Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 5, 2016 Finally only 229 more days to endure President Obama’s pathetic lame duck
term. The tributes to Muhammad Ali are still flowing in http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2016/06/ali-could-no-longer-rope-dope-against.html
but the hiatus in political theater is back with Sanders and Clinton scrambling
in California in a very tight race; if Sanders beats her all the
super-delegates in the world will not salvage this flawed candidate. Outside of
political theater and a testament to the theory that Neolithic man domesticated
plants not primarily for food but to have the ability to brew beer, the city of
Bruges is raising money to build a pipeline to a bottling facility outside its medieval
protected city landmark to enable the transport of beer without the need of
thousands of trucks to despoil the ambience.
As always I trust your weekend is off to a
great start with your weekend plans set and that you will enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, a music link to the Beach Boys, factoids of interest,
a relevant quote from Ryan White (very brave and courageous innocent victim of
AIDS), while looking forward to enjoying some gingerbread (killer
recipe below), blessed with a positive attitude and secure
in the knowledge that, if you want to find a gift for any memorable
events like FATHERS’ DAY, GRADUATIONS, 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. World Environment Day—another
UN observance for worthwhile causes, this one being awareness for preserving
the environment created by the General Assembly in 1976. Wonder how many trees
were sacrificed to create publications extolling the goals of the event and how
much carbon was spewed into the atmosphere to generate the emails to publicize
the goals and on the dark side how many jobs might be lost promoting wars on
fossil fuels under the mantra of climate change.
2. National Cancer
Survivors Day—celebrating for 29 years that with early detection and progress
in medical treatment cancer is no longer the certain death sentence it once was
and with a steady decline in smoking due to laws restricting the places where those
bent on long term, slow suicide can smoke and campaigns creating awareness of
the dangers and social ostracization due to smoking, lung cancer is no longer
the grim reaper it once was.
3. 1965 Number One Song—celebrating the number
one song in 1965 on a run of three weeks in that position “Help Me Rhonda” by the
Beach Boys. Here’s a link to some very young looking Beach Boys performing
another one of their classic songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Te_lCF69Aw
4. National Gingerbread Day—celebrating that today
no need to run to try to impossibly catch the gingerbread man as you have here
a failsafe recipe to create a great snack with the added bonus of cream cheese. http://www.thenibble.com/REVIEWS/MAIN/cookies/cookies2/gingerbread-cake-recipe.asp
5. Hard to See the Invisible Hand—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1723 of the noted economist Adam Smith whose capitalist
precepts have brought incredible prosperity to the world as opposed to the
siren call of socialism which dooms those living under its yoke—look only to its
latest failure Venezuela which despite incredible oil reserves faces starvation
and even more critically a complete collapse of its beer industry due to
socialism.
On this day in:
a. 1851 Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s serial Uncle Tom’s Cabin started
its 10 month serial run in National Era, an
abolitionist newspaper.
b. 1883 in a
classic example of bringing luxury to train travel, the first Orient Express departed from Paris.
c. 1947 in a speech at Harvard University proposed a massive
economic aid program which became known as the “Marshall Plan” to rebuild
Europe.
d. 1968 after winning the California primary
and congratulating Don Drysdale for his record of consecutive scoreless inning,
Robert Kennedy leaves the podium at the Ambassador Hotel only to be shot by
Sirhan Sirhan, moments later and then die the next day.
e. 1981 the Center for Disease and Prevention
Control reported that five people in Los Angeles had a rare pneumonia
associated with persons of severely weakened immune systems; this was the first
sign of AIDS in the United States.
Reflections on AIDS which thanks to research and medical advance is
no longer the death sentence it once was but given the cost of treatment should
be a powerful inducement for all of us to practice safe sex in our lives. “Aids can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for
my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who
you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.” Ryan White, one very brave
child who after a blood transfusion contracted AIDS at 13 but with a tremendous
amount of courage fought the disease before dying at the age of 18.
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© June 5, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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