Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 26, 2020 While the week
witnessed jobless claims of almost 3.3 million due to shutdowns due to the
coronavirus pandemic, the Senate passed by a vote of 96-0 a $2 + trillion
stimulus bill which had been delayed due to Pelosi’s last minute monkey wrench
in the House with her pork bloated bill which other than funding for the
Kennedy Center many of not all of its provisions were excluded and now goes to
the House for a vote tomorrow (Pelosi, the aging Botox Queen celebrating her 80th
birthday today has not had her political opportunism skills diminished as she
gloats over the House’s role in pushing the stimulus bill forward which Reds
like Kevin McCarthy blast as an outright lie); AOC in a typical inane rant is
blasting the stimulus bill for not putting money in the hands of illegals; on
the virus front world cases have increased to 521,086 with 23,568 deaths and in
the U.S. total cases have increased to 79,785 with 1,124 deaths but some hopeful
news that the rate of increase in cases is slowing down as a result of social
distancing, hand washing and “stay at home” orders; while the rate of new cases
may be declining, NYC hospitals are in a
world of hurt being swamped with cases and running woefully short on masks and
other PPE for attending medical staff (making masks, gowns, gloves and other
protective equipment cannot be that complicated and probably require little capital
which raises the question of why entrepreneurs are not jumping on board to
manufacture); China is intent on winning the propaganda war spreading the
absolute falsehood that the China virus that originated in Wuhan the outbreak
of which it concealed was caused by the U.S. Army while it is sending medical
supplies to countries infected with the virus caused most likely by people
travelling from China; even though we are not out the coronavirus pandemic, the
Trump Administration is reviewing revising the social distancing rules in
counties where the number of cases is very low (understand the economic rational
but really risky health and politically if rules change and infections bounce
back in spades); the Blues are milking the coronavirus pandemic to push their
leftist goals by claiming that gun stores are “nonessential businesses” that should
be shut down in any stay at home order (sell that to the rising number of
people flocking to gun stores worried about the breakdown of the social order
that may be caused by this pandemic); the 2020 Olympics, MLB and now the INDY
500 have joined the growing list of sports events that have been postponed or
cancelled; in Chicago, as of March 25, 2020, 491 people have been shot of whom
85 have died but ion a major miracle none in the last 3 days ; Baltimore with a
fraction of Chicago’s population and hoping against all hopes that 2020 will
not be a record in terms of deaths is 20 behind Chicago with 65 murders by
shootings (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 more deadly and more numerous than random mass shootings?).
As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, a musical link to Tommy Roe, the fact that you face issues so
they do not omnify, a quote by Hippocrates on epilepsy, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find 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. You
need only contact me for details.
1. Purple Day—created by Cassidy Megan, an epileptic, 2008 to promote
awareness of the issues facing epileptics and to raise money to find treatment
and cures for the disorder, a noble cause to fight a disorder that affects
millions worldwide but the color might
also be used to promote Blues and Reds working together as Purples to solve
issues critical to Americans.
2. Legal Assistants Day—celebrating the work down by paralegals and legal assistants whose
billing rates are a fraction of those charged per hour by lawyers to enable clients
to obtain services to solve issues faced without being bankrupted by the fees
often charged by lawyers.
3. 1969 Number 1 Number One Song— the
number one song in 1969 on this day on a run of 4 weeks in the position was “Dizzy”
by Tommy Roe. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_DKiTUty0. Roe is still going strong at
77 but retired from the dizzy world of music after 55 years on February 7,
2018.
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “omnify” which means to enlarge
which describes to a tee what happens when one does not address problems but
rather ignores them.
5. All Ears—celebrating the birth on this day in
March, 1931 of noted actor Leonard Nimoy best known for his role as the half
Vulcan, half human Spock which he played on Star Trek
from a pilot episode in late 1964 to his final film in 2013; he
successfully battled alcoholism but an early cigarette smoking habit which he
had discontinued in the early 80’s caught up with him and he died of
complications from COPD on February 27, 2015.
On this day
in:
a. 1945 the Battle of Iwo Jima
came to an official end as the United States announced the island had become
officially secured after the deadliest battle in USMC history.
b. 1967
10,000 people gathered in Central Park for one of the many Be-ins being held
that day in New York City.
c. 1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem
Begin and Jimmy Carter signed the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
d. 1982 a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
e. 1997 San Diego Sheriff’s Deputies discovered the bodies
of 39 members of Heaven’s Gate a UFO cult that committed suicide in three mass
suicides.
Reflections on epilepsy: “People think that epilepsy is divine
simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe
that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we
will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the
universe” Hippocrates
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.
©
March 26, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
Alaskanpoet for Hire, Poems to
Admire
Poet Extraordinaire Beyond Compare
The Perfect Gift,
All
Recipients to Receive a Lasting Lift
No comments:
Post a Comment