Ridley's Believe It or Not-This Day In History-February 26, 2014 Personal Chef Day

Ridley's Believe It Or Not--February 26, 2014:  Again, almost skunked as the shadow of St. Patrick's Day continues to dominate, but managed to find these gems. Hope you enjoy the holidays,  factoids and quote for the day and are busy planning a wish list of meals for your personal chef:

           1. Personal Chef Day--if you are tired of all those microwaveable meals in the freezer section loaded with sodium and are culinary challenged to even boil water, great day to splurge, hire a personal chef, invite some friends over and enjoy a great meal. 
          2. Levi Strauss Day--celebrating the birthday of Levi Strauss who formed Levi Strauss and Co in 1853 in San Francisco and became the first to make blue jeans; if a woman good day to wear your tightest fitting pair if you celebrate in excess #1 and cannot fit into them the next day.
         3. Liberation Day (Kuwait)--celebrating if a Kuwaiti the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq on this day in 1991.
         4. For Pete's Sake's Day--observing a little anger management and toning down one's more vocal curse so as to not use the Lord's name in vain...Not sure why the older minced oath meaning the same thing, which I think has a nice ring to it, For the Love of Mike does not have a the holiday. 
          On this day in:
              a. 1917 the Original Dixieland Band recorded the first jazz record.
              b. 1993 in a wake up call which we did not hear or remember well, Al Qaeda terrorists rented a Ryder truck, drove it into the underground parking structure of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, exited the building and it exploded 12 minutes later, failing to bring down the building but killing 6 and injuring a 1,000. All terrorists were arrested and convicted and are in prison. Unfortunately, we had all the warnings in the world as to their coming into the country and failed to act.
              c. 2013 scientists at the University of Illinois announced the creation of stretchable batteries to power the coming wave of flexible electronic products.
A thought on the War on Terror on this anniversary of the bombing on the North Tower as we get ready to pull out of Afghanistan. “Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings...I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.” Christopher Hitchens, noted British-American writer and journalist, author of Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left  Thanks to troops like those completing their final tour in that feudal stinkhole, we will prove the veracity of his observation.
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                                    ©February 26, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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