Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For February 9, 2016, 346 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame
duck term. Interesting theater on the political front today as the nation’s
first primary in New Hampshire is now being held as Mother Nature is bringing snow
and cold to escort the voters to the polling places. Trust your Taco Tuesday is
off to a great start and you are looking forward to enjoying Popeyes leg and
thigh special for $1.49. As always, I hope
you enjoy Tuesday’s holidays and observances, a music link to Sly and
the Family Stone, factoids of interest, a relevant quote by Mark Twain, looking
forward to enjoying a bagel with lox, blessed with a positive attitude
and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift
for any memorable events like Valentines’ Day 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. Mardi Gras—great day to be in New Orleans today celebrating Mardi Gras which is one
really great party to purge sate one’s partying desires before the beginning of
Lent. Definitely this is an event that should be on your bucket list.
2. Safer Internet Day—commemorating the need to promote safe
use of the internet to protect children from predators and unsafe behavior and
given the proclivity of groups like ISIS to radicalize and recruit using the
internet the observance should be expanded to promote closing those fanatics’
access to the internet.
3. 1969 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song
in 1969 on a run of four weeks in that position Every Day People by Sly and the Family Stone. Here is a link to Sly and the Family
Stone performing Every Day People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JvkaUvB-ec
4. National Bagels and Lox Day--celebrating a
really great way to start breakfast especially if you add capers, onions and
cream cheese.
5. Death
Is Not Fiction—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1981
of James Sullivan aka Rev, songwriter and drummer for Avenged Sevenfold who
after writing Fiction died three days of an
overdose of prescription drugs at the age of 28.
On this day in:
a. 1825 after no candidate
received a majority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives
elected John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
b. 1870 President Grant signed a
joint resolution of Congress creating the U.S. Weather Bureau, forming the
basis for countless jokes about weather predictions gone awry.
c. 1895 William G. Morgan invented the game Mintonette which later became known as
volleyball.
d. 1964 the
Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show watched by a record
73 million television viewers.
e. 1971 the
Sylmar Earthquake, a 6.7 earthquake, in 12 seconds of shaking killed 64 and
caused more than $500 million in property damage.
Reflections on Mardi Gras in New Orleans: “It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the
world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American
has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.”
Mark Twain in a letter to Pamela Moffet March 1859. Having experienced Mardi
Gras in 1970 when Al Hirt was the grand marshal, Mark Twain was right.
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© February 9, 2016, Michael P. Ridley
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