History for November 4

History for November 4 - On-This-Day.com
Will Rogers 1879, Walter Cronkite 1916, Art Carney 1918 


Loretta Swit 1937 - Actress (M*A*S*H*), Laura Bush 1946 - U.S. First Lady, wife of U.S. President George W. Bush, Ralph Macchio 1961 


1842 - Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, IL. 


1846 - A patent for an artificial leg was granted to Benjamin Palmer. 


1847 - Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson discovered the anethestic qualities of chloroform. 


1880 - James and John Ritty patented the first cash register. 


1939 - At the 40th National Automobile Show the first air-conditioned car was put on display. 


1942 - During World War II, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa. It was a major victory for the British. 


1952 - In the United States, the National Security Agency (NSA) was established. 


1979 - Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months. 


1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73 years old, was assassinated by right-wing Israeli Yigal Amir after attending a peace rally. 

VIDEO: Uh, Oh! This Actor Just Called Obama ‘the Most Racist President There has Ever Been in America’

VIDEO: Uh, Oh! This Actor Just Called Obama ‘the Most Racist President There has Ever Been in America’:

"Stein not only told Bream that Obama was the most racist in history, but pointed out the historically accurate fact that it was the Democrat Party that championed and fought to keep slavery, as well as the party that crafted Jim Crow laws and voted in-large against the civil rights laws in the 1960′s.

“The Republicans are the most pro-black party there’s ever been,” Stein said. “The Republicans are the ones who passed all the civil rights laws back in the 60′s, not the Democrats,” he reminded the audience. "

Wisconsin Mailman Accused of Trashing Hundreds of Pro-Republican Mailers | TheBlaze.com

Wisconsin Mailman Accused of Trashing Hundreds of Pro-Republican Mailers | TheBlaze.com:

"Robert Rukes, a special agent with the U.S. Postal Service inspector general’s office in Chicago, told the Wisconsin Reporter the agency’s initial findings are that the mail carrier wasn’t trying to sabotage the GOP before Tuesday’s midterm elections, he was likely just “overwhelmed.”

“A lot of times, what happened in this situation, you have a carrier who felt overwhelmed with the volume of mail so they decided to discard some of the mail without delivering,” Rukes said."

Al Sharpton Heads Back To St. Louis To Stoke Embers Of Ongoing Protests

Al Sharpton Heads Back To St. Louis To Stoke Embers Of Ongoing Protests:

"Following speculation that Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson will likely not face charges for the shooting death of a black man, which led to prolonged civil unrest in the St. Louis area, many civil rights activists are calling for action. Among those leading the charge is Al Sharpton, who returned to the area this Friday.
Citing unconfirmed reports regarding the grand jury’s deliberation, Sharpton spoke out against those tasked with weighing the evidence against Wilson."

Ship Ahoy: WXYZ's Ronnie Dahl Asks Why Detroit Has So Many Abandoned Boats

Ship Ahoy: WXYZ's Ronnie Dahl Asks Why Detroit Has So Many Abandoned Boats –  Deadline Detroit:
"Ronnie Dahl asks a question on WXYZ-TV that many Detroiters have often asked: Why are there so many abandoned boats in the city?

In her travels across Detroit on others stories, Dahl noticed the boats -- almost all personal pleasure craft -- that sit, motorless, serving as oversized garbage cans. 

She started snapping photos and decided to trace one of the boats -- "an 18-foot monster" on Eastwood Street -- through the registration number on its bow.

Dahl, wearing a captain's hat -- it's TV, remember -- shows up at a home in Clinton Township with the boat in tow. 

"Guess what? I found your boat," Dahl says, greeting the man. 

The supposed owner is a cool customer: 

He refrains from acting out like many alleged perpetrators when confronted on camera, and insists the boat never belonged to him -- despite evidence produced by Dahl."

The Numbers You Need to Know About Obamacare

The Numbers You Need to Know About Obamacare:

“In eleven states, premiums for twenty-seven-year-olds have more than doubled since 2013; in thirteen states, premiums for fifty-year-olds have increased more than 50 percent,” writes health care expert Robert Moffit in a new report.

It doesn’t take a medical degree to see that Obamacare is ailing. The sooner it’s repealed, the better."

The democrat party assures us there is NO voter fraud------First case of voter fraud confirmed in Rio Arriba Co.

First case of voter fraud confirmed in Rio Arriba Co. | KOB.com:

"The first case of voter fraud in New Mexico this election has been confirmed by the Rio Arriba County Clerk's Office.
According to the Rio Arriba County Clerk's office, a voter trying to cast an early ballot in Espanola Saturday was told he had already voted three days prior. 
The man told poll workers he hadn't voted.
He was then shown the signature of the voter, but he says it wasn't his signature.
Officials say they were able to confirm that the signature on the original ballot did not match the legal voter's signature on file.
Poll workers allowed the man to vote on a provisional ballot, but election officials will have to determine whether the provisional ballot can be counted.
Elections officials have no legal means of actually verifying signatures or confirming identification of a voter."

Dem Sen. Mary Landrieu In Hot Water For Describing Constituents As Racist and Sexist

Dem Sen. Mary Landrieu In Hot Water For Describing Constituents As Racist and Sexist:

"As she continues her bid to convince Louisianans that she deserves another term in the U.S. Senate, Mary Landrieu offered a candid take on the ostensible difficulties she is currently facing as a Democrat woman in the south.

Despite the fact that candidates in her party are shunning Barack Obama in every corner of the nation, she suggested that her neck of the woods is inherently less receptive to a black president."

The 15 Worst Democrat Gaffes This Election

The 15 Worst Democrat Gaffes This Election - Cortney O'Brien
Let's take a look at some of the worst mistakes Dems have made on the campaign trail so far:

1.) That awful/insensitive/shameful and now infamous ad from the Wendy Davis (D-TX) gubernatorial campaign.

2.) Those colorful campaign memos from Michelle Nunn’s (D-GA) campaign, in which her own campaign referred to her as a “lightweight.”

3.) Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) saying he was “brain dead" after he couldn't answer a simple, softball question.

4.) Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) struggling to offer an answer as to how the Obama administration has handled the Ebola crisis. MSNBC even mocked him for that interview.

5.) Alison Lundergan Grimes (D-Ky.) refusing to say if she voted for President Obama.

6.) Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu (D) claiming Louisiana is full of sexists and racists.

7.) Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) trying to use Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski in his campaign ad, then ignoring her request to take her picture out of the ad, claiming she simply didn’t like of the picture. (Those easily offended women’s rights groups have yet to confront him about it.)
8.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) rudely interrupting her opponent Scott Brown (R) during his final comments at a recent debate. She was booed.

9.) Sen. Begich forgetting that almost anyone can access YouTube and catch him in a lie.

10.) Michelle Obama getting Bruce Braley’s (D-Iowa) name wrong – multiple times.

11.) Landrieu makes another appearance on this list for having to pay back thousands of dollars to her constituents for flights she took to fundraisers or other campaign events that were inappropriately billed to her Senate office.

12.) Martha Coakley (D-MA) getting the current gas tax in Massachusetts very wrong

13.) The revelation that Mary Burke’s (D-WI) family fired her from their family business for “incompetence.”

14.) DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claiming that President Obama has joined Democrats on the campaign trail, then failing to name even oneSenate race for which he's campaigned.

15.) Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) neglecting to show up to the final debate with her GOP challenger Thom Tillis in one of the country's tighest races, giving him a whole hour to state his case uncontested. Hagan's absence even prompted a rantfrom liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow.

"This was quite possibly the quickest/easiest list I’ve ever compiled. I wonder how much it'll grow by Tuesday."

Gutfeld: Are Dems Risking A Race War For Political Gain? | The Daily Caller

Gutfeld: Are Dems Risking A Race War For Political Gain? | The Daily Caller:

"Co-host of Fox’s “The Five” Greg Gutfeld asked Democrats and liberals if they were willing to risk a race war in exchange for fleeting political gain, pointing to the number of racially-tinged campaign ads targeting Southern African-Americans with images of Ferguson and Trayvon Martin."

New Mexico University President Emails Students: “Vote As Often as Possible”

New Mexico University President Emails Students: “Vote As Often as Possible” | The Gateway Pundit

"Related… There was a report out last week that non-citizens could decide the midterm election.
80% of non-citizens vote Democrat."

In 310 Seconds, This Video Will Make It Punishingly Clear How the Union Won the Civil War | Video | TheBlaze.com

In 310 Seconds, This Video Will Make It Punishingly Clear How the Union Won the Civil War | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The Civil War was a crucial moment in American history, a bitter struggle for the nation’s future and, depending on how you look at it, it was basically over before it began.

Looking at a dynamic map of the war shows just how hard-pressed the Confederacy was from the start — and how the Union attacked from all sides to crush the South."

CDC Does It Again… On Friday 6 Ft. Sneeze Droplets Could Infect – Now They Say Sneezing Can’t Infect

CDC Does It Again… On Friday 6 Ft. Sneeze Droplets Could Infect – Now They Say Sneezing Can’t Infect | The Gateway Pundit:
The Science Is Settled.
Nine days ago, the CDC reported on its website that you could catch Ebola from dropletsthat are coughed or sneezed from an infected person three feet away from you.

Divisive democrats.....as usual----------Campaign flier tells blacks in Alabama to vote or face the honoring of 'klansmen'

Campaign flier tells blacks in Alabama to vote or face the honoring of 'klansmen' - Washington Times

Soooo, every promise you made was a sham?-----Antarctic Ozone Hole Remains at the Same Size as North America

Antarctic Ozone Hole Remains at the Same Size as North America | General News:
"Scientists previously expected to reduce in size quickly when the use of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) substances were banned 27 years ago, but it remains the same level as it is in 2010 to 2013.
....Scientists remain uncertain why the hole has not reduced more since the Montreal Protocol agreement was signed by countries in 1987.
This global treaty bans the use of CFCs substances that were widely-used in household and industrial products such as refrigerators, spray cans, insulation foam and fire suppressants.
...They said had the Montreal Protocol not sign, the atmospheric levels of ozone depleting substances could have increased tenfold by 2050."

Here’s How a Seasoned Political Observer Says Republicans Should Respond When They’re Called Racists | Video | TheBlaze.com

Here’s How a Seasoned Political Observer Says Republicans Should Respond When They’re Called Racists | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The best response might be no response at all.

Speaking on Fox News’ “Hannity” Friday night, Charles Krauthammer discussed the upcoming midterm elections and said Democrats have been airing nasty campaign ads because they’re desperate."

Branson spaceship explosion: The 'missed' warnings

Branson spaceship explosion: The 'missed' warnings - Telegraph:

The Telegraph has seen emails and other documents in the public domain — dating back several years, and as recently as last year — in which the engineers warned of the dangers of Virgin Galactic’s rocket engine system.

It also emerged on Saturday that three senior Virgin Galactic executives — the vice-president in charge of propulsion, the vice-president in charge of safety, and the chief aerodynamics engineer — had all quit the company in recent months.

Japan gets green boom-and glut

Japan gets green boom _ and glut:

“Kyushu electric shock is spreading in a domino effect,” said Oba. “It’s like fraud on the national level, with utility companies and the government in cahoots with each other.”

Traumatized by the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl and encouraged by the highest rates for renewable energy in the world, Japan has been undergoing a green boom. It’s now rapidly turning into a fiasco as the cost proves prohibitive and utilities anticipate putting some nuclear reactors, shuttered since the March 2011 Fukushima disaster, back online. The unfolding green glut in Japan echoes similar experiences in Germany and Spain.

History for November 3

History for November 3 - On-This-Day.com
William Cullen Bryant 1794, James Reston 1909, Charles Bronson 1921 



Micheal Dukakis 1933, Roseanne Barr 1952, Dennis Miller 1953 


1507 - Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa. 


1793 - Stephen F. Austin was born. He was the principal founder of Texas. 


1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President. 


1892 - The first automatic telephone went into service at LaPorte, IN. The device was invented by Almon Strowger. 


1903 - Panama proclaimed its independence from Columbia. 


1911 - Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant. 


1941 - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Grew warned that the Japanese may be planning a sudden attack on the U.S. 


1957 - Sputnik II was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the second manmade satellite to be put into orbit and was the first to put an animal into space, a dog named Laika. 


1998 - Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro wrestler, as its governor. 


2003 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, a post-Taliban draft constitution was unveiled.

‘Hello Everybody! There Is No Global Warming!’: Weather Channel Founder Goes Off on Climate Change | TheBlaze.com

‘Hello Everybody! There Is No Global Warming!’: Weather Channel Founder Goes Off on Climate Change | TheBlaze.com:

"Coleman then attacked CNN:

CNN has taken a very strong position on global warming, [saying] that it is a consensus. Well there is no consensus in science. Science isn’t a vote. Science is about facts…[Man-made climate change] has been become a big political point of the Democratic Party and part of their platform, but the science is on my side."

Ya caint fix what da folks don't want fixed-------Federal agency's report: Muskegon Family Care didn't consider costs or alternatives for celebrity fundraiser

Federal agency's report: Muskegon Family Care didn't consider costs or alternatives for celebrity fundraiser | MLive.com:
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – The Muskegon Family Care administration used pricey advertising services and the help of celebrities for an extravagant fundraiser and golf tournament last year, but the occasion failed to generate returns.
....A finalized "limited scope review," completed by HRSA's Division of Financial Integrity in August and obtained by MLive Muskegon Chronicle under the Freedom of Information Act in October, said Muskegon Family Care spent $177,053 on costs related to the effort but raised only $23,114.
...The report, authored by HRSA program integrity officials Joshua Campos and Nancy Czarnecki, said Muskegon Family Care used PayPal.com to collect fundraiser donations but did not transfer the funds to the facility's operating account until January when the financial integrity team visited the site.
...In addition to the six-figure sum provided to Purpose Place, the center spent another $69,553 on other services.
Some of the larger expenses included: $11,400 mostly for first-class airfare for Bridges, Hildreth, celebrities and the owner of Purpose Place; about $15,000 in Muskegon Country Club charges and more than $18,000 for stays at the JW Marriott in Grand Rapids, the Doubletree in Los Angeles and the Montage Beverly Hills luxury hotel.
...Former Muskegon Family Care board member Sonya Hernandez, who told the Chronicle in an email that she resigned last October because of ongoing "shady" situations, said the board approved the fundraiser because Bridges said the effort would come at no cost to the health center.

Ya think this only happens in NC?-------NOT!-------UNC scandal: An acute case of what ails academia

UNC scandal: An acute case of what ails academia | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Throughout this year, the full scale of the academic scandal at the University of North Carolina has gradually been laid bare.
This was not a mere case of cheating or misbehavior, nor is it merely a college sports scandal. 
It is a systematic, two-decade-long conspiracy involving academic advisers, students, at least one low-level administrator and the chairman of the university's Afro-American studies department.

More than 3,000 students — nearly half of them athletes — were permitted to take African-American Studies classes that involved no work, no attendance and obviously no learning. 
They were essentially expected to plagiarize their final papers, or else just write nonsensical essays — and many did. In the cases of several star athletes, the grades — which were (incredibly) awarded by the department's secretary and signed off by its chairman — kept them eligible to play basketball or football."

VIDEO: Greg Gutfeld GOES OFF: They’re NOT ‘Lone Wolves,’ They’re JIHADISTS!

VIDEO: Greg Gutfeld GOES OFF: They’re NOT ‘Lone Wolves,’ They’re JIHADISTS!:

"Still, what should we make of these “lone wolf” attacks like the hatchet-wielding Muslim who attacked two of New York’s finest? Or what of the Oklahoma nutcase who beheaded a former coworker in the name of Allah?
 Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld recently denounced the term “lone wolf” to describe these Islamic jihadists, claiming that such a term denies the inherent evil in their actions and the zealotry in their hearts.
“Seriously, lone wolf could be the name of an edgy cop show from the 1980’s, one starring Jan Michael Vincent before the downslide,” Gutfeld said. “‘Lone Wolf’ is about an ex-mercenary out to settle a score, always outside the law and usually on after ‘MacGyver.”

Latest malady: ‘pre-traumatic stress disorder’ via ‘climate depression’

Latest malady: ‘pre-traumatic stress disorder’ via ‘climate depression’

Camille Parmesan shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007 based on her work on the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
A professor at Plymouth University and the University of Texas at Austin, she became so “professionally depressed” a couple years ago that she considered quitting.
“I felt like here was this huge signal I was finding and no one was paying attention to it,” Parmesan says. 

“I was really thinking, ‘Why am I doing this?’”
Parmesan appears to be suffering from “pre-traumatic stress disorder,” a term coined by forensic psychiatrist Lise Van Susteren.

Grist reports:

“It’s an intense preoccupation with thoughts we cannot get out of our minds,” Van Susteren says. And for some, it’s a preoccupation that extends well outside of the office. “Everyday irritations as parents and spouses have their place, they’re legitimate,” she says. “But when you’re talking about thousands of years of impacts and species, giving a shit about whether you’re going to get the right soccer equipment or whether you forgot something at school is pretty tough.”

What’s even more deflating for a climate scientist is when sounding the alarm on climatic catastrophes seems to fall on deaf ears. “How would that make you feel? You take this information to someone and they say they don’t believe you, as if it’s a question of beliefs,” says Jeffrey Kiehl, senior scientist for climate change research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. “I’m not talking about religion here, I’m talking about facts.

Van Susteren recommends a few “climate trauma survival tips” for folks like Parmesan, including meditation, therapy, and “taking particular care to reinforce boundaries between work and one’s personal life.”

Hey, how about that — basically the same stuff anyone else in a stressful profession may make use of.

Grist’s Brentin Mock goes further, arguing that climate scientists should get brutally honest with emotional language: “Forgive my language here, but if scientists are looking for a clearer language to express the urgency of climate change, there’s no clearer word that expresses that urgency than FUCK.”

Halloween ABSURD: Do You Know What a Teal Pumpkin Means?

Halloween ABSURD: Do You Know What a Teal Pumpkin Means?:

Happy Halloween. Do you know what a teal pumpkin means? Here’s a hint: it doesn’t mean you’re gay. But it does mean you are politically correct . . . as far as the food police and peanutzis are concerned. Apparently, teal is the new black. And the new color signifying we’re even more of a nation of wusses than we were last Halloween. Congrats, America.

This Halloween, Food Allergy Research & Education, a national nonprofitgroup, is encouraging communities to put teal-painted pumpkins or free printable signs in their front yards to alert trick-or-treaters they have nonfood offerings in addition to candy. “We’re hoping this becomes a tradition for years to come,” said Veronica LaFemina, FARE’s campaign spokeswoman. The Teal Pumpkin Project is not an effort to scrub Halloween of its traditional candy treats but instead an effort to help kids with food allergies, including those at risk of life-threatening anaphylaxis.

"Who won the Civil War?"-----Politically-Challenged: Texas Tech Edition

UNC scandal: An acute case of what ails academia | WashingtonExaminer.com

UNC scandal: An acute case of what ails academia | WashingtonExaminer.com:

"More than 3,000 students — nearly half of them athletes — were permitted to take African-American Studies classes that involved no work, no attendance and obviously no learning. They were essentially expected to plagiarize their final papers, or else just write nonsensical essays — and many did. In the cases of several star athletes, the grades — which were (incredibly) awarded by the department's secretary and signed off by its chairman — kept them eligible to play basketball or football."

After flushing a trillion gallons into the Pacific, California finally gets rain by Kevin Whiteman

After flushing a trillion gallons into the Pacific, California finally gets rain by Kevin Whiteman: "While Mother Nature has been particularly cruel to the state, more than a few Californios blame the Feds for making an already bad situation worse.
After environmental activists eventually convinced a federal judge almost six years ago to save the Snail Darter fish from the edge of extinction, fresh water designated for the agricultural powerhouse that is California’s Central Valley would have to be purged from the state’s series of reservoirs, aqueducts, storage facilities and canals, only to be essentially flushed into the Pacific Ocean. 
The Snail Darter is normally cut up into hook-sized pieces by locals as bait.
As cited by the HotAir.com news portal on Feb. 15, 2014, the Eureka State’s planners constructed a water system over a half century ago that would ensure a ready supply of runoff …"

This explains the "success" of the democrat party/socialism/communism------How facts backfire

How facts backfire - The Boston Globe:
"If people are furnished with the facts, they will be clearer thinkers and better citizens.
If they are ignorant, facts will enlighten them.
If they are mistaken, facts will set them straight.
In the end, truth will out.
Won’t it?
Maybe not.
Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information.
It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds.
In fact, quite the opposite.
In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. 
In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. 
Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. 
Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
This bodes ill for a democracy, because most voters — the people making decisions about how the country runs — aren’t blank slates.
They already have beliefs, and a set of facts lodged in their minds.
The problem is that sometimes the things they think they know are objectively, provably false.
And in the presence of the correct information, such people react very, very differently than the merely uninformed. 
Instead of changing their minds to reflect the correct information, they can entrench themselves even deeper.
“The general idea is that it’s absolutely threatening to admit you’re wrong,” says political scientist Brendan Nyhan, the lead researcher on the Michigan study.
The phenomenon — known as “backfire” — is “a natural defense mechanism to avoid that cognitive dissonance.”"