It would be very rare to
find a police officer in our cities who does not condemn George Soros’ funding
D.A.’s believed to be soft on crime and hard for catch and release with
cashless bail; Musk amplified the charge claiming Soros hates humanity and
compares him to Jewish supervillain Magneto prompting a wave of antisemitic
charges against him. Texas has sent its first load of illegal aliens to Denver,
a sanctuary city as Texas border towns are being overwhelmed by illegals
seeking most bogus asylum claims. SCOTUS ruled that Section 230 prevented the
family of an American killed in Paris by a terrorist attack from suing Google alleging
that the terrorists were radicalized by YouTube videos. Real estate investor
Sam Zell aka “the grave dancer” for his proclivity of buy depressed properties
during market turndowns to become a billionaire with a net worth of $5.3
billion has just died at age 81. In the DeSantis versus Disney war, the mouse
has roared back and cancelled its planned $1 billion campus in Florida which
would have also resulted in the relocating of 2,000 highly paid workers.
Cleveland Brown’s legendary running back Jim Brown has died and the Lakers lost
to the Nuggets 108-103 to go 0-2 in a game best remembered by LeBron James on a
breakaway with no Nugget near him fumbling a show boat dunk out of bounds. The
Celtics down 0-1 to the Heat play Game 2 on Friday.
May 18, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National AIDS Vaccine
Awareness Day: Created by the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and first celebrated on this day in 1998,
the anniversary of Bill Clinton’s commencement address to the graduating students
at Morgan State University where he urged the development of a vaccine to
prevent AIDS. While the fear of AIDS and the infection of celebrities like Rock
Hudson and Magic Johnson have caused the new infection rate to decline, over
30,000 new cases of HIV infection occur annually in the U.S. which make the
development of a vaccine especially for use in third world countries a
worthwhile goal.
Word of the Day: the word
of the day is “anile” which means senile or imbecilic which many Blues
are concerned that Senator Feinstein has become as they are urging her to
resign before her term ends on December 31, 2024.
Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 1989 was “I’ll Be
There For You” on a run of 1 week to share with 31 other songs achieving number 1
ranking, while 12 acts, including Sinéad
O'Connor achieved their first
number 1 ranking. Here is a music video with lyrics of Bon Jovi performing “I’ll Be There For You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh8MIp2FOhc
May 18 Famous Birthdays: Tina Fey, noted actress, comedian, and head writer for Saturday Night
Live from 1997 to 2006 was born on this day in 1970. She is probably best
remembered for her portrayal of Sarah Palin and is probably moping since Palin
lost her 2022 attempt to be elected to the House of Representatives from Alaska.
Noted Events on May 18:
1. 1933—FDR signed legislation to create the Tennessee Valley Authority to
provide flood control and electric power to some 10 million customers in
Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky and small parts of
Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unlike many agencies of the federal
government like the Postal Service or Amtrak, the TVA is self-supporting and
receives no taxpayer dollars.
2. 1974—The world
was not smiling as India under its Project Smiling Buddha detonated a nuclear
weapon to become the 6th nation so armed and prompting Pakistan to
develop its own nuclear weapons.
3. 1980—The Pacific Northwest lived up to its classification of being
located on the Rim of Fire as Mt. St. Helens volcano in Washington erupted,
killing 57 people and causing some $3 billion in damages and spewing large
quantities of volcanic ash to coat the hundreds of miles down wind of the eruption.
4.
2018—Dimitrios Pagourtzis,
a student at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas which had 2 armed police
on campus, entered the Art Complex armed with a shotgun and revolver and started
shooting, killing 8 students and 2 teachers while wounding 13 including one of
the police officers critically. He was injured in the shootout with the
officers and surrendered. He was arrested for murder and attempted murder and
assault with a deadly weapon but found
mentally not fit to stand trial and has been confined to a state mental
institution since 2019 with reevaluations yearly to see if he would be mentally
fit to stand trial. As to motives, it has been alleged he was subject to being
bullied by his classmates.
5. 2019—Joe Biden joined a crowded field of Blue presidential hopefuls as
he announced his campaign for President of the United States.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Ronald Reagan on the volcanic
eruption of Mt. St. Helens: “I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not
a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one
little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released
more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten
years of automobile driving or things of that kind.”
© May 18, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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