Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 10, 2020 Another wild swing
in the markets as a good portion of the historic drop was recovered as the
coronavirus continues to spread and deaths rise with Italy in essence
quarantining the entire country and New York calling out its National Guard to create an exclusion zone
around a virus hot spot, Rochelle County (as panic grows people are forgetting
this virus is pretty picky on who it kills like people over 80 or with
preexisting conditions like diabetes or respiratory issues which is just
another reason to quit smoking); the politicization of the virus here in the
U.S. continues unabated with Blues heaping scorn on Trump’s attempts to contain
it and scoffing at measures being floated to mitigate the economic damages
(never slow to throw race card Kamala Harris questing for a VP slot from Biden
found time to tweet rant that calling it where it originate the Chinese Flu was
racist); if there is a silver lining in the coronavirus outbreak it is that we
have received a wake up call on the near monopoly China has on production of
antibodies and essential drugs and the critical need to have such drugs also
manufactured here (thanks Tucker on Fox for alerting us to this serious and
potential deadly situation); Biden and Sanders have both nixed rallies in Ohio,
citing coronavirus concerns (probably a godsend for Biden as his rallies lack
emotion and attendees but a real negative for Sanders who packs in emotionally
charged crowds); Biden caught in a
gaffe, profanity laced interchange with a voter in Michigan over the 2nd
Amendment; if you want a critique of quid pro quo Biden family corruption, read
Profiles in Corruption to learn of
its pervasiveness including Biden’s brother James but you won’t find a word
about it in the MSM; Iran is a hot spot for coronavirus deaths and cases but
27-44 people died drinking bootleg alcohol due to the myth that it prevent
coronavirus infection; on the illegal alien front, ICE agents aped the Canadian
Mounties by always getting their man after arresting a Zimbabwean illegal for
overstaying his visa for 20 years and felony rape; in Chicago, as of March 9.
2020, 397 people have been shot of whom 76 have died; Baltimore with a fraction
of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a
record in terms of deaths has fallen 20 behind Chicago with 56 murders by
shootings (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 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 Chubby Checker, the fact that though you are willing to volunteer you are
not officious, a relevant quote by Robert MacNamara of the Tokyo
firebombings, secure in the knowledge that if you
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graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the
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1. Harriet Tubman Day—created by Presidential
Proclamation on March 9, 1990 by President George H.W. Bush to honor
accomplishments of escaped slave Harriet Tubman who made numerous trips into
the Confederacy to bring back 70 slaves to freedom in the North.
2. National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—creating
awareness of AIDS/HIV and promoting awareness on how to prevent its spread.
3. 1961 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1961 on this day on a run of 3 weeks in the position was “Pony
Time” by Chubby Checker. Here is a performance of the song by him: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=chubby+checker+pony+time+youtube#id=2&vid=c74421e9df855dbb7ce10025e4fd0bde&action=click.
Chubby has not lost any weight nor his long term former Miss World wife and is
still performing at 78.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “officious”
which means volunteering your services too eagerly which in wartime soldiers
are taught never to do.
5. You Can Run But
You Cannot Hide—bemoaning the birth on this day in 1957 of Osama bin Laden, founder
of Al-Qaeda and mastermind of the attacks of 9/11 who was finally tracked down
and killed by U.S. Seals in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.
On this day in:
a. 1945 the U.S. Air Force firebombed Tokyo
and the resulted fires killed more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians, a
higher number than were killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
b. 1949 Mildred Gillars aka “Axis Sally” became
the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States and served
12 years in prison until released on parole in 1961.
c. 1969 James Earl Ray pled guilty to the assassination of Martin
Luther King; he unsuccessfully attempted to recant his plea to a crime many now
believe he did not commit or was not alone in the assassination.
d. 1970 U.S. Army Captain Ernest Medina was
charged for the murders resulting from the Mai Lai Massacre.
e. 2000 the NASDAQ peaked at 5132.52 signaling
the end of the .com boom.
Reflections on the Tokyo firebombing from one of the architects of
the Vietnam War: “All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war
criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of
Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from
American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some.” Robelrt
MacNamara.
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