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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 26, 2014: Here
are some unique and traditional holidays to celebrate today:
1. Republic Day--celebrated by the world's largest republic India and the establishment of it constitution--nice to know we are not the only constitutional republic.
2.
World Leprosy Day--Molokai may be a
resort island only now but leprosy still infects 200,000 people a year and
sadly totally treatable with free drugs by WHO.
3. Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement Day--what a way to start and end your Sunday-- words of
encouragement to your fellow man---Hopefully since our President was not
crafting his State of the Union Address yesterday on Opposite Day, he will
insert some words of encouragement not pen threats to the Reds in Congress.
4. Lotus 1-2-3 Day--celebrating the introduction of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet
software in 1983 on this date which was the first successful spreadsheet
software for microcomputers until Excel.
On this day in:
a. 1838 Tennessee became the first state to enact prohibition and to
this day still has dry counties including Lynchburg, the site of the Jack
Daniel's Distillery--how is that for a regulation designed to promote the
sale of products.
b. 1998, in one of the greatest Presidential "periods" of all times,
President Clinton went on national TV to deny having "sexual relations
with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Can hardly wonder what kind of
"First Man" he would make in 1916 if Reds cannot find a credible female
candidate like Condi Rice and Hillary dodges the Benghazi bullet and is
elected.
c.
2006 Western Union discontinued its telegram service--another victim of the
ease if sending and receiving documents by email and sending them back
electronically signed.
Actions always speak louder than
words: "Politics
gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I
hope I never get into that." –Bill Clinton, to a woman friend while he
was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. 1916 is very far away, but if Hillary
wins could be a very interesting 4 years, too bad Leno is retiring so his
jokes emanating for the First Man will not be there to entertain us.
As we approach 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 Super Bowl 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; Pennsylvania AG's
office investigating massive 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, which, hopefully, will not have been crafted yesterday on Opposite Day.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Ridley's Believe It Or Not--This Day In History January 26, 2014 Toad Hollow Words of Encouragement Day
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