Monday, January 31, 2022

Despite Failed Policies and Hypocrisy Newsom Feels Bullet Proof After Recall Victory

 

One may disagree heavily with his leftist policies but as to political smarts it is hard not to agree
Facing a recall election Newsom quickly dodged the gathering recall storm to find the lee
He and his advisers quickly transformed the recall into a Red valid election power grab
Managed to portray Larry Elder as a “white supremacist and racist” and the narrative grab
No longer about shutdowns and lock downs that put millions out of work
His EED which handled unemployment checks melted down and its responsibility to send out checks shirked
His secret Chinese mask deal ignored
His closing of public schools to in class learning to parents and kids gored
Kids suffered mentally and emotionally which was not intended
Exempting private schools where his kids attended
Closing down “nonessential businesses” with cannon like volleys
While leaving open the more capitalized big box retailers in a fit of folly
The outrage of being wined and dined maskless at French Laundry with fine wine and cuisine
By a lobbyist whose health care clients did business with the state that seemed obscene
The hypocrisy of do as I say not as I do as troubling to him as water off a duck’s back

Any sense of integrity and truth this hack politician totally lacks
Caught maskless again at Rams 49ers playoff probably by a lobbyist comped
On his own statewide mask wear he totally stomped
Beat the recall and must believe he is immortal and above the law
God help us if voters don’t vote him out this fall due to his policy and character flaws
© January 31, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Meritocracy Drools, Quota Insanity Rules to Pick SCOTUS Nominee

 

For a layman the best definition of insanity to cut through to the quick
To pierce all the multisyllable Greek and Latin words to see whether a person is really mentally sick
Insanity thus so defined is to repeat an act and expect the same result
In picking his VP running mate he used the quota insult
Had to be a minority female and went through the motions to select
He quickly settled on Kamala Harris who based on her first year should have been a clear reject
From her inane cackles when faced with a question that how to answer she’s without a clue
To her being MIA on the open border that some 2 million illegals came through
When she attracted in the primaries almost zero votes in the polls
Hard to believe Biden could not see was not a voter magnet but a to be avoided shoal
Now due to maybe constant hounding from the left as Reds are likely to the Senate retake
Any Justice retiring in 2023 would mean that a liberal Biden nominee the Red controlled Senate it would forsake
Justice Breyer has announced his retirement and the opportunity to appoint a new Justice has fallen into his lap
But sadly Biden quickly announced that he was going down the insanity outcome trap
His selection would be a black female which means all other genders and races he will not be consider
Now paying the piper for Rep Clyburn’s support before South Carolina primary as highest bidder

His nominee may be qualified but not necessarily the needed best and brightest
Quotas rule, meritocracy drools and she will be hobbled by “she owes her seat to quota” people will suggest
Huge uproar from left and right over a the fact for the selection a race and gender quota will rule
Walked it back that all qualified would be considered but those who believe that claim are fools

© January 31, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Biden Sheds Meritocracy In Favor of Quota Pledging Black Female Nominee to Replace Justice Breyer

 

A nominee selected for SCOTUS should be chosen from a pool of the best and brightest
Not a pool consisting of only those who passed a gender and ethnic test
Biden to get the nomination from the Blues sold his soul to Rep Clyburn
His fee for an endorsement to rescue a failing candidate that only a black female could a SCOTUS nomination earn
The issue is not whether his black female nominee would be qualified which should be hopefully the case
But that all others qualified never were allowed to leave the dugout and try to reach first base
Diversity is an admirable trait and all things in the case of a nomination being the same
A black female Justice would be a welcome addition to on SCOTUS be named
But if the perception is that others would have been a better choice
But because of their skin color and gender Senators never heard their voice
The perception may be that the nominee was selected only because she was black
And the support SCOTUS needs as arbiter of  blind justice and rule of law would lack
Not a bench of nine equals of minds not cast and calcified in stone
But some of merit and others needing a quota boost to call SCOTUS their judicial home

© January 30, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Friday, January 28, 2022

Rivera's and Mora's Death May Mark the Pendulum of Criminals' Rights Swinging Back to Favor Victims

 

NYPD Officer Rivera’s dream to be a police officer and serve and tear down in Harlem anti-police walls
Was cut short far too soon responding to a 911 domestic disturbance call
A mother fearful for her life from the acts of her 47 year old son
Who retreated into his bedroom and came out shooting and when the shooting was done
Rivera and his partner Mora were fighting for their lives with wounds to the head
The 47 year old son shot by a third officer was in the same condition would be soon also dead
Both Rivera and Mora despite great efforts by the hospital staff could not be saved
Today was Rivera’s funeral and the parade of police was miles long past sidewalks of mourners with farewell waves
One might think the outrage of seeing two men cut down in their prime
Might cause the thugs and felons to take a breather from their deadly police crimes
Sadly not so as in Houston three officers were shot with suspect now in jail
In Ferguson, site of the Trevon Martin riots, two officers were shot after attempt to nab murder suspects failed
And in outrage in doubling economies of scale
An illegal alien from El Salvador who escaped from his native country jail
Benefiting from our open border with not enough agents and walls incomplete
Shot and killed a Texas constable without warning and fled down the street
When will the pro-criminal, anti-victim Blue leaders in our cities pull their heads out of the sand?
The waves of death and destruction in our cities we cannot much longer stand
Until a Red wave of governors, mayors and councilpersons from office these leftist Blues sweep
To the cheers and roars of appreciation at safety returning to our public places and streets  

© January 27, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Miles Long Parade, Crowded Sidewalks and St. Patrick's Cathedral Crowed for Services for Officer Rivera--How Many More Have to Die?mFseecec odHunrhun

 

NYPD Officer Rivera’s dream to be a police officer and serve and tear down in Harlem anti-police walls
Was cut short far too soon responding to a 911 domestic disturbance call
A mother fearful for her life from the acts of her 47 year old son
Who retreated into his bedroom and came out shooting and when the shooting was done
Rivera and his partner Mora were fighting for their lives with wounds to the head
The 47 year old son shot by a third officer was in the same condition would be soon also dead
Both Rivera and Mora despite great efforts by the hospital staff could not be saved
Today was Rivera’s funeral and the parade of police was miles long past sidewalks of mourners with farewell waves
One might think the outrage of seeing two men cut down in their prime
Might cause the thugs and felons to take a breather from their deadly police crimes
Sadly not so as in Houston three officers were shot with suspect now in jail
In Ferguson, site of the Trevon Martin riots, two officers were shot after attempt to nab murder suspects failed
And in outrage in doubling economies of scale
An illegal alien from El Salvador who escaped from his native country jail
Benefiting from our open border with not enough agents and walls incomplete
Shot and killed a Texas constable without warning and fled down the street
When will the pro-criminal, anti-victim Blue leaders in our cities pull their heads out of the sand?
The waves of death and destruction in our cities we cannot much longer stand
Until a Red wave of governors, mayors and councilpersons from office these leftist Blues sweep
To the cheers and roars of appreciation at safety returning to our public places and streets  

© January 27, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Record Year for Cops Shot and Killed As Murders Surge Leading to Red Wave If Voters' Memories Don't Fade

346 members of the thin Blue Line in the line of duty were shot
In 63 cases attempts to save them sadly went for naught
In the same year nationwide almost 1000 civilians have by police been killed
In Chicago in the year 2021 for the year almost 800 were added to the butcher’s bill
The Chicago killing and wounding spree rarely involves the cops
No it is mainly men of color killing and wounding men of color that will not slow or stop
When a black is shot by another black there are no protest parades
Many are when a funeral is held to go to it and pay respects afraid
Mayor Lightfoot should be renamed Lightweight as the carnage she is clueless on how to cope
After years of ignoring Trump’s offers, she has finally come to the end of her rope
And seeking help from Biden to flatten the curve
As more and more of Chicago’s finest feeling not supported no long want to serve
Add to the never ending wave of color on color shooting a leftist D.A. Kim Fox
Who seems to view the never ending stream of victims, not the felons, as a real pox
The warning bells in Blue camps are load and clear ringing
Defund the police, don’t prosecute and fed up residents a Red wave will be bringing
The DNC and Biden probably get down on their knees daily to pray
That memories of the killings and shootings, carjackings and smash and grab will fade away
With saved videos and neighborhood stores still boarded up the memory loss should be remote
While Blues still cling to felons’ rights and victims of crime be damned, voters will know the Blues on crime have missed the  boat
January 27, 2022 The Alaskanpoet


Biden Sold His Soul to Clyburn with Female Black Justice Vow and He's Here to Collect on the Vow

 

Now that Breyer has announced he will from SCOTUS  retire
We learn that Biden sold his soul for the Oval Office he aspired
Down in the primary polls and watching his nomination chances evaporate
Blue Whip Clyburn demanded to get his support a Biden vow to a black female to SCOTUS nominate
Biden caved and pledged in a Blue Primary debate a black female would be his only pick
From the jaws of defeat blacks in South Carolina heeding Clyburn gave him the momentum that would stick
The black vote put him into the nomination and then into the Oval Office seat
Without them and his vow of judicial diversity he would have gone down to defeat
So another step down the slippery diversity path
Where skin color, gender preference, gender and sex determine if one can practice a desired craft
I am certain that there are numerous black female judges that are qualified but that’s not the concern
It's the erection of a skin and gender test that force the best and brightest to be spurned
We have already seen Justices like Sotomayor on COVID make a fool of herself on severity among kids that did not exist
Was she picked as one of the best and brightest or a racial and sexual slot Obama could not resist?
To SCOTUS, whites and males need not apply
More severe consequences than in NYC 19th Century bars that entrance by “dogs and Irish” deny
Assuming Biden does not find a spine and retract his vow and add nonblack females to the nominee pool
The black female judge confirmed will bear the stigma of less qualified and a black tool
Hope Martin Luther King, Jr.’s casket is wide so he can easily roll
Seeing a Blue move from judge by content of character rather than skin color goal
© January 27, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

On Bryer's Replacement Will Diversity of a Black Female Rule While Meritocracy of Non Female Justices Drool

 

As Biden’s poll numbers sink
And a Red Wave in November is what Reds think
Murphy’s Law on SCOTUS stage appears
Justice Breyer after the end of the term into retirement will disappear
After his Biden appointed successor has been confirmed
Unless a Blue dies or resigns in the Senate Blues will determine who gets a life time term
Already Harris and Klaine, the Bobbsey Twins of the left, in selection will be key
Rest assured their pick will not be someone conservatives or moderates will want to see
Breyer may change his mind and wait till after the election
Doubtful as for sure that would result in a flipped Senate confirming Biden’s selection
But as a moderate voice and worried about the politicization of the court
Might be an influential voice to progressive demands for a leftist idealogue to abort
Biden promised a black female appointee to SCOTUS when he ran
Since she has been such a failure as the one heartbeat away right hand
Would Harris recommend herself as future political office based on performance is a pipe dream?
Interesting question but Biden’s few remaining neurons would never let his insurance against the 25th leave the Oval Office team
Biden’s last chance to be the unifier and the Progressives’ rants and demands ignore
And bipartisanship necessary to solve growing problems facing the nation restore
A justice on SCOTUS is supposed to be one of the best and brightest
Yet Biden has promised only a black female can pass the selection test
Not sure how many black female judges now of the judicial bench occupy
But suspect it’s less than 10 percent which means the other 90 percent of candidates cannot apply
We pray for the nation’s sake that the black female picked would based on skills be the right choice
That meritocracy would prevail rather that the left’s siren call of the need for diversity voice

© January 27, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Friday, January 21, 2022

Shawn Smith, Alleged Killer of Brianna Kupfer, Arrested Will Gascon With No or High Bail Keep Him In Jail?

 Thank God for surveillance cameras and citizens with cell phones

Surveillance to record the face of Shawn Smith before he fled the area of his killing zone
Great photos of him buying a vape stick less than a half hour of robbing Brianna Kupfer of her life
Walking into Croft House where she was working alone and stabbed her with his knife
Walking past a man in Pasadena who called in that a man who looked like the suspected killer by had walked past
A call to mean that this suspect’s freedom from his random violent act would not long last
Quickly arrested and the drama now moves to Gascon’s bailiwick
What kind of enhanced charges and bail will time in jail before trial stick
The D.A. seems pro criminal and soft on victims rights to the point of they should pound sand
Emboldened by the first recall attempt without enough signatures he could withstand
Hopefully the tide has turned when a white college grad is killed in an upscale shopping district
That upper income residents will rise up in mass to Gascon’s pro criminal leanings restrict
Recall him out of office before more innocents are killed, maimed or robbed by thugs augmented those released on nominal bail
Unless D.A.’s like Gascon are recalled out of office not matter how many police are funded back in, attempts to reduce crime will fail
© January 20,2022 Ridley's Believe It Or Not 

Thursday, January 20, 2022

"Short People" Robert Reich Tries to Backpedal Back Hand Sinema Comment

 

Randy Newman’s song predated Clinton but hit the nail on the head
“Short People” went around telling “big lies” and not the truth instead
When it comes to short people Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich fits the bill
Total leftist, totally biased, standing 4’11” inches to spout his swill
Rants that Blues should give Sinema for her filibuster stand
A well-deserved and forceful back hand
And then with his misogyny violence exposed
Backpedals to try to conceal what we about him we must know
The myth that back hand means only an oral rebuke
Instead of a physical strike that would make even Blues puke
Nice try short little man but wool over the eyes attempt
Failed miserably and most of us believe Newman was right and hold you in contempt
© January 20, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Senate Votes to Subject "Voting Rights" Bill When Bill Really About Suppressing Voter Fraud

 John Lewis was a Civil Riots Advocate and long term Rep worthy of eternal fame

But affixing his name to the misnamed “Voting Rights Bills” is to his legacy defame
Every legal voter should not have any race based barriers on his right to vote
Likewise every legal voter should not have his vote cancelled by an illegal vote crossing the no illegal voting moat
How can requiring a voter to present a voter ID be a suppression of the his right to vote?
How demeaning to assume a voter ID minorities don’t have the IQ or the time to devote
How can preventing paid operatives to from nursing homes or residents ballot harvest
To turn in or sign if blank the party employer and the rest into the trash divest?
How does purging election rolls for not voting  with notice suppress the right to vote
Except the residents who have moved or died and whose remaining the chance for fraud promotes?
With winning office holders like Pelosi having chances to millions make
Or with the massive federal, state and cities billions of dollars to take
Expecting the criminal or ideologue elements among voters to follow the rules is absurd
One person one vote, citizens only, residents only and IDs as opposed trusting one’s word
Joseph Goebbels would be clapping in his grave that the bills were not after him named
Not “Voting Rights Bills” but “Voting Fraud Rights” to preventions against fraud tame
Goebbels preached say a lie again and again with a straight face and into the truth it becomes
With the DNC & its lackeys the MSM who must think all Red and Indy Americans are dumb
The narrative is voter suppression
Not voter fraud repression

© January 19, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Blind to Root Causes of Illegal Immigration Before Her Eyes Harris Off to Honduras Touting Investment Aidb

 Harris finally once against rises from her Border Czar slumber

After hearing the sighs of Blues wishing they could dump her
Her gaffes rival Biden even when he was young and in his gaffe prime
A staff bully and as to duties like reading briefings having no time
She was picked for diversity to be a magnet for the black vote
Hobbled by arrogance, hysterical cackles and skill less on issues to devote
Off to Honduras on a pampered Air Force Two Flight
To keep her incompetency from even a fawning press out of sight
Another mission to find root causes of why illegals cannot crossing the border resist
That lowers wages, brings in drugs, crime, trafficking and terrorists
Floods our schools and hospitals with illiterates and those for whom our safety net drains
Illegals lured by dollars given as long as Biden reigns
Her solution is ignore the border crossings and invest in Honduras to provide jobs
If Hondurans can find work in a nation free from corruption urge to leave will be robbed
In the long run that may be true but today
The surge increases each and every day
Illegals from countries far from the Northern Triangle
Lured by the economic prosperity and safety we dangle
Not enough room left with our massive national debt that grows
To solve in any time soon the world’s economic and crime problems to illegal immigration slow
© January 19, 2022

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

January 17, 2022 Ridley's Believe It or Not Martin Luther King , Jr. Day

    

 RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT January 17, 2022
             CV World Cases: The planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 329 million at 329,863,894 cases,  56,056,896  of which are active, 273,806,998  closed with 268,246,568 recoveries (97.97%), and nearing the 5,600,000 barrier 5,560,430 deaths (2.03% )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 exceeding 67 million at 67,021,487 with 23,052,957 active cases  of which 25,779  are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases despite the increase in active cases due to the relative mildness of the Omicron variant) to .112% of active cases (back to back steady decreases despite the increase in active cases due to the relative mildness of the Omicron variant  and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 3,492, 43,968,580 closures with 873,635 deaths (1.99%) and with 43,094,945 recoveries (98.01%). Our death rate percentage is .04% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2616 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (6039) 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; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4672), Hungary (4210), Romania (3112),  Brazil (2890) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, and Poland (2708) and slightly better than Argentina (2575), newly added to the list Columbia (2533), Belgium (2452),  Italy (2334), Mexico (2301),  UK (2222), Russia (2205), Chile (2036), Spain (1945), France (1939), Portugal (1905), Ecuador newly added to list (1895),  Bolivia (1698),  Sweden (1517) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1439). 
             Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well but the free rapid tests which the Biden Administration was caught flatfooted on the ease of transmission of the Omicron Variant and failed to order are not yet being produced.
             US Vaccinations: As of 01/17/22 515.16 million doses,  1.33 million per day over last week; my data from Bloomberg no longer available.
             Non  CV News:  The observes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with the markets closed and Blues using it to promote passage of their misnamed Voters’ Rights Bills as King’s niece appeared on Fox to urge an end to the great divide in this country, promote the achievement of the American Dream by all based not on color of skin and call for a return to bringing God in our lives (if only Martin Luther King were alive today to address the folly of critical race theory and urge an end to divisiveness; the hostage situation created by Malik Faisal Akram by entering a Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, Texas was ended with their release by law enforcement killing him but the FBI is being castigated for claiming that Akram’s rationale for seizing the hostages was to obtain release of a jihadist terrorist serving 86 years in a nearby federal prison for killing American solders in Afghanistan was not directed against the Jewish community (déjà vu claim by the Obama Administration that the mass shooting  at Fort Hood by Army Major Nidal Hasan was caused by workplace violence not jihad); the NCAA is under great pressure to amend its rules governing competition by transgender females in women’s sporting events after scientific studies are showing that even with testosterone suppression, transgenders have an unfair advantage (if some common sense does not return to this issue to require transgenders compete in their biological class, say goodbye the Title IX and the progress made in the name of equality for women’s sports; Virginia has a Red governor largely due to the teachers’ unions and school boards insistence that parents should have no involvement in their kids’ education, a fact which the Blues in Michigan seem oblivious to as the party’s website posted a statement to that effect adding if parents didn’t like the curriculum they could send their kids to private schools (uproar quickly caused the post to be pulled but not before voters had another chance to realize the teachers’ unions have not been acting in the best interests of their kids); emails have revealed that although Education Secretary Cardona has denied, he was involved in encouraging the National Association of School Boards to write to the DOJ complaining that parents in Virginia appearing at school board meetings to protest the teaching of CRT were domestic terrorists which has caused 41 Red lawmakers to in a letter to Biden demand he be fired or resign;  as long as crime is confined to poor neighborhoods little if any lasting attention or MSM uproar but when it strikes the affluent the thugs and mentally ill homeless should be alarmed as Brianna Kupfer, a graduate student at UCLA was stabbed to death by a homeless black while working at a high end furniture store Croft House in L.A.; the move to use race as a criteria to determine who obtains scarce medical treatments has rightfully been hit with setbacks as a Midwestern Catholic hospital chain SSM after pushback has eliminated the criteria; Cuomo’s sex scandal claimed another victim as the Chancellor of SUNY resigned after harassing one of Cuomo’s sexual abuse accusers;  as more and more grocery shelves look like those of the Soviet Union before its collapse, leave it to the political cartoonist to portray the reality of shopping and the obliviousness of Biden to shoppers’ concerns:

                                                                                                                                                                                                    
              Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through January 16, 2022, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 124 persons shot of whom 21 have died while 2021 shootings numbers compared to 2020 are 4544 to 4248 and deaths are 846 compared to 797.
               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history,  a recording link to “Don’t Let the Stars Get Into Your Eyes” by Perry Como, the fact that you are not a slugabed, and quotes from Lance Armstrong denying and admitting doping, 
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             1.  
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—signed into law by Ronald Reagan on November 2, 1983 and first celebrated on January 20, 1986 to celebrate his birthday on January 15, 1929 and honor his accomplishments toward civil rights and peace and now celebrated on the third Monday of each January. The day is also honored as one of two National Days of Service to honor the work of Martin Luther King in less advantaged neighborhoods.
             2.  National Bootleggers Day—created by Infinium Spirits in June, 2015  and first celebrated on this day in 2016, the 86th anniversary of the commencement of the failure experiment known as Prohibition to promote a bootleg rye whiskey produced in Templeton, Iowa and distributed throughout the Midwest and Chicago where it was one of Al Capone’s favorites. It is a small distillery which restarted in 2006 and distributed in the U.S. since 2013.
  
           3.  1953  Number 1 Song—the number 1 song in 1953  on this day was  “Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes” by Perry Como on a run of 5 weeks in that position to join 9 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Perry Como singing “Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmkg_E2evbg  Perry Como or “Mr. C” as known was noted American singer and television personality who signed with RCA Records and recorded exclusively for them for 44 years, avid golfer, married to his only wife for 65 years before she died and his talent died 6 days before his 89th birthday on May 12, 2001. Billboard Magazine’s epitaph summed up his life best: “50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all.”
            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “slugabed” which means someone who spends too much time in bed due to laziness” which might describe our president who seems to need more sleep and naps than Trump ever did.
            5.  
Aping Sports Illustratedcelebrating the birth on this day in 1921 of “The First Lady of Television” comedian and actress Betty White who in addition to a 7 decade career was the first person to appear in front of and behind the camera. Definitely loved and admired by her fans and cohorts in the business. The reference to Sports Illustrated is that many times after an athlete was feature on its cover that athlete’s career or season went into the tank. People Magazine’s cover and lead story that hit the newsstand on December 29th and started arriving in subscribers’ mailboxes on the 31st celebrated her career and birthday, having no clue of the Sports Illustrated jinx as she died on the 31st.
              On this day in:
              a. 1917 fearful that Germany would seize the Virgin Islands for submarine bases, the U.S. after several years of negotiations purchased the islands for the sum of $25 million.
              b. 1945 Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg was taken into Soviet custody in Hungary and never seen again.
              c. 1969 Bunch Carter, founder of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party and John Huggins, another Black Panther Party member met with members of a rival black group the Organization Us at the Black Student Union at UCLA and were shot and killed. The alleged shooter was never found and three members of Organization U.S. were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder one of whom was sentenced to the Juvenile Authority while George and Larry Stiner were sentenced to life where both escaped with George never being caught and Larry a fugitive with his family in Surinam for 20 years before agreeing to turn himself in to allow his wife and 3 children to escape destitution in Surinam, an agreement which authorities reneged on after Steven returned. In view of the controversy over the presence of FBI agents present at the Capitol to urge protestors to attack Capitol police and enter, we should not be surprised to learn the FBI was planting false flags causing both organizations to believe  the other was plotting to violently attack them.                                                                        
              d. 1991 Coalition Air Forces led by the F-111 Stealth Bomber commenced air operations in Desert Storm against Iraq while Scott Spreicher in a F/A Hornet launched from the US Saratoga was shot down by a Mig-25 to become the first combat casualty of the Gulf War.

              e. 2013 U.S. Cyclist Lance Armstrong in a better late than never moment confessed to doping to win his Tour de France record number of wins on the Oprah Winfrey’s Oprah’s Next Chapter.
              
Reflections on doping before and after from the doping king Lance Armstrong:
              Jan 2011: "If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever."
              Jan 2013: "All the fault and all the blame here falls on me. I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times. I made my decisions. They are my mistakes, and I am sitting here today to acknowledge that and to say I'm sorry for that.".

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Monday, January 17, 2022

Chancellor of SUNY Resigns Due to Harassing One of Cuomo's Sexual Harassment Acusers

 Now that Cuomo has ended his political career in resignation disgrace

We are learning each day what was behind that charming Emmy award winning face
A sexual harassment tyrant whose workplace was hostile
A bully who would not hesitate to an opponent’s reputation defile
Managed to the nursing homes’ deaths due to his orders conceal
While on his daily briefings sometimes aided by Little Fredo enhance his skill with zeal
But the deaths piled up and we were treated to scenes of refrigerated trucks
Death counts understated, mounting sexual harassment claims he could not duck
The fame of an Emmy soon faded  away
News of Fredo joining his team to allegations of sexual harassment deflect
We learned today of pro Cuomo behavior the Chancellor of SUNY chose to elect
Emails of his harassment of one of Cuomo’s accusers were just revealed
Don’t know whether his behavior was volunteered or due to the demands of a bully coerced
But today under growing public pressure Jim Malatras resigned from his dream job for his behavior so perverse
The adage says “Lay down with dogs and come down with fleas”
In politics “Support the acts of a political pervert and your dream job is history”

© January 17, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Salt Lake City Tribune Editorial Board Demands Unvaccinated Be Subject to House Arrest Enforced by the National Guard

 As infections from the Omicron variant soar

And some politicians and the MSM common sense seem to ignore
First is the myth that vaccines prevent the spread
In reality what they do is lessen the severity instead
Fully vaccinated even those also with a booster are getting infected
In addition to mandating vaccinations another more dangerous act is selected
The editorial board of the Salt Lake City Tribune is demanding the unvaccinated be locked in at home
Calling not for ankle bracelets but the National Guard to insure they never leave their residential zone
All for a disease that results in .113% of the active cases in serious or critical condition
Calling for an act that merits only scathing opposition and constitutional prohibition
Maybe the editors assumed that doggy doors would allow food to be delivered
And the condemned would always be able to work at home and not cut off from income to on the vine wither
If we would listen to these idiots and their demands put in place
What are the next diseases or conditions would be the excuse to our freedoms replace?
Pneumonia or the flu that cause many to become severely ill or dead
Ignoring the fact the annual shots do not stop their spread
Another misguided example of the nanny state protecting us from cradle to grave
Put into germ resistant isolation bubbles to the experience of what makes us humans wave
©

Friday, January 14, 2022

500 Million Omicron Test Kit's Ordered As Infections Wane--Too Little Too Late

 

Hindsight may be 20/20 when on Omicron the Biden administration looks legally blind
With Omicron cases setting near records and test kits impossible to find
In a too little too late moment the Biden Administration wakes up
Orders 500 million test kits weeks after Omicron chose to erupt
So on January 19 the Omicron test kit ordering site goes on line
Assuming no aping of the ACA website orders will ship in 7 to 12 days’ time
Not with shipping with the speed of Amazon or Walmart
But with USPO snail mail where speed is a lost art
But like the farmer who stumbles into his barn’s open door
Wrath over the needs to prepare for variants the Biden Administration chose to ignore

The surge by then will be receding quickly
No more will hospitals be hit with a wave of patients sickly
An expensive dry run of how to against the virus variant respond
With the patients from the hospitals long gone

Too little too late and sadly a lesson not learned
More variants are mutating to be better able to vaccine effects spurn
Doubtful that Biden is even aware of what’s today’s date
Even less likely to be aware of needed preparations for the next variant soon to be pounding on our gate.

© January 14, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Biden's "Go to Hell" Speech Prompts Sinema to Reaffirm Her Keep the Filibuster Stance

 

Whatever drugs Biden took to his cognitive failings conceal
Seemed to work as he pushed for his voting “rights” bill with zeal
Raising his voice, no mental lapses, more like an orator well-seasoned
But the drugs could not conceal stupidity and his lack of reason
Sharpton said it best “the speech was one of go to Hell”
Not one trying to persuade a wary nation of what he was trying to sell
If you didn’t support the voting “rights” bill and the filibuster’s end
You would be a Wallace, Connor or Davis to your legacy to send
Among certain individuals racism still persists
But systematic racism most believe does not exist
Biden and his Blues cannot get it through their thick heads
That disagreeing with them does not make you a racist instead
If you apply to Manchin and Sinema the racist George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis label
Be prepared to suffer the effects of the man with the cloak fable
In a test to see who could cause a man to his cloak discard
The Wind huffed and puffed and blew with chills so hard
Only to cause the cloak to be gripped tighter until the Sun beamed warming rays
Or as this poet’s mother would say “with honey not vinegar you catch more flies”
Ignoring that wisdom, Sinema on ending the filibuster will Biden’s rants defy
© 1/13/22 The Alaskanpoet

 

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Biden Demonizes Those Who Oppose His Voting "Rights" Ignores Real Issues Like Inflation

 

The man who became president with a pledge to the divided nation unify
Showed his true spots in Atlanta in a speech where those efforts went awry
Animated and yelling out with anger that looked like the teleprompter would melt
Showed his true leopard self and how on opposition to his agenda he felt
With Botch Back Better in the midst of inflation in the Senate dead on the Senate floor
With major crises like the border, inflation, Omicron, China  and Russia choosing to ignore
Pivots to the issue of phantom voting suppression in Georgia and the need to pass voting rights bills
Which will divest election control from the states and the requirements of voter IDs kill
The bills have nothing to do with voter suppression only to make it easier to an election steal
Same day registration, ballot harvesting, no voter ID’s that the cry of voter rights the true intent conceals
The Blues with their open border crusade with almost 2 million counted and uncounted illegals entering last year
Are blind to the true voter suppression when after a citizen votes a ballot by an illegal appears
Biden would have been better served to plea for his home state to ape Georgia’s laws which lower voting impediments
But instead demonizes the overwhelming majority of Americans wanting voter ID’s to illegal elections prevent
Biden in his speech in essence claimed if you opposed the bills you were like George Wallace and Bull Connor
Without the whips, firehoses or attacking dogs but still the goals of racial nondiscrimination dishonor
And even further over the top demonizing rhetoric castigate us as Jefferson Davis to head up a new seceding nation
Biden for this outburst deserves only shame and condemnation
Stop taking what he took to be able to deliver this demonizing speech
Focus on inflation caused by his spending that is destroying low and middle income families it reaches
© January 12, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Biden Continues to Refer to Harris As President--Elder Abuse for Him to Remain in Office

 Watching Biden today pushing for passage of the Blues’ Voters Rights Bills

Which are not about citizens’ rights but efforts to prevent illegals from voting kill
Looking frail and dazed beyond his years
As the rages of dementia seem more clear
Once again as he has in the past too many times
Kamala Harris as president is how he her defines
A Freudian slip of the tongue as  he sees the 25th staring him in the face
To confused and dazed to realize that she as a replacement would be a disgrace
Or maybe the few functioning neurons have come to accept
That when it comes to the office he is too inept
Having dementia is not a sin and he should not feel ashamed
Maybe he still hopes drugs are coming to the advancement tame
If Jill is truly his soulmate and for him only wants what is best
It may be time for her to in a quiet moment suggest
That while they have time together with even a few neurons still on line
It is time to avoid the disgrace of the 25th and for the good of the nation resign
Not sure the Blue bench is deep enough to be an effective number two
But have some faith the right person with the skills will see the remaining two years through
So Biden can enjoy his remaining years free from ridicule
With a new team that in getting his legacy passed would be a better tool

© January 11, 2022 The Alaskanpoet 

Voters Rights Bill Is Not About Voting Rights But Illegal Alien Voting Fraud

 Joseph Goebbels in dealing with the West and the German public had a basic rule

If followed the Nazi Party would again and again them able to fool
If you want to lie repeat it again and again as being true
After enough times any belief in its falsehood would be through
In politics the Blue Corollary is that the label describes only what’s in the bill
Repeat the label enough times and opponents to oppose it will lose their will
Biden is now focusing on the Voters Rights Bill
Who in a democracy would want to the right to vote kill?
In a democracy voting is a sacred right
Who against it would want to fight?
But a basic tenet of democracy is that only citizens get to vote
And voter ID for voters creates against illegals voting an effective moat
The Blues assert that the bill assures every voter should be able to vote and their vote should count
For every citizen’s vote cancelled by an illegal alien is a loss of a citizen’s voting rights tantamount
The bill is not a Voters Rights Bill but an Illegal Aliens Rights to Commit Voting Fraud
Banning showing a voter ID to vote proves it to be deeply flawed
The only way the Blues will succeed in this fraud will be to the filibuster in the Senate end
There may be bills so critical to the nation that the filibuster is waive but this one the rule we must defend
© January 11, 2022

CDC on COVID Reporting Deserves Failing Grade

 

Walensky, the head of the CDC, may be a great doctor but when it comes to articulating the facts
She is about as reliable as a train that keeps running off the tracks
Being interviewed on Fox she could not with a factual answer reply
How many deaths reported as COVID were other conditions that caused them to die
Pivoted to the fact that Omicron was a new variant and the death data still being collated

The pandemic pre Omicron has been killing for almost two years which may imply the COVID only deaths are inflated?
We follow the science is the CDC’s mantra, its so often repeated cry
But to do so one needs accurate data to know what caused victims to die
With hindsight watching the CDC the impression becomes politics was what it followed
In 2020 Trump’s efforts to fight the virus were often portrayed as empty and hollow
The CDC became the equivalent of a one trick pony and shed all but vaccine hopes from its quiver
Belittled the therapeutics that seemed to work as hoaxes but Trump still managed vaccines to deliver
Despite all the efforts of the private sector to deliver under warp speed
Could not arrive before election to give the voters confidence they would need
Biden ran on a campaign from his basement that no one with over a quarter million COVID deaths on his watch
Deserve to be president when the death number showed his fighting efforts were botched
To add another nail to the election coffin the Blues spread the perception
Any vaccines or drugs developed under Trump were not to be trusted and merited a negative reception
Water under the bridge but Biden’s sound bite on deaths and being president
With his deaths and infections outnumbering Trumps and testing in shambles will this fall have many Blues out of office being sent.
© January 11, 2022 The Alaskanpoet

CDC Can't Tell Us How Many "COVID" Were Caused by Another Morbidity to a Victim with COVID

 Walensky, the head of the CDC, may be a great doctor but when it comes to articulating the facts

She is about as reliable as a train that keeps running off the tracks
Being interviewed on Fox she could not with a factual answer reply
How many deaths reported as COVID were other conditions that caused them to die
Pivoted to the fact that Omicron was a new variant and the death data still being collated

The pandemic pre Omicron has been killing for almost two years which may imply the COVID only deaths are inflated?
We follow the science is the CDC’s mantra, its so often repeated cry
But to do so one needs accurate data to know what caused victims to die
With hindsight watching the CDC the impression becomes politics was what it followed
In 2020 Trump’s efforts to fight the virus were often portrayed as empty and hollow
The CDC became the equivalent of a one trick pony and shed all but vaccine hopes from its quiver
Belittled the therapeutics that seemed to work as hoaxes but Trump still managed vaccines to deliver
Despite all the efforts of the private sector to deliver under warp speed
Could not arrive before election to give the voters confidence they would need
Biden ran on a campaign from his basement that no one with over a quarter million COVID deaths on his watch
Deserve to be president when the death number showed his fighting efforts were botched
To add another nail to the election coffin the Blues spread the perception
Any vaccines or drugs developed under Trump were not to be trusted and merited a negative reception
Water under the bridge but Biden’s sound bite on deaths and being president
With his deaths and infections outnumbering Trumps and testing in shambles will this fall have many Blues out of office being sent.
© January 11, 2022 The Alaskanpoet 

Monday, January 10, 2022

Cuomo COVID Nursing Home Scandal Deja Vu In Connecticut?

 

Cuomo in the initial stages of the pandemic was praised by the MSM as a pandemic hero
His daily briefings were a work of art while Trump’s stood at near zero
Little did we initially know that COVID cases were being sent by hospitals to nursing homes to free up beds
But the nursing homes were not staffed or equipped to stop the deadly virus’ spread
A soon the morgues were over flowing and resident after resident was ending up dead
One would have thought that public officials would have learned
That sending COVID patients to  nursing homes is an idea that should be spurned
But what no longer surprises us on states run by Blues
That’s exactly what Lamont’s  Connecticut is proposing to do
80% of the nursing homes have reported COVID among residents and staff
Though only 5-15 percent of residents are unvaccinated with Omicron the idea seems daft
Blues must have a short memory of Cuomo’s nursing home deadly errors
Now in Connecticut a déjà vu exposing residents there to a repeat deadly terror
© January 10, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Justice Sotomayor Lost Her Objectivity on Scotus By Aping MSM and DNC COVID-19 Line?

 The Rule oi Law states that Lady Justice must be blind

So how do we explain that Justice Sotomayor has left factual truth so far behind?
In arguments before SCOTUS on the Biden Administration vaccine mandate
She falsely claimed 0ver 100,000 plus kids in serious condition in a CVOVID-19 hospitalized state
Many on ventilators to the virus’s deadly attack to abate
With the true number being 3500 the question has to be asked
Is she free of bias of the DNC and MSM to perform on this case here SCOTUS Justice task?
Or in leaving the truth of the effects of the pandemic to justify the mandate crossing the line
From objectivity and blindness to advocacy to support the narrative the DNC and MSM has chosen to define
Cases are supposed to be decided based on what evidence is before the court
Not the facts a justice would like to create and report
Justices are human beings and try as they might
Free themselves of prejudice within both in and out of sigh
The CDC which has not been an icon of objective reporting of the facts
And on the issue of natural immunity and therapeutic drugs analysis of their efficacy tack
Was forced to correct Sotomayor but like a stuck record pivot to tout the vaccine need
With all of their flip flops and inconsistencies little wonder that Americans their advice continue to heed
Sotomayor on this one has blindfold chosen to toss
She must recuse herself to prevent the Rule of Law from being lost

© January 9, 2022

Saturday, January 8, 2022

January 7, 2022 Ridley's Believe It or Not International Programmers' Day

 RIDLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT January 7,2022

             CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues on an increasing basis with cases now over 301 million at 301,270,608,519 cases,  38,221,922 of which are active, 263,386,597  closed with 257,893,666 recoveries (97.91%), and nearing the 5,500,000 barrier 5,492,931 deaths (2.09% )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 nearing 60 million at 59,564,116 with 16,619,075 active cases  of which 21,457  are serious or critical, (8,599 on 3/25/2021) (back to steady decreases with upticks despite the  Delta and Omicron Variants to .129% of active cases and to decrease the reduction from the 29,271 peak on 12/31/2020 to 7,814, (serious or critical cases now reported again), 42,945,041 closures with 855,843 deaths (1.99%) and with 42,089,198 recoveries (98.01%). Our death rate percentage is .10% lower than the world’s death rate.
             Standing: On a deaths per million population measure on a steady but slow climb to 2563 the U.S. ranks behind Peru (6028) 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; Bulgaria the new number 2 (4564), Hungary (4134), Romania (3097), Brazil (2885) which has been hit with a rapid rise in deaths now slowing down passed by Romania, Argentina (2562), and newly added to the list Columbia (2518),  and slightly better than Belgium (2358), Poland (2631), Mexico (2290), Italy (2299),  UK (2188), Russia (2154), Chile (2026), Spain (1920), France (1909), Ecuador newly added to list (1867),  France (1909), Portugal (1838),  Bolivia (1669),  Sweden (1504) that never closed its economy down like we did, and Switzerland (1420). 
             Tests: No need to tally tests as testing programs are functioning well but the rapid tests which the Biden Administration was caught flatfooted on the ease of transmission of the Omicron Variant.
             US Vaccinations: As of 01/07/06 515.16 million doses,  1.13 million per day over last week (2 weeks left for 75% of population to be vaccinated  with at least one shot  and in California 273,904  per day  (which means at least 81% of the population of California has received at least one shot) which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity (other than Flip Flop Fauci who may believe that 90% is required).  In California 62,900,191 total doses have been given (85.9%  of doses received to exceed the U.S. average of 81.6%), California has not moved from 8th of the 50 states in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states and at 66.6% of its population fully vaccinated compared to the U.S. average of 62.4% and has  moved from  to 12th tied with Oregon  in terms of the percentage of the population fully vaccinated compared to other states.    
              Non  CV News:  Harris and Biden spoke the anniversary of the Capitol Protests which speeches were fawned over by the MSM predictably as the oration equivalent of the best thing as sliced bread but realistically represented another missed opportunity for the Biden Administration to fulfill on its promised on Inauguration Day to unify the country as Harris conflated January 6th with Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and Biden unleashed scathing ad hominem attacks on Trump (Blue House members dressed in black and holding candles garnished the memorial);  job numbers came in for December missing expected increased job numbers of 400,000 by 201,000; Biden touted that  his Build Back Better program will solve inflation and allow more workers to return to the labor force; in another glaring example of the need to fine tune stimulus checks from the government,
it was revealed that
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the convicted Boston Marathon Bomber had received a stimulus check in June which a federal District Court Judge in Boston has ruled must be used to compensate his victims; SCOTUS heard over 3 hours of oral arguments on Biden’s vaccine mandate promulgated by OSHA for employers of more than 100 employees (our health care system is being hit by the perfect storm as 1000’s of health care workers have been laid off due to Biden’s vaccine mandate as infections of the Omicron virus are soaring which may have bearing on how the court rules); Seals who view themselves as immortal and unbeatable in dealing with 2 legged enemies found a District Court Judge who sided with them by invoking a stay on his vaccine mandate due to lack of religion exemption; in the Aubrey case in which the 3 defendants were convicted, the judge sentenced Greg and Travis McMichaels to life without possibility of parole and William Bryan who filmed the encounter and shooting to life with possibility of parole; not sure who Biden is listening to on COVID but he is not backing down on his claim that we can contain the virus (so far looks like the proverbial wing and a prayer); Cuomo dodged the bullet of sexual abuse as a judge in New York dismissed that case against leaving only a chance that the feds still investigating the nursing home scandals with elderly residents there being exposed to COVID and dying by the hundreds which deaths Cuomo has been alleged to have concealed; in Catskill, New York, a man who sprayed himself with a hand sanitizer and burst into flames after being tased in the police station house has died after a 6 week stay in a hospital burn unit; Harris has a proclivity for shedding staff but it looks like her new communications director Jamal Simmons is already self-destructing surfaced where he questioned why 2 illegals being interviewed on TV were not being deported by ICE (has to be a question that many Americans are asking also as the surge in illegals continues unabated); as the progressives with their armed guards continue to press to “defund the police” or “reimagine the police,” leave it to the political cartoonist to convey the terror and concern for safety many Americans, especially women, have over the reality of the effect of such movements: 
                                                                               


                                                                                                                                                                  
              Chicago Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that through January 6, 2022, gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 47 persons shot of whom 9 have died while 2021 shootings numbers compared to 2020 are 4544 to 4248 and deaths are 846 compared to 797.
               As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history,  a recording link to “Cry” by Johnnie Ray and the Four Lads, the fact that you have little tolerance for slipslop communications, and a quote from
Hassan Chalghoumi, an imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy on the massacre at Charlie Hebdosecure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Valentine’s Day or Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Programmers’ Day—created in 2007 and also celebrated on the 236th day of the year which is September 12th on leap years and the 13th on non-leap years to celebrate the contributions of programmers to the economy and our lives and to no one surprise given their propensity to hack a holiday created on the 13th in 2009 in Russia by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
             2.  Distaff Day—celebrating in preindustrial days the return of women to the workplace which involved the use of a spindle and distaff to create threads.
  
           3.  1952  Number 1 Song USA—the number 1 song in 1952 on this day was  “Cry” by Johnnie Ray and the Four Lads on a run of 10 weeks in that position to join 10 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here’s a recording of Johnny Ray and the Four Lads “Cry”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db-b6lQnOdw Ray, born partially deaf, was a popular singer in the 50’s but struggled with alcohol abuse which he was successful in hiding it from the public and quit performing after being hospitalized for liver problems in 1989 and died from liver failure on February 24, 1990 at the age of 63.
            4.  Word of the Day—the word of the day is “slipslop” which means nonsensical talk which describes what we hear from far too many of our leaders.
            5.  
Near Ground Zero Not a Place to Be—celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of Sadako Sasaki who was 1 mile away from ground zero at Hiroshima, was blown out of her home’s window, heavily radiated who by virtue of crafting over 1000 origami  paper cranes after being hospitalized for radiation sickness on February 24,  1955 before she died on October 25, 1955 from leukemia induced by the radiation and was cremated with her over 1000 cranes in her casket to become one of the more well-known hibakusha from Hiroshima.
              On this day in:
              a. 1927 the world became a smaller place as transatlantic phone service began between New York and London.
              b. 1973 at a Howard Johnson’s in New Orleans, Mark Essex a former member of the Black Panthers and rabid anti-white hater, who on New Year’s Eve had shot 3 cops, wounding 1 and killing 2 but escaped and was still at large despite a massive manhunt entered a Howard Johnson’s and proceeded to wound 11 patrons, employees and cops while killing 7 to finally be cornered and then cut down in a hail of 200 bullets as he emerged from his hideout shooting.
              c. 1980 President Jimmy Carter signed legislation authorizing a $1.5 billion loan to  bail out Chrysler Corporation.                                                                        
              d. 1999 the impeachment trial for President Clinton began in the Senate; no Blues voted to convict so he was acquitted as far less than the 2/3 vote necessary to convict.

              e. 2015 2 jihadist terrorists in Paris attacked the newspaper headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 and wounding 11 others for their “crime” of publishing cartoons disrespectful of Mohammad; French authorities after a massive manhunt cornered the two who were shot and killed 2 days later.
              
Reflections on the attack on Charlie Hebdo: "Their prophet is Satan. There is no connection between the Islamic faith and this minority." – Hassan Chalghoumi, an imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy, following the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

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Sunday, January 2, 2022

2021 The Year In Review

 

 

2020 Father Time shorn of his scythe in a wheel chair could not hobble across the stage
The 2021 Babe was hopeful but anxious as the COVID-19 pandemic raged
Awaiting the man who promised to shut the virus down
To across the nation from the pandemic make it safe in all cities and towns
Vaccines developed in warp speed were finally being injected in waiting arms
Surely this would be the year finally we would be leaving the pandemic’s deadly harm
Days into the New Year Reds descended on the Capitol and aped the storming of the Bastille
With 14 days in his term left, Blues started impeachment to prevent Trump from going again to voters to their votes appeal
Only president impeached not one time but two
Only president impeached and acquitted twice when the trials were through
Biden sworn in as a unifier and the pandemic killer ranking high on the charts
Immediately on border security and energy production by Executive Orders Biden chose to depart
Quickly pushed through a Blue controlled Congress the inflation seeds of a massive stimulus bill
As national debt IOU’s were piling up in the nation’s till
The border became open and thousands upon thousands of illegals flooded across each day
Harris was named immigration czar but despite pleas for months from the border she stayed away
The combination of defund the police and leftist D.A.s releasing those arrested was the Perfect Storm
Homicides and assaults mostly in Blue run cities soared and victims’, mostly of color, safety was shorn
A new term of robbery was upon us the “smash and grab”
Mobs of thieves smashing display cases and fleeing knowing they would be released if nabbed
A promised infrastructure bill and cornerstone of Biden policy was stalled
And despite assurances to the contrary, to the Taliban Afghanistan quickly begin to fall
A botched withdrawal by our military that left American citizens, green card holders and allies behind
12 Americans guarding the airport killed, scenes of the helicopters dumped into the sea after Saigon evacuation coming to mind
Inflation caused by the Fed printing money to fuel Biden’s goals
Was beginning to surge and on American workers beginning to take its toll
Another COVID-19 variant hit us and for it Biden was unprepared
When test kit production should have ramped up, Biden’s test kit cupboard was somewhat bare
Omicron is more contagious but less likely to hospitalize or kill
But sheer weight of numbers infecting are crowding hospitals and adding to the butcher’s bill
The man who campaigned that no one with the number of deaths on his watch should be president
Has passed Trump’s death count with 18 days and counting left in his term in numbers of infected to the morgues sent
His Build Back Better in the trillions of money to be spent
Thanks to two courageous Blue Senators has for now to the trash can been sent
Vaccine mandates are adding to the shortage of truckers, first responders, medical personnel even those in restaurant work
Supply chain shortages adversely affecting business while the DOT Secretary his tasks seems to shirk
On the globe geopolitical crises with China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are ticking to explode
The verdicts in the trials of Rittenhouse, the murder of Aubery and the false reports of Jussee Smollett
Showed that our jury system works and is a winning take it to the bank bet
Sadly Biden is viewed by our foes as weak and frail unable to wear the mantle of leader of the free world and carry the load
Larry King, Colin Powell, John Madden and Betty White left us this year
While for Meghan Markle, Cardi B, Princess Beatrice and Rep. Stefanik welcomed babies to appear
But the America spirit was still front and center responded to this devastated natural disasters
We await tomorrow to see if Alabama will another national title in football against Georgia master
If only in 2022 an election year can the rabid partisan ad hominem attacks put into the trash
Take it to the bank that New Year’s Eve celebration will be a huge successful bash
© January 2, 2022 The Alaskanpoet