Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 23, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 224,246 new cases (a 2.43
% increase compared to a 1.13% increase yesterday) to bring the total to
9,453,671 cases, 3,859,050 of which are
active, 5,594,621 of which have been closed with 5,112,215 recoveries (91.38%
compared to yesterday’s 91.28) and 482,406 deaths
(8.62% compared to yesterday’s 8.76%); 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 60,911 have brought
total cases to 2,390,268 (a 2.55% increase compared to yesterday’s .65%
increase) with 1,297,191 active cases of which 16,483
(16,510 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,153,988
closures, 124,100 of which have been deaths (10.75% compared
to yesterday’s 10.9%) and 1,029,888 of which have
been recoveries (89.25% compared to yesterday’s 89.10%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 30,059,864 tests; Hawk Newsome, the head of the NY BLM has indicated plans
to have armed “BLM peace officers” to protect blacks from illegal shootings by
police (black safety would be far better served to fight against black on black
shootings in urban cities, especially those controlled by Blues; the Blue
impeachment gang of TDS victim’s anger that Flynn’s case which never should
have been brought in the first place was dismissed by AG Barr exploded in a
raucous hearing in which the Blues ignored the fact that the Appellate Court
excoriated Judge Sullivan for his obstruction and ordered the case dismissed
(Jordan pointed out that Adler fuming over the fact that Flynn despite being
financially ruined defending himself has escaped the FBI’s corrupt inspired
attempted lynching has failed to call the FBI IG who lambasted the FBI for its
conduct in the case; on the CHOP front it looks like the occupiers will be
leaving Wednesday night and the Seattle City Council moves to slash $20 million
for the SPD budget (Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan whose ineptness on these events
rivals that of Mayor De Blasio must be on her knees thankful her “Summer of
Love” idiocies do not have to be repeated); the CHOP residents who will be
leaving will probably be joined by some businesses fed up with Seattle’s leftist
leanings, one of whom is long time retail clothing store Buki Clothing; Bubba
Wallace had a dose of common sense, realizing that being Bubba Smollett was not
a good idea, tweeting his gratitude that the “noose” was not for him and
embarrassed over the incident; in a “no vacancy left behind moment,” the Senate
confirmed Trump’s 200th judicial pick and in the process filled all
existing Circuit Court vacancies (explains why the Blues are so desperate to
retake the Senate and the Oval Office; the Glynn County grand jury has indicted
the father and son McMichaels and William Bryan, Jr. on charges including
felony murder of Ahmaud Abrey; Senator Scott, the only black Red Senator
blasted Schumer’s Blues for failing to allow his police reform bill to move
forward, accusing them of putting maintaining their perceived monopoly of black
voters ahead of public safety and slammed Pelosi’s despicable but typical over
the top rhetoric of blaming the death of George Floyd on Reds; the Blues in New
York in New York continue their shift to the left as several AOC backed
progressives looking like they are winning their primaries; in Chicago as of
June 23, 2020, there were 1609 shootings of whom 283 have died (so much for the
defund the police movement and 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 127 behind Chicago with 156 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 Ray Charles, the fact
that you can detect someone trying to use parachronism, and a quote by Michael
Emmering on UFOs, secure
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1. National Parchment Day—celebrating not historical documents written on parchment but
foods cooked in or wrapped in paper and created by Paper Chef in 2016 and first
celebrated on this day in 2016.
2. World UFO Day—created by the World UFO Day Association to commemorate the
first sighting by Kenneth Arnold of 9 high speed objects in the sky near Mt.
Rainier on this day in 1947 and to promote awareness of the possible existence
of alien species and to encourage declassification by governments of material
relating to UFO sightings; the day is more appropriate as we continue to
discover more planets like Earth capable of sustaining life even though they
are many, many light years away from Earth.
3. 1962 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1962 on this day on a run of 5
weeks was “I Can’t Stop Loving You” by Ray Charles who was blinded by
glaucoma as a child, overcame drug addiction 2 became a very successful singer
and chess player to die on June 10, 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YqaTDDCDM
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parachronism” which means the representation
of something being newer than it really is which probably describes the
progressives’ brand of socialism which is merely relabeling of a doctrine that
has failed in the past and will fail today.
5. Illegal Alien Crime Is Not Something New--celebrating the birth on this day in 1966, of
noted actress, screenwriter and director Adrienne Levine better known to her
fans as Adrienne Shelly who was found hanging dead in her apartment bathroom by
her husband on November 1, 2006. The police initially thought it was a suicide
which her husband was able to convince them otherwise and after further
investigation located a footprint which led to the arrest of an illegal alien
from Ecuador, Diego Pillco who was working on a construction project in the
building and confessed and was sentenced on March 13, 2008 to 25 years with no
parole. Her life was not in vain as the Women’s Critic Circle Association as
part of its annual awards presents the Adrienne Shelly Award to the film that
“most passionately opposes violence against women.”
On this day
in:
a. 1973 an arsonist attacked the UpStairs
Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans during a church service
causing the death 38 people from fire and smoke inhalation. The suspect, Roger
Nunez, a gay man who had been ejected from the bar earlier that day, killed
himself in November before he could be arrested and charged.
b. 1982 in a tribute to Boeing
engineering and the flight skills of the pilots, British Airways Flight 9,
en route to Jakarta ran into a volcanic ash cloud some 125 miles outside of
Jakarta lost all power in all 4 engines of the 747 but managed to restart all 4,
then losing 1 shortly thereafter to land in Jakarta with no injuries.
c. 1995 in the World Rugby Cup in a game
memorialized by the film Invictus,
South Africa defeated New Zealand with Nelson Mandela of South Africa present
the Webb Ellis Cup to the South Africa team.
d. 2010 at Wimbledon, John Isner defeated
Nicolas Mahut in five sets played over three days due to darkness with a total
time on the courts of 11 hours 5 minutes to become the longest tennis game in
professional tennis history.
e. 2013 in proof that the reptilian brain
knows no national boundaries, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
was found guilty of abuse of power and having sex with an underage prostitute
and sentenced to 7 years.
Reflections
on UFOs: ““We live in a world where extraterrestrials could be everywhere and you
would never know. A world driven by god’s, unexplained structures, countless
stories and extraterrestrial occurrences. There is proof that our planet has
been and still continues to be visited by extraterrestrial life, but until we
are able to capture and study them, the question will remain. Do Aliens Really Exist?”― Michael
E Emmering, noted American Ufologist
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