Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 4, 2020
CV World: The CV
pandemic across the planet continues with 286,461 new cases (a 2.58%
increase compared to a 2.17% increase yesterday) to bring the total to 11,372,004
cases, 4,405,201 of which are active, 6,966,803
of which have been closed with 6,433,942 recoveries (92.35% compared
to yesterday’s 92.19%) and 519,977 deaths (7.65%
compared to yesterday’s 7.81%).
CV USA: New cases
of 74,838 have brought total cases
to 2,935,770 (a 2.62% increase compared to yesterday’s 3.86%
increase) with 1,543,047 active cases of which 16,017 (15,907
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,392,723 closures, 132,318
of which have been deaths (9.5% compared to yesterday’s 9.9%) and 1,260,405
of which have been recoveries (90.5% 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since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV positive patients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 36,953,633
tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing by Trump).
Non CV News: Kimberly
Guilfoyle, a head of a Trump fund raising organization and girlfriend of Donald
Trump, Jr. tested positive before the Mt. Rushmore speech yesterday and drove
back with Trump, Jr. without attending; at the White House the 4th
was celebrated with a small gathering on the White Lawn with military aircraft
parading over and Trump giving a rousing speech attacking the liberal mobs who
want to tear down our past; from the basement bunker weak Joe Biden addressed
the need to confront “systematic racism”; Trump should be applauded for his
quick action in banning travel from Chinese from China but evidently the ban
did not extend to travel from Hong Kong and Macau and 8,000 Chinese from China
entered the country (unfortunately we have no idea how many people were infected
by these travelers); in the war on preservation of Human Rights and their
suppression by the Chinese in Hong Kong the Chinese seem to be winning the
propaganda war with 53 countries of the really misnamed UN Human Rights Council
supporting China’s recent suppression and only 26 nations opposing (another
reason to wonder why we insist to be a piggy bank anyone can empty); Virginia
has cowardly due to fear of protests against the flag in the Commonwealth
during the 4th ordered the removal of a one story tall American flag
from a construction site due to fears of protesting violence (give the leftist
Anti-American mobs an inch will incite them to demand a mile—what pathetic
wimps from a state that gave us 4 of 5 of our first presidents and 8 total;
Rose McGowan is back in the news following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell and
calling for the arrest of Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew for their alleged
involvement with Jeremy Epstein’s sexual
abuse of female minors; Michael Cohen, another poster child for two legal
standards one for the wealthy and elite and the other for mere mortals, who was
released from prison to home arrest due to CV concerns was spotted out with
friends dining in a trendy NYC restaurant in violation of the terms of his home
arrest and hopefully will be sent back to prison; in Chicago as of July 3,
2020, there were 1778 shootings of whom 318 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 151 behind Chicago stuck at 167
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 Neil Diamond, the
fact that you do not want parastatal companies operating here in the United
States, and a quote by Richelle E. Goodrich on the 4th of July, 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. Independence Day—celebrating the day representatives from the 13 Colonies executed
the Declaration of Independence written
by Thomas Jefferson, who leftist history revisionist loathe and urge statues of
him be destroyed, at Independence
Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania declaring our independence from Great
Britain and explaining the reasons for such act.
2. Independence from Meat Day—not sure when this day was created by the Vegetarian
Awareness Network but given the dearth of barbecues due to the CV pandemic
probably a good day to celebrate it.
3. 1972 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1972 on this day on a run of 1
week in that position was “Song Song Blue” by Neil Diamond. Here is a recording
of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighSddnnaPE.
. This incredibly successful songwriter
and singer with over 100 million records sold retired from touring due to
Parkinson’s Disease in 2018.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parastatal” which means indirectly
controlled by the state which describes to a tee the vast majority of Chinese
companies operating in the United States.
5. Bullets Block--celebrating the birth on this day in 1981 of Will Smith who
played defensive end for this entire 9 seasons in the National Football League
for the New Orleans Saints but upon retirement was involved in a road rage
incident in which he had a BAC of .232 and rear ended a car which caused Smith
and the driver of the car to exchange heated words which led to that driver
shooting and killing Smith and wounding his wife; the shooter was arrested,
tried, convicted and sentenced to 35
years.
On this day
in:
a. 1911 a massive heat wave stroke
the Northeastern United States with temperatures in the triple digits leaving
some 400 people and countless horses dead in its wake when it ended 11 days
later.
b. 1946 after 381 years of
continuous rule by various foreign powers, the Philippines gained its independence
from the United States.
c. 1976 Israeli
commandos with the loss of one soldier freed all but 4 of the remaining
hostages from Air France 139 high jacked and held by terrorists at Entebbe
Airport, Uganda.
d. 2004
the cornerstone for the Freedom Tower was laid at the World Trade Center Site.
e. 2009
the crown of the Statue Of Liberty opened to the public for the first time
after being closed due to the attacks of 9/11.
Reflections
on the 4th of July: “Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave,
God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence.
Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing
men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.”
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