Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 3, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 73,967 new cases (a 2.2% increase in total cases compared to 1.65% yesterday)
to bring the total to 3,555,338 cases, 2,157,225
of which are active, 1,398,113 of which have been closed with 1,150,482
recoveries (82.29% compared to
yesterday’s 81.83%) and 247,631 deaths (17.71% compared to yesterday’s 18.17%);
in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading the world in total
cases with new cases of 23,718 have brought total cases to 1,184,490 (a 2.14%
increase compared to yesterday’s .99%
increase) with 937,864 active cases and 246,626 closures,
68,407 of which have been deaths (27.74%
compared to yesterday’s 29.2%) and 178,219 of which have
been recoveries (72.26% compared to yesterday’s 70.8%), while total
testing has increased to 7,174,746, an increase of 675,916 (great improvement
from several weeks ago); the slogan of the NYT of “All the News That’s Fit to
Print” needs to be changed to “All the Views That Are Fit to Mock” as it comes
out with a call for the DNC to create a “independent panel” to investigate the
charges against Biden which was rightfully ridiculed by journalists (what are
they smoking there with that idea?); Tara Reade is standing by her story and
alleging she didn’t file a police report after experiencing the treatment Anita
Hill was subject to during the Clarence Thomas hearings and is complaining
against death threats and online harassment against her and her family; Witless
Whitmer extended her draconian stay at home orders as peaceful protestors entered
the Capitol some with open carry weapons which is allowed under Michigan law
and blasted the demonstrators as the worst kind of racists; on the homeless
front, hundreds of homeless in Denver have tested positive and FECES City has
fallen way short of leasing 8,250 hotel rooms to house the homeless as only
2,741 rooms have been leased with 1,130 of those being unoccupied due to lack
of hotel staff or other “failures of preparation”; if planning a trip to France
might want to reconsider as France is extending its health emergency to July 24
and requiring all travelers arriving to quarantine themselves for 2 weeks; good
news on the carnivore lovers front as beef output in the U.S. has tumbled as
more closed meat processing plants are beginning to open; in another example of
the CV bringing out the best in people, Larry Connor, founder and CEO of the
Connor Group summoned his employees by video conference and informed them he would
be giving them as a bonus the $1.6 million he had made in the stock market
recently; in
Chicago, as of May 2, 2020, 813 shootings of whom 148 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 58 behind Chicago with 90 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 Santana feat. The Product G&B, the fact that you
are a competent in orthographer and a quote by Tom Wicker on freedom of the press, 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. Sun Day—created by proclamation of President Jimmy Carter in 1978 to
promote the expansion of solar power.
2. World Press
Freedom Day—created by UNESCO to promote a free press an institution which
is under assault in dictatorial countries like China and Russia but also here
as the MSM becomes more and more the bastion of advocacy journalism and more and
more like the publicity arm of the DNC through acts of commission and more
troubling acts of omission (like initially near silence on Tara Reade’s
allegations against Biden).
3. 2000 Number One Song— the number 1 song
in 2000 on this day on a run of 10 weeks in the position was “Maria Maria”
By Santana feat. The Product G&B. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPLV7lGbmT4 The band albeit
with many personnel changes other than Carlos Santana who will turn 73 in July
is still going strong.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “orthographer”
which means a correct speller, a skill rapidly fading away with Windows Spell-check.
5. Put Your Money
Where Your Beliefs Are—celebrating the birth on this day in 1940 of David Koch, a
co-owner of Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held companies in the
U.S., who became a fund raising nemesis of the Democratic Party contributing
millions to Republican candidates while also do the same in philanthropy and to
the joy of liberals died on August 23, 2019.
On this day
in:
a. 1957 to the joy of
baseball fans in Los Angeles, Walter O’ Malley agreed to move the Brooklyn
Dodgers to Loas Angeles.
b. 1978 in an omen for
the future Digital Equipment Corporation sent the first unsolicited commercial e-mail
(later to be known as Spam) to every known ARPANET address on the West Coast.
c. 1999 southwestern Oklahoma
City was hit by a F5 tornado with the highest winds ever recorded at 301 +or-
20 m.p.h which killed 45 people, injured 665 and caused over $1 billion in
damages.
d. 2001 the United States lost
its seat on the UN Humans Rights Commission which it had held since the
Commission’s founding in 1947 when countries with stellar human rights records
like Russia, People’s Republic of China and Saudi Arabia are members.
e. 2015 2 Islamists attacked
an anti-Muslim event in Garland, Texas at the Curtis Carswell Center held in
response to the Charlie Hebdo attack and after shooting an unarmed guard in the
ankle were sent to Paradise by an off duty police officer.
Reflections
on freedom of the press: “If the true freedom of the press is to decide for
itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the
press must be to assert and defend that freedom… What the press in America needs
is less inhibition, not more restraint.” Tom Wicker, noted deceased political reporter
and columnist for the New York Times. Sadly in the era of advocacy journalism
too often the decision is also made on what not to publish that which conflicts
with the “journalist’s” advocacy.
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