Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For March 6, 2016. Unfortunately,
still 320 days to go in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term but
fortunately thanks to trainloads of snow from the Fairbanks area, the Iditarod,
the Last Great Race on Earth, kicked off Saturday from Anchorage for its
ceremonial start, albeit abbreviated to only three miles and in a few hours today
the real race will mush off from Willow, Alaska. Here is a photo of last year’s
winner Dallas Seavey mushing off in Saturday’s ceremonial start.
I trust your Sunday is off to a great start
and as always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a
music link to Madonna, factoids of interest, a relevant quote by Benjamin
Oliver looking forward to enjoying a some Oreos, 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. Root,
Root Root Canal Day—honoring the accomplishments of dentists who are the last line of
defense against the relentless assault on our teeth due to our proclivity to
ignore good dental hygiene.
2. Day
of the Dude—commemorated since the founding of dudeism by Oliver Benjamin in
2005 to promote the philosophy of “take it easy,” “go with the flow” and Taoism
on a diet stripped of the medicinal and metaphysical.
3. 1995
Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1995 on a run of seven weeks in that position Take a Bow by
Madonna. Here is a link to Madonna performing Take a Bow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDeiovnCv1o
4. National
Oreo Day—celebrating addictive snack food.
5. Who’s
On First—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1906 of an iconic comedian
and pudgy duo of the Abbot and Costello team, Lou Costello who died way too
early at the age of 52 of a heart attack.
On this day
in:
a. 1836 after a siege of
13 days, the Alamo was captured by 3,000 Mexican troops resulting in the death
of all of its 136 defenders, including Davy Crockett.
b. 1857 in one of SCOTUS’
objectionable decisions which helped to accelerate the path of the U.S. toward
the Civil War, the court ruled in Dredd Scott v. Sandford that
African-Americans whether free or slaves were not American citizens and had no
standing to sue in federal court and the banning of slavery in territories
pursuant to the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
c. 1943 Norman Rockwell’s
published the iconic Freedom from Want in
the Saturday Evening Post as part of the Four
Freedoms Series.
d. 19 67
in a visible rejection to the failure of communism to advance the needs and
dreams of its people, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, defected
to the United States.
e. 1981 after 19 years
Walter Cronkite, the anchor for CBS Evening News, signed off for the last time.
Reflections on the Dude and
Dudeism: “The Dude is an extreme
case, but he provides an ideal which can help you to bring a little more
"Dude" into your life, without giving up on the rat race entirely. … I grew up in the 1980s, which was a very ambitious and materialistic
time — the era of the Yuppies. Even as a youth, I found it frightening and
false. … The reason I embarked on a 10-year backpacking journey was so I could avoid being
brainwashed by the machine of industry, and find the space and freedom to
indulge my imagination.” Oliver Benjamin
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blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In
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March 6, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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