Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For May 8, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues nearing the 4,000,000 mark in cases with
116,608 new cases (a 3% increase
compared to a 1.85% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 3,997,920 cases,
2,347,270 of which are
active, 1,650,650 of which have been closed with 1,375,527 recoveries ( 83.33% compared to yesterday’s 83.19%) and 275,123 deaths (16.67% compared to yesterday’s 16.81%); in the U.S.
which has the dubious distinction of leading the world in total cases`and the
president’s valet testing positive with new cases of 38,291 have brought total cases to 1,315,897 (a 4.89%
increase compared to yesterday’s 1.67% increase) with 1,015,879 active
cases and 300,019 closures, 78,299 of which have been deaths (26.08% compared
to yesterday’s 26.2%) and 221,720 of which have been
recoveries (73.9% compared to yesterday’s 73.8%), while total testing has
increased to 8,564,177, an increase of 432,641
from yesterday; on the bogus Russian collusion front released transcripts from
interviews with former Obama official Evelyn Farkas show a severe case of
Schiffitis as she touted that she knew that there was evidence of Trump
collusion only to admit to House investigators that that was not the case;
House Intel Committee reveal that touts to MSNBC and CNN to the contrary top
Obama officials had no empirical evidence of Trump collusion with Russia;
McCabe has admitted that the FBI was unable to prove the accuracy of the Steele
Dossier that was the cornerstone of the FISA warrants obtained time and time again to spy on Carter
Page; in a rebuke to Nadler, SCOTUS has blocked the release of grand jury
transcripts on the Mueller probe; Nate Silver has attacked the MSM for its
reporting on the increase in CV cases but not disclosing the increase may be
due in large part to increased testing (since Trump’s re-election hopes will
rise or fall based on public perception of his handling of the virus be alert to
MSM’s attempts to cook the narrative to damage his re-election chances; in a
hint to Michelle Obama that she should stick to her garden, critics have
largely panned her “Becoming” release on Netflix; Harris and Sanders are now proposing
a $2,000 a month payment retroactive to March for all residents, including to
no one’s surprise illegal aliens, earning less than $120,000 a year until the pandemic ends and for three months
later (kiss this nation’s fiscal future goodbye for good and get ready to buy
wheelbarrows to carry the inflation devastate currency to pay bills); in
potential good news for dairy farmers, some studies are indicating Vitamin D
consumption lowers morbidity rates for CV patients; with 33,5 million Americans
now jobless and seeking unemployment which continues to be a great struggle,
protests are spreading especially in states with stay at home orders with no
termination dates; Lori Loughlin and her husband lost their bid to have the
charges dismissed by alleging prosecutorial misconduct; in Chicago, as of May 7,
2020, 855 shootings of whom 160 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 57 behind Chicago with 103 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 Lil Wayne featuring Static Major, the fact that you are
not guilty of osmidrosis since gyms are closed down and a quote by Dwight D.
Eisenhower on V-E Day, secure in the knowledge that if you
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graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the
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1. Victory in Europe Day—celebrating the unconditional
surrender by German forces to the Allies bringing an end to WWII in Europe which caused the death of
millions of soldiers and civilians.
2. World
Red Cross and Red Crescent Password Day—celebrating the creation
of the Red Cross and Red Cross and the noble work they do during military
conflicts and natural disasters.
3. 2005 Number One Song— the number 1 song
in 2005 on this day on a run of 1 week in the position “Lollipop” by Lil Wayne featuring
Static Major. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IH8tNQAzSs
This 5’7” rapper dynamo has sold over 120 million records but has had a recent
past of dealing with epileptic seizures.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “osmidrosis”
which means the emission of foul smelling sweat which is the collateral damage
of a good workout.
5. Managing a
Campaign Not Like Running a City—celebrating
or bemoaning the birth on this day in 1961 of Bill de Blasio, failed Blue
presidential candidate and Mayor of New York where his actions validate the
Peter Principle and who has been castigated by the NYPD and ridiculed by others
for his handling of the CV pandemic.
On this day
in:
a. 1902 Mount Pelee on
Martinique erupted, killing some 30,000 people.Quotes
b. 1945 thousands of sailors
in Halifax given shore leave to celebrate the end of World War II in Halifax
with nowhere to eat or drink or see a movie rioted and resulting in 3 men dead
(2 from alcohol poisoning, and 1e a possible murder), 363 arrested, 654
businesses damaged and 207 establishments looted to some degree with some
65,000 quarts of liquor, 8,000 cases of beer and 1,500 cases of wine had been
"liberated."
c. 1972 in a what took us so
long moment, President Nixon announced his order to start placing naval mines
in the harbors of North Vietnam to halt the flow of weapons being sent to that
country.
d. 1980 the World Health
Organization confirmed the eradication of small pox.
e. 2019 19 year old British
patient Isabelle Holdaway after undergoing a lung transplant became the first
patient to be treated with genetically modified phages to combat a drug resistant
infection and better yet she survived.
Reflections
on the triumph of V-E Day: "Humility must be the measure of a man whose
success was bought with the blood of his subordinates, and paid for with the
lives of his friends." Dwight D. Eisenhower
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