing for the Cincinnati Reds 10
years ago after a 10 year odyssey of bouncing around the minor leagues returned
to the Miami Marlins to hit a winning two run double; in North Carolina lottery
players were excited to learn they had won the state’s $7.8 million prize only
to learn that more than 2,000 players had picked the numbers, thereby reducing
their winnings to less than $3,900 each (prophetic that the numbers picked were
0-0-0-0); Beth Chapman, the wife of
Duane Dog Chapman, is in a medically induced coma battling throat cancer (she
is not a smoker but Duane is a heavy one and there is speculation that her
cancer is from second hand smoke; new report is out detailing that the U.S.
leads the world in the amount of human sex trafficking and not just because
illegals are bringing children with them to scam the asylum system and sadly
law enforcement is not devoting a lot of dollars to address the problem; Mark
Morgan, the acting director of ICE has proclaimed that the president’s delay of
sweeps that were supposed to start this weekend and delayed to see if Congress
can craft a solution will not impair his goal of deporting illegals here in the
nation (given the Blues’ quest for an open border, don’t hold your breath on
Congress coming to the table to solve this problem); in a reaffirmation of
adage that luxury sells, Bernard Arnault of the luxury goods maker luxury goods
maker LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton has just joined the $100 billion net
worth club now populated by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates; through June 21, 2019 1165
people have been shot in Chicago of whom 220 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 have a suspect being charged this year).
1. International
Widows Day—created by the Loomba Foundation and celebrated since 2006 as a
UN sponsored observance to highlight the plight of the hundreds of millions of
widows around the globe who suffer from poverty and social stigmatization due
to the deaths of their husbands.
2. United
Nations Public Service Day—created by the UN General Assembly in
2003 to commemorate and honor those engaged in providing public service to their
communities.
3. 1952 Number One Song—the
number one song on this day in 1952 for 2 weeks in that position was “Here In
My Heart” by Al Martino. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCgmhrJtMFI Considered one of the great Italian-American
pop singers, his heart ran out of room for life and he died of a heart attack 6
days after his 82nd birthday on October 13. 2009.
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 “perissology” which means pleonasm or using
more words than necessary which is what we often have to endure from long-winded
politicians.
5. Marriage
CEO:—celebrating the birth on this day in 1929 of June Carter Cash,
noted singer, songwriter, and author who won 5 Grammys and was married to
Johnny Cash for 33 years many of which both struggled with addiction but had a
love so strong that Johnny Cash died four months after June died on May 15,
2003 from complications in a heart valve transplant surgery.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Al
Martino, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact
that you refrain from using perissology in your speech patterns, a quote by
Gwen Moore on access by females to contraception, 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. 1960 in a let the
good times roll moment; the FDA announced the approval of Envid produced by
Searle as an oral birth control contraceptive.
b. 1972 President
Nixon and his Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman were caught on tape on using the
C.I.A. to obstruct the F.B.I. investigation of the Watergate break-in.
c. 1972 Title IX of
United States of Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to prohibit sexual
discrimination in any educational program receiving federal funding.
d. 2013 Nick Wallenda
became the first person to successfully walk over the Grand Canyon on a
tightrope.
e. 2016 the UK votes 52
to 48% to leave the European Union and after almost three years finds itself
not withdrawn as Theresa May’s party has frustrated the will of the people
voting in favor of the referendum.
Reflections on oral contraception:
“It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including
contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they
have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth
control just makes good sense.” Gwen Moore, Black Blue Congresswoman from
Wisconsin a Whip of the Black Caucus
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 oe 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.
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 oe 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 23, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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