© December 17, 2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
On the DUI front, 46 year old James
Cooper of Wilmington ran into a parked sedan used to block a street near
Biden’s campaign headquarter where he was finishing up meeting and will be charged with a DUI must
at least must be happy he did not run into the heavy armor plated vehicle known
as the “Beast”.
On the pro football front,
the Chiefs snapped their 2 game losing streak with a 27-17 win over the
Patriots with Taylor Swift watching her beau catch 5 passes for 28 yards. Tommy
DeVito, the undrafted quarterback for the New York Giants who led them to 3
straight wins had the bubble burst against the New Orleans Saints losing 24-6
with most of his passing yards after the outcome was destined for the books.
The Seahawks who normally lose to the Eagles were upset 20-17 on a 4th
quarter TD by Lock which was followed soon thereafter by an interception to
foil a FG attempt to send the game into overtime.
On Hamas Israeli War front,
another day of heavy Israeli bombing which has caused according to Hamas 40
dead Palestinians as Netanyahu insists that such bombing and shell pressure
will force Hamas to give up its remaining hostages when Hamas feels the more dead
Palestinians the world sees, the greater pressure will be put on the U.S. to
curtail or end its military support.
On the recall front, Quaker
Oats is recalling a number of granola products over fears of salmonella
contamination as what the company says is a preventative measure as no cases
have yet to be reported.
As Nikki Haley seems to
narrowing the gap between her and Trump, DeSantis has lost the services of Jack Roe, the chief
strategist of the Super Pac, “Never Back Down” that is backing DeSantis over an
article in the New York Post that is highlighting the dissension and
disagreement in De Santis’ campaign.
December 17, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: National
Maple Syrup Day: Celebrating the perfect sweet topping to pancakes, French
Toast, waffles or even over vanilla ice cream used Native Americans long before
Pilgrims landed on our shores as a sweetener and during Colonial times as an
inexpensive alternative to sugar given the Sugar Tax imposed on the Colonies by
Great Britain but I am totally clueless as to who created this day.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day as we continue with words starting with “b” is “boeotian” which means
stupid or dull which sadly seems to describe too many of our politicians on
both sides of the aisle whose synapses are coated with bias.
Song of the Day: Leaving the
number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number song
in 2008 in the U.S.A. was “Live Your Life” by T.I.
feat. Rihanna on a run of 1 week to share number 1 status with 13 other songs,
while 7 acts, including Static Major who became the 7th artist to
achieve a number one single posthumously, achieved their 1st number
1 single. Here is a music video of T.I. feat Rihanna performing “Live Your
Life”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koVHN6eO4Xg
December 17 Birthdays: “Multitasking
to the Max”: celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1961 of George Clooney in Lexington, Kentucky who has
become an A-Rated actor, director, producer and screenwriter with 2 Academy
Awards and in the select company of Walt Disney, Alfonso Cuarón
Orozco, and Sir Kenneth Branagh as the only 4 people to be nominated for
Academy Awards in 6 different categories. His latest directed film which debuts
on Christmas Day is The Boys in the Boat chronicling the University of
Washington’s rowing team which earned a
Gold in the 1936 Olympics. To his list of accolades the label entrepreneur
should be added as the tequila company he co-founded with 2 other individuals, Casamigos,
which was sold to a British liquor conglomerate Diageo for $1 billion dollars of
which $233 million went into his pocket.
December 17 Historical Events in
Rhyme
1. On this day in 2014 after secret
talks in Canada and assisted by Pope Francis and the Vatican between Cuba and
the U.S./That agreed to restore relations and on the reopening of Cuban and
American Embassies negotiate with great earnestness/Embassy now open but in Cuba
freedom not found/When will Cubans demand the chains of tyranny be unwound?
2. On this
day in 2009 the MV Danny II was nearing the Lebanon town of Tripoli/Wallowing
in howling winds and stormy seas/Laden with 10,224 sheep and 17,932 head of
cattle/Who must have been terrified as the ship began to groan and death rattle/The
crew of 77 managed to send out distress calls before she began to list/More and
more until capsizing it could no longer resist/40 men saved, all livestock
lost, 12 men dead, 32 men missing presumed drowned/True to the best naval tradition
the English captain was the last on board when the ship went down.
3. On this day in 1960 Emperor Haile Selassie
on a state visit to Brazil quickly brought it to an end/A military coup
promoting his oldest son to him to prison send/Selassie viewed by many
Ethiopians as descending from God stopped the coup in its tracks/Even welcomed
his oldest son into the royal family back.
4. On this day in
1973 5 Palestinian terrorists entered Rome-Fiumicino Airport and started
shooting travelers, killing 2 then attacked Pan Am Flight 101 preparing to depart/tossing in grenades into plane to start raging fires start/adding 29
passengers and I member of the crew to growing butchers’ bill list/Then grabbed
some hostages and raced over to a Lufthansa jet completing its departure
checklist/ Took off to land in Athens, after killing a hostage, then to
Damascus and Kuwait/ Where viewed as heroes who escaped long term prison fates.
5. On this day in 1943 with China as our
ally fighting Japan/Chinese attempting to become citizens were no longer
banned/Due to the passage of the Magnuson Act/That overturned the Yellow
paranoia of the Act of 1882 which held that American citizenship, Chinese would
always lack.
Quote by Emperor Haile Selassie appealing to the
League of Nations for help in stopping Italy from overrunning Ethiopia: “If a
strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then
the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to
give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
© December 17, 2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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