Ridley’s Believe It
Or Not For July 20, 2020
CV
World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues to with 245,277
new cases (a 1.69% increase compared to a .74% increase
yesterday) to bring the total approaching 15 million to 14,774,390 cases, 5,342,814
of which are active, 9,431,585 of which have
been closed with 8,829,626 recoveries (93.62% compared
to yesterday’s 93.46%) and 610,959 deaths (6.48%
compared to yesterday’s 6.54%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV
USA: New cases of 268,646 with total cases surging to near 4 million of 3,941,041 (a
2.11% increase compared to yesterday’s 7.48% increase) with 1,968,554 active
cases of which 16,571 (16,663 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition,
and 1,972,487 closures, 143,590 of which have been deaths (7.28%
compared to yesterday’s 7.45%) and 1,828,897 of which have
been recoveries (92.72% compared to yesterday’s 92.55%) (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Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May 10 but remain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 49,161,907 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: With 4 minutes to spare Kanye West may have qualified to put his name
on the November ballot (not good news for Biden who cannot lose any black
votes); the suspect in the shooting in New Jersey that killed District Court
Judge Esther Salas’s son and wounded her husband has been found dead; while
Mayor Lightfoot who has lost any semblance of control over the outbreak of
massive gun violence in Chicago can only insult aldermen with profanities and
warn “Karen” McEnany to watch out, the Trump Administration is preparing a plan
to send federal forces to aid the CPD to end the shootings; Chicago Alderman
Anthony Napolitano, who is a former police officer, has attacked Democratic leaders
in the city of being afraid to ask Trump for help because it might help his
reelection (with 50 people shot of whom 8 died this weekend in Chicago how many
black lives have to be lost before Lightfoot swallows her pride and asks for
help?); in yet another example that free speech is only free according to the
left if the speech agrees with them, a Back the Blue” rally in Denver was
attacked by a large mob of anti-cop protesters and BLM supporters who shut down
their event and bloodied several demonstrators (the police chief of Denver can
kneel with BLM protester but he can’t protect a peaceful group showing support
for police-huh?); Blue Soros funded District
Attorney of St. Louis Kim Gardner has filed charges against the couple who
displayed an unloaded rifle and toy gun against a “peaceful” group of protesters
who broke through the gate to their gated community (what a biased farce that
the Governor should follow through on his outrage and pardon the homeowners);
at a time when we need to scale down the rhetoric, the best we can get from
House Majority Leader Clyburn is that the Trump Administration has unleashed a
Nazi Gestapo regime of federal agents to protect federal property in Portland.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago
as of July 19, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 18 to 2,096, of whom
375 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 191 behind Chicago now at 184 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 Cheap Trick, the
fact that you can be a pasquilant, and a quote from Tim Shriver on the Special
Olympics, 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
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event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. National
Moon Walk Day—celebrating the landing on the Moon by Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on this day in 1969 and their walking on the Moon
collecting lunar rock samples.
2. International
Chess Day—created IN 1966 by the Fédération Internationale
des Échecs which was formed in 1928 to
promote the playing of chess.
3. 1988
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1988 on this day on
a run of 3 weeks was “The Flame” by Cheap Trick, Heart, a band formed in
Seattle in 1970. Here is recording of the song: .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPxgat9Sd4w This
American band was formed in Illinois in 1973, inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and still going strong today.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pasquilant” which
means a lampooner which in a world of little laughter we need more of.
5. Party
Doll—celebrating the birth on this day in 1933 of noted singer
Buddy Knox best known for his hit song “Party Doll”; Buddy was a lifetime
smoker and discovered after a fall which broke his hip that he had terminal
lung cancer which killed him on February 14, 1999 at the age of 65.
On
this day
in:
a. 1934
on May 16, 1934 teamsters in Minneapolis went on strike which escalated to major
violence when police opened fire on this day, killing 2 and wounding 67 which did
not end the strike, which was settled on August 22, 1934.
b. 1960
the Polaris ICBM was successfully launched from underwater from the USS George Washington.
c.
1968 the first International Summer Special Olympics was held on Soldier Field
in Chicago with some 1000 athletes with disabilities participating.
d.
2012 James Holmes opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing
12 and wounding 70 and then fleeing the theater. He was arrested the next day,
ultimately tried and found guilty and sentenced to 12 life sentences without possibility
of parole plus over 3000 years.
e.
2017 O.J. Simpson is released from a Nevada prison after serving 9 years of a
33 year sentence for armed robbery attempt on football memorabilia.
Reflections
on the Summer Special Olympics: “Special Olympics is not just about people with
intellectual disabilities; it's about unleashing the spirit to uncover the best
in ourselves." Tom Shriver, son of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy and a
disability rights activist.
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