© December 22, 2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
Across the nation, Blue Officials
and zealots are rushing like Pavlovian Dogs to hear the chance to bar Trump
from running siren call, energized by the idiocy of the Colorado Supreme Court
who think it has the right not Congress to administer the 14th
Amendment office bar. This poet has disagreed with Gavin Newsom many a time but
after hearing him ridicule attempts to bar Trump from the ballot in California, kudos
for pointing out that candidates need to be defeated at the ballot box not
denied by the courts.
On the Russia Ukraine War front
with Zelensky praying that Blues in Congress will pull their heads out of the
sand and work with Reds to really secure the border (freezing asylum applications
or setting in concrete that poverty is not grounds for asylum would be a good
place to start) but must be pleased that Ukraine has shot down 3 Russian jets
(how many coffins or body bags do Russian parents have to receive before Putin
pulls the plug on this nonsense in the Ukraine)?
On the Ukraine aid front, in
addition to a massive increase in Japan’s defense budget it has also eliminated
its ban on exported weapons and will be sending Ukraine more Patriot Missile
batteries to add to the number already there along with fighter aircraft.
On the trying to keep
businesses in a high tax state like New York, Governor Hochul opened her ears
to concerns of business groups and vetoed legislation that would have
prohibited employers from requiring employees to sign non-compete
agreements as a condition of
employment.
December 22, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Abilities
Day: Created on this day in 1999 by
Paul Benjamin-Dielman Cannady, an activist for person with disabilities and owner
of the Disability Grapevine to encourage the disabled to overcome the barriers encountered
due to their disabilities and create awareness among the nondisabled of the
barriers and discrimination they face and have been able to overcome.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words
starting with “b” is “borné” which means limited
or narrow minded which describes to a tee what happens when you curtail or censor
free speech in politics, academia and social media.
Song of the Day: Leaving
the number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number
song in 2003 in the U.S.A. was “Hey Ya” by OutKast on a run of 3 weeks to share
number 1 status with 10 other songs, while 10 acts achieved their 1st
number 1 single. Here is a music video with lyrics of OutKast performing “Hey
Ya”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw
December 22 Birthdays: “Thank
God for one naturized parent”: celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1970 of Ted Cruz who was born in Calgary, Alberta
of an American citizen mother and a Cuban national father who became a naturalized
citizen in 2005, making him eligible to run as he did in 2016 for President but
fail to beat Trump in the primaries who he has supported wholeheartedly and if
Trump wins in 2024 would be a likely candidate for SCOTUS.
December 22 Historical Events in
Rhyme
1. On this day in 2018 the U.S.
Government with no appropriations bills passed/Began to shut down nonessential
services of the federal government that for 35 days would last/The Blues stood
together as 1 and would not fund all or any portion of a southern border
wall/After 35 days and billions to the economy voters were appalled/Trump had
to cave on the need for the wall/Today we see the disaster of 10,000 + illegals
daily swarming through to our safety, social services safety net and prosperity
maul.
2. On this
day in 2017 President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 into
law/Which Blues attacked as welfare for the rich and flawed/Dismissed by Pelosi
as mere crumbs of benefits for the middle class/And benefits for repatriation
of earnings overseas would not last/Economy took off like a rocket to run into
at full speed/The COVID 19 wall with its shutdowns and closures depriving us of
the continuing growth we would need.
3.
On this day in 2010, Obama signed an executive order bringing “Don’t
ask, don’t tell 17 year old policy to an end/Gays and Lesbians could now enlist
in the military as a career and into combat send/Our Armed Forces other than
Marines have difficulty in meeting enlistment and retention goals/But many
believe that’s due to its CRT creating victims and the barriers created by Woke
shoals.
4. On
this day in 2001 Richard Reid who had been born in England and was a career
criminal, an Islam convert and been radicalized boarded American Airlines
Flight 63/Without luggage bound from Paris to Miami/Wearing shoes packed with
explosives and a fuse that because of perspiration he could not light/The smell
of matches brought passengers into a subduing fight/ Shoes removed,
tranquilized and with belts, plastic cuffs and headphone cables
restrained/Diverted to Boston where he was by police deplaned/Found guilty of
trying to destroy a plane/Now rotting is in at ADX Florence where freedom he
will never gain/His gift to the traveling public boarding planes/Unless under
12 or over 75 shoes must be removed to examine so no bomb concealed to send
plane down in flames.
5. On this day in 1963 the cruise ship
TSMS Laconia on a Christmas cruise to the Canary Islands after a stop in
the Azores with 676 passengers and 376 crew caught on fire at night/190 miles
north of Madeira to quickly send out SOS pleas of the vessel’s plight/The crew
was only able to launch half the life boats many not filled and the fire alarms
were in all cabins not heard as the sounds were too week/A 100 or so were still
at the stern trying to safety from the flames seek/Using rope ladders or jumping
into the water to leave the ship/In the best naval tradition the captain was
the last to reach the water to escape the advancing flames grip/128 people
died, 95 passengers and 33 crew/Only 53 people did the fire slew/Exposure, drowning
and hitting the ship jumping killed the rest/The ship sank as it failed the
towing back to Gibraltar test.
Quote of Judge Young’s stinging rebuke to
Richard Reid, the Shoe Bomber, in a sentence that means he will rot and die in
prison: “It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious.
You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as
we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we
individually choose.
Here, in this society, the very
winds carry freedom. They carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is
because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful
courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see that justice is administered
fairly, individually, and discretely.
It is for freedom's seek that your
lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf and have filed appeals, will
go on in their, their representation of you before other judges. We care about
it. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the
measure of our own liberties.
Make no mistake though. It is yet
true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms.
Look around this courtroom. Mark it
well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. Day after
tomorrow it will be forgotten. But this, however, will long endure. Here, in
this courtroom, and courtrooms all across America, the American people will
gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual
justice is in fact being done.”
© December 22, 2023 Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not
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