Ridley’s Believe
It Or Not For February 21, 2016. Unfortunately, still 334 days to go in President
Obama’s pathetic lame duck term but fortunately only 13 days until the start of
and my daily updates on the Iditarod, the Last Great Race on Earth. Interesting
theater in South Carolina and Nevada yesterday with Hillary barely defeating
Sanders and Rubio besting Cruz for second place while Jeb Bush, the candidate
who raised the most money and at the beginning of this theater was the odds-on
favorite, suspended his campaign. I
trust your Sunday is off to a great start and as always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a
music links to Dolly Parton, factoids of interest, a relevant quote by Carl
Bernstein looking forward to enjoying a few sticky buns, blessed with a
positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if
you want to find a gift for any memorable events 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. International Mother Language Day—promoted by the UNESCO since 1999 to create
awareness of linquistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.
2. National Card
Reading Day—commemorating the practice of sending out
ecards and snail mail cards to friends and family---another scheme by the
Hallmarks of the world to increase revenue.
3. 1981 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song
in 1981 on a run of two weeks in that position 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton. Here is a link to Dolly Parton performing
C9 to 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4
4. National Sticky Bun Day—celebrating another snack that appeals to one’s
sweet tooth.
5. Secret
to Long Life Is in the Diet—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1875 Jeanne Calment who ate
copious amounts of olive oil and chocolate (1kg a week) and drank port wine and
who lived to the ripe old age of 122; she was the oldest documented person in
history.
On this day in:
a. 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels published the Communist Manifesto.
b. 1878 the first telephone
directory in the U.S. was distributed to residents of New Haven, Conn. The
directory was a single page with only 50 names.
c. 1947 Edwin Land demonstrated
his Polaroid Land camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City and
introduced the camera to the marketplace in the following year.
d. 1975 in a reminder that all
politicians should take note of that they are not above the law, former
Attorney General John Mitchell and former Nixon advisers H.R. Haldeman and John
Erhlichman were convicted and sentenced to prison for their roles in the
Watergate cover-up and scandal.
e. 1995
Steven Fossett became the first person to fly solo in a balloon across the
Pacific Ocean taking off from South Korea and landing in Leader, Saskatchewan,
Canada. Reflections on Watergate: “The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.” Carl Bernstein, noted journalist who with Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal which led to Nixon’s resignation Unfortunately when it comes to Hillary Clinton and Obama, the media other than Fox seems to have completely forgotten what the press is supposed to do.
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