Ridley's Believe It Or Not October 11, 2020
CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the
planet continues with 335,632 new cases (a .90% increase
compared to a 1.35% increase yesterday) to bring the total nearing 38 million to 37,648,183, 8,334,903
of which are active, 29,313,280 of which have been
closed with 28,233,683 recoveries (96.32% compared to yesterday’s
96.30%) and 1,079,597 deaths (3.68% compared to yesterday’s 3.70%) to
continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality
percentages.
CV USA Cases: New cases of 58,243 with total cases nearing 8
million at 7,977,660 (a
.74% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.24% increase) with 2,638,729
active cases of which 14,717, recently on an upward trend with slight blips
from a high of 19,155 on July 23 (14,781 yesterday and 15,881 on
September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 5,338,831
closures, 219,600 of which have been deaths (4.11% compared to yesterday’s
4.14%) and 5,119,531 of which have been recoveries (95.89% compared
to yesterday’s 95.86%) (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finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending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 662 ranks behind Peru (1004), Belgium (877),
Bolivia (708), Brazil (706), Spain (704), Chile (695), and Ecuador (688), and
only slightly worse than Mexico (647), UK (630), Italy (598), and Sweden (583)
that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted
1,143,009 to bring total to 118,116,069 tests (now at 356.413/M compared to
Russia at 347,932/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 Denmark, Israel and
Singapore) but for the U.K. at 396,961/M).
Non CV Case News: Biden is still
sticking to his guns that voters do not deserve to know how he will vote on
court packing but for what its worth in 1983 he called it a “bonehead idea”; Sen.
Coons was on the airways spreading Orwellian inanity that the confirmation of
Barrett would be court packing (Yale Law School must no longer have Con Law as
a 1st Year requirement); the liberal long knives against Senator
Lindsey are out in spades raising a record $57 million in campaign funds for
his opponent Jaime Harrison, an African-American head of the South
Carolina Democratic Party; the NBA is learning
the hard way that fans do not like to mix sports and politics of social justice
the NBA Finals with the Lakers and Heat are drawing record low viewers on Game
5; to the joys of sports fans rabid anti Trumper Keith Olbermann has left ESPN to
continue his over the top biased rhetoric on a Podcast (example of his
derangement is that he wants Barrett prosecuted); Governor Whitmer perhaps
emboldened by her escape from a kidnapping will not commit to a time frame when
Michigan will declare a winner (does she want to keep finding ballots until she
can declare Biden a winner?); Louisiana is engaged in clean up from Hurricane
Delta and trying to have power restored to thousands has found one death, a 86
year old man with an auxiliary generator that caught fire while he was
refueling it without allowing in to cool down; in news that PG&E does not
need officials believe the Zogg Fire in Shasta County now 97% contained after
destroying 100 homes and killing 4 people was started by PG&E equipment;
Donald Neely who suffers from mental illness and was arrested by 2 mounted
Rangers in Galveston, Texas for trespassing is suing the city for $1 million
dollars after body cam video that went viral showing him being led by a rope
clipped to his behind the back handcuffs (in these days of racial sensitivity
not a good photo op);
Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago
as of October 9, 2020, the number of
shootings increased to 3,341 of whom 569 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 306
behind Chicago at 263 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 “Money for Nothing” by Dire
Straits, the fact that you are pogoniasis free and a
quote by the Jeffrey Toobin on the Clarence Thomas confirmation, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like
Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries,
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1. General
Pulaski Memorial Day--created by Congressional Resolution in 1919 to
honor the contributions during the Revolutionary War of Polish General Pulaski
who is known as the father of American Cavalry, saved the life of George
Washington at the Battle of Brandywine in the American Revolutionary War and
was mortally wounded during the failed siege of Savannah, Georgia on October 9,
1779 to die on October 11, 1779 at the age of 34.
2. National
Coming Out Day—created in 1988 by Robert Eichenberg, a
psychologist and founder of a personal growth workshop, The Experience, and by
Jean O'Leary, an activist who was head of the National Gay Rights Activists in
Los Angeles to celebrate the members of the LBGT community coming out of the closet.
3. 1985
Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1985 on a run of 2 weeks
was “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits in their first number 1 song joining 16
other acts achieving their first number
1 song. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0.
This British band was active from 1977-1988, disbanded and then reformed from
1991-1996.
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pogoniasis” which
means an excessive growth of a beard which with barber shops closed down due to
CV pandemic, many beard wearers are having to put up with.
5. Like Father Life
Son--celebrating the birth on this day in 1905 of note real estate
and apartment builder, Fred Trump, the father of President Trump who died on
June 25, 1999 at age 93 (explains why President seems to be so young and
energetic at age 74).
On this day in:
a. 1906 San Francisco created a diplomatic storm with Japan by ordering
that Japanese American students be placed in segregated schools.
b. 1972 in a bad day for race relations, a
race riot broke out on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk of the coast of North Vietnam.
c. 1984 in a
bookend up moment Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in
space on a Challenger mission and in a bookend deep down moment June 7, 2020
she became the first woman to dive 35,810 feet into the Challenger Deep in the Marianna Trench, the deepest ocean bottom
on the planet in the submersible Limiting Factor.
d. 1987 the AIDS
Memorial Quilt was displayed at the Second Annual March on Washington for Gay
and Lesbian Rights.
e.
1991 in what Justice Clarence Thomas would call a judicial lynching Anita Hill’s
testimony on her sexual harassment by him was televised.
Reflections on the Clarence
Thomas confirmation: ““The dilemma facing Bush and the Republicans
was clear. If Marshall left, they could not leave the Supreme Court an
all-white institution; at the same time, they had to choose a nominee who would
stay true to the conservative cause. The list of plausible candidates who fit
both qualifications pretty much began
and ended with Clarence Thomas.
…There
was awkwardness about the selection from the start. "The fact that he is
black and a minority has nothing to do with this," Bush said. "He is
the best qualified at this time." The statement was self-evidently
preposterous; Thomas had served as a judge for only a year and, before that,
displayed few of the customary signs of professional distinction that are the
rule for future justices. For example, he had never argued a single case in any
federal appeals court, much less in the Supreme Court; he had never written a
book, an article, or even a legal brief of any consequence. Worse, Bush's
endorsement raised themes that would haunt not only Thomas's confirmation
hearings but also his tenure as a justice. Like the contemporary Republican
Party as a whole, Bush and Thomas opposed preferential treatment on account of
race—and Bush had chosen Thomas in large part because of his race. The
contradiction rankled.”
― Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside
the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
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