Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 1, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 54,236 new cases (a 1.65% increase in total cases compared to 2.44% yesterday)
to bring the total to 3,358,157 cases,
2,053,363 of which are active, 1,304,794 of which have been
closed with 1,067,703 recoveries (81.83% compared to yesterday’s 81.6%) and 237,091 deaths (18.17% compared
to yesterday’s 18.4%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading
the world in total cases with new cases of 24,742 have brought total cases to 1,105,808
(a .99%% increase compared to
yesterday’s 2.34% increase) with
884,727 active cases and 221,081 closures, 64,562 of which have been deaths (29.2% compared
to yesterday’s 29.56%) and 156,519 of which have been recoveries (70.8%
compared to yesterday’s 70.44%), while total testing has increased to 6,498,830, an
increase of 205,518 (improvement from several weeks ago but still far short of
the 300,000-500,000 tests needed; the FDA has just announced approval for the
use of Gilead’s remdeservir in treating CV patients after a study showed it
reduced the treatment time form 14 days to 11; Hidin’ Biden, looking like in the words of
Geraldo Rivera “looking like a deer caught in the headlights” came out of his
basement to appear on Morning Joe,
about as anti-Trump as MSM can be to strongly and categorically deny the allegations
of Tara Reade, urging the press to investigate the allegations and refusing to
allow the release of his papers at the University of Delaware (even though
reports were that Dem operatives had access); in a where’s Waldo moment
speculation remains rampant as to the whereabouts and status of Kim Jong Un;
documents released on the Flynn case reveal grave misconduct by the FBI
officials like Strzok and Paige with the FBI not trying to determine the truth but
rather to get Flynn to lie so he could be prosecuted or at least filed and
threatening to go after his son if he did not plead guilty (if the FBI can do
this to a prominent official any mere normal citizen should really be concerned);
while Gruesome Newsom is threatening to criminalize Orange County beach goers
the County has released 7 high risk sex offenders for fear they will be
infected with corona virus in Orange County Jails (Blues like Kamala Harris
safe with police protection are pushing big time to have federal and state
prisoners released to avoid contracting coronavirus which has a familiar ring
to it like Cuomo ordering nursing homes in New York to admit admittees from
hospitals and hospices who have tested positive and then infect residents who
then die like flies); Governor Cuomo who was the fair haired super hero on detailing
the progress of the coronavirus is now being slammed for New York’s
mismanagement, waste and nursing home deaths; Newsom is now in the same boat as
Witless Whitman as Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach City Councils voted to sue
him for closing the beaches; in Chicago, as of April 30, 2020, 774 shootings of whom 143 have
died but none in the last two days (so much for the effectiveness of Chicago’s
stay at home order); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s population and
hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms of deaths is still
54 behind Chicago with 89 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 link to TLC, the fact that you are competent in orthoepy and
quotes by Donald Rumsfield and Laurence Silberman on the Iraq War, 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. International Workers Day—created by the Second
International in 1891 to commemorate the Haymarket Riot in the U.S. on this day
in 1886 and to promote the cause and goals of labor.
2. Law Day—first
proclaimed by President Eisenhower on February 5, 1958 and first observed on
May 1, 1958 to promote adherence to the rule of law and established as a
counter weight to May Day.
3. 1999 Number One Song— the number 1 song
in 1999 on this day on a run of 4 weeks in the position was “Scrubs” By TLC.
Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Q4m1IJPu8&list=RDj6Q4m1IJPu8&start_radio=1&t=24 This
African-American female trio is one of the most successful female groups in history
behind only the Supremes and is still performing today although without one of
its original members Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes who was killed in 2002 in a traffic
accident in Honduras..
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “orthoepy”
which means the study of correct pronunciation.
5. An Ear For the
Elevator Pitch—celebrating the birth on this day of Richard Riordan, the last
Republican Mayor of Los Angeles and note corporate lawyer and successful venture
capitalist and private equity investor.
On this day
in:
a. 1931 the Empire State
Building was opened in New York City.
b. 1956 a vaccine for
polio was released by Jonas Salk.
c. 1971 AMTRAK took over the
service of passenger rail service in the United States to begin its long
history continuing to this day of losing billions of dollars.
d. 1999 in a better late than
never moment, the body of climber George Mallory who disappeared in June of
1924 trying to climb Mt. Everest was discovered on the mountain.
e. 2003 in what became known
as his “Mission Accomplished” speech but later should have been known as “A
Jumping of the Gun” speech, President George W. Bush declared on the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California
that combat operations in Iraq were over.
Before
and after reflections on WMD in Iraq: “January 20, 2003 - “His regime has large,
unaccounted for stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, including VX,
sarin, mustard gas, anthrax, botulism and possibly smallpox. And he has an
active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons.” –Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, January 20,
2003.
March 31, 2005 - “The intelligence
community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of
weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).” - Laurence Silberman, co-chairman,
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States regarding
weapons of mass destruction on March 31, 2005. Talk about a trillions of
dollars mistake on our part, not to mention the lives lost and bodies wounded
physically and emotionally.
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