Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 27, 2014:
Here are some unique and traditional holidays to observe today:
1. National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week (1/27-2/2)--celebrated in Elko, Nevada; grab your hat and enjoy a unique American art form, e.g. a few lines from my favorite poet whose works taught me how to read at an early age--Robert Service--The Quitter : " When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver and... die. But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can,......." Worth reading as are most of his works.
2. Vietnam War Peace Day--celebrating the signing of the Paris Accords on January 27, 1973 and the end of U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, but not soon enough for the 58,220 names on the Wall in D.C.
1. National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week (1/27-2/2)--celebrated in Elko, Nevada; grab your hat and enjoy a unique American art form, e.g. a few lines from my favorite poet whose works taught me how to read at an early age--Robert Service--The Quitter : " When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver and... die. But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can,......." Worth reading as are most of his works.
2. Vietnam War Peace Day--celebrating the signing of the Paris Accords on January 27, 1973 and the end of U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, but not soon enough for the 58,220 names on the Wall in D.C.
3. Holocaust Memorial Day--Almost 69 years after the end
of WWII, one would hope the stains on humanity are never forgotten and the
living resolve to never let such atrocities regardless of nationality,
race or creed ever happen again.
4. Thomas Crapper Day--honoring the man who did not
invent the indoor toilet but successfully promoted the indoor bathroom and who
died on this day in 1910 (explains why marketing wizards often make more than
engineers}.
On this day in:
a. 1928 John Baird publicly demonstrated television in London.
b. 1948 to the future disappointment of one Richard M. Nixon, the first tape
recorder was sold.
c. 1984
in one of the classic moments of advertising, Michael Jackson's hair caught on
fire while filming a Pepsi commercial.
Commands for a world to listen to no matter how hard they are to act
upon: “Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above
all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” Yehuda Bauer, Israeli historian and writer
on the Holocaust. Says it all; bystanders are almost always the next
victims.
As we approach 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 Super Bowl 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; Pennsylvania AG's office
investigating a massive 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, which,
hopefully, will not have been crafted on Opposite Day and
will not contain veiled threats that the pen is mightier than the Congress.
©January
27, 2014 Michael P. Ridley
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