Ridley’s Believe It
Or Not For July 6, 2020
CV
World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 202,889 new
cases (a 1.78% increase compared to a .72% increase yesterday)
to bring the total to 11,656,140 cases, 4,518,501
of which are active, 7,137,639 of which have
been closed with 6,599,073 recoveries (92.45% compared
to yesterday’s 92.38%) and 538,566 deaths (7.55%
compared to yesterday’s 7.62%).
CV
USA: New cases of 54,066 have brought us past the 3,000,000
mark with total cases of 3,007,367 (a 1.83% increase compared to
yesterday’s .56% increase) with 1,572,893 active cases of which 15,990
(16,007 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,434,344
closures, 132,704 of which have been deaths (9.25% compared
to yesterday’s 9.5%) and 1,301,640 of which have
been recoveries (90.75% compared to yesterday’s 90.5%) (our death rate
percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits
Non
CV News: In an act which the Governor of Illinois and the Governor of New York
should have done a long time ago, the Republican Governor of Georgia has called
out the National Guard following a weekend of violence that saw 31 people shot
and 5 killed in Atlanta at the same time as the Mayor of Atlanta Bottoms has
announced after pleading with residents to stop shooting each other that she
has tested positive for the CV virus; Ghislaine Maxwell is now in a federal
detention center awaiting a bail hearing on Friday and probably under greater
security that Epstein received at Rikers Island as the smart money is betting
she will sing like a canary, naming various high placed elites like Prince
Andrew and possibly Bill Clinton who participated in Epstein’s abuse of minors
(have to believe many computers’ and smart phones’ emails and text messages are
being super scrubbed nervously by those potential suspects); after paring $1
billion from the NYPD budget and witnessing a 4th of July weekend
with 8 killed out of 44 people shot delusionally blames the CV pandemic and not
his anti-police stances (this inept idiot must go!); Kamala Harris’ Wikipedia
has had 500 edits as she lusts for VP slot; WHO whose credibility and
objectivity over the CV pandemic has just been hit with revelations that
contrary to past statements it did not learn of the virus from China but from
the internet (no wonder the Chinese Communists want to strictly control and
monitor the internet); in Chicago as of
July 5, 2020, the number of shootings stands at 1836, of whom 330 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 163 behind Chicago stuck at 167 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 the Hues Corporation,
the fact that you like to finish paravant in contests you enter, and a quote by
Roger Kahn on Jackie Robinson, 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. National
Fried Chicken Day—not sure where this day came from or who
instituted it but suspect a restaurant or a chain specializing in fried chicken
had something to do with it but given the fact that Popeye's has its leg and
thigh special on Tuesday, it should be celebrated tomorrow.
2. International
Kissing Day—an informal observance that started in the U.K. and
spread internationally in the early 2000’s but with the CV pandemic in full
swing and social distancing trying to be the norm, may not enjoy a lot of
celebrants today.
3. 1974
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1974 on this day on
a run of 1 week in that position was “Rock the Boat” by the Hues Corporation in
the band’s first number one song in a year in which there were 35 different
number one songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw. The trio
was formed in Santa Monica in 1969 and disbanded in 1980 with the lead
singer of their “Rock the Boat” hit dying from drug abuse on February 15, 1992
at age 49.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paravant” which
means in front which describes Hidin’ Biden in the polls right but hopefully
for Trump supporters does not describe the outcome at the polls on Election
Day.
5. Like
Father Like Son--celebrating the birth on this day in 1946 of former
President George W. Bush who like his father led this country into a war with
Saddam Hussein but unlike his father was in Iraq fighting much longer than the
100 hours his father needed to best Hussein in Desert Storm.
On
this day
in:
a. 1919
the Atlantic Ocean became a much smaller place when the British dirigible R 34 became
the first airship to complete a trip across it.
b. 1944
Jackie Robinson on an Army bus failed to move to the back of the bus when
ordered to do so by the bus driver was court marshaled but acquitted by an all
white officers’ panel.
c. 1986 Davis Phinney became the first
American to win a stage of the Tour de France.
d.
1988 the Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea was destroyed by explosions
and fires that killed 167 men including 2 crew members of a rescue ship; only 61
workers escaped the platform.
e.
1990 the Electronic Frontier Foundation designed to promote internet civil
liberties was founded.
Reflections
on Jackie Robinson: “Jackie Robinson made his country and you and me and all
of us a shade more free.” Roger Kahn, author/sportswriter.
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