On the
government shutdown front unless something changes on the views of a minority
of the Reds from the right, we are heading for a shutdown this Monday night.
Balancing the budget as a first step is a worthy goal but our spendthrift Reps
have dug such a red ink hole it will take some years to bring spending back in
line to revenue. Government shutdown is high stake poker game and when the
benefit checks stop the Reds not the Blues will shoulder the blame.
On the Ukraine War front
Zelensky’s speech to the Canadian Parliament was overshadowed by the uproar
over a standing ovation for a surviving member of the 1st Galician Division
raised by the Germans to fight the Soviets in World War II, a division which
has never been accused of war crimes.
On the 2024 presidential front
WAPO released its poll showing to its great surprise that Biden is losing to
Trump 52 to 42 as voters are fed up with his age, his border policies and his
handling of the economy. WAPO is trying to backpedal the results with border
city hit with another 2000 plus illegals, another inflation report or gaffe not
knowing where he is at or whom he is with reinforces his growing disapproval
rating.
On the where not to go vacation
front, Jamaica might surge to the top of the list as a dengue fever is sweeping
across the nation with 565 cases already reported.
On the crime front at the Oklahoma State
Fairgrounds where the Mötley Crüe was scheduled to perform when shots rang out
causing the band to retreat to their dressing rooms. And on a more serious
corrupting front with the indictments of Bob Menendez for bribery and selling
state secrets to Egypt, AOC has joined an increasing number of Blues demanding
he resign but warning him not to use the race card as a defense.
On
the strike front, the Writers Guild Association and the studios have entered
into a tentative which has to be voted on but the WGA has pulled its pickets
and if ratified as expected writers will be going back to work and the studios
can now concentrate on the Screen Actors Guild Strike so actors can return to
acting out the scripts the writers will now be soon creating for them
September 24, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka
The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: World Deaf Day: Created
by International Federation of the Deaf in 1958 and celebrated on the last
Sunday in September of each year to promote awareness of the difficulties of
deaf people and promote awareness of the achievements of deaf people in all
aspects of society.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “automysophobia” which means a fear of being dirty which is something the homeless clogging our urban city
streets and parks in tent cities without shower or bathing facilities must have
overcome.
Song
of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1982 was “Hard to Say
I’m Sorry” by Chicago on a run of 2
weeks to share number 1 status with 14 other songs achieving number 1 ranking
while 10 acts achieved number one status for the first time. Here
is a video recording of Chicago performing “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A0MPWseJIE
September 24 Birthdays: “The Left Does
Not Have a Monopoly on Advocacy Journalism”—Lou Dobbs, born on this day in 1945 in Childress County,
Texas to become its chief economics reporter and host of Moneyline only
to leave after clashes with Rick Kaplan who became president of CNN and return
when Kaplan left to host CNN News Sunday Morning and Lou Dobbs
Moneyline but he evolved to focus on illegal immigration and corporate
greed in opposing increases in the minimum and a steadfast proponent of the
birther movement against Obama. Left CNN to join Fox to become a very pro
Trumper on his Fox Business Channel Lou Dobbs Tonight and an advocate of
the position that the 2020 election was stolen by fraud and the January 6,
storming of the Capitol was an antifa plot which prompted 2 massive defamation
suits against Fox and Dobbs which were settled but his show was canceled.
September 24
Historical Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 2023/NASA thrilled us with a feat of space navigation we thought
we would never see/On September 8, 2016 was launched to head to the Asteroid Bennu/To
on December 3, 2018 with the asteroid rendezvous/Spending 2 years searching for
a place to land and samples collect/ To almost land on October 20, 2020 to
pebbles and soil samples to select/After more than 8 ounces grabbed by its extended
robot arm/On May 10, 2021 it left for Earth 200 million miles away to see if it
could deliver its samples without the probe being harmed/The parachute landed in
Utah without being destroyed/ Scientists at NASA were popping corks and jumping
for joy.
2. On
this day in 2015 Muslim faithful were on a pilgrimage Islam required/To visit
holy site at Mecca before on Earth a faithful expired/ Thousands of pilgrims
had left Mina, the city of the tents/off to the throwing of pebbles at the 3
jamrah on the Jamaratt Bridge they went/2 paths of pilgrims converged near the
bridge and a stamped ensued/Thousands were trampled and for over 2000 dead
pilgrims their uncompleted Hajj was
through.
3. On
this day in 2014 India became the first Asian Nation to place an orbiter in
Martian orbit/In a mission that supposed to last only 6 months before on Earth
its space agency would be writing its obit/Instead it orbited Mars for 7 ½ years/
Before is ability to communicate back to India finally disappeared.
4. On
this day in 1996 the Comprehensive Nuclear Tast Ban Treaty was signed/But to
become effective certain nations had to sign on the dotted line/China, Egypt,
India, and Iran/ Israel, North Korea, the United States and Pakistan/Sadly as
North Korea and Iran are chomping at the bit/To join the nuke club with no
desires to deploy nukes quit.
5. On
this day in 1906 the Atlanta Race Riot that
started on September 22nd came to end/Started by false claims of
black rapes of white women would into the streets mobs of whites send/Attacking
blacks in their homes of in the streets/96 blacks injured and 26 and the hands
of white mobs would death meet/A sad stain on this nation’s history that most
of us now hope will never repeat/Racism especially when violent should never at
the table of mankind be allowed a seat.
Quotes of the 1906 Atlanta Race
Riot
Democratic Atlanta Mayor
James Woodward: “The best way to prevent a race riot depends entirely upon
the cause. If your inquiry has anything to do with the present situation in
Atlanta then I would say the only remedy is to remove the cause. As long as the
black brutes assault our white women, just so long will they be unceremoniously
dealt with.”
Fulton County Grand Jury:“ Believing that the sensational manner
in which the afternoon newspapers of Atlanta have presented to the people the
news of the various criminal acts recently committed in this county has largely
influenced the creation of the spirit animating the mob of last Saturday night;
and that the editorial utterances of The Atlanta News for some
time past have been calculated to create a disregard for the proper
administration of the law and to promote the organization of citizens to act
outside of the law in the punishment of crime;
...Resolved, That the
sensationalism of the afternoon papers in the presentation of the criminal news
to the public prior to the riots of Saturday night... deserves our severest
condemnation...”
©
September 24, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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