Ridley's Believe
It Or Not August 19, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 255,385
new cases (a 1.15% increase compared
to a 1.39% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 22 million to 22,457,365
cases, 6,497,834 of which are active, 15,959,531 of
which have been closed with 15,172,062 recoveries (95.07% compared
to yesterday’s 95.02%) and 780,742 deaths (4.93% compared
to yesterday’s 4.98%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages
and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 34,136 with total cases exceeding 5
million at 5,639,526 (a .61% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.19%
increase) with 2,455,706 active cases of which 16,980, on a downward
trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 2 weeks (17,342
yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down,
and 3,207,956 closures, 175,686 of which have been deaths (5.48% compared
to yesterday’s 5.52%) and 3,032,270 of which have been
recoveries (94.52% compared to yesterday’s 94.48%) (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Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain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. We have now conducted 73,081,228 tests ( over 353,000 more tests
than those done yesterday).
Non CV Case News: AG Barr has announced that under
Operation Legend which was named after the 4 yr. old LeGend Taliferro who was
killed by a stray bullet while sleeping in his bedroom in Kansas City, Mo. has
resulted in 214 charged with federal crimes, 1000 arrested and 400 firearms confiscated;
Powell, Kashich and Whitman are 3 Reds who have spoken in favor of Biden’s
candidacy at the DNC (seems like they are talking about a Biden who does not
exist today and will be pushed relentlessly by the the Progressives leading
Reds to wonder if the RNC will be able to do the same and thankful that Romney
was not speaking); Witless Whitmer was caught on a hot mic comparing the DNC to
“Shark Week f###er”, leaving us to wonder if the Blues are eating each other or
getting ready to devour Americans who are terrified of the leftist slant of the
Blues; in a glaring example of the PC Iron Curtain curtailing thought on
college campuses, Chloe Clark, a lecturer at Iowa State University will dismiss
anyone from her required English 250 class who opposes abortion or BLM; the Biden
campaign may be showing it has vestiges of a spine as it has distanced itself from
Linda Sarsour due to her Antisemitism; great news for coffeeaholics and maybe
another reason to invest in Starbucks, as a new study has been released
indicating drinking more that two cups of coffee may help prevent a person from
contracting liver disease https://www.foxnews.com/health/coffee-may-protect-liver-study
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 18, 2020,
the number of shootings increased by 15 poorly aimed shootings to 2,567, of
whom 2 died to raise the total to 442 (total travesty of BLM when blacks
are shot and killed by blacks in droves and only sounds of silence and complete
absence of any protests in front of City Hall demanding action to curb the
killings and shootings); 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 234 behind Chicago at
208 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 way
more deadly and way
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 “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X feat. Billy Rae
Cyrus, the fact that you are free from perissology in addressing people, and a
quote by Franklin Snitlow on the Crown Heights Riots, 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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1. National Aviation Day—created by President Roosevelt in 1939 when Orville Wright was
still alive to celebrate and promote
American aviation and celebrated on the anniversary of Orville Wright’s
birthday on this day in 1871.
2. World Humanitarian Day—created by the UN General Assembly to commemorate those who
have lost their lives promoting and striving for humanitarian causes.
3. 2019 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 2019 on this day on a run of 19
weeks to set a record “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X feat. Billy Rae Cyrus. Here
is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ov5jzm3j8
This rapper born in 1999 became the first artist to come out as gay while having
a Number 1 song on the charts. Cyrus has been a very successful country singer.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “perrisology” which means verbiage
which is what we too often get from politicians and academicians.
5. Hoping No
Beans Spilled by Maxwell—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your political
views the birthday on this day in 1946 of Bill Clinton who is probably praying
he for a birthday present receives word that Ghislaine Maxwell has no tapes of
him cavorting with minors on Epstein’s private island after arriving there on
the Lolita Express.
On this day in:
a. 1964 the
world became a much more connected place with the launching of the first
geosynchronous communications satellite Syncom 3 which 2 months later broadcasted
live the 1964 Summer Olympics.
b. 1991
the 3 day Crown Heights Riots pitting African-Americans against Orthodox Jewish
Chabad residents began which resulted in 2 deaths, injuries to 158 police
officers and 32 civilians and 129 arrests and contributed to the defeat of
sitting mayor David Dinkins, NYC’s first black mayor by Rudy Giuliani in 1992.
c. 2005 the first
joint Chinese Russian military exercises called Peace Mission 2005 were held.
d. 2010
Operation Iraqi Freedom ended with the last American combat brigade crossing
back into Kuwait.
e. 2017 thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon were
accidentally released from their pens into the wild in what was known as the
Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break which led to the State of Washington
banning farming salmon by 2025.
Reflections on Mayor
Dinkin’s response to the Crown Heights Riots: “This
lawsuit has nothing to do with any attempt to embarrass Mr. Dinkins. It has nothing to do with any election
campaign. Rather, its sole purpose is to honestly obtain the facts regarding a
civil-rights violation. and it's a demonstration of the fact that the Mayor
just simply doesn't get it when he continues to make himself the victim."
Franklyn Snitlow, lawyer representing the Hassim in its suit against NYC for
its response to the riots.
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