March 27, 2023 Ridley's Believe It or Not

 

The suspense of whether the Manhattan Grand Jury would indict Trump was not resolved today as the Grand Jury retired without handing down an indictment. Another school shooting this time in Nashville in the Covenant School when a transgender male, Audrey Hale, who once attended the elementary school, shot the lock off a side entrance and went up the stairs to shoot and kill 3 staff, including the head of the school, and three students all aged 9 before being shot and killed by police who were on scene in less than 15 minutes. L.A. Mayor Bass’ credentials to replace a struggling and unpopular VP Kamala  Harris were enhanced due to her stepping in as mediator to the labor dispute between LAUSD and the  Service Employees International Union Local 99 settling the strike with a 30% increase in salaries and a $22.50 minimum wage for its members.(If Biden does run and win, his insurance policy of not being replaced would be to have Harris as his VP who is even on Biden’s worst cognitive awareness day is more capable); In March Madness the PAC 12’s last hopes were dashed in the Sweet 16 games as UCLA, Colorado, and Utah were eliminated.  In Texas Transgender activist Loren Perkins compared Texas Lawmakers considered a bill to ban funding of Texas public libraries and other venues that receive public funding from host drag queen shows as Nazis who first targeted homosexuals and transgenders. 
Ridley’s Believe It Or Not March 27, 2023
          Noted Holidays: World Theatre Day:  Created by International Theatre Institute by acclamation at the 9^th annual meeting of the international Theatre institute in Vienna and first celebrated in 1962 to promote the growth of and funding for this unique form of live entertainment.
          Word of the Day:  The word of the day is “alginuresis” which means painful urination caused by a urinary tract infection which contrary of fold medicine lore is not cured by drinking cranberry juice. 
          Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 1942 was “Moonlight Cocktail” by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra will Ray Eberle and the Modernaires on a  run of 10 weeks to share with 8 other songs that achieved number 1 status. Here is Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with Ray Eberle and the Modernaires performing “Moonlight Cocktail”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4x3eSBmovc
          March 27 Famous Birthdays:  Quentin Tarantino, born of this day in 1960, is a noted director, producer and actor in big screen movies with lots of violence, gore and profanity in such movies as The Inglorious Bastards, Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.
           March 27 Notable Events
           1.     1975—After being held up in the courts by environmentalists and Alaska Native Corporations for years and aided by the OPEC Embargo of needed oil, the construction of The Trans Alaska Pipeline System began.
           2.     1998—In a let the good times roll without worry, the FDA approved Pfizer’s Viagra as an effective erectile dysfunction pill.
           3.     1999—-In an “Oh No They can see us moment”, over Kosovo a Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk was shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM for its first and only loss in combat.
           4.     2004— HMS Scylla, a British Leander class frigate is sunk off the coast of Cornwall to create and artificial reef for sea life the first of its kind in Europe.
           5.     2020—North Macedonia became the 30^th member of NATO but unlike its predecessors under Alexander the Great has arms more advanced than the phalanx of ancient times. 
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues
           Donna Mitra: Hard on Us: Memoir of a Sexless Marriage: “I am man. This is my penis’ is a reductive approach taken by doctors.
In over a decade of living alongside psychological erectile dysfunction, I felt let down by specialists and a medical culture that appears too focused on men.
The be all and end all of great sex does not end with penetration – at least not from a woman’s perspective.
Sex is not just about taking a pill, scoring a hard-on and getting your dick in someone – it is everything that comes before and after that too. It is not enough to treat the penis like a standalone instrument.
It is certainly no good handing out pills like Viagra or Cialis without an understanding of the man’s emotional experience and desire for sex. The man behind the penis is a sentient being. There is his physiology but also his feelings, the sentient woman standing beside him, and the couple aspiring to an intimate life – all in the context of real life around them. The answers to a sustainable sex life with erectile dysfunction are not in a pill but in our interconnected nature as humans. It is what happens when two souls – and all their hopes and fears – collide.”
© 3/27/2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on events of the day
Commissioned unique poems