Thursday, December 31, 2015

Ridley's Believe It Or Not For january 1, 2016 New Year's Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 1, 2016, 385 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your New Year’s Eve party was a safe and sane one and the first day of 2016 is off to a great start and your New Year’s Resolutions are set and being observed; as always, I hope you enjoy Friday’s holidays and observances,  a music link to Olivia-Newton John, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Sean Ban Breathnach, looking forward to starting your New Years Day with a Bloody Mary, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, 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. New Year’s Day—celebrating the beginning of the New Year and hopefully a Stanford victory over Iowa in the Rose Bowl.                             
       2. Public Domain Day—celebrating in many countries the day that copyrighted material goes into the public domain; usually 70 years after the death of the author. Nothing like not having to a pay a royalty to the creator of the copyrighted material to lower its cost.
         3. 1981 Number One S ong—celebrating the number one song in 1981 on a long run of ten weeks in that position Physical by Olivia-Newton John. Here is a link to Olivia-Newton John performing Physical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA
     4. National Bloody Mary Day—celebrating the perfect drink to overcome the excesses of any New Year’s Eve party.
         5. Honey With Cocaine Bitter Not Sweet—commemorating the birthday on this day in 1971 rapper and hip hop artist Freddy E who, distraught over a failed relationship with another rapper Honey Cocaine, committed suicide at the age of 22.
On this day in:  
        a. 1772 the first travelers checques which can be used 90 European cities go on sale in London.
         b. 1773 the hymn which became known as “Amazing Grace” was first performed at a sermon of John Newton at Orney, England.   
         c. 1804 French rule in Haiti ended with Haiti becoming the first black republic and the second nation to become independent in North America.                                            d. 1863  the Emancipation Proclamation became effective in all Confederate states although without Union troops present, it was only a gesture for those slaves residing in such states.
         e. 1902 in the first Rose Bowl game instituted to defray the cost of holding the Rose Parade which was first held on January 1, 1890. In the first post season bowl game, Michigan who came into the game 10-0 demolished a 3-1-2 Stanford team 49-0—not a great day for Stanford.                                
Reflections on New Year’s Day: “New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.” Sean Ban Breathnach, noted Irish radio and TV broadcaster and personality.                           Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 165 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not  for just This Day In History.
              
      
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Ridley's Believe It Or Not For December 31, 2015 New Year's Eve

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 31, 2015, 386 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your last day of 2015 is off to a great start and your New Year’s Resolutions are set and better yet capable of being observed; as always, I hope you enjoy Thursday’s  holidays and observances,  a music link to John Lennon, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Neil Gaiman, looking forward to enjoying some champagne, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, 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. National First Night—a North American artistic and cultural celebration from the afternoon to midnight on New Year’s Eve first observed in Boston in 1975. I am totally clueless s to why the celebration is not called “Last Night.”                             
            2. World Peace Meditation Day—celebrating since 1986 as day for global meditation on the idea of peace.
            3. 1980 Number One S ong—celebrating the number one song in 1980 on a run of five weeks in that position (Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon. Here is a link to John Lennon performing (Just Like) Starting Over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noEdecW8sHg
            4. National Champagne Day—celebrating the perfect drink to welcome 2016.
            5. Rocky Mountain High—commemorating the birthday on this day in 1943 of Colorado’s poet laureate and iconic singer John Denver, who was an avid humanitarian and environmentalist and who tragically died in an experimental plane crash in Monterey Bay..
On this day in:  
       a. 1696 a window tax was instituted in England resulting in many households to brick over their windows to avoid the tax.
       b. 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed legislation admitting West Virginia into the Union, thereby dividing Virginia in two.   
       c. 1874 Thomas Edison demonstrated incandescent lighting to the public for the first time at Menlo Park, New Jersey.                                                            
        d. 1907 the first New Year’s Eve celebration was held in Times Square; tonight up to a million people watched over by 6,000 police officers will descend on Times Square.
         e. 1999 the U.S. handed over control of the Panama Canal and the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.                                
Reflections on New Year’s Eve: “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.” Neil Gaiman, noted English author of short stories, novels and comic books.                                                                                                                     Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 165 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not  for just This Day In History.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Blast Hillary Not Other Reds

It is time to rally with the Reds opposing and devastated by Trump
And with the Donald who the Republican establishment wants to dump
The biggest disaster facing this nation is Hillary with four years
Of Obama with allies fleeing and with foes with no fears
With a total bankrupt system to into the radical Islam fight steer
Who among us will be alive to shed the tears?
Wake up it is the new Crusade that to survive as a race we must win
No matter how many times this administration does the PC spin
Scary times and with a generation who have not the lessons of Yalley Forge or Khe Sahn learned
Will they the desire to protect this nation spurn?
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Ridley's Believe It Or Not For December 30, 2015 National Cranberry Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For December 30, 2015, 387 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your Wednesday is off to a great start and your New Year’s Resolutions are almost set and better yet capable of being observed; as always, I hope you enjoy Wednesday’s  holidays and observances,  a music link to KC and the Sunshine Band, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Louis Grant, looking forward to enjoying some fresh cranberries, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, 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. National Bicarbonate of Soda Day—commemorating the use of baking soda which is used to deodorize, bake, coke, clean and in countless other applications.                  2. Falling Needles Fest Day—celebrating a day that no family should celebrate because they have failed to water their Christmas tree to watch the dry needles falling from the tree which would now be a tinderbox.
            3. 1979 Number One S ong—celebrating the number one song in 1979 on a run of one week in that position Please Don’t Go by KC and the Sunshine Band. Here is a link to KC and the Sunshine Band performing Please Don’t Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-l5FyA3pgo
           4. National Cranberry Day—bemoaning the fact that fresh cranberries those tart berries from the bog have finally started to disappear along with pomegranates from the supermarket.
           5. Right or Left Still Perfect—noting the birthday on this day in 1935 of Sandy Koufax noted Dodger pitcher who pitched a perfect game and was the first pitcher to pitch 4 no hitters.
On this day in:  
        a. 1817 to the joy of coffee drinkers worldwide the first coffee plants were planted in Kona, Hawaii.
         b. 1853 the Gadsden Purchase, which acquired some 23,000 square miles of land located in the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona, was consummated between Mexico and the United States.    
            c. 1924 astronomer Edwin Hubble announced the existence of galactic systems other than the Milky Way.                                                             
       d. 1966 the cult classic One Million Years B.C. starring Raquel Welch was released.
           e. 1972 President Nixon announced the end of bombing of North Vietnam and the commencement of peace talks.                                
Reflections on the elixir of the gods, Kona coffee: “The man who thinks he can run a coffee plantation without any practical experience, and without either native or Asiatic labor, or with strictly Caucasian help, is building his house on a foundation of sand." Louis T. Grant. Honolulu, July 17, 1895 Fortunately for coffee lovers like me the growers of Kona coffee must have listened to Mr. Grant.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Sharia Is The Only War On Women

Hillary cannot wait to Trump’s war on women proclaim
While her foundation took millions from Sharia states without any shame
The news today discloses why Sharia is a woman’s worst nightmare
Caning for touching or advancing a single man is barbarity beyond compare
The largest Muslim nation in the world has but one province to be allowed Sharia law
Today caned in public before cheering crowds reveals its utter inhumane barbaric flaw
Screaming while a heavy cane lashed across tayoung women student’s back
When it comes to condemning this savagery our Blue left any courage seems to lack
The Reds are an easier target without PC defenders to fight back
Supporters in the gay community have not yet the death of gays in ISIS seemed to have been able to extract
The news is that the women were caned and taken to hospitals but the men not charged
At least in Sharia fiefdoms not stoned  but still the barbarism of sharia running large
Treating women as second class peons by Sharia will relegate these fanatics to history’s trash heap
Will doom this corrupt  ideology to an ultimate defeat
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Ridley's Believe It Or Not For December 29, 2015 Tick Tock Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—December 29, 2015, 389 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your Tuesday is off to a great start and your New Year’s Resolutions are almost set; as always, I hope you enjoy Tuesday’s  holidays and observances,  a music link to Chic, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Ralph Merkle, looking forward to enjoying a hot bowl of pepper pot soup, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, 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. Tick Tock Day—commemorating a time to reflect on one’s accomplishment of the   current year which is almost at an end and the lessons learned from one’s failures to form a springboard for one’s goals in 2016.                               
       2. Still Need To Do Day—celebrating a realization that procrastination is not a virtue and in the waning days of the year start accomplishing one’s goals.
         3. 1978 Number One S ong—celebrating the number one song in 1978 on a run of six weeks in that position Le Freak by Chic. Here is a link to Chic performing Le Freak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qQ1SKNlgY
         4. National Pepper Pot Day—celebrating George Washington’s and FDR’s favorite soup made with beef and  beef tripe, onions, and other vegetables selected by the chef and seasoned  with ground black peppercorns.
         5. Six Feet For A King—noting the birthday on this day in 1973 of rapper Pimp C, founder of the Underground Kings who served prison time for aggravated assault and died from drinking Purple Drang (prescription cough syrup in doses 25 times the recommended dose) at the age of 33.
On this day in:  
      a. 1170 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, was assassinated by supporters of King Henry II in Canterbury Cathedral. 
         b. 1846 the U.S. annexed the Republic of Texas ending its ten year status as a Republic which then became the 28th State.
           c.  1851 the first YMCA in America was opened in Boston, MA.                                       d. 1959 Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” which is considered as the birth of nanotechnology.
       e.  2013 in a chilling example of the fact that radical Islam is at war with civilization, a suicide bomber believed to be female detonated her 10 kilograms of TNT at the Volgograd train station, killing 18 and wounding 44 innocents.                 Reflections on the future of nanotechnology:“Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.” Ralph Merkle, noted computer scientist with a PhD. from Stanford; unfortunately the human capacity to maintain the proper ethics and values to use that power for good may not be up to the task.
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Monday, December 28, 2015

War of Words on Trump/Hillary Campaign Trail

The campaign for the office of the Presidency is heating up
Trump and Hillary in heated exchanges beginning to erupt
Hillary with a charge of sexism against Trump fires first
Playing the cards of victim and war on women  for which she has an unquenchable thirst
Trump the ultimate counter puncher cannot resist
Tweets back that he is not and but in Bill soon to be campaigning for Hillary is a complete sexist
Trump appears to have finally tired of belittling Jeb
Time to shift gears and go after Hillary instead
Her record is one of complete failure at Secretary of State
Worse it was one of pandering favors to enable Bill to gorge fees on the speaking plate
Her vision of what America needs is totally bankrupt
Like Sanders our national debt growth will erupt
We are as a nation at a crossroads needing a leader in whose honesty and integrity we can believe
Someone whose goal is to protect the homeland and foster the spark of growth by business to achieve
One would only hope if the Donald moves on to the general campaign stump
He focuses on her failures, lack of honesty and attacks on Bill as a sexual predator he soon dumps
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Ridley's Believe It Or Not For December 28, 2015 Holy Innocents Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—December 28, 2015, 389 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your Christmas Day was a great one and your Monday is off to a great start and you found the gift of peace under the Christmas Tree; as always, I hope you enjoy Monday’s  holidays and observances,  music links to the Bee Gees and John Legend, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Jay Inslee, looking forward to enjoying a few chocolate candies, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, 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. Holy Innocents Day—commemorating the attempt of Herod the Great to kill the baby Jesus by killing all male babies in Palestine.                               
        2. Call A Friend Day—celebrating a concept that should be celebrated on a daily basis.
         3. 1977 Number One S ong—celebrating the number one song in 1977 on a run of three weeks in that position How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees. Here is a link to the Bee Gees performing How Deep Is Your Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc
      4. National National Chocolate Candy Day—celebrating for chocoholics another excuse to sate on chocolate.
         5. The Legend Lives In Music—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1978 of nine time Grammy Winner John Legend, noted R&B singer. Here is a link John Legend performing his Academy Award winning song Glory from the movie Selma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZOKvYcx_o
On this day in:  
         a. 1832 John Calhoun  became the first Vice President to resign. 
         b. 1895 Wilhelm Rontgen published a paper revealing the existence of a new
form of radiation which became known as X-rays.
         c. 1958 in the “Greatest Game Ever Played” the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants in the NFL Championship Game in the first sudden death overtime by the score of 23-17.                                                            
         d. 1973 the Endangered Species Act was signed into law.
       e. 2000 U.S. retailer Montgomery Ward announced it was going out of business after 128 years of business.                                
Reflections on the Endangered Species Act: “What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.” Jay Inslee, Democratic governor for Washington.  
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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Ridley's Believe It Or Not For December 26, 2015 Boxing Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—December 26, 2015, 391 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your Christmas Day was a great one and your Saturday is off to a great start and you found the gift of peace under the Christmas Tree; as always, I hope you enjoy Saturday’s  holidays and observances,  a music link to Rod Stewart, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from an anonymous source, looking forward to enjoying a few candy canes, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, 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 the U.K. and nations of the British Commonwealth by nobility and employers giving gifts (“Christmas Box”) to their tradesmen, servants and employees. In the U.S. the day is marked by massive Day after Christmas sales to further add to the burgeoning credit card debt.                               
     2. The First Day Of Kwanzaa—celebrated since 1995 as a means for African Americans to connect with their African roots; the weeklong celebration culminates with gift giving and a sumptuous meal with family and friends.
         3. 1976 Number One S ong—celebrating the number one song in 1976 on a long run of eight weeks in that position Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) by Rod Stewart. Here is a link to the Rod Stewart performing Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZr6AE-u2UM
         4. National Candy Cane Day—celebrating a good excuse to start enjoying the 
candy canes in the Christmas stockings or start removing any candy canes from the Christmas Tree to enjoy.
         5. The Computer Age Started With An Idea—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1791 of Charles Babbage, often called the Father of Computing for his invention of a mechanical calculating machine and his origination of the concept of a programmable computer.
On this day in:  
        a. 1776 Washington crossed the Delaware River with 2400 men to in a surprise attack at Trenton soundly defeat a force of Hessians, capturing over 1500 and suffering very few casualties; the victory was a significant morale booster for the Americans. 
        b. 1846 trapped in the snows in the Sierra Nevadas near Truckee Lake, CA the Donner Party resorted to cannibalism to survive after their provisions ran out. Of the 87 members of the group only 48 survived.
         c. 1963 the Beatles released in the U.S. I Saw Her Standing There and I Want To Hold Her Hand which were great successes and led to Beatlemania.                                       d.  1972 the U.S. Air Force 's   the Strategic Air Command launched Operation Linebacker II against Hanoi with a force of 120 B-52s with each plane dropping 26 tons of bombs—the operation forced the North Vietnamese to come to the table and ultimately sign the Paris Accords to bring an end to our combat operations in South Vietnam.
         e. 1982 Time Magazine’s Man of the Year was the personal computer, light years advanced from the concepts and mechanical calculator of Charles Babbage.                
Reflections on Kwanzaa: “Kwanzaa isn't a replacement for Christmas or even Hanukkah. Kwanzaa has nothing to do with religion and while some may twist it to be political, in its nature it is not. Kwanzaa is not the tool of its creator. Kwanzaa has a life of its own. Kwanzaa is about the spirit of people -- all people regardless of color or race. Kwanzaa is a holiday of the human spirit -- not the divine. The two were meant to co-exist peacefully."  Anon Truer words never spoken.
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Friday, December 25, 2015

Bring Christ Back In Christmas

Life is full of ironies and oxymorons but as the Christmas lights twinkle in the nighttime air
Ponder this irony that on the irony checklist is beyond compare
Without the Christmas shopping and the Santa magnet for kids a retailer’s black inkwell would be bare
But in stores most often heard is an anemic “Happy Holidays” but a “Merry Christmas” is so rare
In the schools Christmas carols, pageants, and Christmas cards are disappearing faster than water in a pond under a Death Valley sun
A nativity scene from the past on public property is in the PC world a relic that must be shunned
Even Santa Claus, jolly old St. Nick known for his reindeer driven sleigh and his down the chimney so quick
Is under an unrelenting PC attack
In a Big Apple public school given the sack
In the rigid PC world that has only thin skins and no magic in which to believe
The cardinal sin is to in Santa and the Prince of Peace gift of peace try to retrieve
The magic of Christmas has in the past caused soldiers to leave trenches
And from mind and heart for a day the dogs of war to releash and wrench
Christ in Christmas to the PC world seems so out place
To honor the Prince of Peace in their view is an  outdated idea in disgrace
What would happen if other than for the children a new Christmas idea would hit the ground running?
The gifts that one should exchange would be a gift to charity or the homeless would be tidal wave in the economy most stunning
The retailers would be soon howling with high pitched rants
“Bring back the Prince of Peace!” would be their frenzied chants
The Magi would no longer be rolling in their heavenly graves
We mere mortals here on earth would the meaning of Christmas save
From the orgy of Saturnalia’s gift giving stress of credit card debt
For material tokens ignoring the soul that more likely than not the recipient would discard or soon forget
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