Ridley’s Believe It
Or Not July 21, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues to with 134,889 new cases (a .91%
increase compared to a 1.69% increase yesterday) to bring the total
approaching 15 million to 14,909,279 cases, 5,338,797
of which are active, 9,570,482 of which have
been closed with 8,956,011 recoveries (93.68% compared
to yesterday’s 93.62%) and 614,471 deaths (6.42%
compared to yesterday’s 6.48%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV
USA: New cases of 23,320 with total cases surging to near 4 million of 3,964,361 (a
.59% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.11% increase) with 1,969,285 active
cases of which 16,616 (16,571 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition,
and 1,995,076 closures, 143,919 of which have been deaths (7.21%
compared to yesterday’s 7.28%) and 1,851,157 of which have
been recoveries (92.79% compared to yesterday’s 92.72%) (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Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain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 49,913,553 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: While high tax high anti-business states like New York,
Connecticut and New Jersey are fleeing
in droves the troika of the leftist states have not expanded their 14 day
quarantine to travelers form 31 states, creating a death blow to tourist
attractions in those states and adding another reason why people would probably
not wish to live there; the “All Hands on Deck” Klaxons are sounding in the
halls of the ACLU as Trump has just signed an executive order prohibiting voter
districts to be redrawn to count illegal aliens in the numbers used to redraw
(since only citizens can vote it is the height of folly to draw voting
districts based on the number of illegals therein); Trump held a press
conference starting with a review of where we were at which the Cack News
Network also known now as the Conceal News Network refused to broadcast;
although warning that vaccine tests are making good progress he warned that the
pandemic will get worse before it gets better; Spineless Mayor of Portland
after 52 straight nights of rioting will not curb it nor ask for help and worse
blames federal officers inciting the violence that included such “peaceful
expression” as breaking into and burning the Portland Police Association
building; Biden who has been the subject of many all hands on females photo ops
has been hit with a new problem a history of sexist tweets by his head of
Strategic Communications Kamau Marshall who has deleted them but not before Fox
copied screen shots (hide some more in the basement bunker Joe from your
outraged suburban females you want to peel from Trump); the PC Warriors continue
to wage war on any expression they disagree with as Justin Kusera, an 8th
Grade Social Studies teacher and coach was fired for tweeting Trump is our
president and retweeting Trump’s tweet that schools must reopen;
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago
as of July 20, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 31 to 2,1276, of whom
381 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 197 behind Chicago now at 184 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 Simply Red, the fact
that you have pastances to enjoy, and a
quote from Christopher Ferguson on the end of the Shuttle Program with Atlantis, 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. National
Lamington Day—celebrating a tasty Australian sponge or butter
cake topped with chocolate than covered with desiccated coconut with cream or
jam inside and named after the 8th Governor of Queensland, Lord
Lamington.
2. National
Minimum Drinking Age Day—celebrating or bemoaning, if less than 21 and going
into the armed forces old enough to be shot at or or shoot at but not able to
belly up to the bar, the passage of the National Minimum Age Drinking Act of
1984 signed into law on this day by Ronald Reagan.
3. 1989
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1989 on this day on
a run of 1 week was “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” by Simply Red, a band formed
in Seattle in 1970. Here is recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTcu7MCtuTs . This British band from Manchester,
England was named after the hair color of its lead singer.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pastance” which
means pastime which is something we all should all have is a favorite.
5. Bad
Way to Prevent a Marriage--celebrating the birth on this day in 1933 of
noted author and university professor of fiction John Champlin Gardner who
overcame colon cancer but struggled with alcohol and smoking and 4 days before what
would have been his 3rd wedding on September 14, 1982 crashed his
Harley into a guard rail with a BAT of .075 and was killed.
On
this day
in:
a. 1925
in Dayton, Tennessee high school biology teacher was found guilty of teaching
evolution and fined $100 in a trial that was memorialized in a movie Inherit the Wind starring Spencer Tracy,
who won Best Actor for his role of Clarence Darrow.
b. 1944
Claus von Stauffenberg and 4 fellow conspirators would be the first many to be
executed for the July 20, 1944 failed attempt to assassinate him.
c.
1949 the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO and a
strong deterrent to Soviet expansion in Europe.
d.
1979 in a better late than never moment for diversity Mohawk Indian Jay
Silverheels became the first Native American to have a star planted in the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
e.
2011 in a sad day for American space exploration, the Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Launch
Facility, turning our astronauts into hitchhikers to the International Space
Station on Russian rockets until May 31 of this year when a Space X Falcon 9
docked with two astronauts at the International Space Station.
Reflections on the end of the Space Shuttle Program: “Let’s light this
fire one more time, Mike and witness this great nation at its best.”
Christopher Ferguson, Atlantis STS-135 commander to launch director Mike
Leinbach right before before launch July 8, 2011.
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