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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 17, 2014: Slim pickings for holidays today, but did find
these gems of questionable popularity (other than National Day in
Minorca) to celebrate:
1.
National Day-Minorca---If you need an excuse for a quick jaunt to the
Mediterranean.
2. Cable Car Day--If you need an excuse to spend a weekend in San
Francisco and ride the cable cars--patented in 1871 by William Smith Hillidie after seeing a horse drawn stage crash after sliding on a hilly, wet San Francisco street, spilling its terrified passengers and killing five horses.
3.
Women in Blue Jeans Day---Celebrate the women in rural America--There is life
not just on Rodeo Drive or Fashion Island and certainly life with more
dollars after shopping there.
4. Hot Heads Chili Days (one day to eat
17th, one day 18th to stop the burning)- Bad
idea to celebrate in California as Governor Brown announced today a drought
emergency for California.
On this day in:
a. 1961 in his farewell address to the American people President
Dwight David Eisenhower in a televised speech warned of the "military
industrial complex".
b.
1994 the Northridge Earthquake, a 6.7 quake, struck California,
killing 57 and injuring 5,000.
c.
1998 blogger Matt Drudge in The Drudge Report released news of the
Lewinsky-Clinton scandal, ultimately leading to Clinton being the second
President to be impeached and breaking ground on the definition of
"sexual relations".
Ike
was right then and just as right today: "In the councils of
government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The
potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will
persist." Dwight David Eisenhower Ike
would probably if he were alive today, added the government and the NSA to
the list.
Take five from your day of 24/7
and please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my
twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 135 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 on a 17 year young Progeria victim who died on the eve of
becoming an honorary captain for the Patriots (have tissues handy)
and an original poem on 2013 in review just posted. Just posted
for your enjoyment on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com
poems on the "Constitution Free Zone" case to go to the Supreme
Court, on the book The Trident and courage of Navy Seals; and on
Cartels and funding risks pot growers and retail sellers in Colorado now
may face. In the works comment on the Imperial Presidency's power grab.
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