Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 5, 2020
CV World: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues with 81,247 new cases (a .72%
increase compared to a 2.58% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 11,453,251
cases, 4,436,133 of which are active, 7,017,118
of which have been closed with 6,482,256 recoveries (92.38% compared
to yesterday’s 92.35%) and 534,862 deaths (7.62%
compared to yesterday’s 7.65%).
CV USA: New cases
of 16,401 have brought total cases
to 2,953,171 (a .56% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.62%
increase) with 1,559,054 active cases of which 16,007 (16,017
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,393,117 closures,
132,378 of which have been deaths (9.5% compared to yesterday’s 9.5%)
and 1,260,739 of which have been recoveries (90.5%
compared to yesterday’s 90.5%) (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since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients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 37,557,476
tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).
Non CV News: Portland,
the City of Roses, is turning into the City of Perpetual Unrest as for the 38th
consecutive day police report civil unrest and the CBP as its agents arrive to
protect CBP stations slams leaders of Portland for being MIA in combating the
riots; chilling video from a surveillance camera in NYC that shows De Blasio
with his NYPD budget cutting is putting citizens at risk as a man is shot dead
in the head and a woman wounded in broad daylight (this fool needs to be
recalled); as the controversy of the name of Redskins continues, its quarterback
has recommended the name “Red Tails” in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew
P-51 fighters with red tails (what about the thousands of white airmen who
fought and died over the skies of the Pacific, Africa, Asia and Europe like the
Flying Tigers, Black Sheep or Doolittle’s Raiders?); Bolton has turned into a
24/7 huckster trying to sell his book by criticizing Trump at every opportunity
implying that he spends more time watching TV than listening to his advisers or
reading brief materials; Duckworth is being mentioned as a possible VP pick for
Biden and is proving adept in the dodge and switch skill as when asked about
removing statues of George Washington she immediately shifted top the issue of
the CV fight (so typical and why we should rarely trust politicians even
decorated ones who are rookies); Florida which has enough to worry about with a
rise in CV cases has now to cope with a
deadly water borne brain eating amoeba the Naegieria fowleri with 32 confirmed cases
since 1962; in Chicago as of July 4, 2020, there is no Independence Day from
gun shots as the number soared by 46 to 1824 shootings of whom 328 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 161 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 George Harrison, the
fact that you do not paravail in terms of your person qualities, and a quote by
Christopher Hitchens on the evil of the Taliban, 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
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event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. National Workaholics Day—not sure where this day came from or who instituted it but has
to be difficult to celebrate given the number of workplaces shut down due to CV
pandemic or perversely easier as more people are working home so the workaholic
does not have to waste time commuting.
2. Mechanical Pencil Day—celebrating that useful writing tool that saves trees and
never needs sharpening.
3. 1973 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1973 on this day on a run of 1
week in that position was “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” by George
Harrison. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KAvPbO8JY. This former lead guitarist for the Beatles
went on to have a successful solo career but sadly had smoke one too many cigarettes
and succumbed to lung cancer on November 29, 2001 at the age of 58.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paravail” which means lowest a measurement
when it comes to integrity and honesty which describes to a tee too many of our
long term politicians.
5. Smoked Too Much, Lived in L.A. Too Much--celebrating the birth on this day in 1928 of
noted actor Warren Oates best known for his roles in movies directed by Sam
Peckinpah and who burned the candles at both ends to die far too early of a
heart attack at the age of 53 on April 3, 1982.
On this day
in:
a. 1937 to the joy of Filipinos and
the bane of future American GIs, Hormel Corporation introduced Spam to the
American palate.
b. 1971 President Nixon certified
that the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 had
been ratified.
c. 1975
Arthur Ashe became the first black player to win a Wimbledon Men’s Singles
title.
d. 1980
Bjorn Borg became the first person to win 5 Wimbledon Men’s Singles titles in a
row.
e. 1999
President Bill Clinton imposed trade and economic sanctions on the Taliban
regime in Afghanistan.
Reflections
on the Taliban: “[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised,
capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't
think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.”― Christopher Hitchens, noted English-Ameerican
essayist and social commentator who authored 30 books but was a heavy smoker
and drinker and died of pneumonia on December 15, 2011 at the age of 62.
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