History for March 22 - On-This-Day.com: Karl Malden 1913 - Actor, William Shatner 1931 - Actor ("Star Trek" television series and movies), Glen Campbell 19
James Patterson 1947 - Author, Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 - Composer, Reese Witherspoon 1976 - Actress ("Legally Blonde") 1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book. 1733 - Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water (seltzer). 1894 - The first playoff competition for the Stanley Cup began. Montreal played Ottawa. 1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought. 1907 - In Paris, it was reported that male cab drivers dressed as women to attract riders. 1935 - Persia was renamed Iran. 1954 - The first shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan. 1978 - Karl Wallenda, of the Flying Wallendas, fell to his death while walking a cable strung between to hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"The Chinese company, Anbang Insurance Group, has been on a buying spree in the U.S. and Europe. They already acquired the famous Waldorf Astoria in New York, the Blackstone group of Hotels (Marriott, Renaissance) and they purchased Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance.
Anbang’s Chairman, Wu Xiaohui, is married to the granddaughter of China’s former leader Deng Xiaoping and one of its directors is the son of a Communist Revolution-era top general. With their command economy, the Communist Chinese routinely direct so-called “private” companies and their actions."
Is yours a hot Somali city? « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
"Leo Hohmann writing at World Net Daily on Friday has posted a very detailed report on a vexing question. Does it make any sense for US taxpayers to pay for programs to keep Somali refugee youths from becoming Islamic terrorists while those same taxpayers shell out millions of tax dollars every year to bring more unwilling-to-assimilate Somalis to America?
Please read his excellent analysis (you may have seen it on the Drudge Report already).
But, I wanted you to see this very cool graphic posted there.
Is top Somali resettlement site, Minneapolis, on the way to having its own Molenbeek (the Islamic section of Brussels)?"
A one-time death row inmate beaten by police: $6.1 million.
An unarmed man fatally shot by an officer: $4.1 million.
And last year, the family of Laquan McDonald, the black teenager shot 16 times by a white officer, received $5 million.
His death, captured in a shocking video, led to a murder charge against the officer, the police commissioner’s firing and thunderous street protests with calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation.
Chicago has paid a staggering sum — about $662 million — on police misconduct since 2004, including judgments, settlements and outside legal fees, according to city records.
The payouts, for everything from petty harassment to police torture, have brought more financial misery to a city already drowning in billions of dollars of pension debt..."
Seth Lipsky’s opinion piece in the New York Post, titled “By Hamilton’s Rules on Supreme picks, the Senate’s Right and Obama’s Wrong,” reviews Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist 69 articles and located an article where Hamilton, writing under the pen name Publius, wrote of a likely and now current scenario, in which the Senate may find themselves divided on a supreme court justice nomination."
Michigan Schools Let Students Pick Gender | The Daily Caller:
"Michigan’s State Board of Education has drafted a guidance that would push the state’s schools to allow all students, regardless of parental or doctoral input, to choose their gender, name, pronouns, and bathrooms.
Spearheaded by board president John C. Austin and signed by state superintendent Brian Whiston, the guidance informs Michigan public schools that only the students themselves–i.e. not their parents or doctors–can determine what their individual gender identities are. “The responsibility for determining a student’s gender identity rests with the student. Outside confirmation from medical or mental health professionals, or documentation of legal changes, is not needed,” the guidance states.
Gender identity is defined in the guidance as “a person’s deeply held internal sense or psychological knowledge of their own gender, regardless of the biological sex they were assigned at birth.” Notably, the guidance makes no mention of a student’s age affecting whether or not they can pick a gender without their parent or doctor.
In fact, the guidance seems to intentionally cut parents out of the process.
The guidance states: “School staff should address students by their chosen name and pronouns that correspond to their gender identity, regardless of whether there has been a legal name change...”"
Arizona and Florida expose early voting debacle | Washington Examiner:
"This Tuesday's election contest in Arizona could determine whether anyone enters July's Republican National Convention with the delegate majority needed to clinch the the nomination.
Unfortunately, at least 40,000 Arizona Republicans wasted their votes. And they did so because of a system that is supposed to help them.
As of last Wednesday afternoon, at least a quarter million registered Republicans had already voted in Arizona, taking advantage of the state's 26-day early voting period.
Based on the timeline, this means those 250,000 Arizona Republicans all voted without knowing Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., would no longer be a candidate by election day.
A poll taken last week suggests that 16 percent of Arizona early voters had already cast ballots for Rubio.
Assuming this is accurate, it means early voting disenfranchisement has struck again.
Arizona's early voting law has set up the state's democratic process in a way that lures 40,000 primary voters into picking a candidate who isn't on the ballot.
And they cannot get their votes back..."
"House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., has responded to the refusal by some Democrats to maintain the integrity of his committee’s work by refusing to give them documents the Democrats have threatened to leak.
Gowdy sought an assurance from Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., that Democrats would agree not to leak important information from the hearings. He did not get it."
American University candidates promise snowflakes 24-hour counseling, more 'inclusion' - The College Fix:
"It’s election season at American University, and candidates for student body president are telling students exactly what they want to hear:
Your lives are hard, and we care. ...Devontae Torriente, who already got the American administration to adopt a modified version of the microaggression reporting proposal he helped develop, wants even more “diversity and inclusion” on campus:
One of Torriente’s specific initiatives to further diversity and inclusion involves supporting a professor who is currently trying to push for the African American and African Diaspora Studies minor to expand into a major.
Mascaro, who is white, promised to let nonwhite students develop his diversity policy:
“I’ll be the first to admit that as a white man, I have not experienced racism, and I never will experience racism,” Mascaro said during the debate.
“So, I am not the person who should be leading the charge on this issue. I have to lead from behind.”...
Artist uses Peeps to create Easter portrait of Donald Trump | MLive.com:
"This is the first Peeps project for Wisconsin artist Cynthia Lund Torroll, whose art is usually rendered in black and white pencil drawings.
She was inspired to work in the Peeps medium at the urging of a family member."
"The reason why may be more sinister than most would like to believe — and it has ties to Kasich’s donors.
LifeSite News reported that none other than George Soros is linked to Kasich’s presidential campaign. The Soros Fund Management was listed as the sixth highest individual donor to the governor’s campaign, with $202,700 given thus far.
George Soros, of course, is a big-time liberal player who has donated over $8 million to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary’ Clinton’s campaign."
Judge blasts city in firing of teacher charged with raping kid | New York Post:
"A Manhattan judge known for pro-teacher rulings may overturn the firing of a middle-school teacher accused of bedding her 12-year-old student because she says the city did not play fair.
Supreme Court Judge Alice Schlesinger blasted the city Department of Education, saying it apparently used evidence sealed after teacher Claudia Tillery was acquitted in a criminal trial. “I do agree that a teacher having a relationship with a 12-year-old boy, or a girl, is way, way, way beyond acceptable,” Schlesinger said in a hearing last week. “But they had no authority to unseal a sealed record.”
Tillery, who taught at MS 35 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was charged in November 2011 with rape, having repeated sex with a male student in her home and in a motel while plying him with liquor and marijuana and with giving him cash and gifts.
But a Brooklyn jury acquitted Tillery in April 2014 after her two kids and their homeless, schizophrenic father testified in her defense."
History for March 21 - On-This-Day.com: Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 - Composer, Timothy Dalton 1944 - Actor, Eddie Money 1949 - Singer Gary Oldman 1958 - Actor, Rosie O'Donnell 1962 - Comedian, actress, Matthew Broderick 1962 - Actor ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off") 1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state. 1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa. 1908 - A passenger was carried in a bi-plane for the first time by Henri Farman of France. 1918 - During World War I, the Germans launched the Somme Offensive. 1963 - Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, CA, closed. 1965 - The U.S. launched Ranger 9. It was the last in a series of unmanned lunar explorations. 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. 1980 - On the TV show "Dallas", J.R. Ewing was shot.
"Victims of the attack were infuriated by Time’s coverage.
“I had no idea that leaving me with two scars on my body and a punctured lung — after stabbing me with a 20-centimeter-long knife — was professional artwork, not terrorism,” Maya Rachimi, who was wounded, told Ynet.
Micah Avni, the son of the slain American-Israeli educator Lakin, said, “Those who cannot call terrorism terrorism, and condemn the murder of Israelis as well as American citizens, are part of the problem, and are inciting to terrorism by staying silent.”
"The reason why may be more sinister than most would like to believe — and it has ties to Kasich’s donors.
LifeSite News reported that none other than George Soros is linked to Kasich’s presidential campaign. The Soros Fund Management was listed as the sixth highest individual donor to the governor’s campaign, with $202,700 given thus far.
George Soros, of course, is a big-time liberal player who has donated over $8 million to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary’ Clinton’s campaign."
Flint-level lead numbers found in water at 4 area sites: "...Lead comparable to levels in Flint, Michigan, has contaminated drinking water sources in a place you might least expect: the picturesque mountains near Estes Park, known for its spectacular views of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Documents show four locations clustered near Estes Park since 2012 have met or exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s action level for lead in drinking water.
The results catapulted Larimer County among the counties with the most sites in the state with drinking water test results of 15 or more parts of lead per billion parts of water between 2012 and 2015.
Fort Collins tested well below federal lead standards..."
It wasn’t too many years ago that the US State Department made a point of not sending new refugees to Michigan because of the poor job prospects for everyone there. But, all that has changed and now Michigan is regularly in the top five resettlement states in the nation. See here. These numbers would move Michigan to the #3 spot behind Texas and California in national ranking.
Michigan will get over 5,000!!! Lutherans are lead agency. Security concerns to be ignored!
Michigan is expected to take in more than 5,000 refugees this year, the highest number since 2002, amid renewed concerns about security and the latest effort in Congress to overhaul the U.S. Resettlement Program.
Since 2002, the earliest year for which U.S. officials say they have reliable state-by-state data,*** Michigan has resettled between about 500 and 4,500 refugees annually. State social service agencies say they plan to take in about 5,100 this year.
The expected influx comes as intelligence officials warn Islamic State members posing as refugees will likely launch an attack on U.S. soil this year...
And, by the way, it isn’t just security that concerns local resettlement restrictionists. The Refugee Admissions Program is costly to state and local taxpayers as well—think schools, medical care, subsidized housing.
See our entire Michigan archive by clicking here. Our post of just last week on the testimony by Jeh Johnson is here.
And, one last thing, if your city or state has been a “welcoming” one, expect a jump in your numbers. The resettlement contractors had a hard time finding places to seed 70,000 refugees in the 2015 fiscal year and this year Obama has instructed them to find locations for 85,000 third worlders. That means there will be very aggressive campaigns ongoing to expand existing sites and find new ones (like Montana).
***For diligent researchers: They have the data going back to the early 1980s. You can find it by laboriously looking throughORR annual reports to Congress. They just didn’t transfer the data to the new data base.
"BRUSSELS (TheBlaze/AP) — BRUSSELS (AP) — The main fugitive from Islamic extremist attacks in Paris in November, Salah Abdeslam, has been arrested in Belgium’s capital after four months at large, French police officials said Friday."
Islam—Facts or Dreams? - Imprimis: "...Now, you might be able to argue that he took scripture out of context or gave an incomplete account of it.
In my subsequent years of studying Islam, I’ve learned that this is not a particularly persuasive argument.
But even if one concedes for the purposes of discussion that it’s a colorable claim, the inconvenient fact remains: Abdel Rahman was not lying about Islam. When he said the scriptures command that Muslims strike terror into the hearts of Islam’s enemies, the scriptures backed him up..."
National security agency whistleblower edward snowden, has made a new controversial claim yesterday during an interview, saying that he possesses some classified information proving that the CIA is behind the “theory of global warming”.
...“I have documents showing that the CIA invented the whole thing,” claims Edward Snowden. “Global Warming was invented to both scare people, and divert their attention from other human-made dangers like nuclear weapons. The CIA gave millions of dollars to any scientist who would confirm the theory, so many unscrupulous scientists did what they were told in order to get the money. Now, there is so much fake data to confirm that Global Warming “exists”, that they actually convinced everyone that it was real.”
"Why Recall Grover Norquist?
While Mr. Norquist’s efforts on trying to reduce taxes are admirable, his co-founding of the Islamic Free Market Institute and its connections to highly suspect individuals are puzzling at best, very dangerous at worst.
Mr. Norquist has well-documented associations with radical Islamists, including Abdurahman Alamoudi who is serving a 23-year prison term on terrorism charges. Mr. Norquist’s Islamic Institute received two $10,000 contributions in 1999 drawn from the personal bank account of Alamoudi. But that’s only scratching the surface of Mr. Norquist’s connections to radical Islam.
The Center for Security Policy laid out a 101-page document that explicitly details Mr. Norquist’s history with Islamists directly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood."
Chicago Low-Income Housing Voucher: $4,000/mo. | Intellectual Takeout: The inequity of the program is insane. Whatever one’s opinion on government helping low-income or no-income individuals have roofs over their heads, it’s probably safe to say that most people would be outraged by a government program that gives some people nearly $4,000/mo. for housing while others get less than $1,000/mo. Too extreme to believe?
Here’s what Chicago’s Sun Times is reporting: “After buying a home in Barrington Hills, Chaoshan Lai and his wife couldn’t unload the 15-year-old townhouse that they’d bought for $935,000 in Central Station, a taxpayer-subsidized development in the South Loop where former Mayor Richard M. Daley lived for years. Lai couldn’t even find anyone to rent the townhouse on South Prairie Avenue — until he got a call in 2013 about a woman who’d gotten a ‘housing choice voucher,’ from the Chicago Housing Authority through a program that had long been called Section 8. Lai says the woman wanted to lease his three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath home, which has a library and is within walking distance of Soldier Field and the lakefront. ‘I said, “You probably cannot afford the rent,”’ Lai recalls. ‘But they said they have a special program in the “opportunity area” that pays much better. I said, “Let’s give it a shot.”’ It ended up being a good deal for Lai. Since June 1, 2013, he’s collected more than $100,000 from the CHA, which administers public housing in Chicago for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The CHA pays him $3,911 a month in federal funds to lease his townhouse to the woman and three others in her household, including a child under the age of 6, records show. It also has been a good deal for Lai’s tenant. She pays no rent because, CHA officials say, she has no income.” Here are more details of the program: Read on.....be near a toilet or barf bag.
College students can earn credit for attending 'Queer Sex Ed Workshop' - The College Fix:
"Some University of Michigan students can earn credit toward graduation for attending a “Queer Sex Ed Workshop” scheduled for next week.
The queer sex ed seminar is one workshop among 14 various events that make up the “LGBTQ+ Health & Wellness Week,” which launched March 13 and runs through March 25 at the state’s flagship public university.
Students enrolled in the university’s Residential College Forums program who attend the queer sex ed workshop will earn credit for their attendance, the university’s website states.
“In an hour and a half we will attempt to provide a space for instruction and discussion on a sexual education that was not given to use in school,” the event description states.
“Topics covered will include general anatomy and STI information, non-normative forms of contraception, safe sex toys, healthy hook ups, kinks, and much much more!”...
Vertical takeoff plane - Business Insider: Aurora Flight Sciences developed the "LightningStrike," a plane that will take off vertically, thereby rendering airport runways obsolete.
BOOM: Irish Leader Visits White House, Immediately Humiliates Obama in Front of Press:
"Irish leader Enda Kenny paid President Barack Obama a visit on Tuesday, and what he said in front of the press no doubt left the president frustrated and humiliated.
A reporter asked Kenny how he felt about expanding abortion rights and before he could answer, a White House staffer quickly interjected, “Next question.”
Judge Orders White House To Stop Hiding Its Bogus Global Warming 'Proof'
On January 8, 2014, the White House posted a controversial video claiming that global warming causes more severe winter cold.
Called “The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes,” it featured the director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), John P. Holdren, claiming that a “growing body of evidence” showed that the “extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States” at the time was “a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues.” [Editors Note:Holdren also believes Trees should be given standing to sue in courts]
This claim was questioned by many scientists and commentators... In April 2014, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sent a request for correction of this statement under the federal Information Quality Act, citing peer-reviewed scientific articles debunking it.
In June 2014, OSTP rejected this request, claiming that Holdren’s statement was his “personal opinion,” not the agency’s position, and that it thus did not constitute “information” subject to the Information Quality Act, which excludes “subjective opinions” from its reach.
...In February 2016, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that OSTP must produce these records,
...When OSTP produced the records on March 4, 2016 (they are at this link), they showed inconsistency in OSTP’s position over time.
...potential explanation for all this is that OSTP’s Polar Vortex video was originally produced and posted not as the personal opinion of the agency’s director, but as an agency project.
OSTP sought, and succeeded, in getting widespread news coverage for the film.
But once its inaccuracy became clear, the agency invoked the personal opinion excuse as a way of avoiding accountability, and it did its best to maintain that façade even if it meant going through time-consuming and expensive litigation. Here's the bogus video you paid for (actually, your children and grandchildren WILL pay for this:
