Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 19, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 155,626 new cases (a 1.82
% increase compared to a 2.44% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 8,702,715
cases, 3,649,798 of which are
active, 5,052,917 of which have been closed with 4,592,225 recoveries (90.88%
compared to yesterday’s 90.81%) and 460,692 deaths
(9.12% compared to yesterday’s 9.19%); 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 32,622 have brought total cases to 2,289,071 (a
1.45% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.47% increase) with 1,232,505 active
cases of which 16,444 (16,630 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition
and 1,057,566 closures, 121,290 of which have been deaths (11.47% compared
to yesterday’s 11.55%) and 935,276 of which have
been recoveries (88.44% compared to yesterday’s 88.45%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 27,226,153 tests; while Hidin” Biden remains
hunkered down in his inaccessible bunker, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled
that Trump’s Tulsa rally can proceed and the mayor has lifted the curfew for
the rally (growing fears that violence prone leftists are on route to the city
to disrupt the rally violently); while NYPD is blasted with calls to defund the
police, murders and violent crimes in the Big Apple continue to soar; Klobuchar
has read the tea leave on the growing BLM movement and has announced that she
is withdrawing her name to be considered for Biden’s running mate and urged
that he select a woman of color (Harris must be jumping for joy and hoping with
his diminished mental capacity Biden will not remember her stellar performance
attacking him during the debates); the Navy will not reinstate the captain of
the USS Theodore Roosevelt who
sounded the coronavirus alarm as the virus outbreak engulfed his ship; Senator
John Cornyn will soon introduce a bill making June 19 a federal holiday to
celebrate the day in 1865 that the Union Army arrived in Galveston and announced
to the black population that they had
been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation; the U.S. Air Force has named Jo Ann
Bass to be its Chief Master Sergeant, the first woman to be named as the top noncommissioned
officer of any branch of the U.S. military; Al Sharpton is scheduled to speak
in Tulsa the day before Trump’s rally (nothing like a reverse racist ideologue
to stoke anti-Trump passions on the eve of Trump’s rally); in Chicago (the Blue
run poster city of why we need more police not less and certainly not
defunded), as of June 18, 2020, 1465 shootings of whom 262 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 112 behind Chicago with 150 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 Pat Boone, the fact that
you are not adverse to pantophagy in your diet, and a quote by Judge Irving
Kaufman on sentencing the Rosenbergs to death, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can
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1. Juneteenth—commemorating
Union Army General Gordon Granger’s arrival in Galveston and his announcement that
all slaves in Texas had been freed.
2. World Sickle Cell Day—created by the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America in
2009 to create awareness of this inherited red blood cell disease that primarily
affects those of African descent.
3. 1957 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1957 on this day on a run of 6
weeks was “Love Letters in the Sand” by Pat Boone. Here is a recording of
the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ENzT9k1LRs. Boone is still going strong at 86 as a motivation speaker
and pitchman for a reverse mortgage company.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pantophagy” which means omnivorousness,
a trait always good to have when food sources are scarce.
5. There Will Always Be an England--celebrating the birth on this day in 1964 of the
former Mayor of London and current Prime Minister of the UK, who navigated his
nation out of Brexit and survived the COVID-19 virus.
On this day
in:
a. 1910 the first Fathers’ Day in
the U.S. was created by Sonora Smart Dodd and celebrated in Spokane,
Washignton.
b. 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,
Soviet spies convicted of espionage, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in New
York.
c. 1964 after a 84 day filibuster by Blues,
the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the Senate.
d. 2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
requested asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. In 2019 he was removed
from the Ecuadorian Embassy and is now in an extradition trial which has been
postponed due to CV pandemic in the U.K.
e. 2018
in a sign that innovation is still alive and well in the U.S. the 10 millionth
patent was issued to Joseph Marron and assigned to Raytheon Corporation for
improved laser detection systems.
Reflections on the Rosenberg conviction for espionage
on divulging secrets on the A-bomb to the Soviets: "I consider your crime
worse than murder ... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the
Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would
perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in
Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that
millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by
your betrayal, you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the
disadvantage of our country. No one can say that we do not live in a constant
state of tension. We have evidence of your treachery all around us every day
for the civilian defense activities throughout the nation are aimed at
preparing us for an atom bomb attack." Judge Irving Kaufman who sentenced
the Rosenbergs to death.
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