History for August 14

History for August 14 - On-This-Day.com
David Crosby 1941 - Singer, musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash), Steve Martin 1945 - Actor comedian, Danielle Steel 1947 - Author 


Gary Larson 1950 - Creator of "The Far Side", Earvin "Magic" Johnson 1959 - Basketball player, Sarah Brightman 1960 - Singer 


Halle Berry 1966 - Actress, Mila Kunis 1983 - Actress, Tim Tebow 1987 - Football player

1888 - A patent for the electric meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger. 


1896 - Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold. 


1919 - About 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident. 


1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly. 


1945 - It was announced by U.S. President Truman that Japan had surrendered unconditionally. The surrender ended World War II. 


1947 - Pakistan became independent from British rule. 


1953 - The whiffle ball was invented. 


1980 - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was incorporated. 


1992 - The U.S. announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation. 

Judge Napolitano Explains Point-by-Point Why Hillary Clinton Now Has a ‘Grave’ Legal ‘Situation’ With Her Private Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com

Judge Napolitano Explains Point-by-Point Why Hillary Clinton Now Has a ‘Grave’ Legal ‘Situation’ With Her Private Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The biggest sticking point is based on a report that two emails from the former secretary of state’s private server — now in the hands of the Justice Department — were deemed “top secret,” the cable network’s legal analyst said.

While the term is well known, it’s unlikely that most of us are aware of the national security implications of “top secret” — but Napolitano broke it down on “Fox and Friends”

Orlando airport unveils $250K Muslim prayer room

Orlando airport unveils $250K Muslim prayer room - Washington Times:
"The Orlando International Airport will soon be opening a Muslim prayer room.
The airport will spend $350,000 to build the “Reflection Room” where Muslims can pray, a local CBS affiliate reported.
The decision was made after Emirates Airlines announced it will soon be offering direct flights out of Orlando to Dubai.
A majority of the airline’s travelers are Muslim.
“These rooms provide travelers an opportunity an opportunity to pray in their own way and have peace before they take on a long flight,” Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, told CNN’s local affiliate.
The room is expected be open by the Sept. 1 launch of the first Emirates flight out of Orlando.
Many Muslim travelers currently pray in public terminals and even in the bathrooms at the Orlando airport.
The “Reflection Room” will give them a more suitable place to pray, said Carolyn Fennell, director of public affairs at the airport, CBS reported.
“So they aren’t having to, if it is the case, kneel on the bathroom floors or in corners so they have the reflective time,” Ms. Fennell said.
The airport already has a chapel in Terminal A and is expected to open an interdenominational chapel in the near future."

Criminal liars!!!-----150 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000

150 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000
(CNSNews.com) - The portion of the federal debt that is subject to a legal limit set by Congress closed Monday, August 10, at $18,112,975,000,000, according to the latest Daily Treasury Statement, which was published at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
That, according to the Treasury's statements, makes 150 straight days the debt subject to the limit has been frozen at $18,112,975,000,000.
$18,112,975,000,000 is about $25 million below the current legal debt limit of $18,113,000,080,959.35.
On July 30, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent a letter to the leaders of Congress informing them that he was extending a “debt issuance suspension period” through October 30.
In practice, that means that unless Congress enacts new legislation to increase the limit on the federal debt before then, the Treasury will continue for at least the next eleven weeks to issue Daily Treasury Statements that show the federal debt subject to the limit beginning and ending each day frozen just below that limit.
...In his March 13 letter, Lew explained some steps the Treasury would take during the debt issuance suspension period.
“Because Congress has not yet acted to raise the debt limit,” Lew said in that letter, “the Treasury Department will have to employ further extraordinary measures to continue to finance the government on a temporary basis. 
Therefore, beginning on March 16, I plan to declare a ‘debt issuance suspension period’ with respect to investment of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and also suspend the daily reinvestment of Treasury securities held by the Government Securities Investment Fund and the Federal Employees’ Retirement System Thrift Savings Plan.”...

Report: Kim Jong Un executes N. Korea's vice premier

Report: Kim Jong Un executes N. Korea's vice premier:

"If confirmed, Choe's killing will be the latest in a series of executions said to have been ordered by the young leader since he took power in late 2011. The Associated Press reported last month that Kim had so far ordered the execution of about 70 officials "in a reign of terror" — far more than his late father Kim Jong Il, who executed about 10 people in his first years in power.

In May, a report emerged that Hyon Yong-chol, North Korea's defense minister, had apparently been executed, possibly with an anti-aircraft gun, in front of hundreds of people at a military school in the capital of Pyongyang for disloyalty to Kim.

In December 2013, Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek — once considered North Korea's second most powerful man — was executed for alleged treason. Reports followed the next month that all direct relatives of Jang, who was married to Kim Jong Il's sister, had also been put to death."


This is what happens when you become a land of men rather than a land of laws.

The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares

The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares - The New York Times:
"Children who grow up in some places go on to earn much more than they would if they grew up elsewhere."

U.S. Taxpayers Still Subsidizing Bloated Welfare States | Cato @ Liberty

U.S. Taxpayers Still Subsidizing Bloated Welfare States | Cato @ Liberty
Last month, the British government announced plans to spend two percent of GDP on defense through 2020, meeting the NATO mandated level. 
This comes after months of nudging from the Obama administration that feared “if Britain doesn’t spend 2 percent on defense, then no one in Europe will.”
The reasoning is bizarre given that few nations were meeting this spending threshold to begin with. As I wrote in June:

In 2014, only Greece, Estonia, the U.S. and the U.K. spent as much as 2 percent of GDP on defense. Excepting NATO member Iceland, which is exempted from the spending mandates, the 23 other NATO members failed to spend even two cents of every dollar to defend themselves from foreign threats. And Greece only met the 2 percent threshold because their economy is falling faster than their military spending.

Perhaps things are shifting a bit among the NATO nations. Fear of Russia has prompted some members to announce increases to their defense spending.
Germany, which currently spends only 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense, pledged to increase its defense budget by 6.4 percent over the next five years.
Latvia and Lithuania will also increase their defense spending, reaching two percent of GDP by 2018 and 2020, respectively.

It’s comforting to hear some Europeans talking about taking their security more seriously, but whether they will follow through remains to be seen.
Either way, they will remain heavily subsidized by the United States for some time.
Cato’s latest infographic demonstrates just how far ahead the United States is in all measures of defense spending, and also documents how American security guarantees allow European governments to devote a far larger share of their spending to dubious domestic priorities. 
Put simply, U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing Europe’s bloated welfare states.

...The free ride could come to an end if Washington signaled that it wanted it to.
Alas, U.S. officials have been sending the opposite message. 
...Washington should stop deploying the U.S. military in ways that discourage these other countries from doing more. 
It is unreasonable to expect U.S. taxpayers to shoulder these burdens indefinitely.

David McCullough on What's Wrong with History Education Today

David McCullough on What's Wrong with History Education Today | Intellectual Takeout:
...In an interview conducted by the Wall Street Journal in 2011, McCullough had some very interesting critiques of modern history education, which I share below.

Regarding the historical knowledge of youth today:

“I know how much these young people—even at the most esteemed institutions of higher learning—don't know.”

On the prevalent method of teaching history:

“History is often taught in categories—women's history, African American history, environmental history—so that many of the students have no sense of chronology. They have no idea what followed what.”

On the content of contemporary history textbooks:

“[They are] so politically correct as to be comic. Very minor characters that are currently fashionable are given considerable space, whereas people of major consequence farther back are given very little space or none at all.”

On where to lay the blame:

“It's our fault. I mean the parents and grandparents of the oncoming generation. We have to talk about history, talk about the books we love, the biographies and histories. We should all take our children to historic places. Go to Gettysburg. Go to the Capitol.”

On pedagogy:

“If I were teaching a class, I would tell my students, 'I want you to do a documentary on the building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Or I want to you to interview Farmer Jones or former sergeant Fred or whatever’… I have been feeling increasingly that history ought to be understood and taught to be considerably more than just politics and the military…

I'd take one of those textbooks. I'd clip off all the numbers on the pages. I'd pull out three pages here, two pages there, five pages here—all the way through. I'd put them aside, mix them all up, and give them to you and three other students and say, 'Put it back in order and tell me what's missing'…

Grade school children, as we all know, can learn a foreign language in a flash. They can learn anything in a flash. The brain at that stage in life is like a sponge. And one of the ways they get it is through art: drawing, making things out of clay, constructing models, and dramatic productions. If you play the part of Abigail Adams or Johnny Appleseed in a fourth-grade play, you're never going to forget it as long as you live.”

Russian Warships Dock In Iran As Iranian Military Leader Said THIS About U.S. Troops! - Allen West Republic

Russian Warships Dock In Iran As Iranian Military Leader Said THIS About U.S. Troops! - Allen West Republic:

"Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi: ‘Only the dead body of the American troops realizes the power of’ Iran’

As Reported By Adam Kredo for The Washington Free Beacon:

Two Russian warships have docked in northern Iran for a series of naval training exercises with the Islamic Republic, according to Persian-language reports translated by the CIA’s Open Source Center.

The two Russian ships docked in Iran’s Anzali port on Sunday and will hold “joint naval exercises during the three-day stay of the warships in Iran,” according to a Persian-language report in Iran’s state-controlled Fars News Agency."

TWEET OF THE DAY: “The earnestly naive Bernie Sanders is who the Democratic party wants to be.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » TWEET OF THE DAY: “The earnestly naive Bernie Sanders is who the Democratic party wants to be. The …:

Smoke and Mirrors: The Truth About US Unemployment

Smoke and Mirrors: The Truth About US Unemployment | Somewhat Reasonable:
"...Obama’s use of the unemployment rate as a weapon to inflict political damage on Republicans is nothing new.
For most of Obama’s presidency, he’s been touting his economic policies and how successful they have allegedly been at reducing unemployment rates (when in fact all recession recoveries reduce unemployment rates), all the while intentionally misleading people about what the unemployment rate actually represents.
Contrary to the popular impression, the unemployment rate is not the percentage of the population looking for work. 
The unemployment rate is simply the percentage of a state or nation’s economy that isn’t employed and doesn’t fall into one of a number of excluded categories.
A person who has “given up” looking for work, for instance, is not considered “unemployed” by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, even if that person is still interested in getting a job.
Individuals who retire early because they can’t find a good job are also excluded.
In addition, state unemployment figures can be quite confusing at times because people who leave the state because they can’t find work are not counted as “unemployed.”
In short, unemployment rates often change in large part because the labor force pool grows or shrinks, not because of actual economic growth. .."

Russia and NATO 'actively preparing for war'

Russia and NATO 'actively preparing for war' - Telegraph
Russia and NATO are actively preparing for war with one another amid the greatest build up of military tension in Europe since the end of the Cold War, a new report says.
Rival exercises by the Russian armed forces and NATO have led to several near-miss incidents that could result in confrontation between the two sides, and leaders need to consider a new arms control treaty to avert the possibility of heightened tensions spilling into war.
The report by the European Leadership Network, a think tank, comes amid the most intense fighting for six months in eastern Ukraine and as Michael Fallon, the defence minister, pledged to expand a British army training mission to Ukraine.
“We do not suggest that the leadership of either side has made a decision to go to war or that a military conflict between the two is inevitable, but that the changed profile of exercises is a fact and it does play a role in sustaining the current climate of tensions in Europe,” the authors write.
The report outlines how both NATO and Russia have primed their forces to respond to an escalation since the Ukraine crisis erupted in early 2014..."

FBI Has Taken Possession of Thumb Drives Containing Hillary Clinton’s Emails, U.S. Official Says | TheBlaze.com

FBI Has Taken Possession of Thumb Drives Containing Hillary Clinton’s Emails, U.S. Official Says | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has taken possession of thumb drives containing Hillary Clinton’s emails, some of which have been deemed to contain highly sensitive classified information, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter.

The official was not authorized to be quoted publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, turned over the emails after the FBI determined that he could not remain in possession of the classified information, the official said. The State Department previously had said it was comfortable with Kendall keeping the emails at his Washington law office."

Feel-good video of the day-----New York City Thug Gets Taught A Lesson

"This street thug thought he would play the stereotypical victim card as an excuse to prove how hard he was and assaulted this white trucker, unprovoked prior to the attack. The following shows the devastating consequences of miscalculated aggression."
Read more at http://dcgazette.com/watch-black-thug-attacks-white-trucker-gets-beat-to-a-pulp/

Election fraud!!!-----Lois Lerner’s IRS Granted Only ONE Conservative Group Non-Profit Status in Three Years

Lois Lerner’s IRS Granted Only ONE Conservative Group Non-Profit Status in Three Years | Americans for Tax Reform:
"Lois Lerner’s political beliefs led to tea party and conservative groups receiving disparate and unfair treatment when applying for non-profit status, according to a detailed report compiled by the Senate Finance Committee.
Because of Lerner’s bias, only one conservative political advocacy organization was granted tax exempt status over a period of more than three years:
...As the report notes, Lois Lerner became aware in April or May of 2010 that the IRS Exempt Organizations (EO) division had begun receiving a high number of applications from Tea Party organizations.
But as the backlog of applicants increased, Lerner added “more layers of review and raised hurdles for applicants to clear.”
...In contrast, progressive or non-affiliated applicants faced a timely review process. 
Indeed, the IRS was willing and able to quickly approve high profile non-tea party applicants:
“Although applications from the Tea Party and conservative organizations languished at the IRS, this was not the case for all groups that applied.
In cases where the IRS wanted to act quickly, it did – particularly for other high-profile applications that attracted political attention.”"

History for August 13

History for August 13 - On-This-Day.com
Annie Oakley 1860, Alfred Hitchcock 1899, Ben Hogan 1912 


Fidel Castro 1926 - Cuban leader, Don Ho 1930, Danny Bonaduce 1959 - Actor ("The Partridge Family") 


1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians. 


1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray. 


1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out "for all or nothing." 


1942 - Henry Ford unveiled his "Soybean Car." It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car. 


1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, NY. 
Disney movies, music and books 


1959 - In New York, ground was broken on the $320 million Verrazano Narrows Bridge. 


1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began. 


1985 - The engagement of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenagger was announced. 


1992 - Woody Allen began legal action to win custody of his three children. A judge ruled against Allen in 1993. 


1994 - It was reported that aspirin not only helps reduce the risk of heart disease, but also helps prevent colon cancer.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-cheese-by-tammy-derouin-as-i-look.html

The Cheese

By Tammy Derouin

In this transformed world we live in, a political campaign can successfully convince a major newspaper to change a headline to suit the needs of their political agenda. The media sides with corruption rather than exposing it.  The media accepts snide, sarcastic comments from those who are in office, should they have the courage to ask questions which deviate from the party line.  Instead of jumping all over the person in power for not answering or belittling a question, the party minions in the press, attack their own or distance themselves.

This kind of turn-coat behavior has paralyzed the American people.  Watching the mainstream evening news or most mainstream news programs in general, no longer fulfills the requirement of staying informed.  Instead, they have become a party tool to deceive the American people.  We trusted our news sources for so long; it’s difficult to see how much they have turned against us, the U.S.

We have been drip-fed so much anti-American propaganda.  Over time, we began to believe and accept that the American way is wrong.  We have accepted that we are powerless and are incapable of controlling our future.  We no longer sniff out corruption.  We don’t jump over walls or dig tunnels to find the real story.  Instead, we have accepted the cheese and the shackles which come with it.  We are being led by the nose.  When something of interest is dangled in front of us, we blindly follow.  The cheese looks so promising. There must be a Utopian world of cheese.  Don’t pay any attention to the traps being placed all around you.  Keep your eyes on the cheese...

Planned Parenthood Sold the Intact Bodies of Dead Babies to 3rd Parties - Eagle Rising

Planned Parenthood Sold the Intact Bodies of Dead Babies to 3rd Parties - Eagle Rising:

"This is why StemExpress is fighting so hard to suppress the videos that they appear in. They are terrified that they will be held both criminally and ethically liable, along with Planned Parenthood, for these heinous deeds (as they should be). If it gets out that Planned Parenthood and StemExpress are allowing babies to be born alive and then letting them die (after birth) it could destroy their businesses. And so they fight to repress the truth.

Get ready, folks, this entire sick and twisted story is going to become even more disturbing than it already is."