Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 30, 2020 As hospitals
bemoan the shortage of ventilators, it seems that the federal government has
been warned for two decades that our medical system facing a severe shortage of
ventilators in the event of a serious epidemic and the efforts by the federal
government to remedy the shortage were not successful (sadly the MSM is always
too quick to place the blame on Trump); while Cuomo calls out that this CV pandemic
kills not just Blue victims, or Red victims but all Red, White and Blue victims
without regard to party such that we need to band together to fight it, Nancy
Pelosi has the idiocy to falsely claim that Trump has blood on his hands (she
is showing the potential mental instability of too much bias, too much lust for
power, maybe too much botox and too much age and should be censured by the Blue
puppets in the House); in another example that the CV ignores political
affiliation Blue Representative Nydia Velaquez from New York announced she has
come down with a mild case of the CV; while Blue politicians may be using the
pandemic to shut down 4th Amendment rights by declaring gun shops
are nonessential and should be closed, the DHS is proposing to the states that
they should remain open (what about fears of a social breakdown and civil
disobedience do leftist Blues not understand?); while China is waging a
propaganda war to absolve itself of blame for the outbreak of CV in Wuhan and
sending vast quantities on anti-CV materials to countries infected, after
recalling 600,000 defective Chinese masks, the Netherlands has just joined Spain, Turkey, Georgia and the Czech Republic
in rejecting such supplies due to
concerns over shoddy construction and materials and its Prime Minister warned
its residents not to shake hands did exactly that a public gathering; Rachel
Maddow whose bias should totally discredit her as a journalist has once again been
exposed as the USNS Comfort has just
docked in New York City in 10 days, ready for business, after Maddow complained
in a typical anti-Trump rant that it would take weeks; while the MSM and the
Blues posture and criticize, American industry like Google is stepping up to
the plate announcing an $800 million donation to CV fighting efforts; while
Biden is in media hiding, Cuomo is out there daily with his CV briefings which
are winning great praise as he continues to assert he is not running for
president (his comments that he praises Trump when his actions benefit the
state are something that the Botox impacted queen Pelosi ought to pay attention
to); in Chicago, as of March 29, 2020, 518 people have been shot of whom 88
have died; Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against
all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths is 19 behind
Chicago with 69 murders (when will Chicago and Baltimore get serious about this
carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear
and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color and when
will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run
cities which have been more deadly and more numerous than random mass
shootings?).
As always, I hope you enjoy today’s
holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a
musical link to the O’Jays, the fact you will hear something for which
you have onomatophobia, a quote by Ronald Reagan on being shot in a failed assassination
attempt, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. National Doctors Day—celebrated on this day
in the U.S. since 1933 on the anniversary in 1842 of the first surgery
utilizing ether to commemorate the contributions of doctors to our health and
well being even more so as they are engaged on the front lines of fighting the
coronavirus pandemic.
2. World Bi Polar Day—created by the International
Society for Bipolar Disorders and celebrated on the anniversary of Vincent Van
Gogh's birth to promote awareness of the disorder and raise funds for research and
finding a cure.
3. 1973 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1973 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position was “Love
Train” by the O’Jays. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vTKmVvyNRc.
The band was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “onomatophobia”
which means fear of hearing a certain word which for many of us would be “we
here from the government and we are here to help.”
5. Relapse
Is Not a Song You Want to Play—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1973 of Adam Goldstein, better known to his numerous
fans as DJ AM who struggled with drug addiction in his teens and early twenties
to become clean and sober for several years and become a well sought after D.J.
but whose success could not break free from the potential grip of addiction and
died in his NYC apartment of an accidental overdose on August 28, 2009.
On this day
in:
a. 1856
the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the Crimea War.
b. 1867 in one of the best real estate deals this government has
ever made, Alaska was purchased from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million.+
c.
1965 a car bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Saigon, killing 22
people and wounding 183 others.
d. 1981 President Ronald
Reagan was shot and almost killed exiting a hotel in Washington, D.C. by John
Hinckley, Jr. and three others near him were seriously wounded.
e. 2017 SpaceX accomplished
the first orbital reflight of a rocket.
Reflections on being
shot by President Reagan: In another note, recalling a Winston
Churchill observation: “There’s no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at
without result.” Ronald Reagan in
a note recalling a Winston Churchill observation. entrepreneur and academic.
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