Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History National Pie Day-January 23, 2014

Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 23, 2014:  Since all good things come in threes, here are three holidays to celebrate today:              1. National Pie Day: --I kid you not on this one, but as a highly evolved bosenberrypienivore very pleased the holiday exists.              2. National Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day--one way to insure the end of junk mail--have a contest to see how many mailboxes a snowplow can knock over.               3. National Handwriting Day--celebrate it while you can as texting and Dragon Software are making it a lost art (doctors had long since given up, at least in having their legible). On this day in:              a.  1849 a patent for an envelope making machine was issued (to handle all those handwritten letters we used to write).              b.  1986 the first inductees to the Rock N' Roll Hall of fame were announced (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Bros, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley).              c.  2013 the U. S. reversed existing precedence and announced women would no longer be barred from combat. What took the Pentagon to realize their secret weapon? “I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.” Margaret Mead, noted anthropologists--any doubt on this, just ask most males exiting from  the end of a trial in divorce court. As we appoach Super Bowl XLVIII which may be played in sub freezing temps with snow falling, it is  not who wins or loses, but the quality not of the play but of the Superbowl ads! Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join almost 140 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 to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and an original in poem honoring a 17 year young Progeria victim who died on the eve of becoming an honorary captain for the Patriots  (have tissues handy). Just posted for your enjoyment on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com poems on the collusion between the EPA and environmental groups to kill KeystoneXL with the end of Canadian patience; the Governor's statement that conservatives, pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, anti-gays do not belong in New York; Semper Grati for Semper Fi--two Navy Crosses awarded to two Marines killed in green on blue shooting in Afghanistan; Pennyslvania  AG's office investigating massiive cheating scandal at Philadelphia's public schools--not students but their teachers and principals. Still in the works, a  comment on the Imperial Presidency's power grab and State of Union Address.  www.octechlaw.com www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com  www.twitter.com/alaskanpoet www.alaskanpoetcommentator.blogspot.com  www.alaskanpoethistory.blogspot .com www.facebook.com/Alaskanpoet  www.linkedin.com/in/octechlaw mridley@octechlaw.com