Hope you are enjoying your Cinco de Mayo but if driving beware that the holiday in terms of alcohol consumed ranks comes in at number 5 tied with Halloween and the police will be out in droves to keep the roads and streets free of DUI’s. As an inducement to consider calling Uber or Lyft please enjoy the video of a drunk driver failing a field sobriety test and then laughing when she is informed that she has just killed a couple ( the accident occurred 4 weeks before she was to graduate from college and after being found guilty she was sentenced to 14 years in prison). https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-student-smiles-giggles-killing-couple-dui-crash-video Not sure if Smirnoff Vodka has been following the market’s reaction to Bud Light partnering with TG Dylan Mulvaney, but the company is now partnering with LaQueene, a trans-activist drag queen who removed from the Texas Capitol for protesting trans-legislation being considered. Cam Newton did not play in 2022 and is still looking for a team to sign him and believes it is because of his dreadlocks that make him with his helmet off look like a sea anemone:
On the Trump litigation front when it rains it pours as the DOJ announced it is investigating Trump’s ties with the LIV Golf Tour that held three of its tournaments on Trump properties. Rocker Dee Snider has run afoul of the Trans-activist warriors for his stand that kids do not have the maturity to opt in for drastic and irreversible gender altering surgery. For those Americans who love anything the Royals are engaged in, the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla will be televised at 5:00 A.M. EDT on the Fox News Channel. As the CBP braces for the impending end of Title 42 with alarm bells going off that we could see more than 10,000 illegals crossing our “secure border” as Washington, D.C.’ housing for illegals has been filled to capacity and no more can be allowed in.(why is it that so many sanctuary cities that welcome illegals become swamped while border cities in Texas have to face 1000’s of illegals a day?).
May 5, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Cinco de Mayo Day: Celebrating the Battle of the Puebla on this day in 1862 when a rag tag force of some 1000-2000 Mexicans defeated a force of some 6,000 French soldiers that had landed at Veracruz and caused them to retreat. This monumental battle is not widely celebrated in Mexico outside the state of Puebla but is widely celebrated in the United States especially in states with large numbers of Mexican-Americans.
Word of the Day: the word of the day is “anchorite” which has nothing to do with nautical anchors but mean a religious recluse who has retired from secular society to live a prayerful or ascetic life.
Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 1997 was “Hypnotize” by The Notorious B.I.G. on a run of 3 weeks to share with 9 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 7 acts achieved their first number 1 ranking, including The Notorious B.I.G., who became the 5th artist to be awarded that distinction posthumously. Here is a music video of The Notorious B.I.G. performing “Hypnotize”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glEiPXAYE-U. Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. was assassinated on March 9, 1997 by a drive by shooting while in a car stopped at a red light by a black male shooter who was never caught.
May 5 Famous Birthdays: Craig Reid and Charlie Reid, twin brothers were born on this day in 1962 in Edinburgh, Scotland and best known for rock duo The Proclaimers and are fervent supporters of Scotland’s independence from Britain.
Noted Events on May 5:
1. 1945—A Fu-Go balloon one of many hundreds launched be Japan to create massive wildfires in the United States, crashed to the ground and exploded in Bly, Oregon, killing 6 people. Other balloon bombs crashed in the Pacific Northwest but the forests were either covered in snow or too wet to create wildfires.
2. 1981—At Long Nesh Prison IRA member Bobby Sands, age 27, died after a 66 day hunger strike protesting the removal by Britain of the special status of IRA prisoners who were to be accorded prisoner of war status and subject to the provisions of the Geneva Convention.
3. 1985—President Reagan visited a German military cemetery for German soldiers at Bitburg, including those who were members of the Waffen SS who died in World War II and also to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen where 1000’s of Russian prisoners of war died from starvation and disease and a lesser number of Jews who were gassed.
4. 1994—Teenager Michael Fay who lived in Singapore with his divorced mother confessed to stealing road signs and vandalizing cars and was sentenced to 12 strokes of a rattan cane which was reduced to 6 after protests of the extreme nature of the penalty by President Clinton and when the penalty was enforced on this day stopped after 4.
5. 2023—The World Health Organization declared that while COVID-19 is still present it is no
longer a global health emergency.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Ronald Reagan responding at Bitburg to criticism of his visit to Bitburg Military Ceremony: “These [SS troops] were the villains, as we know, that conducted the persecutions and all. But there are 2,000 graves there, and most of those, the average age is about 18. I think that there's nothing wrong with visiting that cemetery where those young men are victims of Nazism, even though they were fighting in the German uniform, drafted into service to carry out the hateful wishes of the Nazis. They were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.”
Ronald Reagan to this Deputy Chief of Staff before sending him over to Germany to finalize arrangements for his trip: “I know you and Nancy don't want me to go through with this, but I don't want you to change anything when you get over there, because history will prove I'm right. If we can't reconcile after forty years, we are never going to be able to do it”
© May 5, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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