On the
sports front at Colorado the 1-4 Cardinal down 29-0 at the half came back in
the second half to shut the Buffaloes’ offense down and with 4 seconds left
with a field goal to tie the game 36-36. Buffaloes won the toss and after several
plays scored on Sanders’ 5th TD pass. Stanford’s 1st snap
resulted in an illegal procedure call and 5 yards back followed by a 30 yard TD
strike. In 2nd overtime on 4th down Sanders’ pass was
intercepted in the end zone to give Stanford the ball at the 25. A game winning
field goal after a few running plays to win 46-43 and the upset survive.
On the House Speaker front, after
Steve Scalise withdrew his name because he did not have a majority of the House
only a majority of Reds in the House and the number 2 choice Jim Jordan has
been selected by the Reds in a closed door session but with the slim majority
he can lose only 4 Reds without needing Blue support the conditions for which
should be unacceptable to most Reds. The sirens of impending disaster should be
loud and long if Gaetz and his fellow mice start roaring again to thwart
Jordan’s nomination as the Republican majority in the House and hopes in the
Senate will be headed for disaster if Jordan is not elected on the first vote.
On the Israeli-Hamas War
front Hezbollah seems hell bent to make it a 2 front war as it has attacked
Israeli border positions while its Deputy Chief at a rally in Beirut declared
that Hezbollah is ready to jump into the conflict and will not be deterred by
messages from the UN or other nations not to so engage. In a sign of heighted
awareness that the conflict will reach our shores due to our support Israel,
cities around the nation are beefing up security around synagogues and the CBP
is on alert for persons of interest trying to end and detained 2 persons of
Lebanese descent.
On the Hamas Day of Rage front, pro
Hamas and Palestinian demonstrations are being held in New York City by
demonstrators who believe that Israel defending its self is the moral
equivalence of Hamas’ right to behead babies, kill women and children and
kidnap civilians to be used as hostages. My alma mate Stanford is on the hot
seat for an instructor requiring Jewish students to identify and then send them
to the corner who is suspended pending investigation by the University. NYC Councilwomen
Inna Vernikov who has a conceal carry permit was arrested at a Pro Palestinian
rally at Brooklyn University for carrying a gun in her pocket calling the
protestors “terrorists without bombs.”
On the UN front acting on
the Hamas invasion and the coming campaign to exterminate Hamas, the U.S.’s
request for condemnation of Hamas’ invasion into Israel and the slaughtering,
raping, beheading babies and kidnapping hostages is going nowhere as the
Security Council does not and will not recognize Hamas as a terrorist
organization.
On Republican presidential quest, Nikki
Haley continues to move up in the polls from 5% to 10% while DeSantis is stuck
at 13% and Trump has fallen from 60% to 59%. If she cannot convince Reds that
with his baggage no matter how many Red votes he will get, he will not get
enough votes from Indies and he will lose the election and Americans will be
faced with the dismal prospect on having Harris as president as the odds of
Biden completing his second term are near nonexistent.
On the better late than
never, the first evacuation flight carrying Americans wanting to leave Israel
has landed in Athens. Biden with his advisers on a Zoom call spoke with the
families of the missing 14 Americans in Israel and though a transcript has not
been released one hopes that Biden did not revert to his proclivity of making
the tragedy about him using a false or embellished story from his past.
On the media bias front, in the race to be the
most clueless on The View “Stormy” Hostin is pulling way ahead as she
refused to condemn Hamas for the Israeli dead, belittled their designation by
us a “terrorist organization” and attacked Israel for war crimes as it to
exterminate Hamas was moving ahead. On a minor step in the right direction AP
suspended Issam Adwan, one of its journalists in Gaza, from covering the Hamas
Israeli War due to his blatant bias against Israel equating them as Nazi’s and
encouraging overthrow of the government
October 13, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
| Noted Holidays: National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Month celebrated
on this day since 2009 to promote awareness of a cancer of the breast that has
been treated but then metastasizes in another organ in the body. Unsure of what
organization created this holiday or the number of people suffering from it.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day as we proceed with words starting with “b” is “baragnosis” which means the loss of the ability to
estimate the weight of an object.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1963 was “Sugar
Shack” by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs on a run of 5 weeks to share number 1 status with
20 other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 19 acts, including the Jimmy
Gilmer and the Fireball, achieved number one status for the first time, but for
all of them except Stevie Wonder it was their first and only number 1 song.
Here is a recording of Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs performing “Sugar Shack”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJwXbZAoI_A
October 13 Birthdays: “Blow
the Whistle Loudly Then Die": Li Wenliang, a Chinese ophthalmologist, born
in Beizhen, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China in 1986 who was one of the first to sound
the alarm over COVID-19, despite warnings from Chinese authorities, in Wuhan
who sadly was infected by a patient with COVID-19 to die far too early on
February 6, 2020.
October 13
Historical Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 2010 33 Chilean gold miners who have been trapped in a mine cave-in
on August 5/After 69 days trapped 2300 feet below the surface one by one they
were brought to the surface alive/A daunting rescue effort complicated by the
further cave-in fears/Needed boring and drilling equipment from around the
world would soon appear/private citizens donated a third of the cost to rescue
the men trapped/Daily progress had the population of Chile and a good part of
the Earth in rapt/Refreshing to see nations answer the rescue call/And not any differences
the rescue efforts stall.
2. On
this day in 1983 our leisure time from work began to come to an end/In Chicago
Ameritech Mobile Communications launched its cellular network to start the
ubiquitous cell phone trend/From cell phones installed in the trunk of your
car/To smart phones in pockets and purse no one without one from home or work would
go far.
3. On
this day in 1977 after leaving Majorca for Frankfurt a Lufthansa plane named Landshut/Was
hijacked by 4 Red Army terrorists broke through the cockpit door not locked
only shut/For 4 days the plane flew from city to city in the Middle East to refuel
and leave/While West Germans were negotiating a Red Army prisoner release and
planning to a rescue achieve/On the 17th at Mogadishu German special
forces assaulted the plane/Killing all four hijackers to end their terror reign/Several
passengers were wounded in the short cross fire/The only nonterrorist death was
the captain who at an earlier stop by execution expired.
4. On this day in 1903 in baseball’s
first World Series best of nine games/between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the
Boston Red Sox with Honus Wagner and Cy Young, noted future members of the Hall
of Fame/A series noted for a Pittsburgh pitcher pitching 5 complete games and
winning 3/For Boston down 3-1 to come back and win the next 4 at the Pirates
home such a comeback we would have to wait until 1925 to again see/No fences so
if through crowds held back by ropes a ball rippled/the batter was awarded one
of the 17 ground rule triples/Honus Wagner the batting average leader at .355
who was a pitcher’s feared terror/Was held to 6 of 22 and committed 6 errors.
5. On
this day in 1792 the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion was
laid in Washington, D.C./On November 1, 1800 it was completed and occupied by
President Adams, staff, servants and his
family/The exterior was painted white and the White House it later would be
named/Save for the time in 1814 it was badly burned and charred by the Brits sending
in flames.
Quote on the invasion of our time by cell
phones by Stephen Spielberg: “Technology can be our best friend, and
technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our
own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine
something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the
cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.”
©
October 13, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet”
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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