The Cardinal of Color Heads to the Final Four Nest And the Cardinal Bird Heads Home

In  the Women’s Elite  two Cardinals met, one a color the other a bird
The one from Louisville was netting threes at a pace that seemed absurd
Stanford’s leading scorer had her shooter’s touch bail
Sure looked in the first half than Stanford’s path to the Final four was doomed to fail
Down by 12 at the end of the half , the biggest ever deficit this year
More so than ever the team needed some  motivating thoughts by Tara Van Deveer
Not sure what to the team that  she and the coaches said
We are not going to lose, tighter defense and shoot to victory instead
The Color came out in the third with a defense obsessed
The early wide open threes were now under stress
Stanford regained the lead and lost it to at the end of the third to trail
But in the fourth the winds of upset went out of Louisville’s sails
The winds of freedom were now blowing threes
And the winds of defense shut down the bird shooters from running free
A well fought comeback from a  team that depth of talent does not lack
Now  faces South Carolina who the offense of Texas totally stuffed and  sacked
With the zones meaning PAC 12 games are too often past sportswriters’ deadlines
Would be so refreshing if Championship Game was a PAC 12 Stanford v. Arizona this time
© March 30, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

March 25, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Medal of Honor Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 25, 2021

          CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now over 126 million at 125,031,604 with 850,683 new cases (a .68% increase) 21,568,131 which are active, 104,463,473 closed with 101,697,176 recoveries (97.35% and 97.35% yesterday) and 2,766,297 deaths (2.65% and 2.65% yesterday) to continue the trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus.

           CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 30 million at 30,767,889 with 83,312 new cases (a .27% increase) with 7,015,921 active cases of which 8,699 (.12% of active cases and with slight 2 day blip up and now a decrease of 20,572 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 23,751,968 closures, 559,604 of which have been deaths (2.36% and 2.36% yesterday) and 23,192,364 of which have been recoveries (97.64% and 97.64% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .29% lower than the world rate and now .14% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3  and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1683 ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 (1994), Belgium (1958), UK (1856) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Bulgaria (1811), and  Italy (1768),  and only slightly worse than Portugal (1652), Spain (1591),  Mexico (1537), Peru (1521), France (1428), Brazil (1422),Poland (1345), Sweden (1318) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths, (1345), Argentina (1219), Switzerland (1182), Chile (1171), and Bolivia (1027) and we have now conducted 395,165,054 tests (now at 1,188,568/M) compared to number 2 now France at  939,884/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains as king of the mountain with respect to tests at 1,762,926/M.

          CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is 9^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1532/M and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported:

          Guatemala:  Active cases:    10,677      Deaths/M 373
          Honduras:     Active cases: 110,380      Deaths/M 450
          El Salvador:   Active cases:       767       Deaths/M 306   

          US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/25/2021 133 million doses have been given, 2.51 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now reduced to some 5 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 16,062,266 total doses have been given (76.7% of doses received to almost equal the U.S. average of 76.8%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has improved to tied with South Carolina at 32^nd from 35^th  out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 13.9%% of its population fully vaccinated has moved down from 39^th to 42^nd  out of the 50 states in terms of percentage of population fully vaccinated in terms of percentage of residents vaccinated. A long way to go to get herd immunity and lagging behind in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and percentage of population vaccinated compared to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor.

          Non CV Case News: Our president who claimed he was in the Senate 120 years ago had his first press conference but refused to take any question from Fox and predictably had leftist journalists praising his performance as hitting it out of the park (which perhaps is easy to when either the questions are known in advance or the ball is on a tee); too bad the camera was not on the eyes of Kamala Harris that probably were rolling upwards when Biden expressed his thoughts on running again when he will be 82 (mentally he seems he has passed that age by at least 20 years today); photos revealed in his scripted press conference that Biden is probably the first president in history to have to rely upon crib sheets to try to conceal his lapses, mental wanderings and cognitive difficulties (sadly the Chinese, North Koreans and Russians must have been watching and licking their chops over the weak and feeble president we are burdened with;  D.A. Gascon must feel he is immune to recall wrath as in another soft on crime hard on victims’ rights to safety, he declined to prosecute a rabid gang member who shot and killed a 40 year old man whose only crime was to be in a car that had broken down (this Soros funded “D.A.” in name only when it comes to citizen needs to be recalled); the Blue Botox Queen has come out to blast the Newsom Recall as a Trump back ploy and dismissed any need for the Blues to run a backup candidate (hope this arrogance and cockiness she will choke on); the University of Southern California trying to purge itself of being known as the University of Sexist Concealment has agreed to pay $858 million to some 700 female plaintiffs who had alleged sexual abuse claims against USC staff doctor George Tyndall who had worked there for almost 3 decades and has been charged with  35 counts of sexual misconduct conduct free on bail awaiting trial which if convicted could result in a 64 year prison sentence; backers of a recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have started the 160 day clock to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to place a recall on the ballot  https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; as ratings of CNN and MSNBC fall like hot air balloons without hot air to keep them up, leave it to the political cartoonist to capture their rating fall with lack of fake news to spread about Trump: https://www..com foxnews /politics/cartoons-slideshow.
           Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through March 24, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 672 persons shot of whom 124 have died.

           As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Young Love” by Tab Hunter, your behavior is not randan and quotes on the trials and retrials of the Scottsboro Boys, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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. Please contact me for the details on the pricing.

         1. Medal of Honor Day—created by a law enacted on November 15, 1990 and first celebrated on March 25, 1991 to honor recipients of the Medal of Honor first bestowed for exceptional bravery during the Civil War on this day in 1863 for 6 Union Army soldiers who participated in the Great Locomotive Chase.
         2. EU Talent Day—celebrated on the birthday of noted Hungarian composer and pianist Bartók Béla to promote recognition of the importance of artistic talent for society, its culture and well being and to encourage the development of talent throughout the EU.

         3. 1957 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1957 on this day with a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Young Love”  by the Tab Hunter to share number 1 status with 21 other songs that year.  Here is a recording of “Young Love “ by Tab Hunter:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LRe4xecZQ Hunter was a noted singer and heart throb of the 50’s and 60’s and who was a closet gay who came out in his 2007 autobiography and married his partner of 30 years, Phil Glaser, in 2013.

         4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “randan” which means uproar or riotous conduct which residents of Minneapolis hope they will not see following the end of the Minneapolis officers charged in George Floyd’s death which starts next week.

          5. Hard Woman to Pass—celebrating the birth on this day in 1982 of noted IndyCar and stock car racer Danica Patrick who was the first woman to win an IndyCar race and retired with the highest Indianapolis 500 standing for a woman and after retirement has her own winery and is a commercial spokesperson for number companies including Go Daddy.Com and Lyft.

          On this day in:

           a. 1931 9 African Americans who became known as the Scottsboro Boys were arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama and charged with raping 2 white women; found guilty the trial and the subsequent retrials provide a real case of racism and lack of justice which hopefully we as a nation have moved from.

          b. 1948 after analyzing weather data from a tornado that had hit Tinker Air Force Base on the 20^th and comparing the data to what was occurring the morning of the 25^th, meteorologists made a tornado forecast warning of tornadoes to hit the base later in the day which occurred making the forecast the first successful tornado forecast in history.

          c. 1979 the world’s first reusable rocket ship, the Space Shuttle Columbia was delivered to the JFK Space Center to be readied to be launched into space.

          d. 1995 the world became a smaller place as WikiWikiWeb the first wiki was released to the public by Ward Cunningham.

          e. 1996 in a move that probably warmed the cockles of EU vegetarians, the EU banned the import of British beef due to outbreaks of mad cow disease in the U.K.

          Reflections on the miscarriages of justice occurring in the trials of the Scottsboro Boys: "The testimony of the prosecutrix in this case is not only uncorroborated, but it also bears on its face indications of improbability and is contradicted by other evidence, and in addition thereto the evidence greatly preponderates in favor of the defendant. It therefore becomes the duty of the Court under the law to grant the motion made in this case." --Judge Horton granting the defense motion to set aside the death sentence and verdict in Alabama v Patterson (Record, 6/22/33)

          "There shouldn't be any trial for them damn niggers-- thirty cents worth of rope would do the work and it wouldn't cost the county much." --Decatur lunchroom proprietor (Goodman, 211)

          "We all have a passion, all the men in this courtroom, and that is to protect the womanhood of the state of Alabama." -- Prosecutor Knight addressing the jury in the third Patterson trial, Nov. 30, 1933

           "He couldn't get us to the chair fast enough." -- Haywood Patterson commenting on Judge Callahan (NY Times, 1/22/36)

            "Do not quibble over the evidence: Say to yourselves we're tired of this job and put it behind you. Get it done quick and protect the fair womanhood of this state."-- Prosecutor Hutson addressing the jury in the fourth Patterson trial (NY Times, 1/23/36)

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March 24, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World TB Day

 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 24, 2021

          CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now over 125 million at 125,180,921 with 569,592 new cases (a .46% increase) 21,301,196 which are active, 103,879,725 closed with 101,127,853 recoveries (97.35% and 97.35% yesterday) and 2,751,872 deaths (2.65% and 2.65% yesterday) to continue the trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus.

           CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 30 million at 30,684,577 with 89,775 new cases (a .29% increase) with 7,024,661 active cases of which 8,624 (.12% of active cases and with slight blip up and now a decrease now of 20,647 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 23,659,916 closures, 557,823 of which have been deaths (2.36% and 2.37% yesterday) and 23,102,093 of which have been recoveries (97.64% and 97.63% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .29% lower than the world rate and now .15% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3  and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1678 ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 (1965), Belgium (1958), UK (1855) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Bulgaria (1781), and  Italy (1761),  and only slightly worse than Portugal (1652), Spain (1584),  Mexico (1532), Peru (1516), France (1421), Brazil (1399), Sweden (1317) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,   Poland (1331), Argentina (1205), Switzerland (1178), Chile (1165), and Bolivia (1026) and we have now conducted 393,112,143 tests (now at 1,182,611/M) compared to number 2 now France at  929,564/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,734,616/M.    
          CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is 9^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1532/M and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows even though the data may be suspect as underreported:

          Guatemala:  Active cases:    9,716       Deaths/M 371
          Honduras:     Active cases: 110,084      Deaths/M 461
          El Salvador:   Active cases:       767       Deaths/M 306   

          US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/24/2021 130 million doses have been given, 2.50 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now reduced to some 5 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 15,691,888 total doses have been given (76.6% of doses received to again remain below U.S. average of 77.1%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has improved to 33^rd from 35^th  out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 13.5%% of its population fully vaccinated has moved up from 40^th to 39^th out of the 50 states in terms of percentage of population fully vaccinated in terms of percentage of residents vaccinated. A long way to go to get herd immunity and lagging behind in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and percentage of population vaccinated compared to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor.
          Non CV Case News: Cruz who like all Senators and Representatives have been vaccinated when asked by a reporter to put on a mask, in a polite “go pound sand” moment told the reporter he could step back; in news that should not surprise us concerning a governor with integrity and ethics in the pits and an arrogance and ego of an Emperor without clothes, Cuomo was issuing orders to allow his relatives to jump the line to get scarce CV tests; Cuomo’s reputation of being a bully seems vindicated as the nursing home operator whistle blower who warned of the Cuomo’s policy of sending CV infected into nursing homes to infect residents was ridiculous and who appeared on Fox News was the subject of a surprise visit (coincidence or retaliation?); dementia is causing Biden’s departure from reality to more quickly widen as he is now making the inane claim that the illegal alien surge started with Trump (look at the facts Joe and the impact of the stay in Mexico policies that you scrapped to spike the illegal alien wave); Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender was confirmed by the Senate 52-48 to serve in the DHHS; Biden is finally going to hold a press conference amidst speculation where the press will be able to place their tees for their what is expected to be other than from Fox only T-Ball questions, not even softball ones; VP Harris who believes to her very core of an open border has been selected by Biden as his Illegal Alien Migration Crisis Czar ( what a travesty what a joke); backers of a recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have started the 160 day clock to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; as Blues outraged over Boulder shooting seek to use the tragedy for more gun control, leave it to the political cartoonist to capture the fears for one’s safety and the Blue assault on the 2^nd Amendment: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
           Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through March 23, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 657 persons shot of whom 120 have died.

           As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “The Poor People of Paris” by Les Baxter,  the fact that you are not a rampallion and a quote from Phil Gingrey on illegal aliens bringing bacteria and viruses with them across our borders, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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. Please contact me for the details on the pricing.

         1. World TB Day—celebrating one of the 11 UN Public Health Days to promote awareness of tuberculosis and the means to treating it successfully.

         2. American Red Cross Giving Day—celebrated on the 4^th Wednesday of March  to promote financial support of the Red Cross, a vital line of defense to man made and naturals disasters.

         3. 1956 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1956 on this day with a run of4 weeks in that position was “The Poor People of Paris”  by the Les Baxter to share number 1 status with 16 other songs that year.  Here is a recording of “The Poor People of Paris” by Les Baxter:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYWXAN_W5g Baxter was a singer, pianist, composer, orchestra leader and creator of the genre exotica music who died on January 15, 1996 at age 73.
          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “rampallion” which means a scoundrel or villain which would be good word to use in describing too many on the Progressive wing of the Blues.

          5. In the Genes Times Three—celebrating the birth on this day in 1976 of noted professional quarterback Peyton Manning whose father Archie was a professional quarterback as was his younger brother Eli and who was drafted by the Colts in the first round in 1998 and turned the franchise around and ended his career with the Denver Broncos with 2 Super Bowl rings.

          On this day in:

          a. 1882 Robert Koch announced the discovery of the mycobacterium Tuberculosis, which caused the deadly disease tuberculosis and laid the path to a discovery of drugs to treat it some 67 years later.

          b. 1921 in a great move for women’s sports the 1921 Women’s Olympiad, the first international women’s sporting event began in Monte Carlo.

          c. 1944 76 Allied POW’s in Stalag Luft III began breaking out via an underground tunnel dug literally under the noses of the Germans, but 73 of these were caught and 50 of these executed by a vengeful Hitler. The event somewhat fictionalized was memorialized by the movie The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough.

          d. 1989 the Exxon Valdez, shortly after loading oil from the Trans Alaska Pipeline, ran aground in Prince Williams Sound, prime commercial fishing waters, to spill 257,000 barrels of crude oil to create a massive oil spill to coat miles of beaches and cost Exxon billions in clean up costs and damages assessed against it for the spill.

          e. 1998 Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, age 11 and 13 respectively, opened fire on teachers and students at Westside Middle School, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing 5 and wounding 10 before being apprehended. After convictions each was released after they turned 21 but Johnson returned to spend time in prison for other criminal activity with Golden being killed in a head on traffic collision on July 27,2019.

          Reflections on the mobility of viruses across borders: “Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.” Phil Gingrey, former Red Congressman from Georgia and a practicing doctor who would today at COVID-19 to his list of disease concerns being carried by illegal aliens.
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March 21, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Poetry Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 21, 2021

          CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now over 123 million at 122,818,961 with 892,988 new cases (a .73% increase) 21,320,382 which are active, 102,391,567 closed with 99,666,415 recoveries (97.34% and 97.34% yesterday) and 2,725,152 deaths (2.66% and 2.66% yesterday) to continue the trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus.

           CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 30 million at 30,494,601 with 77,398 new cases (a .25% increase) with 7,239,220 active cases of which 8,721 (.12% of active cases and back to daily decreases and a now a decrease now of 20,550 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 23,255,381 closures, 554,989 of which have been deaths (2.39% and 2.39% yesterday) and 22,700,392 of which have been recoveries (97.61% and 97.61% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .27% lower than the world rate and now .13% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3  and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1670 ranks behind Belgium (1948), Hungary (1894), UK (1851) which had passed us despite leading world in testing),  Italy (1738), and Bulgaria (1732) and only slightly worse than Portugal (1647), Spain (1559),  Mexico (1523), Peru (1504), France (1410), Brazil (1371), Sweden (1307) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,   Poland (1304), Argentina (1198), Switzerland (1174), Chile (1158), and Bolivia (1022) and we have now conducted  388,878,098 tests (now at 1,169,930/M) compared to number 2 now France at  894,789/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,650,869/M.    
          CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is 9^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1523/M and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows:

          Guatemala:  Active cases:  10,352        Deaths/M 369
          Honduras:     Active cases: 108,396      Deaths/M 441
          El Salvador:   Active cases:       684       Deaths/M 304   

          US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/21/2021 124 million doses have been given, 2.49 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now reduced to some 5 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 14,708,175 total doses have been given (77.9% of doses received to again remain below U.S. average of 79.4%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has moved from 36^th to 35^th  out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 12.6% of its population fully vaccinated has moved from 42^nd to 39^th in terms of percentage of residents vaccinated. A long way to go to get herd immunity and lagging behind in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and percentage of population vaccinated compared to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor.

         Non CV Case News: Thanks to Biden’s open invitation to illegals and his amnesty plan, we are running out of room on the border to hold the tidal wave so Biden will be spending nearly $100 million to house them in hotels while thousands of our fellow Americans are living in the feces, urine, rats, used needles and trash in the streets (change the greeting tune for this fading mental chief https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2021/03/for-biden-play-not-here-comes-chief.html; the border continues to disappear and the nation along with it as the CBP is releasing illegal aliens into the interior without an asylum court hearing date (probably recognizing the reality that most illegals never appear as it its getting easier for illegals to stay here without fear of deportation); Majorakis has proven after he was dragged kicking and screaming that the border surge of illegals was more than a challenge but shows he like most in Biden’s Administration has TDS Stage 4 as he has the inanity to claim that the border surge is Trump’s fault; Trump is blasting Biden for the surge in illegals which is causing death and human tragedy while Biden says he will visit the border at some time not now because “he knows what’s going on at those facilities (strange words from a man who doesn’t know who his appointees often are); while the pandemic may have brought out the best in us struggling to survive and help others survive it has also brought out the worst of us who populate our criminal population with a study finding some $200 billion in unemployment benefits fraud during the pandemic; in another example of the rabid intolerance of the left and their stupidity , guest columnist John McCall of the Ocean City Sentinel left a threatening voice mail on the answering machine of Red Rep from New Jersey Jeff Van Drew who had the temerity to vote against the confirmation by the Electoral College of Biden’s election that McCall would “do everything in my power to ensure you are deposed if not dead” (when will the FBI be knocking on this idiot’s door?); Trump backed the widow of Congressman-Elect Lettow in Louisiana who died after being elected from COVID-19 and she won;  we can breath easier as mile long Asteroid 2001 F032 missed Earth by over a million miles on Sunday; backers of a recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have started the 160 day clock to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; as Minneapolis girds for the start of the George Floyd police causing death trial leave it to the political cartoonist to capture the fears of small business owners over the lack of police protection in a riot follows a not guilty verdict: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
           Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through March 20, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 630 persons shot of whom 112 have died.

           As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Secret Love” by Doris Day,  the fact that you are blessed with not having a ragmatical personality and a quote from eye witness  Humphrey Tyler to the Sharpeville Massacre, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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. Please contact me for the details on the pricing.

          1. World Poetry Day—created by UNESCO in 1999 to promote the Alaskanpoet’s favorite subject and hobby poetry in all its splendid forms from free verse to rhymes.

          2. World Down Syndrome Day—first observed in 2006 to promote awareness of Down Syndrome, a condition caused by a child being born with an extra 21^st chromosome.

           3. 1954 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1954 on this day with a run of 1 weeks in that position was “Secret Love” by Doris Day to share number 1 status with 9 other songs that year.  Here is a recording of “Secret Love” by Doris Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiueIiFJdN8  Day was a noted and prolific singer, actress on the silver screen and TV and in her later years a passionate animal activist.  She passed away on May 13, 2019 after contracting pneumonia at age 97.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ragmatical” which means wild or ill-behaved, exactly the sort of behavior one should want to shy away from.

          5. In the Genes—celebrating the birth on this day in 1986 noted actor Scott Clinton Reeves who is also the son of Clint Eastwood and who has a lengthy list of movie roles but unlike his father no stints as a director yet.

         On this day in:

          a. 1937 in Ponce, Puerto Rico a peaceful demonstration of unarmed civilians celebrating the end of slavery on the island in 1873 by Spain and to protest the imprisonment on the leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Pedro Albizu Campos on charges of sedition was broken up by police gunfire under the orders of Governor Blanton Winship, killing 21, 2 of whom were police shot by fellow officers by mistake and wounding some 200 people. Despite the outrage Winship was only removed as governor and no police officer was dismissed or charged with a crime.

          b. 1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Gerdsdorff armed with two suicide bombs plotted to kill Adolf Hitler while he was visiting a museum honoring German dead of WWI but after setting the fuses for ten minutes Hitler left sooner than anticipated sadly for the German people but Gerdsdorff was able to defuse the bombs in a public bathroom and was shortly sent back to the Russian Front where he escaped suspicion. He survived the war to be employed in collaborating in an extensive study of German responses to D-Day and the Normandy Campaign for the American Army but was unable to join the Bundeswehr.

          c. 1960 at Sharpeville, South Africa, police opened fire on blacks demonstrating against apartheid, killing 69 and wounding 180 with many of the shot victims shot in the back as they tried to flee.

          d. 1970 the first Earth Day Proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.

          e. 2006 to the future bane of conservatives Jack Dorsey launched Twitter, now infamous and despised for banning conservative office holders, authors and public figures from Twitter.

          Reflections on the Sharpeville Massacre that led to the galvanizing of world opinion against South Africa and its policy of apartheid: ”Before the shooting, I heard no warning to the crowd to disperse. There was no warning volley. When the shooting started it did not stop until there was no living thing in the huge compound in front of the police station. The police have claimed they were in desperate danger because the crowd was stoning them. Yet only three policemen were reported to have been hit by stones - and more than 200 Africans were shot down. The police also have said that the crowd was armed with 'ferocious weapons', which littered the compound after they fled.

           I saw no weapons, although I looked very carefully, and afterwards studied the photographs of the death scene. While I was there I saw only shoes, hats and a few bicycles left among the bodies. The crowd gave me no reason to feel scared, though I moved among them without any distinguishing mark to protect me, quite obvious with my white skin. I think the police were scared though, and I think the crowd knew it.” Humphrey Tyler, assistant editor, Drum magazine, present at the massacre

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For Biden Play Not "Here Comes The Chief " Rather Play "The World Turned Upside Down"

 

When Lord Cornwallis surrendered to us at Yorktown
His army stacked their weapons to “The World Turned Upside Down”
Should replace now “Here Comes the Chief”
As Biden’s open border amnesty is bringing us great grief
Thousands of Americans are homeless living on sidewalks  and the streets
The lucky ones have tents or spaces under over passes so avoid rain to meet
Rats the size of footballs carrying disease dart and dash
Americans living in squalor in the feces and urine soaked trash
The tidal  wave of illegals have swamped the spaces to them confine
So Biden’s inane solution is to spend millions to put them in hotels once they have illegally crossed our border line
Watching Biden whether without a teleprompter or his crib sheet trying to speak
Is the sad sight of cognitive neurons in full on fading quickly leak
At least when years ago Wilson by a stroke was mentally laid low
We knew that Edith his wife who sheltered him for action was where you had to go
We know not who is in charge as still from the press and people Biden’s hidin’
As the gap between what mental prowess is needed and what’s there widens
Good chance  it’s Schumer, Sanders, Harris, Warren and Pelosi
Supported in spades by the leftist Squad and the likes of AOC
This poet for one will miss the pomp of “Here Comes the Chief” tune
Saddened beyond belief we have a president who is stumbling, mental buffoon

© March 21, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

March 20, 2021 Ridley's Beleive It Or Not Vernal Equinox

 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 20, 2021

          CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now over 122 million at 122,818,961 with 586,151 new cases (a .48% increase) 21,289,308 which are active, 102,115,804 closed with 99,394,812 recoveries (97.34% and 97.33% yesterday) and 2,720,992 deaths (2.66% and 2.67% yesterday) to continue the trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus.

           CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 30 million at 30,417,203 with 60.456 new cases (a .20% increase) with 7,243,670 active cases of which 8,715 (.12% of active cases and back to daily decreases and a now a decrease now of 20,556 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 23,233,989 closures, 554,794 of which have been deaths (2.39% and 2.39% yesterday) and 22,679,195 of which have been recoveries (97.61% and 97.61% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .27% lower than the world rate and now .14% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3  and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1669 ranks behind Belgium (1948), Hungary (1874), UK (1851) which had passed us despite leading world in testing),  Italy (1733), and Bulgaria (1731) and only slightly worse than Portugal (1647), Spain (1559),  Mexico (1519), Peru (1493), France (1410), Brazil (1370), Sweden (1307) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,   Poland (1300), Argentina (1198) Switzerland (1173), Chile (1153), and Bolivia (1022) and we have now conducted  388,653,070 tests (now at 1,169,271/M) compared to number 2 now France at  894,795/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,650,892/M.    
          CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is 9^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1519/M and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows:

          Guatemala:  Active cases: 9894        Deaths/M 368
          Honduras:     Active cases: 107,830   Deaths/M 441
          El Salvador:   Active cases: 980         Deaths/M  303   

          US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/20/2021 121 million doses have been given, 2.25 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now reduced to some 5 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 14,276,195 total doses have been given (75.6% of doses received to again remain below U.S. average of 77.5%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has remained at 36^th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 12.1% of its population fully vaccinated has moved from 42^nd to tied at 41^st with New York 42^nd in terms of percentage of residents vaccinated. A long way to go to get herd immunity and lagging behind in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and percentage of population vaccinated compared to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor.

         Non CV Case News: In a rare day in New York, not a new single female has come forward to allege another instance of sexual harassment but the bullying nature of the beast was revealed in a telephone recording threatening a progressive group that if it did not upgrade its “tepid” endorsement of him in his 2018 gubernatorial  race he was going to label its leader a “child molester” (from the lips of the quasi feminist so quick to blame Trump for the sick sex addict’s assault on 3 Atlanta massage parlors only the sounds of silence); COVID-19 suited up for March Madness and blocked VCU’s chance to play against Oregon for violation of CV protocols, sending VCU home and Oregon on to the next game;  Stanford plays Cal in the Big Game for the Axe Trophy but in wrestling as Stanford 162 lb weight class wrestler Shane Griffith won the national championship in his weight class even as Stanford plans to axe the program due to revenue losses in other sports caused by the CV pandemic; the CV war is active and well on college campuses as the University of Florida has suspended conservative student groups for not wearing masks and not practicing social distancing, claims the groups deny; proving that dormant when used to describe volcanoes is never really dormant, after 6,000 years Mount Fagradalsfjall volcano, located on the Reykjanes Peninsula near Iceland’s capital and its International Airport erupted;; backers of a recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have started the 160 day clock to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; as Minneapolis girds for the start of the George Floyd police causing death trial leave it to the political cartoonist to capture the fears of small business owners over the lack of police protection in a riot follows a not guilty verdict: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
           Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through March 19, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 621 persons shot of whom 110 have died.

           As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Till I Waltz Again With You” by Teresa Brewer,  the fact that you avoid ragabash people in your daily dealings and a quote from Libby Riddles on winning the Iditarod, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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. Please contact me for the details on the pricing.

          1. Vernal Equinox—celebrating the first day of spring and the end of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

          2. Great American Meatout—first celebrated in March, 1985 to promote the vegan diet by encouraging the absence of meat for today. Not sure who the sponsors are but have to believe Beyond Meat today is one of the major contributors.

           3. 1953 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1953 on this day with a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Till I Waltz Again With You” by Teresa Brewer to share number 1 status with 8 other songs that year.  Here is a recording of “Till I Waltz Again With You” by Teresa Brewer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkTC0YmfVY Brewer was a prolific singer who recorded over 600 songs in a 50 year career and may be remembered as inspiring Elvis to sing in his first public performance “Till I Waltz Again With You.” Her waltzing ended for good on October 17, 2007 at age 76.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we end the “q’s” to continue the “r’s” is “ragabash” which means an idle, worthless fellow, exactly the sort you would never if you knew his background want to hire.

          5. Prophetic Name for a Band—celebrating the birth on this day in 1976 of noted singer, songwriter and occasional actor Chester Bennington who was the lead singer for the band Linkin but later formed his own band Dead by Sunrise and sadly let depression and substance abuse get the best of him and was found dead by hanging by sunrise on July 20, 2017 at age 41.

         On this day in:

          a. 1815 after escaping from exile on the island of Elba, Napoleon entered Paris with an army of 140,000 and 200,000 volunteers to begin his “Hundred Days Rule” that would come to an end following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

          b. 1923 the Arts Club of Chicago opened the first public exposition of the works of Pablo Picasso.

          c. 1985 Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the Iditarod which was won for the 5^th time this year by Douglas Seavey.

          d. 1987 to the joy of those suffering from HIV or who would be infected in the future, the FDA approved the anti-AIDS treatment AZT.

          e. 2003 the U.S. along with its Allies, Great Britain, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq in search of WMD that did not exist in a war we never should have fought.

          Reflections on winning the Iditarod by the first woman to accomplish the feat who fortunately lost 30 miles from Nome stopped at house in the dark and got her bearings: ”The moment when I won the Iditarod is going to be a pretty hard moment to beat, ever, in my whole life, really. One of my less famous quotes was, ‘If I die now, it’ll be okay.’ Because that was just spontaneously what it felt like. It’s like, ‘Wow, how are we ever going to beat this one?’” Libby Riddles

           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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March 19, 2021 Ridley's Beleive It Or Not Certified Nurses Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 19, 2021

          CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with cases now over 122 million at 122,818,961 with 681,371 new cases (a .56% increase) 21,158,581  which are active, 101,660,380 closed with 98,948,760 recoveries (97.33% and 97.33% yesterday) and 2,711,620 deaths (2.67% and 2.67% yesterday) to continue the trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus.

           CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 30 million at 30,417,203 with 153,606 new cases (a .51% increase) with 7,261,457 active cases of which 9,171 (.13% of active cases and back to daily decreases and a now a decrease now of 20,100 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31 R) are in serious or critical condition, 23,155,746 closures, 553,882 of which have been deaths (2.39% and 2.39% yesterday) and 22,601,864 of which have been recoveries (97.61% and 97.60% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .28% lower than the world rate and now .14% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement here but at least has approved 4 vaccines as opposed to our 3  and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 1666 ranks behind Belgium (1946), UK (1850) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Hungary (1850),  Italy (1726), and Bulgaria (1710) and only slightly worse than Portugal (1647), Spain (1559),  Mexico (1514), Peru (1493), France (1402), Brazil (1359), Sweden (1307) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,   Poland (1291), Argentina (1196) Switzerland (1173), Chile (1148), and Bolivia (1019) and we have now conducted  387,248,369 tests (now at 1,165,064/M) compared to number 2 now France at  894,800/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,650,916/M.    

          CV Open Gate: Lost in the pronouncements by Biden and his lackeys that there is no crisis of illegals surging across the border is that fact that COVID-19 is alive and well and spreading in the Northern Triangle and Mexico which is 9^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic at 1514/M and the 3 countries in the Northern Triangle in terms of active cases and deaths per million are as follows:

          Guatemala:  Serious cases: 9517        Deaths/M 367
          Honduras:     Serious cases: 107,386   Deaths/M 433
          El Salvador:   Serious cases: 59,576    Deaths/M  303   

          US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 3/17/2021 118 million doses have been given, 2.48 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now reduced to some 5 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 13,882,984 total doses have been given (75.1% of doses received to again remain below U.S. average of 76.7%), but with the pressure of a certain recall coming endangering Newsom, California has moved up from 38^th to 36^th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 11.8% of its population fully vaccinated has moved from 44^th to 42^nd in terms of percentage of residents vaccinated. A long way to go to get herd immunity and lagging behind in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and percentage of population vaccinated compared to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor.

         Non CV Case News: Biden has fired 5 staffers for prior marijuana use (is this an attempt to preempt prior pot use VP Harries from her expected during the first term sooner than later from using the 25^th Amendment?); maybe alert to the hypocrisy, the House passed legislation to decriminalize at the federal level marijuana; Biden slipped and fell several times trying to climb up the steps to Air Force One which the MSM dismissed as having to do with the wind not his physical condition as opposed to when Trump had troubles going down a wet ramp at West Point raising speculation his difficulties were do to mental or physical issues; the MSM which too often is an adjunct of the Blues may have some concern as a Senior DC Judge Laurence Silberman in a blistering dissent in a libel case blasted the MSM and advanced the proposition than the Sullivan Case needs to be revisited (an act that would be near and dear to Trump’s heart and outrage over “fake news”; the board game Monopoly played for decades is getting a makeover by Hasbro with “Community Chest” cards changed to reflect more equitable and socially desirable  behavior; suffering California theme parks may be reopening on April 1 with masking requirements and limited to in state visitors and no screaming on thrill rides (wonder if the latest flip flop of the CDC mandating 3 feet of separation as opposed to 6 had anything to do with the order); Chuck Schumer is being introduced to the reality of anti- business pro higher tax policies of Blues as Jet Blue is contemplating moving headquarter jobs from New York to Florida forcing Chuck to get on the phone and beg the CEO of Jet Blue not to move the jobs; the Reverend Kevin O’Brien, the President of Santa Clara University, who celebrated Mass with Biden on Inauguration Day has been put on leave due to unspecified allegations; backers of a recall effort for L.A. DA Gascon have formally started the process and have started the 160 day clock to obtain 580,000 signatures of registered voters to place a recall on the ballot https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; as Harry and Meghan who are not hurting and coming up short in their Go Fund Me page to pay for their mansion, a shopkeeper next to his Antifa destroyed business reads an article about the National Guard still in the Swamp: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow.
           Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through March 18, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 612 persons shot of whom 109 have died.

           As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Wheel of Fortune” by Kay Starr,  the fact that you avoid raffish; and a quote from Phil Tobin who introduced the bill to legalize gambling in Nevada in 1931, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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. Please contact me for the details on the pricing.

          1. Certified Nurses Day—created by the American Certified Credentialing Center on this day in 2008 to honor the achievements of credentialed nurses and to encourage nurses to become credentialed in their field and celebrated on the anniversary of the birth of Doctor Margetta Styles, a leader in nursing certification.

          2. National Preschool Teachers Appreciation Day—celebrated on the third Friday in March to honor the contributions of preschool teachers to the education of very young children and whose jobs make it possible for a working parent to continued working for part of the day the child is in preschool.

           3. 1952 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1952 on this day with a run of 9 weeks in that position was “Wheel of Fortune” by Kay Starr to share number 1 status with 10 other songs that year.  Here is a recording of “Wheel of
Fortune” by Kay Starr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIce5NsWKk Starr was a star singer in the 40’s and 50’s and successful in jazz, pop and country and continued performing near her death on November 3, 2016 at age 94.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day as we end the “q’s” to continue the “r’s” is “raffish”  which means disreputable which describes the Chinese behavior in Alaska emboldened by their correct view that Biden is a weak leader maybe not mentally fit for the job.

          5. B-52’s Can Carry a Deadly Load—celebrating the birth on this day in 1973 of Ricky Wilson, a founder of the band B-52, but who became infected with HIV in 1983, a fact he kept secret from most of the members of the band but the disease progressed and he died on October 12, 1985 of AIDS.

         On this day in:

          a. 1931 in a let the good times roll, Governor Fred B. Balzar signed a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.

          b. 1943 Frank Nitti scheduled to appear before a Grand Jury investigating extortion charges of Hollywood Studios by Nitti’s Gang and fearful perhaps of serving time in prison again after several stiff shots of booze shot himself 3 times with the third hitting its intended target his head, killing him.

          c. 1958 a fire broke out in the Monarch Underware Company’s facilities in New York City killing 24 and injuring 15, 6 of whom were injured jumping from the flames but missing the fire net below.

          d. 1979 for those who had trouble sleeping C-SPAN began broadcasting sessions of the House of Representatives.

          e. 1982 Argentine forces landed at South Georgia Island in the Falkland Islands which would lead to their forcible eviction in the Falklands War.

          Reflections on the legalization of gambling in Nevada after being outlawed in 1909: “I was just plumb sick and tired of seeing gambling going on all over the state and the payoffs being made everywhere. Some of those tinhorn cops were collecting 50 bucks a month for allowing it. Also, the damn state was broke and we needed the money.” Phil Tobin, the Nevada Assemblyman who introduced the 1931 legalization bill.  

           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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