Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 29, 2020 The
CV pandemic across the planet continues with 125,693 new cases (a 2.14% increase
compared to a 2.16% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 5,990,098 cases, 2,992,616 of which are active, 2,997,482 of which have been
closed with 2,632,351 recoveries (87.82% compared
to yesterday’s 87.7%) and 365,131 deaths (12.18% compared to
yesterday’s 12.3%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading
the world in total cases with new cases of 23,952 have brought total cases to 1,785,873
(a 1.36% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.53% increase) with 1,179,433
active cases and 606,440 closures,
104,135 of which have been deaths (17.17% compared
to yesterday’s 17.22%) and 502,305 of which have been
recoveries (82.83% compared to yesterday’s 82.78%) (our death rate
percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV
positive patients on May 10 but remain higher than the world probably due to
idiots like Cuomo sending positive CV patients into nursing homes to infect the
residents and staff who then die) while total testing has increased to 16,672,107;
Derek Chauvin the Minneapolis police officer shown in an 8 minute video with
his knee of George Floyd’s neck has been charged with 3rd Degree
Murder and the D.A. indicated the other 3 officers who did not intervene may
soon face criminal charges (understandably but without justification
Minneapolis has endured 3 days of riots, fires and looting which will be
detrimental to the cities comeback and do nothing for the interests of justice
but has forced the city to call in the National Guard and declare a curfew at
10:00 p.m.; we may be heading into a trade war with China but Beyond Meats has
announced that it is partnering with KFC and Pizza Hut to market its product in
China; Trump has announced that the U.S. will terminate its relationship with
W.H.O.; on the stimulus wars Red House and Senate members have introduced
legislation to bar states like California from making cash payments to illegal
aliens from stimulus funds (will not be sent to Trump’s desk due to Blue House
majority and Blue cloture proof number in the Senate but a good platform plank
to run on against Biden); in Chicago, as
of May 28, 2020, 1084 shootings of whom 197 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 now 77 behind Chicago with 120 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 Swing and
Sway with Sammy Kaye, the fact that your meals are palative and a quote from John F. Kennedy on the powers mankind possesses, 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.
Sway with Sammy Kaye, the fact that your meals are palative and a quote from John F. Kennedy on the powers mankind possesses, 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. World Digestive Health Day—created by the World Gastroenterorology Organization to
promote awareness of and the need to raise for the treatment and prevention of
gastroenterologic diseases.
2. International Day of the UN Peacekeepers--created the General Assembly of the UN to honor
the sacrifices made by the soldiers wearing the Blue Helmets of the UN
Peacekeepers trying to keep the peace between warring factions.
3. 1938 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1938 on this day on a run of 4
weeks in the position was “Love Walked In” by Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye. Here
is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgQMw8UGtQs. The swing and sway came to and end at the age
of 77 on June 2, 1987.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “palative” which means pleasing
to the taste or the palate which something we want all food to be.
5. Camelot Pennants to Fly at Half Mast--celebrating the birth on this day in 1917 of
President John F. Kennedy who brought us Camelot, a pledge to reach the Moon,
and the New Frontier but if alive today his ideas and platform would not get
him a spot on the Blue ticket for president.
On this day in:
a. 1985 in a testament of the human
spirit to overcome adversity Canadian amputee Steven Fonyo ended his run across
Canada at Victoria, British Columbia that
he had started 14 months earlier.
b. 1988 President Reagan visited the
Soviet Union for the first time to meet with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.
c. 1999 the Space Shuttle Discovery
completed the first docking at the International Space Station a feat which the
manned Crew Dragon will hopefully replicate
19 hours after its scheduled 3:22 p.m. launch on May 30, 2020.
d. 2004 the World War Two Memorial was
opened in Washington, D.C.
e. 2015 One World Observatory opened at
One World Trade Center.
Reflections on the powers mankind possesses: “We
have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of
the world or make it the last."
- John F. Kennedy.
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.
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