Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—August 5, 2014: A very symbolic holiday to be
celebrated tonight by close to 40 million which hopefully will cause the
criminals to be on vacation for at least a day. Hope you enjoy what is posted,
along with the factoids and quote from President Kennedy with a smile on your
face, a positive attitude and a plate of at least a half dozen oysters or a
like number of oyster shooters.
1.
National Night Out Day—celebrating since 1984 not a night on the town
but rather the taking back the parks and streets from the various criminal
elements after dark with porch lights on and various block parties, walks and
neighbors getting together—close to 40 million will participate.
2. National
Underwear Day—celebrated by those fearless exhibitionists with hopefully
great bodies wearing only underwear in public.
3. Work
Like A Dog Day---celebrating or bemoaning as the case may be, those workaholics who are consumed in their work to make sure the job is always
done.
4. National Oyster
Day--celebrating that great tasty mollusk best eaten raw and in copious
quantities; legend has it that this mollusk equivalent of Viagra was consumed
by the great womanizer Casanova to the tune of 50 for breakfast to fuel his
drive for conquest.
5. Baby Step Day—celebrating
the birthday of Neil Armstrong on this day in 1930 who took one small step for
a man but a large one for mankind.
On this day
in
a. 1962 Nelson Mandela was jailed
in South Africa for protesting apartheid; he would not be released until 28
years later.
b. 1963 to the joys of children
everywhere watching the levels of Strontium 90 and Cesium 131 increase in milk
due to nuclear weapons testing above ground, the U.S., Great Britain and the
Soviet Union as the Original Parties signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
banning all above ground and underwater nuclear weapons tests.
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c. 1981 Federal Air Traffic
Controllers went on strike and President Reagan fired 11,359 of them for failing to heed his order for them to
return to work.
A small but important step for mankind: “Yesterday a shaft
of light cut into the darkness. Negotiations were concluded in Moscow on a
treaty to ban all nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under
water . . . it is an important first step -- a step toward peace -- a step
towards reason -- a step away from war.”
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in an address to the nation on July
25, 1963
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© August 5,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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