Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--March 1, 2014:
As California is finally enjoying some rain from Winter Storm Titan and to the
east the rest of the country braces for yet another wave of freezing cold and
snow as Titan moves out of California, I hope you take the time to email your
cable or satellite provider to televise some of the Iditarod Race which mushed
off from Anchorage at 10:00 A.M. in 24 degree temperatures. Hope you enjoy the
holidays, factoids and quote for the day and are relishing the much needed
rain in California:
1. Iditarod
Race Day--celebrating the start of The
Last Great Race, the Iditarod from Anchorage to Nome, one thousand miles over
ice and snow in subfreezing weather, the last true test of human and dog versus
Mother Nature.
2. National Pig Day--not celebrating the proclivity of our elected officials
to load up every bill with massive amounts of pork, but to honor the actual
pig, one of the more intelligent animals. If a pig and able to view what is
going on in D.C., I would be insulted over politicians defamation of my good
name--"pork".3. World Endometriosis Day (Wear Yellow Day)--creating awareness of and appeal for more research on a very painful and debilitating disease affecting close to 200 million women worldwide.
4. End Discrimination Day --first observed this year pursuant to proclamation of UN calling for an end to discrimination against those suffering from AIDS.
On this day in:
a. 1871 the Articles of Confederation were ratified by the 13 former colonies, later replaced by the forming of the United States created by the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
b. 1961 by executive order President JFK created the Peace Corps, still in existence and has provided over 200,000 volunteers to 139 countries, including the U.S., and is still going strong today.
c. 2006 Wikipedia publishes its 1,000,000th article on of all things the Jordan Hill Railway Station in Scotland--knowledge dissemination is a great thing spreading much faster than we mere humans can process, digest and then rationally act on, but at least it is there.
As we shrink our military to dangerous levels, have used up our quota of Obama Red Lines, and retreat into the military equivalent of Fort America, maybe a better way to promote peace even with the Putins of the world: "There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans." Helen Thomas, author and senior member of the White House Press Corps who died last year after 50 years of making Presidents, bureaucrats and members of Congress quake in the shoes, especially when trying to deceive us.
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 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and Obama feckless response; the banning cheering at youth basketball games in Rathdrum, Idaho; Potomac fever infecting the Governors’ Conference; the Cal Ripken, Jr. equivalent in the House, John Dingell after almost 60 years announcing his retirement; FCC plan to investigate diversity of news coverage to the great concern of the media (now shelved due to outrage in the media); Nebraska judge saving Obama by enjoining Keystone XL; Kerry calling global warming the new weapon of mass destruction; chaos in the Ukraine; OC Sheriff's Deputies getting paid for donning and doffing their uniforms; the FAA grounding drone delivery of Valentine's Day Roses; Arctic Vortex slamming the U.S to join a great list of comments on the newsworthy times, in rhyme of course.
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1, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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