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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 24, 2014: Since
all good things come in threes, here are three holidays to celebrate today:
1.
National Beer Can Day: --Celebrating
the anniversary of the first canning of beer in 1935 and given the
proclivity of Congress not to solve problems but kick the can down the
road, should be celebrated today by Congress by not kicking the cans,
drinking the contents together and compromising over a few beers to solve
our problems.
2.
Talk Like a Grizled Prospector Day--celebrated
by entrepreneurs and investors, like my favorite Scot, who create jobs and
wealth as opposed to the government which daily transfers wealth and jobs
and celebrates Talk Like a Pirate Day,
as businesses are forced to walk the regulatory and tax plank.
3.
National Compliment Day--always a great idea to go the extra thought to find
something good in a person and make the compliment.
On this day in:
a. 1848 John Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill near
Sacramento, California, kicking off the Calfornia Gold Rush.
b. 1916 the United States Supreme Court in Brushbaber v.
Union Pacific Railroad declared "Arrr the Federal Income Tax is
unconstitutional."
c.
1984 the first Apple MacIntosh went on sale.
The link between prospecting and
piracy 101: "If you make any money, the government shoves you in the
creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you
can keep." Will Rogers, noted 20th Century American
humorist.
As we appoach Super Bowl XLVIII which may be played in
sub freezing temps with snow falling, it is not who wins or loses,
but the quality not of the play but of the Superbowl ads! 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 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 collusion between the EPA and environmental groups to kill
KeystoneXL with the end of Canadian patience; the Governor's statement that
conservatives, pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, anti-gays do not belong in New
York; Semper Grati for Semper Fi--two Navy Crosses awarded to two Marines
killed in green on blue shooting in Afghanistan; Pennyslvania AG's
office investigating massiive cheating scandal at Philadelphia's public
schools--not students but their teachers and principals. Still in the
works, a comment on the Imperial Presidency's power grab and State of
Union Address.
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