Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—May 12, 2014: Trust all enjoyed the
holiday yesterday and will enjoy the holidays found for today along with the
factoids and quote and a limerick composed in honor of Limerick
Day.
1. International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness
Day—this is one disease not
really well known or easily diagnosed that you do not want to have since no amount of
coffee or Red Bull will overcome its effects.
2. Limerick Day—another reason why the Irish,
especially the poets among them, should
rule the world-- There
once was a poet from Sandy Beach/That the bergs from le Conte would reach/Blue white
mounds of ice on the sand/No wonder Alaska is the Great Land/Clams below
chilled for him to beseech
3.
Odometer Day—celebrating the invention of
the odometer on this day in 1847.
4. National
Nutty Fudge Day—another great food idea that will defer dieting after
the sumptuous Mother’s Day brunch you may
have enjoyed yesterday.
On this day
in:
a. 1935 Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous)
met for the first time in Akron, Ohio.
b. 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world’s first working programmable,
fully automatic computer in Berlin, which fortunately for the Allies was not
deemed to be important to the German war effort.
c. 2008 U.S. Immigration agents conducted the largest-ever raid of a workplace
in Postville, Iowa, arresting almost 400 illegal aliens many of whom given the
current administration’s policies are probably back in this country.
A better definition of insanity: “Insanity is not doing the same thing over and over
again expecting different results; insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again knowing full well what the results will be” Anon
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 Mother’s Day, climbing into the
mountains to be nearer to God; the 2014 Boston Marathon; 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 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 Boko Haram’s jihadist war on school
girls; Blues and Reds uniting to force approval of Keystone XL; Condi Rice at
Rutgers’ loss withdrawing as a commencement speaker; death of a 77 year old
pilot at air show trying to cut a ribbon; more on Phoenix VA deaths; the
just released nonredacted Benghazi emails; Kerry’s apartheid characterization
of Israel; Obama’s admission that he does not know whether new “sanctions” will
work against Putin; the scandal of vets dying in Phoenix while waiting to see a
doctor; coffee as the new wonder drug to curtail Type II Diabetes to join
numerous other comments on news events always in rhyme of course.
©May 12,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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