Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 27, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 261,432 new cases (a 1.08% increase
compared to a 1.44% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 24 million
to 24,477,849 cases, 6,669,246 of which are active,
17,808,603 of which have been closed with 16,976,141 recoveries (95.33%
compared to yesterday’s 95.29%) and 826,603 deaths (4.67%
compared to yesterday’s 4.71%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 124,643 with total cases over 6 million at 6,015,369 (a
2.12% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.38% increase) with 2,515,014 active
cases of which 16,392, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000
in the last 3 weeks (16,484 yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as
trend continues to go down, and 3,500,355 closures, 183,961 of which have
been deaths (5.26% compared to yesterday’s 5.32%) and 3,316,394 of
which have been recoveries (94.74% compared to yesterday’s 94.68%)
(our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single
digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients
to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population
measurement at 555 ranks behind Belgium (852), Peru (851), Spain (620), UK
(610), Italy (587), Sweden (575), and Chile (578), now tied with Brazil (550) and
only slightly worse than and Mexico (476). We have now conducted 78,632,566 79,338,780 tests (more than 706,000 more
tests than those done yesterday).
Non CV Case News: Just
when you thought Biden come not be more out of it, he had the inanity to
falsely claim there were no race riots during the Obama-Biden years (what about
burning and looting during the Ferguson
riots could he not rember?); Hurricane Laura is cutting a huge swath of
flooding and destruction and loss of power but fortunately only 1 death as it
moves inland through Texas and Louisiana; you may disagree with Pelosi but you
have to hand it to her for political astuteness as she sees the writing on the
wall and urges Biden to stay in his bunker and not debate Trump as she knows
Trump will destroy him and Biden’s lack of fitness for the office will be
revealed for all America to see; almost like a day late and a dollar short
Biden ensconced in his bunker has belatedly condemned the violence in Kenosha as
“needless violence” which Trump condemned from day 1 and is sending in 200
federal agents to help the city; after a black murder suspect shot himself to avoid
going to prison as opposed to protesting the death of George Floyd as police approached him and given the BLM 24/7
anti-police rhetoric, Minneapolis residents started burning and looting, the
Minnesota National Guard has been called up to head into the city; Kristi Noem,
Governor of South Dakota unleashed a scathing attack on Blue run cities like
Seattle and Portland as places with the violence no mother would want to raise
a child in which was too much for Rachel Maddow who cut in and got Seattle
Mayor on the line to try to refute Noem’s claims even as Seattle has already equaled the number of murders for
all of 2019 (another example of extreme MSM bias.
Chicago/Baltimore
Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 26, 2020, the number of shootings
increased by 18 better aimed shootings to 2,729 of whom 5 have died to bring the total 2 455 (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 still 241 behind Chicago at 214 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 by random mass shootings which occur with significantly less frequency?).
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest
for this day in history, a musical link to “Daddy” by Sammy Kaye and
His Orchestra, the fact that your ideas
are usually not pessimal, and a quote by Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler on the
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 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
Petroleum Day—commemorating the discovery of oil by Edwin
drake 70 feet beneath the ground on this day in 1859 in Titusville,
Pennsylvania but most likely not celebrated by the backers of AOC’s Green New
Deal but still a very crucial part of our economy that is threatened by the
anti- fracking, anti-pipeline and anti-drilling stands of the Blues.
2. National Tarzan Day—celebrating
that fictional character who was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912 and
raised by apes and best know n on the cinema screen being portrayed by Johnny
Weissmuller, a noted former Olympic swimmer in the first of 12 Tarzan movies, Tarzan the Ape Man, which came out in
1932—if you have a tree with vines, today would be a good day to swing through
the air with a curdling Tarzan like yell to startle your neighbors.
3. 1941 Number One Song— the
number 1 song in 1941 on a run of 7 weeks was “Daddy” by Sammy Kaye and His
Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nGrDarRJQ This big band
leader was known as “Sway with Sammy Kaye” and finally left us at age 77 on
June 2, 1987.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pessimal” which
means least favorable which in terms of mental acuity describes Biden to a tee.
5. Chancellors Don’t Fly—celebrating
the birth on this day in 1959 of Denise Denton, noted professor and dean of
engineering and who at 45 became the youngest Chancellor in the UC System at UC
Santa Cruz. Openly a lesbian, she jumped to her death on June 24, 2006 from The
Paramount, a 33 story building in which she shared an apartment with her
partner of 10 years the day after being discharged for treatment for
depression.
On this day in:
a. 1896 the Anglo-Zanzibar war commenced
at (9:00 a.m. with a bombardment by British naval vessels on the Sultan’s
Palace and ended some 38 minutes later with 500 Zanzibar casualties and the
Sultan seeking asylum in the German Embassy and independent Zanzibar Sultanate
ceasing to exist.
b. 1918 Mexican and American forces skirmished
against each other at the towns of Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona for one
day.
c. 1928 the
Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war as a means to resolve internationals
differences was signed by 15 nations as the number of signatories would grow to
61 before war in China with Japan in 1937 and war in Poland with Germany in
1939 rendered it meaningless.
d. 1991 the
European Community recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
from Russia.
e. 2003 China,
Japan, Russia, North Korea, South Korea and the U.S. met to try to achieve a
peaceful end to the North’s nuclear weapons program which failed.
Reflections on the
Kellogg-Briand Pact: “…an important early venture in multilateralism. It formed
a significant part of the legal basis for the post-World War II prosecutions of
German and Japanese leaders for having waged aggressive war It helped to bring
about new attitudes toward intervention by third parties in others' disputes.
Most importantly...international law evolved to circumscribe the use of armed
force with legal restrictions. The forcible acquisition of territory by
conquest became illegitimate and individual criminal liability might attach to
those who pursued it. In criminalizing war Kellogg-Briand played a role in the
development of a new norm of behavior in international relations, a norm that
continues to play a role in our current international order.” Political
Scientists Julie Bunck and Michael
Fowler
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