1. National
Doctors' Day--celebrating the contributions of our overworked,
overregulated and overindebted physicians who are probably wondering if just
leaving med school, how they will service under Obamacare their crushing
student debt from college and med school.
2. National
Week of the Ocean 3/30-4/4 --observing the interdependence of humantiy
with the oceans of the world and the need to protect them; highly appropriate
as in light of the Fligh 370 disaster we are being made painfully aware how
even remote bodies of water like the Indian Ocean are huge salt water trash
dumps.
3. I Am In Control Day--celebrating one of life's great illusions and made
famouse by Alexander Haig as Secretary of State uttering that fateful remark to
national media following President Reagan being shot on March 30, 1981.
4. National Pencil Day--celebrating that great writing instrument fading into
oblivion due to claculators and computers but still needed to play a round of
golf.
5. National Turkey Neck Soup Day--another great holiday to sink your
teeth into or rather dip your soup spoon into, but totally perplexed why not
celebrated the day after Thanksgiving.
On this
day in:
a. 1867 the United States agreed
to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million ($114 million in 2014 dollars
or a little over two days of the value of the oil delivered to Valdez) in a
transaction known as Seward's Folly.
b. 1870 the XV Amendment to the
Constitution is passed prohibiting voter discrimination based on race.
c. 1964 the show Jeopardy then hosted by Art Fleming made
its first appearance of TV; still running today and has to be on anyone's
bucket list to be a contestant.
As we approach
the new frontier of Obamacare and its impact on doctors' abilities to treat
their patients, a reflective thought:
"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.” Norman Cousins,
author of Anatomy of an Illness,
peace advocate and editor for many years of the Saturday Reiviw of
Literature
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 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 30, 2014 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com www.twitter.com/alaskanpoet Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times Ridley's Believe It Or Not www.facebook.com/Alaskanpoet www.linkedin.com/in/octechlaw
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