Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 25, 2020 The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 192,184 new cases (a 2.03
% increase compared to a 2.43% increase yesterday) to bring the total to
9,645,855 cases, 3,917,681 of which are
active, 5,728,174 of which have been closed with 5,238,667 recoveries (91.45%
compared to yesterday’s 91.38%) and 489,507 deaths
(8.55% compared to yesterday’s 8.62%); 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 98,853 have brought
total cases to 2,489,121 (a 4.13% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.55%
increase) with 1,318,650 active cases of which 15,662
(16,483 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,170,471
closures, 126,423 of which have been deaths (10.8% compared
to yesterday’s 10.75%) and 1,044,048 of which have
been recoveries (89.2% compared to yesterday’s 89.25%) (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percentages continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 30,732,552 tests; in a New York
Primary for the House, 2nd place finisher Michael Blake who is black
is claiming voter suppression of black voters and is refusing to concede to the 1st
place finisher, Ritchie Torres who is also black; the neighbors near Powderhorn
Park in Minneapolis in ignorance of Sutton’s Law have vowed to not call police
fearful that if called a black suspect will be killed by them are now
confronting a park taken over by homeless, drug dealing, prostitution and
robberies (when will the victims of white guilt end up being killed ?); Roger
Johnson, the first black billionaire founder of BET Entertainment, has blasted
Biden and the Blues for being arrogant and taking the black vote for granted
and has attacked the wave of statue devastation as counterproductive and
suggested that BLM form a political party to advance the interests of blacks
(Trump should be on the phone with him to try to get him on board given what prior to the CV
pandemic his economic programs had done for blacks); Judge Sullivan after
having been castigated by the Appellate Court has cancelled a July 16 hearing
on the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case (will he dismiss or will he prolong the
agony of Flynn and seek an en banc hearing
at the Appellate Court to review the 2-1
decision?); Joe Biden ventured out of his basement bunker to go to Pennsylvania
before some 8 people just long enough to convince anyone watching that he has
lost it mentally by claiming 120 million
people have died from the CV pandemic (slight improvement over his claim that
150 million died in the U.S. from gun violence but still very troubling); in
Chicago as of June 23, 2020, there were 1623 shootings of whom 286 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 128 behind Chicago with
158 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 Kyu Sakamoto, the fact
that we are not yet in paracme, and a quote by Gilbert Baker on the rainbow
flag, 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 provide you with a unique customized
poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You
need only contact me for details.
1. World Vitiligo Day—created by the World Vitiligo Support and Awareness
Foundation on June 25, 2011 to create awareness of vitiligo which is a
disease that results in a loss of pigmentation and was suffered by Michael
Jackson who died on this day in 2009.
2. National Catfish Day—created by proclamation of President Ronald Reagan on this
day in 1987 to recognize the importance of farm raised catfish to our economy
and food supply.
3. 1963 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1963 on this day on a run of 3
weeks was “Sukiyaki” by Kyu Sakamoto in his first number one hit and the
first Asian to have a number 1 hit in the U.S.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc Unfortunately he was a passenger on JAL Flight
123 which had a decompreshon on August 12, 1985 shortly after take off from
Japan, killing all aboard.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paracme” which means decline
which describes what we are in for if Hidin’ Biden is elected in November.
5. Smoking Hinders Seeing the Title--celebrating the birth on this day in 1903 of
Eric Arthur Blair, better known to his fans and public as George Orwell, noted
essayist and author of Animal Farm and
Nineteen Eighty-Four who was a heavy
smoker and unfortunately contracted tuberculosis and died before seeing 1984 on
January 21, 1950.
On this day
in:
a. 1910 the U.S. Congress passed the
Mann Act which prohibited the transportation of women and girls across state
lines for “immoral purposes.” Since “immoral purposes” is somewhat broad the
act was amended to prohibit prostitution and othe illegal acts.
b. 1950 North Korea invaded South
Korea in the start of the Korean War.
c. 1978 the rainbow freedom flag
representing gay pride was displayed for the first time in San Francisco during
the Gay Pride Parade.
d. 1998 SCOTUS ruled in the case of Clinton
v. The City of New York that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 was
unconstitutional.
e. 2017 the World Health Organization
estimated that Yemen had over 200,000 cases of cholera.
Reflections
on the rainbow flag: “In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay
movement, there was no other international symbol for us than the pink
triangle, which the Nazis used to identify homosexuals in concentration camps.
Even though the pink triangle was and still is a powerful symbol, it was very
much forced upon us.” Gilbert Baker the creator of the rainbow flag.
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