Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For April 15, 2020 the CV
pandemic continues unabated with 71,420 new cases increasing the
total to 2,069,280 cases, 1,427,092 of which are active, 642,188
have been closed with 508,826 recoveries (79.23%) and 133,362 deaths (20.77);
in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading the world, new cases
of 23,317 have brought total cases to 637,203 with 561,394 active cases and 75,809
closures, 23,317 (30.76%) have been deaths and 47.942 (63.24%) have been
recoveries but that improvement did not prevent market from tanking as plans
for reopening the economy are nowhere near completion and in Michigan you have
massive protests over Michigan Governor’s vague, confusing and many say
draconian stay at home order banning the sale of such things as paint or
American flags; while it is beginning to look clearer and clearer that the CV pandemic
arose because the virology lab in Wuhan allowed its escape to infect a lab
worker and then for that worker to infect people in the Wuhan wet market, Blue
Senator Murphy is making the inane and idiotic charge that Trump is the cause
of this; Pelosi, who with her Blue puppets are enjoying a nice paid recess
while the rest of us struggle with clogged unemployment office lines and
impossible telephone wait times, surfaced from her Coast mansion to rail
against Trump for cutting funding to W.H.O. and vows to block it (better would be for her to call House back
in session to fund a simple no leftist goody bag Christmas Tree supplement to
stimulus before SBA loan package runs out of money); although cumulative CV
tests have risen to 3 million, many on the front line are complaining that is
not sufficient and worse the antibody test which could be key to opening up
economy has not yet rolled out in significant numbers and under the CDC’s
guidelines people who may be infected but are not symptomatic are not tested
though they may exist in large numbers and can infect others (chaos over testing
may prove to be Trump’s Achilles heel); although for now most people are trying
hard to observe social distancing and stay at home orders, such is not the case
as police in Lakewood, New Jersey were called to a Toys R U store to break up a
gathering of 50 shoppers most of whom were not observing social distancing or
wearing face masks as 7 out of 10 store employees were not wearing masks either;
(the longer stay at home orders exist and economic collapse continues the greater
chance we will have for social unrest); in what may be a sign of the future
Emirates Airline has started using a 10 minute CV blood test on passengers
wishing to fly it; while millions of Americans are out of work with more being
adding to the list each day, California, the sanctuary state Mecca for illegal
aliens and the leader in the homeless population has just created a $125
million fund for illegal aliens who will not be getting stimulus checks (what
an unbelievable miscarriage of taxpayer dollars); in Chicago, as of April
14, 2020, 651 shootings of whom 122 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 now stands at 41 behind Chicago with 81 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 random mass shootings?).
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical video link to USA for Africa, the fact that hopefully you are
not an opprobium, and a quote by Judith Clarke on the Boston Marathon Bomber
Trial, 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. World Art Day—created by the International Association of Art and celebrated
since 2012 to promote the contribution of art to our culture and society.
2. Universal Day of Culture—created by a collection of NGOs in December 2008 to promote the appreciation
of all national and universal treasures of culture.
3. 1985 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1985 on this day on a run of 4 weeks
in the position was “We Are The World” by USA for Africa. Here is the official
video recording of the song performed an incredible ad hoc group of artists
some of whom are no longer with us and all of whom look so much younger:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=usa+for+aftrica+we+are+the+world#id=1&vid=306b86503bb37f55f2c30d3e3b88b8f7&action=view ,
o.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “opprobium” which means disgrace
which describes to a tee how our political parties in this polarized partisan
world feel about each other.
5. Ab Initio Keys—celebrating or
bemoaning the birth on this day in 1942, a businessman who became the CEO of
Enron and presided over its bankruptcy in 2001 at that time one of the largest
bankruptcies in U.S. history and following that was indicted on conspiracy and
securities fraud and convicted. While waiting for sentencing with his
conviction on appeal, he died on July 5, 2006 of a heart attack. Since his case
was on appeal, his death vacated his conviction ab initio but not his reputation of being the third worst CEO in
American history.
On this day
in:
a. 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in MLB, playing for the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
b. 1952
the first flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress which is still in service
today.
c. 1960 at Shaw University in
Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker led a conference that led to the formation
of one of the principal Civil Rights Groups in the 60’s The National Students
Nonviolence Coordinating Committee.
d. 2013 2 pressure cooker
bombs were detonated by brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerian Tsarnaev near
the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killed 3 and wounding 264. They were
identified 3 days later by the FBI and after stealing a car killed a MIT policeman
and engaged in a shoot out with police, wounding 2 including 1 who died later
and Tamerian was shot several times then run over by his brother Dzhokhar
trying to escape who was caught, tried, and convicted of murder and sentenced
to death. Sadly one of the jurors tweets reflected bias and he may escape the
death penalty on his appeal.
e.2019 the
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was severely damaged by a fire the damages from
which will not start reconstruction work in 2021 with a planned completion date
of 2024.
Reflections on the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: “So you might say,
why a trial?-- We think the question of why is important -- and this is where
we disagree. It was Tamerlan Tsarnaev who self-radicalized. It was Dzhokhar who
followed him. Dzhokhar was drawn into his brother's passion and plan and that
led him to Boylston Street.The evidence will not establish and we will not
argue that Tamerlan put a gun to Dzhokhar's head or that he forced him to join
in the plan,but you will hear evidence about the kind of influence that this
older brother had." Defense Attorney Judith Clarke.
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