Ridley's Believe It Or Not September 9, 2020
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 273,447
new cases (a .99% increase compared to a .89% increase yesterday) to
bring the total over 27 million to 27,871,869 cases, 7,035,836
of which are active, 20,836,371 of which have been
closed with 19,931,836 recoveries (95.66% compared to yesterday’s
95.63%) and 904,535 deaths (4.34% compared to yesterday’s 4.37%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA
Cases: New cases of 78,720 with total cases over 6 million at 6,444,645 (a
1.22% increase compared to yesterday’s .75% increase) with 2,528,541 active
cases of which 14,459, on a downward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155
on July 23 (14,581 yesterday and 15.881 on September 1), are in
serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 3,994,724 closures,
194,414 of which have been deaths (4.87% compared to yesterday’s 4.90%)
and 3,800,310 of which have been recoveries (95.13% compared to
yesterday’s 95.10%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 587 ranks behind Peru (911), Belgium (855),
Spain (633), UK (612), Chile (611), Bolivia (606), Ecuador (605), Brazil (602),
and Italy (589), , and only
slightly worse than Sweden (578) that never closed its economy down like we did
and Mexico (530) which announced it has run out of death certificates due to
surge in deaths. We have now conducted 89,275,377 tests (now at 269,406/M compared to Russia at
267,491/M so Trump can now truthfully claim we conduct more tests on an
absolute basis and on a per capital basis).
Non CV Case News: Here’s a news flash to Blue
Mayors in cities where residents feel, night or day, in or out of the house,
they are targets in a shooting gallery, AG Barr claims that cities where
Operation Legend is in place, murder rate has been cut in half (voters should
ask what took Mayor Lightfoot so long to come to her senses and try to protect
potential new gunshot victims in her deadly city); the assistant principal,
Steven Lysenko, of Spencerport High School in Rochester, a disgraceful model of
propriety for his students shown hurling F* Bombs at the police has been put on
leave; on the military front, the U.S. has announced that 40% of its remaining
troops in Iraq will be withdrawn by the end of September and the U.S. Navy has
come to its senses and reversed its decision to cancel Catholic Masses at Southern
California naval bases; on the immoral corruptness of the anti-Trumpers front, Olivia
Winslow and Camryn Amy, both 21, were indicted by a grand jury and
arrested on charges of second-degree robbery, second-degree conspiracy,
endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree assault, attempted
third-degree assault, offensive touching and felony hate crime for stealing a
MAGA hat from a 7 year old and face up to 15 years (what has the hate against
Trump come to?); Biden bamboozled donors out of $364.5 million in August to
dwarf the $210 million raised for the Trump campaign which explains perhaps why
Trump indicated he will spend his own fortune to insure election; a light bulb
must have gone on in Cuomo’s brain as he announced that restaurants in NYC will
be able to offer starting on September 30 indoor dining at 25% capacity,
temperature testing, contact information for at least one member of the party
and no bar service ( for those restaurants that have managed to hang on with
outdoor dining the race will be on to see if indoor dining can be expanded
before the cold and snow put a crimp on eating al fresco); we have known for a
long time that Schiff lied like a rug but in a new book Abuse of Power we learn how a power hungry Schiff out maneuvered Nadler
to become head of the House Impeachment Witch-hunt (Schiff still looking for an
Impeachment Mulligan has announced a new whistle blower claim that the DHS
suppressed Intel reports of Russian election interference); Trump has released
a list of 20 potential judicial nominees for any vacancies on SCOTUS during his
second term.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: In Chicago as of September 8, 2020, the number of shootings increased
to 2,914 of whom 496 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 272 behind Chicago at 224
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 “Sh-Boom” The Crew Cuts, the fact that you an absence of phonus-balonus
from our leaders and a quote by Heather Ann Thompson on the Attica Prison Riot, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like
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1.Tester’s
Day—commemorating the day when researchers at Harvard discovered
an actual bug, a moth between two layers of solenoids on a Mark II Aiken Relay
Calculator but not celebrating the use of the term as Thomas Edison had used
the term in conjunction with engineering issues as early as 1878.
2. Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day—created in 1999 to promote awareness that fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders caused by mothers drinking during pregnancy are the
leading cause of birth defects that can be prevented and which have potentially
life lasting adverse effects on the baby.
3. 1954
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1954 on a run of 7
weeks was “Sh-Boom” by the Crew Cuts as their first and only number 1 hit song.
Here us a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9G0-4TWwew
The Crew Cuts were a Canadian quartet named after their hair style and were
active from 1952 -1964.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phonus-bolonus”
which means exaggerated trickery or nonsense which describes what we witness on
the political front and too often also on the MSM front.
5. Sit
on a Dock Not in a Plane--celebrating the birth on this day in 1941 of
noted singer, songwriter and producer Otis Redding, Jr. who was aboard his private
plane on December 9, 1967 enroute to Madison, Wisconsin from Cleveland, Ohio for
a performance the next day with 4 members of the Bar-Keys and their valet when
the pilot crashed into Lake Morona 4 miles from the airfield he was to land at,
killing all but one person aboard. The song “Sittin on the Dock on the Bay”
which Redding wrote and recorded 3 days before his death would become the first
posthumous Number 1 song.
On this day
in:
a. 1739 the Stono
Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in British North America prior to the
Revolutionary War erupted in Charleston, South Carolina and grew to some 60
slaves trying to march to Spanish Florida and freedom almost all of whom died
in combat with militia or were captured and executed with a few survivors sold
into slavery in the West Indies. Some 20 whites were killed before the rebellion
was crushed.
b. 1965
Hurricane Betsy after making a second landfall at New Orleans took 76 lives and
became the first hurricane with the dubious distinction of being the first to
cause over a $ billion in damages at $1.42 billion ($11.69 billion in today’s 2020
dollars).
c. 1971 the 4 day Attica Prison in New York began
which ended when Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered New York State Troopers to
reoccupy the prison which resulted after the tear gas had cleared in the
finding of 10 dead prison guards and civilians, only 1 of whom had been killed
by prisoners and 33 dead prisoners, 4 of whom had been killed by prisoners and
the rest by the attacking troopers and 85 prisoners wounded by attacking
troopers.
d. 1993 in a what
took you so long moment, the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized
Israel as a legitimate state.
e. 2015 Queen Elizabeth II became the longest serving
monarch in the history of the United Kingdom and is still going strong 5 years
later to the dismay of her son Prince Charles who must fear with calls that he
abdicate so Prince William along with his wife Kate can grace the English
Throne that he never will be king.
Reflections on the racism
at Attica Prison as revealed after the riot: “Even at the time, however,
National Guardsman Callahan could see that the abuses happening to prisoners
following the retaking were fueled by outright racism. Callahan overheard one
trooper bragging of shooting a black inmate with a .357 and watched him then
give a “White Power salute.” He also saw “a prison guard sergeant telling this
very tall, yellow-skinned black to strip” and when the man refused, the
sergeant “told others to hold him down and then kicked him in the head like a
football—he went limp.” Another Guardsman overheard one trooper saying to
another over by a food stand outside Attica’s walls that it was “hot work
killing niggers.” Racial hostility was in fact so intense that during the
legislators’ tour that morning, even Assemblyman Arthur Eve was showered with
invective. “Guards [were] yelling at Eve—get your nigger ass out of here.” ― Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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