Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 11, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 237,464
new cases (a 1.9% increase compared to a 1.65% increase
yesterday) to bring the total to over 12 million at 12,728,360 cases, 4,733,572
of which are active, 7,994,788 of which have
been closed with 7,430,032 recoveries (92.94% compared to yesterday’s
92.87%) and 564,756 deaths (7.06% compared to yesterday’s 7.13%).
CV USA: New cases of 127,908 with
total cases of 3,193,554 (a 4.01% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.7%
increase) with 1,712,500 active cases of which 15,720 (15,645 yesterday)
are in serious or critical condition and 1,608,962 closures, 137,031 of
which have been deaths (8.52% compared to yesterday’s 8.65%) and 1,471,931
of which have been recoveries (91.48% compared to
yesterday’s 91.35%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are
finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 with 41,282,953 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing
by Trump and implications Trump is slowing testing to hide CV increases).
Non
CV News: As predicted the Blues are howling for blood and vowing to investigate
and legislate against presidential pardon power led by Lying Schiff and Botox
Babe Pelosi with allegations of “corruption” (have any of these idiots read
Article Two Section 2 Clause 1 of the Constitution?); thank God for body cams
by police in Detroit that endured violent protests following the shooting of a
black after the camera clearly shows the black pulling out a gun and shooting
at the officer 3 feet away from him, fortunately missing before he was shot and
killed (message should be clear to BLM—you lost your BLM not being shot card
when you start shooting at police); the State Department has issued warnings to
Americans in China that criticize the Communist Party to the effect you may be
held for questioning; the couple in St. Louis who defended their home in their
gated community against protesters threatening to kill them and their pet have
not yet been arrested but have had a rifle confiscated; another silver lining
for the CV pandemic as a District Court judge stayed a federal execution (the
first in 17 years) due to concerns that witnesses to the execution would be
infected; Rhino Romney has joined the parade of Blues protesting the
commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence by Trump; in Chicago as of July 10
2020, the number of shootings increased to 1918, of whom 348 have died (so much
for the defund the police movement and for the effectiveness of
Chicago’s stay at home order and a complete dereliction of duty by Mayor
Lightfoot other than swearing at people outraged over the killings); 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 175 behind Chicago now at 173 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 shootings by police or 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 Anita Ward, the fact that you may have a
group of parine singers outside your window to brighten your day, and a quote
by President Herbert Hoover on the need for a Jewish homeland, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. World Population Day— created by the UN in 1989 to create awareness of th issues
created by an expanding population of the Earth which is now rapidly
approaching 8 million souls.
2. Free Slurpee Day—celebrated at 7-11 Stores since 2002, the iconic soda drink
created by serendipity when Omar Knedlik who operated a Dairy Queen in the mid
50’s put some sodas into the freezer when his machine stopped working and when
he later removed them to start found the customers loved the slushy texture
which led to his having a machine made to produce the slushy drink which he
called Icee and licensed to 7-11 in 1965.
3. 1979 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1979 on this day on a run of 2
weeks in that position was “Ring My Bell” by Anita Ward in her first number one
hit. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAqnM1PP5E. With
the fading of disco music this singer became known as a one hit singer but after
a hiatus raising a family is trying to resurrect her career at 63.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parine” which means of or
pertaining to titmouses which does not refer to small breasts but a North
American songbird of the chickadee family.
5. Lying in Wait--celebrating the birth on this day in 1920 of Yurily
Borisovitch Briner, better known to his fans as Yul Bryner who was an Academy Award
winning and Tony Award winning actor for his role in The King and I but a heavy smoker since the age of 12 and although
he quit in 1971, he was diagnosed with lung cancer in September, 1983 and after
what appeared to be successful radiation treatment, the cancer ceased being in
remission to kill him on October 10, 1985 but not before he produced a powerful
anti-smoking ad which was aired shortly after his death.
On this day
in:
a. 1922 to the joy of music lovers
then and in the future the Hollywood Bowl opened.
b. 1947 the Exodus 1947 crammed with 4515
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust sailed from France en route to Palestine.
c. 1962 the first test of a transatlantic
television broadcast by the Telstar satellite occurred.
d. 1977
Martin Luther King, Jr. was posthumously awarded by President Jimmy Carter the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
e. 1979 America’s first space station Skylab is destroyed as it reenters the
Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
Reflections on the formation of a Jewish state in
Palestine: “I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and
women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the
rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and
to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the
realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration
of their national homeland.”
Herbert Hoover, (Message to the American Palestine Committee, January 11, 1932)
Herbert Hoover, (Message to the American Palestine Committee, January 11, 1932)
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