On the strike
fronts, Biden is going to Detroit to walk in a picket line with striking
members of the UAW probably oblivious to the fact while supporting his
Bidenomics that the UAW demands for a 40% pay increase and a 4 day work week
are highly inflationary. At the press briefing KJP was bobbing and weaving big
time as the press was tossing hardball not softball questions on why he was
going when previously he has argued that he should not be taking positions on
the strike.
On the porous southern
border front, over the weekend the CBP apprehended some 16,500 illegals as the
surge continues unabated. In a we can believe it Mexico has announced it will
start deporting some illegals to their home countries. It is mindboggling that
Biden was oblivious to the fact that that his executive order on almost 500,000
Venezuelans would cause a surge among that group who are appearing more and
more in those crossing illegally.
On the 2024 presidential front at
Wednesday night’s second Republican debate, Asa Hutchinson who was on the first
failed to meet polling criteria and will not be on stage. Trump has elected to
skip this debate also to focus on the
UAW members on strike (probably will warn them that Bidens rush to EV’s
will mean fewer jobs as less labor is needed to make an EV).
On the Maui fire front, Lanai
residents are being allowed to return to their burnt out dwellings but warned
not to aggressively dig or search for possessions due to the amount of toxic
materials and ash on site.
On the crime front, the El
Paso Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius, pled
guilty to killing 23 Walmart shoppers and wounding 22 and has also agreed to
pay over $5.7 million to those killed or wounded in his shooting spree. A great
victory against the perpetrators of hate crimes but high unlikely the victims
will receive any funds.
On
the COVID-19 although the pandemic is over and we seem to be returning some
sense of normalcy, long COVID symptoms for some 7% of those who have been
infected with COVID-19 continue to suffer symptoms of the disease for three
months or more.
September 25, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka
The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National
Ataxia Day: Created by National Ataxia Foundation in 2000 and celebrated
since inception on this day to raise awareness of Ataxia which is a
neurological disorder that affects motor skills, balance and speech and raise
funds seeking a cure or medications to alleviate this disease which often makes
the sufferer look and act like he or she is severely intoxicated.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “avalement” which means allowing the knees to be bent
while skiing which enables a skier to turn or stop to avoid skiing into another
skier or worse and immovable thick tree like the one that killed Representative
Sonny Bono.
Song
of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1981 was “Endless Love”
by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie a run of 9 weeks to share number 1 status with 16
other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 10 acts, including Lionel Richie,
achieved number one status for the first time. Here is a video
recording of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie performing “Endless Love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsqDoz2Co4o
September 25 Birthdays: “Opposites May
Attract But Same Day Birthdays Are Like Geese”—Michael Douglas, born on this day in 1944 in New Brunswick, New
Jersey and Catherine Zeta-Jones, born on this day in 1969 in Swansea,
United Kingdom and married to each other since November 18, 2000 and have two children
together.
September 25
Historical Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 2018 SCOTUS nominee Brent Kavanaugh/Accused by Chritine Blassey
Ford of throwing her on top of a bed and trying to remove her clothes with his
paws/Spoke for the first time after Feinstein released Ford’s claims she sat on
for days/To deny vehemently and forcibly
all the accusations Ford chose to say/ All but Manchin, the Blues swayed by
Hirono’s pleas that women must be heard and believed voted not to confirm/So by
a vote of 50 to 48 Kavanaugh’s confirmation was affirmed.
2. On
this day in 2018, noted comedian and actor Bill Cosby after years of numerous
sexual abuse claims/By many women whose claims all sounded the same/Drugged to
them pass out to be exposed to sex/Unable to have the ability to his advances
resist or reject/His way too active reptilian brain was sentenced to 3 to 10
years/His victims could now breathe easier with his advances no longer to fear.
3. On
this day in 1977 the first Chicago Marathon was run/Big controversy between the
race organizers and the parks director before the race had begun/Parks director
did not want his lawns crushed by thousands of running feet/Mayor Daly agreed
to let the runners run in the streets/4200 runners started the race/But only
2128 finishers could keep up with the grueling pace.
4. On
this day in 1974 Tommy John after tearing his ulnar ligament in his pitching
arm of July 17, 1974/Went to see Doctor Frank Jobe to see if he could his career
restore/Jobe performed the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery
that bears the pitcher’s name/After 2 years of rehabilitation Tommy John was
able to 18 more years of pitching claim/And to pick up this nick name/”The
Bionic Man” to go with his pitching fame.
5. On
this day in 1944 in what would be one of the worst British defeats in Europe
during the war/The surviving members of the British 1st Airborne who had jumped
to take the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine/With X Corps attempt to reach them
stalled were running out of ammo and time/In the dark of night silently under
the noses of the Germans who were closing in/Retreated in boats back across the
Rhine in a battle they thought they would win/Of the 10,000 who jumped or rode
gliders into Arnhem only 2200 were able to return/The rest were dead or captured
due to a “Bridge Too Far” and jumping
into armor the presence of which was not until on the ground learned.
Quote on Operation Market Garden
by Cornelius Ryan from A Bridge Too Far: “...the
unasked question remained: how much longer should they hold out? At that
time, in the early hours of Sunday, September 24, after eight days of battle,
Urquhart's forces were estimated at less than 2,500 men. And for all of
them there was only one question: when will Monty's forces arrive?”
© September 25, 2023 Michael
P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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