On the Republican Primary front 7
dwarfs without Asa Hutchison were on stage at the Reagan Library with viewers
wishing that in addition to Reagan’s 11th Commandment not to speak
ill will of a fellow Republican, that he had a 12th Commandment that
one in a debate among Republicans that one would not interrupt or speak over a fellow
Republicans that occurred almost constantly tonight. Pence was more animated
but basically never answered the questions poised to him. De Santis was touting
his record; Haley was probably the winner and Scott while he was much more
energized probably will not advance in the polls; Christie excoriated Trump for
not being there to defend his record and said if he continued to pursue that
course he would be known as “Donald Duck” not Donald Trump; Ramaswamy was hyper
charged and forcibly advocated an end to military aid to Ukraine and Burgum
touted his record as an entrepreneur creating jobs (sadly unless some more
indictable offenses against Trump appear, a Don Quixote moment for those
seeking the presidential nomination but not so if the quest was for a VP slot).
On the Trump
campaign front, Trump was in Clinton Township, Michigan speaking before a crowd
of autoworkers pledging that if elected the future of the automobile will be
“Made in America” and justified his absence with a 56 point lead and Biden’s
push for more EV’s that will destroy a large number of UAW jobs. Responded to
Christie by saying anyone who comes up with a “Donald Duck” nickname is not fit
to be running for president.
On the slob front,
the Senate after being accused of lowering dress code standards to slob level,
unanimously reinstated business attire the requirement when on the Senate
floor, sending Fetterman’s Hoody, shorts and tennis shoes back to his closet.
On the attacking
members of the press, Shellyne Rodriguez a former Hunter College professor who
was fired by the college for threatening a reporter with a machete and was
arrested for a 3rd degree misdemeanor has been hire as an adjunct
professor at the Cooper Union School of Art, teaching a 3 credit sculpture
course.
On the retail icon front, Oscar Meyer
4 months ago rebranded its famous Weinermobile the “Frankmobile” which sounds
like a congressional mailing privilege or a terse no holds barred speech but
quickly as opposed to the Bud Light fiasco recognized it error and the Weinermobile is back on the
streets.
On the substitution front, Red Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee is
stepping in as the Arizona Governor for less than 24 hours due to the
mysterious disappearance of Katie Hobbs but will not fill any of the 13
positions that need legislative approval while Hobbs is absent from the state.
On the retail crime front,
Philadelphia, the City of Brazen Looting endured a peaceful protest over a
judge dismissed murder charges against a white police officer who shot and
killed a black resident Edie Irizarry which was followed by unrelated looting
of high end stores several hours later. In Oakland small business owners on
crime are at the end of their rope and some 200 small businesses in protest are
going on strike some for the entire day and others unable to bear the cost for
2 hours before noon. When will Newsom and the Blue dominated legislature lower
the $950 hurdle to qualify as the grand theft felony?
On the homeless front, urban
cities are plagued with tent cities with drug use, urine and feces but in
Denver, Jon Caldara, the president of the Independence Institute, outraged over
the feces in front of his business scooped it up and deposited on the steps of
city hall with this message “This is a present from the homeless to the people
who have kept this homeless problem going.”
September 27, 2023
Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National
Corned Beef Hash Day claimed by the Hormel Foods Company but a recipe for this
dish could be found in WWII reporter Betty Watson’s 1943 cookbook Cooking
Without Cans. Very easy to celebrate by making some corned beef hash and
then eating it. For those who would prefer not opening a can, here is a simple
recipe that even the worst cook could not blow it: https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/recipes/corned-beef-hash
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “avinosis” which means to airsickness which
those little bags in the pouch in front of you are useful for.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1979
was “My Sharona” by The Knack on a run of 6 weeks
to share number 1 status with 21 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 10
acts, including The Knack, achieved number
one status for the first time. Here is a video recording with lyrics of The
Knack performing “My Sharona”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr60I0u2Ng
September 27 Birthdays: “The
Scream Queen Going Mainstream”—Jenna Ortega, born on this day in 2002
in Coachella Valley, California who
expressed a desire to become an actress at age 6 and after her mother procured
an agent was auditioning for parts soon after and was cast in her first movie
in 2012 to become a sought after child actress to become an adult actress with
several films in production or planned such that she will probably never again wish
she had become a soccer player as opposed to an actress.
September 27
Historical Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 2019, a week after 4 million protested and struck on the need to
climate change address/2 million people in 2400 locations on the planet marched
to protest the lack of the need to confront climate change stress/The
protestors believed that climate change was to humanity an existential
threat/But absent from the protests and marches was a major carbon emitter China
to reduce carbon emissions not ready yet/China from the climate change warriors
gets a free pass/Oblivious to the fact that any reductions by the U.S. and the
West will not last/Erased
by the increase in carbon emission from China’s increasing coal plants/As party
of the CCP’s focused quest to economically, politically and militarily the U.S.
supplant.
2. On
this day in 1998 Google retroactively declared it to be its birth date/In
searching for data searchers had almost no time to wait/Became the gold search
standard, the browser of choice/But lately in elections Google was charged
under the guise of misinformation silencing conservative voices/Now this tech
giant is facing the wrath of the FTC/As it is being sued for being a monopoly.
3. On
this day in 1975/5 terrorists shot by firing squad did not survive/Large scale
protests followed and 15 European nations withdrew their ambassadors/After
their deaths executions in Spain would occur no more/2 months later the autocratic
dictator Francisco Franco died/A constitution was soon revived that except in
rare cases the death penalty denied/In 2012 the Basque Government found that
the 2 executed Basque terrorist’s convictions were illegally obtained/And
compensation to the families of the 2 Basques was attained.
4. On
this day in 1962 the mosquitoes were flapping their wings with joy/A new
environment sheriff was in town to slow the use of insecticides to
deploy/Rachel Carson published her earth shattering Silent Spring/ Which
would launch a crusade to protect the environment and a new federal agency
Environmental Protection bring/With the use of DDT curtailed the Pelicans could
now lay eggs thick enough not to break their shells/But malaria raised its
deadly head turning tropical and semitropical areas of the planet into a deadly malaria Hell.
5. On
this day in 1956 a Bell X-2 Rocket Plane was from a B-50 dropped/to see if the
plane would Mach 3 speed top/It did and speeding at 3.2 Mach it started to make
a banking turn to prevent it from its landing site going past/Then seconds
later his controlled smooth flight would not last/Went into an uncontrolled violent
spin that was a death trap/The ejection capsule was ejected carrying the pilot USAF
Captain Milburn Rapt/But disabled by the spinning he could not from the capsule
leave/Could not open his parachute to his safety from death achieve.
Quotes on the
detachable capsule of the Bell X-2
New York Times quoting Lieut. Col. Frank K. Everest, an experienced X-2
pilot,: “Colonel Everest told
reporters in Buffalo that a pilot using the detachable device would be thrown
against the instrument panel with terrific force when the parachute braked it.
He said some safety had been sacrificed in preference to delaying the X-2
flight tests while the escape mechanism was modified.”
Scott Crossfield,
NASA test pilot: “way to
commit suicide to keep from getting killed.”
© September 27, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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