The Writers’ Guild has gone
on strike which should mean the nightly talk shows are going to be in a world
of hurt with hosts having to write their own monologues. The writers are
claiming they are not being compensated adequately for their work and want a
slice of the rapidly increasing streaming pie and larger residuals. It looks
like the rapid and unexpected firing of Tucker Carlson was due to a text by him
that white men don’t fight like the 3 shown in a video of 3 whites beating a
black man. On the economic front, the Feds raised the discount rate another 25
basis points, ignoring the signs of an economic down turn as job layoffs rose to
1.8 million, the highest since 2020 and job openings dropped for the third straight
month. On the litigation political baggage front, in alleged Trump rape victim,
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against Trump for defamation after he called
her a liar for accusing him of raping her in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman
department store dressing room in 1996, author Lisa Birnbach testified that
Carroll called her 5 minutes after the incident to in a totally distraught
manner call she had been raped. Derek Chauvin’s partner, Tao Thao, who opted for
a judge trial as opposed to jury for aiding and abetting Chauvin in the death
of George Floyd was found guilty and will be sentenced in August. Francisco Oropesa
was caught hiding in a closet under a pile of laundry in Cut and Shoot, Texas
and is now behind bars on a $5 million bond for allegedly killing 5 neighbors in
Cleveland, Texas because they asked him to stop shooting his AR-15 because a
baby was trying to sleep.
May 3, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: World Free Press Day: Created by the UN’s General Assembly and first celebrated in 1994.
Around the world far too many journalists are under the heavy hand of censorship
and often jailed for publishing articles unfavorable to the their governments. Here
we have a free press but too many journalists have become advocacy journalists
who self-censor any facts harmful to the positions (usually liberal) that they
advocate.
Word of the Day: the word
of the day is “anaphia” which means the partial or complete loss of the
sense of touch which is often the like result of spinal cord injuries or
neuropathy.
Number 1 Song: The
number 1 song on this day in 1999 was “No Scrubs” by TLC on a run of 4 weeks
to share with 14 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 11 acts
achieved their first number 1 ranking. Here is a music video with lyrics
of TLC performing “No Scrubs”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM
May 3 Famous Birthdays: Francesco
Stephen Castelluccio better known to his fans as Frankie Valli, was
born on this day in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey was the front man for the Four
Seasons is still performing today with his last gig being the Pre-Grammy Gala held at the Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 4, 2023.
Noted Events on May 3:
1. 1901—The
Cleveland Fibre Company caught fire from sparks from a nearby chimney which
spread rapidly as most to the buildings in Jacksonville were wooden and the
city was suffering under a prolonged drought, destroying some 2368 buildings, leaving some
10,000 residents and killing 7 people.
2.
1921—West Virginia became the first state to enact a broad sales
taxe but difficulties in enforcement and collection delayed its enforcement
until 1931.
3. 1948—SCOTUS
in the case of Shelley v. Kraemer ruled that restrictive covenants
banning the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were unenforceable.
4. 2001—The
U.S. lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since
its founding in 1947.
5. 2016—88,000
residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada were evacuated from raging
wildfires that destroyed some 2,400 homes and buildings.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
James Weldon Johnson, American author,
educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist, was the
principal of the Stanton School. In his autobiography “Along This Way,”
Johnson wrote about the events he witnessed that day: “We met many people fleeing. From them we gathered excitedly
related snatches: the fiber factory catches afire – the fire department comes –
fanned by a light breeze, the fire is traveling directly east and spreading out
to the north, over the district where the bulk of Negroes in the western end of
the city live – the firemen spend all their efforts saving a low row of frame
houses just across the street on the south side of the factory, belonging to a
white man named Steve Melton.”
© May 3, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on Events of the Day
Unique Commissioned Poems
James Weldon Johnson, American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist, was the principal of the Stanton School. In his autobiography “Along This Way,” Johnson wrote about the events he witnessed that day: “We met many people fleeing. From them we gathered excitedly related snatches: the fiber factory catches afire – the fire department comes – fanned by a light breeze, the fire is traveling directly east and spreading out to the north, over the district where the bulk of Negroes in the western end of the city live – the firemen spend all their efforts saving a low row of frame houses just across the street on the south side of the factory, belonging to a white man named Steve Melton.”
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