A picture is worth a 1000 words
as the concession stand at Fenway for Red Sox Blue Jays games has people
waiting in line to buy beer but in front of the Bud Light stand no a person
near as Bud Light sales are down 26%. Senator Kennedy from Louisiana grilling
Deputy Energy Secretary Turk on how much world carbon temperatures would go down
after we spent $ 50 trillion on fighting climate change who was clueless with
an answer. The National Police Association has filed a law suit to force Nashville
to release TG’s Audrey Hale’s manifesto discovered by Nashville Police after
the Covenant shootings. Brown University’s female pitcher became the first
female Division 1 baseball player to play on Brown’s male baseball team and was
rewarded with that feat by throwing out the first pitch at a Brown v. Bryant
University baseball game. Doctors at a Boston hospital performed an in vitro
operation to correct a rare cranial blood vessel defect in a fetus that would
have led to an early stroke and death and the fetus was born and doing well at
home. Since 2021, 44 states have introduced legislation to restrict the teaching
of CRT and placed limits on the teaching of racism and sexism.
May 4, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National Day of Prayer: Created by Congress in 1952 designating the first Thursday in May
as a day to turn to God in prayer to seek His help in solving pressing problems
that affect this nation.
Word of the Day: the word
of the day is “anaudia” which means the loss of voice which one listening
to Robert F. Kennedy Junior believes his voice has next to no chance of surviving
a campaign.
Number 1 Song: The
number 1 song on this day in 1998 was “All My Life” by K-Ci and JoJo on a run
of 3 weeks to share with 15 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while
10 acts achieved their first number 1 ranking. Here is a recording of K-Ci and
JoJo performing “All My Life”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgR3Myvdn8
May 4 Famous Birthdays: Rory McIlroy was born on this day in 1989 in Hollywood, County Down, Northern
Ireland and is a noted professional golfer who along with Tiger Woods and Jack
Nicklaus are the only golfers to win 4 majors before the age of 25 and early in
his career was the number one ranked golfer for 122 weeks. Did not play well in
this years Masters and skipped a designated tournament to get his head together
which prompted from the PGA a $3 million fine but with his logo deals he is not
hurting.
Noted Events on May 4:
1. 1904—In
order to make the Earth much shorter for ships carrying cargo and passengers,
the United States began the construction of the Panama Canal which was
completed and open to maritime traffic on August 15, 2014.
2. 1970—At Kent
State University Ohio National Guard troops, summoned to quell student protests
over the invasion of Cambodia and the Vietnam War, opened fire on unarmed
students, killing 4 and wounding 9.
3. 1982—During the Faklands War between Britain and Argentina, 20 British
seamen were killed by an Argentinian Exocet air to ship missile hit the HMS Sheffield.
4. 1998—The “Unabomber”
Theodore Kaczynski in a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty was sentenced
by a federal judge in Sacramento to 8 consecutive life terms plus 30 years and
is now rotting in a federal penitentiary.
5. 2019—The all
female F-1 motorsports racing series
opened its initial season at Hockenheimring, Germany, the site of the 2019
Germany Grand Prix which was won by Jamie Chadwick who went on to be the series
champion that year and 2021 and 2022 with 2020 cancelled due to COVID-19. The
series appears to have closed its doors for 2023.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Captain Hank
Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba on the Panama Canal: “The Panama Canal Zone was the only Latin American territory not
acquired as a result of the war with Spain; however it was governed as if it
had been. As president, Theodore Roosevelt understood the importance of a canal
connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It would allow the United States
to move its fleet from one coast to the other in a relatively short time, which
had been a major problem during the war with Spain. To facilitate this he
received authorization from Congress to purchase the assets of the failed
French attempt to build a canal. The primary obstacle was in acquiring the
necessary land to build a canal across the Isthmus of the Americas, which prior
to 1903 was part of Colombia. When the United States showed an interest in
building the canal, the Colombian government immediately demanded a larger
percentage of the tolls than had been previously agreed upon with the French.
Negotiations dragged on through 1902 and into 1903. Early in 1903, the United
States signed a treaty with the Colombian government, giving the United States
a strip of land 6 miles wide, from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean. On
August 12, 1903, the irate Colombian Senate unanimously voted down the
agreement and refused to give the United States the land. Panamanian insurgents
with the backing of the United States perpetrated a revolt against the
Colombian government, causing Colombia to lose the coveted parcel of land north
of its present border. The fledgling nation of Panama was protected from
Colombia by a dense jungle and the might of the United States.
On November 3, 1903, after 57 years of policing Bogotá's interests, the United
States, looking out for its own best interests, sided with Panama against
Colombia. A treaty was quickly drafted between the two new allies, giving
Panama $10,000,000 of investment money, plus $250,000 per year in perpetuity.
It also allowed the United States to purchase the remaining French assets that
had been left behind. On November 18th, with the signing of the
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, the Panama Canal Zone was formed.”
© May 4, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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