History for April 5

History for April 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas Hobbes 1588, Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery), Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower")


Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Agnetha Faltskog 1950 - Singer (ABBA), Brad Van Pelt 1951 - Football player


1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.


1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.


1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began the first regular production of balloon tires.


1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister.


1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."


1998 - The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world. It links Shikoku and Honshu. The bridge cost about $3.8 billion.


1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bombing a Pan Am jet in 1988 were handed over so they could be flown to the Netherlands for trial. 270 people were killed in the bombing.


2009 - North Korea launched the Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket, prompting an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

Planned Parenthood Finalizes Partnership With Public Schools

Planned Parenthood Finalizes Partnership With Public Schools:

"Planned Parenthood representatives have announced a partnership with select public school systems in California, Illinois, and Maryland. Planned Parenthood representative Janice Morley told reporters during a press conference that she is hopeful the partnership will extend to several additional states by late 2016."

Ethanol Mandates Need to Go

Ethanol Mandates Need to Go | Economics21
Burning food for fuel does not sound like the best idea. 
However, that is precisely what U.S. ethanol policy requires.
Though federal supports for ethanol have changed over the past decades, the disappointing results of the program—including the waste of motorists’ dollars—have continued. In what follows, my Manhattan Institute colleague Robert Bryce explains why Americans are still stuck with destructive ethanol programs that do not help the environment, promote energy independence, or aid the economy:
...More importantly, thanks to Congress, we have a federal mandate that requires retailers to blend about 13 billion gallons of corn ethanol per year into the gasoline they sell to the public. 
That mandate is just another form of subsidy because it requires motorists to buy a fuel that, on an energy-equivalent basis costs more than conventional gasoline.
Making matters worse, ethanol is corrosive, hydrophilic (meaning it absorbs water), and it’s bad for small engines.
Regarding that last point, I am compelled to add a personal anecdote.
I have a small (4 horsepower) outboard engine that I use on my old wooden boat.
A few weeks ago, I had it serviced.
As I handed it over, I asked the mechanic (James, the owner of Highland Outboards) how many of the engines he works on have been damaged by ethanol.
His reply: “all of them.”
Lots here.
Read on!

How Hillary’s awful ‘unborn person’ blunder will be covered by ‘Big 3 networks’

How Hillary’s awful ‘unborn person’ blunder will be covered by ‘Big 3 networks’ | BizPac Review: "Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton made a major gaffe during an appearance Sunday on “Meet the Press” in response to a question about rights for unborn children.
A gaffe that Newsbusters predicts will not make the Big Three networks’ morning shows on Monday.
In seven short words, Clinton undermined the left’s position on abortions from day one that the embryo is just a clump of cells: “The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
...In comparison to the wall-to-wall coverage Republican front-runner Donald Trump saw last week when he stumbled over a question on abortion, the media’s reaction Monday to Clinton’s “leftist heresy” will be a follow-up worth monitoring."

‘Russian Rambo’ Makes This Crucial Decision After Being Surrounded on All Sides by Islamic State Terrorists in Syria | TheBlaze.com

‘Russian Rambo’ Makes This Crucial Decision After Being Surrounded on All Sides by Islamic State Terrorists in Syria | TheBlaze.com:

"The last actions of the “Russian Rambo” who died in Syria earlier this month after allegedly calling in an airstrike on himself to wipe out dozens of surrounding Islamic State militants have been receiving widespread honor and acclaim as further details emerge concerning his final moments."

Ted Nugent's 20 Reasons to Vote for Trump Go Viral... Liberals Horrified

Ted Nugent's 20 Reasons to Vote for Trump Go Viral... Liberals Horrified: 
Obama is against Trump

The Media is against Trump
The establishment Democrats are against Trump
The establishment Republicans are against Trump
The Pope is against Trump
The UN is against Trump
The EU is against Trump
China is against Trump
Mexico is against Trump
Soros is against Trump
Black Lives Matter is against Trump
MoveOn.Org is against Trump
Koch Bro’s are against Trump
Hateful, racist, violent Liberals are against Trump

"Nugent even provided a few “bonus points” for a Trump presidency as well:

• Cher says she will leave the country
• Mylie Cyrus says she will leave the country
• Whoopi says she will leave the country
• Rosie says she will leave the country
• Al Sharpton says he will leave the country
• Gov. Brown says California will build a wall

Father Banned from Taking His Son To Church Because Ex-Wife is Muslim

Father Banned from Taking His Son To Church Because Ex-Wife is Muslim | Creeping Sharia:
"A British father has been banned from taking his nine year old son to church, as his ex-wife is a Muslim. 
The ruling stipulates he must also feed the boy Halal food and assure him he is an ordinary Muslim boy.
The father has been threatened with loss of custody if he breaks the ban – but he has vowed to challenge the ruling, saying that his son is being brainwashed into Islam and that he doesn’t want him becoming a “dumb sheep”.
...Following his divorce he has been forging close connections to his local Christian community and would like his son to attend with him, hoping to broadening his world-view.
But his ex-wife has secured a court order by District Judge Williscroft at Derby County Court, preventing him from taking his son to church or even to the leisure centre it runs.
...“My son is being indoctrinated and the only way I can show him other things is to take him to other places.”
And the order goes further: banning the boy’s father, who has custody of his son at weekends only, from taking him to any religious event or Christian building.
He must also only feed the boy Halal food, and, bizarrely must reassure the child he is “an ordinary Muslim boy following Muslim rules...” 

Lunch video-----"Hillary's America" | Theatrical Trailer HD

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Fed Up With Migrants Pitching Tents on His Property, Greek Farmer Gets to Work on His Tractor and Plow | Video | TheBlaze.com

Fed Up With Migrants Pitching Tents on His Property, Greek Farmer Gets to Work on His Tractor and Plow | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A Greek farmer fed up with migrants who have turned his field into a virtual refugee tent camp took his tractor last week and began plowing between the tents.

The farmer, identified by news outlets as Lazaros Oulis was videotaped as he plowed his field while the migrants looked on."

Disconcerting-----Hacker reveals $40 attack that steals police drones from 2km away

Hacker reveals $40 attack that steals police drones from 2km away • The Register:
"No encryption in pro-grade drones: just sniff Wi-Fi and copy signals
Black Hat Asia IBM security guy Nils Rodday says thieves can hijack expensive professional drones used widely across the law enforcement, emergency, and private sectors thanks to absent encryption in on-board chips.
Rodday says the €25,000 quadcopters can be hijacked with less than $40 of hardware, and some basic knowledge of radio communications.
With that in hand attackers can commandeer radio links to the drones from up to two kilometres away, and block operators from reconnecting to the craft.
The drone is often used by emergency services across Europe, but the exposure could be much worse; the targeted Xbee chip is common in drones everywhere and Rodday says it is likely many more aircraft are open to compromise..."

Gender-Neutral Bathrooms: Man Arrested For Filming Women

Gender-Neutral Bathrooms: Man Arrested For Filming Women | The Federalist Papers
"This is what “gender-neutral” bathrooms gets you:
A cross-dressing California man was arrested after he walked into a women’s bathroom and started videotaping.
Jason Pomare, 33, was arrested in Palmdale last weekend after mall security were alerted that a man dressed as a woman was hanging out in a Lancaster Macy’s department store women’s bathroom.
The guards called the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who found the man hiding in a mall storage area, Breitbart is reporting.
When deputies encountered Pomare, he was wearing a wig and women’s clothing – including a bra. “The deputy noticed he was wearing a wig and appeared to have breasts,” Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Hudson said.
In searching Pomare, they found a video camera in his purse. 
The camera had hours of footage of women using the bathroom inside the store.
He would conceal the camera in bathroom stalls.
The woman who called security said she noticed a “red light” and found the hidden camera hidden inside Pomare’s purse in the next stall.
He was apparently sitting in the bathroom for at least two hours..."
Read on and remember who supports this idiocy! (Hint: DEMOCRATS)

European Union: These Five Risks Could Blow It Up

European Union: These Five Risks Could Blow It Up:
Risk #2: Unmanageable Greece

Communism Part IV: American Radicals | Glenn Beck

Communism Part IV: American Radicals | Glenn Beck:
"Communism Part IV: American Radicals
Income equality, thriving economies parody throughout society.
Perpetual peace.
Utopia.
These were the lofty goals and idealistic promises of communism.
One hundred million dead during peacetime, continual war and/or the threat of it, economic disaster, state-controlled media, governmental lies, labor camps, concentration camps, starvation, police states, lack of freedom, and state-sponsored atheism.
This is the reality of communism.
By its fruits ye shall know them.
Thanks in large part to the Constitution of the United States of America, Americans have largely avoided these fruits, but not entirely.
And the danger still exists."

EU STARS: EU bosses demand that EU stars be incorporated in Union Jack

EU STARS: EU bosses demand that EU stars be incorporated in Union Jack | Politics | News | Daily Express:
EUROPEAN UNION chiefs are drawing up secret plans ordering member nations to incorporate the ‘ring of stars’ emblem of the Council of Europe into their flags.
Graphic artists in Brussels have even drawn up proposed designs which show the blue and gold Flag of Europe either displayed in the top left hand corner or even more brazenly in the CENTRE of the existing national flags.
The move is being pushed through prior to the UK vote on EU membership on June 23 in what is seen by critics as a cynical bid to officially cement Britain’s links to the European Union.
A high ranking Brussels-based diplomat who leaked the plans to Express.co.uk said: “The idea of incorporating the 12 stars into national flags has been around as long as the Council of Europe has existed."

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History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Dorothea Dix 1802, Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock), William Manchester 1922


Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psyco" series), Hugh Masekela 1939 - Musician, band leader, Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Turner and Hooch", "Stir Crazy", "Poltergeist")


1581 - Francis Drake completed the circumnavigation of the world.


1818 - A plan was passsed by the U.S. Congress that the U.S. flag would have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.


1918 - The Battle of Somme, an offensive by the British against the German Army ended.


1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.


1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.


1949 - Twelve nations signed a treaty to create The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.


1973 - In New York, the original World Trade Center twin towers opened. At the time they were the tallest building in the world.

Cruz to Newsmax: Kasich Is 'Spoiler' Helping Trump

Cruz to Newsmax: Kasich Is 'Spoiler' Helping Trump:

"Ted Cruz feels confident he can beat Donald Trump in a contested Republican National Convention, but he told Newsmax, his path to the nomination would be much easier if John Kasich were not in the race and delegates committed to Marco Rubio and others now out of the race came over to him."

If You Don’t Want to be Marked Down for Using Trigger Words, DON’T TAKE THESE CLASSES!

If You Don’t Want to be Marked Down for Using Trigger Words, DON’T TAKE THESE CLASSES! | Intellectual Takeout:
"Another example of the censorial character of modern universities is making its way around the internet.
According to the original article in Campus Reform (a conservative site), “Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ and ‘female,’ or if they fail to ‘defer’ to non-white students.”
The article goes on to point out that “several other WSU professors require their students to ‘acknowledge that racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and other institutionalized forms of oppression exist’ or that ‘we do not live in a post-racial world.’”
Now, we at Intellectual Takeout are definitely concerned about the trend toward linguistic sanitization at today’s colleges, which has been highlighted in recent Atlantic articles here and here.
BUT… the examples above are taken from courses titled “Women & Popular Culture,” “Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies,” “Introduction to Multicultural Literature,” and “Race and Racism in US Popular Culture.”...

Air France stewardesses mutiny over order to wear headscarves

Air France stewardesses mutiny over order to wear headscarves:
Air France stewardesses, furious at being ordered to wear headscarves in Tehran, say they will refuse to fly to the Iranian capital when the airline resumes the service later this month.
Female members of flight crews have been ordered to cover their hair once they disembark in Tehran and unions are demanding that the flights be made voluntary for women.
The resumption of a thrice-weekly service between Paris and Tehran, planned for April 17 after an eight-year break, follows a thaw in relations since Iran agreed to dismantle large sections of its nuclear programme.
Iranian women have been forced by law to cover their hair or face stiff fines since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
...In Saudi Arabia, stewardesses must wear the “abaya”, a long robe that covers the body, but unlike Saudi women they are not compelled to wear face veils..."

Communism Part III: The Rise in America | Glenn Beck

Communism Part III: The Rise in America | Glenn Beck:

"Communism Part III: The Rise in America
America has been the single biggest force in changing the fortunes of the world, more than any other nation ever conceived. As such, you would assume the nation would be celebrated. And with many, it is. But with others, it’s mocked, ridiculed, derided, blamed and demonized. And then there are those within its own borders who have sought to fundamentally transform it.

Ever since communism took root in Russia and began spreading its philosophy around the globe, the United States has been fighting its spread from the outside. The more difficult battle, however, has come from within. Even with the freedom, prosperity and quality of life in America, for a variety of reasons, there have always been dissenters."

Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU

Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU - Telegraph:
"THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European precedents on civil liberties.
The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a critique of European monetary integration entitled The Rotten Heart of Europe.
The ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to "protect the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the institution's image and reputation".
The case has wider implications for free speech that could extend to EU citizens who do not work for the Brussels bureaucracy.
The court called the Connolly book "aggressive, derogatory and insulting", taking particular umbrage at the author's suggestion that Economic and Monetary Union was a threat to democracy, freedom and "ultimately peace".
However, it dropped an argument put forward three months ago by the advocate-general, Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, which implied that Mr Connolly's criticism of the EU was akin to extreme blasphemy, and therefore not protected speech."...

Important health news!!-----10 Fart Facts You Did Not Know About

10 Fart Facts You Did Not Know About: 
"Farts, the completely natural, smelly, relaxing outlet of air from your rectum that makes you laugh, pinch your nose, and feel good about yourself. 
But there is so much more to fart than what you think you knew.
So here are some weird fart facts, just in case you felt you didn't know enough about the stink bombs."
7) Women's farts are stinkier.

Its been observed that even though women don't fart as much as men, their farts tend to be more stinkier due to the higher concentration of hydrogen sulfide.

Donald Trump - The American Gladiator **Warning Graphic Content**

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#VSPShooting: Trooper Assassin James Brown III was a cop-hating Django

#VSPShooting: Trooper Assassin James Brown III was a cop-hating Django:

"CBS 6 interviewed Brown’s aunt, who had helped raised him and left no doubt about the killer’s motives. This rage-filled assassin hated cops, had amassed a mile-long rap sheet, and cheered other cop-killers. "He always liked the criminal side," she told the station.
"He had a lot of anger about the police in the past," she added. "He pretty much thought he wanted to be infamous . . ."

This is how it starts-----Donald Trump 'Banned' From West Hollywood

Donald Trump 'Banned' From West Hollywood - Breitbart:
"Donald Trump is not welcome to host campaign events in West Hollywood, the city’s mayor said this week.
In an open letter to the 87 other mayors in Los Angeles County and in an op-ed for the Advocate, West Hollywood Mayor Lindsey Horvath wrote that the Republican presidential frontrunner would be barred from making campaign appearances in her city in an effort to shield the community from the candidate’s of “hate speech and violent rhetoric.”
“I firmly believe it is the responsibility of those of us in leadership to use our words and actions wisely.
That is why I took the opportunity to express how deeply disturbed I am by the Trump presidential campaign and to call out their destructive tactics,” Horvath, 34, wrote in the op-ed.
“The campaign has gone beyond its right to express a political point of view or policy differences, which we all have to greater or lesser degrees.
The hate speech and implicit calls to violence coming from Trump and his campaign are beyond the pale and have no place in any community in our country,” she added.
In an email to the Washington Examiner, Horvath said that both Republican and Democratic candidates had made campaign stops in West Hollywood in the past, “[but] those same Horvath courtesies will not be extended to the Trump campaign.”
The mayor also said she had instructed city staffers that they may refuse to issue special permits to the Trump campaign to hold official events in the city, and that it is “well with[in] [their] right” to do so.
“We do not have to agree or like one another, but as Americans and political figures in the public eye, we share a responsibility to lead by example,” Horvath concluded her open letter.
“I take that responsibility very seriously, and I ask that you do the same.”...

Turkey: The Business of Refugee Smuggling, Sex Trafficking

Turkey: The Business of Refugee Smuggling, Sex Trafficking:

• Professional criminals convince parents that their daughters are going to a better life in Turkey. The parents are given 2000-5000 Turkish liras ($700-$1700) as a "bride price" -- an enormous sum for a poor Syrian family.
• "Girls between the ages of twelve and sixteen are referred to as pistachios, those between seventeen and twenty are called cherries, twenty to twenty-two are apples, and anyone older is a watermelon." — From a report on Turkey, by End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT).
• Many Muslims have difficulty with, or even an aversion to, assimilating into the Western culture. Many seem to have the aim of importing to Europe the culture of intimidation, rape and abuse from which they fled.
• Although the desperate victims are their Muslim sisters and brothers, wealthy Arab states do not take in refugees. The people in this area know too well that asylum seekers would bring with them problems, both social and economic. For many Muslim men such as wealthy, aging Saudis, it is easier to buy Syrian children from Turkey, Syria or Jordan as cheap sex slaves.

On International Women's Day, March 8, Turkish news outlets covered the tragic life and early death of a Syrian child bride.
Last August, in Aleppo, Mafe Zafur, 15, married her cousin Ibrahim Zafur in an Islamic marriage. 
The couple moved to Turkey, but the marriage ended after six months, when her husband abruptly threw out of their home. 
With nowhere to sleep, Mafe found shelter with her brother, 19, and another cousin, 14, in an abandoned truck.
On 8 March, Mafe killed herself, reportedly with a shotgun. 
Her only possession, found in her pocket, was her handwritten marriage certificate.
Mafe Zafur is only one of many young Syrians who have been victims of child marriage. 
Human rights groups report even greater abuse that gangs are perpetrating against the approximately three million Syrians who have fled to Turkey..."

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year - The Washington Post: "Here's an interesting factoid about contemporary policing:
In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. 
Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog, Armstrong Economics, last week.
Officers can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with a crime — yes, really! — through the highly controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture. 
Last year, according to the Institute for Justice, the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds.
That same year, the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion.
...Still, boil down all the numbers and caveats above and you arrive at a simple fact:
In the United States, in 2014, more cash and property transferred hands via civil asset forfeiture than via burglary.
The total value of asset forfeitures was more than one-third of the total value of property stolen by criminals in 2014. 
That represents something of a sea change in the way police do business — and it's prompting plenty of scrutiny of the practice.

REVEALED: Bill for Obama's Christmas Just Came in... Nothing Can Prepare You for This

REVEALED: Bill for Obama's Christmas Just Came in... Nothing Can Prepare You for This:

"“The American people have every right to be appalled that Barack Obama wastes their precious tax dollars on an endless stream of golf vacations, political fundraisers, and exorbitant vacations,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “The Obama travel issue is about abuse of office, abuse of the taxpayer, and contempt for the rule of law.”

Fitton is absolutely right that the American people are appalled at the taxpayer money being wasted by Obama for nonofficial trips, vacations and golf outings, particularly when many are still struggling in a seemingly stagnant economy."

The more marijuana you smoke the more likely you are to be a loser

The more marijuana you smoke the more likely you are to be a loser | Daily Mail Online:
"The more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be a loser, finds international study

• Persistent users likely to be lower paid and have relationship difficulties
• Research found abusers ended up in a lower social class than their parents
• Also more prone to be in less skilled, prestigious jobs and to run into debt
• Study by Californian university followed children from birth up to age of 38

International research has revealed that the more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be lower paid and have relationship difficulties.
The study followed children from birth up to the age of 38 and found people who smoked cannabis four or more days a week over many years ended up in a lower social class than their parents.
It also found that regular and persistent users ended up with lower-paying, less skilled and less prestigious jobs than those who were not regular cannabis smokers.
Financial, work-related and relationship difficulties were further experienced by those taking the drug, which worsened as the number of years of regular cannabis use progressed..."

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