Ridley's Believe It
Or Not—January 2, 2015: Let’s
hear it for the PAC 12 and Oregon’s total destruction of the Seminole yesterday
at the Rose Bowl and kudos to those who are still after two days adhering to
their New Year’s Resolutions. As always, I hope you enjoy the holidays
and observances, factoids and a relevant quote from Woodrow Wilson, with
a smile on your face, looking forward to a buffet today, 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. Happy Mew Year For Cats Day —for
someone whose nickname is the Big Dog difficult to give felines their holiday
due, but today is a day for cat owners to celebrate their felines, especially
if their litter box is clean and fresh smelling.
2.
Personal Trainer Awareness Day—celebrating
the critical person you need to keep that New Year’s Resolution to lose weight
by going to the gym—a personal trainer.
3. 1972 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song on this day in 1972 Brand New Key rd by Melanie (do not
remember this one).
4. Robots
Will Rule Day—celebrating not the ever
increasing number of robots in the work place but rather the birthday on this
day in 1920 of a very prolific science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, author of I
Robot among many other great works.
5. National
Buffet Day—a food holiday that should be celebrated only if one has
worked out at the gym with one’s personal trainer and burned up copious amounts
of calories.
On this day in
a. 1920 in another dark day for this nation’s tolerance of immigrants the
second wave of arrests in what became known as the Palmer Raids after the then U.S.
Attorney General began in numerous cities across the country targeting
communists and anarchists and arresting over 3000 immigrants, many of whom were
held without trial for months.
b. 1967 Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the
governor of California (yes in a galaxy far, far away we used to have the
ability to be a Red state).
c.
1971 in a blow against the leading cause of death in the U.S., cigarette
advertising was banned on television.
d. 1974
to the frustration of motorists across this country, President Nixon in response
to the OPEC embargo signed legislation lowering the speed limit on highways to
55 miles per hour—just another reminder of why we need Keystone XL in order to
be independent of machinations by OPEC.
e. 1983 the musical “Annie” closed on Broadway
after 2,377 performances.
Reflections on the Palmer Raid and the intolerance of immigrants that has
been around for some time: “Hyphenated Americans have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of
our national life. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy must be
crushed out" President Woodrow Wilson With ideas like that no wonder
immigration reform is going to be a difficult process.Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 150 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. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for comments on important and breaking news events that should be of interest. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com Ridley's Believe It Or Not Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times
© January 2, 2015 Michael
P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
Alaskanpoet
for Hire, Poems to Admire
Poet
Extraordinaire Beyond Compare
Rhymes
on the Memorable Times
The
Perfect Gift, All Recipients to Receive a Lasting Lift
No comments:
Post a Comment