Dee Dee Jonrowe a 61 year old lady who should be an inspiration to all of us couch potatoes here in the Continental U.S. has fallen back to 14th place and Cindy Abbot has fallen back to dead last. As always, I hope you enjoy the holidays and observances, factoids of interest and a relevant quote from Jack Kerouac with a smile on your face, enjoying a plate of baked scallops, blessed with a positive attitude even though you know you will have to wade through tons of spam in your inbox, and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. World Day Against Cyber Censorship—commemorating since 2008 the need to keep the internet open and free from the growing trend of governments to censor content.
2. Girl Scout Day—celebrating the formation of the first Girl Scout group in the United States on this day in 1912 at Savannah, Georgia.
3. 1979 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song on this day in 1979, as part of a 3 week run I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, an African-American disco and R & B singer of the 70’s and 80’s.
4. National Baked Scallop Day—breaded, seasoned and then baked as a great way to enjoy scallops.
5. Beat Generation Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1922 of the iconic author and poet for the Beatnik Movement, Jack Kerouac, who died way too early from internal bleeding from alcohol abuse.
On this day in
a. 1894 Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi by soda fountain operator Edward Biedenham.
b. 1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his 200 mile march known as the Salt March to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
c. 1947 the Truman Doctrine was proclaimed by President Truman to provide for military and economic support for any regime no matter how antidemocratic that was threatened by communism.
d. 2009 Bernard Madoff pled guilty to scamming 18 billion from investors, the largest fraud in Wall Street history.
e. 2011 the day after an earthquake measuring 9.0 occurred off the coast of Sendai, Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered a reactor core meltdown after being hit by the resulting tsunami, exploded and released massive amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.
Reflections on failure: “My fault, my failure is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” Jack Kerouac Wise observation from someone who also warned, “If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
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