Tuesday, June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Social Media Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 30, 2020
     CV World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 123,038  new cases  (a 1.19%  increase compared to a .89% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,456,247 cases, 4,238,143   of  which  are active, 6,217,170 of which have been closed with 5,707,889 recoveries (91.8% compared to  yesterday’s 91.72%) and 509,215   deaths (8.19% compared to yesterday’s 8.28%).
     CV USA: New cases of 30,727   have brought total cases to 2,684,256 (a 1.16% increase compared to yesterday’s .62% increase)  with 1,432,754  active cases of which 15,864 (15,791 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,251,512 closures, 128,568 of which have been deaths (10.30% compared to  yesterday’s 10.47%) and 1,122,655  of which  have been recoveries (89.70%  compared to yesterday’s 89.53%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for over 40% of our deaths and hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 34,154,473 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).
     The couple in a St. Louis gated community who brandished guns on their front porch after a mob of protesters heading toward the mayor’s office allegedly broke down the gate to get in is being castigated by a George Soros funded D.A. Karen Gardner as she is investigating what happened (from her statements looks like she should recuse herself as she has already make up her mind); Chief Justice Roberts may have slowed his leaning to Earl Warren in a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling that struck down a Montana statute prohibiting a tax credit to donations to organizations providing scholarships to students going to religious schools (Montana is not cursed with the failing urban schools like New York or California but this ruling should be a lifeline to parents that want a better education for their kids); the only interests around Joe Biden’s basement bunker campaign is what gaffe or mental lapse will be exposed and who he will pick as VP as a good bet is that he will not survive his term and increasingly it looks like he may chose the illegal alien queen Kamala Harris which means California is he wins will be hit with the one two punch of Lying Adam Schiff being appointed to replace her in the Senate; Biden came out of his basement bunker to give a speech and hold a truncated press conference in which he said that Confederate statues and memorials belonged in public museums not public places and National Monuments like Washington and Jefferson should be protected (not sure if that will be acceptable to the BLM movement calling for their destruction due to slave ownership); in addition to being inept, De Blasio is also deaf as he is ignoring the voices of 57% of New Yorkers in a recent poll who do not want to cut funding of the NYPD as shootings are rising in the Big Apple (earlier this year 80% favored the ban of choke holds, probably because of the risk of death or permanent injury); Fauci in testimony has raised a dire warning that the failure to socially distance and not wearing masks could result in 100,000 new cases a day and that there is no guarantee that a vaccine will be available before the end of the year; while De Blasio is spiking the ball over his plan  to cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget which has been approved by the NYC City Council, AOC has tweeted in that that is not enough and that defund the police means just that (cry for the residents of NYC who will be even more exposed to criminal elements that team in that city).
     In Chicago as of June 29, 2020, there were 1708 shootings of whom 306 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and  for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete abdication of Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is still 142 behind Chicago with 164 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 Herb Albert, the fact that you are free of paramnesia, and a quote by Neil Gaiman on social media,  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. Social Media Day—celebrated or bemoaned on this day since 2010 involving communications over the internet which from a communications standpoint has made the world smaller and cheaper to communicate but has devastated the art of face to face communication or oral communication via video conferencing and given social media companies huge powers over what and how ideas are communicated over the internet.
 2. International Asteroid Day—created by the UN General Assembly in December, 2016 to commemorate the anniversary of the impact of an asteroid that impacted Tunguska, Siberia, Russia on this day in 2008 and to create awareness of the hazard to Earth of near Earth objects which at some time in the future may strike the Earth with potential disaster like consequences.
3. 1968 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1968 on this day on a run of 4 weeks in that position and his first number 1 song was “This Guy’s in Love with You” by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ByJ1C0iR4.  Albert, the only artist to have a number 1 record as a vocalist and instrumentalist, is still going strong at 85. 
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paramnesia” which means a condition or phenomenon involving distorted memory or confusions of fact and fantasy which on most days describes Weak Joe Biden to a tee.
5. I Want to Live--celebrating the birth on this day in 1917 of noted actress and model Edythe Marrenner, better known to her fans as Susan Hayward who after 4 Academy Award nominations finally won an Oscar for best actress for I Want to Live. Sadly she was a two pack a day smoker of Chesterfields and also had the misfortune of appearing in The Conqueror filmed in St. George, Utah where of the 220 people involved in the film, 91 developed cancer and 46 died, including Hayward who was diagnosed with lung cancer that metastasized to her brain causing a seizure which killed her on  March 14, 1975.
On this day in:               
 a. 1986 SCOTUS in a 5-4 decision in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick ruled that Georgia could outlaw homosexual activities between consenting adults, precedence that had a short life of 17 years before being overturned by Lawrence v. Texas.
 b. 1990 West Germany and East Germany merged their two economies.
 c. 1997 to the subsequent bane of the people of Hong Kong, Great Britain transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong over to China.
 d. 2007 2 jihadists drove a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane tanks trying to crash into a terminal at Glasgow International Airport but failed, burning the driver fatally and badly burning the passenger, a British born doctor of Iraqi descent who was sentenced to 32 years and is presently rotting in prison.
 e. 2015 19 firefighters fighting a wildfire started by a lightning strike near Yarnell, Arizona were killed when the wind shifted and they could not escape the flames converging upon them at a high rate of speed.
        Reflections on social media: “I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140-character chunks of instant event & predigested gnomic wisdom & swearing.” Neil Gaiman, author Limit is now 280 which for the Alaskanpoet I can often expand to 6 lines instead of 4 rhythmically attacking an absurd leftist tweet or praising someone’s astute tweeted ideas.
        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.             
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Monday, June 29, 2020

Black Lives Matter/ All Lives Matter


All lives matter but given a history of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, lynching and discrimination
A taking of a black life should merit special condemnation
If a black goes to an early grave
Because of lack of income opportunity that’s a life we must try to save
If a black goes to an early grave because his neighborhood water and air reek with toxic death
That’s a black life we should try to save by cleaning up to our last breath
If a black goes to an earlier grave because of failed schools
Puts him out on the street without needed tools
That’s a failing we if we believe in the power of education must correct
Inner city schools that condemn blacks to jail or prison we must reject
If because of crime and unrest from the inner cities employers with jobs flee
Urban economic zones with tax breaks we must try to create hope and prosperity
This should be done not because of induced  guilt at being white
But removing means to quality education and employment not only dumb but not right
Tearing down statues, burning businesses and looting is not a way to have prosperity found
When the statues of the present are not on pedestals but remains of building burned to the ground
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June 20, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Scelerodermo Awareness Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 29, 2020 The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 87,534 179,418 new cases  (a .85%  increase compared to a 1.78% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,332,209 cases, 4,216,903   of  which  are active, 6,115,306 of which have been closed with 5,609,215 recoveries (91.72% compared to  yesterday’s 91.67%) and 506,091   deaths (8.28% compared to yesterday’s 8.33%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading the world in total cases and being hit with the of reopening its economy, massive protests over the death of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks and a massive Trump rally in Tulsa creating concern of a spike in new cases   with new cases of 43,465   have brought total cases to 2,653,539 (a .62% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.68% increase)  with 1,425,674  active cases of which 15,791 (15,825 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,227,865 closures, 128,568 of which have been deaths (10.47% compared to  yesterday’s 10.51%) and 1,099,297  of which  have been recoveries (89.53%  compared to yesterday’s 89.49%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for over 40% of our deaths  and hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 32,761,549 tests; the rise in violent crime in our cities is going up while the cries to defund or reduce police budgets is going up across the land with America’s most incompetent mayor De Blasio leading the charge with a proposed $1 billion cut in the NYPD’s budget (watch the number of experienced police leave their respective forces soar and the number of police academy recruits plummet); Los Angeles is proposing to reduce its LAPD budget by almost $150 million by eliminating its Special Victims Unit (rape, child abuse and molestation, trafficking) and Safe Streets Enforcement (gang enforcement); the assault on our treasured 1st Amendment continues not by government but by social media as Amazon’s Twitch has “temporarily” banned Trump for his “hate” speech (given the near monopoly power Amazon has, Bezos seems to be skating on ice that is getting thinner and thinner); the Washington Post, now a skeleton of objective reporting replaced by anti-Trump advocacy is being ridiculed for its erroneous fact checking of Trump’s claim that crime is highest in the top 20 cities run by Blue which is confirmed by FBI violent crime statistics on a per capital basis; Chief Justice Roberts continues on his transformation into an Earl Warren as he joins the 4 liberal justices to strike down Louisiana’s law limiting abortion as Clarence Thomas in his dissent slams Roe v. Wade as having no Constitutional basis; Jenny Durkan’s “Summer of Love” in CHOP remains a deadly summer as 2 young blacks were shot and taken by private car to the hospital where 1 died and the other is in critical condition and police arriving at a crime scene that has been compromised; in Chicago as of June 28, 2020, there were 1699 shootings of whom 305 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and  for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete abdication of Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 142 behind Chicago with 163 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 the Young Rascals, the fact that mostly avoid paralogise, and a quote by Abhibjit Naskar on smart phones on PTSD, 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. World Scelerodermo Awareness Day—observed since 2010 to create awareness of this rare autoimmune system disease that affects some 300,000 Americans most of whom are women and to raise money to find a cure.
 2. National Camera Day—not sure who or when this observance was created only to suggest an invention so important to the preservation of history and recording of events deserves a special day; to celebrate if you do not own a camera, take a picture with your smart phone and email it to someone.
3. 1967 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1967 on this day on a run of 2 weeks was “Groovin’” by the Young Rascals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=falI0baGhBQ  
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paralogise” which means to reason falsely which describes Hidin’ Biden thought process to a tee.
5. I Will Play the Fourth--celebrating the birth on this day in 1919 of noted actor and rodeo star Louis Burton Lindley, Jr., better known to his fans as Slim Pickens, best known for his roles in Blazing Saddles and in Dr. Strangelove, for the role he replaced Peter Sellers in due to Sellers’ ankle injury--Captain T.J. “King” Kong, the pilot of the B-52 from which he jumped to the Soviet Union straddling a nuclear weapon. He ran out of rodeo rope on on December 9, 1983 dying after surgery for removal of a brain tumor.
On this day in:               
 a. 1956 President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 creating the Interstate Highway System and model to our divided Congress if they could ever come together on an infrastructure improvement program.
 b. 1972 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Furman v. Georgia that inconsistent and arbitrary application of the death penalty is in violation of the 8th and 14th Amendments of the U. S. Constitution.
 c. 1987 Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Le Pont de Trinquetaille was sold at an auction for $20 trillion.
 d. 2006 SCOTUS in the case of Hamden v. Rumsfeld ruled that trying the Guantanamo detainees before military tribunals was in violation of U.S. and international law.
 e. 2007 Apple released its first smart phone 1987 and its race to become the first public company with a $1 trillion market cap was on, a goal it reached on August 2, 2018.
        Reflections on smart phones which no one can bear to be without for any length of time: “Phones are neither good nor bad, they are just lifeless machines that were invented to serve humankind, yet humankind, with their everlasting stupidity have turned this communication marvel into psychological suicide.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology
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        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.             
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

June 28, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Log Cabin Dayive I


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 28, 2020 The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 179,418 new cases  (a 1.78%  increase compared to a 3.15% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,244,675 cases, 4,186,606   of  which  are active, 6,058,069 of which have been closed with 5,553,656 recoveries (91.67% compared to  yesterday’s 91.59%) and 504,413   deaths (8.33% compared to yesterday’s 8.41%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading the world in total cases and being hit with the of reopening its economy, massive protests over the death of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks and a massive Trump rally in Tulsa creating concern of a spike in new cases   with new cases of 43,465   have brought total cases to 2,637,077 (a 1.68% increase compared to yesterday’s 3.44% increase)  with 1,4151,184  active cases of which 15,825 (15,775 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,221,893 closures, 128,437 of which have been deaths (10.51% compared to  yesterday’s 10.62%) and 1,093,456  of which  have been recoveries (89.4938%  compared to yesterday’s 89.38%) (our death rate percentages continue to im49prove since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for some 40% of our deaths  and hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 32,592,368 tests; the hypocrisy of the BLM movement was revealed once again by Jamiel Shaw, a black citizen was son was shot and killed by an illegal alien in 2008 but received no attention from the BLM movement because the only dead blacks that matter are those that are shot by police, regardless of the officer’s skin color; Blue Mayor Lyda Krewson of St. Louis is in hot water with the PC warriors for reading out the names and streets that activists live on who are demanding that the city defund the police which prompted a scathing attack by the ACLU and demands that she resign (would agree if addresses were doxed but I suspect if that were the case, given white guilt and leftist leanings, readers would probably be starting Go Fund accounts for those revealed); Pelosi must be experiencing some Botox leakage as she pounced on the reports that Russia was officer a bounty to the Taliban to kill Americans that Russians must have some dirt on Trump (what an never ending disgrace dby a woman who should go back to stuffing her face with ice cream); public health officials in Ingram County, Michigan, home of Michigan State University have announced that 85 attendees at Harper’s Restaurant and Brew Pub have tested positive for CV but most infected have mild symptoms and 10 were asymptomatic (so much for the theory that alcoholic beverages kills the virus); Bubba Wallace rightfully so has been hit with the castigation “Bubba Smolett” over the noose that had been there since October of last year but a dirt track speedway Speedway 311 wins the prize of stupidity and insenstitivty for trying to sell online a noose called “Bubba Rope” which has caused partnerships with Speedway 311 bailing like a it was a hot rock; first it was the estate of Tom Petty not the Rolling Stones are getting on the you can’t play our music at your rallies bandwagon by threatening legal action if Trump plays “You can’t always get want you want” at his rallies (pathetic for an iconic band still touring to wade into the political arena); Social media is still guilty of censoring conservatives tweets and posts and their actions are so far above the law but finally their foray to censor political ads may be blowing up in their leftist faces as companies are pulling back ads (Starbucks and Pepsi are just the latest); police have announced that a suspect that they will not name was at the rally protesting the killing of Breonna Taylor before shooting and killing 1 person and wounding another); if you had any doubt that governors like Andrew Cuomo have massive amounts of blood on their hands, a recent study has indicated that nearly half of all CV deaths have occurred in nursing homes (what is really appalling is that accessories to murder like Cuomo have enjoyed a free pass from the likes of his pseudo journalist brother and the rest of the MSM; in Chicago as of June 27, 2020, there were 1683 shootings of whom 300 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and  for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete abdication of Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 139 behind Chicago with 161 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 the Beatles, the fact that mostly avoid paragnosia, and a quote by President Ronald Reagan on racial quotas, 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. National Log Cabin Day—created by the Log Cabin society founded by Virginia Handy and the Bad Axe Society on June 25, 1986 to celebrate the use of log cabins by some of our early presidents and the utility of living in one today from a cost and energy efficiency standpoint and pleasing architecture.
2. International Caps Lock Day—the first cap lock key on a computer was introduced by Xerox in 1973 and the observance was created by Derek Arnold on October 9, 2000 as a parody for those who think they are important so they shout but later also on this day starting in 2009 when the king of infomercials Billy Mays passed away along with his rising voice during the infomercial.
3. 1966 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1966 on this day on a run of 2 weeks was “Paperback Writer by the Beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvkICbTZIQ    4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paragnosia” which means a misunderstanding which is a situation usually best to avoid.
5. To Laugh Is to Keep on Living--celebrating the birth on this day in 1926 of noted director, producer, comedian and actor Melvyn Kaminsky better known to those laughing in the audience over his films like Blazing Saddles Mel Brooks still with us at 94.
On this day in:               
 a. 1942 Germany launched Case Blue in attempt to capture Soviet oil fields and Stalingrad, which attempt failed, resulting in the encircling of the 6th Army in Stalingrad and its destruction.
 b. 1950 with thousands of refugees trying to flee the advancing North Koreans and
 South Korea’s 5th Division on the wrong side of the Han River, South Korea blew up the Hangang Bridge over the river which failed to slow down the forces of the North who captured Seoul the same day.
 c. 1969 riots began in NYC in Manhattan following an early morning police raid on the Stonewall Inn where a gathering of gays was being held and marked the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement.
 d. 1984 SCOTUS in the case fo Bakke v. the Regents of the University of California banned the use of quotas in university admissions.
 e. 1987 for the first time in military history a civilian target is targeted with chemical weapons by Iraqi warplanes dropping mustard gas on the Iranian town of Sardasht.
        Reflections on quotas by President Ronald Reagan: “''We are committed to a society in which all men and women have equal opportunities to succeed, and so we oppose the use of quotas. We want a color-blind society. A society, that in the words of Dr. King, judges people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.''
        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.             
© June 28, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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June 27, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National PTSD Day


Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 27, 2020 The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 306,932 new cases  (a 3.15 % increase compared to a 1.17% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,065,257 cases, 4,113,690    of  which  are active, 5,951,564 of which have been closed with 5,451,033 recoveries (91.59% compared to  yesterday’s 91.47%) and 500,534   deaths (8.41% compared to yesterday’s 8.53%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading the world
in total cases and being hit with the of reopening its economy, massive protests over the death of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks and a massive Trump rally in Tulsa creating concern of a spike in new cases   with new cases of 86,236  have brought total cases to 2,593,612 (a 3.44% increase compared to yesterday’s .73% increase)  with 1,386,820  active cases of which 15,775 (15,705 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,206,792 closures, 128,132 of which have been deaths (10.62% compared to  yesterday’s 10.69%) and 1,052,452  of which  have been recoveries (89.38%  compared to yesterday’s 89.24%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the residents and staff who then die and accounted for some 40% of our deaths  and hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 32,000,928 tests; Minneapolis City Council which has voted to defund the the city’s police has been quick to spend 63,000 in the last 3 weeks for its own safety, billing the taxpayers and is now paying out $4,500 a day for City Council members who have received death threats (will residents left high and dry from lack of police protection get tax credits or subsidies to pay for private security?); protesters in the City of Portland, Oregon have torn down the statue of Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd President and due to his efforts as president, the further importation of slaves was banned (is the Jefferson Memorial next in the mind of these idiots that owning slaves trumps and destroys any positive acts or contributions you may have done?);  people were peacefully protesting the no knock warrant shooting and killing of Breonna Taylor by Louisville Police when shots from an unknown gunman killing 1 and wounding 1; with the wave of anti-police protests and moves to defund or at least reduce police budgets the consequences of that movement should frighten us all- black, white, brown, or yellow as police departments will start losing experienced cops in droves and vacancies in police academies will soar as in NYC the number of NYPD officers filing for retirement has increased 49%; in Red Bluff, no defund the police rallies as police responded there to a shooting at a Walmart Distribution Center that left 4 wounded and 2 dead on of whom may have been the shooter within 15 minutes of the first shot; in Chicago as of June 26, 2020, there were 1661 shootings of whom 295 have died (so much for the defund the police movement and  for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 135 behind Chicago with 160 murders (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 shootings by police or 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 the Four Tops, the fact that mostly your state of life is paradisiacal, and a quote by Danielle Bernock on PTSD, 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. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Day—created by the Senate by resolution in 2010 to create awareness of the issues faced by the some 6.8% of adults who will experience PTSD during their lifetime with women and combat veterans much more susceptible to the disorder.
2. National HIV Testing Day—first observed on this day in 1995 to encourage those who may be at risk to get tested in order to prevent the spread to one’s sex partners and unborn; fortunately, as Magic Johnson shows, the disease is no long a death sentence only a ticking transmission bomb for those who fail to get tested.
3. 1965 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1965 on this day on a run of 1 week was “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” by the Four Tops in their first number 1 hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88QIYTnOELc  This black group is still performing as some of the original members have died and have been replaced.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paradisiacal” which means suggestive of a state or place of perfect bliss which describes to a tee in our state of highly charged political division how Trumpers will feel if he wins and how anti-Trumpers will feel if he loses.
5. No Saint and Out of Hope--celebrating the birth on this day in 1923 of St. Elmo Sylvester Hope, a noted African-American Jazz pianist and composer who survived being shot by a NYC policeman in his youth but battled heroin addiction and drug arrests during most of his career which drove him from the public performance stage and shortly thereafter into a hospital to die of pneumonia on May 19, 1967.
On this day in:               
 a. 1950 the United States elected to send troops to stop the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
 b. 1971 after only 3 years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham shut down Filmore East in New York City, “The Church of Rock and Roll.”
 c. 1976 Air France Flight 139 was hijacked by PLO terrorists after leaving its Athens to Paris leg after originating in Tel Aviv and ultimately diverted to Entebbe Airport, Uganda where Israeli commandos in a daring raid later rescued 102 out of 104 hostages, losing 1 commando.
 d. The Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shiniryko founded by Shako Asahara released Sarin nerve gas in a Tokyo subway, killing 7 and injuring some 600 others. The founder and 12 of his followers were executed for the crime on July 6 and 26, 2018.
 e. 2017 Russia was heavily suspected in a worldwide malware attack using the Petlya virus that started with infections in computers in Ukraine and quickly spread beyond its borders to infect thousands of computers in Europe; sadly no hackers believed to be Russians were ever charged.
        Reflections on PTSD: “Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heal.   Never had the misfortune of having PTSD but this book sounds spot on.
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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Oakland Mayor Loses It Calling 4 More Years Of Trump Hell When Oakland Reeks of the 7th Circleer


The mayor of Oakland when it comes to violence in her city has her head in the sand
Oakland is one of the most dangerous cities to live in in this land
Since in her delusion she thinks only one circle for her and her lefties exist
The first circle which is limbo where little or  no pain exists
Only ones there are the unbaptized and virtuous pagans
In her mind describes her and lefties to a tee especially those who are vegans
Their views of life over mere conservative mortals rule
As they are not worthy, non human only dismissed fools
In her and her lefties’ circles they are free from drugs, violence and homeless on their front door
Behind their gated walls with security cameras and guards, problems easy to ignore
But if perchance Libby Schaaf would find the courage to go to the 7th Circle’s first ring
This is reserved for murders and thugs and all  the blood and misery their crimes bring
Oakland is off the charts for property and to the person violent crimes
Each day one leaves a home playing Russian Roulette--is today Grim Reaper time?
As more and more residents are wounded or shot dead
Suspect Libby before tweeting  when in comes to classics is not well read
Last time I looked being a racist which Trump is not
That sin to Dante does not merit a Circle or ring slot
© June 27 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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