On the House
Speaker front, Steve Scalise has been elected by the House Republicans to be
the Speaker of the House with a vote of the full House expected today and it
will be interesting in a show of bipartisanship with the nation facing funding
requirements on 2 fronts and with China licking its chops in anticipation of a
weakening of resolve a third front in Taiwan a real probability to see some
Blue votes vote in favor of him.
On the Israeli-Hamas War
front, the death toll of Americans being in the wrong place at the wrong time has
risen to 22 and there are an unknown number of American hostages being held by
Hamas in Gaza. Israel continues to call up reservists as it prepares to begin
the difficult task of exterminating Hamas in Gaza in the hundreds of miles of
tunnels in what will prove to be a deadly and bloody war. Jordan and Iraq and
to some surprise Egypt slammed Israel for its strikes in Gaza while here at
home lacking support for Israel among the Squad and blacks which is really
surprising given the fact that Jews marched alongside blacks and even gave some
lives during the Civil Rights Movement fighting to overturn Jim Crow Laws. Too
many students and professors at elite universities are blaming Israel for the
Hamas attacks due to Israeli oppression as Sanders calls Israel’s blockade of
food, fuel, water and power into Gaza a war crime.
Only in
America do we have freedom of speech unless of course you are a conservative
who wants to the dangers of open borders preach as bands of students blame
Israel for the Hamas invasion and Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza as martyrs
praise but should be shamed as their faces are hidden by masks. How can these
supposedly highly educated students be oblivious to the fact that at least 22
of their fellow Americans have been killed and an unknown number kidnapped as
hostages.
On the crime front in Manhattan
Beach, California Prestige Jewelers which had been robbed by thieves of
$250,000 worth of Rolex watches in 2014 was hit again by a band of smash and
grab robbers armed with hammers who started to attack the jewelry cases but to
quickly stop and flee after an employee pulled a gun and fired one shot at them
that missed.
On defund the police front in
Seattle, suffering from crime and resigning members of the force, the Mayor of Seattle
Bruce Harrel proposed a $17 million dollar increase the SPD’s budget only to
have protestors at his home demanding the increase be rescinded.
On the silence is not golden when it comes to terroism front , soft onf
crime L.A. D.A. George Gascon has received a letter signed by 131 former and
current Assistant D.A.’s castigating him for his silence on the brutal Hamas
attacks.
On Iran’s involvement in the
attacks by Iran’s client state Hamas on Israel the Biden Administration, despite
a Wall Street Journal to contrary on Iran’s involvement in the planning
and approval of the invasion, is still insisting there is no link between Iran
and the Hamas attacks but in announcing additional aid to Israel he has
cryptically warned Iran to “be careful” as many in Congress are demanding the Administration
“refreeze” the $6 billion in assets it released to Iran in exchange for 5 American hostages.
On the power of Taylor Swift
front, L.A.’s popular shopping and center and farmer’s market was closed to
shoppers as fans converged on the AMC Theaters to premier her Eras Tour movie.
On the we don’t need another crime
problem in California front, Governor Newsom should have known the his signing
of Senate Bill 357 which overturned prior laws which banned loitering to
solicit prostitution that prostitution would surge which it has and bringing
with it all manner of sexually transmitted diseases some of which like AIDS are
deadly and expensive to treat.
October 11, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted
Holidays: Stop Violence Everywhere Day aka SAVE was created in June of 1995
by the AMA Alliance and celebrated on the second Wednesday in October to
promote programs to decrease violence starting with elementary school aged
kids. A great goal but as we look at the violence in our urban areas clearly
more attention is needed as the violence seems to become more deadly each and
every year.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day as we proceed with words starting with “b” is “bandobast” which means preparation or an arrangement for
dealing with something.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1965 was “Yesterday”
by The Beatles on a run of 4 weeks
to share number 1 status with 27 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 14
acts achieved number one status for the first time. Here is a recording
of The Beatles performing “Yesterday”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo505ZyaCbA
October 11 Birthdays: “Electrifying
Lighting Up the Defense”— T.J.
Watts, noted outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, born in Pewaukee,
Wisconsin on this day in 1994, who has become an all pro linebacker and the
co-owner of the most quarterback sacks. Terrifying most quarterbacks and the
offensive linemen tasked to the unenviable duty of trying to block him. Playing
with a badly and painful dislocated finger but still a defensive force to
reckon with.
October 11
Historical Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 1991 Professor Anita Hill/Hoping to Clarence Thomas’ nomination
for SCOTUS kill/Appeared on national TV to her claims of Thomas sexual harassment
reveal/Doubters questioned her veracity though supported by a polygraph because
for 10 years the allegations she concealed/Thomas vehemently denied the
accusations claiming the hearings were judicial lynching of a conservative
black man/That was pure racism if the Senate did not the charges withstand/With
Senators facing the he said she said with racism charges in the air/The vote to
confirm was close by at 52-48 Thomas was confirmed to sit in a SCOTUS chair/ 27
years later Justice Kavanaugh was blindsided by a 36 year old sexual assault
claim/Details of which were obscure and inexact as he like Thomas vehemently defended
his good name/Confirmed 50-48 by only 2 votes/Setting the near normal that
bipartisanship in judicial confirmations is becoming very remote.
2. On
this day in 1987 when the AIDS Pandemic was killing more and more victims each
day/And funeral homes fearful a victim’s funeral would cause the AIDS to spread
would send the deceased and their families away/The AIDS Memorial Quilt weighing
some 54 tons/ After the sewing of all the panels was done/Was first displayed
on the Second March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights/The numbers infected
and dead an impetus to create drugs that would be able to the disease successfully
fight.
3. On
this day in 1968 the race to land a man on the Moon and bring him back/With NASA’s launch of Apollo 7 to
achieve the goal before the end of the decade was on track/The first launch of an Apollo
spacecraft after the launch rehearsal on January 27, 1967 a fire had the crew
killed/All systems worked even though the Lunar Lander not attached to move
forward 2 months later with Apollo 8 to complete orbiting the Moon 10 times
drill.
4. On
this day in 1890 in Washington D.C. the Daughters of the American Revolution
was founded/ With membership available to all women who could trace their
lineal descent to those ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War on the
seas or on the ground/ Who signed the Declaration of Independence or tossed into
Boston Harbor chests of tea/Or served as a civil servant or who provided aid
and support to insure the 13 colonies would be from Britain become free/ 185,000
members with the motto “God, Home and Country”/Total nemesis of the cancel
culture warriors who want to remove our statutes and denigrate and demean our
history.
5. On
this day in 1811 New York Harbor became much easier to navigate/As the first
steam powered ferry Juliana steamed between Manhattan and Hoboken with
passengers and freight/Built by John Stevens, a noted steam power engineer/His efforts and
those like Fulton’s would mean that cargo and passenger carrying ships powered
only by sail had their days numbered and would disappear.
Quote on America’s Human Space
Travel Goals by Heidi Hammel, noted American astronomer designated by Discovery
Magazine in 2003 as one of America’s top 50 women in science: “I
think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get
really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some
other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon
and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.”
©
October 11, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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