Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 18, 2020 President Trump is
now rightfully calling himself a wartime president, invoking the War Protection
Act to increase the production of supplies needed to hinder the transmission of
the virus, seeking billions in funding to workers and companies being
devastated by shutdowns and social distance requirements, continuing to call a
spade a spade and designate the coronavirus as the “Chinese Flu” because that
is where in Wuhan it originated, as infections, deaths and numbers of tests
continue to rise (as more and more tests occur look for the number of cases to
rise, especially among asymptomatic persons); the Census Bureau has joined the
increasing number of establishments suspending or curtailing operations to halt
the spread of the coronavirus and will be suspending operations until April
(our judicial system is being impacted as the Superior Court in Orange County
is being shut down through March 27); in what must be the height of irresponsibility
as states and cities in increasing numbers are closing bars and restaurants and
banning gatherings of more than 10 people, college students during spring break
are flocking the beaches in Florida in huge parties being exposed to anyone who
already has the virus and does not know it); Red Representative from Florida
Mario Diaz-Balart and Blue Representative from Utah in a reaffirmation of the
fact that the COVID-19 virus knows no political boundaries have become the
first representatives in Congress to test positive; pictures from space show
that sections of cities on Earth are becoming ghost sections:
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link
to the Beatles, the fact that you are not olid, a relevant quote by Thomas
Hutchison on the Stamp Act, 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. Take Down Tobacco Day of Action—created in 1996
as Kick Butts Day through 2019 until changed to present name to promote
awareness of the need to end the use of tobacco as use among teens has started to
rise again due to e-cigarettes which are not health-hazard free.
2. National Biodiesel Day—celebrating the use of
diesel fuel produced from renewable plants and celebrated on the birthday of
the inventor of the diesel engine Rudolph Diesel whose engine was originally
designed to run on peanut oil.
3. 1964 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1964 on this day on a run of 7 weeks in the position was “I
Want to Hold Your Hand” the first of a string of three songs that sequentially
occupied the number one slot for 14 weeks by the Beatles. Here is a
recording of the song performed live on The
Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs (listen to the screaming fans in the
audience).
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “olid”
which means rank smelling which is a trait most people do not want to have and
avoid with clean clothes and clean bodies.
5. Time to Hang It
Up—celebrating or bemoaning as the case may be if one was on her
client list the birth of Deborah Jeanne Palfrey on this day in 1956 who was
better known as the “D.C. Madam” and after being convicted of money laundering,
racketeering and using the mail for illegal purposes on April 15, 2008 and
facing a prison sentence of 5 or 6 years hung herself on May 1, 2008.
On this day
in:
a. 1766 in a too little too late moment to
quell the rising tide of anger in the 13 Colonies, Parliament abolished the
Stamp Act.
b. 1938 Pemex was created by Mexico
nationalizing all foreign owned petroleum producers.
c. 1959 the Hawaii Admission Act granting statehood to Hawaii as
the 50th state was signed into law.
d. 1968 the Congress repealed the requirement
that U.S. currency be backed by gold.
e. 1990 two thieves disguised as police
officers stole 13 works of art valued at over $500 million from the Isabel
Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and have yet to be recovered.
Prophetic reflections on the Stamp Act: “It cannot be good to tax
the Americans… You will lose more than you gain.”Thomas Hutchinson, 1765 As
the Governor of the Massachusetts Colony he was right as right could be but
unlistened to by Parliament.
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March 18, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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