On the disastrous Defund the Police Movement, E-Bay founder and billionaire Pierre Omidyar who has funded $1.8 million to groups advocating defunding the police also hypocritically has been a heavy investor of private security firms. Portland State University who disarmed its police force 3 years ago finally is being hit with reality and quietly rearming them given the crime in Portland (who would want to be a cop armed with only a radio and nightstick and possibly a taser when the felons are armed)? Red Rep Nancy Mace is warning her fellow Reds to tread carefully on the issue of impeachment to be absolutely sure the facts of Biden’s criminality can be established by credible witnesses or risk losing their hard fought majority. Hunter’s business partner will be testifying before the House and Reds are hoping his testimony will link Biden to bribery payments made by Burisma to remove a prosecutor. Trump is once again blasting Smith’s latest accusation that surveillance tapes at Mir-A-Lago were deleted. Delta Airlines is in hot water for on a nine hour flight to Athens from JFK serving at least 10 vodkas and a glass of wine to an intoxicated male who tried to sexually abuse a mom and her 16 year old daughter while flight attendants did nothing other than serve him more alcohol: (https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2023/07/news-flash-top-delta-airlines-keep-on.html). Jason Aldean, the latest target of the counter culture warriors had his concert venue evacuated and concert delayed due to a severe weather alert in Mansfield, Massachusetts but his show after a 2 hour some delay did go on. Italy has banned transgenders from entering the Miss Italy Contest so in protest 100 men have submitted entries (like the uproar in allowing transgenders to compete in female sports this could be solved by having a Miss and Trans Contest with few if any viewers wanting to view or appear in person to see. Trump is supposedly livid over “Only in America” being the theme song of the Lincoln Event Dinner in because of the lyrics : "One kid dreams of fame and fortune, One kid helps pay the rent, One could end up going to prison, One just might be president, Only in America, Dreamin' in red white and blue, Only in America, Where we dream as big as we want to." Trump should chill out as should the social media critics who are conflating president with prison not the same person. If the music chosen had been the theme for Cops: “Bad boys, whatcha want, Watcha want, whatcha gonna do? When sheriff John Brown come for you’ Tell me whatcha wanna do, whatcha gonna do” he and the critics would have been justified.
July 30,
2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National Whistle Blower Appreciation Day Created
by the U.S. Senate on this day in 2013
and on this day celebrated since then to commemorate the passage of the first
whistleblower act passed unanimously by the Continental Congress on this day in
1978 to protect 10 sailors and marines who had earlier exposed fraud and
corruption to the detriment of the government. Hunter Biden’s illegal activity
would not have been exposed without the whistleblowers in the IRS coming
forward.
Word
of the Day: the word of the day is “arenoid” which means sandy
or like sand which describes soil that on would never want to build an office
building or tall structure on.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1948 was “Chi-Baba,
Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)” by Perry Como and the Satisfiers with
Lloyd Shaffer and His Orchestra on a run of 3 weeks to share with 10 other
songs achieving number 1 ranking. Here is a music video of Perry Como and the
Satisfiers with Lloyd Shaffer and His Orchestra performing: “Chi-Baba,
Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIiSXQ9QCDE
July 30 Birthdays: “I’ll Be Back”: Arnold
Schwarzenegger, former governor of California and noted actor in the Terminator
series, born on this day in 1947 in Thal, Austria to first pursue a body
building career to become the youngest Mr. Universe at age 20 and perhaps also
noted for having married Maria Shriver to have 4 children with her but in a
testimony to the power of the reptilian brain over the strongest by muscle weight
of a happily married man of 26 years had a love child with the couple’s
housekeeper, Joseph Baena who did not want to take his father’s name even
though he is pursuing an acting career and looks just like him.
July 30 Historical Events In Rhyme
1. On this day in 2020 an Atlas V Rocket
was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Station/To search the Martian
landscape for evidence of past habitation/With a land rover Perseverance and
a small helicopter to fly in the thin Martian air/ Already outlived the mission
by 2 years still sending data looking for bio material to support a colony
there.
2. On
this day in 1974 after before SCOTUS losing his case/President Nixon turned
over his office recording tapes he should have destroyed or erased/The plotting
of using the CIA to obstruction justice was now available for all to hear/
Impeachment and the need to resign was becoming very near/A young lawyer on the
Senate Subcommittee investigating impeachment who learned a lesson was HRC/
When her private email server was discovered she ordered all cell phones
smashed and BleachBit on the server used to try to make it impossible to the
emails see.
3. On this day in 1965 to the joy of seniors
facing crippling medical bills/Often having to postpone or defer treatment from
diseases that would kill/ President Johnson signed the 1965 Social Security Act
creating Medicaid and Medicare/Programs that those still under 65 now worry if
in the future funds for their care will still be there.
4. On this day in 1945 after delivering to
Tinian the Little Boy atomic bomb that with the second one Fat Bay would end
the war/ The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was heading to Manilla after
completing that chore/When it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine I-58/300
seamen killed and 880 went into the water in the 12 minutes before it sank/The
men hoping the Navy would soon know it was late and searchers the men would soon
thank/In a major oops moment the Navy for 3 ½ days did not know it was late/
And worse that it hit with torpedo’s sinking fate/Attacked by sharks and
dehydration the men in the water began to die/ By the luck of a routine patrol
of a PBY/ 316 men in the water still alive were saved/Highest number of sailors
of a lost ship in WWII that went to watery graves.
5. On this day in 1916 on the Black Tom
Island docks/ 2000 tons of small arms ammunition and 50 tons of explosives were
in trains and barges waiting to loaded on ships to help Russia the Germans block/When
German agents planted bombs that caused the munitions to explode and $20
million in munitions destroy/ As a neutral nation with an FBI of only 216 agents
to deploy/Lulled by our Atlantic Ocean moat/Not until quick passage after the
fact of the Espionage Act did we our national security begin to promote.
Famous Quote on the Sinking
of the USS Indianapolis: Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS
Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors: “
For the survivors, the disaster of the Indy is their My Lai
massacre or Watergate, a touchstone moment of historic disappointment: the navy
put them in harm's way, hundreds of men died violently, and then the government
refused to acknowledge its culpability.
What's amazing, however, is that these men, unlike contemporary generations
who've been disappointed by bad government, are not bitter. Somehow, a majority
brushed aside their feelings of rancor and went on to help build the booming
postwar American economy of the fifties.”
© July 30, 2023
Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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