While the Russians are
attacking Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv with artillery fire and
Ukrainian forces are battling to retake nearby villages, Pelosi is visiting
with Zelensky to show U.S. resolve in support Ukraine. In news none of us want
to hear former Trump COVID-19 task force leader Deborah Birx is warning that
the U.S. may face a surge in COVID-19 cases this summer. In a new Washington
Post-ABC News poll which probably is weighted with more Blue voters, 52%
disapprove of Biden’s performance down from 55% disapproval in February but in
terms of the economy only 28% approve of his performance. On the open border
chaos as the Border Patrol is trying to brace itself for the end of Title 42
which the 1500 active troops being sent to the border are too much of a drop in
the bucket, Mexico, frustrated with Abbott’s stepped up inspection of trucks
from Mexico in an attempt to uncover more illegal drugs, has rerouted truck
traffic to cross into New Mexico. Russia which has been for some time the hot
bed for hackers hacking into a variety of foreign government and business
operations finds itself being hit by a massive wave of cyber-attacks. Alabama’s
corrections department has egg on its face as one of its female officers Vicky
White picked up capital murder suspect awaiting trial Casey White (no relation)
from the Lauderdale County Jail to take
him to the county courthouse for an alleged mental evaluation and the two of
them never showed and are now fugitives. Illegal alien Francisco Oropesa who
had been deported from this country 4-5 times and the subject of a massive manhunt
for allegedly killing 5 neighbors after being asked to stop shooting his gun as
a baby was trying to sleep has been caught.
May 2, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka
The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: International Scurvy
Awareness Day: Hard to believe that a
disease wiped out 400 plus years ago with lime juice still appears hundreds of
times in the U.S. and far more often in parts of the world and so easily
preventable with either vitamin C pills or multi-vitamins or lemonade, fruit juices
or margaritas with real lime juice.
Word of the Day: word of
the day is “anaphalantiasis” which means
the falling out of hairs in one’s eyebrows which are there to help keep sweat
or rain out the eyes by diverting it from the eyes.
Number
1 Song: The number 1 song on this
day in 2000 was “Maria Maria” by Santana feat. The Product G&B on a run of 10
weeks to share with 17 other songs achieving
number 1 ranking while 10 acts, including The Product G&B, achieved their
first number 1 ranking. Here is a recording with lyrics of Santana feat. The Product G&B
performing “Maria Maria”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJKotJuaR28
May 2 Famous
Birthdays: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson,
born on this day in 1972 in Hayward, California who played football as a
defensive end for University of Miami, was cut after 2 months by Calgary in the
Canadian Football League but immediately landed on his feet thanks to an
introduction by his professional wrestler father as a professional wrestler
with the WWE and WWF for 8 years winning World Championships 10 times to then
become and actor in numerous successful movies that have grossed some $10 billion
worldwide and set the record for the highest amount paid to an actor for his
first leading role--$5.5 million in The Scorpion King. He has 3 daughters
from 2 marriages, one of whom is a fledging professional wrestler.
Noted Events on May 2:
1. 1952—The world became a smaller place as the De Havilland took off from
London to Johannesburg for the first passenger jet flying with paying
passengers.
2.
2000—To the joy of motorists frustrated with trying to find their destination
of a map or road atlas, Bill Clinton signed an executive order making GPS
available to civilians.
3. 2008—Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar (Burma), killing some 138,000
and rendering millions homeless.
4.
2011—Seal Team Six after being
helicoptered into Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in which
the Pakistan Military Academy is located, breached the wall surrounding the
compound and entered the compound to kill Osama bin Laden and then haul his
body, documents, computers and peripherals back to the helicopters and high
tail it back to Afghanistan and then take bin Laden’s body to the USS Carl
Vinson in the Arabian Sea, to have it cleaned, wrapped in white sheets and
after a brief Muslim funeral weighted down and buried at sea with his head pointed
toward Mecca.
5. 2012—At an art auction in Sotheby’s in
London a pastel version of The Scream by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch owned by Norwegian
businessman Petter Olsen to former billionaire CEO of Apollo Capital Management
Leon Black after 12 minutes of bidding which started at $40 million with his final
offer of $119,922,500, including the buyer’s premium which set a new record for
a painting purchased at an auction which has since been passed and now stands
at the 4 largest amount paid for a painting.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Bill Clinton on the killing of bin Laden
in an Obama for president ad: “Look, he
knew what would happen. Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there and it hadn’t
been bin Laden. Suppose they’d been captured and killed … He took the harder
and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best
result.”
© May 2, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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