History for May 16

History for May 16 - On-This-Day.com 

Studs Terkel (Louis "Studs" Terkel) 1912 - Author, historian, actor, broadcaster

• 1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
• 1888 - The first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner.
• 1946 - Jack Mullin showed the world the first magnetic tape recorder.
• 1960 - Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.
• 1963 - After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth, ending Project Mercury.
• 1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.

Canadian Liberal Who Championed Mass Migration Questions Election Results After Losing Race to Immigrant

Canadian Liberal Who Championed Mass Migration Questions Election Results After Losing Race to Immigrant: 

Instead, the open-borders advocate got beaten by a Bangladeshi immigrant pizza shop owner — and he’s complaining about ID issues while voting. Whoa, pal, getting into a bit of denialism there, aren’t you?

Erskine-Smith, who had been a member of Parliament for a neighboring seat — or “riding,” as they’re known in Canada’s idiot nomenclature — had meant the nomination in the Scarborough Southwest riding to be “a first checkpoint en route to the party’s leadership,” according to the Oakville, Ontario, News.

The way we were-----The War In October: 50 years since the 1973 Arab-Israeli War | E2 | Featured Documentary - YouTube

(32) The War In October: 50 years since the 1973 Arab-Israeli War | E2 | Featured Documentary - YouTube

Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality - YouTube

(33) Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality - YouTube:

Interesting who the democrats actually DO support!

 

How to beat Iran’s internet kill switch

Since Feb. 28, 2026, the Islamic Republic has flipped the kill switch, keeping 92 million Iranians at roughly 1% connectivity—the longest nationwide shutdown ever recorded. - Len Khodorkovsky

The question for the West is whether we will help them hear the signal or let the regime kill it...
But purpose-built tools persist. 

• Psiphon and Conduit allow diaspora activists to share their laptop connections with users inside Iran—roughly 400,000 used Psiphon to pull people through. 
• FreeGate, built on a peer-to-peer proxy network, leaves no trace.
• Obfuscation protocols like V2Ray and Shadowsocks hide traffic by making it look like standard web browsing. 
• Direct Tor connections are blocked, but bridges with pluggable transports open during the brief windows when international routes flicker back on...

Newsom's 'digital equity' plan allows death-row inmates to watch porn and groom children online, report finds | Blaze Media

Newsom's 'digital equity' plan allows death-row inmates to watch porn and groom children online, report finds | Blaze Media: 

Officials told the Journal that the tablets were "tightly controlled education tools" to provide inmates "access to the Bible, education, and re-entry resources that actually reduce crime." The investigation found dozens of death-row inmates who said the tablets allowed them access to pornography as well as sexually explicit conversations.

I Got Pulled Over (Again?!) - YouTube

(33) I Got Pulled Over (Again?!) - YouTube:

Ex-BLM activist goes scorched earth on 'scam' group, insists systemic racism in US isn't real

A former Black Lives Matter activist-turned-conservative influencer blasted the social justice organization as a “scam” — and insisted that Democrats are the party of “racism and violence.” - Patrick Reilly

Xaviaer DuRousseau, 29, revealed that he did a complete 180 from his liberal upbringing during the 2020 George Floyd riots as he realized that the movement was a money grab and that he was indoctrinated.

“Once I started looking at the conservative side of the argument, I started realizing, oh, wait, socialism has literally never worked. BLM has always been a scam, and the Democratic Party has always been the party of racism and violence,”...

Lunch video----- Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrat Party is 'Gone Forever' - YouTube

(33) Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrat Party is 'Gone Forever' - YouTube

Noon-toon

 

Chinese spy Eileen Wang living the 'Somalian-American dream' | Blaze Media

Chinese spy Eileen Wang living the 'Somalian-American dream' | Blaze Media: 

“Mayor Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022 — promoting PRC propaganda in the U.S. and acting at PRC’s direction to promote their interests. She has agreed to resign from office and plead guilty,” Patel explained.

Big surprise??!!

 

Fascinating!-----How Trump's 'anaconda' tactics put the squeeze on Iran and China

In the mid-19th century, Scott was America’s preeminent military mind, the architect of victory in the Mexican War and the “Grand Old Man of the Army.” - Glenn H. Reynolds

With his blockade of Iran, though, maybe we should start comparing him to Gen. Winfield Scott...

• As the Civil War loomed, he developed a plan to defeat the Confederacy with the smallest number of casualties possible.
• He called it the Anaconda Plan — and like its namesake it was about applying a squeeze, and squeezing hard, until its object was squeezed to death.

Rather than winning a single decisive battle or a series of major confrontations, Scott wanted to cut the Confederacy in two by seizing control of the Mississippi River, while choking off the South’s foreign trade — upon which it was enormously dependent for both money and materiel — with a naval blockade of its Atlantic and Gulf ports...

The democrats tore down anything to do with America's "slavery past". Why are they still allowed to use their evil name?

 

“Draining the Swamp” update:

Since President Trump’s second term began, federal workforce is down ~345,000 employees, one of the LARGEST cuts since WWII. - Bill Brindley

• Meanwhile, the private sector added ~717,000 jobs. 

Less bureaucracy, more private sector growth. 

That's the Trump Economy! - Steve Moore

#1 This day 1986----- Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All (Official 4K Video) - YouTube

(33) Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All (Official 4K Video) - YouTube: 

𝐀 𝟐𝟖-𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑-𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐀 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐗 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄...

...𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘, 𝐒𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐌𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝟏𝟔-𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑-𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐈𝐓 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐃, 𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊. - M.A. Rothman

𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧, 𝟐𝟖, enrolled on April 13 at Westchester Square Academy on the Lehman High School campus in the Bronx, using the name “𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝” and a birthday of March 8, 2010 (age 16)...

‘𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘮𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘺 𝘒𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘺 29, 1997. 𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘙𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥. 𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 16 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥. 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.”

 

"Equity PRIORITIES"??!!

 

'Complete disgrace': JD Vance issues ultimatum to states to crack down on Medicaid fraud | Blaze Media

'Complete disgrace': JD Vance issues ultimatum to states to crack down on Medicaid fraud | Blaze Media: 

Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, announced on Wednesday the first major steps to compel states to crack down on Medicaid fraud nationwide.

There's a Smarter Way to Manage Surgical Pain | RealClearHealth

Imagine two patients who undergo the same hip replacement procedure, conducted by the same surgeon, at the same hospital, on the same day.  -  Alexandra Sideris

• One recovers quickly, while the other struggles with severe post-operative pain.

This scenario happens too often. 

• But now, artificial intelligence tools are making it possible to predict precisely which patients are at higher risk of severe post-operative pain. 
• These groundbreaking tools can enable doctors to tailor patients' treatment regimens before they even enter the operating room to prevent unnecessary suffering and shorten recovery times...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 15

History for May 15 - On-This-Day.com

Katherine Anne Porter 1890 - Journalist, essayist, short story writer

• 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• 1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.
• 1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
• 1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.
• 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.

California Mayor Resigns After DOJ Says She Was Foreign Agent for China - Plea Deal Announced

California Mayor Resigns After DOJ Says She Was Foreign Agent for China - Plea Deal Announced: 

It turns out that China’s infiltration of California politics went way beyond Fang Fang’s alleged seduction of Eric Swalwell.

According to The New York Times, Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang, a Democrat, resigned Monday after she was charged with being an agent for Beijing.