After ignoring for months
the crisis of our national debt ceiling leading to a default in our
obligations, Biden has cancelled his planned trip to Australia after the G-7
meeting and has met with McCarthy to see if a compromise can be reached by
agreeing to some form of reduced spending coupled with some higher taxes to be
paid by the super wealthy. Each day we get closer running out of money this
Biden game of chicken will start having more and more adverse effects on the
markets and on interest rates. The Lakers were eliminated tonight losing by 2
points as Lebron James took an inbound pass with 4 seconds 8 feet or so from
the Nuggets basket but could not score as the clock ran out. In the NFL title
game, the 49’ers’ fate was doomed when the QB Purdy tore his UCL in the first
quarter and left the game with his replacement 37 year old Johnson who had
bounced around for 14 different teams came in and was totally ineffective being
carted off the field to bring back Purdy who could only hand off or throw very
short passes causing the NFL to amend its rules to allow teams to carry a third
quarter back to come in if the QB’s have been injured. Roy Cooper, the Blue
Governor of North Carolina, has declared a state of emergency in an attempt to
stop the veto proof passage of a school choice bill passed by the Red Majority
legislature as he drops his kids off at a private school. Since beer does not
have the long shelf life of wines and spirits and Bud Light cans are sitting of
the shelves of distributors’ warehouses nearing their expiration date AB is being
forced to buy back unsold cans (Dylan Mulvaney’s small sip of a Bud Light can
with her photo on it is going to cost AB millions and lose hundreds of
thousands of formerly loyal Bud Light drinkers). Senator Tim Scott of South
Carolina has officially launched his
campaign and immediately attacked by the leftist Whoopi Goldberg as being
infected with the Clarence Thomas syndrome and by Sunny (“Stormy”) Hostin for
the false myth if he can make it any lack can make it (probably right if she is
talking about students in Blue run cities confined to neighborhood schools
instead of charter schools). While the Climate Change Czar is flying around in
private jets to blast agriculture for its contribution to pollution some astute farmers are taking heed
of the United Nation’s Declaration that 2023 is the Year of the Millet, an
ancient grain that uses less water, with a shorter growing season and loaded
with nutrients. The Celtics down 3-0 play the Heat tomorrow in Miami at 5:30
P.M. PDT hoping they will not ape the Lakers who were eliminated today by the
Nuggets.
May 22, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Canadian Immigration
Day: Could not find who created
his holiday or when but the purpose of the holiday is to honor the immigrants
from Canada who had added greatly to our economy and culture and since this
poet’s mother was a nurse who migrated here before the Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor to meet my US Navy father serving at the Farragut Naval Base which led
after the war had ended their marriage to my appearance on this planet to
compose later in life these Ridley’s Believe It Or Not’s.
Word of the Day: the word of the day is “annuent” which means a nodding
or moving of the head which if you’re a speaker and see it, the listener may be
agreeing with your points or bored to the point of falling asleep.
Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 1985 was “Don’t You (Forget About
Me)”; by Simple Minds on a run of 1 week to share with 26 other songs achieving
number 1 ranking, 12 of which were performed by British acts, a record through
2022 still stands, while 17 acts, including Simple Minds achieved their first
number 1 ranking. Here is a recording with lyrics of Simple Minds “Don’t You (Forget
About Me)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUSaSfsHM-k
May
22 Famous Birthdays: The Bionic Man, better
known to his fans as Tommy John who was the first pitcher to after a torn UCL
in a game had Doctor Frank Jobe perform a ligament transfer to his pitching arm
such that after a year and half of rehabilitation he returned to the mound to
win 164 games more than he had before the surgery.
Historical
Events on May 22 Noted in Rhyme:
1..
In 2017
President Trump in a show of support for Israel became the first sitting
president to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall
2.
In 2017 at the Manchester Arena 1000’s Ariana
Grande fans were enthralled
But as they were leaving a bomb carrying terrorist/Detonated it wounding 1017
and 22 lives ceased to exist
4. In 2002 in a better late than never moment a jury convicted KKKer Bobby Cherry/of bombing a church in Birmingham, Alabama, needing 4 small coffins for kids to bury
5. In 1968 a nuclear sub, the USS Scorpion sank 400 miles southeast of the Azores
6. In 1964 LBJ announced his Great Society but the goals fell victim to the Vietnam War
7. In 1906 the Wright Brothers were issued a patent for their “Flying Machine”
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”
President Lyndon Baines Johnson: “I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
© May 22, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on Events of the Day
Unique Commissioned Poems
1. 2017—Ringling
Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for the last time took down its tents/
No more clowns, no more elephants, no more fly trapeze, no more Big Cats—all to
our memories to be sent.
2.2011—Before
AOC and her end of the world due to climate change prediction was Harold
Cramping a radio evangelist/Who predicted the Second Coming of Christ with
deaths each day upward to 10/21 when the world would cease to exist.
3. 1992—Johnny Carson
after 30 years hosted his penultimate show with Robin Williams and Bette Milder
as guest/Soon millions of Americans without the Tonight Show would be
able to bed down earlier and wake up with more zest.
4. 1991—Former India P.M Rajvi
Gandhi on the campaign trail was killed by a suicide bomber’s blast.
5. 1988—The Iron Lady
gave her Sermon on the Mound at the Church of Scotland that capitalism must
last.
6. 1979—Dan White who had killed Mayor
Moscone and Gay Supervisor Harvey Milk was found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter due to his “Twinkie Defense”/5000 thousand gays took to the
streets rioting due to light sentence for what really was a first degree murder
offense
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Doctor Martin Blinder psychiatrist on Dan
White’s defense team: "It's preposterous to
think that 12 middle class homeowner jurors would give a killer even a partial
pass on the basis of what he ate the night before. If I found a cure for
cancer, they'd [the press] still say I was the guy who invented 'The Twinkie
defense.' "
© May 22, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on Events of the Day
Unique Commissioned Poems
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