Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 19, 2021
CV
World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with
surging cases now over 96 million at 96,651,429 with 1,028,0401 new cases (a 1.08%
increase and .41% yesterday) 25,285,267 of which are active, 71,335,592
closed with 69,269.968 recoveries (97.10% and 97.09% yesterday) and 2,065,624,
deaths (2.90% and 2.91% yesterday) to continue the trend of increased cases
with increased recovery percentages and decreased death percentages
with some plateaus.
CV USA Cases: Total cases now over 24 million at 24,806,964 with 352,464 new
cases (a 1.44%% increase) with 9,608,626
active cases of which 28,418 (.30% of active cases and a decrease now of 853
from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition
15,198,338 closures, 411,486 of which have been deaths (2.71% and
2.75% yesterday) and 14,786,852 of which have been recoveries (97.29% and
97.25% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after
many months is now .20% lower than the world rate and .11% lower than Canada
which has the socialized type medicine Biden may well want to implement
here and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady
climb to 1239 ranks behind Belgium (1762), Italy (1376), and UK (1343)
which had passed us despite leading world in testing), and Bulgaria (1245) and
only slightly worse than Hungary (1194),
Peru (1175) Spain (1158), Mexico (1101), France (1092), Sweden (1045) that
never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a
rapid rise in deaths, (1000), Switzerland (1019), Argentina (1014), Brazil (991),
Chile (915) that we recently passed, Bolivia (827) and Ecuador (808) and
we have now conducted 289,798,167 tests (now at 872,684/M compared to
Russia at 666,579/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, Malta,
Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with
tests at 958,584/M. In the U.S. 12.28 million have been vaccinated
Non
CV Case News: Of the 25,000 National Guardsmen deployed in Washington, D.C., a
massive 12 have been removed because of fears of their association with right
wing extremists groups which explains why Georgia Red Governor Brian Kemp
slammed Blue Rep. Steven Cohen’s idiotic and demeaning slam that because the National
Guard was 90 % white that a large percentage might do something to interfere
with Biden’s election (if Biden really wants to unify this country he might
want to have a “woodshed” chat with this idiot who probably could use some “deprogramming”
the MSM is calling for Trump supporters); HRC despite all the facts to the
contrary is still trying to sell the Russian Collusion lie, even suggesting the
Putin and Trump were conspiring (in a word to this defeated hack whose fixation
with Russia as why she lost one word ENOUGH); Pelosi whose actions to rush a kangaroo
court type impeachment screaming “clear and present” danger has revealed her
true biased intentions of trying to make sure Trump can never run for office by
sitting on her show trial Articles of Impeachment and now asking for a Warren
type commission to investigate the storming of the Capitol (she knows that but
for the CV pandemic that devastated our economy and enable Biden to run a
bunker basement campaign to conceal his fading mental fitness, Trump would have
won probably in a landslide despite any voter fraud); Mitch McConnell seemed to
be showing his age and potential RINO status on the floor of the Senate
claiming Trump incited the storming of the Capitol; Blue California Rep seems
to be pushing a $23/hr minimum wage to lift millions out of poverty while
ignoring the obvious question of how many will be then without work and forced
into the poverty of no job;; the recall Gavin Newsom continues to gather
signatures over a million moving forward to the required goal of
1,500,000 https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/.
Chicago/Baltimore Gun
Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through January 18, 2021 in 2021,
gun violence involving persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is
alive and well with 151 persons shot of whom 33 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to “Shake Me Down” by Greg Abbott,
the fact that after dining on fiddleheads you have acquired pteridomania
and a quote on the Iranian hostage crisis by Edwin Meese, secure in the
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1. Gun Appreciation Day—organized
by Political Media, Inc., under the direction of Larry Ward, and brought
together gun rights, Tea Party, and conservative groups 2 days before Obama’s second
term to promote the 2nd Amendment and oppose Obama’s agenda of enhanced
gun control; good bet that the observance will not be favored by the Biden
Administration.
2. National Popcorn
Day—celebrating a
tasty low calorie snack with only 31 calories per cup of air popped popcorn and
the profit margin for many theaters during high license fees major motion
pictures.
3. 1987 Number One Song—the
number 1 song in 1987 on this day with a run of 1 week in that position was “Shake
Me Down” by Greg Abbott joining 29 other number one songs and 15 other acts
having their first number 1 song one song. Here is a recording of Greg Abbott singing “Shake Me Down”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc8wmLul3uw
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pteridomania”
:which means a passion for ferns which is understandable if one has ever eaten
fern fiddleheads.
5. No Mercedes Hearses—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1943 of noted singer Janis Joplin who despite great
talent had a heroin addiction and died at age 27 on October 4, 1970 from an
accidental overdose following drinking alcohol and using heroin and missing out on her “Me and Bobby
McGee” posthumously reaching number one in March 1971.
On this day in:
a. 1981 in a new sheriff
is coming to town moment the Iranians agreed to release the 52 Americans they
had held hostage for 444 days following the takeover of the American Embassy in
Tehran.
b.
1983 Apple announced its Lisa PC, the first commercial PC to have a graphic
interface and a computer mouse.
c. 1986 the first IBM PC was released
which was a boot sector virus dubbed (c) Brain and created by the Farooq
Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan.
d. 1997 PLO head Yasser Arafat
returned Hebron after 30 years to a hero’s welcome to celebrate the end of
Israeli rule of the last Israeli controlled city on the West Bank.
e. 2012 the file sharing sited
Megaloadup was shut down by the FBI as a site for copyright infringement.
Reflections on the release
of the American hostages: coffee: “'I think the
Iranians ought to think over very carefully the fact that it would certainly be
to their advantage in every way to get our hostages back now.'' Edwin Meese, top
adviser to President-elect Reagan before becoming Attorney General.
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