Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 20, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 191,996
new cases (a 2.21 % increase compared to a 1.82%
increase yesterday) to bring the total to 8,894,711 cases, 3,704,140 of which are
active, 5,190,568 of which have been closed with 4,724,627 recoveries (91.02%
compared to yesterday’s 90.88%) and 465,944 deaths
(8.98% compared to yesterday’s 9.12%); in the U.S. which has the dubious
distinction of leading the world in total cases and being hit with the bookends
of reopening its economy and massive protests over the death of George Floyd
and Rayshard Brooks with new cases of 37,180 have brought total cases to 2,326,251 (a
1.62% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.45% increase) with 1,238,301 active
cases of which 16,540 (16,444 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition
and 1,087,950 closures, 121,290 of which have been deaths (11.2% compared
to yesterday’s 11.47%) and 966,050 of which have
been recoveries (88.8% compared to yesterday’s 88.44%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 and accounted for some 40% of our deaths and hopefully the number of cases will not
spike given the days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s and
Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 27,874,417 tests; Trump was in rare form at his
rally in Tulsa, attacking the anarchists in Seattle, Biden and the wave of destruction of statues and reiterating his
claim to be the “law and order” candidate; in the cop free zone of CHOP in Seattle,
police responding to a report of shots fired were hindered in their efforts to
reach 2 victims, 1 of whom died at the scene and the other was finally
transferred to the hospital with life threatening injuries; the arsonist who
torched the Wendy’s in Atlanta following the shooting of Brooks, has been
identified as 29 year old Natalie White who now is the subject of an arrest
warrant for felony arson; Hidin’ Biden must be getting cocky in the rarefied
air of his basement bunker as he has announced members of his transition team;
Minnesota’s Governor Walz admitted he was frustrated that the senate had not
approved a police reform bill which included defunding of police, granting
felons the right to vote and calling for the AG of the state to prosecute police
homicide cases; in the feces city, 3 statues that failed the new PC test,
Junipero Serra, Francis Scott Key and Ulysses S. Grant were toppled over in
Golden Gate Park during demonstrations on Juneteenth (total insanity by idiots
trying to erase our heritage); Trump is expected to sign an executive order
further limiting guest workers to make such jobs available to Americans; in
Chicago (the Blue run poster city of why we need more police not less and
certainly not defunded), as of June 19, 2020, 1501 shootings of whom 268 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 but now seems to be shooting less and
killing less and is now 117 behind Chicago with 151 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 Sheb Wooley, the fact
that you are not suffering from pantophobia, and a quote by Khaled Hosseini on
refugees, secure
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1. Summer Solstice—celebrating the celestial beginning of summer and the longest
daylight of the year.
2. World Refugee Day—created by the UN on December 4, 2000 to be celebrated on
June 20th of each year starting in 2001 to create awareness of the
plight of refugees created by persecution, war, economic calamity and civil
unrest.
3. 1958 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1958 on this day on a run of 6
weeks was “The Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE. Wooley was also an actor who was married 5 times and
performed until a leukemia diagnosis in 1996 forced him to retire in 1999; his
struggle ended at age 82 on September 16, 2003.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pantophobia” which means fear of
everything which is not a good phobia to be hobbled with.
5. No Mission Impossible If You Have Talent--celebrating the birth on this day in 1928 of
noted cinema and television actor Martin Landau best known for his work on Mission Impossible and his Oscar for his
portrayal of Bella Lugosi in the movie Ed
Wood. He was still active in the business right up to his death on July 15,
2017 at the age of 89..
On this day
in:
a. 1787 Oliver Ellsworth moved at
the Federal Convention to have the nation called the “United States.”
b. 1943 tensions in Detroit between
blacks and whites increased due to the influx of some 400,000 people to the
city many blacks and whites from the South attracted by jobs created by the war
effort which exploded in a riot that stared on this day and lasted for 3 days resulting
in 6,000 federal troops being ordered into the city to restore peace with a
total of 34 people killed, 25 of them black and most at the hands of the white
police force and 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them black.
c. 1975 in a movie that caused many to
have second thoughts about swimming in the ocean after the Sun went down Jaws was released to become the largest grossing
movie to date, creating a new genre of films, the summer blockbuster.
d. 1979 ABC reporter Bill Stewart was
shot and killed live by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of dictator Anastasio Somoza
Dabayle which prompted widespread criticism of the regime which led to his fleeing
the country as the Sandinistas were
about to seize the capital along with millions of dollars on July 17, 1979.
Denied entry into the United States by President Carter he settled in Paraguay
where a Sandinista assassination squad killed him on September 17, 1980 with a
RPG that struck his Mercedes.
e. 2003
Jimmy Wales founded the Wikimedia Foundation in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Reflections on the refugees:” Refugees are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the
same hopes and ambitions as us—except that a twist of fate has bound their
lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.”
— Khaled Hosseini, noted physician and author of best sellers like The Kite Runner who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and moved here in 1980.
— Khaled Hosseini, noted physician and author of best sellers like The Kite Runner who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and moved here in 1980.
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