Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 6, 2020 The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 162,153 new
cases (a 2.39 % increase compared to a 1.95% increase
yesterday) to bring the total to 6,941,176 cases, 3,139,278
of which are active, 3,801,900 of which have been closed with 3,401,055
recoveries (89.46% compared to yesterday’s 89.31%) and 400,845 deaths (10.54% compared to
yesterday’s 10.69%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading
the world in total cases with new cases of 44,020 have brought total cases to 1,981,825 (a 2.27% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.28%
increase) with 1,123,369 active cases of which 17,011
(16,977 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 858,456 closures,
111,944 of which have been deaths (13.04% compared to yesterday’s
13.40%) and 746,512 of
which have been recoveries (86.961% compared to yesterday’s
86.6%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his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 hopefully the number
of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over
George Floyd’s death) with 20,750,572 tests; Washington, D.C. is girding for a
massive demonstration organized by the BLM movement with a goal of 1,000,000 protesters
who hopefully will exercise their 1st Amendment rights in a
peaceful, nonviolent manner; Colinford
Mattis and Urooj Rahmano, 2 lawyers charged with attempting to torch a NYPD
cruiser have been ordered back to jail from home confinement by the 2nd
Court of Appeals (if convicted, their legal career will come to a short end as
officers of the court have no defense to such arson attempts); the protests
over George Floyd’s deaths have not been confined to our major metropolitan
areas like NYC, L.A. or Atlanta but may have extended to include 250 smaller
towns and cities in all 50 states (it is refreshing to see the outpouring of
support against police brutality and sad that no one other than the owners and
their employees of small businesses that have unfortunately been burned or
looted to the ground in the riots that have polluted the protests have raised a
voice in protest); the 2 Buffalo cops caught on video pushing a 75 year man back
into the sidewalk and into a hospital have been charged with assault, have been
suspended without pay, pled not guilty and released without bail pending their
court appearance on July 20; thanks to the shaming of Elon Musk and others that
Amazon was practicing censorship in refusing to publish Alex Berenson’s book, Unreported Truths about Covid-19 and
Shutdown, Amazon relented and it is now its number one bestseller (can you
imagine the outcry when this pandemic has run its course due to our listening to the medical experts who based
their advice on discredited models and added trillions to our national debt and
devastated the most prosperous and growing economy on the planet, throwing some
40 million out of work); Governor Newsom probably bowing to pressure from his
Hollywood elite friends has consented to movie and TV production work to resume
but punting by leaving it up to local
county health agencies; Snoop Dogg has announced he will be voting this fall for
the first time ever (take it to the bank this rapper with a criminal past will
not be voting for Trump); in Chicago, as of June 5, 2020, 1280 shootings of
whom 232 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 97 behind Chicago with 135 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 Ink Spots, the fact
that you rarely palter in response to questions asked of you, and a quote by Ernie
Pyle on D-Day, 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. D-Day--—celebrating
by sea and by air the landing of American, British and Canadian forces on the
beaches and inland areas from those beaches in Normandy on June 6, 1944 to begin the pounding of the final
nail on Hitler’s coffin.
2. National
Huntington’s Disease Awareness Day—promoting awareness of a genetic disease that
kills off brain cells, leading to loss of physical control and dementia with no
known cure; some 30,000 Americans suffer from the disease and some 200,000 are
at risk due to genetic factors of developing it.
3. 1946
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1946 on this day on
a run of 10 weeks in the position was “The Gypsy” by the Ink Spots. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovIyTnUr5I.
The
band had great success in the 30’s and 40’s and disbanded in 1954 but some 100
groups have used the name since its disbandment.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “palter” which
means to trifle in talk which can be expected when politicians respond to your
concerns.
5. Jealousy
on the Rocks with Booze a Deadly Drink--celebrating the birth on this day in 1978 of
Judith Barsi, a very successful and up and coming child actor, who had
unfortunately an abusive alcoholic father who threatened to kill her and her
mother which he did on July 25, 1988 before shooting himself to death on the
same day.
On
this day
in:
a. 1932
the Revenue Act of 1932 was passed creating a one cent a gallon tax on gasoline
(18.71 cents in today’s dollars) which now stands at only 18.4 cents a gallon to
defy the adage that taxes always go up and not down.
b. 1933
the first drive-in theater was opened in Camden, New Jersey.
c.
1946 the precursor to the National Basketball Association, the American
Basketball Association, was founded in New York City.
d.
1985 the grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” was disinterred and the remains are determined
to be those of Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death” at Auschwitz who managed to
elude capture and justice by fleeing to South America and managed to avoid
capture and extradition by the U.S., Israel and West Germany until his death by
drowning following a stroke of the coast of Brazil on February 7, 1979.
e.
2005 SCOTUS in the case of Gonzales v. Raich upheld the ban on marijuana,
including marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Reflections on D-Day: “All that remained on the beach was some sniping and artillery fire,
and the occasional startling blast of a mine geysering brown sand into the air
… That plus the bodies of soldiers lying in rows covered with blankets, the
toes of their shoes sticking up in a line as though on drill. And other bodies,
uncollected, still sprawling grotesquely in the sand or half hidden by the high
grass beyond the beach. That plus an intense, grim determination of work-weary
men to get this chaotic beach organised and get all the vital supplies and the
reinforcements moving more rapidly over it from the stacked-up ships standing
in droves out to sea. Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we
ever took the beach at all.” Ernie Pyle dispatch on D-Day
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