Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 12, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 338,331
new cases (a 1.18% increase compared to a .94% increase yesterday)
to bring the total over 28 million to 28,826,545 cases, 7,203,210
of which are active, 21,623,335 of which have been
closed with 20,700,881 recoveries (95.73% compared to yesterday’s
95.62%) and 922,454 deaths (4.27% compared to yesterday’s 4.31%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 53,502 with
total cases over 6 million at 6,651,730 (a .81% increase compared to
yesterday’s 2.38% increase) with 2,532,937 active cases of which 14,509,
on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (14,347
yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as
trend continues to go down, and 4,118,793 closures, 197,675 of which have
been deaths (4.8% compared to yesterday’s 4.82%) and 3,921,118 of
which have been recoveries (95.2% compared to yesterday’s 95.18%)
(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digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients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 597 ranks behind Peru (918), Belgium (855), Spain (636), Chile
(621), (Bolivia 619) Brazil (615), Ecuador
(612), and UK (612) and only slightly worse than Italy (589) and Sweden
(578) that never closed its economy down like we did and Mexico (543) which
announced it has run out of death certificates due to surge in deaths. We have
now conducted 91,703,503 tests (now at 274,620/M compared to Russia at 276,503/M
so Trump is telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per
capital basis).
Non CV Case News: More and more news suggesting
dirty money is overflowing into liberal causes with ActBlue reporting that
almost half of its multimillions raised for liberal causes came from people who
were unemployed raising great questions whether the money came from foreign
sources against Trump; on the drug front, the Mexican Navy has intercepted off
the coast of Mexico 3 tons of cocaine bound for New York City, the left must be
in a full on rant as Trump has received his second nomination for a Nobel Peace
Prize for his efforts in the Kosovo Serbia Peace Deal days before the U.E.A.R.
Israel peace deal (don’t hold your breath but Trump has been a peace seeking
president as opposed to Obama who received his for squat); in an idea of how
crazy politics has become Aria Di Mezzo, a self styled “Satanist” transvestite
with a campaign of “F—k the police” won the Red primary for sheriff in Cheshire
County, New Hampshire; Biden was MIA on the campaign trail on Saturday, causing
even members of the MSM to question his absence (should be clear—his growing
dementia will destroy any unscripted appearances); fires in California, Oregon
and Washington are raging with Blues blaming climate change and Reds blaming
inept forest management that does do not clear enough trees; it was the “The Play” all over again without a
Stanford Band trombone player in the end zone to run over, but with 3 seconds
to go and 46 yards away an Alabama high school football team won its game by
scoring a touchdown with 9 some laterals: https://www.foxnews.com/sports/alabama-high-school-football-final-seconds-9-lateral-pass-play.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: In Chicago as of September 11, 2020, the number of shootings
increased to 2,955 of whom 502 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 269 behind
Chicago at 233 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 “Diana” by Paul Anka, the fact that you avoid physagogue foods and
a quote by James Robertson on the trial on the blowing up of Pan Am Flight 103, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like
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1.
Defenders Day (Maryland)—celebrated in
Maryland for the successful defense of Baltimore from September 12-14 from British
attack in the War of 1812 which also gave of us the poem from Francis Scott Key
that would become our national anthem.
2. National
Day of Encouragement—created by President Bush in 2007 to promote
the well known fact that you can get more deeds out of people when you encourage
them to do better as opposed to insulting, demeaning and criticizing them.
3. 1957
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1957 on a run of 1
week was “Diana” by Paul Anka. Here us a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-zZ21iW9w
This Canadian-American singer songwriter is still going strong.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “physagogue” which
means any substance like beans that causes flatulence that Swalwell must have
consumed during the Trump Impeachment hearings.
5. Crash
Not in the Script--celebrating the birth on this day in 1973 of
noted actor Paul Walker best known for his roles in the Fast and Furious series but who was as a passenger in a Porsche
Carrera driven by his friend Roger Rodas in a single car collision that killed
them both, but in a tribute to the show must go on Fast and Furious 7 which was being filmed was rewritten and Paul’s
brothers were used and stand-ins to complete the film.
On this day in:
a. 1984 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden “Dr. K” set the major league record for strike outs by a rookie at 276; sadly his promising career was cut short due to cocaine addiction and his post career has been marred by alcohol related arrests and convictions.
b. 1994 Frank Corder in an intoxicated state and somewhat depressed over the leaving him by his third wife stole a Cessna 154 and flew it into the White House South Lawn, dying on impact.
c. 2003 the United Nations agreed to lift sanctions on Libya after the country admitted responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that blew up in the air over Lockerbie, Scotland and pay recompense to the victim’s families.
d. 2008 a Metrolink
Commuter train with its engineer distracted by texting missed a red light and
shortly thereafter collided with a Union Pacific freight train near Chatsworth,
killing 25 and injuring 135.
e. 2011
the National September 11 Memorial and Museum opened to the public in New York
City.
Reflections on the guilty verdict on
the alleged bomber: James Robertson — Award-winning author of The Lockerbie Affair and Scottish Society: “The more I look, the more I am forced to the conclusion that if
there is a conspiracy around Lockerbie, it is not one concocted by those who
doubt the guilt of Mr Megrahi, but a conspiracy of silence in which the US, UK
and Scottish governments are all, though not from shared motives, implicated.”
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