The FBI should no longer be
called the Federal Bureau of Investigation but rather the Federal Bureau of
Intrusion as an unsealed FISA Court document
revealed the FBI conducted 278,000 warrantless searches in the year ending in
November, 2021. At the Nebraska State Capitol, protestors in the visitors’
balcony tried to disrupt and prevent the State Senate from voting on a bill
banning abortion after 12 weeks and gender transitioning before age 19,
resulting in 6 being arrested and the balcony cleared the bill passing. Red Representative Lauren Boebert
blasted Senator Fetterman for appearing at a Senate Press Conference dressed in
a hoodie and shorts while his staff is being crucified for editing the transcripts
of his speeches to make him more intelligent as more concerns are being voiced
on his mental fitness to serve as Pennsylvania’s Senator. Alton Mills, who was
serving a life sentence for incurring a third strike for violating federal drug
laws and had his sentence commuted by Obama in 2015 has been arrested again for
attempted murder by shooting from his car and hitting a passenger in another
car. Target is in the Woke news again by introducing a line of women’s
swimsuits for transgenders who still possess male genitalia. In a lawsuit filed
by the DOJ against the partnership of American and Jet Blue Airlines to coordinate
schedules in the Northeast and allow frequent miles earned to be used by each
other, a District Court ruled it to be an unreasonable restraint of trade and enjoined
the defendants from continuing the partnership. In the 100 mile Desert Gravel Co3Ut
bicycle race, transgender Leslie Mumford who transitioned in 2017 won,
prompting the second and third place female winners to not stand on the award
ceremony podium. No pot of gold was found by the Celtics again on their home
court as they lost to the Heat 111 to 105 after leading at the end of the third
quarter 83-75, raising grave doubts that fans will be treated to another
classic Lakers v. Celtics finals as in 21 7 game playoff series the Lakers have
only won 2 series after being 0-2 after the first two games.
May 19, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: World Inflammatory
Bowel Disease (IBD) Day: World IBD Day, led by
patient organizations representing over 50 countries and coordinated by . by the European Federation of Crohn’s and
Ulcerative Colitis Associations was
created in 2010 during Digestive Disease Week in the United States and celebrated
on May 19 of each year to create awareness of the disease affecting the 10
million people around the globe who suffer from the disease.
Word of the Day: the word
of the day is “animadvert” which means to comment critically or censure
which Representative Santos who was guilty of embellishing and falsifying big
time his record and has been indicted by a grand jury on seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of
money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making
materially false statements to the House of Representatives is probably hoping
the only penalties he receives is a censure as opposed to being found guilty or
removed from the House.
Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 1988 was “Anything For
You” by Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine on a run of 2 weeks to share
with 31 other songs achieving number 1 ranking, while 17 acts, including Gloria
Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, achieved their first number 1 ranking.
Here is a music video with lyrics of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine
performing “Anything For You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLl8aA95zA
May 19 Famous Birthdays: Archie
Manning, noted College Hall of Fame football
quarterback for Ole Miss, pro quarterback for the Saints for 11 seasons, Houston for 2 and the Vikings for
2 to end his pro career was born on this day in 1949. He has three sons, Payton
in the NFL Hall of Fame after playing 18 seasons, Eli with 2 Superbowl victories
in playing 16 seasons with the Giants and Cooper whose football career ended
prior to his senior year in high school due to spinal stenosis but who is the father of Arch Manning,
considered one of the premier high school quarterbacks in the nation who has
committed to Texas to the probable dismay of his grandfather and uncle Eli.
Noted Events on May 19:
1. 1848—Mexico ratified the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty ending the Mexican-
American War and ceding California,
Nevada, Utah and parts of 4 modern day states to the United States on payment
of $15 million.
2. 1961—The Venera
space probe launched by the Soviet Union flew by Venus to become the first
man made object to fly by another planet but the Soviets had lost contact with
the probe a month earlier and received no data from the planet.
3. 1986—The Firearm Owners Protection Act (“FOPA”) which was aimed at
curtailing the abuses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents
prosecuting lawful private owners of firearms in violation of the 2nd
Amendment and banning the purchase and sale of automatic weapons manufactured
after the passage of FOPA.
4. 2015—Near Refugio State Park on the Gaviota Coast in California a 28
year old pipeline 901 owned by Prairie All American Pipeline Company used to
transfer oil from offshore oil well platforms inland to another pipeline to transfer
oil to a refinery located in Santa Maria started leaking oil which started to
flow into the Pacific Ocean. It took hours for workers to find the source of
the underground leak in the pipeline which resulted in 3400 barrels of oil
leaking from the pipeline with 500 barrels being emptied from a culvert into
the Pacific.
5. 2018—In what will probably be the height of his popularity with the
general population of the United Kingdom and the British Royal Family, Prince
Harry married Meghan Markle in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in a
ceremony estimated to be watched by 1.8 billion people around the world.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Matthew Preusch, an attorney from Keller Rohrback L.L.P., which
represented the plaintiffs in their suit against Plains All American Pipeline
for damages arising out of the Refugio Oil Spill: “This settlement [$230 million] should
serve as a reminder that pollution just can't be a cost of doing business, and
that corporations will be held accountable for environmental damage they
cause."
© May 19, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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