Ridley's Believe It Or Not—November
3, 2014: Trust your weekend was a
good one even if a Stanford fan watching the debacle in Eugene and totally
refreshed with one more hour of sleep as clocks were set back early Sunday
morning. As always hope you enjoy the holidays and observances, factoids and a quote
from Friedrich Nietzsche and a poem relating to Halloween posted on Halloween on www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
“Halloween not just for kids”, with a smile on your sunscreened face, enjoying a
great sandwich, blessed with a positive attitude even though you know you will
have to wade through tons of spam in your inbox, and secure in the knowledge
that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event or the coming Christmas,
you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at
a great price tailored to the event and the recipient.
1. Culture Day (Japan)—observed in Japan
since 1948, the date the postwar constitution of Japan was enacted, to promote
Japanese culture.
2. Job Action Day—commemorating the need to
be proactive in finding a job, unfortunately when the workforce is abandoning
the search like leaves falling from trees in the late autumn.
3. Give Someone a Dollar Day—celebrating an act of kindness that is inexpensive
and might bring a smile that you did not expect; best to involve a total
stranger who will appreciate and not rag you for not giving more.
4. Can Student Debt Day—celebrating not
a massive movement for burdened college students to default on their growing
student debt but rather the birthday on this day in 1962 of Gabe Newell, a developer
at Microsoft for 13 years who dropped out of Harvard and ultimately formed the
video game company Valve and is worth today north of 1.5 billion dollars.
5. National Sandwich
Day—celebrating the great invention of the Earl of Sandwich many years
ago—the perfect way to eat on the run.
On this day
in
a. 1964 to the dismay of Reds, residents
of Washington, D.C. were able to vote in a presidential election for the first
time.
b. 1969 President Nixon
addressed the nation on TV and radio and asked the “silent majority” to support
his policies in Vietnam; they did and over 10,000 U.S. troops subsequently
joined the eternal silent majority with their names ultimately placed on The
Wall.
c. 2013 a solar eclipse
swept across the Eastern U.S., Europe, and Africa—great celestial show.
Reflections on impact of
silence whether from the majority or a minority and why one should voice one’s
opinion or at minimum at least vote tomorrow: “For both parties, the most disagreeable way of responding to a
polemic is to be angry and keep silent: for the aggressor usually takes the silence as a sign of
disdain.” Friedrich Nietzsche, noted writer and philosopher and on this one
right on point Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join almost 150 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for comments on important and breaking news events that should be of interest.
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3, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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