Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For December 26, 2016 May your credit cards
still have availability for the Day after Christmas bargains; the carnage in Aleppo
is finally over with Syrian and Russian forces occupying a totally devastated
city (hard to believe the barbarity of Assad and the fecklessness of this
administration; Israel summoned its UN Ambassador home for consultations as a
result of the Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements (if
Trump wants to start saving money, a reduction in the $8 billion we contribute
to the UN would be a great place to start); Obama is on feeding frenzy hobbling
our ability to become energy independent moving full speed ahead with pardons,
commutations and releases of Gitmo detainees and is being urged by some Blues
to recognize a Palestinian State before leaving office; another music legend
George Michael passed away in his sleep at the age of 53; cause of death no
announced; Kim Jong Un revealed his wackiness today in demanding that all North
Koreans celebrate the birth on December 24, 1919 of his grandmother (if there ever
is someone who deserves to die from diabetes Kim Jong Un is the perfect
candidate); in what has to be one of the unbelievable news items of the day,
Solano County is prosecuting a man for a DUI with zero alcohol in his system
only a trace a amount of caffeine (wonder is the lights are burning late in
Starbucks over this); Carrie Fisher is reported to now be in stable condition
after a heart attack on a flight to L.A.
As always, I
hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to George
Harrison, factoids of interest for this day in history, relevant observations
from Mao Tse Tung, looking forward to enjoying a few candy canes from your
Christmas tree, 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. First Day of Kwanza—a weeklong
celebration to enable African-Americans to reconnect with their cultural
heritage that was started in 1966 by Maulana Karenga.
2.
National Thank You Note Day—since a
thank you note is always appreciated by the people who have given you Christmas
presents today would be the perfect day to send out thank you notes even if you
intend to take the gift back.
3.
Number One Song in 1970—celebrating
the number 1 song in 1970 on a run of 4 weeks in that position “My Sweet Lord’ by
George Harrison. Here is a link to George Harrison performing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNGnIKUdMI
Note the cigarette that ultimately killed him in one of the photos of him as a
very young man.
4.
National Candy Cane Day—now that Christmas is over a time to celebrated the
removal of any edible candy canes so they can be enjoyed now as opposed to when
the tree is taken out in several days such that they are not as edible as they
should be.
5. Easier to Overthrow the Government Than to Rule—celebrating the birth on this day in 1893 of Mao Tse Tung
who ousted Chiang Kai-Scheck but almost destroyed China with the Great Leap
Forward which resulted in mass deaths from famine in the millions and the
Cultural Revolution which decimated China of its intellectual human capital.
On this day in:
1. 1776
in a daring move George Washington’s Continental Army with morale sinking due
to earlier defeats crossed the Delaware River and attacked a force of Hessians
at Trenton, New Jersey, soundly defeating them with almost no casualties to the
Americans.
2.
1861 the U.S. released two Confederate envoys to England that it had illegally
removed from a British ship on November 8, 1961 after England indicated it
would declare war if they were not released (what a disaster that would have
been if England had allied itself with the Confederacy to break the naval
blockade.
3.
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announced the isolation of radium.
4. 1919
the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New Yankees and the “Curse of the
Bambino” was born marking a drought of 86 years from the last World Series won
by Boston in 1918 of 86 years.
5.
1963 the Beatles released in the United States “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “I
Saw Her Standing There" marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an
international level.
Reflections from the birthday boy on war, guns and politics: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. War
can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is
necessary to take up the gun. Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is
politics with bloodshed.” Mao Tse Tung. Sadly he is right on the second and third
observation but in the case of the first in the U.S. save for the exception of
Donald Trump, power grows out the funds of the SuperPacs and in Trump’s case
also out of the power of social media. Please enjoy
the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
like them, retweet and 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 or go
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just This Day in History.
© December 26, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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