Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 17, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 74,267 new cases (a 1.58% increase
compared to a 1.94% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 4,772,726 cases, 2,613,308 of which are active,
2,159,418 of which have been closed with 1,844,176 recoveries (85.44% compared
to yesterday’s 85.26%) and 315,242 deaths (14.6% compared
to yesterday’s 14.74%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of
leading the world in total cases with new cases of 14,015 have brought total cases to 1,516,004 (a .93% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.46%
increase) with 1,084,878 active cases and 431,126 closures, 90,399 of which have been deaths ( 20.97% compared
to yesterday’s 20.96%) and 340,727 of which have been recoveries
(79.034% compared to yesterday’s 79.04%) while total testing has
increased to 12,100,888 a huge increase of 356,009 from yesterday; the
coronavirus pandemic has been plagued with suspect data and models that may
have had a huge detrimental effect on our response and our economy as Colorado
has just reduced its CV death count from 1,150 to 878 as its state health
department acknowledged it had include decedents who had the CV but died from
other causes; on the battle to open up states, the governor of Washington
facing huge backlash rescinded his order requiring restaurants to keep a log of
customers and a judge in North Carolina blocked the governor’s rule limiting
the size of indoor church services; De
Blasio who couldn’t find a way out of a wet paper bag is pleading for billions
in federal aid or the NYC economy won’t come back and has just given us another
example of his complete aloofness and ineptness in refusing to fire his heath
commissioner who refused masks to NYPD since she couldn’t care “2 rats’ assess
about their request (he is the poster child why voters must have the ability to
recall inept leaders); the Hypocrisy Queen Pelosi who dawdled and dawdled as
the PPP funds were used up and millions more Americans lost their jobs is
hectoring the senate to act on her wish list “stimulus”; on the road to opening
up, a NASCAR race at Darlington has started with no fans in the stands, first
responders as honorary race marshals and a crash on the first lap; in Chicago,
as of May 16, 2020, 956 shootings of whom 172 have died but no one yesterday
(so much for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order); Baltimore with
a fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will
not be a record in terms of deaths now is 64 behind Chicago with 108 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, musical links to the John
Legend, the fact that you are able to avoid being overracked in your dealings
with life and a communiqué by the SLA on Patty Hearst, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings,
or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. World Hypertension Day—created by World
Hypertension League on May 14, 2005 and celebrated since 2006 on this day
promote awareness of the disease that is known as “the silent killer” and to
urge those suffering monitor their blood pressure at home and take their blood
pressure medicine.
2. World Information Society Day—created by the UN General Assembly to promote
the transfer of information via the internaet and reduce the digital divide
throughout the globe.
3. 2014 Number One Song— the number 1 song
in 2014 on this day on a run of 3 weeks
in the position was “All of Me” by John Legend in his first number 1 appearance.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg.
Changing his stage last name to “Legend” probably on point as he is only 1 of
15 performers to have garnered an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony as the second youngest and only black
performer to so achieve.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “overrack”
which means to overstrain which describes what many small businesses are
suffering during the shutdown and lockdown orders due to the CV plague.
5. Dubious Distinctionre—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1983 Chris Henry, a 5 year wide receiver with the Cincinnati
Bengals whose career was marked with run ins with the law and suspensions by
the NFL and who fell out of a truck driven by his fiancée during an altercation
on December 16, 2009 and died on the next day. He is remembered in death as
being the first active NFL football player to have his autopsy reveal the presence
of chronic traumatic encephalopathy from multiple hits to his head during his
football career.
On this day
in:
a. 1975 following a
botched shoplifting at Mel’s Sporting Goods in Los Angeles by members of the
Symbionese Liberation Army and Patricia Hearst firing her automatic at the
store, police tracked the group to a safe house which the members had already
fled to a new hiding place without Patty Heartz, the location of which police
received from a tip to surround on the 17th and engage in a massive
shootout shown on TV before the dozens of tear gas grenades shot into the house
caught on fire and killed the 6 SLA members there.
b. 1977 to the bane of
parents everywhere, Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant
whose arcade games had an insatiable demand for quarters in San Jose,
California.
c. 1983 the DOE declassified documents showing
that over time 4.3 million pounds of mercury had been released into the watershed
in Oakridge, Tennessee, prompting a court decree that the DOE comply with
environmental regulation.
d. 1990 the General Assembly of the World
Health Organization eliminated homosexuality from its list of psychiatric diseases.
e. 1995 Shawn Nelson stole a
M60 tank from an armory in San Diego and went on a driving rampage before becoming
immobilized on a concrete medium which enabled police to cut the turret hatch
cover with bolt cutters and shoot him to death.
Reflections
on the kidnapping of Patty Hearst: “Subject: prisoner of war; Target: Patricia
Campbell Hearst – Daughter of Randolph Hearst, corporate enemy of the people;
Warrant Order: Arrest and protective custody; and if resistance, execution;
Warrant Issued by: The Court of the People. Death to the fascist insect
that preys upon the life of the people.” SLA communiqué announcing
kidnapoping of Patty Heartz
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