History for September 5

History for September 5 - On-This-Day.com 

Bob Newhart 1929 - Actor, comedian (The Bob Newhart Show)

• 1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
• 1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.
• 1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
• 1953 - The first privately operated atomic reactor opened in Raleigh, NC.
• 1961 - The U.S. government made airline hijacking a federal offense.
• 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged for a Holy War against the West and former allies.

Rep. Van Orden to Newsmax: Sanctuary Policies Imperil Americans | Newsmax.com

Rep. Van Orden to Newsmax: Sanctuary Policies Imperil Americans | Newsmax.com: 

Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Wednesday that Democrats are putting Americans at risk by backing sanctuary policies that benefit illegal aliens over U.S. citizens.

The way we were-----15 Sitcom Stars Who Died In Poverty & Forgotten by Hollywood - YouTube

(139) 15 Sitcom Stars Who Died In Poverty & Forgotten by Hollywood - YouTube:

Attack on German Power Plant!! Sabotage? - YouTube

(139) Attack on German Power Plant!! Sabotage? - YouTube:

$400K for AI Cheaters Luxury Camp: How many colleges will survive?

"I just don’t see a world in which parents continue to indefinitely fork up nearly half a million to send their kids to AI Cheating Young Adult Luxury Camp," - Joanne Jacobs

"The wager seems to be that college is so entrenched as the default that parents will continue to pay for it even as the value proposition and quality collapse due to AI. I think that bluff gets called."

The Syracuse University is in trouble, reports Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez in the Wall Street Journal. 

• Total cost of attendance at the private university increased to $98,544 this year. 
• Enrollment fell short. Syracuse borrowed "nearly half a billion in debt to build desperately needed new dorms," they write. 
• To fill the dorms, the university may need to lower admissions standards, risking its prestige and reducing its appeal to students whose parents can pay tuition.

“The stream of students willing to pay something closer to full price is drying up,”...

Western academia is a giant, supra-national safe space for leftist ideologues.

Within its hallowed halls, leftists can spend their lives in a kind of fantastic alternate reality, confident that no one around them will be so gauche as to confront them with facts. - Collin Cleary@collin_cleary

For this reason, academia doesn’t just attract leftists, it attracts the most neurotic, emotionally fragile, and intellectually conforming leftists. 

• This is the reason why leftist academics react with such outrage and horror when they find that somehow, in spite of all their precautions, a conservative has slipped into their midst and is asking questions. 
• It is not just their ideology that is threatened, it is their tenuous grip on sanity.

Times Square Stabber Is Eerily Similar to Leftist Heroes Lindsay Clancy and Luigi Mangione - Postpartum Depression, Dead Corporate Exec

Times Square Stabber Is Eerily Similar to Leftist Heroes Lindsay Clancy and Luigi Mangione - Postpartum Depression, Dead Corporate Exec: 

Lionizing this degeneracy is going to create a culture of violence in which cheering droves of morons welcome the revolution, only coming to realize how abhorrent this path is after it’s too late.

Coyote v Acme is Out - and It’s GOOD!

Coyote v Acme is Out - and It’s GOOD!:

Worthy read from a powerful critic of the pharma cartel.-----My answer to a reader question on why I think the measles vaccine is necessary

Is that a plague? No. But it's a FAR higher death toll than the flu or Covid causes in kids, and the vaccine has essentially eliminated it, - Alex Berenson

This morning’s piece questioning why the media is so obsessed with measles deaths has generated lots of feedback already.

• Neil’s comment:...What in fact is the cost benefit of measles vaccination...
• My answer: A fair question. But it seems clear that even in wealthy countries the measles death rate in kids is in the 1 in 1000 to 1 in 2000 range...

Lunch video----- US Ambassador Has A Message to Canadians - YouTube

(139) US Ambassador Has A Message to Canadians - YouTube:

Noon-toon

 

Longtime Dem insider goes public with the reason for rise of Democratic Socialists * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Longtime Dem insider goes public with the reason for rise of Democratic Socialists * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

A longtime Democrat party insider, former fundraiser Lindi Li who left during the 2024 campaign when she warned about Joe Biden's decline and was ignored, has unleashed on the Democratic Socialists of America, a faction taking over more and more of the "mainstream" party. "The Democratic Socialists of America are a metastasizing cancer. There I said it. They have hijacked the Democratic Party, a shell of its former self. The DSA is poisoning American politics," she charged.

Canada as a proxy for Communist Chinese goods!!

 

We've been warned!-----On Wednesday, Carlton Johnson II opened fire...

Gateway Pundit - On Wednesday, Carlton Johnson II opened fire... | Facebook - Gateway Pundit

On Wednesday, Carlton Johnson II opened fire inside his downtown high-rise. 

Two men are dead. 

Three Minneapolis officers are wounded.

• The far-left county attorney who declined to take him off the street is the same prosecutor. 
• The Gateway Pundit has been warning about for years...

When dictators make promises.

 

Excellent!-----The Elephant in the Canadian Room - Victor Davis Hanson

America is surging ahead while Canada stagnates, and that growing asymmetry—not trade alone—is driving the acrimony between two longtime allies. - Victor Davis Hanson

At first glance, the current American-Canadian trade “war” is absurd. 

• We are neighbors with a long history of close friendship, speak the same language (for the most part), and spring from the same British civilization.

Nearly one million Canadians reside in the United States.
Given the two countries’ natural affinities, Canadians are nearly indistinguishable from Americans...

• So what is the unspoken source of the acrimony?
• The United States is leaping ahead of other Western countries in ways few anticipated several decades ago, while Canada is stagnating...

#1 This day 1980----- Diana Ross - Upside down - YouTube

(139) Diana Ross - Upside down - YouTube:

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Related thoughts from Spencer Pratt: “Commies call you ‘dangerous’ so they can kill you...

How they "think".

 

Docs Expose Fauci, Shows He Complained About Pre-COVID 'Doomsday' Warning Then Erased it from Existence

Docs Expose Fauci, Shows He Complained About Pre-COVID 'Doomsday' Warning Then Erased it from Existence: 

Eight years before COVID emerged, a journalist issued a prophetic warning that risky viral research could usher in “doomsday” and damage the reputation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthony Fauci groused in an email to an aide about that warning, then instructed the aide to permanently delete the exchange, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.

The documents add to growing evidence that Fauci destroyed public records despite his sworn testimony that he never did. Deleting government records violates federal law.

UN Tells Britain: Build Statues of Africans to Atone for Slavery - Will Jones

The advice follows a vote in March, in which UN member states voted to demand reparations.

It is one of a series of measures proposed by lawyers, who have written a report for the organisation setting out what former slave-trading nations should do...

• The legal experts said the UK should create public monuments that “honour the contributions of people of African descent”.

This “reparatory justice” guidance was created by the UN’s Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for September 4

History for September 4 - On-This-Day.com

Paul Harvey 1918

• 1882 - Thomas Edison's Pearl Street electric power station began operations in New York City. It was the first display of a practical electrical lighting system.
• 1888 - George Eastman registered the name "Kodak" and patented his roll-film camera. The camera took 100 exposures per roll.
• 1957 - The Ford Motor Company began selling the Edsel. The car was so unpopular that it was taken off the market only two years.
• 1967 - "Gilligan's Island" aired for the last time on CBS-TV. It ran for 98 shows.
• 1967 - Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone "brainwashing" by U.S. officials while visiting Vietnam in 1965.
• 1998 - While in Ireland, U.S. President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and described his behavior as indefensible.

'Like a nightmare': Watch American 'feral' teen mob of 500 turn 'gathering' into 'significant public safety issue' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Like a nightmare': Watch American 'feral' teen mob of 500 turn 'gathering' into 'significant public safety issue' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

It all happened in Colorado, which is run by a Democrat governor, has Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate, and has an all-Democrat state Supreme Court in a trifecta that has imposed ultra-liberal policies and agendas on residents for many years already. Police in Aurora, Colorado, said the events developed on Sunday.