Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 12, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 218,371
new cases (a 1.72% increase compared to a 1.9% increase
yesterday) to bring the total to nearly 13 million at 12,946,731 cases, 4,833,426
of which are active, 8,113,305 of which have
been closed with 7,543,930 recoveries (92.98% compared to yesterday’s
92.94%) and 569,375 deaths (7.02% compared to yesterday’s 7.06%).
CV USA: New cases of 193,316 with
total cases of 3,193,554 (a 6.07% increase compared to yesterday’s 4.01%
increase) with 1,744,168 active cases of which 15,8020 (15,720 yesterday)
are in serious or critical condition and 1,643,202 closures, 137,631 of
which have been deaths (8.38% compared to yesterday’s 8.52%) and 1,471,931
of which have been recoveries (91.63% compared to
yesterday’s 91.48%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are
finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 with 42,469,607 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing
by Trump and implications Trump is slowing testing to hide CV increases).
Non
CV News: Biden has reverted to his plagiarism past with his “economic” plan to
make America better but sadly including a repeal of the Trump tax cut that will cause a huge
exodus of American companies and their jobs; Senator Graham will be calling
Mueller to grill him over the genesis of the false Russia collusion hoax as Mueller
in a snit fit op-ed defended his prosecution of Roger Stone; while the NYPD has
banned officers from using choke holds black protesters seem immune from that
deadly hold as a NYPD officer is caught on video in a threatening choke hold
while a crowd cheers (when will Cuomo do the right thing and remove the idiot
De Blasio masquerading as a mayor of what used to be a safe city as shootings
are up 130%?); Doctor Scott Atlas of the Hoover Institution has driven a stake
in the protests are okay during the CV pandemic euphemism and anti-wall open
border movement claiming most of the spikes in California, Arizona and Texas are
in counties with borders with Mexico; as critical and serious cases of CV have
continued to climb, disturbing news that 40 hospitals in Florida have maxed out
their ICU capacity during to CV cases; AOC’s idiotic call to boycott Goya food
products has fortunately provoked a Goya Buycott backlash; in Chicago as
of July 11, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 1945, of whom 352 have
died (so much for the defund the police movement and for the
effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete dereliction of
duty by Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the
killings); 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 178 behind Chicago now at 174 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 shootings by police or 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 Paul McCartney, the fact that you may
have lost your paristhimions, 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
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recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Orangemen’s Day—celebrated in Northern Ireland to commemorate the victory of
the Protestant King William of Orange over the Catholic King James II.
2. Different Colored Eyes Day—celebrating the 11 out a 1,000 people who are affected by
hetrochromia which results in a person having different colored eyes as a
result of his or her genes.
3. 1980 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1980 on this day on a run of 2
weeks in that position was “Coming Up” by Paul McCartney. Here is recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_Wv-gkHts.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paristhimion” which means a
tonsil which hopefully you have had yours already removed..
5. Death Metal--celebrating
the birth on this day in 1969 of Jesse Pintado, a Mexican American guitarist
who was death metal musician who coined the term grindcore to describe his
music and who drank heavily and died from a diabetes induced coma at the age of
37 on August 26, 2006.
On this day
in:
a. 1862 the Congressional Medal of
Honor was authorized by the Congress as America’s highest military decoration.
b. 1948 Israeli Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion ordered the expulsion of the Palestinians from Lod and Ramle.
c. 1962 the Rolling Stones performed
their first concert at London’s Marquee Club; 58 years later this band in their
late 70’s was scheduled to tour again this year but due to the CV pandemic has
had their performance dates postponed.
d. 1967
4 days of riots started in Newark, New Jersey following the beating of a black
man by Newark police, ending with 26 people killed, 727 people injured and
1,465 people arrested.
e. 1973 a fire on the sixth floor of the National
Personnel Records in St. Louis destroyed the entire floor of government personnel
records.
Reflections on the Rolling Stones:”When I think of
Mick Jagger still singing that he can’t get any satisfaction in over forty
years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he’s either lying
or not all that bright.” Henry Rollins, American singer and columnist for Rolling Stone Australia
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