Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For May 4, 2016 Unfortunately still 261 days to go in President
Obama’s pathetic lame duck term; political theater in high gear as
Cruz after getting trumped by Trump in Indiana faced reality and suspended his
campaign and Kasich is expected to do the same later today; HRC was waxed by
Sanders but is leading in the delegate count due in large part to the super
delegates (mindbogling that the coronation queen has not been able to shut down
a socialist which should have some delegates realizing they are backing a
potentially flawed candidate). As always, I hope your Wednesday is off to a
great start and that you enjoy today’s holidays and observances,
a music link to Amy Grant, factoids of interest, a relevant quote
from Euripides, while looking forward to enjoying a glass of home
brew, 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 Firefighters Day—honoring the contributions of firefighters who put their lives
on the line to protect us and observed on this day as May 4th is the
day to honor St. Florian, the patron saint of firefighters.
2. World Give Day—created by Give
Forward in 2010 to promote a day in which all people regardless of income or wealth
should contribute to a cause of their choice.
3. 1991 Number One Song—celebrating the number
one song in 1991 on a run of two weeks in that position Baby Baby by Amy Grant. Here’s a link to Amy Grant performing Baby Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXuuYnoRdI
4. National Home Brew Day—celebrating a tradition
that goes back over 10,000 years and is probably why early men ceased being
hunters and became farmers so they could grow grain to have the ingredients to brew beer.
5. You Don’t Have to Be a Jock to Be a Sportscaster—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1978 of Erin Andrews, a
sportscaster for Fox and voted by Playboy in 2008 as the sexiest sportscaster
and also famous for getting a multimillion dollar judgment against Marriot for
revealing to David Barrett her room number and dates of attendance so he could
film her in the nude through a peephole in an adjacent room.
On this day in:
a. 1775 Rhode Island
became the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
b. 1904 the U.S. began
construction of the Panama Canal and completed it nine years later.
c. 1953 Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer
Prize for The Old Man and the Sea which
was memorialized by a movie starring Spencer Tracy.
d.
1970 Ohio National Guard troops sent to Kent State to quell demonstrations by
students protesting the invasion of Cambodia opened fire killing four unarmed
students and wounding nine others; sad day in our history made even worse by
the fact that no one was ever charged for this murderous act. The silver lining
in this tragedy was that for the next four days students across the campuses of
the nation’s colleges and universities demonstrated against the killings and
the Vietnam War, bringing us closer to ending a war we could not win and a war we
should never have entered into.
e.
1998 a federal court judge sentenced the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski to four life
sentences plus 30 years without possibility of parole for mailing bombs that
killed three people and injured twenty three others over a a 17 year period.
Reflections applicable to Kent State, Governor Rhodes and Richard
Nixon although written over 2000 years prior to the killings: “Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they
rejoice in having a reserve of youthful citizens, while a king counts this a
hostile element and seeks to slay the leading ones, such as he deems discreet, for
he feareth for his power." --from the Greek tragedy, The Suppliants, by Euripedes
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Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote,
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© May 4, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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