Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 9, 2019 After Oakland and Denver have voted to
decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, AOC has introduced a rider to allow medical
researchers to use mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs to treat diseases; DNC lackey Donna Brazile is on the airways
again touting that Russian collusion and interference cost HRC the election and
HRC still unable to accept her lost was before her alma mater claiming the Mueller
Report clearly shows obstruction of justice (it does but it is obstruction by
the top levels of the FBI, CIA, DOJ, State Department and HRC in her destruction
of emails and her devices); when it comes to delivering good medical care
without long waits that are potentially deadly, we all know the VA is a
disaster that defies correction regardless of the administration in power but
we now find that incompetence runs to VA home loan programs as the VA charged
53,000 disabled veterans approximately $189 million for home loan fees for
which they were exempt; Pelosi is rightfully getting push back for her inane
comment that she wants to see the president in jail, but not from Rhode Island
Representative Don Cecilline who is defending her (news flash Don there is a
great deal of difference between questioning the place of birth of Obama and
calling for prison time based on a bogus claim for obstruction after remaining
silent on HRC’s destruction of e-mail evidence and devices); Spike Lee has
joined the growing list of misguided celebrities calling for a boycott of
filming in Georgia (play with the fire of boycott and you can get burned as
conservatives pro lifers might launch a campaign to boycott his films a task
made easier by the sky high movie ticket prices); Fed Ex has announced that it
will not renew its contract with Amazon and instead focus on the growing
broader e-commerce market (wonder if this gives the Postal Service the chance
to raise prices on its contract with Amazon to the joy of President Trump?); the
LBGT couple that was attacked on a London bus by five young men learned today
that the attackers have been arrested but their religion has not been revealed
(may be of interest due to radical Islam’s penchant for throwing gays off of
buildings to their deaths); through June 8, 2019 1052 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. Coral Triangle Day—created to promote awareness of the need to protect and preserve
the largest bio-diverse area on the planet involving a triangular portion of Pacific
and Indian Oceans:
2. National Earl Day—created by Robert
Slack not to honor royalty but rather to honor since 2016 the accomplishments
of people named Earl from such people as Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of
SCOTUS, Earl the “Pearl” Munroe, Hall of Famer Basketball player, or Earl
Scruggs of the Foggy Mountain Boys who left an indelible mark on bluegrass
music with his guitar.
3. 1940 Number One Song—the number one song on this day in 1949 was “The Woodpecker Song”
by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on a run of 7 weeks in that position. Here is
a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QlQWa9CETE
Unfortunately his role as the leader of
the Army Air Force Band in World War II ended with his disappearance over the
English Channel while enroute to Paris from England on December 15,1944.
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 “peirastic” which means experimental or
tentative which explains why companies produce beta models before going into
full production.
5. There Goes the Fox Neighborhood—celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1944 of 23 foxhound puppies, all of whom survived, to W.N. Ely’s foxhound Lena of Ambler, PA.
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Glenn Miller and His
Orchestra, 5 factoids of interest for
this day in history, the fact that you always first build a peirastic
model before going into production.
On this day
in:
a. 1915 William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State
over the failure of Woodrow Wilson to ask for a Declaration of War following
the sinking of the Lusitania in May.
b. 1928 Charles Kingsford Smith landed a Fokker Trimotor
names the Southern Cross in
Australia to complete the first transpacific flight across the Pacific from Oakland
to Hawaii to Fuji to Australia.
c. 1959 the USS George Washington,
the world’s first nuclear ballistic missile submarine was launched.
d. 1973 Secretariat became the first horse in 25 years to win
the Triple Crown, winning the Belmont Stakes by a record 31 lengths
e. 1978 in a what took you so long moment the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints opened up its priest hood to “all worthy men”
thereby ending its 148 year policy of excluding black men.
Reflections on the lack of a military response to the sinking of the
Lusitania: “If Lincoln had acted
after the firing of Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the sinking of the
Lusitania, in one month the North would have been saying they were so glad he
kept them out of the war and that they were too proud to fight and that at all
hazards fratricidal war must be averted.”Theodore Roosevelt strong words but
ignored the fact that our army in 1915 was almost non existent and the draft
was not implemented until spring of 1917.
Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter
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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 9, 2019 Michael P. Ridley
aka the Alaskanpoet
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