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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 30, 2014: Slow day
for U.S. holidays today but managed to pull these out of the lapin hat along
with my favorite week at least until final stanzas of The Quitter are delivered
in the Burma Shave format.
1. Martyr's Day (India)--marking the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 after being the major driving force to England granting independence to India and Pakistan, truly one of the great beacons of nonviolence in an otherwise violent world.
1. Martyr's Day (India)--marking the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 after being the major driving force to England granting independence to India and Pakistan, truly one of the great beacons of nonviolence in an otherwise violent world.
2.
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 more lines (last
stanza tomorrow) from my favorite poet whose works taught me how to read at an
early age--Robert Service--The Quitter: " It’s easy to cry
that you're beaten — and die; It’s easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and
to fight when hope’s out of sight —Why that’s the best game of them all!" Worth reading as are most of his
works--after listening to the State of the Union and ending ovations for Cory
Remsburg, I think our President reads Service also.
3. Inane Answer Phone Messages Day--Amen to that especially the ones that go on and on when you are in a hurry.
3. Inane Answer Phone Messages Day--Amen to that especially the ones that go on and on when you are in a hurry.
4. School Day of Peace and
Nonviolence-- originated by the Spanish poet
poet Llorenç Vidal to be observed in conjunction
with the assassination of Gandhi--sadly given the spate of school shootings a
lot more time should be devoted to his concepts at least on the school ground.
On this day in:a. 1968 the NVA and the Viet Cong instituted the Tet Offensive catching the U.S. completely by surprise and marked the beginning of the road to the U.S.'s withdrawal from Vietnam--still not soon enough for the thousands whose names are on The Wall and who were killed after Tet.
b. 1982 in the first of many viral plagues to attack our computer and internet world, Richard Skrenka, a 15 year old high school student, created the first computer virus, Elk Cloner, to be released into the wild. The virus only 400 lines long attacked the Apple II operating system. Skrenka went on to become a highly regarded computer programmer and entrepreneur.
c. 1995 workers from NIH announced the success of clinical trials preventing Sickle-cell disease.
Simplify
the list and maybe the world becomes a better place: " There are Seven
Deadly Social Sins: 1. Politics without principle. 2. Wealth without work. 3.
Commerce without morality.
4. Pleasure
without conscience. 5. Education without character. 6. Science without
humility.
7. Worship without sacrifice.” Mahatma Gandhi. Words to live by and you do not need a teleprompter to deliver them.
7. Worship without sacrifice.” Mahatma Gandhi. Words to live by and you do not need a teleprompter to deliver them.
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 Cory Remsburg, and original poem 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
poem on the growing Imperial Presidency; the promotion of Charlene Lamb, the
woman in charge of no security at Benghazi; and the collusion between the EPA
and environmental groups to kill KeystoneXL with the end of Canadian patience.
©January 30, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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