Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 7, 2020
CV World: The CV pandemic
across the planet continues with 123,81663,816 new cases (a 1.06%
increase compared to a 1.78% increase yesterday) to bring the total to
11,779,956 cases, 4,462,733 of which are
active, 7,317,205 of which have been closed with 6,775,470 recoveries (92.60%
compared to yesterday’s 92.45%) and 541,753 deaths (7..4%
compared to yesterday’s 7.55%).
CV USA: New cases of 34,583 with
total cases of 3,007,367 (a 1.15% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.83%
increase) with 1,583,289 active cases of which 15,198 (15,990
yesterday) are in serious or critical condition and 1,458,661 closures, 133,041
of which have been deaths (9.12% compared to yesterday’s 9.25%) and
1,325,620 of which have been recoveries (90.88% compared
to yesterday’s 90.75%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed his order sending CV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 38,750,645 tests (so much for Biden’s claim of lack of testing
by Trump).
Non CV News: A Gallup poll just
came out to confirm what we all must suspect—this nation is more divided than
ever as 91% of Republicans support Trump and just 2% of Democrats support him;
CNN “journalist” Don Lemon got into a fiery exchange with black actor Terry
Crews who has been demanding unity as opposed to divide telling him that Black
Lives Matter was formed to deal only with brutality and killings by police not
the black on black shootings that plague our inner cities (all shootings and
killings of unarmed citizens are tragic but police shootings of unarmed blacks
are a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of black on black shootings);
in another reason why we should reexamine the extent of our contributions to
the UN, the UN Human Rights Council which regularly castigates Israel and has
members on it from countries whose human rights practices are less than
stellar, appears to be inclined to
Charge Trump with violations of international law for
ordering a drone strike that killed Iranian General Soleimani; President Bolsonaro
of Brazil, the second country the hardest hit by the CV virus after the U.S.
after flouting the social distancing and mask rules, has gone to the well one
too many times and has tested positive after exhibiting a high fever; Dunkin
Donuts has announced the closure of 450 outlets by the end of 2020 although not
collateral damage due to the defund the police movement trying eliminate or at
least the number of police but rather its termination of its partnership with Hess
that had a shop in is Speedway service stations; China is back in the news as
unfavorably as ever as FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that half of its
counterfeit case load is coming out of China; fed up with WHO’s deception and
lack of independence from China on the CV pandemic, Trump has notified WHO of
its intent to withdraw from the organization; while an increasing number of residents
want to escape the high taxes and high urban areas of New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey, the Blue Governors there imposed a 14 day quarantine on anyone
coming from the states of AL, AR, AZ,
CA, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, KS, LA, MS, NC, NV, OK, SC, TN, TX, and UTs; Trump and
Melania are holding a meeting at the White House on how best to reopen schools
this fall, which should be watched by millions of parents who have been at wit’s
end to school closures (why schools with the least vulnerable population have
been closed while the most vulnerable in nursing homes have died like flies is
a great mystery); in Chicago as of July 6, 2020, the number of
shootings increased to 1858, of whom 335 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 166
behind Chicago now at 169 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 Captain and Tennille, the fact that you can
avoid the need to parbreak by not listening to most of the MSM, and a quote by Will
Rogers on the Hoover Dam, 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. Black Out Tuesday—not sure where this day created in 2015 to encourage
supporters of the Black Lives Matter to refrain from spending any money on this
day to generate support for the Black Lives Matter movement (given the fact
that due to riots and the CV small businesses more likely than not are
suffering and the observance could be better celebrated by shopping at black
owned businesses).
2. World Chocolate Day—celebrated on this day in 2009 and one of the easier
observances to celebrate—just head off to your favorite confectioner and buy a
choice serving of chocolate.
3. 1975 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1975 on this day on a run of 5
weeks in that position was “Love Will Keep Us Together” by Captain and Tennille
in their first number 1 song which was also the longest running that year which
saw a record 35 different number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o . Love held
this dynamic husband and wife duo together for 39 years of marriage until Tennille
filed for divorce on January 16, 2014 but remained friends and she was with him
at his bedside when his life ship went down on January 2, 2019 from kidney
failure.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “parbreak” which means to vomit
which is a natural response after hearing a rant from any member of the Squad or
its honorary member Maxine Waters.
5. Best Replacement--celebrating the birth on this day in 1940 of Richard Starkey
now Sir and better known to his numerous fans and Ringo Starr who replaced Pete
Best as the drummer for the Beatles, enjoyed a remarkable solo career after their
break up, overcame struggles with alcohol, married actress Barbara Bach and is
enjoying the good life at 80 as 1 of 2 surviving Beatles.
On this day
in:
a. 1930 Industrialist Henry Kaiser
began construction of the Boulder Dam (later renamed the Hoover Dam).
b. 1983 11 year old elementary school
girl Samantha Smith was invited by Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov to visit him in
Moscow after she wrote him concerning her fears of nuclear war; Andropov was
ill when Smith arrived so she only was able to talk to him by phone. Sadly,
this young peace activist was killed in a plane crash on August 25, 1985.
c. 1992 to the joy of men living in
New York, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that women have the same right as
men to go topless in public.
d. 2007 the first Live Earth concerts to
raise awareness over the need to fight climate change were held in 11 global
locations with some 150 musicians and broadcast and streamed throughout the
globe.
e. 2016 Army Reservist veteran Micah Xavier
Johnson, angered over killings of blacks by white policemen, ambushed Dallas
police officers and in the ensuing shoot out killed 5 and wounded 9 others plus
2 civilians until the police for the first time in police history in the U.S.
used a robot carrying bomb and detonated it near the room where he was holding
out, killing him.
Reflections on the Hoover Dam: “The Democrats are
going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever
heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why
they don't just reverse the two words.” Will Rogers too bad we don’t have him
alive today given the political divide that could really use some bridging the
gap humor.
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