Ridley’s Believe It
Or Not For July 16, 2020
CV
World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 206,688
new cases (a 1.52% increase compared to a 1.96% increase
yesterday) to bring the total to nearing 14 million at 13,810,262 cases, 5,003,966
of which are active, 8,806,296 of which have
been closed with 8,217,073 recoveries (93.31% compared
to yesterday’s 93.16%) and 589,223 deaths (6.69%
compared to yesterday’s 6.84%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV
USA: New cases of 58,105152,317 with total cases of 3,590,944 (a 1.62%
increase compared to yesterday’s 4.43% increase) with 1,860,762 active
cases of which 16,456 (16,307 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition,
an increasing stat that is troublesome and 1,788,287 closures, 140,526 of which have been deaths
(7.84% compared to yesterday’s 7.92%) and 1,647,761 of
which have been recoveries (92.14% compared to yesterday’s 92.08%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May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 45,553,679 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: The City of Roses has become the City of Riots for 47 straight days as
a spineless mayor like his cohort to the north in Seattle is forgoing federal
and state help to end the anarchy of burnings, looting and shootings https://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2020/07/portland-city-of-roses-becomes-riot-city.html;
Gruesome Newsom’s banning of churches allowing singing during services has
prompted his being sued by 3 churches for violating their 1st
Amendment rights (yet another example of the double standard imposed by leftist
hacks like Newsom allowing protests without masks and social distancing until
the cows come home but drastically limiting religious activities of places of
worship); while Biden probably wouldn’t what end of a shovel to use as he
touted his infrastructure plans, Trump is pushing pedal to the metal to
streamline the regulatory morass to allow construction projects to proceed at
lower costs (simple question as we will try to climb out of the CV induced
collapse—who will do a better job of recovery for the economy Trump or Biden?);
on the War on Religion disguised as the War against CV Pastor Greg Farrington
of the 3,500 member the Destiny Christian Church in Sacramento announced he
will defy Newsom’s ban of services with singing and holding more than 100
people while protest marches in any number are allowed; Virginia, the birthplace
of freedom of religion thanks to Thomas Jefferson, has come to its senses and
dropped criminal charges against a pastor who held a Palm Sunday church service
for 16 worshippers in a church that holds 300 people; and in Kendall, Florida
the Good Shepherd Catholic Church had its statue of Jesus Christ beheaded;
finally Tim Kaine, HRC’s hack running mate, has said something profound when he
claimed that Obama did not do enough to punish Russia for its meddling in our
2016 elections (hopefully HRC will add Obama to her laundry list of reasons and
excuses why she lost); in Chicago as of July 15, 2020, the number of
shootings increased by only 8 to 2,000, of whom 364 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 still
186 behind Chicago now at 178 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 Prince, the fact
that you will enjoy seeing Trump using paromologia against Biden, and a quote
on the Trinity test of the first nuclear weapon at Alamogordo, New Mexico by J.
Robert Oppenheimer, 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. National
Personal Chef Day—celebrating those personal chefs who cater to
those well off to afford them and take advantage of their menu planning and culinary
skills needed today more so than ever given the number of restaurants either
closed or on drastically reduced seatings due to the CV pandemic.
2. Get
to Know Your Customers Day—celebrating on the third Thursday of January,
April. July and October the simple fact that businesses do not survive without
customers and it is is the business that prospers by knowing and then being
able to respond to a customer’s likes, preferences, dislikes, goals and
proclivities. Even though observed on 4 days of the year, it really should be a
daily task.
3. 1984
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1984 on this day on
a run of 5 weeks was “When Doves Cry” by Prince in his first number 1 song.
Here is recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3VcCAlUgE.
This talented musician considered perhaps
one of the greatest of his generation had the doves’ cries stop for good on
April 21, 2016 when he died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “paromologia” which
means a partial admission of a portion of an opponent’s argument to bolster one’s
final position, a debate tactic that Trump will employ such that Biden will be
clueless on what is about to hit him.
5. Moving
to Playing on a Spiritual Court—celebrating the birth on this day in 1942 of
noted successful professional woman’s tennis player Margaret Court who had the
misfortune to accept a challenge from Bobby Riggs to play him in a televised
match and was unlike Billie Jean King, soundly defeated by him; after retiring
from tennis she move on to serve aces of the spiritual kind as a minister which
she still is today.
On
this day
in:
a. 1945
on the same day the USS Indianapolis left
San Francisco with the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on board which was destined to
be dropped on Hiroshima, at Alamogordo, New Mexico the first nuclear bomb was
successfully detonated under the code name “Trinity.”
b. 1950
30 wounded Americans and a chaplain were discovered by the North Koreans in a
mountain near the village of Taman, South Korea and were then executed.
c.
1969 Apollo 11 successfully was launched from the Kennedy Space Center carry 3
astronauts to the Moon for a landing thereon.
d.
1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bissette were
killed when a private plane Kennedy was piloting crashed off the waters of
Martha’s Vineyard.
e.
2015 naturalized U.S. citizen Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez drove to a
recruiting center and Naval Reserve facility and started shooting killing 5 and
wounding 3 before police were able to send him on his one way ticket to
Paradise. .
Reflections
on on the Trinity A-Bomb at Alamogordo: “We knew the world would not be the
same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I
remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he
should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all felt that
one way or another." J. Ropbert Oppenheimer, Jr. in 1965
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