Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—May 14, 2014: Trust all enjoyed looking
for a leprechaun yesterday after enjoying a bowl of Irish stew and will enjoy
this sparse list of holidays found for today along with the factoids and quotes.
1. Stars and Stripes Forever Day—celebrating
the anniversary of the first public performance of John Phillips Souza’s march
Stars and Stripes Forever on May 14, 1897 at Philadelphia with President
McKinley in attendance.
2. Underground America Day—celebrating not a
rebirth of nuclear fallout shelters but rather to create awareness of the thousands
of homeless people across this country that live in the tunnels of our major
cities and appropriately observed the same day as Donate
a Day’s Wages to Charity Day.
3.
Receptionist Day—celebrating the service of
receptionists who are with voicemail and teleconferencing becoming an
endangered species.
4. National
Buttermilk Biscuit Day—I kid you not on this one and if any doubt go to
Popeye’s Louisiana Chicken today and receive with your order a free one in
celebration.
On this day
in:
a. 1796 Edward Jenner administered the first small pox vaccine in the first
step of eradicating this deadly disease.
b. 1948 David Ben Gurion declared Israel
to be an independent nation effective on the termination of the UN British
Mandate the next day, thereby prompting the Arab Israel War of 1948.
c. 2013 in a wakeup call not heard by us, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria
declared a state of emergency in three northeast states of Borno (site of
recent kidnapping of 300 schoolgirls), Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist
activities of Boko Haram, an organization which the Clinton State Department
refused to label as a terrorist organization, a decision which may haunt
Hillary Clinton in 2016.
As
we pray that the innocents are not sold into slavery by Boko Haram, some sobering
thoughts of what we are dealing with in radical Islam: "I was shown the hell- fire and
that the majority of its dwellers were women who were
ungrateful" "If it had been given me to order someone to
prostrate themselves in front of someone other than God, I would surely
have ordered women to prostrate themselves in front of their husbands."
Hadith, Mohammad's
Tradition
Please enjoy
the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if
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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 ICE releasing convicted murderers and
violent felons onto our streets; celebs boycotting Beverly Hills Hotel due to
Brunei adopting Sharia law; 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 to join numerous other comments on news
events always in rhyme of course.
©May 14,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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