Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—May 8, 2014: As always, after some
searching, I found these holidays worthy of mention here or celebrating in
culinary fashion, to go with the factoids and quote to enjoy as you are getting
ready to celebrate Mother’s Day and are
stressing out over what to get and how to celebrate the day.
1. World Fair Trade Day—celebrating since
2004 organizations around the world committed to 10 principles of fair trade,
including no child labor and safe working conditions.
2. Red Cross Day—celebrated on the birthday,
May 8, of Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross since 1922 to honor the
contribution of one of the great charitable organizations in existence—the go-to-charity
and relief organization in times of wars and disasters.
3.
V-E Day—celebrating victory in World War II
over Germany on this day in 1945 after almost six long years of war.
4. National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day—definitely
a good day to plan for steps to take care of your pets in case of a disaster as
they like small children cannot plan for themselves and disasters will wreck
havoc on most animals.
5.
National Coconut Cream Pie Day—one food item
that has two uses—one as a dessert to enjoy and the other ala Soupy Sales to be
used in the act of pieing someone, preferably a disliked politician, in the
face.
On this day
in:
a. 1980 the World Health Organization announced the eradication of small pox.
b. 1984 in a tit-for-tat moment the Soviets announced a boycott of the Summer
Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation over the U.S. boycott of the 1980
Olympics held in Moscow due to the Soviet’s war in Afghanistan.
c. 1987 Senator Gary Hart seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination as
President dropped out of the race due to the Donna Rice Affair.
One of history’s great bargains on the communicable disease
front: “In 1967 the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate
smallpox. It took a coordinated, world wide effort, and cost $130 million. By
1977 smallpox had disappeared.” Liya Kebede, noted Ethiopian born model and
maternal health advocate.
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 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 8, 2014
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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