Ridley's Believe It Or Not--This Day In History January 2, 2014

Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 2, 2014 No holidays of note unless celebrating Carnival Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis and if here celebrating Run It Up the Flagpole and See If It Sticks Day (good day for ACA excuses as people start going to their doctors not knowing if they have insurance); and on this day in 1903 President Teddy Roosevelt shut down the post office in Indianola, Mississippi due to its refusal to accept a Black and female postmaster; in 1974, President Nixon signed legislation, in reponse to the OPEC oil embargo, lowering the nation's speed limit to 55 m.p.h.; and in 1980 in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter recalled the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and delayed Senate action on SALT 2, signaling an end to the detente that had prevailed during the Nixon administration (we also boycotted the 1980 Olympics held in the Soviet Union).

If you concentrate on saving life and limb as opposed to fuel economy, what is the Speed limit?
"Never drive faster than your Guardian Angel can fly." Anon Wise words.  
As you fire up the 24/7 work week after New Year's Day and the disappointing loss by Stanford in the Rose Bowl, take five and please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them join 134 growing  followers and  please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good and 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.