Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—June 3, 2014: Slow day for holidays again; so
slow I feel if I were reading them on The
Gong Show, I would be gonged off the stage. Hope you enjoy them along with
some hard boiled eggs, preferably pickled, along with a chocolate macaroon along
with the factoids and quote.
1. Chocolate Macaroon Day—celebrating a
great tasty treat.
2. National Egg Day—promoting the
consumption of the incredible, edible egg.
3. Chuck Barris Day—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1928 of Chuck Barris, game show producer for The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game and host of The Gong Show, a true classic as talent
contestants were gonged into submission due sometimes the low quality of their
acts.
4. Mabo Day---celebrating in Australia the successful efforts of an aborigine Eddie
Mabo to have ended on this day in 1992 the doctrine of terra nullius, thereby enabling aborigines with the ability to reclaim land they had used for
centuries prior to the arrival of English settlers and convicts.
On
this day in:
a. 1888 one of the all time classic poems Casey
at the Bat was published by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in the San Francisco
Examiner.
b. 1989 China sends troops into Tiananmen Square to eject thousands of
protestors demanding freedom from authoritarian rule.
c. 2013 the trial of U.S. Army Pvt. Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning whose
sex change operation we taxpayers are going to have to pay for while Veterans
are dying due to delay in the V.A.) for leaking classified material to
WikiLeaks began at Fort Meade and ended with his conviction and sentencing to
35 years shortly thereafter.
The lines between whistle blower and
traitor are sometimes blurred: “WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of
all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.” Jemima Khan,
English journalist and heiress and associate editor for the New Statesmen Given
what we have seen coming out of Benghazi, the IRS and the VA, that statement
has a lot of validity.
Please
enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below
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entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for poems to
inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for comments on
important and breaking news events that should be of interest.
©
June 3, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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