Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 11, 2020
The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 236,252 new cases (a 3.23 % increase
compared to a 1.05% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 7,547,776 cases, 3,301,369 of which are
active, 4,246,407 of which have been
closed with 3,824,705 recoveries (90.1% compared to yesterday’s 89.71%)
and 421,702 deaths (9.93% compared to yesterday’s 10.29%); in the U.S.
which has the dubious distinction of leading the world in total cases with new
cases of 37,081 have brought total cases to 2,082,630 (a 1.81% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.27%
increase) with 1,155,429 active cases of which 16,792 (16,952
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 927,201 closures, 115,811 of which have been
deaths (12.49% compared to yesterday’s 12.64%) and 811,390 of which have been recoveries (87.51%
compared to yesterday’s 87.36%) (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improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10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 hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the days of massive
protests and riots over George Floyd’s death) with 23,073,473 tests; the 26
year old scum bag, Mason Lira, who put a bullet into Nicolas Dreyfus’ head, has
been captured after wounding 4 officers who will join the list of 600 officers
injured after Floyd’s death; Seattle police are being urged by law enforcement
experts to end the anarchists’ seizure of a 6 block zone surrounding Seattle’s
City Hall as reports are coming out that
armed occupiers are extorting businesses in the area now known as CHAZ (in
example of how left the NYT has moved, the paper is praising CHAZ as a “homeland
for racial justice”); Governor Inslee of Washington has been mocked rightfully
so that he was ignorant of the creation of CHAZ (doubtful but at least he can
hide behind the fact that the MSM is downplaying the anarchists’ seizure); the
market totally tanked today with news of the spike in new CV cases even though
the jury is out whether the spike is due to opening up the economy or the
massive protests without any social distancing that swept the nation following
the death of George Floyd at the hands of 4 Minneapolis police officers; in
another example of the PC World gone amok Grammy winning band Lady Antebellum
has changed its name to Lady A; in another example of the PC police running wild,
Live PD TV series has been cancelled not because of ratings but because of the
anti-police rhetoric sweeping this land; Trump has indicated executive orders
will be forthcoming on improving health among minorities, education by promoting
more charter schools and promoting better use of force standards but drew a
line in the sand over weakening police forces (dominate the streets but
dominate with compassion); wheels of justice on what many are calling a coup
attempt by Comey and his lackeys as the Senate Intel Committee is moving forward
to issue a large number of subpoenas for Obama administration appointees on the
Russian “collusion” probe; in Chicago (the poster city of why we need more
police not less and certainly not defunded), as of June 10, 2020, 1341
shootings of whom 244 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 but
now seems to be shooting less and killing less and is now 101 behind Chicago with 143 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 Les Paul and Mary Ford, the fact that you love to look for those
panduriform shaped ferns coming out of the ground in the early spring, and a
quote by Herman Cain on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 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
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1. Cousteau Day--—celebrating the birth on this day of noted underwater
explorer and marine conservationist Jacques Cousteau..
2. King Kamehameha Day—celebrated in Hawaii to honor the Hawaiian monarch who ruled
from 1792 until his death in 1819 and brought under his rule all the Hawaiian
Islands in 1810.
3. 1951 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1951 on this day on a run of 9
weeks in the position was “How High the Moon” by Les Paul and Mary Ford. Here is a recording
of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkGf1GHAxhE.
Paul was born in 1915 and this noted guitarist is one of the few artists to
have a permanent exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and with a larger
pick was able to extend his career for many years, winning a Grammy at the age
of 90 but in an all good things must end sometime, his guitar strings were
broken permanently by pneumonia on August 12, 2009. Mary Ford who was 9 years older than Paul married
him and divorced him in 1964 and failed in her struggle with alcoholism and
died on September 30, 1977 never having come out of an 8 week coma.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “panduriform” which means fiddle
shaped which describes the top of many ferns first coming out of the ground.
5. The Second Punch Can Be Deadlier Than the First--celebrating the birth on this day in 1937 Ramon
Lee Cramton better known to his fans as Chad Everett and perhaps best known as
Doctor Joe Gannon on the long running CBS series Medical Center who slipped into heavy drinking in the 70’s and 80’s
but finally got sober in 1986 only to later succumb to lung cancer on July 24,
2012.
On this day
in:
a. 1184 B.C. in a day on which
students of USC should wear black armbands in mourning, Troy was sacked and
burned according to the calculations of Greek historian Eratothenes.
b. 1963 President Kennedy addressed
the nation proposing adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banning
discrimination in access to public facilities, ending segregation in public education
and guaranteeing voting rights which despite being filibustered ad infinitum
was passed during the Johnson Administration.
c. 1998
Compaq Computer Corporation acquired Digital Equipment Corporation in the
largest high tech acquisition to date until surpassed by Hewlett Packard’s
acquisition of Compaq for $25 billion.
d. 2002 in a halfway moment better than none,
the House of Representatives but not the
Senate by resolution acknowledged Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the
telephone.
e. 2018 3 World Trade Center officially
opened.
Reflections on the
Civil Rights Act of 1964; “The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger
percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat
president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” Herman Cain, Republican African-American
seeking the Republican presidential nomination who was hit with allegations of
sexual abuse vehemently denied by him but forced to suspend his candidacy in
December, 2011.
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