Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 2, 2020 The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 77,516 new cases (a 1.22% increase
compared to a 1.23% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 6,405,681 cases, 3,094,078
of which are active, 3,311,603 of which have been closed with 2,933,422
recoveries (88.58% compared to yesterday’s 88.47%) and 378,181 deaths (11.42% compared to
yesterday’s 11.53%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading
the world in total cases with new cases of 15,601 have brought total cases to 1,845,873 (a .85% increase compared to yesterday’s .96%
increase) with 1,138,830 active cases of which 16,940 (16,985
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 722,644 closures, 106,990 of which have been deaths (14.81% compared
to yesterday’s 14.92%) and 615,654 of which have been
recoveries (85.19% compared to yesterday’s 85.08%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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) with 18,162,929 tests; the peaceful protest
over Floyd’s murder is now but a distant memory with rioters are engaging in
looting on a massive scale, attacking police not with just rocks, bottles and
bricks but in St. Louis shooting 4 officers, in Las Vegas shooting 1 and in Buffalo
ramming into police with a SUV; Cuomo may be inept beyond belief when it comes
to his handling of the CV pandemic and the Floyd riots but is Johnny on the
spot when it comes to pointing a finger of blame at someone other than himself
as he castigates the NYPD and de Blasio for their handling of the NYC Floyd
riots; with police and national guard clearly unable to protect some neighborhoods,
residents are being forced to take matters in their own hands to arm themselves
with bats and weapons and in a déjà vu of Korean shopkeepers in the Rodney King
riots in Los Angeles shoot looters, in South Philadelphia a group of armed
looters tried to break into the Firing line, one of the city’s oldest gun
stores and one was killed and another wounded by the owner spending the night
to protect it; the economy already ravaged by the pandemic and just in the
process of taking tentative baby steps to reopen across the country is now
being hammered by the national riots and destruction of businesses by fire and
by looting (do not be surprised to see new jobless claims which had been dropping
to rise again and sadly with a loss of social distancing during the riots an
increase in CV cases); in Chicago, as of June 1, 2020, 1184 shootings (11 in
one day increase) of whom 222 (only 3 in one day increase) 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 93 behind Chicago with 129 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, like
yesterday a musical link to Jimmy Dorsey and Orchestra, the fact that you are
blessed with a Palladian mind, and a quote Bridgette Gabriel on the Palestinian
Liberation Organization the separate role of entertainers and
politicians, 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. American
Indian Citizenship Day—commemorating the day when all American Indians
born here were granted citizenship not
just those women who had married American citizens or those who had fought for
the country in World War I.
2. International Sex Workers Day—commemorating
the day in 1975 when more than 100 sex workers in Lyon, France occupied the
Eglise Saint-Nizier to protest their inhumane working conditions.
3. 1942
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1942 on this day on
a run of 10 weeks in the position was “Tangerine” by Jimmy Dorsey and His
Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdistoUW4CQ
with vocals by Dorsey’s favorite duo Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “palladian” which
means of, like or pertaining to knowledge, wisdom or learning, traits which
most of our leaders never have been blessed with or have forgotten in their long
terms of office away from the private sector.
5. Rally Around the
Flag--celebrating the birth on this day in 1951 of Gilbert Baker,
noted LBGT advocate who designed the Rainbow Flag which has become the symbol
of the LBGTQ Movement which flag was lowered to half mast when he passed on
March 31, 2017.
On
this day
in:
a. 1953
Queen Elizabeth II, in the first case of a televised international event, was
crowned as the Queen of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and
her other Territories and Realms and the Head of the Commonwealth.
b. 1964
to the joy of Palestinians and the bane of the Israelis the Palestinian
Liberation Organization was founded.
c.
1966 on the march by the U.S. to put a man on the Moon, Surveyor I became the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land outside
the Earth.
d.
1967 Louis Monge, a mass murderer, had the dubious distinction of being the
last person executed in the United States before Furman v. Georgia
decided on June 22, 1972 resulted in a national stay of executions which ended
almost 10 years of Monge’s death with the execution of Gary Gilmore on January
17, 1977 by the firing squad by the State of Utah.
e.
2012 former Egyptian President Hosani Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison
for the killing of protesters to his rule but only spent 3 years in confinement
due to appeals and ultimate reversal of his conviction and release on March 24,
2017 to die this year on February 25, 2020.
Reflections
on the PLO: ““The PLO was founded three years before the Israelis ever occupied
Gaza and the West Bank, and that the PLO wanted Israel wiped off the map. But
in a ninety-second story, who has time to remind viewers that when the PLO was
founded, Gaza was illegally occupied by Egypt, and the West Bank by Jordan, but
Yasser Arafat did not mind those occupations? Where were the voices of the
Palestinians then for their independent state?”― Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic
Terror Warns America.
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good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go
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in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and
poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It
Or Not for just This Day in
History.
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