Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Social Media Is the New Iron Curtain

 

The PC Iron Curtain has too descended onto the college scene

Free speech and exchange of ideas has long since been weaned

Social Media is the new Iron Curtain that throughout our society has chosen to descend

Conservative thought is banned or to be found such ideas need to bend

In today's world if you cannot be found on social media you cease to exist

No way can you been seen through the concealing algorithm mist

The social media tycoons before Congress through their teeth lie

Piously with straight faces blame the algorithms and censorship on their part deny

They must believe Congress is so stupid they think algorithms are by algorithms written

Or that the need to be seen with young billionaires has them totally smitten

In either case censorship of ideas left or right is a danger we must curtail

Or in our ability to preserve our democracy we most surely will fail

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September 30, 2020 Ridley's Believe Or Not Orange Shirt Day

 

Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 30, 2020
       CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 375,907 new cases (a 1.12%  increase compared to a .64% increase yesterday) to bring the total  over 34 million to 33,688,356, 7,743,572  of  which  are active, 26,320,691 of which have been closed with 25,304,557 recoveries (96.14% compared to  yesterday’s 96.12%) and 1,016,134 deaths (3.86% compared to yesterday’s 3.88%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.
        

         CV USA Cases: New cases of 132,492 with total cases over 7 million at 7,428,210 (a 1.82% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.10% increase) with 2,542,6600 active cases of which 14,205, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (14,064 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,885,550 closures, 211,332 of which have been deaths (4.33% compared to yesterday’s 4.34%) and 4,674,218 of which have been recoveries (95.67% compared to yesterday’s 95.66%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population measurement at 638 ranks behind Peru (979), Belgium (862), Spain (680), Bolivia (677), Brazil (673), Chile (665), and Ecuador (641),  and only slightly worse than UK (620), Mexico (597, Italy (594), and Sweden (584) that never closed its economy down like we did and We have now conducted 106,593,177 tests (now at 321,564/M compared to Russia at 315,176/M so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (but excluding nations with small populations like Israel and Singapore) but for the U.K. at 360,532/M).

       Non CV Case News: The stimulus bill proposed by Pelosi includes stimulus checks for illegal aliens and protections against deportation; the Presidential ad hominem attack chaos is over with Biden passing a very low dementia gaffe bar, refusing to answer whether he would pack the court and end the filibuster, denied he would push for Medicare for all, could not name one police group that supported him and denied that he supported AOC’s Green New Deal and blamed Trump for the CV deaths while between attacking Biden for his son being enriched by foreign powers and his inability to remember where he went to college claimed Biden would shut the country down, that he paid more than $750 in taxes (I hope he is not lying on that one as it will be a disaster if he is wrong), touted his economic record that Biden continued to take credit for along with saving manufacturing jobs, attacked massive mail-in voting as fraud and blasted Biden on his lack of support for law and order (other than the ad hominem attacks doubt if a rare voter with an unmade up mind was swayed or one with was persuaded to switch); on the shooting of the two deputies in Compton, the good news is that Deonte Lee Murray, a suspected gang member, has been arrested after a failed car jacking and charged with attempted murder of the two deputies and in an even better news item Mark Cuban has donated $50,000 to each deputy; Lying Jim Comey in testimony before the Senate was hit with terminal amnesia and could not seem to remember any facts about HRC’s involvement in the creation of the Steele Dossier that lead to the Russia collusion delusion probe hoax; Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago with shootings and killings of black on black slams Trump for his “Lying Mouth.”

           Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 28, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,207 of whom 550 have died (total travesty of BLM when blacks are shot and killed by blacks in droves and only sounds of silence and complete absence of any protests in front of City Hall demanding action to curb the killings and shootings); 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 301 behind Chicago at 249 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 way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this  day in history, a musical link to “Rock Me Gently” by Andy Kim,  the fact that you are not a planster and  a quote by Jonathan Glover on civilian bombing, 
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1. International Translators Day—created by the UN General Assembly in 2017 to make this day a celebration of the efforts of translators in international business and politics to help parties avoid misunderstandings and achieve desired results.

        2. Orange Shirt Day--celebrating not the Protestants in Northern Ireland, the inmates in Orange County, California jails or the color as perfect for Halloween garb but an acknowledgement of the abysmal treatment of Canadian Indians in residential schools and the cultural genocide imposed upon them which the Canadian government has finally seen the error of its ways and after apologizing, closed the last one in 1966.

        3. 1974 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1974 on a run of 1 week was “Rock Me Gently” by Andy Kim in his first number 1 song to join 24 other acts achieving their first number one song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYH4BmrQqsY This Canadian-Lebanese singer/songwriter also has performed under the name Baron Longfellow and is till active today but “Rock Me Gently” remained his only U.S. number one song.

         4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “planster” which means a petty or poor planer which probably describes politicians calling for huge spending increases without the ability to pay for them and taking into consideration the results of such actions.

        5. In Cold Blood Self—celebrating the birth on this day in 1924 of noted writer Truman Streckfus Persons better known to his fans as Truman Capote best known for his book In Cold Blood but not so much for his drug and alcohol abuse which resulted in his death on August 25, 1984 from liver failure caused by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication.

         On this day in:

        a. 1939 in a we will not obey you moment, the League of Nations passed a resolution banning intentionally bombing civilian populations.

         b. 1949 after the Soviets threw in the towel and reopened access to Berlin, the Berlin Airlift ended.

        c. 1962 James Meredith entered the University of Mississippi in defiance of segregation laws in Mississippi.

        d. 1980 the world from a technology standpoint became a much smaller place as Xerox in collaboration with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the Ethernet specifications.

      e. 2005 12 controversial drawings of the Prophet Muhammad were published by the Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Postend.

        Reflections on the bombing of civilians: “The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.”― Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral history of the Twentieth Century. Wonder how different if at all World War II would have been If League Of Nations Resolution against intentional civilian bombing was observed.  
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

September 29, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Coffee Day

 

Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 29, 2020
         CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 215,248 new cases (a .64%  increase compared to a .87% increase yesterday) to bring the total  over 33 million to 33,688,356, 7,687,323  of  which  are active, 26,000,923 of which have been closed with 24,992,323 recoveries (96.12% compared to  yesterday’s 96.10%) and 1,008,600 deaths (3.88% compared to yesterday’s 3.90%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

         CV USA Cases: New cases of 80,148 with total cases over 7 million at 7,295,718 (a 1.10% increase compared to yesterday’s .58% increase) with 2,536,870 active cases of which 14,064, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (14,120 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,838,996 closures, 210,137 of which have been deaths (4.34% compared to yesterday’s 4.37%) and 4,590,472 of which have been recoveries (95.66% compared to yesterday’s 95.63%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population measurement at 634 ranks behind Peru (977), Belgium (861), Spain (672), Bolivia (675), Brazil (668), Chile (664), and Ecuador (637),  and only slightly worse than UK (619), Italy (594), Sweden (582) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (593) which announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have now conducted 105,580,499 tests (now at 318,514/M compared to Russia at 312,436/M so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (but excluding nations with small populations like Israel and Singapore) but for the U.K. at 356,743).

       Non CV Case News: Helen Reddy has died at 78; the Biden campaign has rejected The Trump campaign’s call for checking for electronic hearing devices (say goodbye to audio teleprompter) and the Trump campaign has rejected Biden’s call for a break every 30 minutes;  Pelosi after for weeks of urging Biden not to debate Trump has given him advice “to be himself” and “save the planet” (if being himself means gaffing, lapsing, and groping, Biden is in for a long night); Trump has just received his third Nobel Peace Prize nomination for his work in obtaining the Israel-Bahrain deal; The Titans who had 3 players and 5 personnel test positive have suspended in person training and the Vikings the team they played on Sunday followed suit (until a vaccine, completing the shortened season is going to be an on pins and needles affair); Biden has released his 2019 tax returns and has called on Trump to do the same; Kamala Harris must be taking lessons from Bunker Biden on availability as she after a speech at Shaw University closed to the general public slammed Trump for not caring about the health of Americans and nominating Barrett to SCOTUS and immediately almost sprinted of the stage to not take any questions (since being named as his VP pick 42 days ago, Harris has created a invisible bunker or press shield and not taking a single question from the press); Senator Feinstein who has been reaming the FAA for not ruling that masks are mandatory on planes and in airports was caught on camera at Dulles walking less than 6 feet behind someone and not wearing a mask (“Do as I say not as I do”); the Flynn dismissal circus is still on as Flynn’s lawyer demanded Judge Sullivan recuse himself because of abject bias.

              Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 28, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,199 of whom 547 have died (total travesty of BLM when blacks are shot and killed by blacks in droves and only sounds of silence and complete absence of any protests in front of City Hall demanding action to curb the killings and shootings); 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 299 behind Chicago at 248 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 way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this  day in history, a musical link to “We’re an American Band by Grand Funk,  the fact that you are planiloquent and  a quote by Nanea Hoffman on coffee, 
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1. VFW Day—celebrating the veterans’ organizations that were formed locally to assist veterans who were returning from the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection to have grown into an organization of some 1.5 million veterans who have fought in our foreign wars to promote the interests and well being of such veterans.

       2. National Coffee Day—celebrating that ubiquitous beverage that most Americans cannot start their day without whether regular or decaf which first appeared in 1903 and today a great day to celebrate as coffee prices from the plantations are down.

        3. 1973 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1973 on a run of 1 week was “We’re an American Band” by Grand Funk  in its first number 1 song to join 13 other acts achieving their first number one song. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwsgznR_T-g This rock band was formed in Flint, Michigan in  1969 and was very popular during the during until it disbanded in 1976-1981, reformed 1981-1983 and disbanded again from 1983-1996 to reform and still be active.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “planiloquent” which means speaking plainly, a skill most politicians have long since discarded.

         5. Surprise What Solidarity Can Achieve—celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of Leach Walesa, an electrician in the Gdansk Shipyards in Poland who founded the Trade Union Solidarity which was instrumental in breaking the Soviet Union’s grip on Poland and other Warsaw Pact Nations and became Poland’s first democratically elected president from 1990 to 1995 and won a Nobel Peace Prize and in 1989 became the first foreign non head of state to address a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress.

         On this day in:

          a. 1923 in a pre Title IX moment, the first American Women’s Track and Field Championships were held at Weequahic Park, Newark, New Jersey.

          b. 1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan became the first black own TV station.

          c. 1990 construction of the Washington National Cathedral was completed in Washington, D.C.

          d. 2007 Calder Hall, the world’s first nuclear power plant located in England dedicated on October 17, 1956  by Queen Elizabeth II, was demolished by a controlled explosion.

           e. 2013 44 students and teachers were killed and 16 wounded by Boko Harem at the College of Agriculture in Gabja, Nigeria.

        Reflections on the importance of coffee: “May your coffee be stronger than any challenges you face today. But if not, remember: DON’T throw your cup at anyone. You need it for refills.” – Nanea Hoffman, noted writer and coffee lover.
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Obama Supporting Biden By Pedaling Fear

 

We all know the adage “Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned”
To it should be added “Hell hath no fury than Obama with his legacy shorn”
Our former Commander-in Chief has become the Fear-Monger in Chief
Our democracy is at stake you must vote Biden to avoid its demise grief
Ignoring the fact that Trump did so much more for blacks
Obama like a voter plantation owner claims their right to vote is under attack
Like Biden he cannot his record in any way defend
So fear is the only message he can and does send
Biden set the stage claiming Trump was like Goebbels spreading lies
While MSM stooges for the DNC ranted Trump and supporters were Nazis we must defy
Trump supporters may wear Red MAGA hats instead of Brown Shirts
But they are all Storm Troopers striving to crush our democracy into the dirt 
Obama never endorsed Biden in the primaries because he knew
Mentally Joe was not fit to sit in the Oval Office as the top Blue
Now Obama has no choice as the final vestiges of his legacy are at stake
Like the DNC, he is praying big time Biden will have few lapses or gaffes in the debate

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Maskless Feinstein In Dulles Heading to Private Jet Demands FAA Require Masks

 


The facts on CV are pretty clear--people in their 80's are at high risk

But 87 year old Senator Feinstein must think being a head Blue makes her immune to risk

To her being a top Blue is better than a vaccine cure

So any discomfort of wearing a mask this elite does not have to endure

After ranting and railing and bringing the FAA to task

Ignoring her demanded mask rules she's seen in Dulles without a mask

Quick to lecture us and Trump on the need to fight climate change

As she heads to her husband's private jet for her trip he has arranged

Too often long term officials view their seat as an entitled reign

With lobbyists' PAC money awash to fund their reelection campaigns

Should come to us mere mortals no surprise we are viewed with disdain

Do you hear her humming "Do as I say not as I do" refrain?

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Monday, September 28, 2020

September 28, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Freedom from Hunger Day

 

Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 28, 2020
         CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 289,766 new cases (a .87%  increase compared to a .66% increase yesterday) to bring the total  over 33 million to 33,473,108, 7,688,796  of  which  are active, 25,784,312 of which have been closed with 24,779,651 recoveries (96.10% compared to  yesterday’s 96.08%) and 1,004,661 deaths (3.90% compared to yesterday’s 3.92%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

         CV USA Cases: New cases of 41,971 with total cases over 7 million at 7,295,718 (a .58 increase compared to yesterday’s .3% increase) with 2,537,616 active cases of which 14,120, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (14,135 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,800,073 closures, 209,601 of which have been deaths (4.37% compared to yesterday’s 4.42%) and 4,590,472 of which have been recoveries (95.63% compared to yesterday’s 95.58%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population measurement at 632 ranks behind Peru (975), Belgium (860), Spain (672), Bolivia (671), Brazil (666), Chile (663), and Ecuador (637),  and only slightly worse than UK (618), Italy (593), Sweden (581) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (591) which announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have now conducted 103,651,667 tests (now at 315,717/M compared to Russia at 311,066/M so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis but for the U.K. at 353,329).

       Non CV Case News: Project Veritas has on film the illegal activity of Omar Somali operatives illegally harvesting ballots (safe bet is that ballots will all be marked for Omar and other Blues and I wonder what see no evil voter fraud Wray has to say about this); on the stimulus front Pelosi is proposing a $2.2 trillion deal down from her idiotic gambit of $3.4 which may be a move in the right direction assuming no funds for illegal aliens and severe restrictions on states with massive unfunded pension liabilities but stay tuned for the details; the firestorm among the left over the ACB nomination is making the furor look like a Kumbaya song fest around the campfire as Planned Parenthood and NOW are in meltdown mode claiming she will cast her vote to enable Trump to steal the election, repeal Obamacare and repeal Roe v. Wade—ranting this exceptionally qualified jurist of impeccable intellect and integrity is a mindless Trump puppet; Pelosi is sounding alarm bells to her caucus that Blues must pedal to the metal to insure that a majority of the states have Congressional delegations that are controlled by Blues if the House is to decide the election; Trump and Biden are set to debate tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. PDT with no preliminary handshakes and no wearing of masks (not being able to hide his face whatever facial expressions of bewilderment or memory loss will be on better display); in a Harry S. Truman déjà vu, Biden is going a a train to campaign after the debate; in a blatant example of why the NYT has lost any journalistic integrity, Tatiana Turner was charged with attempted murder by hitting Trump supporters at a rally between them and BLM—NPR reported the obvious as the driver drives through a sea of Trump signs and merchandise while NYT “reporter” Marie Fazio mentioned only that people were hit with non life threatening injuries and called the demonstration between a group for social justice and counter protesters not Trump supporters (Fazio must believe that hitting a Trump supporter with a car cannot be attempted murder); in an almost “I am Spartacus” trend to be crucified for being white, Blue Louisiana State Senator Mandie Landry is tweeting that she is ashamed to be white (so much for King’s plea to be judged by content on one’s character as opposed to color of one’s skin).

              Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 27, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,190 of whom 544 have died (total travesty of BLM when blacks are shot and killed by blacks in droves and only sounds of silence and complete absence of any protests in front of City Hall demanding action to curb the killings and shootings); 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 296 behind Chicago at 248 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 way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this  day in history, a musical link to “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” by Mac Davis,  the fact that you are not plangorous due to events and  a quote by Hans Selye of penicillin, 
secure in the knowledge that if you want to ind 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. Please contact me for details.
        
1. Freedom from Hunger Day—first celebrated on this day in 2006 to create awareness of the prevalence of hunger both domestically and internationally that makes it so hard to rise out of poverty.

         2. International Rabies Day—created on September 8, 2007 by the Alliance for Rabies Control and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create awareness of this deadly disease and the need for owners to vaccinate their dogs.

         3. 1972 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1972 on a run of 3 weeks was “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me” by Mac Davis in his first number 1 song to join 17 other acts achieving their first number one song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UauHDIlhvTk This country music singer and song writer has still been performing but has recently had heart surgery and is in critical condition.

         4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “plangorous” which means mournful and describes to a tee how Blues must feel over the Barrett nomination to SCOTUS.

         5. Passing the Baton for the Last Time—celebrating the birth on this day in 1986 of Ethiopian distance runner Meskerem Legesse who competed in the 2004 Olympics     and then turned pro but had to ultimately retire due to a heart condition which when she was 3 weeks from delivering her second child died from a heart attack on July 15, 2013 outside a NYC restaurant but medical personnel were able to successfully deliver her child alive and well.

         On this day in:

         a. 1928 Arthur Fleming noticed a bacteria killing bread mold growing in his laboratory which eventually would become the first wonder drug penicillin.

         b. 1951 CBS offered color television sets to the public but discontinued their sale very shortly thereafter.

         c. 1973 the ITT Building in NYC was bombed by the Weather Underground in protest to ITT’s alleged involvement in the coup d’état that overthrew the Allende Government in Chile.

       d. 1986 after years of one party rule under the Kuomintang after it fled from China , the Progressive Development Party became the first opposition party in Taiwan.

        e. 2008 Falcon 1 built by SpaceX became the first privately funded liquid fueled rocket to successfully launch a payload into orbit from Earth.

      Reflections on scientific discovery and the discovery of penicillin: “I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.”― Hans Selye, From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist.
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September 27, 2020 Ridley's Believe It or Not Rock Endorses Harris and Biden (aka Weekend at Bernies)

 Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 27, 2020

         CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 217,338 new cases (a .66%  increase compared to a 1.21% increase yesterday) to bring the total  over 33 million to 33,183,342 cases, 7,675,479  of  which  are active, 25,507,863 of which have been closed with 24,507,503 recoveries (96.08% compared to  yesterday’s 96.06%) and 1,000,360 deaths (3.92% compared to yesterday’s 3.94%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

         CV USA Cases: New cases of 21,823 with total cases over 7 million at 7,295,718 (a .3% increase compared to yesterday’s 3.62% increase) with 2,560,723 active cases of which 14,093, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (14,135 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,734,995 closures, 209,242 of which have been deaths (4.42% compared to yesterday’s 4.43%) and 4,525,753 of which have been recoveries (95.58% compared to yesterday’s 95.57%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population measurement at 631 ranks behind Peru (972), Belgium (860), Spain (668), Bolivia (668), Brazil (665), Chile (660), and Ecuador (637),  and only slightly worse than UK (618), Italy (593), Sweden (581) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (590) which announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have now conducted 103,723,485 tests (now at 312,921/M compared to Russia at 309,011/M so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis but for the U.K. at 341,155).

       Non CV Case News: Supposedly the NYT will have an “October Surprise” as it claims it has received tax returns for Trump stretching back decades which according to it will show no or very little taxes paid to to losses in Trump businesses, reports which Trump has earnestly denied; RBG’s casket was removed from lying in state so the dog whistles of riots must have been blown again in Louisville, Portland and Seattle with police attacked and laser targeting, car explosion and fire, arrests and vandalism but fortunately no one shot; the Houston area declared a water emergency now lifted after a girl was infected with the brain tissue eating ameba Naegleria fowleri and who fortunately recovered after a long stint in ICU and a ventilator and an experimental drug (scary news as the infection is almost always fatal but fortunately is very, very rare); the Rock claiming to be a centrist politically has just endorsed the most leftist ticket ever put forth by the Democratic Party (successful actor but wrong big time on this one so I hope he enjoys the Biden tax hike he will be hit with); the attacks against Barrett are rising in intensity with hate mongers like Ibram X. Kendi claiming she is a “white colonizer” for adopting 2 children from Haiti (what does that make Obama’s white mother who was 3 months pregnant when she married Obama’s African American father or his white grandparents that spent a lot of time raising him?); not sure if it is a going through the motions front but Pelosi has warned colleagues that Barrett’s Catholic religion should be out of bounds from attack.     

              Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 26, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,176 of whom 539 have died (total travesty of BLM when blacks are shot and killed by blacks in droves and only sounds of silence and complete absence of any protests in front of City Hall demanding action to curb the killings and shootings); 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 293 behind Chicago at 246 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 way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur much less.

Sunday, September 27, 2020

The Rock Endorses Biden and Harris Huh?

 

For the Blues too often “peaceful protests” in support of BLM means no one has been shot and killed
Burning looting, attacking the police, and burning only means “peaceful protest” it is still
Jennifer Rubin who was as left as left could be was a “conservative” in her Twitter profile
Talk about the Devil’s Dictionary blatantly the meaning of words to defile
The Rock in his Biden Harris endorsement on Twitter claims to a centrist be
Yet does he not know Biden and Harris is the most leftist ticket in Blue history
He proclaimed his belief that people should be treated with respect
Did he miss the Kavanaugh hearings when all decorum and decency Harris did reject?Will he watch her join the parade of Blues demanding Barrett’s head?
Because she adopted two Haitians and her Catholic faith in personal life will not shed?
For a man of action in his roles what about Biden’s mental state did he miss?
In his virtual video endorsement could he not see mentally something was remiss?
Given the minute or so Biden spoke without pause, stumble or gaffe
There had to have been off camera a teleprompter or script cards held by staff
Given that if Biden wins the 25th replacing him soon will be a take it to the bank bet
With a neophyte with no private sector job roles trying to pull economy out of tank he will his endorsement regret

© September 27, 2020 the Alaskanpoet.

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Hirono and Blumenthal in a Snit Won't Even Meet with Judge Barrett

 

Senator Hirono famous for her “Women must be heard and women must be believed”
Unless of course it is a woman like Tara Reade to against Biden justice trying to achieve
Senator Blumenthal famous for claiming military service in Vietnam when he had not
Then later saying he had misspoken when his falsehood was caught
Are the first two Blue Senators on the Judiciary Committee out the box
Who when Judge Amy Coney Barrett comes knocking to meet will have their office doors locked
Both of these icons of Senate civility and decorum are more like spoiled little brats
If they on playground can’t get on the softball team they want, they stomp off with the only ball and bat
Blumenthal tries to justify that he will not participate in an illegitimate nomination
Since Trump’s term ends on January 20 at noon, his stand merits  only strong  condemnation
Hirono ignoring her duty to keep an open mind
Will at least question her at the hearing solely for anti-Trump sound bites to find
Not sure which is worse when Senators like Blumenthal and Hirono are MIA from their jobs
Or are present with the sole purpose and intent to against a super qualified nominee to ad hominem insults lob

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September 26, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Mesothemiola Awareness Day

 

Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 26, 2020
         CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 393,230 new cases (a 1.21%  increase compared to a .81% increase yesterday) to bring the total  over 32 million to 32,966,004 cases, 7,647,638  of  which  are active, 25,318,366 of which have been closed with 24,321,048 recoveries (96.06% compared to  yesterday’s 96.05%) and 996,430 deaths (3.94% compared to yesterday’s 3.95%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

         CV USA Cases: New cases of 254,048 with total cases over 7 million at 7,273,895 (a 3.62% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.64% increase) with 2,560,617 active cases of which 14,135, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (14,149 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 4,713,278 closures, 208,904 of which have been deaths (4.43% compared to yesterday’s 4.46%) and 4,504,374 of which have been recoveries (95.57% compared to yesterday’s 95.54%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population measurement at 630 ranks behind Peru (968), Belgium (859), Spain (668), Bolivia (667), Brazil (661), Chile (657), and Ecuador (637),  and only slightly worse than UK (617), Italy (593), Sweden (581) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (587) which announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have now conducted 103,575,523 tests (now at 312,475/M compared to Russia at 306,270/M so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis but for the U.K. at 341,155).

       Non CV Case News: Trump has announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee for SCOTUS and the left has come unglued from Di-Fi probably warming up her anti Papist attacks and Bill Maher in a “she’s a f**king nut rant” to Schumer claiming falsely she’s not mainstream (you can’t make this up but Blues are attacking her adoption of two children from Haiti while former Blue Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman is rightfully castigating Blues for their attacks on her Catholic faith); BLM is supposed to stand for Black Lives Matter but Greater Atlanta BLM founder Sir Maejor Page to his disappointment has learned that it also means Bunko Laws Matter as he was arrested for taking $200,000 of donations to BLM and using them for personal expenditures (sadly whites infected with White Guilt Syndrome may be easy saps for BLM dishonest fund raisers); most people with their mental faculties still functioning know where they went to college so a great surprise that Biden was falsely claiming before  the South Carolina primary where black voters there pushed him over the top that he started his college education at Delaware State University which is a predominantly black school (dementia or pandering by lying for votes?); a  New York judge has ordered a judicial review of the investigation of Eric Garner’s death due to a choke hold during his arrest in 2014; a federal District Court Judge appointed by Obama citing COVID-19 concerns has struck down a Texas law prohibiting straight party line voting (what exposure is there to the virus in a poll booth 6  feet apart? Probably 0);

        Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of September 24, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 3,153 of whom 538 have died (total travesty of BLM when blacks are shot and killed by blacks in droves and only sounds of silence and complete absence of any protests in front of City Hall demanding action to curb the killings and shootings); 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 292 behind Chicago at 246 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 way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this  day in history, a musical link to “Go Away Little Girl” by Donny Osmond,  the fact that you do not use plagiary and  a quote by William Wilson on the first Nixon Kennedy televised debate, 
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1. Mesothelioma Awareness  Day—created by the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation in 2004 to promote awareness of the disease and to seek cures while the numerous law firms specializing in seeking recovery of damages for coming down with the disease advertise heavily on television.

         2. National Hunting and Fishing Day—created by Congress in 1971 to celebrate hunting, fishing and shooting on the 4th Saturday of the month and to in so doing conserve and protect our outdoor environment.

              3. 1971 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1971 on a run of 4 weeks was “Go Away Little Girl” by Donny Osmond in his first number 1 song as a soloist. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLUuWl8oMFE This former teen heart throb had a successful career with the Osmonds, a solo career and a long stint with his sister Marie in Las Vegas and is still performing today.

            4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “plagiary” which means someone like a Joe Biden who plagiarizes.

             5. Blind Melon—celebrating the birth on this day in 1967 of Shannon Hoon a  singer, song writer and guitarist for the band Blind Moon. Sadly Shannon was into drugs and coming out of rehab to go on tour he had his drug counselor with him for moral support who failed in that endeavor as Shannon went into a drug binge after an unsuccessful concert in Houston on October 20, 1995 and died of a cocaine overdose the next day at age 27 in New Orleans before being picked up for a sound check for a concert later that day.

            On this day in:

         a. 1942 August Frank created a detailed memorandum outlining the disposition of personal property of Jews sent to the concentration camps and this Lieutenant General of the SS was convicted of War Crimes against Humanity and sentenced to life but was paroled in 1951 and died on March 21, 1984 at age 85.

           b. 1960  the first televised presidential debate took place between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy which almost everyone watching agreed that Kennedy crushed Nixon in a performance that vaulted him into the White House in a close election Nixon was supposed to win.

        c. 1973 the Concorde made its first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to Washington, D.C. in the record time of 3 hours 32 minutes.

            d. 1984 the United Kingdom and China entered into an agreement that the British possession of Hong Kong that was to exist for perpetuity would end in 1997.

           e. 2000 at an IMF and World Bank Summit held in Prague, demonstrations by 15-20,000 anti-globalization supporters turned violent with Molotov cocktails thrown at police and store fronts damaged.

            Reflections on the first televised Nixon Kennedy Presidential Debate: “Because in those meetings I had him do a light beige background. If you have a dark suit on, you pop right out. And, of course, Nixon had a gray suit on and he just melted back into the background. The most important thing I was able to do, I‘ve always believed, in terms of dealing with the look of the debate was the single pole and just the shelf on top for the notes. Because JFK was an elegant man, and I‘ve always said that you perceive by 50% body language, 25% attitude, and 25% what they say.”William Wilson, noted experienced  political adviser on the use of television in a political campaign retained by Kennedy and the force behind the single pole lecturn to emphasize Kennedy’s grace and youth.
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