Ridley's Believe It Or Not—August 10, 2014: As
the weekend comes to a close, hope you enjoy the holidays posted, along with
the factoids and quote from Ruth Asawa (talk about a positive attitude in the
face of adversity) with a smile on your face, a Duran Duran song on your iPod,
a happy attitude and a plate of s’mores.
1. International Biodiesel Day—celebrating the
transesterfication of plants into diesel since 1853 as a means to free users
from petroleum.
2. National S’Mores Day
celebrating that simple treat appearing in the Girl Scout Handbook in
1927 and featured this morning on Fox News—graham crackers, chocolate bars and
toasted marshmallows.
3. National Duran Duran Appreciation Day---celebrating
one of the iconic bands of the 80’s who pushed video music to its limits—great songs
as long as you do not have to decipher the lyrics.
4. National You
Don’t Have To Own A Car To Want A Fender--celebrating the birthday on
this day of Leo Fender the maker of the legendary Fender Guitars, guitar of
choice of most musicians.
5. National Hoover Day--celebrating not one
of the iconic vacuum cleaners but the birthday on this day in 1874 of Herbert
Hoover former President and namesake for one of the great scholarly
institutions and public policy think tanks of the world—the Hoover Institution
located at Stanford University.
On this day in
a. 1978 three members of the Ulrich family are killed in a Ford Pinto leading
to a flood of lawsuits and millions upon millions of dollars of judgments
resulting from Ford’s failure to spend $11 per car to prevent the exploding gas
tank problem—a precursor to the problems facing GM in the ignition switch
problem fixable for less than a dollar—When will they ever learn?
b. 1988 President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 attempting to
right one of the great stains on this nation’s history the internment of its
Japanese-American citizens during World War II by paying survivors or relatives
$20,000 each.
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c. 1995 Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were indicted for the Oklahoma City
bombing that killed 168 people including children and injured over 680.
McVeigh was executed and Nichols is serving a life without possibility of
parole sentence.
Why finding
a positive attitude in a sea of negative chaos is so important: “Sometimes
good comes through adversity. I would not be whom I am today had it not been
for the internment, and I like who I am/” Ruth Asawa, noted Japanese-American
artist a sculptor known in San Francisco as the “fountain lady” who passed
away in 2013 Great words to live by!
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 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.
© August 10, 2014
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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