Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 21, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 101,168
new cases (a 1.14 % increase compared to a 2.21%
increase yesterday) to bring the total to 8,995,879 cases, 3,742,826 of which are
active, 5,253,053 of which have been closed with 4,784,532 recoveries (91.08%
compared to yesterday’s 91.02%) and 468,251 deaths
(8.91% compared to yesterday’s 8.98%); in the U.S. which has the dubious
distinction of leading the world in total cases and being hit with the of
reopening its economy, massive protests over the death of George Floyd and
Rayshard Brooks and a massive Trump rally in Tulsa creating concern of a spike
in new cases with new cases of 19,120 have brought total cases to 2,345,371 (a
.82% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.62% increase) with 1,248,192 active
cases of which 16,506 (16,540 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition
and 1,097,179 closures, 122,130 of which have been deaths (11.13% compared
to yesterday’s 11.2%) and 975,049 of which have been
recoveries (88.87% compared to yesterday’s 88.8%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 28,311,038 tests; Trump’s rally in Tulsa had a
goodly number of empty seats in the upper tiers which caused the MSM to
gleefully pounce while leftists like AOC were doing victory laps claiming on
line sabotage (more likely attendance was impacted by fears of protests and
hysteria over being infected but Hidin’ Biden in his basement bunker probably
could not get a crowd of more than a thousand if his life depended on it); AG
Barr has weighed in on the progress of the Durham investigation of the Russian
collusion probe indicating there could be significant developments this summer,
stated he doubts there is systematic racism in the justice system, warned that
elimination of qualified immunity would severely damage the ability of police
to recruit and expressed concern of censorship efforts of social media
companies; Lying Schiff has indicated that Bolton may testify before Congress
and that a Mulligan for impeachment proceedings is not out of the question
(wonder how Lying Schiff will respond to Bolton’s charge of impeachment
malpractice on Schiff’s and Nadler’s part; the town of Florence, Oregon scene
of the ridiculed attempt to dispose of a dead sperm whale carcass on its beach
by blowing it up 50 years ago has renamed the beach “Exploding Whale Memorial
Park;” in Chicago (the Blue run poster city of why we need more police not less
and certainly not defunded), as of June 20, 2020, 1527 shootings of whom 272
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 120 behind Chicago with 152 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 Johnny Horton, the fact
that you are not a pantopragmatic in your dealings with people, and a quote by Aanil
Palkhivala on yoga, secure
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1. International Day of Yoga—created by the General Assembly in 2014 and first celebrated
on this day in 2015 to promote the practice of yoga and a means of physical,
mental and spiritual exercise.
2. Go Skateboarding Day—created by the International Association of Skateboarding
Companies in 2002 to promote skateboarding.
3. 1959 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1959 on this day on a run of 6
weeks was “The Battle of New Orleans” by Johnny Horton. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CnPv_1SV Horton, whose record “North to Alaska” is one of the
Alaskanpoet’s favorites had the misfortune of having a truck driven by a DUI
hit his car head on ending a career that was taking off on November 5, 1960.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pantopragmatic” which means
meddling in everyone’s business a trait that describes too many Blue officials
in the Swamp.
5. Always a Fox--celebrating the birth on this day in 1966 of Gretchen Carlson
who disproved the myth that attractive and talented women do not graduate from
Stanford by winning the Miss America Title in 1989 and went on to a successful
career in television at CBS and Fox New until running afoul of Roger Ailes’ reptilian
brain proclivities resulting in her suing him and the network and settling for
$20 million.
On this day
in:
a. 1977 Penn Central filed for
bankruptcy under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act in the largest bankruptcy filing
to date.
b. 1973 SCOTUS in the case of Miller
v. California delineated the tests to determine what was to be obscene and
not protected by the 1st Amendment.
c. 1982 John Hinckley, Jr. was found not
guilty of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by virtue of
insanity. After serving a long sentence institutionalized for psychiatric care,
he was released on September 10, 2016 to the care of his mother, subject to
many restrictions on his activities and travels.
d. 1989 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Texas
v. Johnson that burning the America n flag was a form of expression protected
by the 1st Amendment, a fact that Trump must have forgotten when he
called for a 1 year prison sentence for anyone burning the flag.
e. 2001
a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia indicted 13 Saudis and 1 Lebanese
for a 1966 truck bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19
Americans; Saudis refused extradition and indicated they would be tried in
Saudi courts but record of the trials taking place or the disposition of their
cases (flies in the face of what to expect from an “ally.”
Reflections
on yoga: ”True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your
life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about
what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is
designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga,
its essence must be embodied.” Aadil Palkhivala, noted Certified Yoga Therapist
and co-found of the Puma Yoga College.
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