May 30, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not MS Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not May 30, 2021

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now over 171 million at 171,037,054 cases (170,633.437 yesterday), 14,340,267 of which are active, 156,696,787 closed with 153,139,967 recoveries (97.73% and 97.73% yesterday, and 3,556,820 deaths (2.27% and 2.27% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
    CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 34 million at 34,043,068 (34,035,318 yesterday) with 5,592,640 active cases of which 6,136 (6,197) yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .11% of active cases and now another blip down to decrease the number of serious or critical cases to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 23,135), 28,450,428 closed, with 609,544 deaths (2.14% and 2.14% yesterday) and with 27,840,884 recoveries (97.86% and 97.86% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve and after many months is now .13% lower than the world rate.

       Standing: On a deaths per million population measurement on a steady but slowing climb to 1832 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 which has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase barely slowing down and improving slightly to  4.10% of its closed cases have died (3084), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2559), Belgium (2143),  Brazil (2160) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy (Italy (2088), Peru (2077), Poland (1950) and the UK (1873) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely increasing),  and slightly better than Mexico (1717), Spain (1708), Argentina (1700), Portugal (1674), France (1673),  Romania (1583),  Chile (1514), Sweden (1419) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,  Switzerland (1240), and Bolivia (1225).

       Tests: We have now conducted 479,490,895 tests (now at 1,440,907/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,296,346/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 2,660,182/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 has moved up to 10^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic passing Spain at 1717/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 (regardless of number we need no more cases):

                   Guatemala:  Activecases:     13,086     447Deaths/M
                   Honduras:     Activecases:   146,705     629Deaths/M
                   El Salvador:   Active cases:     2,593     345 Deaths/M   

      US Vaccinations: As of 5/30/21 294.9 million doses at 1.32 million per day down from yesterday’s 1.39 million on per day in the last week sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now back to some 4 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 38,261,502 total doses have been given (80.7% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.5%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has moved down from  24^th   to 25^th out of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 43.0% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 40.7% has not moved from 23^rd  among the 50 states.  A long way to go still to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.

      Non  CV News: Another mass shooting this time in Miami at a rappers release party as a SUV stopped, gunmen got out and starting shooting, killing 2 and wounding some 25  and then sped off and are still being sought (in his condemnation the Miami police chief condemned the shooters and called for long prison sentences for those criminals who illegally possess guns while reminding everyone that law abiding citizens have the right to bear firearms;  former FDA Commissioner Scot Gottlieb has expressed what many have believed for years that leaks of viruses out of labs occur all the time (more troubling question which may prove impossible to answer was were the Chinese trying to weaponize COVID-19; there is an adage that the third time is the charm which Where’s Waldo blew it first with her inane jokes at the U.S. Naval Academy then with her it’s about me photo wishing people would enjoy a long weekend as finally she today tweeted homage to those vets who have served and sacrificed; Patrisse Cullors, the cofounder of the BLM who has announced she is retiring from the BLM was featured at a Harvard Law School panel where she advocated the destruction of Israel; hold on to your hats as a black threatened a clerk at a drive thru beer outlet with an assault prompting 2 officers to respond who then shot but did not kill the armed suspect when he started to approach him and did not respond to commands and threatened the officers with his rifle (since BlM does not it seems in terms of protest distinguish between armed blacks and unarmed blacks one hopes that the officers’ body cams were on); Mia Khalifa, a former Lebanese porn star has been ranting vial anti-Semitic tweets against Israel; Blues walked out of the State Legislature in Texas to prevent a quorum to prevent Texas from voting on a voting statute which to be expected the Blues contend is a racist attempt to suppress black voting; Biden has announced he will continue discussions with Reds on his “infrastructure” bill into June (the increase in inflation may have even Blues questioning the massive deficit that Biden’s proposals will entail;                                                               

         Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is back to show that through May 29, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 1439 persons shot of whom 249 have died.
         As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a video musical link to “Buy U a Drank (Shawnty Snappin’) by T-Pain feat. Yung Joc, the fact that you were not planning a fishing trip to your favorite trout laden ria and a quote from Jan Eliasson on UN Peacekeepers, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send 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. Please contact me for details on the pricing.

1. World MS Day—created by the World Multiple Sclerosis International Foundation in 2009 to promote research to find a cure for this common neuromuscular  disease that affects some 3 million people worldwide which today doctors are only able to treat the symptoms not the disease.

2. International Day United Nations Peacekeepers—created by the UN General
Assembly on December 11, 2002 and first celebrated on this day in 2003 to commemorate the sacrifices made by UN Peacekeepers wearing their blue combat helmets who were first used to monitor the truce after the 1948 Arab Israeli War following the creation of Israel and sadly are very much in need still today around the world.

         3.  2007 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2007 on this day was “Buy U a Drank (Shawnty Snappin’)” by T-Pain feat. Yung Joc on a run 1 week in that position to join 16 other songs reaching number 1 and 7 other acts achieved their first number 1 song either as the lead artist or featured guest. Here is a video recording by T-Pain feat. Yung Joc of “Buy U a Drank (Shawnty Snappin’)”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBrRBZy8OTs   T-Pain, a black rapper was born in 1985 and has won two Grammys and best known for popularizing Auto-Tune, a pitch correcting device used for vocals to give them a robotic quality. Young Joc is a rapper with 8 children, 5 of which were born out of wedlock with 3 women and 3 with his now divorced 1^st wife due to his infidelity.

         4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “ria” which means a wide creek which with our drought in California we will not see unless it is a very dry one.

         5.  Life Aping Art--celebrating the birth on this day in 1974 songwriter/singer Lamont Coleman better known in his short career as Big L who just as his hip hop rap career was beginning to take off was fatally shot nine times in a drive by shooting in Harlem on February 15, 1999. His childhood friend Gerald Woodley was arrested 3 months later but the charges were dropped but Woodley after a life of crime including prison time met his Karma on June 24, 2016, by being fatally shot in the head.

         On this day in

         a. 1868 at Decoration Day, the predecessor to Memorial Day, was observed for the first time and a proclamation was read by John Logan, head of the veterans’ group, the Grand Army of the Republic.

         b. 1958 the unidentified remains of a soldier from World War II and a soldier from the Korean War were buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

         c. 1982 Spain joined NATO.

         d. 2008 the Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibiting their production, stockpiling, transfer and use was adopted by 107 nations but not 7 of the 14 who had used them and 17 of the 34 nations who had produced them.

         e. 2020 Crew Dragon Demo made by SpaceX was successfully launched to take 2 astronauts to the International Space Station in the first American rocket to be launched into space with humans aboard since the end of the Space Shuttle Program.
         Reflections on UN Peacekeepers: “For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost – the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war."
-- Jan Eliasson (Former President of the UN General Assembly)

         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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Special Election in New Mexico May Show Attacking the Police May Have Legs

 

On Tuesday in New Mexico we may see whether the defund the police chickens are coming home to roost
In a special election Red Moore hopes his opponent’s anti policing stand will give his candidacy a winning boost
Albuquerque’s murder rate is up 75 percent through April of this year
Giving citizens of Albuquerque another reason to fear
In the era of the leftist mantra to defund the police
Current budget has 18.4 % cut in dollars the police being released
Melanie Stansbury, a Libertarian who will probably with Blues caucus
Has the advantage of district being Blue but being tagged with supporting Breathe Act may ape the fate of Dukakis
Voters after two weeks of early voting go to the polls on the 2^nd of June
With crime rising off the charts and Stansbury viewed as anti-police will her election chances be ruined?
Regardless of who wins in 2022 the defund the police cry will be a major spin
While once again a chance of ending partisan rancor and gridlock tossed in trash bin

© May 30, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

May 29, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Day of UN Peacekeepers

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not May 29, 2021

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now over 170 million at 170,633,437,439 cases (169,841,439 yesterday), 14,481,615 of which are active, 156,151,852 closed with 152,603,176 recoveries (97.73% and 97.73% yesterday, and 3,548,676 deaths (2.27% and 2.27% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
      CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 34 million at 34,035,318 (33,999.993 yesterday) with 5,606,936 active cases of which 6,197 (6,561) yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .11% of active cases and now another blip down to decrease the number of serious or critical cases to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 23,074), 28,428,382 closed, with 609,421 deaths (2.14% and 2.15% yesterday) and with 27,818,961 recoveries (97.86% and 97.85% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve and after many months is now .13% lower than the world rate.
      Standing: On a deaths per million population measurement on a steady but slowing climb to 1831 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 which has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase barely slowing down and improving slightly to  4.12% of its closed cases have died (3082), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2559), Belgium (2142),  Brazil (2156) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy (Italy (2087), Peru (2073), Poland (1949) and the UK (1873) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely increasing),  and slightly better than Mexico (1717), Spain (1708), Argentina (1692), Portugal (1674), France (1672),  Romania (1582),  Chile (1495), Sweden (1419) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,  Switzerland (1240), and Bolivia (1222).
      Tests: We have now conducted 478,917,136 tests (now at 1,439,205/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,290,170/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 2,660,220/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 has moved up to 10^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic passing Spain at 1717/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 (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                   Guatemala:  Activecases:     13,357     446Deaths/M
                   Honduras:     Activecases:   146,627     627Deaths/M
                   El Salvador:   Active cases:     2,597     344 Deaths/M 
      US Vaccinations: As of 5/29/21 293.7 million doses at 1.39 million per day down from yesterday’s 1.50 million on per day in the last week sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now back to some 4 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 38,066,786 total doses have been given (80.3% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.2%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has not moved from  24^th out of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 42.7% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 40.5% has  moved down from 21^st to 23^rd   among the 50 states.  A long way to go still to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
       Non  CV News: Where’s Waldo is clueless and MIA on the border and evidently has the same problem of why we have a Memorial Day celebration as she tweets a photo of herself suitable for framing in the Oval Office as she encourages all to enjoy “a long weekend” (it’s about honoring those who served those who died Kamala); a new study that relates to finding 4 positive amino acids in the COVID-19 may point to a finding that the virus did not occur in nature but was manufactured by you guessed it the Wuhan Lab (really frightening stuff for the Chinese to be working on a virus that came close to bring the world to its knees at a collateral damage of less than 5,000 expendable Wuhan residents; Fiddleheads Restaurant in Mendocino, California will be charging mask wearing patrons $5 and offering 50% off for patrons who throw their masks into the trash (mask fee will be donated to charity but the act indicates what restaurant owners feel about Newsom and his shutdowns); in a shades of Terminator 3 moment, a weapons carrying drown without any instruction from its human handler targeted and a Libyan target and killed the person; singer/songwriter B.J. Thomas who was a smoker but quit in 1988 was diagnosed in March of this year has died today of lung cancer; the Biden Trillions Chickens are coming home to roost and bringing their inflation eggs to hatch as inflation, the hidden tax which also destroy those earning under $400,000 that Biden touts will be exempt from his tax hikes, is soaring; following a shooting at the Simon mall in Pittsburgh in which fortunately no one was hit but had shoppers running for their lives, police slammed the owners’ lack of surveillance cameras which forced officers to charge in blind, increasing the dangers to themselves; Baltimore’s schools are probably a disaster when a student who failed all but 3 classes in her 4 years will graduate near the top half (feel for the parents in Baltimore who must be frustrated that their kids are not getting an education that will doom them to a life of crime, really low paying jobs or welfare).     
       Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is back to show that through May 28, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 1422 persons shot of whom 248 have died.
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a video musical link to “Buy U a Drank (Shawnty Snappin’) by T-Pain feat. Yung Joc, the fact that you were not planning a fishing trip to your favorite trout laden ria and a quote from Jan Eliasson on UN Peacekeepers, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send 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. Please contact me for details on the pricing.         
         1. World Digestive Health  Day—created by the World Gastroenterology Organization to each year promote a yearlong awareness of a particular digestive issue and how to treat it and avoid coming down with it with 2021’s topic being obesity which is a major problem in most industrialized countries leading to a host of problems like diabetes, arthritis and heart attacks; but it is ironic that obesity is a major problem when millions of people here go to bed hungry and hundreds of millions of people around the globe have the same problem.
         2. International Day United Nations Peacekeepers—created by resolution by  the   UN General Assembly on December 11, 2002 and first celebrated on this day in 2003 to commemorate the sacrifices made by UN Peacekeepers wearing their blue combat helmets who were first used to monitor the truce after the 1948 Arab Israeli War following the creation of Israel and sadly are very much in need still today around the world.

 3.  2007 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2007 on this day was “Buy U a Drank (Shawnty Snappin’)” by T-Pain feat. Yung Joc on a run 1 week in that position to join 16 other songs reaching number 1 and 7 other acts achieved their first number 1 song either as the lead artist or featured guest. Here is a video recording by T-Pain feat. Yung Joc of “Buy U a Drank (Shawnty Snappin’)”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBrRBZy8OTs   T-Pain, a black rapper was born in 1985 and has won two Grammys and best known for popularizing Auto-Tune, a pitch correcting device used for vocals to give them a robotic quality. Young Joc is a rapper with 8 children, 5 of which were born out of wedlock with 3 women and 3 with his now divorced 1^st wife due to his infidelity.
        4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “ria” which means a wide creek which with our drought in California we will not see unless it is a very dry one.
          5.  Life Aping Art--celebrating the birth on this day in 1974 songwriter/singer Lamont Coleman better known in his short career as Big L who just as his hip hop rap career was beginning to take off was fatally shot nine times in a drive by shooting in Harlem on February 15, 1999. His childhood friend Gerald Woodley was arrested 3 months later but the charges were dropped but Woodley after a life of crime including prison time met his Karma on June 24, 2016, by being fatally shot in the head.
          On this day in
         a. 1868 at Decoration Day, the predecessor to Memorial Day, was observed for  the first time and a proclamation was read by John Logan, head to the veterans group, the Grand Army of the Republic.
         b. 1958 the unidentified remains of a soldier from World War II and a soldier from  the Korean War were buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
           c. 1982 Spain joined NATO.
          d. 2008 the Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibiting their production, stockpiling , transfer and use was adopted by 107 nations but not 7 of the 14 who had used them and 17 of the 34 nations who had produced them.
       e. 2020 Crew Dragon Demo made by SpaceX was successfully launched to take 2 astronauts to the International Space Station in the first American rocket to be launched into space with humans aboard since the end of the Space Shuttle Program.
        Reflections on UN Peacekeepers: “For all the civilians saved thanks to     the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost – the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war."-- Jan Eliasson (Former President of the UN General Assembly)

         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.

© May 29, 2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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Making a Fool Out Herself at Annapolis Where's Waldo in an Inane Memorial Day Clueless Tweet

 

When it comes to empathy for mere mortals’ reality Where’s Waldo is without a clue
Any question about that statement her Memorial Day Weekend Tweet just view
A smiling picture to as 25^th Amendment President hang on Oval Office wall
With a message that seems so out of place and her so very removed and small
“Enjoy the long weekend” just 4 words
Consistent with the Woke that to honor sacrifices of vets is absurd
Harris must have been asleep assuming in our woke school system it was taught
Or too busy condemning imagined systematic racism rot
Forgot or never learned that Memorial Day is so much more than a long weekend
Rather is it to honor those who have served and died to insure our freedoms did not end
Ridiculed with her joke on carrying solar panels before the midshipmen threw hats into the air
Her sense of patriotism and sacrifice cupboard must be bare
God help us that a senile, demented president so frail
He hid in a bunker hiding his agenda from the campaign trail
Chose this most leftist senator to be his number two
If he is replaced her remaining years until 2024 we will intensely rue.

© May 29, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Reports Saying Amino Acid Footprint Means COVID-19 Made In a Lab

 

The Chinese have had over a year and a half to any work on COVID-19 conceal
It would be a miracle that any brave Chinese whistleblowers are still alive to reveal
On the origin of a virus the ease of infection and death the world would stun
The Chinese Communist Party have 24 7 tried to any WHO investigation shun
They lied the virus came from infected bats from caves hundreds of miles away
That went into a Wuhan wet market to infect before becoming meals that day
Didn’t make sense especially when the Chinese claimed from humans to humans it would not transmit
Spread like wildfire and when Trump told Chinese getting on airplanes they had to quit
Was slammed as xenophobic as Pelosi went to Chinatown to invite
All to party hearty and enjoy themselves through the night
As the pandemic grew any voices to assert the virus came from a lab
Were as right wing conspiracists were ridiculed as some in China hid to avoid being nabbed
Mention on Social Media the Wuhan Lab as the COVID-19 source
Quickly banned and censored as a matter of course
Now a report released by virologists of great renown
Casting some light on the world being snickered by these Chinese clowns
Simple finding of 4 positive amino acids in a row
Something not in nature but only in a lab like Wuhan to grow
For a president viewed as senile and with a Hunter Chinese connection without a spine
Will he rise above senility weakness and avenge the over 600,000 deaths this time?

© May 29, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Patrisse Cullors Pulling Her Hand Out of BLM Cookie Jar To Become TV and Other Book Star

 

Patrice Cullors is no fool she knows how a fortune can be built
As a black all one has to do is raise money based on “White Guilt”
Prey on white fears of “systematic racism” and how they must atone
So easy by donations to Black Lives Matter to with the platform buy almost $4 million of new homes
It is almost like the sale of indulgences déjà vu
A donation check and absolved of racist guilt one might rue
Then use the BLM platform to ink a  lucrative TV gig
And another book deal while urging the frying of pigs
This Marxist has Marx’s warning to capitalists read
Selling white guilt rather than rope but wanting them dead
The hypocrisy of ignoring true racism in the black on black shootings in Blue run cities
Victims still dead but since cops not shooters not an ounce from her of compassion or pity
Finally a slender reed of hope
From black families with relatives shot by blacks trying to cope
Some mothers of dead victims are against Cullors their anger vent
She and her BLM have done nothing to murders of their loved ones prevent
Better yet Patrisse Cullors is cashing in her ill-gotten chips
She can’t take scandal home buying heat and from BLM is jumping ship
Worse she and the BLM have blood on their hands for the call to “Defund the Police”
As rising murder rates soar proving cutting cops means deaths of blacks are not less but increase

© May 29, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

On Memorial Day Save Our Military From Wokes

 

Anyone who thinks the military lusts for war has it completely wrong
Any idea that war is a glorious pursuit is an idea that does not belong
Ask any military leader why we spend so much money on our military forces
And the answer will be for strength to deter any foe from following a Martian course
Wars too often start because one side is perceived as weak
An easy opponent from whom any goals the stronger side seeks
Or wars too often start due to false perceptions of response the other side will take
How many times have wars started when the invader made the mistake?
Misjudged the size of the opposing force or willingness to fight rather than cede
Hitler had he known of ability of the Russians to make tanks or how many divisions they could put in the field
Would have shelved his Barbarossa plans and to his quest for Lebensraum not yield
Nor would he having misjudged the capacity of America to produce arms and for its values fight
Rashly declared war on us to insure in less than 3 ½ years be totally destroyed by American might
Today from the left our military is being exposed to a danger worse than any budget cuts
That the strength of its deterrence will be by woke slamming its ability to fight be shut
The woke from the left may want to avoid war but its focus on “systematic racism” and “white supremacy” to divide us not unite
Will leave us with a military well trained in critical race theory, transgender equality and cancel culture but unable to fight
We face existential threats from the Chinese and even Putin trying to the glory of the Soviet Union restore
Who must believe that we are being internally gutted by Wokes’ belief the nation’s values we must cancel and ignore
On this Memorial Day it is time to rise up and united tell the Wokes
We reject your demands and ideas and we commit to having them revoked
© May 29, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

 

Genetically Altered King Salmon On Their Way To Shelves And Restaurants Thanks To AquaticBounty

 

Commercial fishing in Alaska is not for the faint at heart
Families never know their loved ones will return as from the harbor they depart
One needs only to  a few episodes of The Most Dangerous Catch view
To know the arctic storms in the Bering Sea will sink a boat with all its crew
Waves 30 feet high in waters near freezing cold
Crab fishing is for the either the very foolish or the very bold
Gilt net fishing does not often the killer storms face
But at night drifting in the tides in the fog collisions with rocks or logs to sink a boat without a trace
Gill netters are small and in any waves a danger to over board fall
Not outfitted in survival suits like the crabber water still cold and hypothermia will not soon stall
Now a new danger to the livelihood of the troller or gillnetter of salmon to appear
Something more dangerous than sinkings or stormy weather to fear
Salmon in the wild take three years out in the Pacific before they grow to market size
And when they return to spawn only some two percent make it through the gauntlet of nets, hooks, bears and seals to survive
Now through the marvels of genetic science and growth hormones,
AquaticBounty will be farming salmon that in half that time will be grown
Have made assurances that not using ocean pens no Frankenfish would escape into the rivers and seas
But with antibiotics used to curtail fish loss through disease questions not answered of what more antibiotics will have on the health of you and me
A fisherman’s last hope that he would not have to compete with genetically altered salmon the FDA
Has despite the concerns over the demise of wild salmon or the fishing industry has given its OK
Now the likes of Beyond Meat will compete with hybrid like fish
Not soy protein with flavors but genetically altered salmon for one’s dish
Soon filets of King Salmon will be to shelves and fine restaurants on their way
To diners unaware that the salmon they are about to eat have been subject to GMA
This poet who for six summers in Alaska on boats catching salmon with a seine
Enduring long hours, jellyfish laden seines, mosquito hordes, empty sets and miserable rain
Hard to believe that that way of life may become a thing of the past
Victim of a trend for a steady stream of fresh not frozen fish as a cheaper repast

© May 29, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

May 28, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Amnesty International Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not May 28, 2021

        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now over 169 million at 169,841,439 cases (169,404,850 yesterday), 14,683,144 of which are active, 155,158,288 closed with 151,629,466 recoveries (97.73% and 97.72% yesterday, and 3,528,822 deaths (2.27% and 2.28% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
      CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 33 million at 33,999,993 (33,976,833 yesterday) with 5,690,382 active cases of which 6,561 (6,729) yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .12% of active cases and now another blip down to decrease the number of serious or critical cases to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 22,710), 28,309,611 closed, with 607,732 deaths (2.15% and 2.14% yesterday) and with 27,701,879 recoveries (97.85% and 97.86% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve and after many months is now .12% lower than the world rate.
      Standing: On a deaths per million population measurement on a steady but slowing climb to 1826 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 which has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase barely slowing down and improving slightly to  4.13% of its closed cases have died (3080), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2556), Belgium (2140),  Brazil (2135) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy (Italy (2085), Peru (2061), Poland (1945) and the UK (1873) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely increasing),  and slightly better than Mexico (1711), Spain (1708), Portugal (1674), Argentina (1671), France (1669),  Romania (1578),  Chile (1495), Sweden (1419) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,  Switzerland (1240), and Bolivia (1211).
      Tests: We have now conducted 477,159,878 tests (now at 1,433,970/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,277,300/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 2,660,296/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 has moved up to 10^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic passing Spain at 1711/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 (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                   Guatemala:  Activecases:     12,384     443Deaths/M
                   Honduras:     Activecases:   145,117     623Deaths/M
                   El Salvador:   Active cases:     2,566     343 Deaths/M  
      US Vaccinations: As of 5/28/21 292.1 million doses at 1.50 million per day down from yesterday’s 1.62 million on per day in the last week sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now back to some 4 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 37,874,433 total doses have been given (80.9% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.6%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has not moved from  24^th out of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 42.5% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 40.2% has dropped from 20^th to 21^st   among the 50 states.  A long way to go still to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
       Non  CV News: In Leesburg, Virginia, biology has been woked out as elementary school teacher Byron “Tanner” Cross  has been placed on leave for stating the obvious that a biological boy cannot be a biological girl and vice versa (sadly the school’s administration must have forgotten that Junior was only a movie not real life); USA Today needs to change its name to USA Woke Today after without permission of Chelsea Holcomb once known as the “Fastest Girl in Connecticut” and author of an op ed attacking the policy of allowing transgender biological males to compete against women in track events by changing “male” to “transgender” and apologizing for her “hurtful language”; MSNBC whose proper acronym is “More Slanted News of Biased Cack” had leftist hacks Jason Johnson and Susan Del Percio and host Joyless Reid in a ranting troika of inanity that Senator Manchin wanted Blues dead because he opposed ending the filibuster to enable the partisan commission under the control of Pelosi to investigate the events of January 6 in the Capitol; the Lt. Governor of Idaho who is a conservative Republican issued an executive order while the Republican Governor was out of the state at a Governors’ Conference banning mask mandates in schools and public buildings (the percent of Idahoan residents who are vaccinated and who have recovered totals 39% of its population and probably over half of its adult population); MSNBC which seems to be in a race with CNN to see who can fawn the most over Joe Biden was rightfully mocked for a 3 minute piece on Biden’s selection of ice cream for his cone; in another chilling idea that we may not be alone in the galaxy, a video of mysterious UFO’s swarming near the USS Omaha on July 19, 2019 has been leaked in advance of an expected Pentagon report on UFO’s; AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. a biotech company will soon be delivering genetically modified farmed salmon that grow to 8-12 pounds in 18 months as opposed to 36 months needed by wild salmon; going pedal to the metal to cut and slash police budgets across the nation, prompting in the case of Minneapolis to seek federal and state help.
      Illegal alien Christhian Rivera was found guilty today of murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbets (MSM in a woke fit could not bear to reveal he was an illegal alien only that he was a “farm worker”); Where’s Waldo became the first woman to address a graduation ceremony at a U.S. Military Academy and managed to make a fool out of herself with rants on climate change that had the midshipmen groaning having to put up with this 25^th Amendment President wanna-be who will not go to the border to confirm firsthand chaos the Biden immigration and border policies are creating; since even our military has not escaped the woke cancer that is spreading throughout this nation, leave it to the political cartoonist to portray the real reason we celebrate Memorial Day this Monday:                                             

         Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is back to show that through May 27, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 1408 persons shot of whom 246 have died.
         As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a video musical link to “SOS” by Rihanna, the fact that you are not guilty of being a rhonchisonant and a quote from Sting on amnesty International, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send 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. Please contact me for details on the pricing.     

      1. Amnesty International Day—created by Amnesty International, founded in July of 1961 and celebrated on this day since 1962 to initially promote the release of political prisoners around the world but has evolved to also campaign for human rights, freedom of speech and conscience, abolishment of torture, abolition of the death penalty, reproductive rights and the defense of refugees and migrants.
      2. Death Busters Day—created to promote awareness on the Friday before  Memorial Day that the Memorial Day Weekend is an extremely dangerous and deadly one on the roads and highways as massive numbers of people are driving to locations away from home or attending picnics and barbecues where goodly amounts of alcohol are served.
     3.  2006 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2006 on this day was “SOS” by Rihanna on a run of 3 weeks in that position to join 18 other songs reaching number 1 and 19 other acts achieved their first number 1 song either as the lead artist or featured guest. Here is a video recording by Rihanna of “SOS”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmF4GbA86E  Rihanna, a native of Barbados was discovered in 2003 and skyrocketed to a recording career with a net worth believed to be around $600 million.
      4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “rhonchisonant” which means to make a snorting or snoring sound which is something you would not want to do or have someone you sleep with do.
         5.  No Longer the Mighty Quinn--celebrating the birth on this day in 1970 of Irish born  actor Gwen Quinn who emigrated to the United States as a child with his family to have some success as a TV and movie actor but sadly could not overcome his struggles with alcohol and drugs and toward the end of his career struggled with homelessness and came to an end on December 3, 2002 due to a fatal overdose.
         On this day in
        a. 1934 the Dionne Quintuplets 5 identical girls, the world's 1st quintuplets to  survive  infancy, were born two months premature to Oliva and Elizire Dionne near Callander, Ontario.  It is believed that as of December 2019 2 of the quintuplets Annette and Cecile are believed to be still alive.
        b. 1964 the Palestinian Liberation Organization was founded and Yasser Arafat elected as its first president.
         c. 1977 a fire broke out at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky which was occupied by patrons numbering far in excess of its fire code capacity and quickly spread to kill 165 patrons and injure some 200, making it the third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history.
       d. 2002 the last steel girder is removed from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center marking the end of cleanup activities at the site in order that plans to rebuild could then proceed.
        e. 2017 Japanese Takuma Sato, a former Formula One driver, became the first Asian to win the Indy 500.
        Reflections on Amnesty International: “I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.” Sting, former lead singer and songwriter of the band Police.

        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.

© May 28, 2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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May 27, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Gray Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not May 27, 2021

        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on a slowing down basis the new year with cases now over 169 million at 169,404,850 cases (168,869,102 yesterday), 14,741,377 of which are active, 154,663,473 closed with 151,144,574 recoveries (97.72% and 97.72% yesterday, and 3,518,899 deaths (2.28% and 2.28% yesterday) to continue the slow trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentage with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
      CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 33 million at 33,976,833 (33,950,633 yesterday) with 5,707,223 active cases of which 6,729 (6,841) yesterday and 8,599 on 3/25/2021) (now down to .12% of active cases and now another blip down to decrease the number of serious or critical cases to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 22,542), 28,269,610 closed, with 606,312 deaths (2.14% and 2.15% yesterday) and with 27,663,298 recoveries (97.86% and 97.85% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to slowly improve and after many months is now .14% lower than the world rate.
       Standing: On a deaths per million population measurement on a steady but slowing climb to 1822 the U.S. ranks behind Hungary the new number 1 which has had a huge continuing surge in deaths with the increase barely slowing down and improving slightly to  4.17% of its closed cases have died (3077), aping Hungary in terms of increase in deaths Bulgaria (2553), Belgium (2139),  Brazil (2125) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy (Italy (2083), Peru (2056), Poland (1942) and the UK (1873) which had passed us despite leading world in testing and now has new deaths barely increasing),  and slightly better than Spain (1708), Mexico (1708), Portugal (1674), France (1667), Argentina (1659), Romania (1576),  Chile (1496), Sweden (1419) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a steady rise in  deaths,  Switzerland (1239), and Bolivia (1204).
       Tests: We have now conducted 476,292,193 tests (now at 1,431,385/M) compared to number 2 now France at 1,275,749/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 2,644,284/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 has moved up to 11^th on my list of deaths from the pandemic tied with Spain at 1708/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 (regardless of number we need no more cases):
                   Guatemala:  Activecases:     12,219     442Deaths/M
                   Honduras:     Activecases:   144,677     622Deaths/M
                   El Salvador:   Active cases:     2,570     343 Deaths/M   
       US Vaccinations: As of 5/27/21 290.7 million doses at 1.62 million per day down from yesterday’s 1.70 million on per day in the last week sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us now back to some 4 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 37,669,020 total doses have been given (80.6% of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 80.5%), but even with the pressure of a recall to be scheduled this fall which hopefully end Newsom’s term, California has not moved from  24^th out of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 42.2% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 40.0% has not moved from  20^th  among the 50 states.  A long way to go still to get herd immunity in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states which means a great reason to recall this inept and hypocritical governor.
      Non  CV News: Witless Whitmer may be joining Andrew Cuomo’s concealing COVID-19 deaths at long term care facilities as lawyers representing the journalist who sued under FOIA to obtain nursing home deaths statistics are claiming she may have undercounted such deaths by 100%; murders and crimes are soaring as the Defund the Police Movement is going pedal to the metal to cut and slash police budgets across the nation, prompting in the case of Minneapolis to seek federal and state help; in an appropriate application of karma, Antonio Brown, an Atlanta city council member who voted to slash $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department, has been indicted for trying to defraud financial institutions and is running for mayor on a platform of defunding the police, misleadingly sugar coated as “reimaging the police” had his car stolen in broad daylight by 4 teenagers (hate to say it but could not happened to more misguided politician); in a perhaps too little too late moment as China has had almost a year and a half to destroy any evidence of its complicity and with “whistleblowers” in China silent as they to know whistleblowing is a death sentence, the Biden Administration is launching a probe of the origin of the virus, forced to do so as China has refused to cooperate with WHO’s investigation (ironic that prior to this announcement, the Biden Administration quietly shut down a similar probe by the State Department (Biden’s biggest fear should be that the 90 day probe determines Chinese complicity and he will be forced to impose sanctions on China which most likely he does not have the spine to do so); add YouTube to the heavy hand of censorship as it blocked a video of a mom excoriating the Atlanta School Board for its mask mandate for children because of “medical misinformation” that the virus does not affect children (Georgia needs to ape Florida but expand Florida’s ban of social media’s banning of candidates to include all speech involving issues being ruled on by public bodies); Where’s Waldo is set to display her ignorance of economic facts and reality by claiming the root cause of the border crisis is the lack of economic opportunity and will propose $4 billion in investment in the Northern Triangle (an amount that is dwarfed by remittances from illegal immigrants here from there and would take years to see any tangible improvements while today we are being overrun by illegals attracted by the thought that if they get here nothing but freebies and they won’t be deported); Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago who has announced she will only grant interviews to journalists of color has by sued by the Daily Caller in Federal District Court for discrimination (as shootings of victims of color by shooters of color continue at record rates, she remains clueless and without any ideas on how to address the problem—which by being ignored sounds like a truer definition of racism); in a win one for the 2^nd Amendment, Ira Cox-Berry tried to kidnap an 11 year old girl from an Ogden elementary school and was stopped by a school employee with a concealed gun permit who held the man until police arrived and arrested him; Nevada has committed to undermining open and fair elections by allowing ballot harvesting of mail in ballots and allowing for straight ticket voting.
        Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is back to show that through May 26, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 1400 persons shot of whom 246 have died.   

         As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a video musical link to “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani, the fact that you are not plagued with rhinotillexomania and a quote from Japanese Admiral Togo Heichachiro to the wounded and captured Russian Admiral in command of the defeated Russian Baltic Sea Fleet on paper airplanes, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send 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. Please contact me for details on the pricing.     

       1.National Gray Day—created by Monica Leingang on May 9, 2013, the anniversary of her husband Gary’s birthday to promote awareness of and raise funds for brain cancer that had killed him in 2010 and who before he died asked her to “make something good” out of his impending death; the group Voices Against Brain Cancer supported her efforts and the date for observance was changed in 2015 to today. No one how powerful they are is immune to this terrible disease as the deaths of Ted Kennedy and John McCain aptly illustrate.
       2. Red Nose Day—created by Richard Curtis, one of Great Britain’s more  successful scriptwriters, not to honor the profession of being a clown but to raise money to end childhood poverty with funds going to programs that keep children safe, healthy, educated and empowered so if you see someone wearing a red nose today chances are that person is not going to a birthday party as entertainment but rather who supports the efforts of Save the Children during Red Nose Day.

3.  2005 Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2005 on this day was “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani on a run of 4 weeks non continuous weeks in that position to join 7 other songs reaching number 1, the lowest number ever and 4 other acts achieved their first number 1 song. Here is a video recording by Gwen Stefani of “Hollaback Girl”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgjkth6BRRY  Stefani, a Cal State Fullerton grad is a singer/songwriter and fashion designer who has been performing since 1986 and has sold some 30 million records in her career.
      4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “rhinotillexomania” which means the  compulsive nose picking habit which in social settings most people frown on.
       5.  Not Safe As a Safety--celebrating the birth on this day in 1988 of Tyler Sash who played safety for the University of Iowa and left his senior year to play 2 years for the New York Giants but was cut in August 2013 and was found dead at his home on September 8, 2015 from an overdose of drugs. His family released the results of tests performed after his death that revealed like too many football players, he was suffering from Stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy which is caused by too many collisions to the head.
         On this day in
       a. 2005 the Battle of Tsushima, the first and last sea battle between modern steel battleships, commenced on this day and ended of the 28^th with a decisive defeat by the Japanese of the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet of 45 vessels which had travelled some 13,000 miles from Russia to meet its almost complete doom with only 10 Russian ships escaping.
         b. 1933 in response to the crash of the stock market and the beginning of The Great Depression, the Securities Act of 1933 was signed into law regulating the sale of securities and requiring their registration initially with the Federal Trade Commission.
         c. 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge linking San Francisco with Marin County was opened to pedestrian traffic.
         d. 1962 a fire started in a coal seam some 300 feet below the surface in Centralia, Pennsylvania, then a town of some 1500 people, and despite all efforts to extinguish it continues to burn today as the town has been almost completely abandoned and the structures in it razed.
          e. 2016 President Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to visit in Hiroshima  the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and meet with the Hibakusha, Japanese affected by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
        Reflections on the Battle of Tsushima: “Defeat is a common fate of a soldier and there is nothing to be ashamed of in it. The great point is whether we have performed our duty . . .. For you, especially, who fearlessly performed your great task until you were seriously wounded, I beg to express my sincerest respect . . .” Admiral Togo Heichachiro, commander of the Japanese Fleet that defeated the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet speaking to its commander Admiral Zinovy P. Rozhdestvenski who was wounded and captured by the Japanese.

         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.

© May 27, 2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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Poet Extraordinaire, Beyond Compare
A Unique Gift, All Recipients a Lasting Gift