Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 30, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues
with 123,038 new cases (a 1.19%
increase compared to a .89% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,456,247
cases, 4,238,143 of which are active,
6,217,170 of which have been closed with 5,707,889 recoveries (91.8% compared
to yesterday’s 91.72%) and 509,215 deaths (8.19%
compared to yesterday’s 8.28%).
CV USA: New cases
of 30,727 have brought total cases
to 2,684,256 (a 1.16% increase compared to yesterday’s .62%
increase) with 1,432,754 active cases of which 15,864 (15,791
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,251,512 closures,
128,568 of which have been deaths (10.30% compared to yesterday’s 10.47%)
and 1,122,655 of which have been recoveries (89.70%
compared to yesterday’s 89.53%) (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improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10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 and accounted for over 40% of our deaths and hopefully the number
of cases will not spike given the days of massive protests and riots over
George Floyd’s and Rayshard Brooks’ deaths) with 34,154,473 tests (so much for
Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).
The couple in a
St. Louis gated community who brandished guns on their front porch after a mob
of protesters heading toward the mayor’s office allegedly broke down the gate
to get in is being castigated by a George Soros funded D.A. Karen Gardner as
she is investigating what happened (from her statements looks like she should
recuse herself as she has already make up her mind); Chief Justice Roberts may
have slowed his leaning to Earl Warren in a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling that struck down
a Montana statute prohibiting a tax credit to donations to organizations
providing scholarships to students going to religious schools (Montana is not
cursed with the failing urban schools like New York or California but this
ruling should be a lifeline to parents that want a better education for their
kids); the only interests around Joe Biden’s basement bunker campaign is what
gaffe or mental lapse will be exposed and who he will pick as VP as a good bet
is that he will not survive his term and increasingly it looks like he may
chose the illegal alien queen Kamala Harris which means California is he wins
will be hit with the one two punch of Lying Adam Schiff being appointed to
replace her in the Senate; Biden came out of his basement bunker to give a
speech and hold a truncated press conference in which he said that Confederate
statues and memorials belonged in public museums not public places and National
Monuments like Washington and Jefferson should be protected (not sure if that
will be acceptable to the BLM movement calling for their destruction due to
slave ownership); in addition to being inept, De Blasio is also deaf as he is
ignoring the voices of 57% of New Yorkers in a recent poll who do not want to
cut funding of the NYPD as shootings are rising in the Big Apple (earlier this
year 80% favored the ban of choke holds, probably because of the risk of death
or permanent injury); Fauci in testimony has raised a dire warning that the
failure to socially distance and not wearing masks could result in 100,000 new
cases a day and that there is no guarantee that a vaccine will be available
before the end of the year; while De Blasio is spiking the ball over his plan to cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget which
has been approved by the NYC City Council, AOC has tweeted in that that is not enough
and that defund the police means just that (cry for the residents of NYC who
will be even more exposed to criminal elements that team in that city).
In Chicago as of June 29, 2020, there were 1708 shootings of whom 306 have died
(so much for the defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of Chicago’s stay at
home order and a complete abdication of Mayor Lightfoot other than swearing at
people outraged over the killings); Baltimore with a fraction of Chicago’s
population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will not be a record in terms
of deaths but now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is still 142
behind Chicago with 164 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 shootings
by police or 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 Herb Albert, the
fact that you are free of paramnesia, and a quote by Neil Gaiman on social
media, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
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1. Social Media Day—celebrated or bemoaned on this day since 2010 involving
communications over the internet which from a communications standpoint has
made the world smaller and cheaper to communicate but has devastated the art of
face to face communication or oral communication via video conferencing and
given social media companies huge powers over what and how ideas are communicated
over the internet.
2. International Asteroid Day—created by the UN General Assembly in December,
2016 to commemorate the anniversary of the impact of an asteroid that impacted
Tunguska, Siberia, Russia on this day in 2008 and to create awareness of the
hazard to Earth of near Earth objects which at some time in the future may
strike the Earth with potential disaster like consequences.
3. 1968 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1968 on this day on a run of 4
weeks in that position and his first number 1 song was “This Guy’s in Love with
You” by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ByJ1C0iR4. Albert,
the only artist to have a number 1 record as a vocalist and instrumentalist, is
still going strong at 85.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paramnesia” which means a
condition or phenomenon involving distorted memory or confusions of fact and
fantasy which on most days describes Weak Joe Biden to a tee.
5. I Want to Live--celebrating the birth on this day in 1917 of noted actress
and model Edythe Marrenner, better known to her fans as Susan Hayward who after
4 Academy Award nominations finally won an Oscar for best actress for I Want to Live. Sadly she was a two pack
a day smoker of Chesterfields and also had the misfortune of appearing in The Conqueror filmed in St. George, Utah
where of the 220 people involved in the film, 91 developed cancer and 46 died, including
Hayward who was diagnosed with lung cancer that metastasized to her brain causing
a seizure which killed her on March 14,
1975.
On this day
in:
a. 1986 SCOTUS in a 5-4 decision in
the case of Bowers v. Hardwick ruled that Georgia could outlaw
homosexual activities between consenting adults, precedence that had a short
life of 17 years before being overturned by Lawrence v. Texas.
b. 1990 West Germany and East Germany
merged their two economies.
c. 1997
to the subsequent bane of the people of Hong Kong, Great Britain transferred sovereignty
of Hong Kong over to China.
d. 2007 2
jihadists drove a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane tanks trying to crash into a
terminal at Glasgow International Airport but failed, burning the driver
fatally and badly burning the passenger, a British born doctor of Iraqi descent
who was sentenced to 32 years and is presently rotting in prison.
e. 2015
19 firefighters fighting a wildfire started by a lightning strike near Yarnell,
Arizona were killed when the wind shifted and they could not escape the flames
converging upon them at a high rate of speed.
Reflections
on social media: “I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140-character
chunks of instant event & predigested gnomic wisdom & swearing.” Neil
Gaiman, author Limit is now 280 which for the Alaskanpoet I can often expand to
6 lines instead of 4 rhythmically attacking an absurd leftist tweet or praising
someone’s astute tweeted ideas.
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