Ridley’s Believe It
Or Not July 24, 2020
CV
World: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 135,563 new
cases (a .87% increase compared to a 2.26% increase yesterday)
to bring the total nearing 16 million to
15,787,461 cases, 5,525,700 of which are
active, 10,261,761 of which have been closed with 9,622,749 recoveries (93.77%
compared to yesterday’s 93.74%) and 639,012 deaths (6.23%
compared to yesterday’s 6.26%) to continue the trend of increased recovery
percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
CV
USA: New cases of 30,760 with total cases surging to over 4 million of 4,200,751 (a
.74% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.39% increase) with 2,064,117 active
cases of which 19,171(19,155 yesterday) are in serious or critical condition a continuing
troublesome rise, and 2,136,634 closures, 147,713 of which have
been deaths (6.91% compared to yesterday’s 6.93%) and 1,988,921 of
which have been recoveries (93.09% compared to yesterday’s 93.07%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients on May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 51,923,782 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: Trump has signed 4 executive orders which should result in lower drug
prices for American consumers; for the 57th day in a row, rioters
protested in Portland numbering this time 2,000 and joined by their spineless
mayor who urged them to continue protest (aka riot) and posted their demands
which included a 50% cut in the police budget and release of all protesters (despite
appearing in solidarity with the rioters, Mayor Wheeler was shouted down and booed
by the anarchist crowd); Mayor Lightfoot’s home was the site of a protest
attacking her call with Trump concerning his plan to bring in 200 federal
agents to help curb violence and shooting (why aren’t they protesting the ongoing
massacre of blacks in black on black shootings has to be a mystery); at the
Chinese consulate in Houston, the Chinese were burning papers as fast as they
could most likely to try to conceal their ongoing potential espionage and IP
theft; Nick Sandmann received a great 18th birthday gift as WAPO aped
CNN and settled his defamation lawsuit with terms not disclosed (as he tweeted
2 down and 4 to go Jack Dorsey founder of Twitter and one of the defendants
which should be a wakeup call to advocacy MSM “journalists” that when you don’t
have the Sullivan shield, you defame at your peril); Mayor Bowser of D.C. has
just imposed a 14 day quarantine for anyone coming into D.C. from a CV “hot
spot” but exempting those coming in for Maryland or Virginia or a member of Congress
(since many of the lobbyist parasites who descend upon our government reside in
Maryland and Virginia, not great to see they will be unhindered in spreading
their havoc); Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner, another anti-law and order D.A.
whose campaign was financed by George Soros, after slamming Trump for being “a
wannabe fascist” has warned Trump he will arrest any federal agents sent to his
city who arrest “protesters” (good luck on that Soros man); another victim of
the counter culture war as A&E has lost half of its viewers as a result of
its decision to drop Live PD ( should
be a wakeup call to MSM that conservatives do spend money and refusing to
support businesses that attack their beliefs and values is to be an expected
consequence).
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago
as of July 23, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 16 to 2,177, of whom
391 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 206 behind Chicago now at 185 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 Sir Mix-a-Lot, the
fact that if you are to experience pathopoeia you will be able to choose music
as opposed to rhetoric, and a quote from
Hulda Crooks on staying young, 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
Drive Thru Day—created by Jack-In-The-Box in 2002 to honor all
the restaurants that have followed the drive in aspect of eating out started in
1921 by Pig Stand restaurants at their location outside of Dallas on the
highway to Ft. Worth where a server would take the order from the car and then
bring it to the car and clip on a tray with the food ordered. Thank God time
has allowed the improvement of the process along with the speed by having menus
next to ordering microphones that lead to a pickup window so despite the
shutdowns resulting from the CV pandemic, drive thru restaurants and banks have
managed to stay open.
2. National
Tequila Day—not sure who created or when this observance of a
drink the majority of which alcohol must be made from the Agave Cactus or why
this date as opposed to Cinco de Mayo but do know the best way to celebrate it
is to consume it in a margarita or in a straight shot with lime and salt.
3. 1992
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1992 on this day on
a run of 5 weeks was “Baby Got Back” a first number 1 song by Sir-Mix-a-Lot for
his first and only number one song. Here is recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho .
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pathopoeia” which
means excitation of passion by rhetoric or music.
5. Drugs
Never Good at Ironing Out Problems--celebrating the birth on this day in 1978 of
world renown professional surfer Andy Irons who won multiple surfing events,
was inducted into the Surfing Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach and the only professional
surfer to win all ASP surfing venues but sadly caught his last wave on November
2, 2020 due to a drug overdose.
On
this day
in:
a.
1929 The Kellogg-Briand Pact which had been signed by 31 nations including
Japan and German and banned the use of war to settle or resolve any conflict or
dispute went into effect and soon thereafter was signed by an additional 9
nations but as WWII showed not effective as war broke out in 1937 in Asia and
1939 in Europe.
b. 1974
in a the walls are closing in moment, SCOTUS unanimously ruled the President
Nixon had to turn over to the Senate the tape recordings made in the Oval
Office regarding the Watergate break in.
c.
1980 the Quietly Confident Quartet from Australia won the Gold Medal in 4X100
400 meter relay at the Moscow Summer Olympics, the first time the U.S. has not
won the event because they were not there due to the U.S. Boycott due to the
invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.
d.
1987 Hulda Crooks in a the higher you go the younger you feel moment became the
oldest person at 91 to climb Japan’s highest mountain, Mt. Fuji.
e.
1998 Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. entered the Capitol armed with 38 revolver and shot
and killed Officer Jacob Chestnut and entered Representative Tom Delay’s office
as he was being fired at and chased by Officer MacMillan where he shot and
killed Detective Gibson, who before he died shot Weston 4 times. Weston was
declared unfit for trial and was sentenced to a mental institution where he is
today.
Reflections on how to stay young by the oldest
woman to climb Mt. Fuji: “Early to bed and early to rise. Out jogging about
5:30am. Jog a mile and walk it back briskly. It takes me 12 minutes to jog the
mile and 15 minutes to walk it. Do some upper trunk exercises, work in the
yard, and walk to the market, and work.” — Hulda
Crooks describing life at 80
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