Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 21, 2019 The sins of being a father may be coming back to haunt Biden as his campaign is involved in a Ukraine controversy once again demanding that Trump release transcripts of his call with Ukraine’s President asking him for help in investigating Biden and his son Hunter in quid pro quo allegations while Hunter was working there and Biden was vice president (Joe must have a short memory of his bragging that
unless Ukraine fired a prosecutor investigating Hunter, Joe would insure that
some 1 billion dollars in aid would be held up which prompted the firing of the
investigator); di Blasio’s withdrawal may be the omen for other candidates mired
in the mud of voter rejection like Booker who announced that he must raise $1.5
million in the next 10 days or be forced to withdraw (will Bozo O’Rourke be
next or better yet Kamala Harris?); Bozo O’Rourke doubles down on gun
confiscation while the woman Lauren Boebert who castigated him at a Colorado
town hall for trying to leave her gunless and defenseless against thugs who
would harm her or her family, slammed him for exploiting the deaths in Colorado
mass shooting for his own campaign (as a reflection of which many Americans
feel about gun confiscation, Alpha Dogs Firearms in Tempe, Arizona held an AR-15 “Beto Sale” which sold out in 4
hours) ; while are speculating what Trump
will say about religious freedom when he addresses the United Nations, legal
experts are speculating whether SCOTUS will hear a case on the issue of UN
immunity arising out of the deaths of thousands of Haitians who died from
cholera caused by the negligence of UN Nepalese peacekeepers brought to the
island to preserved security following a devastating hurricane in 2010; Taylor
Swift continues her leftist PC drift by canceling her concert at the Melbourne
Cup due to protests by animal rights activists who are protesting the deaths of
6 racehorses over the last 6 years; while Trump is moving additional troops to
the Middle East for defensive purposes following the Iranian backed drone
attacks on Saudi production facilities, prices at the pump have risen $.10 per
gallon; in a newly released anonymous video, which should be mandatory for
executives of Google and other social media companies that protest doing work
for the U.S. Government but readily do business with China to watch, hundreds of hooded, heads shaved and shackled
prisoners believed to be Muslims are being herded on a street in China (the
Swamp needs a wake-up call to realize China is not our friend and dedicated to
replacing us as a leading power militarily, economically and technologically in
the world); on the good news front, Richard Smith, the CEO of Vista Equity
Partners made good on his promise to Morehouse graduates of the class of 2019
and paid off their student debt; in Chicago through September 20, 2019, 2054
have been shot of whom 348 have died but surprise, surprise none of those shot
on the 20th; and in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s
population, 248 have been murdered in Baltimore (when will Chicago and
Baltimore get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as
a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of
color by people of color and when will the left focus on the problem of color
on color shootings in Blue run cities which have been more deadly and more
numerous than random mass shootings?
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link
to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, the
fact that you are not a popinjay, and a relevant poetic quote on autumn by
William Blake, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
memorable events like Father’s Day, 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.
1. International Day of Peace--created by the UN’s
General Assembly in 1981 to promote the resolution of conflicts among or
between nations by peaceful means as opposed to war.
2. Autumnal Equinox—celebrating the official
beginning of fall and the point when the center of the Sun is directly over the
Earth’s Equator making the day and night of the same duration.
3. 1939 Number One Song— the number one
song in 1939 on this day was “Over the
Rainbow” by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58inMDCcWkg.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “popinjay”
which means a conceited person which describes most politicians on either side
of the aisle to a tee.
5. Misnamed Lady--celebrating the birth on
this day in 1980 of noted Hindi actress Kareena Kapoor whose acting family and
her success in acting has made her far from poor.
On this day in:
a. 1780
in a fit of pique over not being recognized for his military talent he believed
he possessed, Benedict Arnold committed treason by turning over the plans for
West Point to the British.
b. 1938
the Great Hurricane of 1938 which had become a CAT 5 hurricane before making
landfall on Long Island killed almost 700 in a sobering moment that Climate
Change is not necessarily the cause of hurricanes that the likes of AOC are
prone to push.
c. 1981 in a rare display of
nonpartisanship and a deweaponizing of the judicial branch, Stanford Law School
Alumnus Sandra Day O’Connor was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to become a
member of SCOTUS.
d. 1996 Congress passed the Defense
of Marriage Act which was signed by President Clinton but ultimately ruled
unconstitutional or rendered effectively unenforceable by two decisions by
SCOTUS in 2013 and 2015.
e. 2001 Ross Parker, a white English
male, was brutally attacked by a mob of British Pakistani in Millfield,
Petersborough, England and killed highlighting the fact that racism knows no
ethnic lines and is capable of being practiced by nonwhites three of whom in
this case are serving life sentences.
Reflections
on autumn: “O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the
grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And
tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall
dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers." William Blake, noted English painter
and poet of the Romantic Age.
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