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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 12, 2014: Slow day and week (and I mean another day
of scrambling to find holidays of note) for holidays but pulled these
rabbits out of the hat to celebrate:
1.
Bedford Day---Read below to see what you have missed in the past.
2.
National Pharmacist Day--Wonder if online spammers venerated on this day?
3.
National Youth Day in India- With 363 million under 15 (larger than
population of U.S.)
On this day in:
a. 1967 Dr. James Bedford (the reason for Bedford Day) became the
first person to be cyronically preserved to await resuscitation
due to medical advances (still waiting in frozen purgatory).
b. 1998
19 European nations agreed to ban human cloning--no more dreams of
immortality
save in the legacy of one's acts and the acts of one's issue.
c. 2013 in a testament to the collateral damage of progress,
Beiging's air pollution declared to be hazardous to human health.
One of the next ethical issues
facing us mere mortals as stem cells offer great therapeutic progress in
treating disease and damage to the human body: "The cloning of human
beings is on most of lists of things to worry about from
Science, along with genetic engineering, behavior control, transplanted
heads, computer poetry, and the unrestrained growth of plastic
flowers." Lewis Thomas, noted 20th Century biologist and writer. Amen
to the scrouge of computer poetry--a pox upon it say the Alaskanpoet
Condolences to the loss of Luck's passing luck in the Colts loss to the
Patriots. Like all good Stanford quarterbacks, Andrew will learn and the
Colts will be back next year in hooves.
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, pending litigaton against the California
Teacher's Association infringement of the 1st Amendment and Cartels and funding issues facing Colorado's pot growers and retailers.
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