|
Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January
20, 2014: Since all good things come in threes here are three
holidays to celebrate today:
1.
Martin Luther King Day--first celebrated as a federal holiday, thanks to
President Ronald Reagan, in 1986.
2. MLK National Day of Service-- only federal national day of service urging Americans
to celebrate MLK Day with community service instead of just taking the day
off. Go to http://mlkday.gov/serve/find.php
to find a project in your community—great way to help bring us together and
show Washington we can even though they cannot.
3.
Camcorder Day honoring those big bulky video recorders (mostly
replaced by cell phones today) introduced on this day in 1982--made
everyone a star and e.g. Rodney King arrest, made everyone
accountable.
On this day in:
a. 1920 the American Civil Liberties Union was founded.
b.
1929 the first full length movie with sound filmed outdoors On Old
Arizona was produced.
c.
1970 the Super Fight, a fictional computer driven fight between long
retired Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali took place with Rocky Marciano
according to the computer knocking out Ali in the 13th round, only to die
in a plane crash shortly thereafter weeks later.
To be an ace you need 5 great
quotes, compliments of Martin Luther King, Jr.:
1. "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing
for others?'"’
2. "Our life begins to end the day we beome silent about things that
matter."
3. "The hottest
place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great
moral conflict."
4. "the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy."
5. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."
Hope your favorite team won and you are able to
withstand the next two weeks of media overkill before the Super Bowl. Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of
interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join
135 growing followers) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for
an original poem to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and an original in poem
honoring a 17 year young Progeria victim who died on the eve of becoming an
honorary captain for the Patriots (have tissues handy). Just posted
for your enjoyment on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com
poems on the PA AG's office investigating a massive cheating scandal at
Philadelphia’s public schools--not students but their teachers and
principals; hanging up of a 911 dispatcher on a call from a son coming home
to find a dead mother; and new diseases and conditions added by the Surgeon
General to the list of medical problems caused by smoking, including one,
if you are a noncelibate male, that will really, really make you want to
read it and stop. Still in the works is a comment on the Imperial Presidency’s power
grabs.
|
No comments:
Post a Comment