Ridley's Believe It Or Not—December
4, 2014: Trust your Thursday is proving to be a great
one. As always I hope you enjoy the
holidays and observances, factoids and a quote from Jeffrey Haas,
with a smile on your sunscreened face, wondering if this is the day you will
enjoy a few cookies, blessed with a positive attitude even though you know you
will have to wade through tons of spam in your inbox, and secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event or the coming Christmas, 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. National Dice
Day—celebrating all the games you need dice to play with.
2. National
Cookie Day—celebrating a classic snack especially if ordered from
Kelli’s Best either to enjoy or as a gift during Christmas--http://www.kelliscookies.com/
3. Santa’s
List Day—a day to make sure one is on the nice side of Santa’s list as
opposed to naughty.
4. 1963
Number One Song—celebrating the number one song on this day in 1963 Dominique by the Singing Nun.
On this day
in
a. 1791 the first edition of The
Observer, the world’s first Sunday edition newspaper, was published.
b. 1881 the first issue of
the Los Angeles Times was published.
c. 1969 Black Panthers
Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed in a police raid of their apartment in
Chicago while sleeping—no surprise communities of color distrust the police.
d. 1980 the English rock
band Led Zeppelin disbanded following the death of their drummer John Bonham.
Reflections on Hampton’s death: “Of course, there's also the legacy that, without a young
leader, I think the West Side of Chicago degenerated a lot into drugs. And
without leaders like Fred Hampton, I think the gangs and the drugs became much
more prevalent on the West Side. He was an alternative to that. He talked about
serving the community, talked about breakfast programs, educating the people,
community control of police. So I think that that's unfortunately another
legacy of Fred's murder.” Jeffrey Haas, one of the lawyers representing the
Hampton family in its wrongful death suit against the Chicago police department,
which suit was settled for almost 2 million dollars.Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join almost 150 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for comments on important and breaking news events that should be of interest. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com Ridley's Believe It Or Not Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times
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