Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 7, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 288,015
new cases (a 2.44% increase compared to a 1.08% increase
yesterday) to bring the total to over 12 million at 12,067,971 cases, 4,455,603
of which are active, 7,542,368 of which have
been closed with 6,993,216 recoveries (92.72% compared
to yesterday’s 92.60%) and 549,152 deaths (7.28%
compared to yesterday’s 7.4%).
CV USA: New cases of 123,780 with
total cases of 3,131,147 (a 4.12% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.15%
increase) with 1,622,816 active cases of which 15,387 (15,198
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,508,331 closures, 134,041
of which have been deaths (8.91% compared to yesterday’s 9.12%) and
1,373,885 of which have been recoveries (90.09% compared
to yesterday’s 90.88%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 39,468, 195 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: It is common
knowledge that Blues drop the race card regardless of the facts and the drop of
the hat but Johnathan Lopez an aspiring Oregon commissioner wannabe has sunk to
new lows by writing a anti-Mexican hate to himself and depositing it in his
mail box and reporting it only do have later pangs of conscience and admit to
his act; in a case of the race card gone amok in the leftist city of Seattle,
the city held segregated training sessions for its white employees, encouraging
them to give up their whiteness by giving up expectations of security, job
promotions and all activities that the diversity trainers believe are racist (“Black
Lives Matter-White Lives not Wanted in Seattle); the Seattle driver who hit and
killed one protester and injured another on a blocked off section of the 5 in
Seattle is a black naturalized citizen from Eritrea who in his bail hearing
said in tears “it was a horrible accident” has had his bail set at $1.25
million though not yet charged with any criminal act while the crash is being
investigated (far different than the rioters burning down buildings and looting
who are released OR); Weak Joe Biden who is making a great pretense of chomping
at the bit to debate Trump while probably wetting his pants at the prospect of
his fading mental capabilities being exposed to the American people has
received a predictable response from a NYT leftist hack urging him not to
debate unless Trump releases his 2018 tax returns and a “independent team of
fact checkers” are present to present their findings in the last 10 minutes of
the debate (safe bet is that Biden who has come out agreeing that even as
blacks are dropping like flies from black on black shootings funds should be
reallocated from police budgets to other nonpolice agencies will find a way to
avoid debating Trump); SCOTUS ruled in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor’s
7 year fight against Obamacare’s requirement that it provide contraceptives to
its employees but the concurring opinions may mean the case against them is not
fully dead and buried; in a outrageous case of “Don’t Worry He’s My Brother”
CNN with Chris Cuomo probably leading the charge completely ignored a damning report on
Governor Cuomo’s handling of CV cases and nursing homes that led to the deaths
of thousands of the elderly in them; in a spiking the ball moment President
Trump and Mexican President Obrador held a joint signing declaration on the
USMCA in the Rose Garden to the howls of Blues; in Chicago as of
July 6, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 1866, of whom 336 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 167 behind Chicago now at 169 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 Wings, the fact that you can be when
needed to be exercise parciloquy, and a quote by John Dickinson on folly of
seeking independence from Great Britain, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can
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event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Math 2.0 Day—created
in 2009 to celebrate the intersection of math and technology in our lives and
to promote the study of mathematics, achievements in which are lacking somewhat
in our public schools.
2. Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day—celebrating a great way to sate the chocoholic in
you free of guilt as you are also consuming needed protein with the almonds.
3. 1976 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1976 on this day on a run of 4
weeks in that position was “Silly Love Songs” by Wings. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dbYxAr697w. the band was formed after McCartney’s
departure from the Beatles and went through numerous personnel changes but the
trio of Paul and his wife Linda and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine
were always present until the band disbanded for good in 1981.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parciloquy” which means laconic
which is the exact opposite of the type of speeches we have to endure from too
many politicians.
5. Should Have Gone Pro Early--celebrating the birth on this day in 1997 of Bryce Love,
noted Stanford running back who finished second in the Heisman like his fellow
teammate Christian McCaffrey, but who unlike him stayed at Stanford for his
senior year and was hobbled by injuries to his ankle and was drafted in the 4th
Round by the Washington Redskins but due to preseason injuries and the CV
pandemic has yet to take a professional snap.
On this day
in:
a. 1775 the Continental Congress in
a last ditch effort to avoid war with Great Britain signed the Olive Branch
Petition condemning the acts of King George III’s ministers but pledging loyalty
and urging King George III not to take military action against the colonies. To
no one’s surprise, King George III in a snit fit refused to even read it and Parliament
declared the 13 Colonies to be guilty of treason in August.
b. 1932 to the sounds of people leaping
out of Wall Street windows during the Great Depression, the Dow Jones Industrial
Average reached its lowest level ever at 41.22.
c. 1947 reports were broadcast that a UFO
had crashed near Roswell, New Mexico which led to the Roswell Incident and the
belief that not only are we not alone but that we have been visited.
d. 1960 Francis Gary Powers, having been
earlier shot down in his U-2 over the Soviet Union, was charged with espionage.
e. 1970 President Nixon delivered a
message to Congress urging that self-determination be the official policy toward
Native Americans which led to the ultimate passage of the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
Reflections on why some of the colonists did not want
war only a change in policy of ministers advising King George III: “There are
many persons who, for their own ends, extol the advantages of a republic over
monarchy. I will not undertake to examine which of these two forms of
government merits the preference. I know, however, that the English nation,
after having tried them both, has never found repose except in monarchy… the
English constitution seems to be the fruit of the experience of all anterior
time… when the counterpoise of monarchy shall no longer exist, the democratic
power may carry all before it and involve the whole state in confusion and
ruin.” John Dickinson, drafter of the Olive Branch Petition.
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