On the Republican
Lemming over the cliff front, Gaetz has filed his motion to remove the Speaker’s
Gavel from McCarthy’s hands and after failing to table the motion it was passed
by 8 Red lemmings joining all Blues in voting for it. Assuming the Reds can get
their act together and rally around a new Speaker, he or she will be under a
short leash held by the Gang of 8. This charade with the voters will not play well
in November, convincing them that Reds make a good opposition party but seem to
be incapable of governing and responding to the needs of the people.
On the urban city crime front, Henry Cuellar a
Blue from Texas who has sounded the alarm on the wave of illegal immigrants was
the victim of an armed carjacking in the Navy Yard district of Washington, D.C.
Fortunately he was not injured and his car quickly found abandoned but the
event should be a wakeup call to anyone living in a wealthy neighborhood or who
is without armed security or not packing, that everyone in our urban areas are
potential victims of criminals.
On the good news front,
Charlotte Sena has been rescued from the trailer of 47 year old Craig Nelson
Ross who abducted her and fortunately was too dumb to wear gloves when he wrote
the ransom note he dropped into her parent’s mailbox which enabled police to
pull fingerprints and match them to those of a person convicted of a DWI in
1999 and 4 hours later she was rescued and Ross was in custody.
On the plastic surgery front
the plastic surgeons who performed a “butt lift” on 33 year old star of Wild ‘N
Out who died the next day must be sighing in relief as the police have ruled
her death as accidental but they may be counting their chickens too soon as a
wrongful death suit may be in the cards.
On the constipation front
the nation is coping with a growing shortage of laxatives to treat constipation
while and the same time physicians are warning of laxative abuse. Time for
Americans to increase their intake of fiber which is nature’s way of
alleviating constipation.
On the Trump legal front
Trump’s civil trial for overstating values in obtaining bank loans is in day 2 with
Trump giving the photographers the “thumbs up” as he entered the court room but
being hit by a gag order after he posted a photo of Judge Eragon’s clerk with
Chuck Schumer at an event banning any disparaging remarks about his staff.
On the Biden reelection
front, a member of the DNC is reported to have said in private that Biden is too
to run for reelection and should withdraw. More liberal columnists are paraphrasing German General Ludendorff’s comment of allied
with Austria Hungary is like being “shackled to a corpse” urging him to dump
Kamala Harris as his VP and replace her with the likes of someone like Gretchen
Whitmer or Tammy Duckworth as Reds will tout “a vote for Biden is really a vote
for Harris.”
On the presidential front look the tension
continues to grow to see if RFK, Jr. will announce his third party candidacy
which would be sweet revenge for the DNC that moved Hell and high water to
sabotage his campaign against Biden and almost certainly insure a Red win in
2024.
October 3, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National
Soft Taco Day clueless on who created this food holiday or when only to know
they are delicious and today fall on Taco Tuesday where many taquerias and
Tex-Mex chains have specials on tacos.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day as we end the word of the day starting with “a” to move to words
starting with “b” “bail” which in this case is not the cash
or bond one posts to get out of jail while awaiting trial which is disappearing
in more jurisdictions as a means to have more equitable justice for the accused
but not the victims of crimes committed while the accused is awaiting trial but
the barrier or pole separating horses in an open stable.
Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1973
was “We’re an American Band” by Grand Funk on a run of 1 week to share number 1 status with 26
other songs achieving number 1 ranking while 25 acts, including Grand Funk and
Jim Croce who was the third artist to achieve that status posthumously,
achieved number one status for the first time. Here is a recording of Grand Funk performing
“We’re an American Band”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxNXFNCTr2I
October 3 Birthdays: “Breaking
Glass Ceilings in Space and in the Ocean’s Deeps”—Kathyn Sullivan, noted astronaut
and oceanographer, born in Patterson,
New Jersey on this day in 1951 to become an astronaut and the first woman to be
certified to wear a pressurize suit and to conduct an EVA of 3 ½ hours on her 2nd
of 3 Space Shuttle missions. She retired and became the chief scientist at NOAA
and in June, 2020 was aboard the Triton Submarines’ DSV Limiting Factor to
travel to the Challenger Deep in the Marianna Trench to become the only person
to reach the deepest ocean depth and outer space.
October 3 Historical
Events in Rhyme
1.
On this day in 2013 a fishing boat overcrowded with more than 500 migrants from
Tunisia as the Italian island of Lampedusa it neared/Began to sink and the
terrified passenger put fire to a blanket to signal to nearby fishing boats
they were needed here/Nearby gasoline caught fire and passengers went to the
same side to the fire escape/Too much weight and capsizing and drowning became
their fate/ 360 from the sinking soon died/Desperate people who from poverty a
failed deadly escape they tried.
2. On
this day in 2008 as our financial systems were in meltdown mode/The Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008 was signed to allow banks to billions of distressed
assets to the government unload/Despite from both leftists and conservatives on
saving the banks a lot of carp/But to our great surprise the Troubled Asset
Recovery Program known as TARP/Invested $426.4 billion and had $441.7 billion to
earn/Saved the financial industry even though for the feds not a great return.
3. On
this day in 1995 after hearing the great defense line/If it doesn’t fit, you
have to acquit/OJ Simpson was acquitted of his ex-wife Nicole and Ron Goldman
killing with his knife/Knowing you did kill Nicole and Goldman how does OJ live
with himself for the rest of his life?
4. On
this day in 1993, a U.S. Helicopter borne attack/To a warlord in Mogadishu capture
and bring back, Memorialized in the book and movie Black Hawk Down/Failed as the surprise
attack broke down/18 American troops died and over 350 Somali insurgents were
killed/ Including 2 Delta Force warriors who roped down to certain death to try
to save a chopper pilot and died before their rescue could be fulfilled/ MSG
Gary Gordon and SFC Randy Shughart were both awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously
for what they tried to achieve/True patriots dying to try to save that what
they believed.
5. On
this day in 1981 after the deaths of 10
hunger strikers including member of Parliament Bobby Sands/The growing
political support for the strikers the Brits found it harder and harder to
withstand/The hunger strike at Maze Prison came to an end/Sands a martyr and a steps
to a peaceful end to the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland beginning to send.
Quotes on the O.J. Simpson trial by the
lead prosecutor Marcia Clark:
“Please don't let this make
you lose faith in our system” after verdict of not guilty was read by
the jury.”
“It felt horrible. It was physically
painful. That was not justice. And I thought of Ron [Goldman] and Nicole [Brown
Simpson], and I thought, this is wrong. It's so wrong.” 20 years later in an interview with Dateline.
“At the end of the day, there was no way to reach
that jury. There was no way to make them believe. There really wasn't.” Same Dateline interview.
“ If that lost the case for us, we were never going to win anyway.” Dateline
on Chris Darden allowing the “the glove doesn’t fit demonstration
©
October 3, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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