Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 28, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 319,510
new cases (a 1.31% increase compared to a 1.08% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 24 million to 24,797,359 cases, 6,751,994
of which are active, 18,044,765 of which have been
closed with 17,206,780 recoveries (95.36% compared to yesterday’s
95.33%) and 838,585 deaths (4.65% compared to yesterday’s 4.67%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV
USA Cases: New cases of 56,252 with total cases over 6 million at
6,015,369 (a .94% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.12%
increase) with 2,532,130 active cases of which 16,232, on a downward
trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,392
yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down,
and 3,539,491 closures, 185,331 of which have been deaths (5.24% compared
to yesterday’s 5.26%) and 3,354,160 of which have been
recoveries (94.76% compared to yesterday’s 94.74%) (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Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing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
559 ranks behind Belgium (852), Peru (856), Spain (620), UK (611), Italy (587),
Chile (582) and Sweden (576), now tied
with Brazil (559) and only slightly worse than and Mexico (485). We have now
conducted 80,299,870,tests
(more than (961,000 more tests than those done yesterday and now at 242,367/M
compared to Russia at 244,968/M).
Non CV Case News: Following the end of the RNC,
the fireworks over the White House that lit up the night were replaced by
rioters disguised in the eyes of the MSM and Blues as “protesters” attacking
police on the grounds outside the White House and attendees like Senator Rand
Paul and his wife were attacked by an angry mob and had to be rescued by D.C.
Police (watching the videos should make anyone in California inform the Blue
legislators running this state into the crowd that their push to ban non lethal
force like bean bags and tear gas is an inane idea); Martin Luther King, Jr.
whose March on Washington, D.C. is being honored today would be rolling in his
grave to see the hijacking of his crusade of non violence to end racism being hijacked
by BLM and Antifa and their riots disguised as protests for social justice; the
MSM slammed the RNC and Trump for being racist even as Trump who commuted Alice
Johnson’s life without parole sentence in 2018 pardoned her this week (ironic
that she was slammed for being a prop for the RNC and was convicted and rotting
in prison for a non violent drug offense under the law that the supposed friend
of blacks, Joe Biden, co-sponsored as a senator); the Cack News Network had Dr.
Rob Davidson, an emergency room physician who ran and lost as a Blue for
Congress in Michigan, who slammed the 1500 people on the White House Lawn from
Trump’s RNC Convention but praised the 1,000’s crammed together without masks
like many of the 1500 assembled at the White House Lawn (COVID-19 in his biased
mind only infects those listening to President Trump); only in America can the
MSM claim that a violent riot where deadly projectiles like froze water
bottles, bricks, stones and flammable fireworks thrown or fired at police is
not a “riot” and worse according to NPR which is taxpayer funding calling it a
riot is racist.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of
August 27, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 9 well aimed shootings to
2,738 of whom 5 have died to bring the total to 460 (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 246 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 “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” by Kay Kyser and
His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt, Julie Conway and the Group, the
fact that if a geologist, you know where to find petroliferous areas, and a
quote by Walter Reuther on Civil Rights, 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. Rainbow
Bridge Remembrance Day—created by blogger, author and pet owner
Deborah Barnes whose cat Jazz passed away on this day in 2013 and first
celebrated on this day in 2015 as a day to honor and remember pets that have
previously passed.
2. Dream
Day Quest and Jubilee—celebrating on this day in 1963 the speech
given by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial which
became known as the “I Have a Dream Speech” in which he called on us to judge
persons not by the color of their skin but the content of their character and
which was instrumental in getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 being passed.
3. 1942
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1942 on a run of 87
weeks was “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” by Kay Kyser and His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt, Julie Conway
and the Group. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq7wO1qtQuM Kay Kyser
suffered from arthritis so bad he had to retire as a bandleader in 1950 and
moved on to work for the Christian Scientists in their video and movie
department. He died of a heart attack on July 23, 1985. Babbitt was a noted
baritone singer in the big band era and often sang for Kyser until 1949 when he
moved on to radio and TV with scheduled musical shows. He died on April 9, 2004
at age 90. Julie Conway was also an actress and passed at age 68 on January 12,
1988.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “petroliferous”
which means bearing petroleum which describes the area you want to drill in if
looking for oil.
5. Not
Just a Pretty Face—celebrating the birth on this day in 1969 of
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook whose net worth is $1.7 billion and counting
due to the value of her Facebook stock and who is a strong advocate for women
in power in executive and board positions in business.
On
this day in:
a. 1955 14
year old black teenager Emmet Till visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi was
falsely accused of flirting with the white owner of a store and lynched by an
angry mob who later relished in the fact that those accused of murder of Till were
acquitted.
b. 1964
the Philadelphia Race Riots began fostered by ongoing feelings of police
brutality against blacks and triggered by a rumor that police had beaten a black
pregnant woman and when it ended 3 days later with no fatalities, but 341
people had been injured, 774 people had been arrested and 225 stores mostly owned
by whites had been destroyed or damaged.
c. 1988 in West Germany during the Ramstein Air Show 3 jets of the Italian Frecce Tricolori collide over the stands, killing the 3 pilots and 67 spectators and wounding 346 spectators
from the falling burning wreckage.
d. 1990 Iraq named newly conquered Kuwait to be its newest and what
would later to transpire as a result of Desert Storm its shortest lived
province.
e. 1998 Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a law to make
the Qu’ran and Sunnah the supreme law of the land but passage of the bill was
defeated in the Senate.
Reflection
in the shadow of “I Have a Dream Speech” of Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Let us
understand that we cannot defend freedom in Berlin so long as we deny freedom
in Birmingham.” Walter Reuther, President of the United Auto Workers and one of
the speakers at the Lincoln Memorial during the March of Washington.
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