November 30, 2020 Ridley's Beleive It Or Not Cyber Monday

 Ridley's Believe It Or Not November 30, 2020

        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 306,761 new cases (a .49%  increase compared to a .69% increase yesterday) to bring the total over  63 million to 63,269,962, 18,046,765 of  which  are active, 45,223,197 of which have been closed with 43,754,172  recoveries (96.75% compared to  yesterday’s 96.74%) and 1,469,025 deaths (3.25% compared to yesterday’s 3.26%) to continue the trend of increased recovery  percentages and decreased death percentages.
          CV USA Cases: New cases total  13 million at 13,758,751 with 5,375,936 active cases of which 24,806 (.46% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (24,642 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and may be continuing to go up, and 8,382,766 closures, 273,160 of which have been deaths (3.26% compared to yesterday’s 3.26%) and 8,109,606 of which have been recoveries (96.74% compared to yesterday’s 96.74%). Our death rate percentage continues to improve and are finally in single digits since Cuomo repealed on May 10 his order sending CV positive patients to nursing homes and ADL facilities and after many months is 01% worse the world rate and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 823 ranks behind Belgium (1425), Peru (1083),  Spain (955), Italy (920), and UK (859 which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and Argentina (848)  and has 5 days ago  passed Brazil (811)  and only slightly worse than  Mexico (816), recently added to the list France (801) Chile (803) that we recently passed,  Bolivia (763, Ecuador (756) and Sweden (660) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 2,630,481 more tests to bring total to 194,948,709  (now at 587,407/M compared to Russia at 523,585/M so Trump was telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 639,070/M).
       Non CV Case News: Dominion Data which is the center of allegations that its voting machines flipped thousands of votes from Trump to Biden is the subject of a restraining order preventing 3 Georgia counties from altering or erasing voting data on the machines (God help us in terms of faith in our political process if Trump is right and voter fraud has flipped the election from Trump to Biden and what if anything is being done in Georgia to prevent the same result in the 2 runoff Senate elections that will determine who controls the Senate?); in another example of the fact that Sanctuary Cities make it unsafe, San Jose which is in a Sanctuary County, Santa Clara, was hit with a church stabbing by a 3 time deported illegal alien with city officials again begging for the county to change its policy (how many people have die and the hands of illegals that are hiding out immune for being turned over to ICE for deportation after they have served their sentence?); the corollary to Murphy’s Law that if anything can go wrong it will is Governor Murphy’s Law that if any activity can be banned or limited it will as he bans school indoor sports and limits outdoor gatherings to 25 people; in another example of objectivity on Biden going to the dogs, the MSM is touting an inane point of view that Lee-Crowther,”a pet psychic” has the Daily Beast publishing an almost 4,000 word article that she has communicated with Biden’s 2 dogs mind to mind who have assured her he will be a great president (wonder if she will talk with the fleas to get the real story on Biden); Oliver Darcy, a “journalist” with the Cack News Network, not satisfied with Twitter labeling Trump’s tweets as “misinformation,” is demanding that his account be banned (what an absolute outrage that merits action against Twitter though with Biden ensconced not a chance in Hell that censorship will be addressed); in thank God for the 2^nd Amendment that the Blues want to curtail, a man on his phone walked in to a South Philadelphia Wing Stop with an armed robbery in progress and when the armed robber turned and pointed his firearm at the man, demanding his phone, the man shot and killed the suspect and will not be charged; Robert Well,  the  Mayor of Pine Ridge, South Carolina, a small town of 2,000 residents and a police force of 5 full and pastime officers has meddled in the affairs of the department such that all officers have quit, leaving the police force totally defunded; on the medical front, some really exciting news as a privately held company C2N Diagnostics has started selling a test kit to determine the presence of Alzheimer’s, a deadly and debilitating disease that affects 5 million Americans and sadly their caregivers; Newsom who is facing a recall signature petition gathering effort and mocked big time for his French Laundry fiasco is now threatening much more severe lock downs in California.
         Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 29,  2020,  the number of shootings increased to 3,900 of whom  665 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 364 behind Chicago at 301 murders (when will Chicago and Baltimore get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color and when will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities which  have  been way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur far much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” by Harry James and His Orchestra with vocals by Helen Forest, the fact that occasionally you are prescious and a quote from Benjamin Netanyahu on the nature of Israel, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please contact me for details.
        1. Cyber Monday—created by Ellen Davis in 2005 to promote internet sales on the Monday following Black Friday which have grown from a few $ million to $9.4 billion in 2019 and with the concern over the CV pandemic and curtailment of in store shopping should easily top that this year when the computers stop clicking and end their shopping today.               2. National Meth Awareness Day—created by President George W. Bush on November 27, 2006 and celebrated since 2006 on the 30^th of each November to create awareness of the dangers involved in using Meth and to promote programs and initiatives to curb its importation, manufacture and use.
        3. 1945 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1945 on this day on a run of 3     weeks non continuous  was “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” by the Harry James and His Orchestra with Helen Forest as vocals to join 8 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OtcskeRBJw James was a noted trumpet player and big band leaders from 1939-1983 with a hiatus in 1946-7. He was a heavy smoker but dodged the lung cancer bullet to be diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1983 but continued to work until his last performance in L.A. on June 26, 1983 to die on July 5, 1983 at age 67 in Las Vegas. Helen Forest was known as the “voice of the big bands” and had a musical career that lasted until 1991; she died of congestive heart failure on July 11, 1999 at age 82.

      4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “prescious” which means having knowledge of events before they occur which is a desired trait in investing in the stock market or playing the horses.

          5. The Magnificent Seven Manna on the NYSE Floor—celebrating the birth on this day in 1936 of Yippie leading member  Abby Hoffman, a member of the Chicago 7, and best known for dropping dollar bills onto the floor of the NYSE from the visitors’ gallery which the traders eagerly scooped up but as he aged became depressed over the conservative backlash of the country and on April 12, 1989 was found dead at age 52 from suicide involving 150 Phenobarbital pills and liquor.                                                           

          On this day in:

       a. 1947 civil war between Arabs and Jews began in Mandatory Palestine leading ultimately to the creation of the State of Israel.

          b. 1982 Michael Jackson released his 6^th album Thriller which with 66 million copies sold has become the largest selling album in history.

        c. 1999 Exxon and Mobil signed an agreement to merge in a deal valued at $73.7 billion creating ExxonMobil, the world’s largest company.

           d. 2001 Gary Ridgeway aka The Green River Killer was apprehended for the death of 4 women in Washington State and would as part of a plea bargain to escape the death penalty plead guilty to 49 murders and be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole and at age 71 is now rotting in the Walla Walla State Penitentiary in Washington.

         e. 2018 a 7.0 Earthquake hits 15 miles from Anchorage, Alaska and like the Good Friday Alaska Earthquake caused significant property damage but unlike the Good Friday Earthquake caused no deaths.

         Reflections on the creation of Israel: “"We expect anyone wishing to become an Israeli citizen to recognize Israel as the Jewish nation state and a democratic state... The State of Israel was not established as 'just another state'- it was founded as the sovereign state of the Jewish people in their historic homeland; and as a democratic nation, whose citizens, Jews and non-Jews, enjoy full civil equality." - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister

         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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November 29, 2020 Ridley's Beleive It Or Not Small Brewer Sunday

 Ridley's Believe It Or Not November 29, 2020

        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 429,430 new cases (a .69%  increase compared to a 1.35% increase yesterday) to bring the total over  62 million to 62,963,201, 17,024,741 of  which  are active, 44,938,460 of which have been closed with 43,474,632  recoveries (96.74% compared to  yesterday’s 96.73%) and 1,463,828 deaths (3.26% compared to yesterday’s 3.27%) to continue the trend of increased recovery  percentages and decreased death percentages.
           CV USA Cases: New cases of 662,509 with total cases over 13 million at 13,039,271 (a 4.30% increase compared to yesterday’s 4.30%) with 5,343,784 active cases of which 24,642 (.46% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (24,501 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and may be continuing to go up, and 8,357,996 closures, 272,828 of which have been deaths (3.26% compared to yesterday’s 3.28%) and 8,085,168 of which have been recoveries (96.74% compared to yesterday’s 96.72%). Our death rate percentage continues 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 after many months is finally .01% below the world rate and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 822 ranks behind Belgium (1418), Peru (1082),  Spain (955), Italy (909), and UK (856 which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and Argentina (845)  and has 5 days ago  passed Brazil (810)  and only slightly worse than  Mexico (814), recently added to the list France (801) Chile (800) that we recently passed,  Bolivia (762), Ecuador (756) and Sweden (660) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,245,044 more tests to bring total to 192,278,268 (now at 579,468/M compared to Russia at 520,004/M so Trump was telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 626,246/M).
       Non CV Case News: Forked tongue Harris tweeted praise for looters and riots who devastated small businesses this summer and now tongue in cheek calls on us to support them (what a pathetic hypocrite one stroke away from the Oval Office); BLM protestors outside Garcetti’s house objecting to his consideration of a Cabinet post by Biden calling the worst mayor in the country (given De Blasio’s standing in that regard that is quite a charge); probably waiting to see how the Georgia Senate races turn out, Biden is refusing to take a stand on the BLM Breathe Act; the UK which has seen its CV cases soar even as it leads the world in testing may be the first country to get 2 million vaccine doses this week; on the CV school closure front Mayor De Blasio has caved and will be reopening the schools while in Atlanta while parents don’t know when they can send their kids back to high school, Marvel on payment of $50,000 will be able to film on Spiderman to the outrage of parents; not sure who many people shopped in small businesses on Small Business Saturday but for many the day came too little and too late as for example a study in New York and New Jersey revealed a third of small businesses had closed.
         Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 28,  2020,  the number of shootings increased to 3,895 of whom  664 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 363 behind Chicago at 301 murders (when will Chicago and Baltimore get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color and when will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities which  have  been way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur far much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “You Always Hurt the One You Love” by the Mills Brothers, the fact that people do not prescind your views on issues and an anonymous quote from an aide to Hal Boggs who was on the Warren Commission, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please contact me for details.
        1. Small Brewer Sunday—created by Brewers Association on November 19, 2019 and celebrated on the Sunday after Thanksgiving to promote the appreciation and consumption of beer and ale produced by craft brewers whose number keeps growing every year as consolidation of major brewers has been sweeping the industry.
         2. National Throw Out Your Leftovers Day—celebrating the time to say good bye to any leftovers from your Thanksgiving feast that food bacteria are rapidly reclaiming to avoid getting ill eating any of them.
        3. 1944 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1944 on this day on a run of 2     weeks was “You Always Hurt the One You Love” by the Mills Brothers to join 11 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9U75YC-jA The Mills Brothers were an African-American quartet and the first to have their own radio show and number one song and were active from 1928 to 1982.

          4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “rescind” which means leave out of consideration which sadly both Reds and Blues feel they are treated on issues.

          5. The Big C Trumps a Black Panther—celebrating the birth on this day in 1976 of noted actor Chad Bozeman who in addition to playing black historical like Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall was a star in 4 Marvel Cinematic Universe Black Panther movies but sadly died way too early from colon cancer at the age 43 on August 28, 2020.                                                              

          On this day in:

          a. 1961 Chimpanzee Enos after hours of training was launched into orbit in a Mercury 7 Capsule and after 2 successful orbits splashed down successfully with its live passenger aboard near Puerto Rico.

         b. 1963 President Lyndon Johnson announced the formation of the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

         c. 1967 Robert McNamara one of the Whiz Kids who became Secretary of Defense and presided over the Vietnam War resigned.

      d. 1972 Atari released its first very primitive video game Pong which was a huge commercial success.

         e. 1987 North Korean agents planted a bomb on South Korean Flight 858 after leaving Baghdad and disembarking at Abu Dhabi; the bomb exploded en route to the next stop Bangkok, killing all 115 aboard; the perpetrators were subsequently identified but took cyanide to avoid capture.

        Reflections on the conclusions of the Warren Commission: "Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission - on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it..." unnamed aide to Hal Boggs Majority Leader and Warren Commissioner member.

         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.

© November 29, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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November 28, 2020 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Small Business Saturday

Ridley's Believe It Or Not November 28, 2020
        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 834,728 new cases (a 1.35%  increase compared to a .65% increase yesterday) to bring the total over  62 million to 62,533,771, 17,917,108 of  which  are active, 44,616,663 of which have been closed with 43,159,349  recoveries (96.73% compared to  yesterday’s 96.72%) and 1,457,314 deaths (3.27% compared to yesterday’s 3.28%) to continue the trend of increased recovery  percentages and decreased death percentages.
           CV USA Cases: New cases of 560,248 with total cases over 13 million at 13,039,271 (a 4.30% increase compared to yesterday’s 2.16%) with 5,295,515 active cases of which 24,501 (.46% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (24,408 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and may be continuing to go up, and 8,304,004 closures, 272,235 of which have been deaths (3.28% compared to yesterday’s 3.32%) and 8,031,769 of which have been recoveries (96.72% compared to yesterday’s 96.68%). Our death rate percentage continues 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 after many months is only .01% above world rate and on a deaths per million population measurement on a steady climb to 820 ranks behind Belgium (1407), Peru (1082),  Spain (955), Italy (900), and UK (853 which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and Argentina (845)  and has 4 days ago  passed Brazil (809)  and only slightly worse than  Mexico (810), Chile (799) that we recently passed,  recently added to the list France (798), Bolivia (762), Ecuador (753) and Sweden (660) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,743,490 more tests to bring total to 191,033,224  (now at 575,745/M compared to Russia at 516,579/M so Trump was telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 626,255/M).
        Non CV Case News: While all the attention has shifted to the Georgia runoff Senate races, one party state California has gained the distinction of the state which flipped the most Blue seats, 4: AOC is back in the headlines claiming Biden on taking office has the power to forgive student loans (nothing like a $1.6 trillion addition to the national debt instead of loan modifications to lower interest rate and extend payment terms as the debt is not forgiven only transferred to the taxpayers including those who with or without struggle paid off their debt); SCOTUS has given New Jersey until December 3 to respond to litigation that challenges its curtailment of religious services (what a world where is it okay under the 1^st to protest and riot but not to assemble in church, m dyed purple as the San Francisco moves into the Purple Tier with severe gathering restrictions and shut downs; the adage that Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned should have added to it Hell hath not fury than fantasy boys and girls film fans scorned as 1.568 million have signed a petition demanding Amber Heard be removed from Aquaman 2 for her slandering Johnny Depp in their bitter divorce trial; shades of the Whiskey Rebellion, as a bar pub in Staten Island refuses to close after the State of New York yanks its liquor license for ignoring CV pandemic shutdown orders; shades of Tom Matte a running back for the Baltimore Colts in 1965 who was a former quarterback and pressed into to play quarterback for the  final 3 games of the season a after Unitas and his backup were injured. Winning 2 out of 3 but losing the conference championship game on a field goal by the Packers which videos showed clearly missed as the Broncos’ 3 quarterbacks have tested positive and receiver Kendall Hinton who played quarterback for Wake Forest will play the position in tomorrow’s game against the Saints.
          Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 27,  2020,  the number of shootings increased to 3,877 of whom  661 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 360 behind Chicago at 301 murders (when will Chicago and Baltimore get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color and when will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities which  have  been way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur far much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Paper Doll” by the Mills Brothers, the fact that you do not suffer from presbycousis and an anonymous quote on why your should shop in small businesses this Saturday, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please contact me for details.
         1. Small Business Saturday—created by American Express in 2010 to promote Saturday after Thanksgiving as a day to shop in one’s neighborhood’s small businesses and codified by a Senate Resolution in 2011 but with many jurisdictions imposing a 25 % occupancy limit due to the virus might be difficult to celebrate by shopping there unless they have had the foresight to create an shopper friendly online presence.
        2. National Turkey Leftover Day—celebrating the time to eat up the turkey leftovers from Thanksgiving with a delicious turkey rice or noodle soup or a myriad of other recipes to finish off what is still left of the turkey that graced your Thanksgiving Day table.
         3. 1943 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1943 on this day on a run of 8 weeks was “Paper Doll” by the Mills Brothers to join 11 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMeSrynug0  The Mills Brothers were an African-American quartet and the first to have their own radio show and number one song and were active from 1928 to 1982.

        4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “presbycousis” which means hard of hearing in old age which many face especially baby boomers exposed to rock concerts are now experiencing.                 5. The Reptilian Brain Is Part Monkey—celebrating the birth on this day in 1936 of former Blue Senator from Colorado who managed McGovern’s disastrous campaign, lost out to Walter Mondale for the 1984 Blue nomination and then in 1988 as the as leading Blue candidate when his reptilian brain’s extramarital affairs caught up with him and he was photographed with Donna Rice on the boat Monkey Business which forced him to drop out of the Blue Primary Race although he was leading in 1988.                   

                                   

          On this day in:

          a. 1843 the Kingdom of Hawaii was officially recognized as an independent nation by Great Britain and France.

          b. 1925 The Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as The WSM Barn Dance.

         c. 1958 the first successful flight of the SM-65, the first ICBM developed tby the United States, occurred.

         d. 1990 the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher resigned as head of the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister to be replaced by John Major.

         e. 2002 3 suicide Al-Qaeda bombers crashed a truck into the barrier in front of the Paradise Hotel in Mombassa, Kenya and detonated its explosives killing 10 Kenyans and 3 Israelis checking in and injured 80 others while co-conspirators never found fired 2 shoulder to air missiles at an Israeli owned Arkia Airlines that had just taken off en route to Tel Aviv but missed.

        Reflections on supporting small businesses on this Saturday: “When you buy from a small business, you are not helping a CEO buy a third vacation home.  You are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy get his team jersey. a mom putting food on the table, a dad paying for a mortage and a student paying for college.”  Anonymous but words that should spur us to support small business.

         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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November 27, 2020 Ridley's Beleive It Or Not Black Friday

 

Ridley's Believe It Or Not November 27, 2020
        CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 398,474 new cases (a .65%  increase compared to a 1.53% increase yesterday) to bring the total over  61 million to 61,699.043, 17,628,439 of  which  are active, 44,070,604 of which have been closed with 42,625.551  recoveries (96.72% compared to  yesterday’s 96.72%) and 1,444,053 deaths (3.28% compared to yesterday’s 3.28%) to continue the trend of increased recovery  percentages and decreased death percentages.
        CV USA Cases: New cases of 259,867 with total cases over 13 million at 13,039,271 (a 2.16% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.61%) with 5,170,610 active cases of which 24,408 (.47% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (24,396 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and may be continuing to go up, and 8,128,528 closures, 269,928 of which have been deaths (3.32% compared to yesterday’s 3.32%) and 7,858,600 of which have been recoveries (96.68% compared to yesterday’s 96.64%). Our death rate percentage continues 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 after many months is only .04% above world rate and on a deaths per million population measurement at 814 ranks behind Belgium (1397), Peru (1079),  Spain (955), Italy (888), and UK (846 which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and Argentina (836)  and has 3 days ago  passed Brazil (805)  and only slightly worse than  Mexico (805), Chile (796) that we recently passed,  recently added to the list France (795), Bolivia (762), Ecuador (750) and Sweden (660) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,647,545 more tests to bring total to    189,289,734 (now at 570,500/M compared to Russia at 512,571/M so Trump was telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 626,624/M).
       Non CV Case News: On the Trump election litigation trail, the battle may finally be coming to an end as the election challenge after failing in Pennsylvania before the appellate court is heading to SCOTUS; on Thanksgiving the supporters of “decolonization” defaced the U.S. War Memorials in Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington (since millions of Americans born here or naturalized here obviously can’t be deported to the nations of their ancestors, are we looking at massive reparations bills?); Blue are facing intraparty bloodletting with blacks and progressives demanding Biden is not using “identity admission cards” to staff his cabinet with the latest battle to pick Representative Fudge as Secretary of Agriculture to focus on hunger as opposed to rural America where our food is grown; not sure who was responsible but the great news out of Iran is that the number one person behind the success of Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been assassinated ( yet John Brennan has condemned th event); as the COVID-19 vaccine is predicted to start being distributed in the first or second week in December, the CDC is making a prediction we all hope is in error—321,000 deaths by mid December; Portland may be the City of Roses but the part of the flower that seems to be active are the thorns as 10 businesses with reduced police protection were vandalized causing 1000’s of dollars in damages to businesses that are barely holding on due to the the CV pandemic and shut down orders; Amazon which continues to increase its workforce while many businesses are laying thousands of workers off, is facing a Black Friday protest of workers trying to unionize the company; supporters of the 2^nd Amendment hope that the deer hear do not learn of the news that in Czechoslovakia a deer hunter’s dog startled deer who charged and hooked the hunter’s rifle and carried it off in his antlers; a CDC panel is going to vote on priority distribution  lists that will soon be rolling to the general population.
         Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 25,  2020,  the number of shootings increased to 3,867 of whom  657 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 356 behind Chicago at 301 murders (when will Chicago and Baltimore get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color and when will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities which  have  been way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur far much less.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby and the Kim Darby Singers with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra, the fact that you are not subject to any prepossess issues or advocates and a quote from der philosopher D. K. Kyos on Black Friday, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please contact me for details.
        1. Black Friday—celebrating the day on which retailers with the surge of Christmas sales finally have wiped out their red ink and are now in the black for the rest of the year although this year to achieve that status it will be the task of on line sales as in store sales with the pandemic will be subdued.
         2. Native American Heritage Day—created by the President George W. Bush on October 8, 2008 to honor the contributions to our culture and society by Native Americans.
          3. 1942 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1942 on this day on a run of 9     weeks was “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby with the Kim Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra. Trotter known as “Uncle John” was Crosby’s musical director of Crosby’s radio show, Kraft Music Hall, created the musical score for several Peanuts specials and died of cancer on October 29, 1975 at age 67.

             4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “prepossess” which means to bias or prejudge favorably which describes the MSM dealings with Biden and his fellow cast of anti-Trump Blues.

          5. Keep the Domestic Violence in the Music Not Real Life—celebrating the birth on this day in 1975 of noted rapper Jerome Antonio Stamps better known to his fans as Bad Azz was found dead in his jail cell at age 43 in Murrieta Hot Springs, California  on November 11, 2019 after being arrested for felony domestic violence several days earlier
          On this day in:

          a. 1924 the first Macy’s Parade was held in New York City. It was held again this year but without spectators like what we saw when Stanford beat Cal at the 130^th Big Game but televised in all its gory.

          b. 1945 in yet another example of the fact we are a generous nation, the Cooperative American Remittances for Europe was formed to send CARE food and tool packages to war torn Western Europe.

         c. 1973 following the resignation of Spiro Agnew due to tax evasion, the Senate votes 92-3 pursuant to the 25^th Amendment to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.

       d.  2001 in a we might not be alone moment, the Space Telescope defected the presence of hydrogen on the extrasolar planet Osiris, the first planet to be discovered  to possess an atmosphere.

        e. 2015 Richard Deere attacked a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs, killing 1 police officer and 2 civilians and wounding 9 other persons before surrendering and now is confined to a state mental hospital as he has been adjudged mentally incompetent to stand trial.

        Reflections on Black Friday in the Era Of CV Pandemic: “Black Friday Covid 19 is still here, dangerous and killing. It is better and advisable for you to do your shopping online, rather going to push each other in retailors, because if there is someone, who is infected. That person might infect lot of people.
        Shops should get websites and sell their products online. Also should make sure that their server can handle lot of traffic, it won’t crush, they should have redundancy , and their server should be able to handle lot of connections without timing out. They should take advantage of influencers and social media to market their product in time before Black Friday.

       Make sure you have the best Internet Service Provider, that won’t fail you, because people will be queuing online and those with good internet speed , bandwidth and good ISP providers will be having advantage on the queue. You can upgrade your line just for black Friday then downgrade it. Make sure you get yourself proper ISP that won’t drop connections, that won’t be slow to load pages, that won’t timeout and that wont freeze. Be careful of hackers and scammers when you shop online. Make sure the shop is legit and your banking details are safe.” ― De philosopher D.J. Kyos

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 Ridley's Believe It Or Not November 25, 2020

           CV World Cases: The CV pandemic across the planet continues with 467,967 new cases (a .78%  increase compared to a 1.14% increase yesterday) to bring the total over  60 million to 60,518,698, 17,270,527 of  which  are active, 43,248,171 of which have been closed with 41,825,250  recoveries (96.71% compared to  yesterday’s 96.70%) and 1,422,921 deaths (3.29% compared to yesterday’s 3.30%) to continue the trend of increased recovery  percentages and decreased death percentages.
       CV USA Cases: New cases of 111,072 with total cases nearing 13 million at 13,039,271 (a .86% increase compared to yesterday’s 1.81%) with 5,100,232 active cases of which 23,609 (.46% of active cases), recently on a disturbing upward trend with slight blips from a high of 19,155 on July 23  (23,711 yesterday and 15,881 on September 1), are in serious or critical condition as trend has shifted and may be continuing to go up, and 7,939,039 closures, 267,024 of which have been deaths (3.36% compared to yesterday’s 3.37%) and 7,672,015 of which have been recoveries (96.64% compared to yesterday’s 96.63%). Our death rate percentage continues 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 after many months is only .07% above world rate and on a deaths per million population measurement at 801 ranks behind Belgium (1373), Peru (1076),  Spain (942), Italy (861), and UK (831) which has now passed us despite leading world in testing), and Argentina (825)  and has yesterday passed Brazil (798)  and only slightly worse than  Mexico (794), Chile (789) that we just passed,  recently added to the list France (775) Bolivia (761), Ecuador (747) and Sweden (647) that never closed its economy down like we did and we have now conducted 1,741,647 more tests to bring total to 186,106,026 (now at 560,928/M compared to Russia at 508,845/M so Trump was telling truth that we conduct more tests in number and on a per capital basis for nations (other than those nations that contain small populations like Bahrain, Denmark,  Israel, Singapore and UAE) but for the U.K. which remains off the testing charts with tests at 615,299/M).
            Non CV Case News: On the Trump election litigation trail, a Pennsylvania judge has halted the state’s certification process, pending the result of a hearing; Trump’s chances of his legal actions overturning the election are beginning to look slimmer each day but Obama just can’t resist the opportunity to rant and degrade evangelical Hispanics who voted for Trump despite Obama’s charge that Trump is a racist (also blasted Trump for putting illegal children in cages when he did the very same thing as he is not listening to Biden’s time to heal message); CDC study says no link between CV infections and outdoor dining but L.A. listening to its director of health who is not a doctor with zero experience in infectious diseases, has shut down outdoor dining; Trump ended a grave miscarriage of justice today by pardoning Michael Flynn; Denver Mayor Hancock won’t be sucking down pumpkin or mincemeat pie only hypocrisy as he flies out of Denver to meet wife and daughter for T-Day;  Obama must be fearful Loeffler will win on January 5 Georgia Special Election rand Biden’s restoring his legacy she will help block as he defends that infamous anti-Semite Reverend Wright; the stakes in the Georgia race just went up a goodly number of notches as Biden announced plans to introduce immigration reform that among other things would offer a path to citizenship to some 11 million illegals here along with rolling back some of Trump’s executive orders that have resulted in a reduction in illegals crossing the border; Big Fredo’s Emmy did not sway SCOTUS as it ruled against his anti-CV worship restrictions but disturbingly Chief Justice Roberts siding with the liberal dissent; in what may be a chilling preview in terms of our safety with Biden, the illegal alien Fernando de Jesus Lopez Garcia who was arrested for stabbing 2 in a San Jose church had been deported 3 times, a rap sheet of violent crimes, and never turned over to ICE for deportation.
             Chicago/Baltimore Gun Violence: In Chicago as of November 24,  2020,  the number of shootings increased to 3,858 of whom  655 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 still 355 behind Chicago at 300 murders (when will Chicago and Baltimore get serious about this carnage or is this the case of true racism as a Blue run city turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to the slaughter of people of color by people of color and when will the left focus on the problem of color on color shootings in Blue run cities which  have  been way  more  deadly and way more numerous than shootings by  police or by random mass shootings which occur far much less.
           As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in history, a musical link to “Piano Concerto in B Flat” by Freddy Martin and His Orchestra with Clyde Rogers for vocals, the fact that you are not subject to any pretense crimes and a quote from John Cogley on Hollywood blacklisting which is occurring today against conservatives  without the benefit of HUAC, secure in the knowledge that if you want to send a gift for any memorable events like Father’s Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. Please contact me for details.
          1. Blackout Wednesday—an informal observance started by college students coming home for the first time to their home towns to celebrate Thanksgiving after going off to college to party too hearty with their high school friends but due to the CV pandemic this year,  much more subdued as many states have closed bars, banned large gatherings or like in Pennsylvania banned the sale of alcohol after 5:00 p.m.
         2. International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women—created by the Feminist Encuentro in Columbia on this day in 1981 to mark the death on that day in 1960 of 3 of the Mirabel Sisters protesting against the reign of Dictator Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republican and then promulgated by the UN General Assembly in December, 1999 to promote awareness of the violence against women and to encourage efforts to end such violence.
        3. 1941 Number One Song— the number 1 song in 1940 on this day on a run of 8    weeks was “Piano Concerto in B Flat” by Freddy Martin and His Orchestra with Clyde Rogers for vocals to join 10 other number 1 songs. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckgH8UlIu1k. Martin, a tenor saxophonist known as “Mr. Silvertone”, was a big band leader who pioneered the “Tenor Band” sound and continued his career with his band until the early 80’s. His saxophone was taken away permanently on September 30, 1983 when he died at Hoag Hospital from a second stroke at age 76.
         4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “prepense” which means premeditated which when added to a murder brings with it a possible death penalty or life without possibility of parole.

         5. Taking Five--celebrating the birth on this day in 1924 of Paul Emil Brietenfeld better known to his fans as Paul Desmond, noted jazz alto saxophonist who was part of the Dave Brubeck, but drank Dewar’s to excess and was a heavy smoker who dodged cirrhosis but not the lung cancer bullet to die too early on  May 30, 1977 of lung cancer at age 52.

          On this day in:

          a. 1974 the Greenback Party with an anti-monopoly platform and freeing the dollar from gold was founded and active in the American political scene  and achieved at its peak having members of the party in Congress until its disbandment in 1989.

          b. 1947 8 individual screenwriters, 1 director and 1 producer were found in Contempt of Congress by HUAC  for refusing to answer questions about their Communist Party involvement and were the first of many to be “blacklisted” from working in Hollywood.

     c. 1952 Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London to become the longest running play in history with 28,000 performances but finally has had the curtain drop due to discontinuance due to the CV pandemic.

         d.  1977 former  Filipino Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. was sentenced to death by firing squad by the Philippine  military but had the sentence commuted by Dictator Ferdinand Marcos and was able to leave the Philippines to the U.S. for heart treatment but upon return to the Philippines to try to convince Marcos to give up his dictatorial powers was assassinated almost immediately upon landing in Manila on August 21, 1983 by a shot to the head which circumvented the bullet proof vest he was wearing.

         e. 1986 Attorney General Edwin Meese announced that funds from covert sales of arms to Iran were illegally transferred to Contra Rebels in Nicaragua.

        Procedures for those in Hollywood to be deblacklisted: “When a former member of the party came to Brewer for help, the first thing [Brewer] insisted on was that the ex‐Communist go to the F.B.I. with all the information he had. Then the ex‐Communist was put in touch with the House committee and some kind of public repentance was worked out. The ex‐Communist was expected to testify (which meant naming names in public session), denounce the party at union meetings and, if he was prominent enough, make some kind of statement for the press ... or in some other way publicly express his new feelings....” John Cogley Report on Blacklisting

         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.

© November 25, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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Poet Extraordinaire, Beyond Compare
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