On the
presidential election front, a recent Fox News poll answers in the negative to
the question is this the best we can do as 61% feel Biden lacks the mental
soundness to be president up from 32% in July, 2020 and for Trump on same
question 52% up from 51%. On the issue of being corrupt Biden is 48% yes and
49% no while Trump is 56% and 42%. Questions asked on party lines show sadly
that too many voters are acting like lemmings or Pavlovian dogs incapable of
independent thought with only 11% of Blues feeling Biden is corrupt and 26% on
lack of mental soundness and 20% of Reds
feeling Trump is corrupt and 15% on lack of mental soundness. Since voting for
Biden as the ticket now stands given his age and increasing mental impairment a
vote for him is really a vote for Harris and it would be useful on how voters
feel on her characteristics."
On the why we need a 2nd
Amendment Michael James Brooks II, already wanted as a suspect for murder in
Ohio and carjacking of a truck found outside the home of a family in Georgia he
broke into at 2:00 A.M., was confronted by the father armed with a gun who
warned him to drop his knife and when he did not shot him and retreated to the
second story at top of stairs as Brooks was charging up the stairs to be shot
again. Deputies who were only 3 minutes away when home security alerted them arrived
and subdued him. Not sure of the size of the father or type of gun but Brooks
mug shot looks like the shot of a good sized man who could have easily killed
with his knife the father and anyone else at home before the deputies arrived:
On sexual abuse front, comedian
and actor Russell Brand has been accused of raping and sexual assault of 4
woman, one of whom was 16 years old. This is
a developing story but Brand has denied the charges claiming the events were “consensual”
(if the 48 year old was an adult with respect to the 16 year that cannot be “consensual”).
Also on the sexual abuse
front, Ashton Kutcher who founded the anti-child sexual abuse nonprofit Thorn
with his then ex-wife Demi Moore after along with his wife writing a letter to
Masterson’s judge seeking leniency in sentencing for the convicted rapist has resigned
from Thorn’s board along with his wife who was an observer.
On the transgenders competing in
athletics front, 69% of Americans up from 62% in 2021 believe that biological
borne males should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports while 26% believe
they should not down from 34% in 2021 (kudos to female athletes like Riley
Gaines who has been tireless in her campaign to end transgender participation
due to the muscle mass and organ mass unfairness).
On the impeachment front, Texas
AG Paxton was acquitted by the Texas Senate whose 12 Blues voted in favor but
only 2 Reds joined them to fall far short of the 21 votes needed to convict
(The bipartisan vote to impeach and the vote on party lines should be a wakeup
call to the Reds in Washington who have a razor thin majority in the House and
a minority in the Senate that unless smoking guns with bullet holes are found
that link Biden to Hunter’s corrupt activity, impeachment will be pulling the
trigger in Russian Roulette with rounds in a majority of the chambers).
On the law of unintended
consequences, a federal rule that counts military disability benefits as
income when coupled with Social Security
benefits runs the risk of excluding disable veterans from housing programs created
especially for them (here is an issue that cries out for bi-partisan action). On the labor relations front, for the first
time in the UAW’s 88 year history it is in the second day of striking all 3 of
the big time auto manufacturers simultaneously, with some 13,000 walking off
their assembly plants as early estimates of the economic damage a strike will
cause are coming in at $5.6 billion for a strike of only 10 days. The UAW is
selectively targeting assembly plants to avoid exhausting its $825 million
strike benefits fund that would support an 11 week walkout by 146,000 UAW
workers at a $500 a week strike payment benefit. Biden chimed in on the strike
revealing his thoughts that the Big 3 automakers need to share their record
profits with their workers and Trump urged the UAW to campaign to end EV
mandates which will reduce the amount of labor needed to produce a car compared
to a fossil fuel powered ones.
September 16, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Mexican
Independence Day: Celebrating the proclamation by Father Manuel Hildago of
the “El Grito de Delores” on this day in 1810 which like our Declaration of Independence
involved a long war to bring independence from Spain into reality on August 24,
1821 with the signing of the Treaty of Cordorba.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “augean” which
means filthy or difficult which comes from in Greek Mythology Hercules 5th
Labor of cleaning the stables of Grecian King Augeas.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song
on this day in 1990 was “Release Me” by
Wilson Phillips on a run of 2 weeks to share number 1 status with 25 other
songs achieving number 1 ranking while 15 acts, including Wilson Phillips and Sinéad
O'Connor who died on July 26, 2023,i achieved
number one status for the first time.
Here is a video recording with lyrics of Wilson Phillips performing “Release Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNyk54b3ZU
September
16 Birthdays: “Bulldog”—Orel Hershiser, born on this day in 1958 in Buffalo, New York who was a Cy Young Award
Winner, MLB All Star Pitcher and holder for the record of 59 consecutive scoreless
innings which he set in the 10th inning of a game against the San
Diego Padres on September 30, 1988 to break Don Drysdale’s record of 58 2/3
innings set in 1968. On December 4, 2023 he is one of 10 finalists naming in
voting on entering the MLB Hall of Fame.
September 16 Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2022 in Iran Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old woman arrested earlier for
not wearing a hijab died/ Iran’s security forces claimed she died of a heart
attack which leaked medical records denied/she had been brutally beaten with
blows to the head/Lapsed into an unconscious coma and soon was dead/protests
erupted around the nation over her killing/Iran’s feudal regime to the rights
of woman stone deaf responded by killing 476 protestors showing any movement by
it into 21st Century still unwilling.
2. On
this day in 2013 at the Naval Sea Command Building in the Washington Naval
Yard/ Aaron Alexis entered with the use of his Common Access Card/ Reassembled
his shotgun in a bathroom and started shooting at 8:16 and in seconds 5 were
dead/and a 6th only wounded with shots to hand and head/911 calls started
at 8:17 and police were on scene at 8:23 and by 8:34 his 11th victim
had died/ He remained concealed until 9:12 when 4 officers found his hiding
place and shooting 1 in both legs he replied/The 3 unwounded dragged the wounded
out of the area and 4 more entered the room/1 wearing a vest was shot in the
chest 2 times but lived as the other 3 starting shooting and sent him to his
doom/ The shooter was a mental basket case and if his history had been told/The
shotgun to him would never had been sold/Had there been metal detectors at the
entrance doors/He would not have gained entrance to assemble his shotgun in a
bathroom to run up his deadly score.
3. On this day in 1987
the Montreal Protocol was signed to protect the depletion of the Earth’s level
of ozone/Without its protection from solar radiation would be a deadly
uninhabitable zone/the manufacture and release of halocarbon refrigerants,
solvents, propellants and foam-blowing agents/Needed to be reduced to the transformation
of Ozone into oxygen prevent/ The Montreal Protocol has been the only treaty signed
by all nations/And has been a great success in reducing ozone elimination.
4. On this day in East Germany in 1979/In a
testament to the human spirit that cannot by tyranny be confined/2 families of
4 in a homemade hot air balloon lifted themselves into the air/knowing the
prevailing winds toward West Germany would get them there/But the balloon was
soon leaking air/Burning up more propane
to barely make it across the border with only a few minutes of fuel to spare.
5. On
this day in 1959 the need for mimeographs and carbon copy paper would soon
end/The Xerox 914 photocopy machine was introduced to those soon to be relics
to the trash bin send/Introduced on live TV in New York City to show copies of
documents made with a click/Very soon the word “xerox” synonymous with making
copies would to the English language stick.
Quote on the Death of Masha
Amini by Mariam Khaled Abdelghany, Syracuse University Class of 2025: “I
believe Amini is a martyr. She is a martyr of her nation and her religion. Even
though the media may start forgetting about her, I am sure that many will live
to fight against oppression in her name and the names of the many more people
that have also been affected.”
©
September 16, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on Events of the Day
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