In the
Biden world, Equity rules and Responsibility drools as his administration in an
era of increasing mortgage interest rates a requirement that borrowers with
good credit pay more to subsidize those borrowers with poor credit. If you have any concern over the falling test
score in public education as a reflection of the quality of the teachers and/or
the content of the scholastic activities, no surprise that at Kennewick,
Washington the one Evergreen State now more like the Ever Left State Desert
Hills Middle School had a tongue licking contest during a pep rally licking marshmallow
cream on a plexiglass window (parental outrage after the event reached social
media prompted a quasi-serious apology from the principal). Senator Fetterman
has returned from his months-long depression induced stay a hospital but in his
remarks to a committee he chairs his halting address he read did not remove any
doubts over the extent of recovery from his stroke. Robert Kennedy, Jr. who has
announced he is a candidate to replace Biden like his father before him running
to end a war to castigate the open ended nature of our involvement in Ukraine has
garnered the support of iconic Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers. On the
vaccine front the CDC has just approved a second booster for those over 65 or
who have compromised immune systems and WHO has announced a vaccine for Malaria
which it works as hoped would be a Godsend for that diseased plagued continent.
April 19, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka
The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: John Parker Day: Celebrated on this to commemorate the leadership of Captain John Parker of the Lexington Militia, farmer, mechanic and veteran of the French and Indian War, who tried and failed to stop the Redcoats march to Concord to destroy the military supplies there losing 10 of his 70 Minutemen but regrouped with more volunteers such that when the British started marching back to Boston they were met by him and his force not arranged in a set piece open field but aping the tactics he had learned the Indians used in the French and Indian War, behind ever stone, wall and tree to pour musket fire into the marching Redcoat columns such that in the battle known as “Parker’s Revenge” his volunteers suffered 100 casualties while the British lost some 300 dead, wounded or missing in action. Sadly his Revolutionary War Hero did not live to see our independence, dying from tuberculosis.
Word of the Day: The word of the day is “amphibology” which means ambiguous language or words that could have dual meaning which too often describes the language used by diplomats which is susceptible to concealing intentions and miscalculations leading to wars.
Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 2009 was “ Boom Boom Pow” by Black Eyed Peas on a run of 12 weeks to be followed by another number 1 song “I Gotta Feeling” on a run of 14 weeks to be number one for 26 continuous weeks. The song shared with 12 other songs that achieved number 1 status while 6 acts including Black Eyed Peas achieved number 1 status for the first time. Here is a recording of Black Eyed Peas performing “Boom Boom Pow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m48GqaOz90
April 19 Famous Birthdays: James Franco, born on this day in 1978 in Palo Alto, is a noted actor on stage, movies and television, director, painter and poet who is best known for his roles as Peter Parker’s foe in the Spiderman trilogy. He has come a long way from being a teenager engaged in criminal activities that but for a judge willing to give him another chance was almost sent to Juvenal Hall as a ward of the state.
Noted Holidays: John Parker Day: Celebrated on this to commemorate the leadership of Captain John Parker of the Lexington Militia, farmer, mechanic and veteran of the French and Indian War, who tried and failed to stop the Redcoats march to Concord to destroy the military supplies there losing 10 of his 70 Minutemen but regrouped with more volunteers such that when the British started marching back to Boston they were met by him and his force not arranged in a set piece open field but aping the tactics he had learned the Indians used in the French and Indian War, behind ever stone, wall and tree to pour musket fire into the marching Redcoat columns such that in the battle known as “Parker’s Revenge” his volunteers suffered 100 casualties while the British lost some 300 dead, wounded or missing in action. Sadly his Revolutionary War Hero did not live to see our independence, dying from tuberculosis.
Word of the Day: The word of the day is “amphibology” which means ambiguous language or words that could have dual meaning which too often describes the language used by diplomats which is susceptible to concealing intentions and miscalculations leading to wars.
Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 2009 was “ Boom Boom Pow” by Black Eyed Peas on a run of 12 weeks to be followed by another number 1 song “I Gotta Feeling” on a run of 14 weeks to be number one for 26 continuous weeks. The song shared with 12 other songs that achieved number 1 status while 6 acts including Black Eyed Peas achieved number 1 status for the first time. Here is a recording of Black Eyed Peas performing “Boom Boom Pow”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m48GqaOz90
April 19 Famous Birthdays: James Franco, born on this day in 1978 in Palo Alto, is a noted actor on stage, movies and television, director, painter and poet who is best known for his roles as Peter Parker’s foe in the Spiderman trilogy. He has come a long way from being a teenager engaged in criminal activities that but for a judge willing to give him another chance was almost sent to Juvenal Hall as a ward of the state.
Noted Events on April 19:
1. 1983—200 FBI and ATF agents surrounded the compound of the ultra right survivalist group the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (“CSA”) located on 224 acres abutting Bull Shoals Lake in Marion County Arkansas led by Jim Ellison had a reduced membership of some 70 zealots dedicated to the belief that doomsday was coming and that the government would collapse due to corruption and divine intervention. They assemble a large cache of firearms, some illegal and practice combat drills in the compound. Their acquisition of weapons and the murder of a black policeman by one of their members put them on the FBI’s and ATF’s radar who with 300 agents many passing themselves off as fisherman, surrounded the compound by land and by water to announce they were ready to negotiate a peaceful surrender. After 3 days of negotiations and their morale devastated by a lack of divine intervention and other right wing groups coming to their aid, they surrender without a shot being fired. In September, 1985 Ellison was sentenced to 20 years and 6 other leaders of CSA were sentence to long prison terms and CSA was disbanded. Ellison was released from prison in 1987 in exchange for testifying against 7 leaders of the Aryan Brother who were all acquitted of the charges against them. Snell was convicted of the murder of the black policeman and ironically was executed the same day of the Oklahoma City bombing. Sadly, the FBI and ATF must not have learned much on how to successfully negotiate a surrender to minimize bloodshed of their agents and the criminals when they in 1993 in their attack of the Branch Davidian Compound set it on fire killing 76 people including 28 children which was the main reason why the Oklahoma City Bombing occurred in retaliation.
2. 1995— On the second year anniversary of the FBI’s assault on the Branch Davidian Compound at Waco, Texas; the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by a Ryder Rental Truck packed with explosives parked in front of the building was detonated to kill 168 people including 16 children under the age of 6 in the nursery for children of the federal employees and wounded 680. The perpetrators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were quickly caught, tried and convicted with Nichols being sentenced to life without possibility of parole and McVeigh being sentence to death which was carried out on June 11, 2001 by lethal injection.
3. 1999—The Reunification of East and West Germany having occurred after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the German Parliament, the Bundestag having been moved to Bonn after World War II returned to Berlin.
4. 2020—Royal Canadian Mounted Police shot and killed Gabriel Wortman at an Irving Big Stop Service Station in Enfield, Nova Scotia where had stopped to refuel thereby ending Canada’s worst mass shooting and arson spree that had started the night before and resulted in 22 people killed, 3 wounded and 16 fires set. The response to the mass shooting by Premier Trudeau, not subject to a 4th Amendment, was quick as he immediately banned 1,500 makes and models of "military-grade assault-style weapons, including the types used in the attacks.
5. 2021—The solar powered helicopter Ingenuity became the first helicopter to fly on another planet, Mars. It has since as of today made 50 flights exploring the Martian surface all controlled back here on Earth.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
1. 1983—200 FBI and ATF agents surrounded the compound of the ultra right survivalist group the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (“CSA”) located on 224 acres abutting Bull Shoals Lake in Marion County Arkansas led by Jim Ellison had a reduced membership of some 70 zealots dedicated to the belief that doomsday was coming and that the government would collapse due to corruption and divine intervention. They assemble a large cache of firearms, some illegal and practice combat drills in the compound. Their acquisition of weapons and the murder of a black policeman by one of their members put them on the FBI’s and ATF’s radar who with 300 agents many passing themselves off as fisherman, surrounded the compound by land and by water to announce they were ready to negotiate a peaceful surrender. After 3 days of negotiations and their morale devastated by a lack of divine intervention and other right wing groups coming to their aid, they surrender without a shot being fired. In September, 1985 Ellison was sentenced to 20 years and 6 other leaders of CSA were sentence to long prison terms and CSA was disbanded. Ellison was released from prison in 1987 in exchange for testifying against 7 leaders of the Aryan Brother who were all acquitted of the charges against them. Snell was convicted of the murder of the black policeman and ironically was executed the same day of the Oklahoma City bombing. Sadly, the FBI and ATF must not have learned much on how to successfully negotiate a surrender to minimize bloodshed of their agents and the criminals when they in 1993 in their attack of the Branch Davidian Compound set it on fire killing 76 people including 28 children which was the main reason why the Oklahoma City Bombing occurred in retaliation.
2. 1995— On the second year anniversary of the FBI’s assault on the Branch Davidian Compound at Waco, Texas; the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by a Ryder Rental Truck packed with explosives parked in front of the building was detonated to kill 168 people including 16 children under the age of 6 in the nursery for children of the federal employees and wounded 680. The perpetrators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were quickly caught, tried and convicted with Nichols being sentenced to life without possibility of parole and McVeigh being sentence to death which was carried out on June 11, 2001 by lethal injection.
3. 1999—The Reunification of East and West Germany having occurred after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the German Parliament, the Bundestag having been moved to Bonn after World War II returned to Berlin.
4. 2020—Royal Canadian Mounted Police shot and killed Gabriel Wortman at an Irving Big Stop Service Station in Enfield, Nova Scotia where had stopped to refuel thereby ending Canada’s worst mass shooting and arson spree that had started the night before and resulted in 22 people killed, 3 wounded and 16 fires set. The response to the mass shooting by Premier Trudeau, not subject to a 4th Amendment, was quick as he immediately banned 1,500 makes and models of "military-grade assault-style weapons, including the types used in the attacks.
5. 2021—The solar powered helicopter Ingenuity became the first helicopter to fly on another planet, Mars. It has since as of today made 50 flights exploring the Martian surface all controlled back here on Earth.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Timothy McVeigh, "An Essay on
Hypocrisy" Media Bypass magazine, June, 1998 “Hypocrisy when it comes to death of children? In Oklahoma City, it
was family convenience that explained the presence of a day-care center placed
between street level and the law enforcement agencies which occupied the upper
floors of the building. Yet when discussion shifts to Iraq, any day-care center
in a government building instantly becomes "a shield." Think about
that.”
(Actually, there is a difference here. The administration has admitted to knowledge of the presence of children in or near Iraqi government buildings, yet they still proceed with their plans to bomb -- saying that they cannot be held responsible if children die. There is no such proof, however, that knowledge of the presence of children existed in relation to the Oklahoma City bombing.)”
(Actually, there is a difference here. The administration has admitted to knowledge of the presence of children in or near Iraqi government buildings, yet they still proceed with their plans to bomb -- saying that they cannot be held responsible if children die. There is no such proof, however, that knowledge of the presence of children existed in relation to the Oklahoma City bombing.)”
© April 19, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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