Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 2, 2020
CV World: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues with 146,247 new cases (a 1.37%
increase compared to a 2.37% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 10,850,245
cases, 4,262,566 of which are active, 6,587,679
of which have been closed with 6,067,700 recoveries (92.11% compared
to yesterday’s 91.9%) and 519,977 deaths (7.89% compared
to yesterday’s 8.12%).
CV USA: New cases
of 27,957 have brought total cases
to 2,754,599 (a 1.01% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.62%
increase) with 1,486,494 active cases of which 15,801 (15,864
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,296,062 closures,
130,856 of which have been deaths (10.09% compared to yesterday’s 10.21%)
and 1,165,206 of which have been recoveries (89.9%
compared to yesterday’s 89.79%) (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improve since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10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 over 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 35,538,123 tests (so much for
Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).
Non CV News: Mayor
Garcetti is eating crow after admitting the recent protests in L.A. have been
spreading the CV virus; Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and
pimp, has been arrested for multiple sex trafficking counts of minor for
Epstein’s abuse and faces over 30 years in prison if convicted (not sure if
there will be bail or if there is she fails to post it but if she remains in jail
pending trial let’s hope her jailers do a better job of protecting her than
they did in Epstein’s case; in a recent poll over 70% of Democrats thought it
was important that Weak Joe Biden pick a black female candidate as VP with
Kamala Harris in the lead both as being favorable and least favorable (Lying
Adam Schiff, who would love to be senator is rooting 24/7 that she be picked);
the growth of the BLM movement continues to grow like wildfire as yet another
victim is caught up in its wrath as Dean Leslie Neal-Boylan of the U Mass-Lowell
school of nursing alleged she has be fired for an email condemning racism and
violence and claiming “BLACK LIVES MATTER but also EVERYONE’S LIFE” (when will
the BLM movement be castigated for its apparent hypocrisy that Black Lives Matter
only if they have been shot and killed by the police?); Black Life Matters
cares only for blacks killed by cops as it is totally silent for the young
black killed in Chop (father of dead son complained no one cared save Trump with
his empathy to share); in Chicago as of July 30, 2020, there were 1747
shootings of whom 310 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 146 behind Chicago stuck at 164 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 The Jackson Five,
the fact that you are not prone to parapraxis, and a quote by Robert LeFevre on
antitrust in America, secure
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1. Made in the USA Day—created in 1989 by the Made In USA Foundation
to promote the purchase of goods made in the USA as opposed to imports
something that is far easier now that
Trump is in office always trying to get manufacturers to move their factories
to the U.S. or move them back.
2. World Sports Journalists Day—created by the International Sports Press Association
on this day in 1994 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of its foundation and to honor and
promote the work of sports journalists who sadly have been facing due to the CV
pandemic a dearth of sporting events to cover since the virus spread out of its
confines in Wuhan, China.
3. 1970 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1970 on this day on a run of 2
weeks in that position was “The Love You Save” with a very young Michael
Jackson.. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pLV9xZczM.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parapraxis” which means a mistake
or blunder which describes Weak Joe Biden’s speech and thought processes to a
tee.
5. In the Ursula Trap--celebrating the birth on this day in 1916 of Hans-Ulrich
Rudel, the Luftwaffe’s most decorated pilot, who in 2530 missions on the
Eastern Front destroyed 519 tanks, as well as one battleship, one cruiser, 70
landing craft, 150 artillery emplacements, 11 planes in aerial combat and more
than 800 fighting vehicles of all types. He was married three times all to
women with a first name of Ursula, resettled in Argentina and died after
several strokes a nonrepentant Neo-Nazi on December 18, 1982.
On this day
in:
a. 1890 Congress passed the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act.
b. 1921 President Harding signed the Knox-Porter Resolution ending the war with Germany.
c. 1964
after a long but unsuccessful filibuster by Southern Democratic Senators,
Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting
discrimination in public places.
d. 1990
some 1400 Muslims pilgrims to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in a Mecca tunnel are
trampled and suffocated to death.
e. 2005 some
1000 musicians performed in the G-8 Countries and South Africa to raise money
to fight poverty prior to the G-8 Conference several days later which resulted
in pledges of aid of $50 billion, half of which was to go to Africa.
Reflections on anti-trust laws: “The overall effect of the
antitrust laws, then, is to maintain the status quo within the
market—to not let anyone get ahead of his competition through normal competitive
practices. In fact, the breadth of the antitrust laws is so extensive that it
is now technically illegal to even be engaged in business in the United States!” The
Fundamentals of Liberty by Robert LeFevre, Santa Ana: CA, Rampart
Institute, 1988,
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