Ridley’s Believe It
Or Not July 22, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 336,675 new cases (a 2.26%
increase compared to a .91% increase yesterday) to bring the total over
15 million to 15,245,954 cases, 5,411,064
of which are active, 9,834,890 of which have
been closed with 9,211,990 recoveries (93.67% compared
to yesterday’s 93.68%) and 622,897 deaths (6.33% compared
to yesterday’s 6.42%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV
USA: New cases of 108,148 with total cases surging to over 4 million of 4,072,509 (a
2.73% increase compared to yesterday’s .59% increase) with 2,017,018 active
cases of which 16,729 (16,616 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition,
and 2,055,431 closures, 145,689 of which have been deaths (7.09%
compared to yesterday’s 7.21%) and 1,851,157 of which have
been recoveries (92.91% compared to yesterday’s 92.79%) (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Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain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 50,453,842 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: Despite the refusal of mayors like Lightfoot to stem the black on
black shootings and killings or seek state or federal help, Trump is sending
some 100 federal agents to Chicago (hope this turns out well as Lightfoot
would love to see federal effort fail
and retire no matter how many blacks are killed by the felons running loose in
the city); the Bobbsey Twins of bias and concealment MSNBC and CNN did not see
fit to reveal that 15 blacks attending a funeral in Chicago were shot and in a
separate incident, a 3 year old girl was shot in the head (since shooters not
cops evidently not newsworthy); when it comes to exerting some advice over the
members of the House, Pelosi is MIA trying to curb the divisive over the top
rhetoric as 20 year veteran Bobby Bush has the audacity to call Trump a Grand
Wizard of the KKK who wants a race war (best was to start one idiot is to
create an economy that before the CV pandemic created the lowest black
unemployment ever?); in the ongoing controversy between Reds who claim mail in
balloting is replete with fraud and Blues who claim that their concerns are
over blown, a memo has surfaced from the USPS of increasing delays in
distributing mail which would affect balloting; On the vaccine front, Trump has
indicated he would take it first or last but acknowledged he would face
criticism of being selfish or being brave as in the eyes of MSM he can do no
right; Biden gave proof once again his mental powers are fading fast when he
claimed Trump is the first elected racist president (one could argue Blue
Wilson’s views on blacks might warrant that honor); HRC must still be in total
delusion as supposedly Hulu is in the process of preparing an alternative
history based on her not marrying Bill Clinton (that is one series that will go
to the bottom of my viewing list).
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago
as of July 20, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 23 to 2,150, of whom
383 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 198 behind Chicago now at 185 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 Glenn Medeiro feat.
Bobby Brown, the fact that you use moderation in patation, and a quote from William
Leutchenburg on FDR’s attempt to pack SCOTUS, secure
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1. Lion’s
Share Day—bemoaning that fact that too often bullies and
those in power take more than a fair share but the lion’s share which always
much larger.
2.
Rat Catcher’s Day—commemorating the myth of the rat catcher hired
by the city of Hamelin, Germany to remove the rats but refused to pay him when
he did. So in revenge with his magic instrument led the boys out of town never
to be seen again.
3. 1990
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1990 on this day on
a run of 2 weeks was “She Ain’t Worth It” by Glenn Medeiros feat. Bobby Brown
for his first number 1 song. Here is recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AF7XRSQk2w . Glenn retired from the business in
2007 and went into teaching to become the President and CEO of the St. Louis
School in Honolulu in 2017. Brown who married and divorced Whitney Houston
created a solo career but was plagued with substance and alcohol abuse and a
checkered criminal past and had the misfortune of having both ex-wife Whitney
and daughter with her Bobbi Brown die from being unconscious due to drugs in a
bath tub.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “patation” which
means the act of drinking which hopefully if it involves spirits is done in
moderation.
5. Life
Is Always in Jeopardy--celebrating the birth on this day in 1940 of
noted Canadian-American game show host Alek Trabek who has hosted Jeopardy since 1984 and seems to be
battling successfully Stage 4 pancreatic cancer to return for another season.
On
this day
in:
a. 1937
the Senate rejected President Roosevelt’s plan to increase the size of SCOTUS
to overrule the conservative majority that had frustrated Roosevelt’s New Deal.
b. 1946
the Zionist radical group the Irgun detonated a bomb at the King David Hotel,
the site of British Headquarters in Palestine, killing 91 and wounding 46
others.
c.
1976 Japan made its last reparations payment to the Philippines for its war
crimes and activities committed by it during World War II.
d.
2002 Columbian Drug Cartel leader Pablo Escobar escaped from his in home prison
after Columbia wanted to move him to a standard prison leading to a nationwide
manhunt and a shoot out in Medellin on December 2, 1993 where he was killed.
e.
2003 members of the 101st Airborne attack a compound in Mosul, Iraq,
killing Saddam Hussein’s 2 sons Qusay and Ouday along with Ouday’s 14 year old
son and a bodyguard.
Reflections on the attempt to pack
SCOTUS by Roosevelt: “The 168-day contest also has bequeathed some salutary
lessons. It instructs presidents to think twice before tampering with the
Supreme Court. FDR’s scheme, said the Senate Judiciary Committee, was “a
measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never
again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.” William
E. Leuchtenburg, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2005
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