Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 23, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 102,748 new cases (a 1.13
% increase compared to a 1.48% increase yesterday) to bring the total to
9,229,425 cases, 3,783,083 of which are
active, 5,446,342 of which have been closed with 4,971,184 recoveries (91.28%
compared to yesterday’s 91.19%) and 477,158 deaths
(8.76% compared to yesterday’s 8.81%); 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 15,477 have brought total
cases to 2,390,268 (a .65% increase compared to yesterday’s .82%
increase) with 1,264,265 active cases of which 16,510
(16,472 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,126,003
closures, 122,681 of which have been deaths (10.9% compared
to yesterday’s 11.07%) and 1,003,322 of which have
been recoveries (89.10% compared to yesterday’s 88.93%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 29,552,690
tests; the number of states that do not have a hate crime statue has gone from
4 to 3 as the Georgia Legislature has just passed a hate crime statue and sent
it to Governor Kemp for his signature; Rhode Island’s governor has succumbed to
the PC and BLM warriors and issued an executive order dropping “Providence Plantations”
from all state official documents and correspondence due to complaints the word
plantation has horrible connotations of slavery (although Rhode Island was
involved in the triangular trade with the Caribbean importing refined sugar from,
distilling it to rum and then shipping rum back to Africa to buy more slaves to
be sold to the Caribbean, it was a “free state” and passed legislation in 1784
to gradually emancipate its population of slaves); on the remove the statues
front, police removed protesters trying to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson in
Lafayette Square and removed “Black Lives Matter graffiti near the White House
as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem warned in no uncertain terms that the
statues at Mt. Rushmore will not be targeted (tearing down or defacing statues
is not going to advance the goals of equality of justice of the BLM but it will
create a firestorm of backlash); After Trump ripped the MSM for his slow walk down
a steep ramp at West Point, Mike Pence got hit with doddering optics slipping
and falling climbing the ramp to board Air Force 2 but immediately gave a
thumbs up that he was okay (can hardly wait to see a doddering Joe Biden doing
the same thing while climbing or descending on a ramp to his plane, assuming he
ever leaves his basement bunker); the war against the police continues unabated
with the most recent case in Tampa where police in two squad cars responding to
a false “shots fired” called were surrounded by a crowd of protesters blocking
all exits from the intersection and injuring two cops; that darling of the left
Jimmy Kimmel is in the PC doghouse eating crow as tapes surface of him
performing in blackface liberally using the N* word; the Rev Bernice King,
daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at Rashard Brooks funeral in Atlanta
calling for an end to the virus of racism and for reparations; Fauci, Redfield
and Hahn testified before the House investigating the CV pandemic and confirmed
that no one from the White House was demanding testing be decreased (a fake AOC
tweet which urged that businesses be under restrictions until after the
election to hinder the Trump reelection effort was deleted); the Evergreen
State for Smead Investment in Seattle is now the Everleave State as it
announced that it is relocating to Phoenix with its $1.58 billion of assets
under management; Joyless Behar of The
View announced that she and her husband are a 2 person vigilante team
driving around looking for nonmask wearers but since she must not have heard
Fauci testify that no one from the Trump
Administration was trying to hinder or reduce testing she
still faulted Trump for being criminally negligent in terms of testing; as of
June 22, 2020, 1586 shootings of whom 280 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 126 behind Chicago with 154 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 can use parabola effectively in your arguments, and a quote by Priti Patel
on the benefits of Brexit, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1. UN Public Service Day--created by the General Assembly to promote and honor the
contributions made by public servants to our well being.
2. International Widows Day—created by the Loomba Foundation in 2005 to address the
discrimination and poverty faced by the millions upon millions of widows and
their dependents worldwide.
3. 1961 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1961 on this day on
a run of 1 week was “Moody River” by Pat Boone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwlhCf1KjOo
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parabola” which means the
rhetorical use of simile or metaphor, a skill which poets are usually very good
at.
5. Being an Ace Will Be the End of You--celebrating the birth on this day in 1927 of
noted actor, director and choreographer Bob Fosse, the only person to win an
Oscar, Tony and Prime Time Emmy in the same year (1973); but unfortunately he
was a workaholic and smoked 5 packs of cigarettes a day and died of a heart
attack on September 23, 1987 before being diagnosed with lung cancer that
surely would have killed him in the not too distant future with that amount of
chain smoking.
On this day
in:
a. 1972 in what would later become
the smoking gun that doomed the Nixon Presidency that he would win in a landslide,
President Nixon and his Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman were on tape in the Oval
Office discussing the use of the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s investigation of the
Watergate breakin.
b. 1972 in a boom to women’s sports,
Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to prohibit sexual
discrimination by any educational institution receiving federal funds.
c. 1996 the Nintendo 64 video game
console was released in Japan for sale, and ultimately sold 32.93 million units
worldwide.
d. 2013 Nik Wallenda became the first
person to cross over the Grand Canyon on a tightrope.
e. 2016 voters in the United Kingdom
voted in a referendum 52% to 48% to leave the European Union which finally
after long negotiations and delays became effective on January 31, 2020 at 11:00
p.m.
Reflections
on the similarity between Brexit and the 2016 election of Trump: “With a post Brexit economic policy that
sets our economy and country on the right track, with new freedoms, the U.K.
will exercise greater fiscal flexibility and regulatory reform to transform our
country into a dynamic engine of prosperity, job creation and growth.” Priti
Patel, Secretary of State for the Home
Department in the U.K.since July 24, 2019.
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