1. Fossil Fools Day--"celebrated" since 2003 by radical environmentalists, many of whom
from the Administrator on down seem to have found employment at our EPA, to
oppose the use of fossil fuels for energy--as we become energy independent not
because of bio diesel but because of shale gas and tar sands oil, hope this
holiday is relegated to the trash heap of good intentions disastrous
consequences.
2. Edible
Book Day--definitely a holiday to sink all your teeth into--literacy
and chocolate in one powerful punch and providing a new hypocrisy that the
number one edible book in Godiva Chocolate of course is How To Lose Weight
In A Page A Day.
3. Poetry and the Creative Mind Day/Reading Is Funny Day--what a
great duo of holidays to really celebrate after you wash the chocolate of your
fingers from your edible book.
On this day in:
a. 1960
TIROS-1, an early U.S. weather satellite, transmitted the first television
image from space.
b. 1970
President Nixon signed legislation requiring the Surgeon General's warning on
the health risk of smoking to be placed on cigarette packs and cartons and
banning the advertising of cigarettes on TV.
Despite increasing evidence that smoking is the number one preventable
disease in this country, killing both the smoking and those exposed to it,
tobacco use still claims over 400,000 lives a year, counting as its victims
five of the models who were the most iconic advertising images ever to appear
in print or TV, the Marlboro Man.
c. 2004 Google announced Gmail to
the public.
Iconic April Fools' Day
sayings: 1. The check is in the mail. 2. Your Target Card data is safe with us.
3. I have read the ACA from top to bottom and I understand its provisions. 4,
The Healthcare.gov website is up and running. 5. If you like your plan you can
keep it, period. 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.
©April 1, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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