Ridley's Believe It Or Not--February 17,
2014: As you are enjoying Presidents Day off from
work and thankful the government is also closed, hope you have time to
thank an entrepreneur for his service, find a lighter home for your hermit
crab, set reasonable goals for your doing your way and hopefully enjoy the
factoids, holidays and quote for the day:
1. National Entrepreneurship Week--honoring the entrepreneurial spirit especially those
entrepreneurs that dodge the traps of over regulation by government, taxes,
lack of capital, and swirling adverse fortunes to succeed, the true drivers of
our economy. Great idea but instead of a week we need a year or even better yet given the national debt hole we have
dug, a decade!
2. National Crab Racing Day--observed by those free spirits that turn their dens into Santa
Anita Race Tracks and invite their friends over to race hermit crabs--I kid you
not!
3. My Way Day--official day to do things your way but unless you have the
power to add "Or The Highway" you might be out of a job, relationship
or school, or in Harry Reid's case you might have to wait until January 3,
2015.
4. World Human Spirit Day-- a day to
wonder at our achievements on this planet as humans, and to contemplate the
endless possibilities we have as spirits (another day that individually each of
us should daily throughout our lives celebrate).
On this day in:
a. 1933 to the joyous cries of "the bar is open" the Blaine Act
becomes law, ending prohibition in the United States.
b.
1959 Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite was put into orbit (will be up
there for another 300 years) transmitting data on weather for only 19 days.
c. 1969
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash recorded an album of 12 songs unfortunately never
released.
Words to observe on World
Human Spirit Day on the mosaic of life by one of the great black and white
photographers of all times: "Millions of men have lived to fight,
build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling
force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly
affecting the roots of human spirit." Ansel Adams.
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 Bode Miller and the human spirit just posted; an
original poem for Cupid on Valentine's Day; an original poem to honor Cory
Remsburg, and original poem to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Just posted for
your enjoyment on Rhymes
On The Newsworthy Times poems on the FAA grounding drone delivery of
Valentine's Day Roses; Chairman of OC Board of Supervisors double dipping; a
Perfect Gift for Valentine’s Day; Arctic Vortex slamming the U.S.; the freedom
of the press taking nose dive; weed slowing HIV in monkeys; Obamacare as an
albatross for Blues; whimsical note on Cordova, AK Ice Worm Festival; federal
regulations limiting calories in school lunches while putting on lavish state
dinners; Michael Sam declaring he's gay before the NFL draft; the Beatles' 50
year anniversary of appearing on the Ed Sullivan to join a great list of
comments on the newsworthy times, in rhyme of course.
©February 17,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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