The pen may be mightier than the sword especially when it’s in poetry but a photo is said to be worth a 1000 words or in the case of Bud Light and Mulvaney a million with Blues Takano, Lieu, Schiff and Chu holding Bud Light bottles not to be drunk:
At a House hearing in NYC all pretense of any civility by the Blues was thrown out the window with a Blue Rep calling Reds “jack booted thugs” a phrase often used to the Nazi’s SS Troopers who guarded the concentration camps and demeaning a black mother whose son was killed by gang while Bragg sat on his hands and plead down in terms of prosecuting and who lashed back why she left the Blue plantation to vote Red. Anheuser-Busch already in a firestorm of outrage over its partnership with transgender Dylan Mulvaney causing declining beer sales and drops in market value has been his with a lawsuit challenging its program to advance workers into executive positions if they are not white or Asian-Americans. On unwanted and possibly illegal access to private communications, Musk has revealed that the U.S. and numerous foreign governments prior to his takeover of Twitter had access to users’ messages. On the sports front in game 2 of the series between the Warriors and the Kings, the Kings won to go 2-0 in the series, but the most remembered part of the night was Desmond Green stomping or seeming to stomp on the chest of Domantas Sabonis and be called for a flagrant technical and be ejected (so much for the idea that basketball is a noncontact sport).
April 17, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka
The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: International Haiku
Poetry Day Created by Sari Grandstaff
in 2007 and celebrated on the first day of winter from 2007-2011 and on this
day thereafter from 2012:
A marathon run
Takes a body to its max
|Finish 2 past link
Haiku is a three lined poem
of 5/7/5 syllables and since the day is the Boston Marathon the preceding haiku
just created by the Alaskanpoet seemed appropriate
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “amende” which means a
reparation or fine paid which is what California seems to be moving toward to
compensate its black residents who are the descendants of slavey although
California was never a slave state.
Number 1 Song: As we have left the past and returned to start the clock backwards
from the present, the number 1 song on this day in 2011 was “E.T.” by Katy
Perry feat. Kanye West on a run of 5 weeks noncontinuous to share with 13 other
songs that achieved number 1 status while 9 achieved number 1
status for the first time. Here is a
recording of Katy Perry feat. Kanye West performing “E.T.”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxlK2Y-T2sA
April 17 Famous Birthdays: Karen
Garner, born on this day in 1972 in Houston, is a noted actress with dozens
of film credits for her acting including Pearl Harbor, The Kingdom, and The
Dallas Buyers Club, and numerous credits and awards for the TV screen and
now the face of Capital One asking you “What’s in your wallet?”
Noted Events on April 17:
1. 1961—An invasion force of Cuban exiles created and funded by the CIA
landed in the Bay of Pigs seeking to have the populace join them to join them
and overthrow Castro which uprising by the people or desertion by Castro forces
did not occur and the invasion became a really embarrassing failure for the
United States.
2. 1969—Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Blue Presidential
Running Candidate Robert Kennedy moments after he had announced to the
Ambassador Hotel multitude that he had defeated Eugene McCarthy in the
California primary. At his last parole hearing the Parole Board granted him a parole
but that decision was overturned by Governor Newsom.
3. 1970—To
the joy of millions of Americans and probably similar numbers around the world,
the damaged Apollo 13 space craft arrived back on Earth safely.
4. 2014— In a we
are not alone moment NASA’s Kepler Telescope discovered a the first Earth-sized
planet in the habitable zone of another star.
5. 2021—The funeral
of Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh and husband to Queen Elizabeth II, took
place at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. Queen Elisabeth who had been
married to him for 73 years died a little over a year following his death on
September 8, 2022.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on whether
Sirhan Sirhan was the only shooter shooting at Robert F. Kennedy the night he
was shot in the Ambassador Hotel:
“I went there [prison where
Sirhan Sirhan was incarcerated to talk to him for 3 hours] because I was
curious and disturbed by what I had seen in the evidence. I was disturbed that
the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father. My father was
the chief law enforcement officer in this country. I think it would have
disturbed him if somebody was put in jail for a crime they didn’t commit.
Sirhan’s trial was thus
akin to a sentencing hearing. This attorney bullied Sirhan into conceding guilt
at the outset and actively blocked the inclusion of ballistics and other
evidence that might have proven him innocent.
For these reasons, I have
called for a new investigation into the case.”
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