Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 10, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet crosses the 4,000,000 mark in cases with 78,946 new
cases (a 1.93% increase compared to a 2.43% increase yesterday) to
bring the total to 4,174,075 cases, 2,421,702 of which are active, 1,752,373
of which have been closed with 1,468,789 recoveries (83.82% compared
to yesterday’s 83.63%) and 283,584 deaths (16.18% compared to
yesterday’s 16.37%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading
the world in total cases with new cases of 20,564 have brought total
cases to 1,365,247 (a 1.53 % increase
compared to yesterday’s 2.19% increase) with 1,043,690 active cases
and 321,557 closures, 80,715 of which have been deaths (25.1% compared
to yesterday’s 25.25%) and 240,842 of which have been
recoveries (74.9% compared to yesterday’s 74.75%), while total testing
has increased to 9,376,795, an increase of 488,465 from
yesterday (closing in on the 500,000 per day threshold); under pressure due to
massive nursing home deaths due to Cuomo’s misguided directive to require
nursing homes to accept positive tested patients from hospitals was finally
reversed but not before the death of some 5,000 patients; Cuomo and De Blasio
are taking a lot of scorn for trying to tax the 21,000 volunteers from across
the nation who came to New York and New York City to do yeoman’s duty to fight
the pandemic; only a complete egotistical narcissist like Obama who was part of
the effort to destroy Flynn to preserve his delusional legacy that he destroyed
Al-Qaeda by killing Osama would charge that AG Barr violated the rule of law by
dropping charges against Flynn; don’t hold your breath but there seems to be
movement that the Blue supermajority California controlled legislature may
investigate Newsom’s fishy Chinese mask deal; in
Chicago, as of May 9, 2020, 876 shootings of whom 163 have died (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 58 behind Chicago with 105 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 Avril Ligne, the fact that you do not use ostrichism
in your affairs and a quote by Frank Boccia on Hamburger Hill, 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. Mother’s Day—celebrated first by Anna Jarvis to
honor her mother in Grafton, West Virginia on this day in 1908 at the St.
Andrew’s Memorial Church; normally a big day for retailers for Mother’s Day gifts
especially flowers but may not be the case this year with most of the country’s
business shut down.
2. Golden Spike Day—celebrating
the driving of the ceremonial Golden Spike by California Governor and future co-founder
of Stanford at Promontory Point in Utah in 1869 to complete the First Transcontinental Railroad.
3. 2007 Number One Song— the number 1 song
in 2007 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position “Girlfriend” by Avril
Lavigne for her first number one song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg59q4puhmg This
French-Canadian born singer/songwriter and actress is a vegan and has been
infected with Lyme’s Disease but still on a roll performing.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “ostrichism”
which means an unwillingness to face unpleasant facts a character trait exhibited
by most of our politicians be they Red or Blue.
5. Nothing More
Vicious Than Heroin—celebrating the birth on this day in 1957 of English bassist and
singer John Simon Ritchie better known to his fans as Sid Vicious and a member
of the Sex Pistols who died of a heroin dose on February 2, 1979 at the age of
21.
On this day
in:
a. 1954 Bill Haley and
the Comet‘s “Rock Around the Clock” became the first rock and roll song to
reach Number One on the charts.
b. 1969 the 10 day
assault on Hill 937 which would become known as Hamburger Hill began in the battle
of Dong Ap Bia which cost 72 killed and 400 wounded only to be abandoned
shortly thereafter.
c. 1975 SONY introduced the
Betamax videocassette recorder which ultimately lost out to the VHS format.
d. 1993 a fire occurred at the
Kader Toy Factory in Thailand, killing 188 workers and injuring 500 to become
the world’s worst factory fire.
e. 2013 rising from the ashes
of 9/11 One World Trade Center was topped off to become the tallest building in
the Western Hemisphere.
Reflections
on the Battle for Hamburger Hill: “The old refrain is that there are no
atheists in foxholes. That's nonsense. They are there by the millions. There is
little in combat that will lead one to look upon the Creator with favor. What
can't be there, instead, is the individualist, the selfish, the self-consumed,
the self-centered, the aloof loner. Such a man cannot long survive. The terror
of combat cannot be described by fear of death. There are worse things. The
world can suddenly become a very cold place...He needs warmth, a fire, to
survive: His discipline, his training, his duty, honor and country, his family,
and ultimately the very oak of his manhood are thrown into the blaze, but they
are not enough to save him. At the end, he needs the warmth of his comrades.
Otherwise, all he will have with which to face the cold dark will be his own
spent soul.”― Frank Boccia, The
Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant’s Account of the Battle for
Hamburger Hill, May 1969
Please
enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if
you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always
good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go
to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for
Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History, poems to
inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items
of importance or go to Ridley's
Believe It Or Not for just This Day in
History.
© May 10, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka
the Alaskanpoet
Alaskanpoet for Hire,
Poems to Admire
Poet Extraordinaire
Beyond Compare
The
Perfect Gift, All Recipients to Receive a Lasting Lift
No comments:
Post a Comment