History for August 22

History for August 22 - On-This-Day.com:
Samuel Langley 1834, Claude Debussy 1862, Leni Riefenstahl 1902 


John Lee Hooker 1917, Ray Bradbury 1920, Dr. Denton Cooley 1920 


H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1934 - United States General, Valerie Harper 1940, Cindy Williams 1947 - Actress ("Laverne and Shirley") 


1775 - The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open rebellion by England's King George III. 


1851 - The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup. 


1865 - A patent for liquid soap was issued to William Sheppard. 


1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200. 


1910 - Japan formally annexed Korea. 


1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II. 


1950 - Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition. 


1973 - Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.

When Pressed on Hillary’s Claim That Term ‘Anchor Baby’ Is Offensive, Bobby Jindal Was Prepared to Flip It Around on Her | Video | TheBlaze.com

When Pressed on Hillary’s Claim That Term ‘Anchor Baby’ Is Offensive, Bobby Jindal Was Prepared to Flip It Around on Her | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“You know, what I find offensive is Hillary Clinton, the left, when you look at those Planned Parenthood videos — they refuse to call them babies, they call it fetal tissue, they call them specimens,” Jindal said during a Fox News interview. “That’s what offensive.”

Jindal then made sure to note that Planned Parenthood is “protesting against my decision to cancel their Medicaid contract to make sure they are not getting taxpayer dollars in Louisiana.”

“What we’re going to do is display those Planned Parenthood videos so people are reminded of that grotesque language,” he added. What’s really offensive is the left refuses to say ‘babies.’ Instead they say fetal tissue, specimens. They are a bunch of science deniers.”

The Ugly Misogyny of Big Climate: "A Disgrace to the Profession":

The Ugly Misogyny of Big Climate: "A Disgrace to the Profession": The World's Scientists on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science :: SteynOnline:
Like Sixties rockers, climate alarmists seem comfortable with women as adoring groupies, but don't appear to have much use for them in any other capacity. 
In my introduction to the aforementioned "A Disgrace to the Profession", I say en passant that I had trouble finding female scientists to quote:

There are fewer women than one might wish [in the book], but it seems to be a male-dominated field and indeed there is a palpable misogyny in the way some of Mann's defenders attack his female critics.

On the general point that's true, and a bit surprising.
I've spent most of my adult life around the arts and the media, and I would be surprised to find myself on a project with as few women as climate science.
The editorial director at Faber & Faber, my publishers on Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, is Belinda Matthews; my publisher at Regnery, for The [Un]documented Mark Steyn et al, is Marji Ross.
But it was very hard to find prominent female climate scientists.
The Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia is a boys' club, and so is Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt and Kevin Trenberth's equivalent coterie across the Atlantic.
My book includes, as I've mentioned, Dr Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, as well as her compatriot Rosanne D'Arrigo, Australia's Jennifer Marohasy, and Welsh lukewarmer Tamsin Edwards.
Others turn up along the way, including Sallie Baliunas, who co-authored one of the first papers critical of the hockey stick, was promptly clubbed to a pulp by the Big Climate enforcers, and has mostly kept her down since.

Perhaps climate science is not a field in which women excel, or perhaps there is a real glass ceiling.
Whichever it is, as I said in my book, there is "a palpable misogyny in the way some of Mann's defenders attack his female critics".
And at that point I included a footnote:

Diehard Manniac blogger "Tamino", for example, condescendingly refers to the aforementioned and distinguished Dr Judith Curry as "Aunt Judy" (see https://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/biotech-biostitutes/), which appears to be a derogatory porno term for an older woman one would be willing to have sex with if no one younger was to hand. Given that Mann enthusiastically facilitated the reduction of scientific dispute to name-calling, it would be unreasonable to expect his Mannboys to confine themselves to merely the Holocaust echoes of "denier".

Movie money=easy to find. Road repair money+Too hard to do!!!-----Crain's Detroit Business

Crain's Detroit Business:

Arrest of Drug Smuggler Leads to Discovery of Major Underwater Tunnel Across U.S.-Mexico Border — See the Photos | TheBlaze.com

Arrest of Drug Smuggler Leads to Discovery of Major Underwater Tunnel Across U.S.-Mexico Border — See the Photos | TheBlaze.com:

"CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) — The arrest of a drug smuggler in scuba gear led to the discovery of a tunnel from Mexico that’s partially underwater and ends in a canal.

Evelio Padilla pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in San Diego to one count of possession of drugs with intent to distribute."

Congressional Democrats probe group that revealed Planned Parenthood videos

Congressional Democrats probe group that revealed Planned Parenthood videos - Washington Times: "Congressional Democrats have opened their own investigation into the Planned Parenthood videos — but into the group that took the footage in which officials haggle over the prices of organs and discuss keeping a baby alive so his brain can be harvested.
The Center for Medical Progress may have broken federal laws in setting up a false-front company to secretly record Planned Parenthood employees talking about these and other practices, the Democrats say.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, also said it’s possible some of his colleagues in Congress knew about CMP’s activities and didn’t flag them for potential illegal behavior.
“These disturbing actions raise questions about whether the Center for Medical Progress has broken federal or state laws, and whether some members of Congress may have been aware of these potentially illegal activities before they were made public earlier this year,” the Maryland congressman wrote in a Thursday letter to David Daleiden, chief executive of CMP.
Mr. Cummings‘ letter asks for documents on CMP funding, donors, associates, activities and meetings and copies of all video and audio footage with Planned Parenthood employees.
...CMP has been roiling much of the country with its disturbing undercover videos, and it released its seventh video this week. Planned Parenthood officials have been captured talking casually over lunch or in offices with CMP actors, pretending to be tissue buyers, about pre-ordering fetal parts and about changing abortion techniques to get the best “specimens.”
The videos also have graphic footage of lab technicians picking through post-abortive fetal remains looking for high-value organs, while noticing which sex the baby was..."

Angry Muslim Confronts Cashier Over Flag Pin... Over 70,000 Just "Shared" What Happened Next

Angry Muslim Confronts Cashier Over Flag Pin... Over 70,000 Just "Shared" What Happened Next:

“He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, ‘Yes, I always wear it and probably always will.'”

The woman in the burqa was none to pleased with that answer. Green said she “asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.”

Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins ‘Midget’

Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins ‘Midget’ | Washington Free Beacon:
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a regulation on Thursday to stop referring to midget raisins as “midget” after an activist group called the term offensive.
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued the proposed rule, announcing the U.S. “Standards for Grades of Processed Raisins” would eliminate all five times the word midget is used. Midget has long been used to describe the differences in sizes of California raisins.
“The action would clarify AMS grade standards by eliminating the use of the term ‘midget,’ while consistently using the term ‘small’ for raisins graded in that category,” the USDA said in the proposed rule.
...The government said the change was prompted by a request from the Little People of America, a nonprofit membership organization for people of short stature.
The group wants to eliminate the word “midget” from society, and zeroed in on the raisin classification, although they said it was a benign use of the term.
...Removing the word midget is the first regulatory action taken by the USDA regarding raisins since the Supreme Court sided against them in June, ruling that they can no longer seize raisins from producers to make prices go up, striking down a New Deal-era program in the process."

SPREAD THIS: Marine Gets Kicked Out Of Service... Hillary Does NOT Want America To Know Why

SPREAD THIS: Marine Gets Kicked Out Of Service... Hillary Does NOT Want America To Know Why:

"Think of that. Three classified emails to expose the practices of a corrupt pedophile being shielded by military officials and you get kicked out of the military. Yet, send or receive 305 classified emails from a private server to obstruct investigators, and you’re a presidential frontrunner who’s being politically hounded.

The story isn’t finished quite yet, though. One of the parents of the Marines murdered, Greg Buckley Sr., has filed a lawsuit against the government in search of answers. Among other things, he wants Jason Brezler reinstated."

Annddd This Is What the NY Post Came Up With For Their Subway Jared Cover…

Annddd This Is What the NY Post Came Up With For Their Subway Jared Cover…

Credit Traders Gird for the Worst as Fed Loses Its Grip on Debt

Credit Traders Gird for the Worst as Fed Loses Its Grip on Debt - Bloomberg Business:
"What happens when the Federal Reserve loses its stranglehold over debt markets?
Investors are finding out.
The selloff in corporate bonds is deepening and investors are seeking safety in the longest-dated government debt, which does best when the economy does worst.
Defaults are rising as oil tumbles and investors are looking for the best ways to hedge against credit losses.
All this comes as the Fed does, well, nothing much.
Instead, it’s China that’s taken the lead with new rounds of financial stimulus in the face of slowing growth.
But some days it’s a free for all, with even Kazakhstan wielding its influence.
“Financial markets are desperate for the Fed to drive trading themes, but the ‘world’s central bank’ has fallen to the second rank this summer,” or sometimes third, Jim Vogel, an interest-rate strategist at FTN Financial in Memphis, Tennessee, wrote in a note Thursday..."

Lying is hard!-----VIDEO: Hillary spox stumbles and stammers over deleted emails

VIDEO: Hillary spox stumbles and stammers over deleted emails | The American Mirror:
The Clinton campaign is still groping for two sentences to put together to explain why Hillary’s email server was wiped clean.

Campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri appeared on CNN moments ago to try again to come up with an answer. Instead, it was largely rambling and incoherent.

“When did she decide to delete all — you know, half of the emails she effectively engaged in during her four years as secretary of state,” Wolf Blitzer asked Palmieri.

“She had her, um, she had — what happened was she — state department came to all the former secretaries of state last fall to ask for — to ask for whatever records they may have because they realized that, um, uh, they didn’t becau- because, uh, not just Hillary Clinton but other secretaries of state may have used personal email they may not have captured everything.

“So she had, she asked, uh, her lawyers to look at this so she had some legal minds on the case to see which emails were state department and which were personal and, uh, turned over the state department ones, uh, anything that was business related and, and then chose not to retain the ones that she, the ones that were personal,” Palmieri said.

“On that point,” Blitzer responded, “why wouldn’t she want to keep her own email record

China Did Something Last Week That Glenn Beck Says Should ‘Send a Chill Down Your Spine’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

China Did Something Last Week That Glenn Beck Says Should ‘Send a Chill Down Your Spine’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

 "Beck brought on his chief researcher Jason Buttrill, who said “no one has the stomach to admit the truth” about what China has done.

“They’ve launched all-out economic warfare,” Buttrill said. “China devalued their currency, kicking off the biggest fall in over two decades. Why would a country do that to themselves? Sounds like a mistake, right? But China makes most of their money off exports, so they need a lower currency value in order to keep pumping out those cheap, plastic, ‘Made in China’ toys our kids have.”

FNC's Doocy: Lawyers I've Talked To Say Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship

FNC's Doocy: Lawyers I've Talked To Say Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship - Breitbart:
"Fox News Channel “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy said that lawyers he has conversed with say GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is correct that the 14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship on Wednesday.
Doocy, after playing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s exchange with FNC host “Bill O’Reilly” over the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, where Trump and O’Reilly disagreed over whether the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, said,
“I was talking to a former DOJ attorney yesterday about the 14th Amendment, and they — before O’Reilly and Trump even talked, and they said that because the 14th Amendment was written specifically about slaves after the Civil War, many lawyers think the 1898 case [United States v. Wong Kim Ark], involving this fellow here in this country to Chinese parents was wrongly decided by the Supreme Court. 
So, I see what Mr. Trump is talking about right there.
But still, practically, what’s going to happen?”
Fellow co-host Brian Kilmeade answered that, “You can’t kick out 11 million people that are here. You can make it less attractive.
You can try to shut off the magnet, but there’s we can afford to kick out 11 million people.
Because they all have to get hearings, we all have to find them. It’s not practical.”"

History for August 21 - On-This-Day.com

History for August 21 - On-This-Day.com:
William Count Basie 1904, Wilt Chamberlain 1936, Kenny Rogers 1938 - Country singer 


Clarence Williams III 1939 - Actor ("The Mod Squad," "Purple Rain"), Jackie DeShannon 1944 - Singer, Jim McMahon 1959 


1831 - Nat Turner, a former slave, led a violent insurrection in Virginia. He was later executed. 


1841 - A patent for venetian blinds was issued to John Hampton. 


1888 - The adding machine was patented by William Burroughs. 


1912 - Arthur R. Eldred became the first American boy to become an Eagle Scout. It is the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America. 


1923 - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, an ordinance was passed forbidding dancers from gazing into the eyes of their partner. 


1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state. U.S. President Eisenhower also issued the order for the 50 star flag. 


1989 - Voyager 2, a U.S. space probe, got close to the Neptune moon called Triton. 


1994 - Ernesto Zedillo won the Mexican presidential election. 


1996 - The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was signed by U.S. President Clinton. The act made it easier to obtain and keep health insurance. 


1997 - Afghanistan suspended its embassy operations in the United States. 

Horrific Claim in New Planned Parenthood Video: Intact Brain Was Harvested From ‘Late-Term Male Fetus Whose Heart Was Still Beating’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Horrific Claim in New Planned Parenthood Video: Intact Brain Was Harvested From ‘Late-Term Male Fetus Whose Heart Was Still Beating’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The latest 10-minute clip from the Center for Medical Progress includes a shocking claim from Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for StemExpress, that the heart of a baby was still beating after an abortion.

“The third episode in a new documentary web series and 7th video on Planned Parenthood’s supply of aborted fetal tissue tells a former procurement technician’s harrowing story of harvesting an intact brain from a late-term male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion,” a press release reads.
The majority of the video focuses on O’Donnell recounting how she was once asked to help procure brain tissue from the aforementioned fetus — an experience that she said shook her to her core."

Hillary Clinton’s five email lies

Hillary Clinton’s five email lies | New York Post:
‘I remember landing under sniper fire.”
“I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before [Obama] did.”
“We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.”
Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the truth has always been one of disdain, as shown by her accounts of landing in Bosnia (she was actually greeted by a child on the tarmac), her policies (she voted for the war in Iraq and only criticized it later, after the winds shifted, and after Obama) and her finances (if owning two multi-million-dollar homes is “dead broke,” then sure).
But the Democratic front-runner has really outdone herself with her varying explanations for her home e-mail server.
Here are her five fabrications in the shifting story of why she hid her correspondence from public records and compromised national security:

Detroit is broke. We are paying the penalty-----Detroit paying penalty on first bond sale since bankruptcy

Detroit paying penalty on first bond sale since bankruptcy - Crain's Detroit Business:
"Detroit is paying a high price in its return to the $3.6 trillion municipal bond market for the first time since emerging from a record bankruptcy.
The $245 million of bonds, to be sold Wednesday through the Michigan Finance Authority, have the top claim on city income taxes to ensure investors are repaid.
Even so, 14-year debt is being offered at an initial yield of 4.75 percent, said three people familiar with the sale who requested anonymity because it isn’t final.
That’s 2.1 percentage points more than top-rated securities.
“It’s still Detroit,” said Dennis Derby, a portfolio manager in Menomonee Falls, Wis., for Wells Capital Management, which holds the city’s water bonds among its $39 billion of munis.
“There’s still concerns of whether or not they can have positive momentum.”
Detroit filed for bankruptcy protection two years ago to escape from debts it couldn’t afford after the population tumbled, tax collections slid and the automobile industry’s decline left the economy reeling.
That allowed the city to cut $7 billion from its obligations by the time it emerged from bankruptcy in December, an effort to steady the government’s finances and hasten its revival."

Why Hillary Clinton’s Own Signature Could Make Her Email Defense Much Tougher | TheBlaze.com

Why Hillary Clinton’s Own Signature Could Make Her Email Defense Much Tougher | TheBlaze.com:

"Despite her repeated insistence that she never sent or received any email marked “classified” on her private server, Hillary Clinton would have signed a nondisclosure agreement as secretary of state specifying that she understood what information is classified, regardless of whether it is “marked or unmarked,” national security experts told TheBlaze."

Are Democrats Really Socialists? - Reason.com

Are Democrats Really Socialists? - Reason.com:
"Socialism has had a rough few decades, but it's enjoying a rare success.
Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a socialist, is running for president, drawing big crowds and leading Hillary Clinton in one poll in New Hampshire.
All this leads some people to a damning conclusion: Democrats love Sanders because Democrats are socialists. 
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has encouraged this claim by declining to spell out the differences between a Democrat and a socialist.
"These days, it's largely a distinction without a difference," Jason Riley, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, wrote in The Wall Street Journal. Ted Cruz asserts that Clinton "is just as much of a socialist as Bernie Sanders." "

Trump could boost bill ending birthright citizenship

Trump could boost bill ending birthright citizenship | Washington Examiner:
"Watchdog groups say up to 400,000 children are born in the United States to illegal immigrants each year. 
If they are born on U.S. soil, they are entitled to citizenship under an interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
Children of non-citizens who are born here can petition for legal status for their parents when they turn 21, which critics of the law say provides incentive for people to try to cross illegally into the United States in order to give birth."

Marxist professor raking in $170k a year while denouncing capitalism

Marxist professor raking in $170k a year while denouncing capitalism - EAGnews.org:
"MADISON, Wis. – Prof. Erik O. Wright is a leading Marxist on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Madison.
A professor of sociology, Wright has dedicated himself and his work – including the four classes he teaches – to his version of the Wisconsin Idea: promoting Marxism and the eradication of capitalism.
According to his biographical entry on the American Sociological Association website, Wright is the intellectual force behind the radically left-wing Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin.
“For 28 years he has headed the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin,” the entry reads.
The MacIver Institute has previously documented the Havens Center’s efforts to promote political action and facilitate the political organization of labor unions and far-left groups in Wisconsin.
....In a 2012 interview with the New Left Project, Wright declared, “Capitalism is a central part of the problem, so of course ultimately it is necessary to be anti-capitalist.”
And anti-capitalist Wright is.
In a 2014 interview while visiting the University of Queensland Australia, Wright said the fall of the USSR in the early 1990s was an important moment for pro-Marx sociologists because it liberated them from having to defend the regime."

When People Asked Black Lives Matter Activist About Our Investigative Report, This Is What He Did | TheBlaze.com

When People Asked Black Lives Matter Activist About Our Investigative Report, This Is What He Did | TheBlaze.com:

"Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King went on a blocking spree in the aftermath of an investigative report published by TheBlaze Monday, forbidding anyone who dared ask him about it from being able to see his account.

On Monday, TheBlaze published a report which questioned whether King’s suggestion that he was the victim of a racially charged mob beating was accurate. A police report, witness statements and details provided by the detective who was assigned to the case heavily dispute King’s version of events."