1. World Meteorological
Day--UN promulgated holiday to promote the development and exchange of
weather and climate technology to provide for warnings of natural weather
related disasters, like yet another strong snow storm on target to hit the
Eastern U.S. seaboard.
2. National Black Marriage Day--observed since 2003 to promote stable and lasting
marriages in the Black Community as the best way to help children advance out
of poverty.
3. OK Day--"OK" first used on this day in the Boston
Globe in 1839; hope your day is an OK one and that your bracket choices advanced.
4. Tsunami Awareness Week--great observance especially in living at sea level along
the Pacific Ocean Rim of Fire with an evacuation plan to higher ground know by
all in the house and the flood insurance policy in force.
On this
day in:
a.
1857 Elisha Otis installed his first elevator in New York City.
b. 1993
President Ronald Reagan unveiled his Strategic Defense Initiative which
ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, a collapse which Putin
appears to be determined to put back together.
c. 1994 in
an another example of why flying Aeroflot is not a good idea and should be
avoided like the plague, Aeroflot Flight 583 crashed in Siberia killing all 75
people aboard when the pilot's 15 year old son accidentally disengaged the auto
pilot---why he was in the cock pit, we will never know.
Predicting the weather is like trying to beat
the Mother Nature Casino at Vegas: “The
ultimate goal of a meteorologist is to set up differential equations of the
movements of the air and to obtain, as their integral, the general atmospheric
circulation, and as particular integrals the cyclones, anticyclones, tornados,
and thunderstorms.” Andrija Maurovic, noted comic book author and the Father of
Croatian and Yugoslav comics--which explains why this preceding statement makes
little sense and why Mother Nature like the house in Vegas always wins in the
long run.
Please
enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below
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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 on the death of Pastor Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro
Baptist Church; Obama's "sanctions" compared to Rolling Thunder 49
years ago: Mustangs advance in the Dance
to await the Shockers; Russian Roulette with Putin; EPA's war against a Wyoming
family; on Jolly's upset win over Sink in the House's 13th District of Florida;
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; Newport Beach's assault on recovery
homes, including the Ohio House; 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 23, 2014 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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