August 31, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Eat Outside Day

 Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 31, 2020

      CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 195,392 new cases (a .76%  increase compared to a .92% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 25 million to 25,517,366 cases, 6,855,139  of  which  are active, 18,661,927 of which have been closed with 17,809,650 recoveries (95.43% compared to  yesterday’s 95.41%) and 852,577 deaths (4.57% compared to yesterday’s 4.59%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

        CV USA Cases: New cases of 174,201 with total cases over 6 million at 6,189,570 (a 2.9% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.43% increase) with 2,572,058 active cases of which 15,991, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 5 weeks  (16,024 yesterday and 16,885 on August 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 3,617,512 closures, 187,431 of which have been deaths (5.18% compared to yesterday’s 5.19%) and 3,430,081 of which have been recoveries (94.82% compared to yesterday’s 94.81%) (our death rate percentages continue to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and on a deaths per million population measurement at 566 ranks behind Peru (871), Belgium (853) Spain (620), UK (611), Chile (590) Italy (587), and Sweden (574),  now 2 behind Brazil (568) and only slightly worse than Mexico (497). We have now conducted     82,507,499 tests (more than (673,000 more tests than those done yesterday and now at 249,023/M compared to Russia at  251,440/M).
       Non CV Case News: Biden like the ground hog worried about polls showing a diminishing lead came out of his basement bunker to deliver a teleprompter speech that he had trouble reading finally condemning violence, claiming looting and burning are not protests but blaming Trump for fanning the flames of violence and causing the amount of deaths from the virus (what took him so long and why are members of his campaign staff reported to be donating to a bail and defense fund for rioters arrested?); leading Blues are having a hard time coming to the table to condemn rioting and looting as the leftist political hack Senator Chris Murphy deleted a tweet condemning rioting because of the impression that property damage was equivalent to murder (translation: if police shoot and kill it’s murder without trial or due process and therefore OK to burn a city to the ground  after first looting its shelves completely); Kenosha has become the new magnet for the supporters of the BLM movement with 102 of the 175 arrested for rioting having addresses outside the city (no wonder Rand Paul asked FBI to investigate where the mob that attacked him after Trump’s speech on Thursday is getting paid—paid rioter should not ever be allowed as an occupation even if Soros is writing the checks); what the left does not realize with their dog whistles of encouraging protest and remaining silent as cities are looted and burned is that we are spiraling closer and closer to deadly violence as a BLM counter protester at a BLM rally in Tallahassee, Florida filming it was attacked, knocked to the ground and to defend himself pulled out a gun—no shots were fired as police charged and the counter protester who was not arrested immediately dropped his weapon and was led away to safety by police https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-tallahassee-blm-protest-gun-lawfully-defending-himself.

      Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 30, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 2,799 of whom 471 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 255 behind Chicago at 216 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 with significantly less frequency?).
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santé Fe” by Johnny Mercer,  the fact that you do not suffer from phagophobia, and a quote by Prince Harry on his mother Princess Diana, 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. National Diatomaceous Earth Day—created by EP Minerals in 2016 to promote the use of diatomaceous earth which is produced when diatom algae, which produce 75 % of our oxygen, die and sink to the bottom or an ocean or lake and is used as an abrasive or filtration material across a wide range of industries including brewing.

       2. Eat Outside Day—celebrating in the last three weeks before the celestial end of summer the joy of eating outside whether enjoying a picnic or outdoor barbecue or an outdoor café which first started appearing in the early 20^th Century in the U.S. and during the CV pandemic have been the only way for restaurants without a delivery or take out options to survive as they have been turning sidewalks and parking spaces into patios for outdoor dining.

       3. 1945 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1945 on a run of 7 weeks was “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santé Fe” by Johnny Mercer. Here us a recording of the song:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDs067081E. This incredibly talented, songwriter, singer and lyricist for over 1500 songs was a co-founder of Capitol Records and sadly passed from a brain tumor on June 25, 1976. 

     4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phagophobia” which means fear of eating which probably describes someone really obese and on an extreme diet to shed weight quickly for severe health reasons.

       5.  Age Often Comes With Rationality and Reason--celebrating the birth on this day in 1935 of Eldridge Cleaver, co-founder of the Black Panther Party and author of Soul on Ice, who split with the Black Panthers and became a member of the Peace and Freedom Party to evolve to becoming a conservative Republican in his later  years. This once radical, who should be a beacon to those burning and looting in the streets today, passed from undisclosed causes on May 1, 1998 at age 62.

        On this day in:

        a. 1935 in an attempt by the United States to steer clear of the warring tensions emanating from the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany, it passed the first of its Neutrality Acts.
        b. 1939 Nazi Germany launched a false flag attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz by Dachau concentration camp inmates dressed as Polish soldiers who then were shot in the head to render identification impossible and which attack fooled no one but was used as the pretext to justify German invasion of Poland the next day.

         c. 1943 the USS Harmon, a Buckley Class Destroyer was commissioned as the first naval ship ever named after an African-American who as a mess attendant was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions in coming to the bridge of the USS San Francisco to aid and shelter the wounded during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
         d. 1997 Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul were killed in a one car accident in Paris, fleeing from hounding paparazzi.

        e. 2016 Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rouseff was impeached and removed from office for violating Brazil’s budgetary laws.

         Reflections the far too early death of a mother by one of her sons: “When she died there was such an outpour of emotion and love which was quite, which was shocking. It was beautiful at the same time, and it was amazing, now looking back at it, it was amazing that our mother had such a huge effect on so many people. When you’re that young and something like that happens to you I think it’s lodged in here, there, wherever – in your heart, in your head and it stays there for a very very long time. I think it’s never going to be easy for the two of us to talk about our mother, but 20 years on seems like a good time to remind people of the difference that she made not just to the Royal Family but also to the world." Prince Harry

         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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August 30, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Whale Shark Day

 Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 30, 2020

        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 230,906 new cases (a .92%  increase compared to a 1.18% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 25 million to 25,321,974 cases, 6,832,989  of  which  are active, 18,488,985 of which have been closed with 17,640,001 recoveries (95.41% compared to  yesterday’s 95.38%) and 848,984 deaths (4.59% compared to yesterday’s 4.62%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

        CV USA Cases: New cases of 146,657 with total cases over 6 million at 6,015,369 (a 2.43% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.87% increase) with 2,559,014 active cases of which 16,024, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,190 yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 3,603,012 closures, 187,083 of which have been deaths (5.19% compared to yesterday’s 5.22%) and 3,415,929 of which have been recoveries (94.81% compared to yesterday’s 94.78%) (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 565 ranks behind Peru (866), Belgium (853) Spain (620), UK (611), Italy (587), Chile (587) and Sweden (576),  now 1 behind Brazil (566) and only slightly worse than Mexico (494). We have now conducted     81,834,420 tests (more than (736,000 more tests than those done yesterday and now at 246,155/M compared to Russia at 249,953/M).
       Non CV Case News: Another night another riot in the City of Rocks ruled by a spineless  we don’t need federal help or National Guard mayor that became deadly as a pro Trump supporter was shot and killed by anti-Trump and most likely BLM supporters (residents of the City of Roses deserves a mayor with a spine instead of a panderer to the left who will regain control of the streets); in another example of why we should support Blue Lives, a memorial to Charles Wilson, a Philadelphia black police officer who was killed protecting citizens in course of an armed robbery and honored by President Obama, was defaced by graffiti ACAB FTP (All cops are bastards F—k the police (disgusting and will turn more and more people from supporting BLM and their push to end police brutality); we are all somewhat leery of eating in a restaurant afraid that in addition to your meal you might get an unwanted appetizer of the CV but in Chicago you might get shot as 6 people were on Saturday, eating pancakes under a tent set outside the restaurant, on of whom died; Mayor De Blasio’s wife doesn’t ride the subways but ordinary non protected citizens do one of whom was attacked by an attempting  rapist while waiting on the platform for a subway but was saved by the intervention of bystanders (Jose Reyes had been arrested 3 times before and this scumbag from facial recognition has been identified and arrested); when it comes to “journalists” with TDS Stage 4, MSNBC has a deep bench as Tiffany Cross subbing in for “Joy” Reid slammed the 12 black speakers at the RNC as like watching a black minstrel show (asserting the speakers weren’t black shows how terrified the Blues are that they are losing their plantation voting slaves); Senator Murphy of Connecticut once again showed what a pathetic biased hack he is by lambasting Trump for killing people at gatherings of his supporters while remaining silent over the risks of spreading CV during the massive riots we have seen in cities like Kenosha and Minneapolis.

      Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 29, 2020, the number of shootings increased to 2,793 of whom 471 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 256 behind Chicago at 215 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 with significantly less frequency?).
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Swinging on a Star” by Bing Crosby,  the fact that you do not suffer from phagomania, and a quote by Clint Eastwood on Ruby Ridge, 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. International Day of the Disappeared—observed since 2007 to promote awareness of the plight of citizens living under totalitarian regimes that just disappear forever if viewed by the authorities to be a threat to the regimes.

       2. International Whale Shark Day—celebrating since 2012 an effort to promote awareness of the dangers posed to these gigantic sharks who feed on krill and plankton but are prized by, you guessed it, the Chinese for their fins to end up illegally in a bowl of shark fin soup.

       3. 1944 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1944 on a run of 9 weeks was “Swinging on a Star” by Bing Crosby. Here us a recording of the song:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDs067081E. 

       4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “phagomania” which means excessive desire for eating and drinking which is a ticket to obesity and protential diabetes.

       5.  If You Are Going to Kneel Down Pray not Just Pretend--celebrating the birth on this day in 1935 of noted singer and songwriter and member of the Mamas and Papas but who struggled with heroin, cocaine and alcohol to the point of having a liver transplant and continuing to drink following the surgery and his heart gave out due to the abuse and he died on March 18, 2001 at age 65.

        On this day in:

        a. 1914 in a classic double envelopment movement, the Germans defeated a superior Russian force at the Battle of Tannenburg.
        b. 1918 Fanni Kaplan shot but did not kill Vladimir Lenin but refused to cooperate to reveal who may have assisted her and she was shortly executed thereafter.

        c. 1945 Douglass MacArthur the Allied Supreme Commander landed at Atsugi Air Base in Japan to take over ruling the country.
         d. 1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American judge on SCOTUS.

         e. 1992 the 11 day standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge, Idaho ended with Randy Weaver’s surrender to federal authorities.

         Reflections the federal assassinations at Ruby Ridge: “At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, And Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?”— Clint Eastwood

         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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August 20, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not International Day Against Nuclear Testing

 Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 29, 2020

        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 293,709 new cases (a 1.18%  increase compared to a 1.31% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 25 million to 25,091,068 cases, 6,815,479  of  which  are active, 18,275,583 of which have been closed with 17,430,936 recoveries (95.38% compared to  yesterday’s 95.36%) and 844,653 deaths (4.62% compared to yesterday’s 4.65%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

        CV USA Cases: New cases of 112,514 with total cases over 6 million at 6,015,369 (a 1.87% increase compared to yesterday’s .94% increase) with 2,552,058 active cases of which 16,190, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,232 yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 3,575,825 closures, 186,684 of which have been deaths (5.22% compared to yesterday’s 5.24%) and 3,389,141 of which have been recoveries (94.78% compared to yesterday’s 94.76%) (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 563 ranks behind Belgium (852), Peru (866), Spain (620), UK (611), Italy (587), Chile (584) and Sweden (576),  now 1 behind Brazil (564) and only slightly worse than Mexico (489). We have now conducted     81,098,215 tests (more than (798,000 more tests than those done yesterday and now at 244,302/M compared to Russia at 246,669/M).
       Non CV Case News: Watching MLB is sometimes like watching grass grow but today fans in a losing effort witnessed probably a never before seen double play with a runner on first and third and a ground ball hit to the first baseman who threw to the catcher who  raced down and tagged out the running racing back to third then faked a throw to first base and instead threw it to the center fielder who tagged out the runner from first who had rounded second and was trying to return to no avail; the city of Kenosha must be bemoaning the budgetary constraints that prevented the purchase of body cams authorized in 2017 which has resulted in the only video recording of 20 seconds not showing a struggle, not showing a knife that was recovered on the car’s floor board, not showing the attempt to tase Blake or the head lock police have claimed Blake used or the commands to drop the knife he was using (given the state of black/police relations any testimony by the officers will not be accepted by BLM and its supporters and prosecution for murder that does not result in a verdict of guilty will probably result in the torching to the ground of Kenosha or any city which the trial might be moved to give the officer a chance at a fair trial); Scott Carpenter, the manager of his family owned furniture store in Kenosha that was burned to the grown slammed the rioters for destroying the cause  of social justice and the governor for not calling in the National Guard sooner (a Go Fund Me Account has been started and it will be revealing to see how many dollars will come BLM supporters or the Hollywood Elite who are so quick to shed their “White Guilt” by donating funds to bail out “protester” aka rioters and looters); Trump on Thursday knocked it out of the park visions of light while Biden cowered in his basement future so dark but from the MSM only rants on spreading the virus by the attendees and the fireworks noise was too loud; don’t hold but the corpse will be exiting from his isolated basement tomb to campaign in several battleground states after Labor Day (do not be surprised if he looks like a pro quarterback with the plays on his wrist to help him answer questions and avoid mental lapses); shades of the Wright Brothers and Star Wars, a Japanese company SkyDrive successfully tested a model of its car that hovered several feet off the ground for 4 minutes; in a sign of being prepared is a better plan as when it comes to riots Blue Governors maybe seem a bit to slow to react, the moderate Republican Governor of Massachusetts has just signed an ordered activating up to 1,000 National Guard for use in potential riots if requested by local communities affected.

      Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 27, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 16 well aimed shootings to 2,754 of whom 5 have  died to bring the total to 465 (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 251 behind Chicago at 214 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 with significantly less frequency?).
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “In the Blue of Evening” by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra,  the fact that if a lawyer you are not a pettifogger and if you have need for such services  you would never hire one, and a quote by AnnaLynne McCord on Katrina, 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. International Day Against Nuclear Testing—created by unanimous resolution of the General Assembly on December 2, 2009 to commemorate the closing of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Testing Site on this day in 1991 and to promote the end of nuclear testing as a necessary step to achieving a nuclear weapons free world.

       2. National Swiss Winegrowers Day—celebrating what seems to be an oxymoron given the fact that Switzerland although surrounded by three prolific wine producing countries-France, Italy and Germany, given the amount of mountains in the country, produces very little wine but if the glaciers in the Swiss Alps continue to shrink due to climate change that may change.

       3. 1943 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1943 on a run of 3 weeks was “In the Blue of Evening” by Tommy Dorsey and  His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra. Here us a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTVhwGIY-1g. 

       4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pettifogger” which means a lawyer given to using underhanded tactics which for the interests of our besieged rule of law hopefully defines very, very few members of the bar.

       5.  Propofol Pops the King of Pop—celebrating the birth on this day in 1958 of one of the most successful record artists of all time, Michael Jackson,  known to his millions of fans as the King of Pops whose personal physician, Conrad Murray in his  later years had him on huge dosages of drugs which caused a fatal cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009 which resulted in a arrest of the good doctor for involuntary manslaughter and his conviction and sentencing for 4 years to be released on parole for good behavior and prison overcrowding on October 28, 2013.

        On this day in:

        a. 1949 thanks to espionage by Soviet spies and Americans recruited by the Soviets, the Soviet Union leapfrogged into the nuclear club and detonated their first atomic bomb known as First Lightning or Joe 1 at the now closed Semipalatinsk Testing Site in Kazakhstan.
        b. 1966 the Beatles played their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park.

        c. 1991 to Putin’s eternal resentment, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspended all activities of the Communist Party.
         d. 1997 Netflix was launched as an internet DVD rental service.

         e. 2005 CAT5 Hurricane Katrina downgraded to a CAT3 as it made landfall in Louisiana as  deadliest hurricane to strike the United States killing at least 1835 people with 135 missing, causing dikes around New Orleans to fail causing massive flooding and  $125 billion in 2005 dollars of damage.

        Reflections on the damages caused by Katrina: “A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.”AnnaLynne McCord, noted actress who among her many charitable causes is the support of the St. Bernard Project an organization formed to assist the victim of Hurricane Katrina.

       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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August 28, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Dream Day Quest and Jubilee

 

Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 28, 2020
        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 319,510 new cases (a 1.31%  increase compared to a 1.08% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 24 million to 24,797,359 cases, 6,751,994  of  which  are active, 18,044,765 of which have been closed with 17,206,780 recoveries (95.36% compared to  yesterday’s 95.33%) and 838,585 deaths (4.65% compared to yesterday’s 4.67%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

        CV USA Cases: New cases of 56,252 with total cases over 6 million at 6,015,369 (a .94% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.12% increase) with 2,532,130 active cases of which 16,232, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,392 yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 3,539,491 closures, 185,331 of which have been deaths (5.24% compared to yesterday’s 5.26%) and 3,354,160 of which have been recoveries (94.76% compared to yesterday’s 94.74%) (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 559 ranks behind Belgium (852), Peru (856), Spain (620), UK (611), Italy (587), Chile (582) and Sweden (576),  now tied with Brazil (559) and only slightly worse than and Mexico (485). We have now conducted    80,299,870,tests (more than (961,000 more tests than those done yesterday and now at 242,367/M compared to Russia at 244,968/M).
       Non CV Case News: Following the end of the RNC, the fireworks over the White House that lit up the night were replaced by rioters disguised in the eyes of the MSM and Blues as “protesters” attacking police on the grounds outside the White House and attendees like Senator Rand Paul and his wife were attacked by an angry mob and had to be rescued by D.C. Police (watching the videos should make anyone in California inform the Blue legislators running this state into the crowd that their push to ban non lethal force like bean bags and tear gas is an inane idea); Martin Luther King, Jr. whose March on Washington, D.C. is being honored today would be rolling in his grave to see the hijacking of his crusade of non violence to end racism being hijacked by BLM and Antifa and their riots disguised as protests for social justice; the MSM slammed the RNC and Trump for being racist even as Trump who commuted Alice Johnson’s life without parole sentence in 2018 pardoned her this week (ironic that she was slammed for being a prop for the RNC and was convicted and rotting in prison for a non violent drug offense under the law that the supposed friend of blacks, Joe Biden, co-sponsored as a senator); the Cack News Network had Dr. Rob Davidson, an emergency room physician who ran and lost as a Blue for Congress in Michigan, who slammed the 1500 people on the White House Lawn from Trump’s RNC Convention but praised the 1,000’s crammed together without masks like many of the 1500 assembled at the White House Lawn (COVID-19 in his biased mind only infects those listening to President Trump); only in America can the MSM claim that a violent riot where deadly projectiles like froze water bottles, bricks, stones and flammable fireworks thrown or fired at police is not a “riot” and worse according to NPR which is taxpayer funding calling it a riot is racist.

      Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 27, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 9 well aimed shootings to 2,738 of whom 5 have  died to bring the total to 460 (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 246 behind Chicago at 214 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 with significantly less frequency?).
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” by Kay Kyser and His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt, Julie Conway and the Group,  the fact that if a geologist, you know where to find petroliferous areas, and a quote by Walter Reuther on Civil Rights, 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. Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day—created by blogger, author and pet owner Deborah Barnes whose cat Jazz passed away on this day in 2013 and first celebrated on this day in 2015 as a day to honor and remember pets that have previously passed.

       2. Dream Day Quest and Jubilee—celebrating on this day in 1963 the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial which became known as the “I Have a Dream Speech” in which he called on us to judge persons not by the color of their skin but the content of their character and which was instrumental in getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 being passed.

       3. 1942 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1942 on a run of 87 weeks was “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” by Kay Kyser and  His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt, Julie Conway and the Group.  Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq7wO1qtQuM Kay Kyser suffered from arthritis so bad he had to retire as a bandleader in 1950 and moved on to work for the Christian Scientists in their video and movie department. He died of a heart attack on July 23, 1985. Babbitt was a noted baritone singer in the big band era and often sang for Kyser until 1949 when he moved on to radio and TV with scheduled musical shows. He died on April 9, 2004 at age 90. Julie Conway was also an actress and passed at age 68 on January 12, 1988.

       4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “petroliferous” which means bearing petroleum which describes the area you want to drill in if looking for oil.

      5.  Not Just a Pretty Face—celebrating the birth on this day in 1969 of Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook whose net worth is $1.7 billion and counting due to the value of her Facebook stock and who is a strong advocate for women in power in executive and board positions in business.

        On this day in:

        a. 1955 14 year old black teenager Emmet Till visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi was falsely accused of flirting with the white owner of a store and lynched by an angry mob who later relished in the fact that those accused of murder of Till were acquitted.
        b. 1964 the Philadelphia Race Riots began fostered by ongoing feelings of police brutality against blacks and triggered by a rumor that police had beaten a black pregnant woman and when it ended 3 days later with no fatalities, but 341 people had been injured, 774 people had been arrested and 225 stores mostly owned by whites had been destroyed or damaged.

        c. 1988 in West Germany during the Ramstein Air Show 3  jets of the Italian Frecce Tricolori collide over the stands, killing the 3 pilots  and 67 spectators and wounding 346 spectators from the falling burning wreckage.
        d. 1990 Iraq named newly conquered Kuwait to be its newest and what would later to transpire as a result of Desert Storm its shortest lived province.

         e. 1998 Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a law to make the Qu’ran and Sunnah the supreme law of the land but passage of the bill was defeated in the Senate.

        Reflection in the shadow of “I Have a Dream Speech” of Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Let us understand that we cannot defend freedom in Berlin so long as we deny freedom in Birmingham.” Walter Reuther, President of the United Auto Workers and one of the speakers at the Lincoln Memorial during the March of Washington. 

       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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August 27, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not National Petroleum Day

 Ridley's Believe It Or Not August 27, 2020

        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 261,432 new cases (a 1.08%  increase compared to a 1.44% increase yesterday) to bring the total over 24 million to 24,477,849 cases, 6,669,246  of  which  are active, 17,808,603 of which have been closed with 16,976,141 recoveries (95.33% compared to  yesterday’s 95.29%) and 826,603 deaths (4.67% compared to yesterday’s 4.71%) to continue the trend of increased recovery percentages and decreased mortality percentages.

        CV USA Cases: New cases of 124,643 with total cases over 6 million at 6,015,369 (a 2.12% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.38% increase) with 2,515,014 active cases of which 16,392, on a downward trend with slight blips from over 19,000 in the last 3 weeks (16,484 yesterday), are in serious or critical condition as trend continues to go down, and 3,500,355 closures, 183,961 of which have been deaths (5.26% compared to yesterday’s 5.32%) and 3,316,394 of which have been recoveries (94.74% compared to yesterday’s 94.68%) (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 555 ranks behind Belgium (852), Peru (851), Spain (620), UK (610), Italy (587), Sweden (575), and Chile (578), now tied with Brazil (550) and only slightly worse than and Mexico (476). We have now conducted    78,632,566 79,338,780 tests (more than 706,000 more tests than those done yesterday).
       Non CV Case News: Just when you thought Biden come not be more out of it, he had the inanity to falsely claim there were no race riots during the Obama-Biden years (what about burning and looting during  the Ferguson riots could he not rember?); Hurricane Laura is cutting a huge swath of flooding and destruction and loss of power but fortunately only 1 death as it moves inland through Texas and Louisiana; you may disagree with Pelosi but you have to hand it to her for political astuteness as she sees the writing on the wall and urges Biden to stay in his bunker and not debate Trump as she knows Trump will destroy him and Biden’s lack of fitness for the office will be revealed for all America to see; almost like a day late and a dollar short Biden ensconced in his bunker has belatedly condemned the violence in Kenosha as “needless violence” which Trump condemned from day 1 and is sending in 200 federal agents to help the city; after a black murder suspect shot himself to avoid going to prison as opposed to protesting the death of George Floyd  as police approached him and given the BLM 24/7 anti-police rhetoric, Minneapolis residents started burning and looting, the Minnesota National Guard has been called up to head into the city; Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota unleashed a scathing attack on Blue run cities like Seattle and Portland as places with the violence no mother would want to raise a child in which was too much for Rachel Maddow who cut in and got Seattle Mayor on the line to try to refute Noem’s claims even as Seattle  has already equaled the number of murders for all of 2019 (another example of extreme MSM bias.

       Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of August 26, 2020, the number of shootings increased by 18 better aimed shootings to 2,729 of whom 5 have  died to bring the total 2 455 (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 still 241 behind Chicago at 214 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 with significantly less frequency?).
       As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Daddy” by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra,  the fact that your ideas are usually not pessimal, and a quote by Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler on the Kellogg-Briand Pact, 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. National Petroleum Day—commemorating the discovery of oil by Edwin drake 70 feet beneath the ground on this day in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania but most likely not celebrated by the backers of AOC’s Green New Deal but still a very crucial part of our economy that is threatened by the anti- fracking, anti-pipeline and anti-drilling stands of the Blues.

       2. National Tarzan Day—celebrating that fictional character who was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912 and raised by apes and best know n on the cinema screen being portrayed by Johnny Weissmuller, a noted former Olympic swimmer in the first of 12 Tarzan movies, Tarzan the Ape Man, which came out in 1932—if you have a tree with vines, today would be a good day to swing through the air with a curdling Tarzan like yell to startle your neighbors.

       3. 1941 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1941 on a run of 7 weeks was “Daddy” by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra. Here is a recording of the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nGrDarRJQ This big band leader was known as “Sway with Sammy Kaye” and finally left us at age 77 on June 2, 1987.

       4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “pessimal” which means least favorable which in terms of mental acuity describes Biden to a tee.

      5.  Chancellors Don’t Fly—celebrating the birth on this day in 1959 of Denise Denton, noted professor and dean of engineering and who at 45 became the youngest Chancellor in the UC System at UC Santa Cruz. Openly a lesbian, she jumped to her death on June 24, 2006 from The Paramount, a 33 story building in which she shared an apartment with her partner of 10 years the day after being discharged for treatment for depression.

        On this day in:

        a. 1896 the Anglo-Zanzibar war commenced at (9:00 a.m. with a bombardment by British naval vessels on the Sultan’s Palace and ended some 38 minutes later with 500 Zanzibar casualties and the Sultan seeking asylum in the German Embassy and independent Zanzibar Sultanate ceasing to exist. 
        b. 1918 Mexican and American forces skirmished against each other at the towns of Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona for one day.
        c. 1928 the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war as a means to resolve internationals differences was signed by 15 nations as the number of signatories would grow to 61 before war in China with Japan in 1937 and war in Poland with Germany in 1939 rendered it meaningless.
        d. 1991 the European Community recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from Russia.

         e. 2003 China, Japan, Russia, North Korea, South Korea and the U.S. met to try to achieve a peaceful end to the North’s nuclear weapons program which failed.
       Reflections on the Kellogg-Briand Pact: “…an important early venture in multilateralism. It formed a significant part of the legal basis for the post-World War II prosecutions of German and Japanese leaders for having waged aggressive war It helped to bring about new attitudes toward intervention by third parties in others' disputes. Most importantly...international law evolved to circumscribe the use of armed force with legal restrictions. The forcible acquisition of territory by conquest became illegitimate and individual criminal liability might attach to those who pursued it. In criminalizing war Kellogg-Briand played a role in the development of a new norm of behavior in international relations, a norm that continues to play a role in our current international order.” Political Scientists Julie Bunck  and Michael Fowler 

       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. 

 © August 27, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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