Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For December 2, 2019 Jimmy Carter our oldest living ex-president is back in
the hospital again, this time for an urinary tract infection (hang in there
Jimmy—Habitat for Humanity needs you!); Bloomberg News which has in an insult
to a free press indicated it will not investigate its owner, Mike Bloomberg and
all Blue candidates only Trump has rightfully been banned from all Trump
campaign events (shades of Pravda imitating a free press in the form of
Bloomberg News); Trump while boarding Marine 1 to head for Air Force 1 and a NATO
meeting in London slams Nadler for scheduling his committee impeachment hearing
while he is attending a meeting the time of which had been set a year ago
(nothing like trying to diminish the U.S. in front of its NATO allies by having
impeachment hearings while he is meeting with them); Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago
who is anything but a supporter of the Chicago Police Department has fired
Chicago’s retiring Police Commissioner Johnson for ethical lapses following a
day with 10 people shot but no one killed; Google has reaffirmed its political
Iron Curtain status by removing Trump 2020 campaign ads (blocking access to
social media is a clear and present danger to the 1st Amendment that
the left gives only lip service to); Lisa Page the love struck anti-Trump FBI
agent for Peter Strzok on the eve of the
IG’s Report that will most likely be devastating has tried to pre-empt the release
with hyper rabid anti-Trump “journalist” Molly Jong-Fast of the Daily Beast in a forlorn attempt to
convince a skeptical public and a doubting Mrs. Strzok she did nothing wrong; Ruffalo
may not win an Oscar but he wins the hypocrite of the decade award with his $30
million + net worth for slamming the capitalist system than made him wealthy; in
Chicago with a new interim police chief now having to replace a fired police
chief as of December 1, 2019, 2556 have been shot, of whom, 432 have died;
Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population, is coming in second place in
the amount of gun deaths as 313 have been murdered, a number which has passed
all of 2014’s death and is closing in on 2016 yearly total of 318’s fatalities
but 2017’s record of 342 looks like it won’t be broken (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 Toni Braxton, the fact you avoid pseudologia, relevant quote on online
retailing by Patrick Curtis, 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. Cyber Monday—coined by Ellen Davis of the National Retail Federation in 2005 to
acknowledge and promote the importance of online shopping which continues to
grow each year and in a small way aids in the curbing of greenhouse gas
emissions as shoppers can forego the endless circling in a parking lot looking
for parking spaces.
2. Special Education Day—celebrated since 2005,
the anniversary of the passage of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
which prevents children with special education needs from being frozen out of
our public education system.
3. 1996
Number 1 Number One Song— the number one song in 1996 on
this day on a run of 11 weeks in the position was “Un-Break My Heart” by Toni
Braxton. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Rch This record selling artist and songwriter still
going strong but slowed a bit by a diagnosis of Lupus.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pseudologia”
which means lying in speech or writing, a trait along with hypocrisy that
politicians have mastered to the tee.
5. A Bullet Proof Vest Not Part of His Designs--celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1946 of noted fashion designer Gianni Versace whose award winning fashions
were cut on July 15, 1997 by serial killer Andrew Cunanan with a .40 caliber gunshot
to the chest while returning to the steps of his mansion in Miami Beach. We
never learned of his motive as he committed suicide on his houseboat 8 days
later.
On this day in:
a. 1954
the United States Senate voted 65-22 to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy for “conduct
that tends to bring the Senate in to dishonor and disrepute.”
b. 1962 after being asked to visit South Vietnam,
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield became the one of the first to speak out
against our involvement in South Vietnam but sadly no one seemed to listen and
over 58,000 lives were wasted in a war we could not win.
c. 1982
Barney Clark received the first artificial heart that required him to remain in
a hospital bed where he died 112 days after insertion.
d. 2001 Enron filed for
Chapter XI Bankruptcy.
e. 2015 in a glaring example of the dangers of
Islamic radicalism of American citizens and loose criteria of admitting Muslims
on fiancée visas, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Milik went to a San
Bernardino county Christmas Party and shot and killed 14 people and wounded 22
others in 4 minutes before fleeing and later being shot and killed by police.
Reflections
on Cyber Retailing this Monday: “Clothes, shoes, glasses and just about
everything we thought would never move fully online will all be online. The
reason is simple: why leave the comfort of your own home when you can get
something custom made to your exact size for less? I believe this is the
future.” – Patrick Curtis, wallstreetoasis.com Add to that free shipping and
free return shipping and you will hear the sound of taps being played for many
brick and mortar retailers.
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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.
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December 2, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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