Tuesday, June 20, 2023

June 19, 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

Oeangate, a deep sea tourist cruise which offers a chance to descend to see the Titanic, resting on the ocean floor at 13,000 feet below the surface, has lost contact with one of its submersibles with 3 tourists aboard with not a lot of easy answers on how to rescue the crew and passengers. YouTube must have amnesia when it comes to censoring “false information” on COVID-19 as many of the statements concerning the origin of the virus, the protection from infection, or the effectiveness of natural immunity for example were blocked and later believed to be correct or a least credible as an interview with Robert Kennedy, Jr., who reminds us of Gene McCarthy campaigning against LBJ, on vaccine effectiveness was censored but fortunately still available on the new beacon shining on the First Amendment—Elon Musk and Twitter. President Biden landed at Moffett Field today to talk about climate change but really to shake down the billionaire entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley for campaign contributions (one of whom is Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkin, who visited Epstein’s pedophile paradise island and supposedly was planning more trips. Ron De Santis was campaigning in Nevada and made a stop at the VFW Post 921 to ape a bartender serving libations on the house to bring he house down with laughter vowing he would serve any drink wanted other than a Bud Light. Feces City is looking more and more like a sinking ship but instead of rats leaving we are seeing corporations closing their flagship stores or moving their corporate headquarters as AT&T is closing its flagship store located at 1 Powell Street in the Union Square area. Democrat Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett appearing on MSNBC unleashed a Freudian slip which no matter how quickly corrected herself after saying “Trump should be shot” reveals how much the left hates and fears Trump and will go to any lengths legal or illegal to stop him in his reelection quest. The dementia examples keep coming more and more each day from the idiocy or ending a speech with “God Save the Queen” who had died months ago to this latest example hot of the press from his fund raising shake down in Silicon Valley  at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, California alongside Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom who must have been cringing  to claim that under his administration “… by 2020, we will have conserved 30% of all the lands and waters the United States has jurisdiction over and simultaneously reduce emissions to blunt climate impact.(either totally ignorant of the fact he was been in office since January 20, 2021 or acknowledging that the Deep State had infiltrated the Trump Administration and was hard at work in promoting Biden’s agenda. In the College World Series Game between Stanford and Tennessee, Stanford jumped out an early 4-0 lead only to have their ace Quinten Matthews get shelled for 4 runs to tie the game in the 5th with their bats then mostly silent due to the Tennessee bull pen as the Vols scored 2 more runs to win the game.
             June 19, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet 
             Noted Holidays: Juneteenth: Commemorating General Granger’s arrival in Galveston, Texas on this day in 1865 who issued his General Order number 3 freeing all slaves in Texas and celebrated in black communities since 1866 to spread across the nation with states proclaiming the date a holiday with the Federal Government enacting legislation to make it a Federal Holliday on June 17, 2021.
             Word of the Day: the word of the day is “appentance” which means a strong craving or desire which many women might develop for certain foods during pregnancy.
              Song of the Day:  The number 1 song on this day in 1958 was “Purple People Eater” by the Sheb Wooley on a run of 6 weeks to share with 23 other songs achieving number 1 ranking, while 8 acts achieved number one status for the first time. Here is a music video with lyrics of Sheb Wooley appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show performing: “Purple People Eater”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tKNEsJjTI
              June 19 Birthdays: “Loyalty Trumps All” Dirk Nowitzki a professional basketball born on this day in 1978 in Würzburg, Germany who was a perennial All-Star with his 7’ frame and scoring touch but more importantly in the era of agents trying to maximize earnings for their clients, he played his entire 21 year professional career with the Dallas Mavericks.
              June 19 Historical Events In Rhyme
              1.     On this day in 2012, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks/Entered the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to from U.S. prosecution from leaking classified documents seek/Asylum granted until April 11, 2019 when he and Ecuador were in a disagreeing snit fit/Soon London police were called to him to send to prison while the U.S. tried to him extradition submit/The U.S. tried to extradite him and failed/ But since we appealed he had to remain in jail/On December 10, 2021 the High Court approved his extradition to which the Home Secretary consented/Assange running out of bullets appealed  and lost on June 6, 2023, moving him closer to the date when to the U.S. to face the long arm of its justice be sent.
              2.     On this day in 1978, that notable cat Garfield who proved cats rule and dogs drool/Was first published with Jim Davis’ comic skills and artistic drawing tools/Like the Road Runner who always outsmarted Willey Coyote/Garfield always could run circles around the hapless canine Odie/Syndicated in over 2500 newspapers and journals to help readers in a humorous mode start their day/Even in a world of computer animation, talent like that of Jim Davis is something we hope never goes away.
              3.     On June 19, 1964, after Senator Byrd had entered into an 800 page speech against the  1964  Civil Rights Act  on June 9, 1994/On the morning of June 10 for a cloture motion he yielded the Senate Floor/For the first time in its history a cloture motion on Civil Rights was then passed/For a 100 hours of debate on the bill to then last/It was Everett Dirksen’s finest hour and pinnacle of success/the bill then passed with a vote to 73-27 so the push to integrate and end discrimination would no longer be subject to Jim Crow hindrance and arrest.
             4.      On this day in 1910 at the urgings of Sonora Smart Dodd/The church elders and city fathers were convinced we needed a day to the efforts of fathers laud/ A parade down the streets of Spokane to mark the day/Inspired by memories of her mother who died too early and would not fade
away.
             5.      On this day in 1862 Congress banned slavery in all existing and future territories of the United States/ President  Lincoln signed the bill into law with very little wait/While the Civil War was being fought by the North to the Union preserve/
The need to end slavery was touching more often sensitive nerves.
             Famous Quote On the Need to Pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964: Everett Dirksen: Equality of opportunity must prevail if we are to complete the covenant that we have made with the people, and if we are to honor the pledges we made when we held up our hands to take an oath to defend the laws and to carry out the Constitution of the United States. I am prepared for the vote.” 

            

© June 19, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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