Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For September 23, 2019 Biden supporter
rats may be jumping ship as demands for explanation of Hunter’s dealings with
Ukraine are surfacing and reports also that the unnamed whistle blower has no
first had knowledge of Trump’s conversation with Ukraine President; President
Trump will be addressing the General Assembly, a body that has voted for
positions supported by America just 31% of the time in 2018 compared to 41%
support in Obama’s last year of office, raising questions of the extent of U.S.
continued support for an organization that seems to have become more and more
adverse to our interests when we contribute more than 20% of its budget, more
than the next top three combined; Trump will be skipping a panel at the General
Assembly on climate change to deliver a speech on religious freedom and
persecution; in yet another example of media bias in favor of gun control (aka
“confiscation”) Evan Todd a survivor who was wounded during the Columbine
shooting blasted the media for ignoring his slamming Beto O’Rourke’s position
to confiscate firearms from law abiding people and the media’s distortion of
his views or banning any reporting of them; on the vacation front, Thomas Cook
a former British icon in the travel business suddenly without warning closed
its doors, stranding some 600,000 travelers worldwide in the midst of their
vacations; could not find out how many viewers watched the political activism
show also known as the Emmys but political activism was prominently displayed
in speeches and in accessories during the red carpet walk so do not be
surprised if ratings are flat or slightly decreased; Iran’s piracy on the high
seas remains unpunished as it still holds the British tanker Sterno Impero which it seized during
transit of the Straits of Hormuz this July although it is assuring the world
for what it’s worth that it will be released soon while its foreign minister
warns the world Iran will not yield to foreign sanctions; the murder trial of
former female Dallas police officer Amber Guyger who killed an unarmed black
male when she mistakenly entered his apartment thinking it was her own and shot
and killed him when she thought he was a burglar began today; climate change
activists in a portlocking moment shut down the Swamp today protesting the lack
of action of Congress on the Climate Change front for three hours while at the
UN, climate change activist Greta Thonberg was lecturing the General Assembly
and the U.S. over its failure to act on climate change; in a tale of two
symbolisms Michelle Obama as First Lady was often photographed in her garden to
promote nutricious food while Melania Trump was at Wall Street to ring the
opening bell to promote capitalism; not sure how you can validate the theory,
but researchers have concluded that the planet Venus was a habitable planet
with liquid water for 2-3 billion years before an unknown event caused its carbon
dioxide emissions to catastrophically increase some 700 million years ago to
turn it into the inhospitable hell house of a planet with surface temperatures
over 800 degrees it is today; in Chicago through September 22, 2019, 2068 have
been shot of whom 353 have died; and in Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s
population, 249 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 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell,
the fact that you are not subject to
unwanted porlocking, and a relevant quote on sexuality from Karan Johar, 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. Bisexual
Awareness Day—first celebrated in Berkeley, California on this day in 2012 to
promote acceptance of and awareness of bisexualism in both male and females.
2. National Teal Talk Day—celebrated
since 2017 by wearing teal to create awareness of the need to promote research
to discover early symptoms of ovarian cancer and find a cure.
3. 1941 Number One Song— the number one
song in 1941 on this day on a run of 4 weeks in the position was “Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)” by Jimmy
Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell. Here is
a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hMyVQaCUo.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “porlocking”
which means an irksome interruption or intrusion which described the climate
change protests in Washington, D.C. and New York today to a tee.
5. Literacy Is Your Friend--celebrating the birth on
this day in 1954 of Charlie Barnett, an African-American actor and comedian
whose mother was an alcoholic and his father a mental patient but who managed
to succeed despite having abysmal reading skills which cost him a role to Eddie
Murphy in Saturday Night Live. A
heroin user, he contracted the AIDS virus from injecting heroin with a
contaminated syringe and died of AIDS on March 16, 1966.
On this day in:
a. 1641
the Merchant Royal, carrying a
fortune in gold and silver bars and gold and silver coins worth today over $1.5
billion sank off Land’s End, Cornwall and to this day has not been recovered
though not for numerous efforts to locate the ship.
b. 1911
in a historic flight making the world a smaller place, Earle Overton delivered
the first airmail by flying from Garden City, New York to Mineota, New York to
drop a mail sack containing 640
letters and 1,280 postcards from 500 feet which burst on impact to scatter its
contents.
c. 1962 the Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts opened in New York City.
d. 1980 in a classic example of the
show must go on, two days after collapsing while jogging, reggae singer Bob Marley
discovered that his melanoma had spread to his brain but performed his last
public concert in Pittsburgh and died from cancer on May 11, 1981 at the far
too young age of 36.
e. 2002 the first public edition of
the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) was released.
Reflections on sexuality: “I have never,
ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am
heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk
about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.” Karan Johar,
noted Indian director, producer and actor and father of fraternal twins through
surrogacy.
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 go to Ridley's Believe It Or
Not for just This Day in History.
© September 23,
2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
Alaskanpoet for
Hire, Poems to Admire
Poet
Extraordinaire Beyond Compare
The Perfect Gift,
All Recipients to Receive Lasting Lift
No comments:
Post a Comment