Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For May 26, 2020 The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 53,834 new
cases (a .97% increase compared to a 1.81% increase yesterday)
to bring the total to 5,617,094 cases, 2,876,852 of which are
active, 2,740,242 of which have been closed with 2,391,714 recoveries
(87.28% compared to yesterday’s 87.07%) and 348,528 deaths
(12.72% compared to yesterday’s 12.81%); in the U.S. which has the dubious
distinction of leading the world in total cases with new cases of 7,724 have
brought total cases to 1,708,265 (a .45% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.44%
increase) with 1,143,691 active cases and 564,574 closures, 99,846 of
which have been deaths (17.69% compared to yesterday’s 17.9%) and
464,728 of which have been
recoveries (82.31% compared to yesterday’s 82.1%) (our death rate
percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV
positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to
idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the
residents and staff who then die) while total testing has increased to 15,198,933;
with scorching temperatures celebrants of Memorial Day put lock downs and
social distancing at bay and flocked to the water in boats and bars and
restaurants that were opening up; while the Blues have been pounding Trump on
his firing of IGs, they seem to have developed a memory lapse in that Obama
also practiced the habit of firing IGs; Witless Whitmer is back in the doe as I
say not as I do news as her husband tried unsuccessfully to have a marina where
the family boat was stored put the boat on to a lake in Northern Michigan in
violation of her stay at home orders; Cuomo evidently isn’t the only one
burdened by large numbers of nursing home corona virus deaths as in Los Angeles
County one half of the corona virus deaths have occurred in nursing homes as
the county ponders the need to appoint an inspector general (statistics like
that make one wonder what the L.A. County
Health Director is doing to earn her bloated salary); on the corona virus front, farmers
in North Carolina are in the process of euthanizing 1.5 million chickens due to chicken processing
plants in the state being hit with infections among employees; the fight
against the coronavirus has brought out the best in us but also the worst as
the DOJ announced the arrest of Ronald Romano for conspiring to defraud NYC of $45
million by trying to sell PPE which he did not own and had no right to sell;
NYC already suffering abysmal relations between the NYPD and Mayor DeBlasio is
also being racked by a spike in violent crime due to coronavirus fighting
protocols that are resulting in many arrestees being released to prevent the
spread of the virus in jails; in
Chicago, as of May 25, 2020, 1038 shootings of whom 187 have died (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 is now 67 behind Chicago with 120 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 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, the fact that you can argue
issues with pace and a quote from John Wayne’s tombstone on tomorrow, 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. National
Paper Airplane Day—clueless to know who created this observance
and when and know only it is celebrated on this day and that the record as of
2012 for time of flight of a paper airplane 27.9 seconds held by Takuo Toda and
the record for distance as of 2012 is 226 feet 10 inches held by Joe Ayoob.
2. National
Sorry Day—observed in Australia since May 26, 1998 to
promote awareness of the mistreatment of Australia’s indigenous population by
its settler population and perhaps the holiday might be aped here in the United
States given our ignominious record in dealing with our Native Americans.
3. 1935
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1935 on this day on
a run of 2 weeks in the position was “What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasin’ You)”
by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYNeD-ViDWo
This talented Canadian band leader who touted to have played “the best
music this side of heaven” was a fixture on radio New Year’s Eve starting in
1928 and for 20 years starting in 1956 on CBS TV until he died On November 25,
1977 of a heart attack at age 75.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pace” which also
means in respectful disagreement with which in our heavily ad hominem partisan
attacks would be most refreshing.
5. In
Movies Blank Bullets In Real Life Real Ones--celebrating the
birth on this day in 1907 of noted and iconic actor Marion Morrison better
known to his fans as John Wayne who was a heavy smoker and drinker who fought
and beat lung cancer with the removal of 1 lung and 4 ribs, married 3 times and
divorced twice 1 of whom was Esperanza Baur, who tried to shoot him when
he returned from a wrapping party for Angel
and the Badman because she thought he
was having an affair with co-star Gail Russell. His last film The Shootist released in 1976 was about
a gunfighter dying of cancer which claimed him in the form of stomach cancer on
June 11, 1979.
On
this day
in:
a. 1923
the first 24 Hours at Le Man was held in France.
b. 1967
the Beatles released Sgt. Peppers Lonely
Hearts Band album.
c.
1970 the Tupolev 144 became the first commercial airliner to achieve a speed of
Mach 2 but suffered reliability issues and made only 55 flights which carried
passengers and was retired from passenger service on June 1, 1978 to remain as
a commercial freight carrier until the plane was retired in from all flights on
June 1, 1999.
d.
1972 the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Systems Treaty which the U.S. withdrew from in 2002.
e.
2002 the captain of the Robert V. Love fainted
while towing barges on the Arkansas River and caused the barges to slam into
the support columns for the bridge of I-40 causing a 580 foot section of the
bridge to collapse into the water resulting in 8 automobiles and semis to fall
into the water, killing 14 and injuring 11.The bridge which handled 20,000 cars
a day was repaired and reopened in record time of 2 months.
Advice
from the grave: “Tomorrow is the most
important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect
when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned
something from yesterday.” Engraving etched on John Wayne’s tombstone in 1999.
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