1. Kick
Butts Day-- celebrated
since 1996 to encourage youth to reject tobacco use and the deceptive marketing
campaigns to lure the young into smoking without whom Big Tobacco would cease to exist after all its customers
were killed off prematurely due to smoking at the rate of 400,000 per year.
2. Return of the Swallows--celebrating the return of the cliff swallows to San Juan
Capistrano after they wintered in Argentina. Great weekend fun complete with
parade this Saturday.
3. Fertility
Goddess Day--celebrated
on the day before the Vernal Equinox and the official beginning of Spring
(still a lot of skeptics in the East, given the amount of Arctic Vortexes
endured).
4. Minnie Canth's Birthday--celebrating in Finland social equality for women and the
birthday of a notable Finnish writer and social activist.
On this
day in:
a.
1931 in a slogan that was to stand for years until Indian Casino gambling and
Atlantic City, gambling was legalized in Nevada--"what happens in Vegas,
stays in Vegas."
b. 1982
Argentinian forces landed in the Falklands, precipitating war with and won by
Great Britain in an amazing feat of logistics and courage by an outnumbered
landing force of British soldiers--tribute to the iron will of Margaret
Thatcher.
c. 2003
justified by reports of WMDs that proved
to be false,American, British and coalition forces invaded Iraq to overthrow
Saddam Hussein.
If you are
looking for a quote to say to kids on Kick the Butt Day: "Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say
to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the
rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't
even really give you a good buzz?'"
Katherine Heigl, noted American actress and producer best
known for her role as "Dr. Issy" on Grey's Anatomy.
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 poems on the Mustangs going to the Dance with a losing record; to honor
Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year old mother suffering from a rare disease who
competed in last year's Iditarod until forced out with a broken pelvis after
600 miles; on Bode Miller and the human spirit; for Cupid on Valentine's Day;
to honor Cory Remsburg to join a great collection of my poems to inspire,
touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy
Times for poems Guinness backing out of sponsoring St. Patrick's Day Parade
in NYC; on Jolly's upset win over Sink in the House's 13th District of Florida
this Tuesday; USS Coronado doing a little whale watching of Dana Point; China's
red line on war in Korea; De Blasio's payback to his union contributors by
attacking charter schools; Rutgers' faculty despicable attempt to ban Condi
Rice from being a commencement speaker; the holiday creep of St. Patrick's Day; the
crash of a Malaysian Air flight; Obama's need for vacation time as Ukraine
crisis unfolds; Newport Beach's assault on recovery homes, including the Ohio
House; food fight between Issa and Cummings as Lerner takes the 5th again;
Sally Jewell, Department of Interior, telling the residents of King Cove,
Alaska to take a hike in placing wildlife over their lives; on students
protesting Keystone XL as the world's largest oil producer militarily occupies
the Crimea: the banning the wearing of the American flag on Cinco de Mayo to
join numerous other comments on news events always in rhyme of course.
©March 19, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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