Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 3, 2020
CV World: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues with 235,295 new cases (a 2.17%
increase compared to a 1.37% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 11,085,543
cases, 4,348,147 of which are active, 6,737,396
of which have been closed with 6,210,988 recoveries (92.19% compared
to yesterday’s 92.11%) and 519,977 deaths (7.81%
compared to yesterday’s 7.89%).
CV USA: New cases
of 106,333 have brought total cases
to 2,860,932 (a 3.86% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.01%
increase) with 1,529,885 active cases of which 15,907 (15,801
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,331,047 closures, 131,808
of which have been deaths (9.9% compared to yesterday’s 10.09%) and 1,199,239
of which have been recoveries (90.1% compared to
yesterday’s 89.9%) (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since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients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 36,297,195
tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).
Non CV News: protesters
blocking access to Mt. Rushmore where Trump will be speaking were pepper
sprayed and arrested ; with Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars and facing over 30
years in prison on conviction, speculation is that anyone who was a passenger
on his Lolita Express like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew must be sweating
blood over what she might say to minimize her prison time (we hope that wherever
she is held awaiting trial does a better job of insuring her safety than what occurred
in the “suicide” of Epstein; on the CV front, a new study conducted by the
Henry Ford Medical Institute of over 2500 COVID-19 patients who were treated
with hydroxychloroquine early in their disease had a mortality reduction rate
of some 50% with no cardiac issues (remember how Trump was castigated and
ridiculed in his support of the drug and his taking it by MSM); Cack News
Network Brooke Baldwin was caught with her hand in the bias jar when she stood
mute as co-founder of Black Lives Matter Melina Abdullah who was ranting the
Trump is the “terrorist in chief” (what a great way to stifle any intelligent
discussion on race relations Abdullah); an emergency room doctor whose daughter
is a reporter on Fox News has reported the City of Houston is very close to
having all of its ICU beds occupied due to the pandemic and that 20% of the CV patients
are asymptomatic; the thin skinned PC warriors are on the warpath demanding
that the Redskins change their name because it is racist as the new Pocahontas
Alyssa Milano claims name is racist which an overwhelming number of Native
Americans feel it is not offending; in Chicago as of July 2, 2020, there were 1755
shootings of whom 313 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 148 behind Chicago stuck at 165 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 Carole King, the
fact that you are not prone to parathria, and a quote by William Faulkner on
Pickett’s Charge on antitrust in America, 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 Independent Beer Run Day—created on June 26, 2019 by the Brewers
Association to promote appreciation for and increase the consumption of craft
beers instead of the bland national breweries and first celebrated on this day
in 2020. Good time to visit a brew pub if open given the CV pandemic and if it
is but offering only takeout, buy a growler or two of your favorite suds.
2. American Redneck Day—not sure who and when this date was created but given the
wave of concern about racism whether real or imagined, I have to expect that
the holiday may be on borrowed time.
3. 1971 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1971 on this day on a run of 3
weeks in that position was “I Feel the Earth Move” by Carole King in her first
number one hit. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6913KnbMpHM
. This incredibly successful songwriter
and singer is still going strong at age 76 and recently grace the Segerstrom in
Orange County several years ago.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parathria” which means
incoherence which describes a lot of what we hear coming from our politicians
and rioters these days.
5. When the Bars Close the Leaks Will Stop--celebrating or bemoaning depending on your
point of view the birth on this day in 1971 of Australian journalist and
activist Julian Assange who founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and became infamous for
leaking a series of classified documents obtained by Bradley Manning (now
Chelsea Manning) and who after jumping bail in the UK hung out in asylum in the
Ecuadorian Embassy before being expelled by Ecuador and jailed by the UK for
bail breach and now in a UK prison in trial
to be extradited to the U.S. for trial for his role in publishing classified
material.
On this day
in:
a. 1775 George Washington takes
command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
b. 1863 in what would prove to be
the high water mark of the Confederacy General George Pickett led a charge up Cemetery
Ridge to be thrown back by the Union Army defenders to bring the 3 day Battle
of Gettysburg to a close and a defeat for General Lee and the Confederacy who
lost a third of their army to casualties.
c. 1913
veterans from the Confederate Army reenacted the 50th anniversary of
Pickett’s Charge on Cemetery Ridge and
were met by Union Army veterans with outstretched hands of welcome instead of
bayonets.
d. 1938
President Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Peace Memorial and lit the Eternal
Flame at the Gettysburg Battlefield.
e. 1979
President Jimmy Carter signed the first secret directive authorizing aid to
Afghans opposing the pro Soviet regime in Afghanistan.
Reflections on Pickett’s Charge: “For every Southern boy
fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant
when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the
brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in
the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett
himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his
sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word
and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet,
it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin
against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett
and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all
know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t
need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain:
Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to
crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast
made two years ago….” William Faulkner, The Intruder in the Dust
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