Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For June 1, 2020 The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 103,669 new cases (a 1.67% 1.23%
increase compared to a 1.23% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 6,328,165
cases, 3,068,878 of which are
active, 3,259,307 of which have been closed with 2,883,363 recoveries
(88.47 % compared to yesterday’s 88.18%) and 375,944
deaths (11.53% compared to yesterday’s 11.82%); in the U.S. which
has the dubious distinction of leading the world in total cases with new cases
of 17,565 have brought total cases to 1,845,873 (a .96% increase compared to yesterday’s .69%
increase) with 1,132,246 active cases of which 16,985
are in serious or critical condition and 713,627 closures, 106,492 of which have been deaths (14.92%
compared to yesterday’s 16.43%) and 607,135 of which have
been recoveries ( 85.08% compared to yesterday’s 83.57%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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); rioting continued across the country which faces another
potential night of fires and looting, the coroner hired by the Floyd family
released his autopsy which clearly conflicts with the county’s autopsy and
found that death was caused by prolonged asphyxiation caused by the compression
on Floyd’s neck and being restrained which may well mean that Officer Chauvin
is facing a 1st degree murder charge (something the Floyd family has
called for on day one); Terrence Floyd, George’s brother has blasted violent demonstrators
for tearing the town while calling for justice; Floyd may not have died in vain
as two police were arresting a fleeing looter in Seattle with one with his knee
on this neck while bystanders were yelling for him to remove it, prompting his
partner who was cuffing the suspect to move the officer’s knee from the suspect’s
neck to his back; Trump who will be facing the punch of failure in dealing with
the pandemic is expected to be hit with the punch of being responsible for the
racial tension as a RINO’s ad was just released accusing him of pouring
gasoline on the problem (at his conference call with governors he accused them
of being weak in responding to the riots which probably is true but not
perceived as helpful in defusing the situation); NYC was hit with massive
looting again last night and its inept mayor along with a similar governor are
now just considering a curfew; on the pandemic front one can only hope the rioting
induced demise of social distancing does not lead to a spike in COVID-19 cases
in the cities hit with riots and looting (who knows, maybe exposure to tear gas
and pepper spray which is not good for humans has a worse effect on the virus);
Witless Whitmer reading the tea leaves on reaction to her draconian stay and
home orders has loosened up restrictions but theaters, gyms and hair salons remain
closed while she slammed Trump’s call as disturbing; in a tale of where staffs’
heads are at, 13 Biden staffers contributed to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to
bail out protesters (aka rioters as protesters were not being arrested while 2
dozen Trump campaign workers donated to a Go Fund Account to enable a Minneapolis
fireman to rebuild his bar destroyed by rioters); in Chicago, as of May 31,
2020, 1172 shootings (49 in one day increase) of whom 219 (13 in one day
increase) 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 90 behind
Chicago with 129 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 Jimmy Dorsey and Orchestra, the fact that you need not practice
palinola in your tasks, and a quote by Bono on the separate role of entertainers and
politicians, 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
Milk Day—created by the UN’s Food and Agriculture
Organization to promote the importance of milk and other dairy products in our
nutrition as Americans due to the decreased demand for milk due to schools with
their lunch programs being closed due to the pandemic.
2. Global Day of Parents—created
by the UN to honor the role of parents in rearing their children and the sacrifices
they make for the well being of children and efforts to continue the
relationship through their lives.
3. 1941
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1941 on this day on
a run of 10 weeks in the position was “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy” by Jimmy
Dorsey and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2wUpzPCL4
with vocals by Helen 0’Connely and Bob Eberly. Although the Big Band Era was
fading Dorsey was still performing until his smoking caught up with him and died
of throat cancer on July 12, 1957 just as his song “So Rare” was at number two
on the charts. Helen O’Connell, the quintessential singer of the Big Band Era
of the 40’s died of cancer at the age of 73 on September 9, 1993 and Bob Eberly
struggled with lung cancer and had one lung removed in 1980 but managed to
continue to sing only to die of a heart attack on November 17, 1981 at 65.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “palinola” which
means compulsive repetition of and act until it is perfect which might describe
someone whom people would refer to a anal retentive.
5. A
Time For Roses--celebrating the birth on this day in 1926 of
Norma Jean Mortenson better known to her fans as Marilyn Monroe who was the
first nude to appear in Playboy and
was the premier sex symbol on the 50’s and 60’s till her death on August 4,
1962 by possible suicide by barbiturates. She made her former husband Joe
DiMaggio promise that if she predeceased him he would send flowers to her grave
which he did for 20 years sending a half dozen roses to her crypt 3 times a
week.
On
this day
in:
a. 1980
Cable News Network began broadcasting as the first cable network to provide 24
news programming although Trump and his supporters believe CNN now only
broadcasts “fake news.”
b. 2004
in an overkill moment, co-conspirator Terry Nichols of Oklahoma City Federal Building
bombing infamy was sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences without
possibility of parole, a Guinness Book of
Records record.
c.
2008 in a disaster for history of music and film, a fire on the back lot of
Universal Studios which destroyed the King Kong Attraction also destroyed a
massive archive of master recordings of films and music the full extent of such
devastation would not be known untile 2019.
d.
2009 General Motors filed for Chapter XI Bankruptcy.
e.
2011 Space Shuttle Endeavor, last Space
Shuttle built to replace the destroyed Columbia,
made its last landing and the penultimate flight of the Space Shuttle
program ending our ability to put Americans into orbit until May 30, 2020 when
a SpaceX Falcon 9 sent a Crew Dragon capsule with 2 Americans aboard into orbit
to later dock with the International Space Station.
Reflections
on the role of entertainers such elite should take to heart: “I'm a singer, not
a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK
to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that
your new album is coming out in six months.” Bono wiser words were never spoken
by others by this lead singer to the band U2.
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