Biden’s new “tax” will go
into effect on May 1 which will require borrowers with good credit scores to pay
more for their loans to subsidize borrowers with lower credit scores with one
estimate that a $400,000 mortgage will cost $40 more a month and the group most
likely hit will be Asian Americans who have the highest average FICO scores yet
surprisingly have higher mortgage denial rates than white Americans. There may be some sanity finally taking hold
of even Blue Senators as Biden’s 24 month delay of tariffs on Chinese solar
panels may be overturned as finally we are waking up to the existential threat China
poses to us on all fronts and in all regions. Given China’s dominance in
batteries and solar panels, proponents of the Green New Dead head long rush to
implement seem to be missing that most of the green American dollars will be
going to China. The ASPCA whose commercials on abused cats and dogs do not fail
to bring tears to viewers and a rush to grab credit cards to donate is sitting
on millions of dollars, pays its president almost a $1 million a year and has 259
employees that take home 6 figure incomes yet donates a paltry 2% to local
animal shelters despite the fact far too many dogs and cats are being
euthanized. If you had any doubt that Biden is not cognitively impaired big time,
click on this as Biden cannot answer a simple question from a child “What was
the last country you visited” https://www.foxnews.com/media/shock-biden-forgets-recent-trip-ireland-reminded-child-cognitively-unfit-mile
April 28, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka
The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Great Poetry Reading Day: Poetry has been around for thousands of years from such epics
memorized like the Iliad to those created and posted around the blogging
or Twitter campfire, some great and some not so great. Today treat your heart
and soul to reading or saying out loud some poetry. This poet has no clue of
who created this holiday or when but this is a really inexpensive and
fulfilling day to celebrate as Poetry Month nears coming to a close.
International Pay It Forward Day: Australia's Blake Beattie, known as the “Performance Engineer” and
a professional speaker and consultant, created the day, being inspired by
Catherine Ryan Hyde's 1999 book Pay It Forward on the last Thursday
in April in 2007. To observe the day celebrants perform an act of kindness,
like paying for a person’s meal, groceries, admission ticket, etc. and expecting
nothing in return. Since 2016 the day has been celebrated on the 28th
and today more than 100 countries benefit from such random acts of kindness.
Word of the Day: The word of the day is “analepsis” which is a form of
flashback in which earlier parts of a narrative are related to others that have
already been narrated.
Number
1 Song: The number 1 song on this
day in 2002 was “Foolish” by Ashanti on a run of 10 weeks to share with 8 other
songs achieving number 1 ranking while 5 acts including Ashanti achieved their
first number 1 ranking. Here is a music video with lyrics of Ashanti performing “Foolish”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUPrnu3BEU88
April 28 Famous Birthdays: Jay Leno, born on this day in 1950 in New Rochelle, New York, is a
noted comedian, former host of the Tonight Show after succeeding Johnny
Carson, avid vehicle collector with over 180 cars and 160 motorcycles. He was working on one those cars trying clear
a clogged fuel line when it caught fire, severely burning him on the face,
hands, and chest and to add insult to
injury, on January 17, 2023 he fell off one of his many motorcycles, breaking
several bones in the process, but not his famous protruding chin.
Noted Events on April 28:
1. 1947—Thor Heyerdahl and 5 crewman launched Kon-Tiki in an attempt to prove
that Peruvian natives of America could have settled Polynesia.
2.
1970—President Nixon authorized
U.S. forces including B-52’s to invade Cambodia to destroy NVA forces using Cambodia
as sanctuaries to rest and recuperate after fighting in South Vietnam. The NVA
forces were aware of the coming invasion and had retreated further into
Cambodia. The operations were wound down after some 60 days with anti-war
protests erupting all over the nation and resulted in very few NVA casualties
but massive amounts of weapons and ammunition were seized.
3. 1994—Aldrich
Ames, a counter intelligence officer for the CIA after spying for the Soviet Union
and Russia for years came to the attention of the FBI due to his living beyond
his paycheck and put him and his trash surveillance leading to his arrest and
guilty plea including one from his wife who as part of the plea bargain
received a 5 year sentence while Aldrich was sentenced to life without possibility of parole and now 81 is rotting in a federal prison where he will
die of old age.
4.
2004—CBS News broke the story of
human rights violations of the prisoners being held at the by U.S. at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq with
photographs of rape and torture of prisoners.
5. 2014—Thousands of protestors in Taiwan
at the site of the construction site of the planned 4th nuclear
reactor clashed with police who used water cannons on them to disburse. A
national referendum on whether to complete the reactor was held in 2021 and
defeated.
Philip Zimbardo on the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison “Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.”
© April 28, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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