Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 11, 2014: Slow day and week (and I mean another day of
scrambling to find holidays of note) for holidays but pulled these rabbbits out
of the hat to celebrate:
1. Write Your Name In Morse Code Day: .- .-.. .- ... -.- .- -. .--. --- . - .-. .... -.-- -- . ... for my
1. Write Your Name In Morse Code Day: .- .-.. .- ... -.- .- -. .--. --- . - .-. .... -.-- -- . ... for my
handle. Link for you to amaze friends: http://moresecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html
2.
Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day--If you do not need another reason
to
quit.
3.
Toss Fruitcake Day--Will never replace Curling as a Winter Olympics sport!
On this day in:
a. 1949 the first recorded case of snowall in Los Angeles.
b. 1964 the Surgeon General Luther Terry released a comprehensive report
indicating that
smoking
may be hazardous to one's health leading to a decline in smoking rates and by
credited
with saving 8 million American lives since its release (sadly 42 million are
not able
to break the habit and over 400 thousand die each year).
c. 1989 140 nations agreed to ban the use of chemcial weapons.
When you consider the survivors and
the second hand smoke, Kurt may have been wrong: "The public health
authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking
heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of
suicide." Kurt Vonnegut, noted American author--Slaughter House Five
Hope this is a day for you and loved ones you know to quit.
Kudos
to all the interesting consumer electronic products we will be hard pressed to
afford or understand and use all the functions on display the Internation CES
happening this week in Las Vegas.
Take
five from the first full week of work in 2014
and please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter
account below (if you like them, retweet and join 134 growing followers
and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining
poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for an
original poem for Christmas just posted and poem on the 2013 in review
just posted and on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com
poems on the belated admission by the State Department that Benghazi was a
terrorist attack and comment on pending litigaton against the California
Teacher's Association's infringement of the 1st Amendment.
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www.alaskanpoethistory.blogspot
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