On the TV
journalism front this Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press marks the last
edition of Chuck Todd after 9 years as its host. Kristen Welker will assume his
role and conservatives can only hope she will have some threads of objective
journalism as her goal (she at least was one of few who have asked Biden if his
involvement with Hunter Biden’s business dealings was unethical).
At the G-20 Hanoi President Biden
looked exhausted barely able to stay awake and terminated his press conference
when hit with questions about China indicating it was time for him to go to
bed. We can’t have a president who lacks the ability to get up early in time of
crisis and be able to burn the midnight oil. An example to put that point in
focus is a reminder that Hitler lost the D-Day Battle because he had standing
orders not to be awoken in the morning so the 15th Army and its
panzers could not be moved until too late in the day to push the Allies back
into the English Channel.
On the free speech front, a
small band of protestors calling themselves the Rev Com who want to push for a
Maoist revolution in America burned
American flags outside a Jason Aldean concert in Chicago which our
courts have ruled is protected by the First Amendment.
On the idea of California
taxpayers forking over millions upon millions of dollars in “reparations” to the
descendants of African slaves when California was a free state from its
admission, it should come as no shock that an overwhelming majority are opposed
to the idea and 40 % are strongly opposed to the idea. We should not be
surprised that the left who rule California like a Banana Republic believe that
they now what’s best for us and will probably push ahead to craft some sort of
reparations down our throats.
On the
EV front, a massive deposit of lithium has been discovered near the Oregon
Nevada border which many believe will dwarf deposits in Chile and China.
Without an ample supply of lithium used in the EV’s the Biden Administration
wants us to buy to fight climate change and line China’s pockets, the push to
put more EV’s on the road will be slowed to a turtle like crawl.
On the illegal immigration front,
Eric Adams must be ruing the day he touted NYC as a sanctuary city and welcome
all illegals to the Big Apple. No more as the cost of caring from the
increasing flood of illegals with bankrupt the city and destroy the few remaining
vestiges of an attractive city to visit and work in.
On the sportsmanship front after
the coach for Nebraska was stand on the Buffaloes' logo on their home field
Shedeur Sanders the QB for Colorado and son of its head coach slammed the coach
in the only way we think to be appropriate—threw for two touchdowns and ran for
another to led the Buffaloes over Nebraska 36-14.
On the biased journalism front
David Wells a former Yankee star pitcher got into a snit fit with the master of
bias and lack of any civility, Keith Olbermann, Wells castigate Bud Light for
its Dylan Mulvaney fiasco by being a proud member of the Boycott Bud Light
Movement while also expressing his dislike of Nike by covering up its logo in
the Yankee Old Timers’ Game. Olbermann couldn’t wait to lambast Wells as a
“f**king fraud who would drink wood alcohol” which prompted an f* bomb back
with a scathing remark he is clueless about baseball.
On the earthquake front rescuers
have their hand full trying to reach remote villages in the Atlas mountains
that have borne the brunt of the 6.8 earthquake that has killed more than 2100
and injured some 2400.
September 10, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: World Suicide
Prevention Day: Founded by the International Association for the
Prevention of Suicide to be celebrated on this since 2003 to create awareness
of the issues that the WHO estimates cause some 770,000 people to end their
lives and to create outreach programs to provide help and guidance to those
seeking to end their lives.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “attrist” which
means to sadden which many of us feel watching our president struggle to be
aware of where he is or why he there as his cognitive impairment seems to get
worse daily.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song
on this day in 1994 was “Stay (I
Missed You)” by Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories on a run of 3 weeks to share
number 1 status with 9 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 7 acts,
including Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories, achieved
number one status for the first time.
Here is a recording of Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories “Stay (I Missed You)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HGwRbMiVY
September
10 Birthdays: “Open Sesame Not a Thief”—Jack Ma, born on this day in 1964
in Hangzhou, Zhejiang who is the founder of the Chinese on line retailer
Alibaba, so named by Jack because of the association of the name with “open
sesame.” The company is doing quite well and Jack Ma is reputed to be the 4th
wealthiest man in China.
September 10 Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day finally at long last in 2022
the longest waiting heir/Prince Charles now King Charles III was named to ascend
to the royal chair/70 years is a long time to prepare/At 74 he must be hoping
that with his mother’s and father’s genes he will long remain in his royal
chair/With son William at 41 waiting in the wings/With his wife Kate to youth
and vitality to the throne bring.
2. On
this day in 2001 on a the British show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire/Contestant
Charles Ingram did but did not want to play fair/ With wife and another
contestant in the audience giving coughing clues/To prevent him from revealing
the wrong answer a cough the right answer they knew/In a moment that would solidify
Google’s name on the high tech commerce map nab/ He was coughed into the answer
of 1 followed by a 100 zeros as Googol to £ 1 Million / But not so fast/His
claim to winning fairly would not last/Arrested, tried, convicted and
fine/Wonder if contestants in the future would be in a sound proof booth be
confined.
3. On this day in
1967 although the Sun sets on the British Empire/The residents of Gibraltar being
under British rule did not tire/ In a referendum on whether to become part of
Spain or under British rule with self-governing stay/ 96.94% want to remain with
the British Lion after the votes were counted on election day.
4. On this day in 1960 at the Summer Olympics in Rome/Abede Bikila running a marathon far from his Ethiopian home/And in a slam against the costly athletic shoes of Nike, Adidas or Puma in the future to defeat/He became the first African to win a Gold Medal and he did it running in his bare feet.
5. On
this day in 1897 at the Lattimer mine near Hazelton, Pennsylvania unarmed mostly
Slavic immigrant miners were attacked by Sheriff James Martin’s 150 man posse
bearing arms/Marching to show support for the UMW and when the American flag
carried by a striker was grabbed the 300+ marchers were met with deadly harm/19
killed and scores wounded mostly in the back shot running away/Sheriff Martin
and 73 deputies went on trial for their deadly shootings that day/In a travesty
of justice all were acquitted and set free/The only silver lining in the
unpunished murders and shootings is that membership in the UMW soared to
heights that the coal mine owners thought they would never see.
Quotes on Lattimer Massacre: Inscription
on the Monument in Lattimer Commemorating the Lattimer Massacre: “It was not
a battle because they were not aggressive, nor were they defensive because they
had no weapons of any kind and were simply shot down like so many worthless
objects, each of the licensed life-takers trying to outdo the others in the
butchery.”
©
September 10, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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