On Pro-Palestinian outrage over the
Hamas Israel War front, professors at the University of California Ethnic
Studies Council have demanded the University stop using the term “terrorist” to
describe Hamas because it makes Palestinian students and members of the
community feel unsafe (wonder how the Israelis feel when they hear the sirens
and are running for their lives to the nearest shelter). After outrage among
Reds over the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, the DOJ and DHS has
begun hosting calls with campus and local law enforcement agencies across the
nation and the Secretary of Education and Domestic Policy Adviser Neera Tandem
will hold a roundtable with Jewish students at a yet to be named university.
On the Hamas Israel War,
Israel has entered its second stage of its ground invasion moving in deeper
into Gaza targeting anti-tank and rocket launch sites and has killed on Sunday Jamil
Baba, the commander of the naval force in the central camps; Muhammad Safadi,
the commander of the anti-tank formation in the Tafah battalion; Muwaman
Hegazi, A prominent operative of the anti-tank system in the Tafah battalion,
and Muhammad Awadallah, who was a senior in the office of the Hamas production
headquarters. A female Israeli soldier taken hostage on October 7 has been
liberated by the IDF. 23 year old German-Israeli Shanin Louk last seen alive unconscious
in her underware in the back of a truck was not so lucky as the IDF have
recovered her head severed by Hamas.
On the Hamas Israel War
propaganda front, Harvard University, one of the many schools hit with
antisemitic protests over Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks,
has announced the formation of an antisemitism council of faculty, staff,
alumni, and religious leaders and hopefully some students to combat the antisemitism on its campus as
the president claimed that for far too long Harvard had ignored antisemitism as
she intoned “No More!” 43 year old John Anthony Miller of Las Vegas has been
arrested for threatening Jewish Nevada Senator Jackie Rosen with murder,
kidnapping and other violence over alleged Israeli atrocities in Gaza.
On the potential for a
ceasefire, Netanyahu has flatly refused stating “this is a time for war” even
as civilian casualties continue to rise to some 7,000 as reported by Hamas
despite the IDF’s best efforts to avoid them. Hamas should bear the blame for
the deaths of Gazans given where they place their rockets and anti-tank
missiles.
On the Senator Menendez bribery
corruption front, he and his wife will be tried in a court of law with his and her fate to be decided by a
jury, but in the court of public opinion the verdict is already in with 78% of
Democrats and 79% of Republicans wanting him to resign. The percentages
probably would have been higher if the 20% of voters who were not familiar with
the case were reduced.
On the illegal alien immigration front, Texas
filed suit against DHS of raising a section of the razor wire on the Eagle Pass
border to allow 300 illegals to enter the U.S. and obtained a TRO from Judge
Alia Moses, of the U.S. Western District Court of Texas preventing the DHS
from “disassembling, degrading, tampering" miles of razor wire running
along the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.
On the climate change front,
the bloom may be off the rose for EV’s as automakers are finally waking up to
the fact that consumers do not want to be shackled to the lack of charging
stations and the time taken to charge as Ford’s EV unit posted a $1.33 billion
EBIT loss last quarter up from $1.14 billion the previous quarter. It is now
scaling back on its Mustang Mach E and reducing by $12 billion its investment
in the EV sector. Until charging stations are as ubiquitous as gas station, the
range on a battery is comparable to a hybrid and the time taken to recharge is
equivalent of fueling a hybrid, EV’s are looking for and more like a déjà vu of
the Edsel (time to view hybrids as the bridge to carbon free emissions goal as
my Hybrid Optima gets around 38-40 mpg tank to tank).
On the potential crime front
operators opened Saturday morning the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park to find a
dead 20 year old inside the women’s bathroom clad in body armory with a AR-15, a
semi-automatic handgun, and explosives and a note on the mirror “I am not a
killer I just want to get into caves.” Police are investigating the death as a
possible suicide and if it was going to be a death by cop suicide a lot of park
goers would have been shot before police arrived to fulfil the man’s death wish.
On the fast food all in the name
front, MacDonald’s has revealed that its Crispy Chicken Sandwich which has been
rebranded as the McCrispy and has become a $1 billion sales item.
On the labor front, the UAW has come to terms
with GM, the last auto maker to have not settled, so assuming the UAW members
vote to ratify the auto strike is over but trouble on the retail pharmacy front
as 2000 Walgreen’s and CVS workers joined by some Rite Aid workers are walking
out to protest working conditions and pay.
October
30, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Mischief Night
observed by teens and children on the eve of Halloween to go on massive amounts
of mischief like ringing doorbells then disappearing into the night as the
owner comes to the door or TPing the house or shrubs and trees and hopefully
not cause damage.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day as we continue with words starting with “b” is “bellicism” which
means an inclination to violence which is a trait possessed by too many jihadists
like Hamas and Hezbollah.
Song
of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1949 was “That
Lucky Old Sun” by Frankie Laine with Judd Conlon’s
Rhythmaires, Harry Geller and His Orchestra and Carl Fischer on a
run of 8 weeks to share number 1 status with 8 other songs achieving number 1 ranking. Here
is a recording with lyrics of Frankie Laine with Judd Conlon’s Rhythmaires,
Harry Geller and His Orchestra and Carl Fischer performing “That Lucky Old
Sun”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uD9gH18qw
October 30 Birthdays: “Like
Daughter Like Father” Celebrating the birthday of Ivana Marie Trump better
known as “Ivanka” born on this day in 1981 in New York City to become an
executive of the Trump Organization and a successful entrepreneur in fashion
and jewelry and with her conversion so she could marry Jared Kushner the first
Jewish member of a First Family. If Trump wins the nomination of the
Republicans to run in the 2024 election look for her to play a prominent role
in his campaign.
October 30 Historical Events in Rhyme
1. On
this day in 2014 Sweden became the first European Union state to recognize the
state of Palestine/Which consists of the West Bank occupied by Israel since the
1967 War was ended in 6 days’ time/And Gaza now ruled by Amas in a war with
Israel with portions daily into rubble turned/With the West Bank now smoldering
with armed conflict likely to return.
2. On this day in
2005 in Dresden, Germany mostly destroyed near war’s end by 2 days of a bombing
firestorm/Including the Dresden Frauenkirche, a symbol of reconciliation of two
warring nations to peaceful means to resolve conflicts conform/After 14 years
of effort made possible by the unification of the Germany was
rebuilt from a rubble pile/To be reconsecrated as an iconic example of Protestant
sacred architecture style.
3. On this day in 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger
on its 9th mission lifted off into the skies/Funded by West
Germany it was a Space Lab mission, a complete success with all goals not
denied/Little did the 8 crew members, a record crew size/Know that in a few
short months later on January 28, 1986 on its 10th mission it would
explode 73 seconds after takeoff causing the 7 crewmembers’ demise.
4. On this day in 1975 Prince Juan
Carlos became the interim acting head of state/As the ailing dictator Franco
has lapsed into a coma on life support his death the nation would await/Franco’s
family agreed to life support on Franco end/ Very shortly on November 20, 1975
his heart beat its last beat to blood through his body send/ On the 22nd
Juan Carlos would be crowned King of Spain/Who quickly moved to shed the Francoist
regime for a constitutional monarchy to rule until June 19, 2014 when to his
son he abdicated his reign.
5. On
this day in 1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed with the
Brooklyn Dodgers to break the color line/MLB at the top of America’s pastime
was now a sport now longer the exclusive sport of white men defined/To play MLB
men would not be by color judged or ranked/Only by how well he hit, caught,
stole bases or if a pitcher his control, speed of fast ball or how well his
curve or sinker sank.
Quote
on the signing of Jackie Robinson with the Dodgers by Branch Rickey: “Some day I'm going to have to stand before
God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play
ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good
enough answer.”
October 309,2023
Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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