Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 29, 2019 After being excoriated by the illegal alien
queen Harris who brazenly is and condemned for offering T-shirts with the logo “That Little
Girl Was Me,”, Spartacus chimed in against Biden slamming him for insensitive racial
language when on Friday he claimed the the “next kid wearing a hoodie could be
the next poet laureate (disagree with Biden’s policies and economic record but
Blues behind him are becoming way to PC sensitive); at the G-20 Trump hit back
at Carter for his claim that Trump was an illegitimate president due to Russian
meddling and asserted he was a terrible president which he was and slammed
Harris for getting too much credit in the debate (wonder what nickname he will
pick for the illegal alien queen to torpedo her candidacy?); on the Chinese
tariff wars, Trump announced at the G-20 that Chinese telecom giant Huawei will
be allowed to purchase goods from American suppliers and reports indicate that
the U.S. may delay imposing tariffs on an additional $300 billion of Chinese
goods as trade talks will continue (is Trump caving or part of a sound
negotiation strategy?); Luisa Alvarez, a first responder with the NYPD bomb
squad who testified with Jon Stewart before Congress on the lack of funding for
first responders who have come down with life threatening diseases due to
responding to 9/11 has died two weeks after his testimony from colon cancer
(not a stellar moment for our legislators especially Blues more concerned about
the welfare of illegals); in a 180 from Horace Greeley’s advice to “Go West” a
new study that to find affordable housing, prospective homeowners struggling to
find affordable housing to buy should look East especially Pittsburgh (values
may be down as many cheap houses are in the East where high taxes predominate
and people are leaving in droves flooding the markets with houses for sale);
Judge Haywood Gilliam, another unelected judge appointed by Barack Obama, has
quashed Trump’s plans to divert military funds to curtail the invasion that is
swamping our southern border and creating havoc with our security; an heir to
the Disney fortune, Abigail Disney, has called for a ‘wealth tax” to support
ameliorating the inequality of income (best way as Gates, Bezos and Zuckerberg
and others have proved is to support policies that encourage entrepreneurship
like lower taxes and less crushing regulations); through June 27, 2019 1221
people have been shot in Chicago of whom 227 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. World
Scleroderma Awareness Day—created by the Systemic Scleroderma
World Congress in Florence in 2010 to be celebrated on June 29, the birthday of
noted painter Paul Klee who suffered from the disease and died on this day in
1940; the disease is an auto immune disease that affects the connective tissue
and is life threatening with no known cure as of yet.
2. National
Camera Day—celebrating the invention of the camera which has changed the
world by creating records of what the world really is or what the viewer would
like to alter it to be and through the use of body cams, security cams, and ubiquitous
cell phone cams has made the world a much safer place albeit with some loss of
privacy as collateral damage.
3. 1958 Number One Song—the
number one song on this day in 1958 with 7 weeks in that position was “The
Purple People Eater* by Sheb Wooley. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE
The noted singer and actor was forced into retirement in 1999 and four years
later at the age of 82 on September 16, 2003,the leukemia Purple People Eater
visited him for the last time.
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 “perstringe” which means to restrain or
censure which describes to a tee what Pelosi needs to do with the antics of AOC,
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
5. Don’t Hold the Mayo—celebrating the birth on
this day in 1861 of noted American surgeon William James Mayo, co-founder of
the world renowned Mayo Clinic.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Sheb
Wooley, 5 factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that you avoid
are not subject to perstringe; at work, a quote by Tim Cook on the iPhone,
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. 1880 France annexed Tahiti.
b. 1956 the Federal
Aid Highway Act of 1956 was passed which created our Interstate Highway System.
c. 1975 Steve Wozniak
tested his prototype of the Apple I computer.
d. 2006 SCOTUS in Hamsden
v. Rumsfield ruled that the trial of Guantanamo detainees by military
tribunals was unconstitutional.
e. 2007 Apple released
its first mobile phone the iPhone.
Reflections on the iPhone: “I
think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about
it. And it's become so integrated and integral to our lives, you wouldn't think
about leaving home without it.” Tim Cook, president of Apple and commencement
speaker at Stanford this year.
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
29, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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