Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 17, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 193,207 new
cases (a 1.4% increase compared to a 1.52% increase yesterday)
to bring the total past 14 million to 14,003,469 cases, 5,087,347
of which are active, 8,916,122 of which have
been closed with 8,322,232 recoveries (93.34% compared
to yesterday’s 93.31%) and 593,890 deaths (6.66%
compared to yesterday’s 6.69%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV USA: New cases of 108,363 with
total cases of 3,590,944 (a 3.02% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.62%
increase) with 1,877,476 active cases of which 16,452 (16,456
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition, and 1,821,831 closures,
141,168 of which have been deaths (7.75% compared to yesterday’s 7.84%)
and 1,680,663 of which have been recoveries (92.25%
compared to yesterday’s 92.14%) (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improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed his order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 45,718,025 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: Governor
Cuomo whose hands are awash in blood for his now discontinued policy of send
positive COVID-19 into nursing homes to kill the most vulnerable of our
population has the gall to now blame the federal government for the spread of
the virus to New York (seems like only yesterday the Bobbsey stwins of
incompetence Cuomo and De Blasio were pooh poohing the virus and touting the
toughness of New Yorkers); CNN has a long way to go to join the ranks of
objective journalism but Tapper of CNN took a step in that direction slamming
Cuomo for omitting the fact from his self patting himself on the back poster
that New York with over 30,000 deaths leads the nation in that dubious category;
USA Today got caught with its hand in
the bias cookie jar by claiming Trump campaign T-shirt sported a Nazi symbol a
claim which it had to retract (you be the judge but to this poet it sure looks
like an American eagle: Mayor Lightfoot
whose city remains a deadly war zone for its residents of color responding in a
major snit fit to McEnany after she called the mayor derelict for not seeking
federal or state help in dealing with the waves of deadly shootings by blasting
her a “Karen”; Blues still seething that Roger Stone did not flip and provide
testimony that Mueller wanted are moving forward in the House to toll the
statute of limitations for any crimes committed by the president while in
office and requiring the DOJ to turn over to Congress any investigatory
material it has on presidential wrongdoing if a president were to use the
pardon power to frustrate investigations of potential criminal activity; former
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has tossed the race card at Governor
Hogan’s criticism of her role in the riots in 2015 following the death of
Freddie Gray that she has no room in her life for the unbounded criticism of
white men she has met (wonder it the charge includes white women); a
supervising video producer for the Biden Campaign Sara Pearl is calling for
immediate defunding of the police and retweeting that people should stop
calling police “pigs” which is insulting to intelligent creatures like pigs;
Adam Parkhomenko is the poster child of the end of civility and problem solving
with his F----Bomb and white trash claim against Senator Blackburn; in Chicago as of July 16,
2020, the number of shootings increased by 33 to 2,033, of whom 368 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 187 behind Chicago now at 181 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 Duran Duran, the fact that you avoid
parrhesia when you want to speak your mind, and a quote from John Dickerson
onlte from ;[will enjoy seeing Trump using paromologia against Biden, and a
quote on the effects of air-conditioning by John Dickerson, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. World Emoji Day—created by Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia
Foundation, to promote awareness and usage of the symbols that spiff up beyond
belief or our internet communications and web sites..
2. World Day for International Justice—celebrating on the creation of the International
Court of Criminal Justice in 1998 and to support the growing movement o the
International Criminal Justice Movement.
3. 1985 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1985 on this day on a run of 2
weeks was “A View to a Kill” by Duran Duran. Here is recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp4CR2HcHLQ. This Birmingham, England band was formed
in 1978, released 15 albums during its career, sold over 100 million records
and is still performing today with two of its original members.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parrhesia” which means asking in
advance for forgiveness for frank or blunt speech which in the PC world of
excessive euphemisms is rarely needed.
5. No Need to Be an Ace—celebrating the birth on this day in 1954 of Angela Merkel,
the longest serving leader of a country in the European Union who served 4
terms as Chancellor of Germany but indicated she would not run for a 5th
term in 2021.
On this day
in:
a. 1902 to the joy of present and
future residents of hot and humid cities during the summer, Willis Carrier
produced the first air conditioner.
b. 1955 the “Happiest Place on
Earth” Disneyland was dedicated and opened in Anaheim, California.
c. 1976 the Montreal Summer Olympics was
hit with a boycott by 25 African nations because New Zealand was allowed to
participate even though its national rugby union team had competed in a tour of
South Africa in violation of the UN’s embargo of South Africa due to apartheid.
d. 1996 TWA Flight 880, a 747, 12 minutes after takeoff from NYC on a flight
to Paris exploded in midair, killing all 230 passengers and crew members due to
a short circuit in one of the fuel tanks as opposed to an initial thought that
it was a terrorist related explosion.
e. 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on a
flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by a missile from pro
Russian Ukrainian separatists as the plane neared the Russian border, killing
all passengers and crew.
Reflections on air conditioning: “An old theory holds that air
conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat
to spend the summer back home. The long vacation forced them to bond with their
constituents.” John Dickerson, noted American journalist for CBS News.
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