Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 17, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 146,522 new cases (a 1.79
% increase compared to a 1.61% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 8,343,312
cases, 3,530,878 of which are
active, 4,812,434 of which have been closed with 4,363,897 recoveries (90.68%
compared to yesterday’s 90.6%) and 448,537 deaths
(9.32% compared to yesterday’s 9.4%); in the U.S. which has the dubious
distinction of leading the world in total cases and being hit with the bookends
of reopening its economy and massive protests over the death of George Floyd
and Rayshard Brooks with new cases of 28,326 have brought total cases to 2,223,749 (a
1.29% increase compared to yesterday’s .95% increase) with 1,200,011 active
cases of which 16,681 (16,447 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition
and 1,023,738 closures, 119,556 of which have been deaths (11.68% compared
to yesterday’s 11.75%) and 904,182 of which have
been recoveries (88.32% compared to yesterday’s 88.25%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 some 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 26,243,811 tests; long overdue the Reds in the
Senate are waking up to the dangers to our democracy created by social media
giants like Google and Twitter censoring conservative speech as Senator Hawley
has introduced legislation enabling users who have been censored to sue
(rightfully so Google’s attempt to defund the Federalist Society unless they
banned comments to their articles has finally raised the hackles of Red Senators);
the do as I say not as I do hypocrisy queen Nancy Pelosi after demanding
advertisers boycott Facebook because it will not ban “misinformation” or “life threatening”
posts by Trump and his supporters, it the last 7 days spent $182,528 on
advertising (more than just being able to sue against censorship, given the
importance of being able access your views to the internet, social media should
be treated like utilities and in the absence of calls to violence or
resurrection, all views should have access); Bolton to justify his $2 million
book advance evidently has some real shockers like Xi was asked for his help in
2020 reelection but the DOJ is suing to block publication due to fact review of
classified material has not been completed (doubt if DOJ will be successful in
re Pentagon Papers but something distasteful and corrupt that a National
Security Advisor can publish memoirs while president still in office and
seeking reelection but $2 million book advance goes long way to remove honesty
and integrity); Rashid Brimmage, the scumbag registered sex offender who was
arrested for pushing a 92 year old woman to the ground in New York City has
been arrested 103 times in the past including on March 5, Feb. 17 and Feb. 4
when he was arrested and given notices to appear; Cuomo aka the Angel of
COVID-19 Nursing Home Death has signed an executive order making June 19, the
anniversary of the date in 1865 that in Texas, slaves received notification of
the Emancipation Proclamation; the Atlanta police officer who shot and killed
Brooks has been charged with 1st Degree Murder and his partner with
assault; in Chicago (the Blue run poster city of why we need more police not
less and certainly not defunded), as of June 16, 2020, 1421 shootings of whom
256 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 110 behind Chicago with 146 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 Gogi Grant, the fact
that you do not have to be a pantaglot to read foreign languages, and a quote
by T.S. Eliot on such natural occurrences as droughts, 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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event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought—proclaimed by the UN General Assembly on
January 30, 1995 to promote the halting of the degradation of the planet’s land surfaces,
sustainable cultivation and consumption and fighting climate change.
2. World Croc Day—celebrating a reptile who has been on this planet for a very
long time but now faces endangered status in many parts of the world due to
loss of habitat and human intrusion.
3. 1956 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1956 on this day on a run of 6
weeks was “The Wayward Wind” by Gogi Grant. Here is a recording of the
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQUVtbztEs. A cancer survivor, she was performing as late as 2013 at the
age of 89 until the wind ended for good on March 10, 2016.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pantaglot” which means a speaker
of all languages which thanks to various digital sites one does not have to be
to translate a foreign language.
5. Depression Battle Lost--celebrating the birth on this day in 1989 of Simone Battle,
contestant in the X Factor who was
just starting to get her singing career on the upward track until, suffering
from depression, she hung herself on September 5, 2024.
On this day
in:
a. 1953 in response to an uprising
of German workers against the occupation of the Soviet Union that started in
East Berlin and spread across East Germany, the Soviets sent in a division of
troops to East Berlin to crush the uprising, killing over 100 demonstrators
b. 1963 SCOTUS ruled 8-1 in the case
of Abington School District v. Schempp that required reciting of Bible
verses and the “Lord’s Prayer” in a public school was banned.
c. 1972 in what would prove to be the dumbest
crime of the Century given the election landslide Nixon would win in November, 5
operatives were arrested in the burglary of the DNC Headquarters in the
Watergate Hotel.
d. 1991 South Africa in a better late
than never moment repealed its Population Registration Act of 1950 that
required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
e. 1994 following a televised low speed “chase”
on Southern California freeways O.J. Simpson was arrested for the murder of
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Reflections on natural occurrences such as drought: ”There are
flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand
contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity
of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.” T.S. Eliot
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