Monday, May 1, 2023

May 1, 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

Hunter Biden was in Batesville, Arkansas today trying to get his $20,000 a month child support reduced and preventing his child Navy Lord Roberts from having as her surname “Biden” and wisely when exiting the court room answered no questions from the press (if the judge grants the surname request will Biden finally acknowledge that he has 7 grandchildren not just 6?). Ryan Webb, a white, Red councilman in Delaware County is causing a furor and uproar in the TG community by declaring he is coming out as a transgender of color with some TG’s blasting him that TG’s don’t act that way and others demanding his execution for demeaning the TG community. 2 ESPN commentators were tossing the race card that the rule changes on roughing the quarter back were racist to protect slower “white quarterbacks” pointing out that Patrick Mahone is the face of the NFL quarterback position ignoring the fact that Mahone’s mother is white and was the person who raised Patrick after she divorced Mahone’s father. The alarm over the potential adverse effect of AI continues to grow as the “Founder of AI” Geoffrey Hinton announced that he was quitting Google to warn of the danger of AI and Elon Musk called for a moratorium on the development of AI until its effects on human society can be assessed. True to its habit of “see no evil” when it comes illegal aliens entering this nation, the White House remained silent on the issue of the alleged murderer of 5 in Austin, Francisco Oropesa, who is on the loose is an illegal alien who had once been deported in 2016.
           May 1, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet   
           Noted Holidays: International Workers’ Day: Established by the Marxist International Socialist Congress in 1889 calling for international demonstrations in support of workers issues and calling for an 8 hour work day. The American Federation of Labor set May I to celebrate the day as it would mark the Haymarket Square Protests that started on May 1, 1886. The day is a legal holiday in many countries and often marked by massive parades of workers protesting the need for higher pay and safe working conditions.
           Law Day: Australia's Established by President Eisenhower in 1958 to promote the rule law in our society and principles of government and a natural counterbalance to the violent protests parades on this day in other countries degenerate into.
          Word of the Day:  word of the day is “anandrious”  which means impotence an problem that has made the makers of Viagra millions upon millions of dollars each year.
           Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 2001 was “All For You” by Janet Jackson on a run of 7 weeks, in which the first time since 1993  number one song had not achieved a double digit weekly run,  to share with 14 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 12 acts  achieved their first number 1 ranking. Here is a music video with lyrics  of Janet Jackson performing “All For You”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J551f-TyqjY  
          May 1 Famous Birthdays: Richard Riordan, born on this day in 1930 in New York City, was Bronze Star winner in the Korean War, a noted corporate and venture capital lawyer, and venture capitalist and private equity investor in his own right and last Republican mayor of Los Angeles.  He died 12 days prior to his 93rd birthday.
          Noted Events on may 1:
          1.    1894—Coxey’s Army led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, started out in Ohio with 100 marchers and had grown to 500 when then reached Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1894 and demand public works jobs. Its leaders were arrested for walking on the grass and the march, the first protest march of its kind to reach the Capitol, dissipated without accomplishing its goals.
          2.    1961—Fidel Castro proclaims Cuba to be a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
          3.    1971—The National Railroad Service (Amtrak) took over intercity passenger service in the U.S. but routes that would have been money makers like San Francisco to Las Vegas, L.A. to Las Vegas, or L.A. to Phoenix remained under the control of the freight railroads and while still operating to the joy of trainophiles loses billions of dollars requiring subsidies from the federal government.
          4.    2003— In what should have been called a “Jump the Gun” moment President George Bush on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham gave his “Mission Accomplished “ speech announcing that “Major combat operations in Iraq had ended” but sadly the killing of and by U.S. forces would continue for years. 
          5.    2009—Same sex marriages were legalized in Sweden.
          Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
          Jacob S. Coxey’s speech at the Capitol which was prevented by his arrest on May 1, 1894: We stand here to remind Congress of its promise of returning prosperity should the Sherman act be repealed. We stand here to declare by our march of over 400 miles through difficulties and distress, a march unstained by even the slightest act which would bring the blush of shame to any, that we are law-abiding citizens, and as men our actions speak louder than words We are here to petition for legislation which will furnish employment for every man able and willing to work; for legislation which will bring universal prosperity and emancipate our beloved country from financial bondage to the descendants of King George. We have come to the only source which is competent to aid the people in their day of dire distress. We are here to tell our Representatives, who hold their seats by grace of our ballots, that the struggle for existence has become too fierce and relentless. We come and throw up our defenseless hands, and say, help, or we and our loved ones must perish. We are engaged in a bitter and cruel war with the enemies of all mankind—a war with hunger, wretchedness, and despair, and we ask Congress to heed our petitions and issue for the nation’s good a sufficient volume of the same kind of money which carried the country through one awful war and saved the life of the nation.

 © May 1, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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