Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not—December 25, 2015, 392 days to go
in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your Christmas Day is
off to a merry start and you found the gift of peace under the Christmas Tree;
as always, I hope you enjoy Friday’s
holidays and observances, a music
link to the Staple Singers, factoids
of interest, a relevant quote from the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, looking
forward to enjoying a slice of pumpkin pie, 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
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1. Christmas—Whether
the wish is Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel, Frohweinachten, Buon Natale
, メリークリスマス, С Рождеством,
or even عيد ميلاد مجيد
as Christians are being slaughtered by ISIS in Syria and Iraq I hope your Christmas
celebrated with family and friends is a joyous one and you are awash in the
gift of peace.
2.
No L Day—hard to find any
other holidays or observances but here is a whimsical one requiring a person to
omit the letter “L” in speech and writing which is harder than you think but
would advance in politics some degree of civility by banning one of Trump’s
favorite words in describing his opponents—“Losers.”
3. 1975 Number One S ong—celebrating
the number one song in 1975 on a brief run of one week in that position Let’s Do It Again by the Staple Singers.
Here is a link to the Staple Singers performing Let’s Do It Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIS4P8xbPtg
4.
National Pumpkin Pie Day—celebrating
the what must be the essential desert for Thanksgiving and also Christmas.
5. In
The Twilight Zone Death Awaits—celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1924 of producer and direct of film and TV, Rod
Sterling whose Twilight Zone was a favorite of viewers in the late 50’s and
early 60’s. This very creative man was a smoker and after suffering several
heart attacks had another fatal heart while undergoing open heart surgery and
died at the far too early age of 50.
On
this day in:
a.
336 the first documentary evidence of that a Christmas celebration occurred in
Rome. .
b.1868
President Andrew Johnson, the first President to be impeached but not
convicted, unconditionally pardoned all Confederate war veterans.
c. 1914 along portions of the Western
Front the Christmas Truce began, involving hundreds of British, French and
German soldiers who laid down their weapons to mingle in “No Man’s Land”
fraternize, exchange small gifts and even play soccer.
d. 1974 in a Secret Service slow to
learn moment Marshall Fields, dressed in Arabic clothing drove his Chevrolet
Impala through a White House gate stopping four feet from the portico, Although
he claimed his car was loaded with explosives, he surrendered after a four hour
standoff. Fortunate for us President Ford was not present at the White House and
the explosives turned out to be flares.
e. 2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aka the Underware Bomber failed in his attempt to bring down a Northwest
Airlines flight to Detroit by detonating plastic explosives he had hidden in
his underwear. This scumbag whose visa
should have been revoked by Clinton’s State Department was convicted and is now
serving four life sentences plus 50 years in a federal maximum security prison.
Reflections on Christmas: “Christmas
waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more
beautiful.” Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, noted American evangelist—Hope your
world today and in the coming days is a softer, more beautiful one sated with
the gift of peace.
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December 25, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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