© December 18, 2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
On the Rotunda Front, 93 year old
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman Associate Justice of SCOTUS who died on
December 1, 2023 way lying in state.
On the illegal immigration
front, Governor Abbott has signed legislation that will make it a crime for
illegals to illegally enter into Texas effective March 1, 2023, legislation
which California, Arizona and New Mexico must also sign and enforce. Despite
daily crossings of illegals in the neighborhood of 10,000 a day the Senate has
not gotten its act together to seal the border so a vote on aid to Israel and Ukraine
will be deferred until next week.
On Hamas Israeli War front, Austin
is in Israel discussing the future in Gaza of a post Hamas with a focus on security
for Gazan civilians. As the wave of Houthi missile and drone attacks against
international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden is causing insurance
premiums to soar, Austin also announced the formation of a multi nation naval
force to counter attacks led by the United States and including the United Kingdom,
Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain.
On the weather front the
Northeast has been hit with severe winter storms that have killed 4 people and
knocked power out to 620,000 homes and businesses from Connecticut to Maine,
leaving the area experiencing severe flooding and 60 million under winter storm
warnings.
A volcano near the town of
Grindvik, Iceland erupted, spewing massive amounts of lava and ash into the ash
and forcing evacuations.
On the student loan front, now
that the moratorium on student loan payments and interest accruals has ended, it
looks like the Woke curriculum that too many of our college students endured
included a large portion of time on how to be a deadbeat as some 9 million
student debtors (40% of the total number of borrowers) have missed their first restarted
payment installment.
On the yo-yo crime front,
up and coming actor Jonathan Majors was convicted by a New York City jury after
3 days of deliberation of reckless assault and harassment of his girlfriend and
is facing 1 year in prison when sentenced in January but was quickly fired by
Disney/Marvel Studios.
December 18, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: International
Migrants Day: Created by the UN General Assembly on December 4, 2000 and first
celebrated on December 18, 2000 and on each December 18th thereafter
to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the nations they migrate to although
with illegal migration soaring in the U.S, and throughout the world any
benefits of illegal migration are outweighed by the negatives.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words
starting with “b” is “boman” which means a well-dressed
criminal, which describes the tailored
suited John Gotti to a tee.
Song of the Day: Leaving
the number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number
song in 2007 in the U.S.A. was “No One” by Alicia Keys
on a run of 5 weeks to share number 1 status with 17 other songs, while 8 acts,
achieved their 1st number 1 single. Here is a music video of Alicia
Keys performing “No One”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywUS-ohqeE
December 18 Birthdays: “Safe
Districts Are Manna From Heaven”: celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1947 of Bill Posey in Washington, D.C. who has been
a Red Representative in Florida for 9 elections and winning in all but 2 with
margins of victory over 60% and running again in 2024.
December 18 Historical Events in
Rhyme
1. On this day in 2022 FIFA, France
was looking for a championship repeat/Ended the game’s regulation time and
extra with Argentina 3-3 to go to the penalty kick mode to see who would
defeat/Argentina nailed all 4 of its penalty kicks while France managed to nail
only 2/In what pundits called the best played championship games ever France’s repeat
dream was through.
2. On this
day in 2016 Donald Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of
Congress crimes/For impeachment of a president after Andrew Johnson and Bill
Clinton the third time/Only 2 Blues had a spine/To vote against an impeachment
that was so partisan it was out of line/Doomed to fail it went to the Senate
for trial going only through the motions/RINO Romney consistent with that label
voted guilty proving to Utah voters that their vote for him was not well chosen.
3. On this day in 2002 just over a month
after being elected as governor for his second term/It was disclosed that the
state budget deficit would be twice as high as revenues were falling but the
state had not reduced the rate of the money it chose to burn/That disclosure of
a deficit larger than all the states combined/And in a car loving state the car
tax tripled sending voters to the recall petition in a beeline/With his
popularity down to 24% Gray Davis was assured to be recalled/He was and Schwarzenegger
the top 5 other candidates mauled/Gray Davis became only second governor in our
history to be removed from office by a recall vote/A great tool granting voters
a voting Mulligan but chances of winning usually remote.
4. On this day in
1958 a Atlas rocket was launched to place into orbit SCORE/the world’s first
communications satellite portending the launch in the future of thousands more/The
Atlas rocket was named the “Talking Atlas” or “Chatterbox”/Carrying a tape recorder
with messages so on Earth people hear President Eisenhower giving his Christmas
greeting talk/A needed first step to enable communication throughout world
without the need of cable/Soon in multiple countries around the world linked at
the same time on the worldwide communication table.
5. On this day in 1917/In the “Great
Experiment” to from alcohol consumption wean/Congress passed a resolution with
the language that would plague us with Prohibition/Giving rise to the likes of
Capone and others flooding this nation into criminal perdition.
Quote
by Terrence Winter, noted writer and producer of television and Academy
Award Nominee for Best Screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf on Wall
Street: “When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people
stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By
1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more
and more on criminals.”
© December 187, 2023 Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on Events of the Day
Unique Commissioned Poems for Special Events
© December 18, 2023 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not
On the Rotunda Front, 93 year old
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman Associate Justice of SCOTUS who died on
December 1, 2023 way lying in state.
On the illegal immigration
front, Governor Abbott has signed legislation that will make it a crime for
illegals to illegally enter into Texas effective March 1, 2023, legislation
which California, Arizona and New Mexico must also sign and enforce. Despite
daily crossings of illegals in the neighborhood of 10,000 a day the Senate has
not gotten its act together to seal the border so a vote on aid to Israel and Ukraine
will be deferred until next week.
On Hamas Israeli War front, Austin
is in Israel discussing the future in Gaza of a post Hamas with a focus on security
for Gazan civilians. As the wave of Houthi missile and drone attacks against
international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden is causing insurance
premiums to soar, Austin also announced the formation of a multi nation naval
force to counter attacks led by the United States and including the United Kingdom,
Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain.
On the weather front the
Northeast has been hit with severe winter storms that have killed 4 people and
knocked power out to 620,000 homes and businesses from Connecticut to Maine,
leaving the area experiencing severe flooding and 60 million under winter storm
warnings.
A volcano near the town of
Grindvik, Iceland erupted, spewing massive amounts of lava and ash into the ash
and forcing evacuations.
On the student loan front, now
that the moratorium on student loan payments and interest accruals has ended, it
looks like the Woke curriculum that too many of our college students endured
included a large portion of time on how to be a deadbeat as some 9 million
student debtors (40% of the total number of borrowers) have missed their first restarted
payment installment.
On the yo-yo crime front,
up and coming actor Jonathan Majors was convicted by a New York City jury after
3 days of deliberation of reckless assault and harassment of his girlfriend and
is facing 1 year in prison when sentenced in January but was quickly fired by
Disney/Marvel Studios.
December 18, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: International
Migrants Day: Created by the UN General Assembly on December 4, 2000 and first
celebrated on December 18, 2000 and on each December 18th thereafter
to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the nations they migrate to although
with illegal migration soaring in the U.S, and throughout the world any
benefits of illegal migration are outweighed by the negatives.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day as we continue with words
starting with “b” is “boman” which means a well-dressed
criminal, which describes the tailored
suited John Gotti to a tee.
Song of the Day: Leaving
the number 1 songs on this day in 1940’s to come back to the number
song in 2007 in the U.S.A. was “No One” by Alicia Keys
on a run of 5 weeks to share number 1 status with 17 other songs, while 8 acts,
achieved their 1st number 1 single. Here is a music video of Alicia
Keys performing “No One”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywUS-ohqeE
December 18 Birthdays: “Safe
Districts Are Manna From Heaven”: celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1947 of Bill Posey in Washington, D.C. who has been
a Red Representative in Florida for 9 elections and winning in all but 2 with
margins of victory over 60% and running again in 2024.
December 18 Historical Events in
Rhyme
1. On this day in 2022 FIFA, France
was looking for a championship repeat/Ended the game’s regulation time and
extra with Argentina 3-3 to go to the penalty kick mode to see who would
defeat/Argentina nailed all 4 of its penalty kicks while France managed to nail
only 2/In what pundits called the best played championship games ever France’s repeat
dream was through.
2. On this
day in 2016 Donald Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of
Congress crimes/For impeachment of a president after Andrew Johnson and Bill
Clinton the third time/Only 2 Blues had a spine/To vote against an impeachment
that was so partisan it was out of line/Doomed to fail it went to the Senate
for trial going only through the motions/RINO Romney consistent with that label
voted guilty proving to Utah voters that their vote for him was not well chosen.
3. On this day in 2002 just over a month
after being elected as governor for his second term/It was disclosed that the
state budget deficit would be twice as high as revenues were falling but the
state had not reduced the rate of the money it chose to burn/That disclosure of
a deficit larger than all the states combined/And in a car loving state the car
tax tripled sending voters to the recall petition in a beeline/With his
popularity down to 24% Gray Davis was assured to be recalled/He was and Schwarzenegger
the top 5 other candidates mauled/Gray Davis became only second governor in our
history to be removed from office by a recall vote/A great tool granting voters
a voting Mulligan but chances of winning usually remote.
4. On this day in
1958 a Atlas rocket was launched to place into orbit SCORE/the world’s first
communications satellite portending the launch in the future of thousands more/The
Atlas rocket was named the “Talking Atlas” or “Chatterbox”/Carrying a tape recorder
with messages so on Earth people hear President Eisenhower giving his Christmas
greeting talk/A needed first step to enable communication throughout world
without the need of cable/Soon in multiple countries around the world linked at
the same time on the worldwide communication table.
5. On this day in 1917/In the “Great
Experiment” to from alcohol consumption wean/Congress passed a resolution with
the language that would plague us with Prohibition/Giving rise to the likes of
Capone and others flooding this nation into criminal perdition.
Quote by Terrence Winter, noted writer and producer
of television and Academy Award Nominee for Best Screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s
The Wolf on Wall Street: “When Prohibition was first enacted in
1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them
for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person
started to rely more and more on criminals.”
© December 18, 2023 Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on Events of the Day
Unique Commissioned Poems for Special Events
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