Ridley's Believe It
Or Not—December 26, 2014:
Trust Santa visited your home with gifts that you do not want to take back and
not lumps of coal and your heart and soul received the gift of peace. As
always, I hope you enjoy the holidays and observances, factoids and a
relevant quote from Mao Tse Tung, with a smile on your face, knowing that
after a Christmas feast with friends and family you have the will power to
avoid candy canes even though it is National
Candy Cane Day, blessed with a positive
attitude even though you know you will have to wade through tons of spam in
your inbox, and secure in the knowledge that if
you want to find a gift for a memorable event, you know that the Alaskanpoet
can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the
event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Boxing Day —celebrated in
England and most nations that were former members of the British Commonwealth;
it is a day when servants and trades people receive gifts from their employers
usually encased in a box that once contained a gift that the employer opened on
Christmas Day.
2.
DACS Day—celebrating another great American event of
retailing ingenuity—the Day After Christmas Sales. I you missed being jostled
and pummeled in the malls and frustrated over not finding a parking place after
enjoying the peace and tranquility of Christmas with your family and friends,
this day is for you.
3. Leap Forward Then Two
Leaps Back Day—celebrating not a new rave dance step but rather the
birthday on this day in 1893 of Mao Tse Tung, long time leader of the Chinese
Communist Party whose 5 year economic plan known as the Great Leap Forward was
a disaster and abandoned in 1960.
4. 1967 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song on this day in 1967 Hello Goodbye by the Beatles.
5. National
Candy Cane Day—celebrating a means to get rid of all the excess candy
canes that were used as tree decorations or stocking stuffers and not consumed.
On this day in
a. 1799 4,000 mourners attended the funeral of George Washington, eulogized as “first
in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of Americans.”
b. 1846 the Donner Party trapped in the
high snows of the Sierra Nevada mountains started to cannibalize their members
who had died, a act of desperation followed many years later when an Argentinean
rugby team’s plane crashed into the Andes.
c. 1862 in another black mark on this country’s
race relations with its Native American population, 38 Native American were
hanged at Mankato, MN, the largest mass hanging in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln pardoned over 300 Sioux even
as there was a clamor not to even though the Republican Party would lose votes
in Minnesota, stating, “I could afford to hang men for votes.”
d. 1963 the Beatles released in the U.S. I Want to Hold Your Hand and
I Saw Her Standing There launching
Beatlemania on an international level.
e. 1982 for the first time Time’s Man of the Year was a
nonhuman, the personal computer.
Reflections on when even leaders with
dictatorial powers need to admit they were wrong and not blame the weather: “The
chaos caused was on a grand scale, and I take responsibility. Comrades, you
must all analyze your own responsibility. If you have to fart, fart. You will
feel much better for it." Mao Tse Tung
Unfortunately, the ability to take responsibility is a trait our
President seems in most cases to lack.
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