Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—June 12, 2015 Trust your Friday is
off to a great start and your weekend plans are all set. As always, I hope
you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest, a music video by Kyu Sakamoto, a relevant quote
by Ronald Reagan, looking forward to enjoying a large slice of German chocolate
cakes, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that
if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like Fathers’ Day,
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. Loving Day—celebrating not a day following Valentines’ Day to adore and love your spouse or significant other but rather to honor another what-took-you-so-long U.S. Supreme Court decision, Loving v Virginia which overturned the laws of sixteen states which banned marriage between blacks and whites. The most effective way on the planet to ameliorate the sting of racism is intermarriage and the resulting offspring.
1. Loving Day—celebrating not a day following Valentines’ Day to adore and love your spouse or significant other but rather to honor another what-took-you-so-long U.S. Supreme Court decision, Loving v Virginia which overturned the laws of sixteen states which banned marriage between blacks and whites. The most effective way on the planet to ameliorate the sting of racism is intermarriage and the resulting offspring.
2. World Day
Against Child Labor—an ILO holiday to protest and campaign against
the use of child labor especially in the developing countries where hundreds of
millions of children are working and thus deprived of education and other civil
rights—anytime notice is given that a multinational is using child labor to
build its products, time today and on all others to not buy those products.
3. 1964
Number One Song—celebrating the number one song
in 1964 on a three week run, a great 60’s classic, Chapel of Love by the
Dixie Cups, a black female black trio of the 60’s. With an apology to the ad to
endure, here is an audio only link to Chapel
of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTq7w8P6_2I
4. National Peanut Butter
Cookie Day—celebrating a really great cookie which if you
are looking to fill your palette, go to http://www.kelliscookies.com/
and order some peanut butter cookies or any of
her tasty selections and you won’t be disappointed, quote the highly evolved
poet never more.
5. Like Riding a Bicycle Day—celebrating not
that childhood skill once learned and never lost but the birthday on this day
in 1924 of George W. Bush, former 41st President of the United
States thanks to the USS Finback that rescued him after he was shot down near Okinawa,
who fulfilled a promise, I kid you not, to parachute this time out of a
perfectly good airplane on his 90th birthday. Agree or disagree with
his politics but he is a true gentleman, a man of honor and integrity and the
oldest and last surviving president who served in WWII.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1939
the Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York.
b. 1945
for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank received as a present a diary
which before her young life was ended recorded daily and left us the living with
the Diary of Anne Frank—Never Again!
c. 1972
in a liberating movement from the grease, Popeyes Fried Chicken opened its first
restaurant to join the KFC chicken wars.
d. 1987 in a defining moment of the Cold War
President Reagan, who acted not just spoke, at speech at the Brandenburg Gate
urged the Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘tear down that wall.” He heard not because of
the speech but because of the actions Reagan had taken.
e. 1994
in what would become the trial of the dream team Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman
were murdered in Los Angeles; OJ Simpson was found not guilty but now serving
time in Nevada—sad commentary for one incredible running back at USC (to the
detriment of Stanford) and at Buffalo in the pros.
Reflections on child labor
from a fat, pathetic ideologue that diabetes will rectify sooner than later: “You
can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just
wrong. Michael Moore. As usual this ideologue
is wrong; people like you and me can refuse to purchase products made by companies
that use child labor…all it takes is for a dissemination of knowledge to know
the identities of such companies.
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