Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For May 31, 2020 The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 75,665 new cases (a 1.23% increase
compared to a 2.65% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 6,224,516 cases,
3,073,654 of which are
active, 3,150,862 of which have been closed with 2,778,361 recoveries (88.18
% compared to yesterday’s 88.04%) and 372,501 deaths (11.82%
compared to yesterday’s 11.96%); in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction
of leading the world in total cases with new cases of 12,544 have brought total
cases to 1,828,308 (a .69% increase
compared to yesterday’s 1.67% increase) with 1,183,803 active
cases and 644,505 closures, 105,918 of which have been deaths (16.43% compared
to yesterday’s 16.59%) and 530,477 of which have been
recoveries ( 83.57% compared to yesterday’s 83.39%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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); the Crew Dragon capsule has been renamed Endeavor by its two astronauts in honor
of the fact their first flight into space was on Space Shuttle Endeavor as Endeavor has successfully docked to the International Space
Station; peaceful in orbit but the nation below is in riots and flames across
it with 5,000 National Guard deployed, large numbers of cities in curfew, widespread
looting and fires, total disregard of curfews imposed by Blue city run mayors,
shootings and killings, 60 Secret Service officers injured while protecting the
White House and to be expected on both sides massive blame finger pointing
(Mayor Bottoms perhaps said it best that looting and rioting is destroying the
memory of George Floyd); Trump has moved to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization;
De Blasio is clearly inept with now no supporters on left or right as he
defended NYPD officers for driving through a protesters’ barrier igniting
social media trends to have him resign; the Minnesota Freedom Fund a group
which seeks contributions to bail out people who have been arrested but cannot
post bail had raised less than %$75,000 before George Floyd’s death has raised $20
million in 4 days following his death, and included in that group of donors, 13
staffers of Biden’s campaign (Biden opposes cash bail calling it debtors’
prison and has now blamed Charlemagne Tha God for baiting him which prompted
his “you ain’t black” remark ( if he was baited
his handlers should be shuddering over what Trump will do to him in the
debates if they cannot somehow prevent them from occurring); the it’s a video
lying queen Susan Rice is back in the news claiming Russians are behind the
violent protests over the death of George Floyd while still hanging on to her
delusions that the Russians were conspiring with Trump to win the election;
Jack Dorsey the CEO of Twitter believes in “Twitter fact checks thee but as CEO
and founder of Twitter not me” as he retweets a blatantly false tweet from the Mayor
of St. Paul claiming all of the agitators were from out of state when in fact
38 of the 45 people arrested lived in Minnesota; Trey Gowdy and the family
lawyer for George Floyd’s family see eye to eye with both claiming Officer
Chauvin should be charged with 1st degree murder; in Chicago, as of
May 30, 2020, 1123 shootings of whom 206 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 79 behind Chicago with 127 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 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, the fact that the weather
allows you to store your palatot and a quote from Tom Steyer not on
politics but smoking, 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
No Tobacco Day—created by the World Health Organization in
1987 to promote awareness of the adverse health effects of the use of tobacco
including second hand smoke which leads to 8 million painful ways to die and sadly
includes 1.2 million nonsmokers exposed to this filthy and disgusting habit.
2. National
Necrotizing Fasciitis Day—first declared by Governor Rick Snyder of
Michigan to promote awareness of this bacterial caused disease that eats flesh,
muscle and organs and if not treated quickly can lead to loss of life.
3. 1940
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1940 on this day on
a run of 7 weeks in the position was “The Woodpecker Song” by Glenn Miller and
His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BnLWFwq9I.
Sadly, for music lovers this member of the Army Air Force Band on December 15,
1944 disappeared at the age of 40 over the English Channel in foul weather
en route to France to entertain the troops.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “palatot” which
means a loose overcoat which with our warmer weather can be stored in the
closet until the late fall.
5. Bang
the Drums Quickly--celebrating the birth on this day in 1948 of
John Bonham a self taught drummer starting at age 5 who became the drummer for
Led Zepplin and with due regards to Ringo Starr was ranked by Rolling Stone as the number one drummer
of all time but battled successfully heroin addiction only to consume 40 shots
of vodka in 24 hours during and after a rehearsal before starting a North
American tour and die in his sleep from asphyxiating on his own vomit on September
25, 1980.
On
this day
in:
a. 1889
a private dam acquired by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club to create a private
lake, Lake Cavanaugh, experienced a catastrophic collapse, sending a 60 foot
high wall of water into Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing some 2,200 people.
b. 1977
to the joy of an oil hungry, foreign oil import dependent U.S. the Trans Alaska
Pipeline was completed.
c.
2005 Vanity Fair revealed that FBI
agent Mark Felt was the “Deep Throat” in the Watergate Scandal that forced Nixon
to resign rather than be impeached and then convicted.
d.
2017 President Trump tweeted “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” and
then stopped with the use of the word “covfefe” going viral and even though deleted
6 hours later became an internet meme.
e.
2019 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 40 year old DeWayne Craddock, a disgruntled
city engineer who had tendered his resignation hours earlier, entered the city’s
Municipal Building Complex armed with legally purchased weapons and shot and
killed 11 city employees and one outside contractor and wounding 4 others
before being shot and killed by police in a shootout on the premises.
Reflections
on smoking on World No Tobacco Day: “My mother, Marnie Fahr Steyer, was a
lifelong smoker - up to three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. I like to
think that, if Mom were still with us today, she'd be happy with the strides
we've made to protect our children from the ongoing health crisis of tobacco
addiction.” — Tom Steyer, venture capitalist and failed Blue presidential
candidate, who like Bloomberg, tried to buy his way into the nomination.
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