Momentum against Cuomo Remaining in Office Building Time to Axe Chris, Brian, Jake and Jim Too?

 

I you want to find an objective journalist do not look for Brian Stelter
Reeking of bias against Reds he was a leader in giving Cuomo scandals shelter
So quick to join in the MSM praise for Cuomo’s pandemic handling that would never stop
Never questioned his Emmy award even as seniors in nursing homes due to his order were beginning like flies to drop
Scenes of refrigerated trucks holding bodies because morgues were full never made the news
Not a word of question or concern of legislation pushed through that prevented nursing homes from being sued
CNN cheered long and hard for Cuomo’s reports that an Emmy they felt he deserved
Even as we now know the magnitude of the deaths due to his orders in reports was not observed
A Blue AG had the integrity to inform us what were the facts
A cover-up of the much larger number of deaths his reports lacked
From CNN such news on the true state of affairs kept viewers in the dark
More silence on yet another scandal of sexual harassment started to embark
Listening to CNN and his little brother Chris
The truth on Cuomo’s bloody hands and harassment a viewer would miss
Cuomo unlike Kavanaugh deserves the presumption of innocence and due process
But when Pelosi and both AOC both say allegations are credible an investigation will no longer be suppressed
Since CNN’s journalistic qualifications and standings are not worth a bucket of warm spit
Time to kill two birds with one stone and have Chris and Brian from the network quit
Without Trump to 24/7 rail against and bash
Their ratings will in a nosedive crash
Cutting high priced pseudo “journalists” would save needed cash
Stelter, Cuomo, Tapper Acosta et al need to have their work product dumped in the trash

© February 28, 2021 The Alaskanpoet

February 28, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Rare Disease Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 28, 2021

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with  cases now past 114 million at 114,663,794 with 297,843 new cases (a .26% increase) 21,931,353 of which are active, 92,732,441 closed with 90,189,979 recoveries (97.26% and 97.26% yesterday) and 2,542,462 deaths (2.74% and 2.74% 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 29 million at 29,247,577 with 44,753 new cases (a .15% increase) with 9,039,034 active cases of which 15,049 (.17% of active cases and a decrease now of 14,222 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 20,388,543 closures, 525,802 of which have been deaths (2.58% and 2.60% yesterday) and 19,862,741 of which have been recoveries (97.42% and 97.40% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .16% lower than the world rate and now .03% 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 1582 ranks behind Belgium (1897), UK (1803) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1617), and Portugal (1603) and only slightly worse than  Hungary (1553), Spain (1478), Bulgaria (1474,  Mexico (1427), Peru (1391), France (1323), Sweden (1265) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in  deaths, Brazil (1194),  Poland (1157), Switzerland (1146), Argentina (1143), Chile (1070), and Bolivia (987) and we have now conducted  358,841,746 tests (now at 1,079,927/M) compared to Russia at 760,400/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,308,878/M.

       US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 2/28/2021 75.2 million doses have been given, 1.74 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us some 8 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 8,821,044 total doses have been given ( 76.1% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California is still at 38^th   out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states. A long way to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/28/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 5,897 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 9.7% of all hospital beds.

      Non CV Case News: Cuomo’s Reptilian Brain is fired up denied any sexual overtures and apologizing for his “kidding around” demeanor while feminists so quick to flay Reds have retreated into a cone of silence but to her credit AOC is demanding and independent investigation (reptilian brains must be oblivious to the obvious that “kidding around” on sexual matters is now and has been for some time tantamount to sexual harassment that most women and an very large increasing percentage of men will not tolerate); Trump was in fine form at CPAC ripping into Biden and assuring the faithful he would not form a third party (watching him gives clear indication why the Blues pursued a snap kangaroo impeachment to try to bar him from ever holding office (if he can retain the policies but tone down the personal ad hominen insults he would be a very formidable opponent in 2024 and a very welcome ally in the Red push to take back Senate and House); the Blues are in an intra party fight over Progressives’ demands for a $15/hour minimum wage which most economists and small business owners would be a disaster to small business and result in significant job losses and the non Progressives who want to resist that measure while the House has passed a COVID-19 relief bill which is a Truth in Legislation Fraud with the vast majority of the funds having nothing to do with COVID-19; newly released video shows Cuomo pressuring a female journalist to eat the “whole sausage” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-once-pressured-female-reporter-eat-entire-sausage ; Pelosi finally has broken her silence on the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo and called the allegations credible (this good be a welcome sign that Cuomo’s days are numbered and the fall out may cause CNN to drop its biased “journalist” Chris Cuomo); the Golden Globe Awards will be on tonight and the big questions is whether the EMMY Award Winner fallen from grace Andrew Cuomo will be raked over the coals;  L.A. DA Gascon whose soft of criminal policies have sparked outrage in the community and among career prosecutors and members of law enforcement fortunately is facing a recall drive in which backers need 600,000 signatures https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; leave it to a political cartoonist to expose the disconnect of Blue City Council members  in Minneapolis in dealing with the economic disasters caused  to their residents from the riots following the George Floyd death: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow: although 80% of the recall Newsom signatures have been verified, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event that any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/

          Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through February 27, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 430 persons shot of whom 87\4 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 “I Double Dare You ” by Benny Russ Morgan and His Orchestra with vocals by Bernice Park,  the fact that you love a well written quinzaine and a quote by Julie Burchill on nylon stockings on survivability of polar bears, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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 the details on the pricing.

          1. Rare Disease Day—first observed in Europe and Canada on February 29, 2008, a date chosen to commemorate the U.S. passage of the Orphan Drug Act to promote awareness of the issues and problems faced by those who are afflicted with diseases rare in terms of the numbers affected but not the consequences and to promote fund raising efforts.

           2. International Repetitive Stress Awareness Day—observed on the last day of February starting in 2000 to promote awareness of the injuries caused in the workplace for those performing repetitive motions again and again during their work shift and to promote ergonomic solutions to minimize such injuries.

           3. 1938 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1938 on this day with a run of 1 week in that position was “I Double Dare You” by Russ Morgan and His Orchestra  with Bernice Park on vocals to join 16 other number 1 songs . Here is a recording of “I Double Dare You” by Russ Morgan and His Orchestra with Bernice Park on vocals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8vCT7zoyc Morgan was a big band leader in the 30’s and 40’s who migrated to television in the 50’s and turned an 8 week gig at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas in 1965 into a 12 year stint as his son took over the band when Russ died in Las Vegas on August 6, 1969 at the age of 65.
          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “quinzaine” which means a poem of 15 lines.

          5. Parting Doeth Us Death--celebrating the birth on this day in 1942 of guitarist and singer Brian Jones who also founded the Rolling Stones but had great difficulties with drugs and alcohol and was becoming unreliable so when he was denied a visa to accompany the Rolling Stones on a North America tour due to narcotics’ conviction the band terminated its relationship with him on June 9, 1969 and on July 3, 1969 his body was found at the bottom of his swimming pool; his death was ruled death by misadventure with the report noting an enlarged heart and liver due to alcohol and drug use.

          On this day in:

a. 1935 Dupont scientist Walter Carothers invented nylon.

b. 1940 to the joy of sports fans college basketball was televised for the first time by NBC in a game played at Madison Square Garden between Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh won by Pitt 57-37.

c. 1983 in a record still not passed to watch a final episode of a TV series, 108 million viewers tuned in to watch M*A*S*H.

          d. 2004 over a million Taiwanese joined hands to form a human chain 500 kilometers long to commemorate the 228 Incident on this day in 1947 when Kuomintang Forces who had fled China massacred 5,000 to 28,000 anti government protesters.

          e. 2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigned becoming the first Pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII in 1415. Pope Benedict is still alive today and is the oldest living surviving Pope in history of the Catholic Church as will celebrate his 94^th birthday on April 16, 2021.

         Reflections on Nylons: “There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.” Julie Burchill, noted English journalist and self described “militant feminist.

          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.
 © February 28, 2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

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February 27, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Polar Bear Day

 Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 27, 2021

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with  cases now past 113 million at 114,365,951 with 407,562 new cases (a .36% increase) 21,907,982 of which are active, 92,457,969 closed with 89,921,258 recoveries (97.26% and 97.25% yesterday) and 2,536,711 deaths (2.74% and 2.75% 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 29 million at 29,202,824 with 80,500 new cases (a .28% increase) with 9,045,632 active cases of which 15,084 (.17% of active cases and a decrease now of 14,187 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 20,157,192 closures, 524,669 of which have been deaths (2.60% and 2.61% yesterday) and 19,632,523 of which have been recoveries (97.40% and 97.39% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .14% lower than the world rate and now .04% 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 1579 ranks behind Belgium (1896), UK (1801) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1614), and Portugal (1599) and only slightly worse than  Hungary (1545), Spain (1478), Bulgaria (1471,  Mexico (1421), Peru (1391), France (1321), Sweden (1265) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in  deaths, Brazil (1191),  Poland (1154), Switzerland (1146), Argentina (1142), Chile (1065), and Bolivia (986) and we have now conducted  357,707,996 tests (now at 1,076,517/M) compared to Russia at 757,660/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,308,878/M.

       US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 2/27/2021 72.8 million doses have been given, 1.58 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us some 9 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 8,566,470 total doses have been given ( 73.9% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California is down to 38th  out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states. A long way to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/27/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 5,897 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 10.2% of all hospital beds.

      Non CV Case News: When it rains, it pours for Big Fredo Cuomo as a another 25 year old aide to him who left in November last year described being alone in his office being grilled about whether she was monogamous in her relationships and whether she would have sexual relationships with older men (when does Hirono start beating the women must be heard and believed drum or did she retire that instrument after Kavanaugh’s confirmation despite the hatchet job against it by the Blues); on Cuomo the MSM is major guilty of “fake news” by omission by their total blackout of sexual harassment claims against Cuomo; Newsom is either a complete idiot or believes he is totally above the law after his French Laundry nose thumbing was posting a Tik Tok with George Lopez inside Los Amigos Restaurant in Fresno that still has banned indoor dining; the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is now the third one to have received FDA emergency approval and will soon be heading to the arms of Americans; finally an American company with a spine to tell the “Cancel Culture Warriors” boycotting Hyatt because it is holding the CPAC Convention in Orlando this weekend to pound sand;   L.A. DA Gascon whose soft of criminal policies have sparked outrage in the community and among career prosecutors and members of law enforcement fortunately is facing a recall drive in which backers need 600,000 signatures https://recallgeorgegascon.com/; we have come to expect the iron curtain of censorship from social media, now we are looking at the health curtain from the Biden Administration to require news organizations to pay $170 for a COVID-19 test every time a reporter enters the White House (another despicable way in which Blues are trying to conceal Biden’s failing mental acuities);  ; leave it to a political cartoonist to expose the myth gender reassignment of minors being peddled by Transgender Nominee for DHHS Rachel Lavine: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow: although 80% of the recall Newsom signatures have been verified, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event that any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/

          Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through February 26, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 416 persons shot of whom 84 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 “Goodnight My Love” by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with vocals by Ella Fitzgerald,  the fact that you love a well prepared quinnat and a quote by Piers Corbyn on survivability of polar bears, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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 the details on the pricing.

           1. Anosomia Day—created by Daniel Schein who suffered from olfactory dysfunction on this day in 2012 to create awareness of the problems faced by people with anosomia which has become perhaps easier to understand during the COVID-19 pandemic as the loss of smell is often one of the symptoms.

             2. International Polar Bear Day—created by Polar Bear International on this day in 2011 to promote awareness of the plight of polar bears from the loss of sea ice due to climate change and to promote efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

             3. 1937 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1937 on this day with a run of 3 weeks not continuous in that position was “Goodnight My Love” by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra to join 17 other number 1 songs . Here is a recording of Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald on vocals “Goodnight My Love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWXhj1CMho   Goodman was a noted clarinet player and band leader known as the “King of Swing” also noted for bring black musicians and singers to perform with him until the notes ended on June 13, 1986 from a heart attack 6 days after his last concert. Ella Fitzgerald known as the “Queen of Song” was prominent jazz singer for almost 60 years until she retired in 1993 and in declining health but a proud possessor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom died on June 15, 1996.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “quinnat” which means a king salmon also known as the California salmon and as a former salmon seiner brings joy to my vocabulary by expanding “chinnook” and king salmon to include “quinnat.”

          5. Doing What You Love--celebrating the birth on this day in 1939 of Peter Revson, noted Formula One race car driver and heir to the Revlon fortune,  whose car during a test session had a suspension failure causing him to die on impact following the crash at the age of 35 on March 22, 1974.

          On this day in:

a. 1801 pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic of 1801 Washington, D.C. was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress, something the Blues are salivating over 2 additional and most likely permanent Blue Senate seats by trying to admit the Swamp as the 51^st state.

b. 1951 the Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution limiting a president to two terms was ratified.

c. 1991 President George H.W. Bush announced Kuwait was liberated.

          d. 2004 Shoko Asahara the leader of the Japanese Doomsday Cult Aum Shinrikyo was sentenced to death for his role in the March 20, 1995 Tokyo subway sarin nerve gas attack that killed 13 commuters and injured 5,000 others; after years of delays primarily due to the length of the trial, Asahara was executed the old fashioned way by hanging on July 6, 2018.

           e. 2015 in a example of the dangers of criticizing Vladimir Putin, Boris Nemtsov a Russian dissident to the rule of Putin was assassinated while walking on a bridge in Moscow; 5 Chechnya-born men were found guilty of accepting 15 million rubles to kill him but the person paying for the assassination has never been found.

         Reflections on Polar Bears on their day: “Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.”—Piers Corbyn, noted English meteorologist and anti-climate change doubter.

          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.
 © February 27, 2021 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

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February 26, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Stop Bullying Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 26, 2021

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with  cases now past 113 million at 113,958,389 with 408,282 new cases (a .36% increase) 21,909,571 of which are active, 92,038,418 closed with 89,510,696 recoveries (97.25% and 97.25% yesterday) and 2,527,722 deaths (2.75% and 2.75% 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 29 million at 29,122,324 with 69,392 new cases (a .24% increase) with 9,075,264 active cases of which 15,837 (.17% of active cases and a decrease now of 13,434 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 20,047,060 closures, 522,667 of which have been deaths (2.61% and 2.61% yesterday) and 19,524,393 of which have been recoveries (97.39% and 97.39% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .14% lower than the world rate and now .03% 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 1573 ranks behind Belgium (1893), UK (1797) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1610), and Portugal (1596) and only slightly worse than  Hungary (1534), Spain (1478), Bulgaria (1465,  Mexico (1415), Peru (1380), France (1318), Sweden (1265) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in  deaths, Brazil (1184),  Poland (1146), Switzerland (1145), Argentina (1141), Chile (1061), and Bolivia (983) and we have now conducted  355,916,805 tests (now at 1,071,159/M) compared to Russia at 754,921/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,308,915/M.

       US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 2/26/2021 70.5 million doses have been given, 1.45 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us some 9 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 8,310,945 total doses have been given ( 73.6% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California has up  to now at 36^th  out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states. A long way to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/24/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 6,152 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 10.7% of all hospital beds.

      Non CV Case News: At the CPAC Convention, speakers came out swinging at Big Tech, the cancel culture of the left and Cuomo (can Reds if they turn to Trump again bring back the RINOs and insure his rhetoric divorced from his policies brings in that diminishing number of moderate Blues and growing number of Indies?); the Biden Administration faced with an ignored foreseen surge in illegals is turning to the Obama and Trump playbook and creating tent cities to house them (rarest of the rare is a potential illegal who will be listening to Psaki’s pronouncements that now is not the right time to cross the border even though the Wall construction has halted ICE severely handcuffed in its ability to deport illegals, even criminals among them); books by Dr. Seuss that have freed millions of beginning school readers from the boredom of inane Dick, Spot and Jane readers are being banned from the Loudon School District because they are racist (when if ever will this nonsense of wrongly perceived racism end?); the Buffalo School District is now promoting the idea that not some but all whites promote systematic racism (God help us!); Big Fredo Cuomo may has some company on the Nursing Home CV Deaths Front, has Red legislators in Michigan are demanding an investigation of Witless Whitmer’s handling of nursing homes during the pandemic; in a reaffirmation of the 4^th Amendment, the liberal leaning 9^th Circuit in a 3 judge panel ruling found California’s ban of magazines with more than 10 rounds unconstitutional last year and will be revisiting the issue with the full court; Blue DA of San Francisco Boudin announced that his 76 year old father serving a 75 to like sentence for murder during a Brink’s armored car robbery in 1981 has been vaccinated while in prison for CV; Blinken must have nodded off during a virtual meeting with Mexico’s Foreign Secretary as he had the Mexican Flag displayed upside down; the Chancellor of the nation’s largest school district New York City has announced his resignation to have time to grieve over the death of friends and family members to COVID-19; leave it to a political cartoonist to expose the myth of Pelosi’s COVID-19 relief bill as being directed to COVID-19 relief https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow: although 80% of the recall Newsom signatures have been verified, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event that any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/

          Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through February 25, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 407 persons shot of whom 82 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 “Alone” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by ,  the fact that you enjoy songs in quinible and a quote by Pope John Paul II on environmental protection, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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 the details on the pricing.

           1. National Skip the Straw Day—created by Susan Tate and the Coral Keepers on February 8, 2017 to promote the end of plastic straws which are dangerous to marine life and pollute the ocean waters.

            2. International Stand Up to Bullying Day—celebrated since 2008 on the last Friday in February and the third Friday in November and created when 2 Nova Scotia high school seniors Travis Price and David Shepherd were outraged that a fellow student was being bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school and purchase 5 pink shirts at a discount store and sent them to fellow students to wear to protest the bullying; the idea quickly spread and has been celebrated since 2008.

           3. 1936 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1936 on this day with a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Alone” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Cliff Weston on vocals performing “Alone”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWXhj1CMho   Dorsey was a trombone player in the big band era and known as the “Sentimental Gentleman of Swing” but after a big meal and using sleeping pills he choked to death in his sleep on November 26, 1951 after a big meal. Weston was a big band singer who had 2 number 1 recordings and died at age 47.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “quinible” which means a high pitched voice.

          5. A Lasting Hibernation Too Soon--celebrating the birth on this day in 1943 of Robert “The Bear” Hite, the co-lead vocalist for the band Canned Heat who on April 5, 1981 during a break in a performance at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood was handed a vial of heroin which he snorted and went into a coma and after failing to be revived with cocaine some roadies drove him not to a hospital but to a band member’s home where he died at age 38.

          On this day in:

a. 1914 the third sister ship to the  RMS Titanic and the RMS Olympic, the HMMS Britannic was launched and was supposed to be more “unsinkable” than the Titanic  while still being fitted out World War I broke out and she was requisitioned as hospital ship and had the misfortune of running into a man made iceberg in the form of a German mine on November 21, 1916 near Greece after returning from Great Britain after unloading its wounded passengers and quickly sank, but unlike the  Titanic, 1035 survived the sinking and only 30 lost their lives as the ship quickly sank to merit the distinction of being the largest liner to ever sink.

b. 1935 to the joy of the out manned RAF who would later fight in the Battle of Britain, Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration near Daventry, England that would lead to the creation of radar.

c. 1971 to the joy of environmentalist present and in the future UN Secretary General U Thant signed a UN Proclamation designating the vernal equinox as Earth Day.

          d. 1993 in an omen of what would happen over 8 years later a truck packed with over 1000 pounds of  explosives in the parking garage under the North Tower  of the World Trade Center exploded killing 6 people and injuring a 1000 but failed in its goal to topple the North Tower  into the South Tower to collapse both towers. All of the 6 perpetrators save Yasin who remains on the FBI’s most wanted list have either been killed or are rotting time in prison.

           e. 1984 having accepted an invitation to perform, the New York Philharmonic performed in Pyongyang a concert broadcast live throughout North Korea in the first ever visit by Americans to North Korea since the Korean War but failed to accomplish despite some hopes for a softening of American North Korean relations.

         Reflections on Earth Day: “The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”—Pope John Paul II How true the observation is on Earth Day and the other 364 days in the year.

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February 24, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Bartenders Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 24, 2021

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now past 112 million at 112,207,479 with 826,254 new cases (a .74% increase) 21,966,766 of which are active, 91,066,967 closed with 88,561,557 recoveries (97.25% and 97.25% yesterday) and 2,505,410 deaths (2.75% and 2.75% 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 28 million at 28,951,873 with 84,311 new cases (a .29% increase) with 9,146,398 active cases of which 16,290 (.18% of active cases and a decrease now of 12,981 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 19,805,475 closures, 516,704 of which have been deaths (2.61% and 2.61% yesterday) and 19,288,771 of which have been recoveries (97.39% and 97.39% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .14% lower than the world rate and now .04% 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 1555 ranks behind Belgium (1889), UK (1787) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1600), and Portugal (1585) and only slightly worse than  Hungary (1509), Spain (1464), Bulgaria (1443),  Mexico (1401), Peru (1367), France (1306), Sweden (1262) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in  deaths, Brazil (1171), Switzerland (1147), Argentina (1133), Poland (1132), Chile (1049), and Bolivia (977) and we have now conducted  352,081,407 tests (now at 1,059,650/M) compared to Russia at 752,183/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,286,331/M.

       US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 2/24/2021 66.5 million doses have been given, 1.30 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us some 110 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 7,876,011725 total doses have been given (down to 73.6% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California has moved down to now at 43^rd out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states. A long way to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/24/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 6,908 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 11.6% of all hospital beds.

      Non CV Case News: Our Thin Blue Line has had to deal with the on Cops waged by criminals but in Chicago have to also face a war on them waged by Cook County’s State Prosecutor Kim Foxx who withdrew her opposition to parole of a convicted cop killer who was serving 100 to 300 years in prison; another scandal that Cuomo needs like a hole in his arrogant hear, former special adviser to Cuomo Lindsey Boylan is claim a sexually hostile work environment and Cuomo’s repeated suggestion that they play strip poker on a flight on a private taxpayer funded private jet, an allegation which Cuomo’s press secretary citing flight logs has denied (typical of the “fake news” omission CNN is not covering any of her allegations); Reds on the House Oversight Committee are demanding that the Blue Chairman of the Committee subpoena Cuomo over the nursing home scandal (knowing Pelosi’s anti-Red agenda and Cuomo’s role in promoting the campaign of Biden, safe bet is that the demanders will be told to pound sand); on Obama and The Boss’s first duo pod cast in which Springsteen  must be overjoyed that the New Jersey BAT showed him under the legal limit for a DUI, Obama while arguing that reparations were justified because a good portion of the country’s wealth was due to the efforts of blacks stated he did not pursue the issue due to white resistance (given that most slaves were concentrated in the agricultural South, any contributions to our non agricultural economy would must like have been incurred after the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves not by slaves); thanks to Title IX, women’s sports at the grade school, high school and college level have flourished but those gains thanks to Biden’s inane executive order that transgenders be allowed to compete with biological women will soon be flushed down the drain (fact of life and biology that biological males claiming to be transgender have more muscle weight than biological females and will win almost every time); finally Tanden’s biased past is catching up with her even after deleting a massive number of past tweets as one attacking Murkowski for her support of the Trump tax cut has surfaced to Murkowski’s displeasure; Xavier Becerra nominated to run DHSS with no experience in health care other than suing the Little Sisters of the Poor for failing to provide birth control refused to answer any questions on what restrictions if any he would support on abortions (someone should make it clear to these leftist hacks that the Ginsburg Doctrine insulating SCOTUS nominees from questions on how they would rule is not applicable to Department officers subject to Senate confirmation); although 80% of the recall Newsom signatures have been verified, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event that any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/

          Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through February 23, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 389 persons shot of whom 80 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 “Lovely To Look At” by Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra,  the fact that you can ignore quillets in an argument and a quote by Mark Levin of activist judges that legalized the internment of Japanese American citizen, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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 the details on the pricing.

           1. World Bartenders Day—celebrating one of the oldest professions known to man and honoring those men and women who in addition to being great mixologists,  are part time lawyers with knowledge of laws pertaining to drinking and part time psychologists lending a caring and sympathetic ear to a customer’s woes revealed over several drinks.

            2. National Trading Card Day—celebrating the collection and trading of trading cards found packaged with bubble gum or other products sporting a picture of a person, place or thing and in the case of baseball trading cards great potential investments due to the limited production runs of many star athletes who became stars.

          3. 1935 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1935 on this day with a run of 1 week in that position was “Lovely To Look At” by Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra performing “Lovely To Look At”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-9Xum70LmE Eddy was a pianist and leader of a Jazz Orchestra whose career was interrupted with a combat stint in the U.S. Navy and was unable to reclaim his prior performing status after the war and died of leukemia on February 9, 1951 at age 41.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “quillet” which means a quibble which usually are not worth arguing about.

          5. An Apple a Day--celebrating the birth on this day in 1955 of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and founder of Pixar and NExt and true pioneer in the world of technology and computers who after a long struggle with prostate cancer took his last bite and died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56.

          On this day in:

a. 1868 President Andrew Johnson who had been the first president to be  impeached  by the House was found not guilty by 1 vote  in the United States Senate.

 b. 1942 in the late hours of this night anti-aircraft batteries around Los Angeles starting firing thinking the city was under attack by carrier based Japanese aircraft and did not stop firing until the early morning hours of the 25^th after 5 civilians had been killed, 3 from car crashes during the chaos and 2 from heart attacks during the stress caused by the imaginary attack.

           c. 1983 in a better late than never moment a special commission of the Congress condemned the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

           d. 1989 a cargo door not securely secured on United Airlines Flight 811 on a Boeing 747-122 in a decompression explosion blew out sucking out 9 passengers out of the business class sections to their deaths shortly after taking off from Honolulu but managed to return and land without any more fatalities.

           e. 1991 U.S. Ground Forces cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq kicking off the ground war in Desert Storm that would come to a decisive victorious halt some 100 hours later.

         Reflections on the role of the judiciary in cases like internment: “Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt's internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.” Mark Levin, noted conservative commentator

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February 23, 2021 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Curling Is Cool Day

 

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 23, 2021

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues the new year with surging cases now past 112 million at 112,207,479 with 305,105 new cases (a .27% increase) 21,954,344 of which are active, 90,558,240 closed with 88,066,298 recoveries (97.25% and 97.24% yesterday) and 2,491,492 deaths (2.75% and 2.76% 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 28 million at 28,867,562 with 63,397 new cases (a .22% increase) with 9,186,785 active cases of which 16,542 (.18% of active cases and a decrease now of 12,729 from a peak of 29,271 on December 31) are in serious or critical condition, 19,680,777 closures, 513,985 of which have been deaths (2.61% and 2.62% yesterday) and 19,166,792 of which have been recoveries (97.39% and 97.38% yesterday). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and after many months is now .14% lower than the world rate and now .04% 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 1547 ranks behind Belgium (1886), UK (1781) which had passed us despite leading world in testing), Italy (1595), and Portugal (1581) and only slightly worse than  Hungary (1498), Spain (1456), Bulgaria (1437),  Mexico (1391), Peru (1361), France (1301), Sweden (1254) that never closed its economy down like we did but has recently been experiencing a rapid rise in  deaths, Brazil (1158), Switzerland (1142), Argentina (1130), Poland (1122), Chile (1048), and Bolivia (974) and we have now conducted  350,656,908 tests (now at 1,055,379/M) compared to Russia at 750,813/M) as we are conducting  more tests in number and on a per capital basis for all nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Malta, Singapore and UAE) other than the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 1,276,938/M.

       US Vaccinations: In the U.S. as of 2/22/2021 64.2 million doses have been given, 1.37 million per day in the last week (sounds impressive but if the rate does not increase it will take us some 10 months to have 75% of the population vaccinated which many believe is necessary to develop herd immunity. In California 7,604,725 total doses have been given (up to 82.9% of doses received), but typical of Newsom’s ineptness and because more than 1.5 million recall signatures have been turned in, due to the power of growing signatures on his recall petition, California has moved down slightly to now at 36^th out of 50 in terms of the percentage of doses administered as a percentage of doses delivered to the states. A long way to go to get herd immunity and little improvement relative to other states and a great reason to recall this inept governor. As of 2/23/2021 in California we have reduced hospitalizations to 7,165 with COVID-19 patients hospitalized occupying 12.0% of all hospital beds.

      Non CV Case News: Tiger Woods was involved in a life threatening one car collision in his SUV near Palos Verdes  and was undergoing surgery for two broken legs and a shattered ankle; Dr. Fauci is coming under renewed criticism over his disturbing flip flops on mask wearing, school and business reopening and vaccine levels needed for herd immunity leading to speculation that he is influenced by political winds coming from the White House or worse feeling the mental decline associated with his 80 years; Senator Murkowski must be having some impeachment remorse as she lashed out at Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior for his going along with Biden’s targeting of Alaska for his executive order freeze on oil and gas leases in ANWR; CNN can’t help itself to take any opportunity to lash out at Trump after Trump quickly lauded Tiger Woods and expressed his thoughts and prayers for his speedy recovery following his automobile accident this morning which prompted CNN “sportscaster” Andy Scholes to speculate that Tiger’s past use of painkillers may have contributed to the accident (an inane speculation that he was forced to quickly walk back); Iranian dissidents having endured 8 years of Obama/Biden feckless policies toward the terrorist sponsoring mullahs of Iran are pleading with Biden to stand firm against the regime given its weakness today (sad but do not expect that to happen not with Kerry anywhere near Biden’s ear); resigned Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified before a Senate Committee on the January 6, 2021 riots that Trump was supposedly inciting with his speech the same day that the riot was well planned in advance (when will the Senate start demanding the removal of troops from the Swamp that have made Washington, D.C. look more like Beirut under siege?); maybe New Yorkers have been numbed by the disaster of the nursing home deaths from COVID-19 but a recent poll found that 42 % thought Cuomo was doing a good or excellent job compared to 60 % last summer; BLM has evidently been nominated for a Nobel Peace Price which should come as a surprise to the thousands of shop owners burnt out and looted out be BLM protests/riots and has disclosed it raised $90 million in 2020 ( White Guilt is the mother’s milk of PC donations); when it comes to inanity Jason Sattler of USA Today is leading the pack for claiming CV dead should be buried at Mar-A-Lago (guess Andrew Cuomo did not have a big enough yard); on the opening up classrooms front the rhetoric heats up and the in class learning still closed as Bethany Meyers a special ed teacher attacks rich white parents for kids’ distress and enhancing their entitlement; Psaki is out of her mind if she believes her announcements that this is not the time to come to the border will be listened to by the growing flood of illegal migrants streaming to the border; Biden’s first test on his rhetoric with China will soon come after Canada has called China’s treatment of its Uighur minority as genocide (smart money is that Biden will rant and rave and then do nothing); too bad we do not have a Truth in Labeling Law when it comes to Congress as the COVID Relief Bill which has almost nothing to do with COVID when there is still money to be spent from earlier bills may be voted on Friday which the Blues will try to ram down Red throats; Buffalo School System appears to be capitulating to the systematic racism scheme that all white people are contributing to (to bad in questioning Merrick Garland today as he ranted about the need of the DOJ to attack systematic racism that no one asked him to give specific examples of what a large portion of the population believes does not exist); leave it to political cartoonists to put reality into proper focus: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow ;although 80% of the recall Newsom signatures have been verified, signature drive continues to insure a recall in the event that any of the 1.5 million signatures already received are not valid to insure Newsom is put on a recall ballot where he needs to be given his unmitigated ineptness: https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/

          Chicago Gun Violence: HeyJackass.com is back to show that through February 21, 2021,  gun violence involving mostly persons of color shooting persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 383 persons shot of whom 80 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 “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra,  the fact that you enjoy a quiff on a hot day and a quote by Jonas Salk on the safety of his vaccine, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Mother’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 the details on the pricing.

           1. World Peace and Understanding Day—celebrated on this day since 1905 the formation of the world’s first Rotary Club by Paul Harris, Gustave Loehr, Hiram Shorey, and Silvester Schiele 2015 to promote goodwill, peace and understanding in one’s community and worldwide and memorialized on this day in 1983 by Rotary International which has grown to some 35,000 chapters.

           2. Curling Is Cool Day—celebrating one of the oldest team sports known to man and played on ice covered ponds and lakes since the early 16^th Century and now on indoor rinks and since 1924 a Winter Olympic Sport.

          3. 1934 Number One Song—the number 1 song in 1934 on this day with a run of 5 weeks in that position was “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra performing  “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsObSw3_LUo Paul was a violinist and with his Orchestra known as the “King of Jazz” who performed into the 60’s and died of a heart attack on December 29,1967 at age 77.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “quiff” which means a puff or gust of wind which on a hot day is always a refreshing event.

          5. Delivering the Mushroom--celebrating the birth on this day in 1915 of Paul Tibbets, noted Air Force pilot who flew Enola Gay, a B-29 named after his mother to drop “Little Boy”, the atomic bomb, on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 which, when followed by a second atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, brought a quick end to World War II. Tibbets had a successful career in business after retiring from the Air Force and died of natural causes at the age of 92 on November 1, 2007.

          On this day in:

a. 1954 to the joy of parents fearful of the scourge of Polio, the first mass inoculations of children with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.

b. 1974 the Symbionese Liberation Army demanded a payment of $4 million to release their kidnapped captive heiress Patty Hearst.

          c. 1983 the EPA announced its intent to buy out the dioxin contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.

          d. 1988 Saddam Hussein began the Anfal Campaign of genocide against Iraqi Kurds in Northern Iraq which resulted in the deaths of some 182,000 Kurds whose only crime was being a Kurd.

          e. 2008 a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashed on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2 and probably the most expensive crash in Air Force history due to the enormous cost of the plane.

         Reflections on the Salk vaccine: “Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can’t get any safer than safe.” Jonas Salk.

         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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