Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For June 13, 2020
The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 144,645 new
cases (a 1.88 % increase compared to a 1.79% increase
yesterday) to bring the total to 7,827,694 cases, 3,382,244 of which are
active, 4,445,360 of which have been
closed with 4,014,658 recoveries (90.31%
compared to yesterday’s 90.12%) and 430,792 deaths (9.69 % compared to yesterday’s 9.88%);
in the U.S. which has the dubious distinction of leading the world in total
cases with new cases of 54,765 have brought total cases to 2,137,395 (a 2.63% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.25%
increase) with 1,172,372 active
cases of which 16,667 (16,700 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition
and 965,023 closures, 117,405 of which
have been deaths (12.17% compared to yesterday’s 12.44%) and 847,618
of which have been recoveries
(87.83% compared to yesterday’s 87.56%) (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continue to improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients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 hopefully the number of cases will not spike given the
days of massive protests and riots over George Floyd’s death) with 24,193,142
tests; on the summer of love front in Seattle’s mayor and its female
African-American police chief are at odds over the ongoing occupation of CHAZ
with no end in sight as typical in anarchy no leaders have been identified to
bargain with (this is a tumor that unless eradicated will have a great
probability of metastasizing in cities across the nation); Marianne Kaba is
lucky we have a free press that will post her Op-Ed that defund the police
means abolishment not budget reduction or reform (bet she has armed guards to
protect her every step); the Always Biased Cack network is in the doghouse
after placing one of its top news executives Barbara Fedida on administrative
leave for demeaning racist and sexist remarks about females and to anchors and
reporters at ABC; in a déjà vu moment from WWII a new Dragon Lady may have
emerged this time in North Korea, as Kim Jong-un’s sister appears to be taking
a more active role in the government as relations between the North and South
sour as North Korea cuts off the communications hot line between North and
South; another police shooting of a black this time in Atlanta trying to arrest
someone for DUI, who resisted arrest, in fighting with police removed officer’s
taser and after being chased turned and pointed it at cop who shot and killed
him sparking protests, burning of a Wendy’s and resignation of Chief of Police
(will the only reasonable use of force now generate into you can shoot after
you have been hit and the defund the police will be out of business as no one
in their right mind would sign up to be a cop); do not be surprised to see
police leaving the force over the wave of anti-police rhetoric as in
Hallendale, Florida 10 members of its SWAT team resigned accusing the city of
treating them like dogs, providing inadequate training and preventing them from
doing their job; in Chicago (the Blue run poster city of why we need more police
not less and certainly not defunded), as of June 12, 2020, 1375 shootings of
whom 247 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 102 behind Chicago with 145 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 Percy Faith and His Orchestra, the fact that you are rarely Panglossian, and
a quote by Justice Potter Stewart from his concurring opinion on the Pentagon
Papers case, secure
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1. International Young Eagles Day-—created by the US Experimental Aircraft Association
to introduce children from the age of 8 to 17 to the joys of being able to fly
a plane and celebrated on the 2nd Saturday of June. Seeing your
young child in the cockpit seat of a plane flying it level by you is a joy hard
to describe with words.
2. World Softball Day—created by the International Softball Federation to celebrate
on this day in 1991 of the addition of softball as an Olympic sport.
3. 1953 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1953 on this day on a run of 10
weeks “The Theme from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)” by Percy Faith and His Orchestra. Here is a
recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPDF2ORPOFQ. This
Canadian-American bandleader wowed Americans
for years until his baton was taken from him on February 9, 1976 from cancer.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “Panglossian” which means overly or
excessively optimistic which describes projections made by politicians on the
effects of spending programs to a tee.
5. Lie Down with the Clintons to Pick up Fleas--celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of
James Guy Tucker, governor of Arkansas who was involved in the Whitewater Scandal
with Bill and Hillary Clinton and convicted of fraud, was forced to resign, but
received a soft sentence of 4 years probation and house detention and was not
pardoned by Bill Clinton.
On this day
in:
a. 1944 too late to attack the
buildup of D-Day troops and supplies in English harbors, the Germans launched
11 of the first V-1 Flying Bombs against England of which 4 hit targets.
b. 1971 the New York Times began the publication of the Pentagon Papers which revealed the deception practiced on the
American public by the government on the Vietnam War.
c. 1977
the convicted killer of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray who had escaped
4 days earlier from prison was recaptured to be returned to Bushy Mountain
State Prison in Tennessee.
d. 1994 a jury in Anchorage, Alaska found
Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood guilty of negligence in Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill, allowing plaintiffs to move forward in their claim for $15 billion in
damages.
e. 2002 the United States withdrew from
the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
Reflections on the Pentagon Papers: “For when everything is
classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be
disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and to be manipulated by those
intent on self-protection or self-promotion."New York Times Co. v.
United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) (concurring) ― Potter Stewart
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