On the climate
change front, the EPA passed regulations on requiring the shifting of heavy
trucks to EV by 2027 which the American Truck Dealers Association is claiming
will cost over $40,000 per truck and given the paucity of charging stations the
time required to charge batteries will devastate our food system and its
ability to deliver most of our food by truck. In a rare show of bipartisanship
Congress passed legislation banning the EPA regs but the climate change
commander-in-chief vetoed the Congressional action.
On the 2024 election front a new
poll revealed that only one Red has a clear outside the margin of error chance
of beating Joe Biden and that candidate is Nikki Haley a 49-43% lead. After
enduring almost 3 years of Biden’s clearly apparent increasing cognitive
impairment, voters must be warming up to her demand that elderly candidates for
office be required to take a cognitive impairment test in order to run. Even
with his strong majority among Red primary voters despite his legal baggage,
Trump likely will not win the general. De Santis ripped apart a heckler at a
campaign event who tried to blame him for the Jacksonville hate crime shooting
of three blacks to the applause and cheering of those assembled.
On the crime front, Danny
Masterson, who had been subject to a mistrial on 3 rape charges that allegedly
occurred in 2001 and 2003 due to a hung jury, was found guilty on a retrial
that found him guilty on 2 of the rape charges but hung on the third, was today
by the judge, after castigating his crime and his lack of remorse, sentenced to
30 to life in prison. Most Americans are sick of seeing the mobs of smash and
grab robbers devastating high end retail outlets are now being exposed to the
dine and dash, as diners after a meal split without paying without consequences
as police are too busy to respond, but in Tampa, Rick's on the River owner Ken
Brackins’ cameras capture the dashers and post the video’s on social media,
causing most of them to return to pay their bill.
On the Virginia election
front, Biden must be very concerned Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin’s growing
political influence as he has directed the DNC to funnel $1.2 million into this
November’s election of Virginia’s state legislative races.
On the COVID front, Huntington
Beach, CA is known as “Surf City” should add another moniker “Freedom to Choose
City” as the city passed an ordinance banning any mandatory mask mandates
within city boundaries so people can choose to wear or not wear a mask.
On the FBI politicization
front, Nathan Hughes, who was a protestor at the Capitol on 1/6, had a swarm of
armed FBI agents execute a search warrant, turning off his security cameras to
escape being seen as they probably tore apar his house in Fayetteville,
Arkansas and upon seeing a gun safe, called the manufacturer to demand and then
receive the code to open it, prompting conservatives call for gun buyers to treat Liberty Safe, the manufacturer, like Bud
Light.
On the illegal alien surge that
is causing great financial havoc, Mayor Eric Adams of NYC was emotionally
pleading for help from the federal government as NYC’s shelters are swamped and
the city is on a path to ruin financially and in the quality of life. In
Chicago, another sanctuary city, the homeless have been evicted from the
terminals but 400 illegals are now camped out at O’Hare.
On the 1/6 front, Peter Navarro
became the 2nd former Trump
official to be found guilty of criminal contempt of court for failing provide
subpoenaed documents and appear for his deposition as required by the Select
Committee Investigating 1/6.
On the hurricane front Hurricane
Lee has been increasing in intensity rapidly achieving CAT 4 status but its
path is still not cast in stone whether in continues in a straight line hitting
near the boundary of Florida and Georgia or whether it curves north and runs
parallel to the Eastern Seaboard, several hundred miles to the East.
September 7, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Salami: Created
by the Salami Appreciation Society in Henrico, Virginia on September 7, 2006
and celebrated on that day thereafter to promote a deli meat that the members
enjoyed eating but felt it did not receive the attention that other deli meats
received.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “atony” which
means lacking muscle strength which a common characteristic of not exercising
or aging.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song
on this day in 1997 was “Mo Money Mo
Problems” by The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy and Mase on a run of 2 weeks to share number 1 status
with 9 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 7 acts, including Mase,
Puff Daddy and The Notorious B.I.G. who
became the 5th person to
achieve number 1 ranking posthumously, achieved
number one status for the first time.
Here is a music video with The Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy and Mase
performing “Mo Money, Mo Problems”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUhRKVIjJtw
September
7 Birthdays: “The Day the Music Died”—Charles Hardin Holley, better known to
his fans as Buddy Holly, Born on
this day in 1936 in Lubbock, Texas was a noted rock and roll singer and guitar
player ranked by Rolling Stone as number 13 in its 100 Greatest Artists
of All Times and one of the first to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. Sadly on February 3, 1959 after finishing a concert in Clear Lake,
Iowa, Holly chartered a private plane to avoid traveling on a bus to their next
tour stop and had the other performers toss coins to see who could leave the
bus to fly and “The Big Bopper” and Richie Valens won only to 4 miles after
takeoff lose along with Holly and the pilot their lives crashing into a
cornfield.
September 7 Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2012 Canada fed up with Iran’s nuclear weapons quest/That if
successful would be used against the West/Closed its Embassy in Tehran/Severed relations
and kicked Iran’s diplomats out of Maple Leaf Land.
2. On
this day in 2008 as the U.S. financial markets were nearing meltdown and
exposing the economy to substantial risk/the Federal Home Financing Agency took
over Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae to an impending meltdown resist/ Creating the
largest federal bailouts to prevent failures that would bring our economy to
its knees/A very stressful and expensive time our financial leaders hope again
we will never see.
3. On this day in 1979
President Lee Iacocca sought funding from the government to avoid bankruptcy
protection/ Congress in response passed the Loan Guarantee Act which provided
$1.5 billion in loan guaranties to enable needed capital injections/Conditioned
upon debt reductions from third parties like pension funds and suppliers, state
and local tax concession and wage cuts/Iacocca walked on water and by 1983 had
repaid the dept with interest and was no longer wallowing in the insolvency
rut.
4. On this day in 1963 after the major pro
sports had opened Halls of Fame/The NFL finally decided it was time to get into
the game/In Canton, Ohio the NFL Hall of Fame opened its doors/17 players, coaches
and owners were inducted to each year to be followed by more.
5. On
this day in 1940 the Luftwaffe began bombing English cities and airfields
for 50 days and nights known as the Blitz/Met in the sky in dogfights with
Hurricanes and Spits/The Luftwaffe before the Blitz was designed to support the
Wehrmacht in its ground attacks/The 4 engine bombers to level the English cities
it lacked/Worse just as the RAF was due to attacks on its airfields near the
end of its rope/The Luftwaffe switched to attacking London with the fighters
trying to protect the bombers with only some 10 minutes to English fighters
attacks on the bombers cope.
Quote on the need to seize control over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulsen: “There is a consensus today...
that they cannot continue in their current form. A failure [of Fannie and
Freddie] would affect the ability of Americans to get home loans, auto loans
and other consumer credit and business finance. And a failure would be harmful
to economic growth and job creation.”
©
September 7, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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