Saturday, October 30, 2021

Biden Doctrine On China--Strong Statement Followed By Ambiguity

Biden when it comes to foreign policy Gates believed Biden that area never could master
Still the case as he failed as the staying power of the Afghan Army against the Taliban forecaster
They might have had a chance but Biden closed Bagram and took away our air support
They quickly against the Taliban then came up short
The Biden Doctrine if you can call it that seems to be a strong statement
Followed by a walk back and a chance to relent
Never learned the folly on use of chemical weapons to draw a red line in the sand
Then when used by Assad with Obama at his side did nothing instead of force that Assad would understand
We have a China that is putting pedal to metal to it armed forces build up
Challenging us economically, politically and militarily as the chance of conflict seems to grow to erupt
From a strong statement that U.S. would Taiwan if attacked would defend
To a walk back to the policy of ambiguity on the issue to China send
A Truman position on South Korea déjà vu  
No longer in our sphere of interest an invite to the North to walk on through
The result was the Korean War and U.S. forces back to Pusan to hold by a slim thread
And when the shooting stopped 3 years later some 92 thousand wounded and 36 ½ thousand dead
North Korea believed we would not intervene and launched their attack
To be expected when a perceived resolve to defend we lacked
Biden seems to our foreign policy cornerstone forgot
Ambiguity of our response leads to goals of our foes by force of arms to be sought

© 10/30/21 The Alaskanpoet


Hypocrisy 101 Fly Your Private Jet to Glasgow Climate Conference As China Builds More and More Coal Generators

 

The politicians, the rich and the famous are coming to Glasgow on Halloween
For a client conference to strive to get the planet to start to carbon emissions wean
But you can bet the bank that on the tarmac gas guzzling private jets will not be far and few between
No the hypocrisy of do as I say not as I do will dominate the Glasgow climate change conference scene
Most likely Kerry our climate change czar will not be flying commercial air
Does not want even if in first class the despised mere mortals to his cabin share
The carbon emitting Kerry family jet will probably in Glasgow touching down
Not even aping climate change concerns by landing in London and taking a train to Glasgow town
If more and more it looks like climate change will cause the temperatures to rise
With more powerful and deadly storms, rising water levels and droughts no longer a surprise
But a constant fact of life that acts to reduce carbon emissions we will be forced to elect
Time for the elite to the use of private jets to locales serviced by commercial air reject
If we are to reduce the greenhouse emissions time for all of us to support “All hands on deck”
Especially China whose appetite for coal powered generators has gone unchecked
The U.S. cannot win this war on greenhouse emissions alone
By being the only nation to reduce its emissions to the bone
Time for the planet to end the free carbon emissions increase path
For China and India to no longer surge their carbon emissions while the world then suffers the climate change wrath
© 10/30/21 The Alaskanpoet

In Your Face Attacks on Sinema Will Fail Like the Sun and the North Wind Fable

 

On the Build Back America Better bill to America fundamentally transform
Any pretense of civility and tolerance by the left has been ripped and shorn
Kirsten Sinema has had the temerity to question the trillions proposed to be spent
The forces of verbal abuse and personal harassment upon her were sent
From violating Arizona law by following her with a camera into a public restroom
To crashing a wedding where she officiated for the bride and groom
Oblivious to the fact that such acts to change her vote are doomed to fail
And ruining a wedding should be condemned by all as beyond the pale
The rabid intolerant left needs to read the fable of the Sun, North Wind and the man with the cloak
The Sun and the North Wind were arguing who could the title of the strongest invoke
The Sun with its rays or the North Wind with gusts on its side
Back and forth for hours each other’s strength deride
At last to decide the  stronger they looked down on a man wearing a cloak
Strongest one is the one who causes the man’s wearing such garb to revoke
The North Wind blew and blew with each blast harder still
The man pulled the cloak around himself tighter to ward off the chill
The merely shined down upon the man some warming rays
Very soon the man put the cloak away
Attack this woman with in your face insults and force
She to her credit will dig in her heels and not alter course!
© 10/30/21 The Alaskanpoet

If Crowd Size Along With Polls an Indicator Unless Fraud McAuliffe Lose

 

In 2016 Hillary by the polls showing her in the lead was seduced
Believing there was no way her coronation chances would be reduced
Purchased massive amount of fireworks to a salute to her coronation display
Oblivious to the signs that her coronation chances had faded away
Barely campaigned or campaigned to small crowds in the closing days
While Trump on the rallies stump with SRO  and people outside the venue coming his way
In Virginia it looks like a 2016 déjà vu
As voters support for Youngkin only grew
Watching McAuliffe rallies is like paraphrasing the Vietnam War protest sign
“What if they gave a McAuliffe rally and no one came this time?”
Saturday morning at a McAuliffe rally sponsored by Senator Kaine
Only 40 probably voters pressed to attend came
Appearing at a rally like being recorded by a voter pollster is not the same as casting a vote
But crowd rally size and McAuliffe’s inane view of parental role in education makes his win chances remote
Unless massive mail in Blue voters voted before McAuliffe’s shooting himself in the foot during his  debate
When the polls close on Election Day a McAuliffe loss maybe a landslide will be his fate
© October 30, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

October 30, McAuliffe with Tim Kaine rally with 40 souls

October 30 Youngkin Rally with over 400 rabid supporters                                          


Cancel Culture and Wokes Up in Arms Over Braves Name and Tomahawk Chop

 The cancel culture, Woke and PC warriors have no shame

Have tried to infect America’s pastime during the World Series game

Like the name Washington Redskins the name Braves has become persona non grata

Especially when linked to the tomahawk chop which now viewed by MSM as no longer scata

MLB caved to the Stacey Abrams’ demands to relocate to Denver the All Star Game

MSM commentators waving the racist flag and demanding the Braves change their demand

No longer can the Braves sell the orange tomahawks to use in the tomahawk chop

The millions who from the MSM flee wondering when will this victim identity stop

At least on name and tomahawk chop the MLB Commissioner has found some spine

Name and action of Atlanta fans supporting the Braves are just fine

We have sadly become a nation of leftist cancel culture dolts

Like snakes and lobsters but here in perpetual molt

No longer just thin skinned to react to any perceived verbal or symbolic attack

But without any covering to magnify the damage of the slight to exaggerate how to react

Humor in America along with tolerance of any opposing views now dead

What happens when thick skin to be a victim is always shed  

© October 30, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Friday, October 29, 2021

Violate Our Laws by Illegally Entering and You May Sign Up For $450K

 

With the Biden Administration one never knows when you will be hit with an inane shocker
The latest trial balloon on money to illegals belongs in Davey Jones Locker
$450,000 for each child separated from his or her parents
To compensate for emotional distress to the illegal which is an idea too errant
Illegals’ Bogus economic refugee claims to valid refugee claims swamp
Then let go into the interior without fear of deportation to on our streets romp
If a member of the Armed Forces dies while serving this land
The most paid out as a death benefit is  one hundred grand
If killed in a combat zone or in training group life insurance more dollars will kick in
But cash payment of 450 grand for emotional distress belongs in a trash bin
Our border is a wide open sieve
A magnet for illegals who seek the freebies Biden wants to give
There have to be a few moderate Blues left in House
Who would join with Reds to this inane idea douse
When we wrongfully interned Japanese-Americans due only to their ethnicity
With not a shred of evidence to link them with the Empire of Japan war time duplicity
The compensation for the stress of confinement was only $20 grand
Small recompense for the concentration camp like stain upon this land  
© October 29, 2021  The Alaskanpoet

October 29, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Internet Day

 

RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT October 29, 2021
            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 246 million at 246,592,349 cases,  18,192,948 of which are active, 228,399,401  closed with 223,398,263 recoveries (97.81%), and cracking the 5,000,000 barrier 5,001,138 deaths (2.19% )to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 46 million at 46,693,879 with 9,362,900 active cases of which 12,966 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases despite the  Delta variable to .138 % of active cases and to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 16,305, 37,330,979 closures with 763,894 deaths (2.05%) and with 36,567,085 recoveries (97.95%). Our death rate percentage is .14% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady   but slow climb to 2290 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5961) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting to have a fatality rate of 9.26% of total cases now; Bulgaria the new number 2 (3488), Hungary (3192) just passed by Bulgaria, Brazil (2830) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2534),  Columbia newly added to the list  (2465), and  Romania (2240),  and slightly better than Belgium (2228), Mexico (2200), Italy (2188), UK (2054),  Poland (2034), Chile (1960),  Spain (1868),  Ecuador newly added to list (1831),  France (1797), Portugal (1787), Bolivia (1591),  Sweden (1472) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1287). 
              Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well.
              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  10th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  at 2200/M with 385,347 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.34% of closed cases 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:  Active Cases:    6,588 Deaths/M  813
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 249,161 Deaths/M 1012
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   14,829 Deaths/M  553  
               US Vaccinations: As of 10/29/2021 417.8 million doses,  1.09 million per day (down to 2 months for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 135,122  per day  (which means if the rate does not increase it will take us now only  4 weeks to have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 53,719,846 total doses have been given (86.1%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.9%), California has moved from 19th to 4th  tied with New York  of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 61.1% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 57.6% and has moved from 1st to 15th  in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
               Non  CV News: On the vaccine mandate front, the FDA has just approved on an emergency basis the Pfizer vaccine for children 5 to 11 (look to more outrage among parents with young kids now facing vaccine mandates to be able to attend public schools); GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa enroute to a radio interview was hit by a cab but still able to appear and complete the interview (déjà vu of Teddy Roosevelt on the Bull Moose being shot and still delivering a campaign address); the McAuliffe Youngkin campaign appears to be infected by “dirty tricks” of McAuliffe as Younkin charged him of colluding with the Lincoln Project to have 5 false Youngkin supporters appear at his rally dressed like “Unite the Right” supporters (McAuliffe’s campaign denied the allegation declaring “there is only one white supremacist in the race—Glenn Youngkin” before the Lincoln Project admitted to the deceptive stunt); the Wokes and PC warriors ranting against the tomahawk chop of Atlanta Brave fans have been scalped by Baseball Commissioner Rob Mansfeld who supported its use pointing out that the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians are supportive of it (wonder if Pocahontas is too busy with her billionaire’s wealth tax to weigh in on the issue); Scott Ziegler, the embattled superintendent of the Loudin County School District, evidently has never read How to Win Friends and Influence People as he compares the parents in Loudin County protesting CRT to the protestors on July 6 and those drinking on a public beach; Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Red who voted to impeach Trump has announced he will not seek reelection; AG Merrick Garland who refused to answer a simple question of whether he had contacted the Office of Government Ethics given his son-in-law’s company Panorama who has business dealings with the Loudin County School District that may involve the CRT that the parents were so outraged about is now facing a demand for investigation by the Office of Government Ethics filed by America First Legal (Garland is coming across as a man bent on revenge due to his failure to even get a vote on his nomination); WHO’s leader Tedros disgraced over his handling of China’s involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic is running for another term unopposed; in the hardware versus software market cap battle Microsoft at $2.47 trillion has edged Apple’s $2.46 trillion; as Biden jets off to Rome for an audience with the Pope and the G20 Summit in Rome and then to Switzerland for a climate conference while the nation is beset with major issues where he and his Immigration Czar are MIA, leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal the molehill he is focused on while ignoring the chaos of the mountains:             

                                                                

                Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through October 28, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 3895 persons shot of whom 668 have died.
               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a  music video link to  “Look What You Made Me Do”  by Taylor Smith, the fact that you rarely express ideas that are shuck; and a quote by Christina Romer on the 1929 Stock Market Crash, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Halloween or Veterans  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 pricing.
              1.  International Internet Day—created by the Association of Internet Users and celebrated since 2005 on this day which is the anniversary of the first computer to computer transmission on this day in 1969.
              2.  World Stroke Day—created by the World Stroke Organization in 2006 to create awareness of a condition that is the leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of death and means to prevent a stroke and methods to recover from one.
              3. 2017  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2017 on this day was “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift  on  a run in that position of 3 weeks to join 11 other  songs that achieved number 1 status  as 12 acts achieved  their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmd-ClpJxA
              4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “shuck” which means nonsense which describes typically what comes out of the mouths of any member of the Squad.
              5.  Rx For Death—celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of noted screen writer, actor and producer Don Simpson who produced such memorable films as Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and The Rock that grossed over $3 billion worldwide was heavily addicted to drugs both prescription and illegal and before he died of heart failure due to combined drug intoxication of cocaine and prescription drugs from a habit that was running $60,000 a month on prescription drugs on January 19, 1996.
              On this day in:
              a. 1929 in what became known as “Black Tuesday” the New York Stock Exchange crashed marking the end of the great Bull Run of the 20’s to be replaced with the Great Depression.
              b. 1960 a plane carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed shortly after takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22, including 16 members of the football team and injuring 24.
              c. 1994 53 year old Francisco Duran fired over 2 dozen rounds at the White House  trying to kill President Clinton before being subdued by onlookers. Arrested and convicted after he asserted a not guilty plea by reason of insanity and was sentenced to 40 years. Currently rotting in a Super Max federal penitentiary with a parole date in 2029.
              d. 1998  the Space Shuttle Discovery, carrying 77-year-old John Glenn aboard, was launched into space with the distinction of carrying the oldest person into space until l surpassed by 82 year old Wally Funk and later by 90 year old William Shatner thanks to Jeff Bezos whose trips unlike Glenn’s were very brief and suborbital.
              e. 2008 Delta Airlines merged with Northwest Airlines reducing the number of major carriers in the U.S. to 5.
              Reflections on the Stock Market Crash known as Black Tuesday: “ The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.” Christina Romer noted Professor of Economics at the University of California Berkeley and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Obama
              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.

              © October 29 ,2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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October 28, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Honoring the Nation's First Responders Day

 

RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT October 28, 2021
            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 246 million at 246,225,743 cases,  18,138,835 of which are active, 228,086,908  closed with 223,091,834 recoveries (97.81%), and 4,995,074 deaths (2.19% )to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 46 million at 46,670,093 with 9,365,975 active cases of which 13,000 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases despite the  Delta variable to .139 % of active cases and to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 16,271, 37,304,118 closures with 763,146 deaths (2.05%) and with 36,540,972 recoveries (97.95%). Our death rate percentage is .14% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady   but slow climb to 2288 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5961) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting to have a fatality rate of 9.26% of total cases now; Bulgaria the new number 2 (3488), Hungary just passed by Bulgaria (3188),   Brazil (2821) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2534),  Columbia newly added to the list  (2465), and  Romania (2235),  and slightly better than Belgium (2226), Mexico (2198), Italy (2188), UK (2051),  Poland (2031), Chile (1951),  Spain (1867),  Ecuador newly added to list (1831),  France (1797), Portugal (1787), Bolivia (1591),  Sweden (1472) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1286). 
              Tests: We have now conducted 695,903,354 tests (2,086,265/M) just passed by France at 2,309,785/M who is now 1st  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 4,761,947/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  10th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  at 2198/M with 385,347 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.34% of closed cases 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:  Active Cases:    6,588 Deaths/M  813
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 249,093 Deaths/M 1007
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   14,838 Deaths/M  552  
               US Vaccinations: As of 10/28/2021 417.8 million doses,  .991 million per day (down to 2 months for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 121,523  per day  (which means if the rate does not increase it will take us now only  4 weeks to have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 53,719,846 total doses have been given (86.1%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.9%), California has moved from 6th to 19th tied with Illinois  of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 61.1% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 57.6% and has moved from 16th to 1th in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
               Non  CV News: CRT supporters like McAuliffe drool while Virginia parents rule as the latest poll shows that Youngkin now leads McAuliffe among likely voters 53% to 45% (no wonder the alarm bells are ringing in Blue Party headquarters and given the miniscule crowds Biden attracted doubt if his appearance will chance the outcome); at an Orange County, Florida School Board Meeting a parent was forcibly removed after protesting the shelving in the high school the book Gender Queen: A Memoir and reading passages from it the school board considered too vulgar ( if so why was it on the shelves in the first place); Los Alamitos School Board President Marlys Davidson’s f*bomb was not the only indiscretion caught on a hot mike as she denigrated an Asian American parent by complaining “Oh God, here we go”; Brittany Cooper a tenured associate professor in Rutgers University
 Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies degrees from which lead quickly to the unemployment line was ranting at an event that when it comes to whites “We got to take these mother f—kers out”; the infrastructure bill is still held hostage by the Progressives in the House because of cuts to the misnamed Build America Back Better bill down to $1.75 trillion which still is a mindboggling inflation generating and national debt generating amount we really can’t afford; totally oblivious to the homelessness crisis and the struggles of low income families as inflation soars the Biden Administration is floating the idea of $450,000 per person payments to families separated under Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy; the supply chain fiasco just blazed an 0-2 fastball past our inept president as due to the supply chain disaster the Braves and the Astros are playing with jerseys that do not have the normal World Series patch (how difficult would it have been to hire some local seamstresses to create the 150 or so patches needed?); Mario Cuomo the disgraced New York governor who has resigned has just been charged with a misdemeanor sexual assault news of which were trashed by his “journalist” brother Chris at CNN; while California is suffering from a prolonged drought Seattle was enjoying monsoon like rains flooding the Skokomish River with salmon using it as a path to their spawning sites:                                                                 


As AG Garland is accused of quashing free speech and using the FBI to intimidate CRT protesting parents leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal the extent of the parents’ defiance:                                                           

                Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through October 27, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 3888 persons shot of whom 668 have died.
                As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a  music video link to  “Closer”  by The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, the fact that you are facing anyone who wants to shend you; and a quote by Nicholas D. Kristof on the benefits of DDT, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Halloween or Veterans  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 pricing.
              1.  International Animation Day—created by the International Animated Film Associations to promote the creation and acceptance by the viewing audience of animated films. 
              2.  Honoring the Nation’s First Responders Day—created by the U.S, Senate on June 5, 2019, and first celebrated on this day in 2019 to commemorate the service and dedication of the nation’s first responders and their selfless dedication at the risk of their own lives and injuries to keep us safe.
              3. 2016  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2016 on this day was “Closer”  by The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey  on  a run in that position of 12 weeks to join 10 other  songs that achieved number 1 status  and join 7 other acts that  achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “Closer” by The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT2_F-1esPk The Chainsmokers who don’t smoke are a duo that started performing in 2012; Halsey is a female bisexual who started performing in 2012 and has sold a million albums and is very open about her bipolar issues and is the mother of a son Ender Ridley (no relation to the Alaskanpoet) born this year to her and her partner.
              4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “shend” which means to ruin or destroy which describes to a tee what conservatives feel about the Progressives’ agenda for America.
              5.  It Must Have Been the Coffee—celebrating the birth on this day in 1917 of Goru Suzuki better known to his fans as Jack Soo, noted comedian and actor who began entertaining as a comedian in a Japanese American internment camp and best known for his role as Sergeant Yemana on the TV series Barney Miller, but who was a smoker who came down with esophageal cancer to die from it on January 11, 1979 at 61.
              On this day in:
              a. 1919 the U.S. Congress overturned President Wilson’s veto of the Volstead Act paving the way to the implementation of the failed social experiment of Prohibition.
              b. 1942 the Alaska Highway built to enable the shipment of military supplies to Alaska for its defense against the Japanese connected Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek, British Columbia.
              c. 1948 Paul Hermann Müller  was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for his discover of the insecticidal properties of DDT, the use of which was instrumental in the war against malaria and the over use of which made Rachel Carson famous for her book Silent Spring.
              d. 1962 Nikita Khrushchev blinked to end the Cuban Missile Crisis and ordered the removal of Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba.
              e. 1965 in a what took you so long moment, Pope Paul VI promulgated Nostra acetate wherein the Church officially recognized non-Christian religions.
              Reflections on DDT: “If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.” Nicholas D. Kristof, NYT columnist and aspirant to run as governor of the state of Oregon oblivious to the legal requirement there that a candidate must have been a resident for at least 3 years.
              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.

              © October 28 ,2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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              Poet Extraordinaire, Beyond Compare
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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Los Alamitos School Board President Caught on Hot Mic F*___Bombing Protesting Parent

 

In our divisive and partisan times it seems no institution is exempt
Even school boards now are infected with stifle disagreement contempt
From their raised platform many members look at parents with disgust
Especially when these Untermensch the board edicts they distrust
Parents are supposed to sit quietly or better yet board meetings not attend
Oblivious to what the board dictates what will be taught at the schools where the kids their parents send
California has a mask mandate for teachers and students attending schools
Probably due to questionable theory that they are a valued anti-COPVID 19 spreading tool
In Los Alamitos Board meeting a parent spoke out against the mask mandate
And against one of its members who had attacked parents’ dissents she did berate
Parents in the audience responded with loud and long claps
A disgusted school board president’s response was caught in the hot mic trap
She launched the “F*---You” bomb against the protesting parent
Exposed for expressing her feelings the president with an apology tried to relent
May have been ashamed or embarrassed with her f* bomb or maybe not
Due to common board members’ power trip more likely outraged she by a hot mic has caught
© October 28, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Like Another Iron Curtain the Garland Curtain Is Descending Around Our Schools

 

Thanks to Stalin we for many years watched while Eastern Europe suffered under the Iron Curtain
Where blocking of people and ideas both in and out were sadly certain
Around our schools we have a new curtain beginning to descend
A Garland curtain of harassment and surveillance by FBI agents to send
AG Garland the bait and switch false moderate that was denied a seat on the Supreme Court
Had his puppet strings pulled by the National School Board Association to parent protests abort
When the AG politicizes the FBI and the DOJ to stifle free speech and dissent
Should be a wakeup call to protest where are freedoms went
Before the Senate and House committees this Stalin like mimic would not back down
Worse could not cite a single incident of parent harassment of boards or teachers to look like a total clown
After we find his son in law is a cofounder of a company selling CRT material to the schools
Refused to acknowledge the appearance if not the reality of breaching  conflict of interest rules
Despite demands he quash his memo calling FBI to treat protesting parents as domestic terrorist
He refused and it was clear that demands he resign was a demand he would resist
The DOJ is still awash in politization rot
Garland showed his vow to be independent is shot
Only recourse we not have starting with Virginia is to rise up and vote Red
Ditto in New Jersey and in 2022 insure that the Blue majorities in the House and Senate are shed
© October 28, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Tiny Crowds for McAuliffe Don't Bode Well

 During the Vietnam War protest signs were seen of “What if you declared a war and nobody came”

At McAuliffe rallies the results look pretty much what the protest signs claimed
On Saturday Obama returned to VCU where at his reelection rally 8,000 chose to attend
To appear with McAuliffe at VCU a scant 2,000 there to hear the message Obama tried to send
To no one’s surprise Biden taking a break from his misnamed Build America Better deal
At another rally for McAuliffe only some 2,000 were there to hear his spiel
On Wednesday at a church rally for McAuliffe some 20 people were there for the camera to reveal
Crowd size at rallies by not be the perfect method to predict but good chance it shows chance for Younkin is very real
McAuliffe shot himself in the election chance foot when he made his parents have no role in kids’ education claim
A moment in time where his election chances were shot down in flames

© October 27, 2021 The Alaskanpoet



Groomed by Attacking NRA, Trump and Cuomo Sex Scandal Leticia James Set to Run to Replace Hochul

 

Leticia James the New York AG who rose to fame
By trying to shoot down the NRA and Trump in flames
And moved on to put Cuomo in her sights for turning nursing homes into the Killing Fields
Has a new target onto which her attention has wheeled
Should very soon she is going to announce a run for governor in the crowded the Blue primary thicket
This woman even though earlier in her career was on The Working Families ticket
Has never seen the inside of a private sector job a collect a paycheck
As New York’s crushing taxes are causing the private sector to New York as a location reject
The current governor who replaced sex scandal tainted Cuomo who resigned in disgrace
Will also be a candidate in the race
Two female Working Families Party alums one black and one white
 Neither one of whom have spent any significant time in private sector
As low tax right to work states are the company’s chosen vector
Will be interesting to see who wins and how they distinguish themselves on policy matters
Since Hochul was once endorsed by NRA in her race and James sued the NRA will Hochul to win the 2nd Amendment batter
High name recognition candidates and leaders too early to tell
Save that whomever as a sacrificial lamb in this Blue state has not a chance in Hell.

© October 27, 2021 The Alaskanpoet  

Lightfoot Booed By Union That Endorsed Her in 2019

 Mayor Lightfoot has done squat to stem the daily Chicago shooting and killing parade

Watching her lash out at critics rightfully concerned shows a woman way above her pay grade Appearing at a fund raiser for a plumbers she was met with a thundering roar Not of applause or cheers but from the crowd in attendance really sore A tidal wave of boos spawned by the attendees’ righteous rage After a minute washed her off the stage This mayor’s performance and her lack of ability is a disgrace Her surname Lightfoot by Lightweight she should replace Speed and agility to react to issues like black on black shootings carnage sprees Is gone and replaced by snail like speed for all residents to see Like too many Blues she has made vaccines a condition to be employed Good luck to residents hiding from bullets as police in droves refuse to be deployed How safe will Chicago less be With fewer cops to meet the shooting sprees The union business manager disputed the reports of massive boos Blamed it on only a few https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-drowned-out-boos-union-fundraiser Judge for yourself on Twitter as off the stage she disappears Whatever she wanted to say drowned out by her prior actions such that attendees did not want to hear Another example of Blue tone deafness ripping this nation apart Will we ever from bias partnership attempt to depart © October 27, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

McAuliffe and Blues Not Playing with Full Deck

 

A deck of regular playing cards contains 2 jokers plus 52
In the game of politics far fewer cards if the contestant is Blue
To compensate the number of suits are increased
The race suit has 4 kings to be quickly tossed into play
To toss against a Red as a racist to his chance of winning slay
The homophobic suit has 4 queens to a Red blast
Ignite the ire of the gay community and his chances will not long last
The Islamophobic suit has 4 jacks
Protecting the “peace loving” Muslims with which a Red to attack
The xenophobic suit has no face cards only tens
Losing its rank in value as videos show thousands of illegals daily in a surging trend
Drowning out the few real refugees hidden in the caravans
By the human traffickers, sexually abused, felons and deadly fentanyl spreading across our land

There are no cards in the issues suit
A record of failure caused Blues to give it the boot
But the top suit of 4 aces that until now has towered above all is that named Trump
Label a Red a Trump sychophant and replacement to incite the voters to the Red dump
In Virginia in a tight governor’s race McAuliffe has tossed the Trump card until blue in the face
Called in top Blues to try to support his faltering race
Youngkin is not Trump and unlike McAuliffe he is tuned into the anger that parents protesting CRT feel
If elected the divisive nature of cancel culture and CRT he will repeal
Garland’s command to FBI on parents as domestic terrorists to sic’em the voters will reject
McAuliffe’s loss will be a wakeup call that Biden like Blues like McAuliffe are not playing with a full deck

© October 27, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

CRT Corollary to Murphy's Law May Mean Maryland's Murphy Like McAuliffe May Be Toast

 

If the great orator Obama flamed out with parents in Virginia claiming he was “tone deaf” to their concerns
One gets the feeling that McAuliffe’s campaign is losing momentum and getting ready to crash and burn
So if Obama was a flop, McAuliffe reached out to Biden to do a campaign stop repeat
With Biden’s approval ratings dropping like a lead balloon how will he stave off a defeat?
Answer is he won’t and Biden’s dementia will be further exposed
As McAuliffe should be worrying about the increasing size of his nose
The Washington Post certainly no friend or supporter of the Reds
After listening to McAuliffe’s claim large number of kids’ COVID-19 cases and numbers in ICU beds
The false numbers were so large and deliberate he received 4 Pinocchio’s instead
In Loudin County, high school students walked out of class over school board’s attempt to on a rape the public be misled
Virginia is state in the shadow of the Swamp and as such very Blue
Youngkin winning against Blue McAuliffe would be a shattering coup
In New Jersey which is Bluer than Virginia incumbent Blue Murphy is also in a tight race
A once landslide like lead, Ciattarelli has almost erased
Murphy aped Cuomo during the pandemic and sent COVIS-19 infected patients into nursing homes
Too many school closings and lockdowns and his state is 4th highest still in unemployment zone
New Jersey now has mandatory diversity training in schools to sound like CRT cram down going coast to coast
If school board meetings erupt in protests like in Loudin County, Murphy’s reelection chances are toast.
© October 26, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Foggy Bottom Understated Americans Left Behind As Pentagon More Than Triples Number to Nearly 450er tas Pnerican

 If Biden looks carefully in a mirror

The image of Carter & Tehran Embassy should appear

After Blinken’s State Department went on deception mode

On number of Americans the departing planes failed 2 load

2 B left behind as potential hostages because Biden’s view of reality was blind

No matter how large, trained, or motivated the Afghan Army was, w/o U.S. air  it would B in a deadly bind

Against his generals’ advice Biden fled Bagram Air Base in the dark of night

2 begin based solely on a Biden deadline near 9/11 4 us 2 take flight

Despite Biden’s pie in the sky faith in an army w/o air support

The Afghan Army collapsed like a house of cards & time f4 evacuation would B short

Kabul fell on August 15 & the American airlift 4 citizens & Afghan allies started

In 15 days 1000's of Afghan allies & most of the Americans there departed

But number of Americans behind was never by the State Department made clear

Today the Pentagon confirmed nearly 450 Americans remain living in great fear

Far more than State wanted us 2 believe

True 2 form State deception 2 achieve

When Iranian students seized our embassy on 11/4/79 13 days after the Shah we admitted

60 Marines & Embassy personnel were taken & held hostage 4 444 days 2 terror submitted

A weak Carter was swept from office & the silver lining today is that political history will repeat

The stain of 450 left behind will scores of Blues in 2022 & Biden or Harris in 2024 go down in defeat

© 10/26/21 The Alaskanpoet

Monday, October 25, 2021

Omar Inanely Calls Minneapolis Police Department Dysfunctional

 You don't have to be a rocket scientists to find the true dysfunctional in the room Easy to find if one only listens to Ilhan the pointing to her quickly zooms Add to her the idiots of the city council that hopped on to defund police bandwagon Then to their surprise cops resigned or retire and morale is really lagging But since the third time is the charm The voters who elected her should be setting off the dysfunctional alarms

© October 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

No Progress on Supply Chain Crisis Which May Be Linked to Mall Shootingsl

 

The supply chain crisis seems not to be improving even though the Biden Administration has finally awoken from its slumber
With the federal government releasing billions inflation on the rise in gas, food, clothing, autos, new and used, and lumber
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg after his two month paternity leave is finally back in the office
From some with no experience in logistics at public or private level expect him to be glacial speed cautious
Biden when confronted with the soaring gas prices provided little hope
That anything could be done in the short term with the supply shortage cope
Oblivious to the fact that his war on fossil fuels is why we are where we are
Blocked completion of Keystone Pipeline and new drilling on federal tracts barred
From the largest producer of energy on the planet having reached energy independence
In just a few short months due to Biden’s policies chained again to OPEC dependence
Wisely declined to tap into the Petroleum Reserve
Leaving Americans to face soaring prices they don’t deserve
Already shelves in stores and supermarkets are becoming leanly stocked
As crisis continues the profitable Christmas season will be curtailed and somewhat blocked
Like the collateral damage of his open border with almost 2 million illegals this fiscal year
Of a rising tide of deaths from fentanyl and opioids that now appear
A new trend of mall shootings seems to be spreading across the land
Perhaps due to anger of not being able to buy products shootings are getting out of hand
Latest example in Boise which is about as far away from Chicago as gun behavior could be
2 shoppers killed 6 wounded including a cop on another mall shooting spree
© October 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Maskless Biden Coughs Into Hand Then Off To Receiving Line To Shake Hands

 

Psaki scolds the press saying that they should “focus on Biden’s policies rather than moments in time”
Easier said than done when it comes to questions of Biden he is prone to turn around and go off line
Shouting question as he shuffles away that fall off his back
Typical of a transparency this administration totally lacks
The crumbs left for the press are too often only ones we all can see with our own eyes
Since a photo or video is worth more than a thousand obscuring words the press must on them rely
Biden is the leader of the maskophileacs  for all vaccinated or not
Indoors or even outdoors which the science not taught
Use the fist bump, wash your hands frequently and sneeze or cough into your arm
Topping all precautions get vaccinated to protect you and those around you from harm
So the press’ bells and whistles sounded the alarm when maskless Biden into his hand coughs
Then heads to a receiving line and his hectoring do as I say soon scoffs
No washing, no fist bumps,  only shaking hands
Ignoring what science tells us has been spreading the virus across the land
Just a few days after the head of DHS had a positive test and is now in quarantine
Once again do as I say not as I do alive and well on the Blue Hypocrisy scene
© October 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Parents Not Buying Obama's Pitch For McAuliffe

 McAuliffe must be feeling the heat

Becoming more and more apparent that he is heading to a defeat
No matter how hard he tries to turn Youngkin into Trump
Voters not buying and Trump wisely is not even on the campaign stump
Once again he calls on Obama to  visit the campaign stage
To pull wool over voters eyes as on education the wrong side McAuliffe rages
Obama is a top notch orator of the first rate
No matter how rotten the dish is his orations make one want it on their plate
But this time unlike others voters may not be flocking to buy what he is trying to sell
Trying to pin the voter suppression card on Virginia Reds is like the well-worn racist card not going well
With parents rightfully outraged over the teaching of CRT being shoved down their kids’ throat
No matter Obama’s oration skills for McAuliffe, voters like rats are leaving the sinking McAuliffe boat
Trying to ape a deadly one two punch McAuliffe is calling Biden to appear with him on stage
Desperation gamble as illegals crossing the border surge and the destructive flames of inflation rage
With Biden’s approval ratings falling faster than a heavy stone
If McAuliffe were not so arrogant and egotistical he would have told Biden to stay home
This Virginia race could be a real bellwether of what may happen next fall
A McAuliffe loss may mean that Blue’s chances to retain majorities in both houses will hit a brick wall
In the shadows of an upset look next door to the Terps
The Red candidate is near margin of error to  the Blue incumbent’s chair usurp
© October 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Biden Complete Failure But Inspires "Let's Go Brandon" Which Tops Charts

 

Everything Biden has touched has been a disaster
More & more voters realize he doesn't have the energy or cognitive skills to the Oval Office job master
 Save for one  that makes him unique & leaves his only plus mark
His open border, Afghan cut and run, inflation, vax mandates to name a few have put LetsGoBrandon # 1 on the charts

No time to visit the border with more huge caravans coming our way
No time to address the supply chain disaster that will ruin gifting for Christmas Day
Only time this frail, tottering, mentally shot president has is to shut down his office at three
And almost on every weekend to Camp David or his Delaware home flee
Every time even with a teleprompter he stumbles and mental lapses displays
Thousands more voters rue that they did not have the luxury of a Mulligan on Election Day.

© October 25, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Friday, October 22, 2021

October 21, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Shakeup Day

 

RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT October 21, 2021
            CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 243 million at 243,243,001 cases,  17,855,784 of which are active, 225,363,187  closed with 220,420,425 recoveries (97.81%), and 4,942,762 deaths (2.19% )to continue the low trend of increased cases with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages with some plateaus, dips, and rises.
            CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 46 million at 46,174,547 with 9,522,759 active cases of which 14,232 are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases despite the  Delta variable to .149 % of active cases and to increase the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 15,039, 36,651,788 closures with 753,747 deaths (2.06%) and with 35,898,041 recoveries (97.94%). Our death rate percentage is noel .14% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady   but slow climb to 2260 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (5956) the new number 1 which has had a quantum leap in deaths previously unmatched which was a change in the classification to give Peru the a new method of reporting to have a fatality rate of 9.26% of total cases now; Bulgaria the new number 2 (3320), Hungary just passed by Bulgaria (3164),   Brazil (2819) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths and cases and passed us and Italy, Argentina (2532),  Columbia newly added to the list  (2461), and  Romania (2280),  and slightly better than Belgium (2215), Italy (2183), Mexico (2183),  UK (2036),  Poland (2019), Chile (1947),  Spain (1862),  Ecuador newly added to list (1831),  France (1794), Portugal (1784), Bolivia (1590),  Sweden (1468) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1280). 
              Tests: We have now conducted 667,292,559 tests (2,030,665/M) just passed by France at 2,319,818/M who is now 1st  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 4,745,922/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  11th  on my list of deaths from the pandemic  at 2183/M with 385,347 active cases and a fatality rate of 8.36% of closed cases 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:  Active Cases:   9,716 Deaths/M 794
                     Honduras:    Active Cases: 248,747 Deaths/M 1,006
                     El Salvador:  Active cases:   14,483 Deaths/M 541   
               US Vaccinations: As of 10/20/2021 409.4 million doses,  .816 million per day (down to 3 months for 75% of population vaccinated) and in California 90,556  per day  (which means if the rate does not increase it will take us now only  some 2 months to have 75% of the population of California vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 52,655,046 total doses have been given (86.7%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 82.7%), California has not moved from 6th to 7th  of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 60.4% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 57.1% and has  not moved  from 15th in terms of getting vaccines received into arms and the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
               Non  CV News: The human remains found yesterday in Florida have been confirmed to be those of Brian Laundrie although his cause of death has not be confirmed; Merrick Garland was grilled by the House Oversight Committee today and seemed unaware of the reality of the threats of violence and harassment against teachers and school board members that prompted the DOJ’s involvement and somewhat unprepared; Democrats in Connecticut have formed a new PAC Democrats Against Parents with tweets comparing parents who are protesting CRT to noted movie horror creatures (brilliant way to turn parents with school kids against the party in droves next November); hard to believe but the latest poll averages  shows Biden’s approval/disapproval rating lower than Obama and Bush but higher than Trump’s at 43/51 to 40/55 (watch the rising inflation rates and the continuing border surge to accelerate Biden’s decline); recent poll about concerns of voters showed inflation and political agendas of school boards are major concerns (explains why McAuliffe is in major trouble in Virginia); hard to believe given Biden’s rating collapse but he is coming soon to Virginia to campaign for Terry McAuliffe); bipartisanship briefly surfaced in the House where it found Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena concerning events surrounding January 6, 2021 demonstrations at the Capitol; Missouri and Texas have just filed suit to compel the federal government to resume construction of the border wall; Dodger bats which had been in hibernation came out and came out in force as the Dodgers facing elimination 3-1 beat the Braves in game 5 11-2;  CNN’s Biden’s Town Hall was packed with 7 Blues and 2 Reds and Biden even with Anderson Cooper to moderate damage, came across as someone really cognitively struggling;  leave it to the political cartoonist to reveal the Biden myth that Reconciliation won’t cost a thing when the costs will create a great hole our kids and grandkids will be stuck with:                                              

         

               Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through October 20, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 3817 persons shot of whom 649 have died.
               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a  music video link to  “The Hills”  by The Weeknd, the fact that you have never worked as a shenago; and a quote by Bob Woodward’s failed attempt to rewrite the history of Watergate,
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              1.  International Shakeout Day—created by the United States Geological Survey in 2008 and celebrated on 3rd Thursday in October to create awareness of earthquakes with earthquake drills to help protect those persons subject to an earthquake which unlike hurricanes or tornados occur with almost no reliable predictable warning.  
              2.  
Latina Women Equal Pay Day—commemorating the day each year that a Latina women has worked enough days in the current year when added to the past year results in her equaling the amount earned by non-Hispanic white males for the similar job.
              3. 
2015  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 2015 on this day was “The Hills”  by The Weekend  on  a run in that position of 6 weeks to join 8 other  songs that achieved number 1 status  and join 5 other acts that  achieved their first number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is a music video of “The Hills” by The Weeknd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTuBuRdAyA This 31 year old Canadian R&B singer with a falsetto voice was born as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye has been performing since 2009 after beginning to release his songs on YouTube and has sold 75 million records.
              4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “shenago” which means a casually hired dock worker which given the automation at clogged ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach will probably not be able to help with the supply chain shortages.
              5. 
The Third Out—celebrating the birth on this day of Brett Mydland, noted keyboardist for the Grateful Dead who became the third member of the band to die of a drug overdose following ingesting some speedballs on July 26, 1990.
              On this day in:
              a. 1850 the first National Women’s Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts where the participants demanded among other things suffrage.
              b. 1911 in an omen of the future role of airplanes in war occurred when the first use of an airplane occurred in military operations in the Italo-Turkish War when Italian planes were used for reconnaissance.
              c. 1973 the Watergate noose became tighter as President Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed Watergate Tapes to the Senate Committee investigating the Watergate break-in.
              d. 1995 Selena’s former fan club president Yolanda
Saldívar was convicted of killing up and coming singer Selena on March 31, 1995 and sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas but eligible for parole on March 30, 2025.
              e. 2002 40 heavily armed Chechen terrorists seized the Dubrovaka Theater in Moscow holding some 850 people hostage and after the Russians stormed the theater all 40 terrorists had been killed along with 131 hostages.
              
Reflections on the Watergate Tapes: “ After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.” Bob Woodward, noted American author and co-author of All The President’s Men.
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