Sunday, December 13, 2020

December 13, Ridley's Believe It Or Not Nanking Massacre Memorial Day.

Ridley's Believe It Or Not December 12, 2020
        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 476,533 new cases (a .66%  increase compared to a .64% increase yesterday) to bring the total over  72 million to 72,473,617, 20,101,259 of  which  are active, 52,372,358 closed with 50,755,511 recoveries (96.91% compared to  yesterday’s 96.90%) and 1,616,847 deaths (3.09% compared to yesterday’s 3.09%) to continue the trend of increased recovery  percentages and decreased death percentages.
         CV USA Cases: New cases of  136,859 (a .83% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.31% increase) to bring the  total over 16 million  to  16,651,647 with 6,651,647 active cases of which 27,550 (.41% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with no dips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (27,298 yesterday which means sadly the peak has not been reached), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and is still continuing to go up, and 9,974,899 closures,  305,688 of which have been deaths (3.06% compared to yesterday’s 3.07%) and 9,669,211 of which have been recoveries (96.94% compared to yesterday’s 96.93%). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .03% lower than the world rate and .42% lower than Canada which has the socialized type medicine Biden may will want to implement here  and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 921 ranks behind Belgium (1542), Peru (1103), Italy (1068),  Spain (1019), and UK (943 which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and only slightly worse than Argentina (896), France (886),  Mexico (878), Brazil (850), Chile (828) that we recently passed, Bulgaria (812 and newly added to list),    Ecuador (781), Bolivia (768) and Sweden (742) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in deaths and we have now conducted 2,225,519 more tests to bring total to 221,195,630  (now at 666,491/M compared to Russia at 565,897/M so Trump was telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 692,772/M).     
         Non CV Case News: Leaked CCP membership records show that 10 consulates of Western nations including the U.S. have been infiltrated for years, if you scratch a trade secret theft case in the U.S. you will most likely find the CCP, companies like Boeing and Pfizer have been infiltrated by CCP members as have our universities with thousands of Chinese students many of whom may be members of the CCP; Big Fredo has already outraged the restaurant industry and the people who deliver food and supplies to it by shutting down all restaurants and bars except for takeout and outdoor dining when a study released shows that of the COVID-19 cases less than 1.5% of them can be traced to eating in a restaurant while the overwhelming majority are due to private gatherings (if New York has the ability to recall a governor like we do here in California with Newsom, New Yorkers should be grabbing their pens and looking for a recall petition to sign especially after a predicted winter storm will hit the Northeast this week making outdoor dining an illusory lifeline); Lindsey Boylen, a former aide to Big Fredo, has accused him of sexually harassing her and his office being a “toxic work environment but before we jump on the bandwagon like the Blues wanted to do with Justice Kavanaugh, she needs to provide more details and hopefully corroborating witnesses which she has as of yet not done so; Pfizer’s trucks are rolling with the vaccine on them and many of which with armed U.S. Marshals to protect the precious cargo and priority designees like health care providers and nursing home patients could start being injected starting Monday; given the skepticism from Blues especially politicians like Harris and celebrities like almost everyone displayed over any vaccine developed in the Trump Administration, refreshing that the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup the Blue states of Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington have ruled the Pfizer vaccine is safe for public use; hackers have breached Microsoft 365 and have been reading internal emails of the Treasury Department and a department relating to internet and telecommunications policy and the hackers are believed to be from a foreign government not named (how easy can it be to say China?); Senator Manchin of West Virginia who should be a Red is opining that the $908 billion stimulus bill will be most likely voted on in the Senate on Monday (no stimulus checks to all Americans and liability protection most likely only temporary which brings back the professional litigants suing on really minor potential violation in what were really only nuisance suits); in terms of inanity the PC Warriors have new competitors, the MC Warriors as United Airlines threw a mother, father and a 2 year old who would not keep her mask on on its plane (how many 2 year olds,  Mask Controllers have been infected with CV?—try 0 and go to the head of the class.
          Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of December 12,  2020,  the number of shootings increased to 4,012 of whom  684 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 370 behind Chicago at 314 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 far fewer times).
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “To Know Him Is to Love Him” by The Teddy Bears, the fact that you are wary of proclivitous moments in the markets and a quote from Saddam Hussein in hiding from American troops searching for him, 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, 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. Nanking Massacre Memorial Day—commemorating the beginning of a 6 week period when the Imperial Japanese Army after conquering Nanking failed to pursue the Chinese defenders but went about an orgy of rape of women and girls, beheadings, killings of unarmed surrendered Chinese soldiers, men, women and children civilians and massive looting instead of pursuing the defeated Chinese forces and engaged in the pure depravity of two officers having a beheading contest of hapless Chinese who fell into their hands.                     
          2. Ice Cream Day—celebrating a tasty treat almost all of us love, the recipe for sherbet like concoction was brought back with Marco Polo to morph into ice cream throughout Europe in the 17th Century and to America in 1744 with the first advertisement for it found in 1777. George Washington like Nancy Pelosi was an ice fan as a receipt for ice cream for $200 in 1790 shows. However, why this day is celebrated in the winter as opposed to the hot days of summer is a mystery to this poet.                            3. 1958 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1958 on this day on a run of 3      weeks was “To Know Him Is to Love Him” by the Teddy Bears to 24 other number 1 songs and 7 other songs that made the list for the first time.  The group managed to get a studio to record the song that Phil Specter had written for $75 dollars and were active from 1957 until disbanding in 1960. Phil Specter went on to become a powerful and noted record producer but retired shortly after a near fatal automobile accident that sent him through the windshield; he reemerged in 2003 only to be charged with the murder of  actress Lana Clarkson on February 3, 2003 at his mansion. After a mistrial and a second trial, he was found guilty and sentenced to 19 years to life and is serving his time at the California Health Care Facility, eligible for a parole hearing in 2025 when he will be 86 years old. Here’s a recording of The Teddy Bears singing the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIUf6dOGc1c   
          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “proclivitous” which means steep which if a beginning skier is a slope to avoid.       
         5. Surviving One “C” But Not the Other “C”--celebrating the birth on this day in 1945 of Herman Cain, who rose to run Godfather’s Pizza and survived a diagnosis of Stage IV colon cancer that had spread to his liver to mount an unsuccessful run for president in the Republican primaries in 2012; an opponent of mask mandates, while leading Blacks for Trump  he attended a Trump rally in Tulsa on June 20, 2020 without a mask, tested positive for COVID-19 on June 29, was admitted to the hospital on July 2, 2020 and died of COVID-19 complications on July 30 at the age of 74.             
       On this day in:
       a. 1636 the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorized the formation of 3 militia regiments to protect the colony from Pequot Indians which act has been recognized as the date of formation of the National Guard.
        b. 1949 Israel’s Knesset voted to move the capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 
        c. 1974 Malta became a republic in the British Commonwealth.
        d. 1988 denied permission to enter the U.S. to address the U.N. General Assembly by the U.S. Yasser Arafat addressed the body in Geneva, Switzerland.       
        e. 2003 American troops pulled “The Ace of Spades” better known as Saddam Hussein out of his hiding spider hole next to his hut which one of the soldiers stated “smelled really bad” near Tikrit to face trial and ultimate hanging by Iraq.             
        Response by Hussein on an audio tape will in hiding before capture: “I urge you to protect the heroic resistance fighters and not to give the infidel invaders or their aides any information or help. Now that all has been revealed, I would like you, Iraqis, to ask the invaders: ‘Where are the weapons that you claimed Iraq was hiding and which you used as a pretext to wage war and aggression on our country?’” Saddam Hussein
        Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter   account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History,  poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to  Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.sachusetts Bay Colony authorized the formation of 3 militia regiments to protect the colony from Pequot Indians which act has been recognized as the date of formation of the National Guard.

        b. 1949 Israel’s Knesset voted to move the capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 
        c. 1974 Malta became a republic in the British Commonwealth.
        d. 1988 denied permission to enter the U.S. to address the U.N. General Assembly by the U.S. Yasser Arafat addressed the body in Geneva, Switzerland.                
        e. 2003 American troops pulled “The Ace of Spades” better known as Saddam Hussein out of his hiding spider hole next to his hut which one of the soldiers stated “smelled really bad” near Tikrit to face trial and ultimate hanging by Iraq.                      
        Response by Hussein on an audio tape will in hiding before capture: “I urge you to protect the heroic resistance fighters and not to give the infidel invaders or their aides any information or help. Now that all has been revealed, I would like you, Iraqis, to ask the invaders: ‘Where are the weapons that you claimed Iraq was hiding and which you used as a pretext to wage war and aggression on our country?’” Saddam Hussein
        Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter   account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History,  poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to  Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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