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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 8, 2014: Slow day for holidays unless you are in, put
down your cocktail and listen Dennis Rodman, North Korea and celebrating Kim Yong Un's Birthday
and scraped from the
bottom of the holiday barrel Bubble Bath Day--may
have lost my marbles from Old Rock Day
yesterday but nothing beats a bubble bath while reading a Nook; and on this
day in 1964 LBJ declared a War on Poverty (history will record we
lost after trillions spent); in 2002 President George W. Bush signed the No
Child Left Behind Law; and in 2011 Jared Loughner in Arizona killed 6
people and wounded 13 others, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle
Gifford who was shot in the head but survived in a miracle.
Obama, why we need a war on income inequality like
a hole in the head: "The fact that war is the word we use for
almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to
desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad
can they be?” Glenn Greenwald, A
Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency.
Almost like all the violence in video games or movies which must
desensitize our moral perceptions of what is right and wrong.
Kudos
to Seminoles last Monday night and condolences to an underdog Auburn
team that played their hearts out, only to lose in the last few seconds.
Kudos also to the voters who voted for Winston as this year's Heisman.
Farewell to the BCS--you will not be
missed.
Take
five from the first full week of work in 2014 and please enjoy the
140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if
you like them, retweet and join 134 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 for Christmas just posted and poem on the 2013 in
review just posted and on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com
poems on the suit against the Little Sisters of the Poor and the costs to
us of Michelle's birthday gift.
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