History for April 26

History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com
John James Audubon 1785 - Ornithologist, naturalist, painter, Rudolf Hess 1895 - Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party, Carol Burnett 1933 - Actress, comedian


Bobby Rydell 1942 - Singer, Jet Li 1963 - Actor ("Lethal Weapon 4," "War", "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor"), Jessica Lynch 1983 - U.S. Army soldier, she was the first successfully rescued POW since the Vietnam War and the first ever of a woman


1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.


1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.


1931 - New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run but was called out for passing a runner.


1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.


1954 - Grace Kelly was on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.


1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.


1983 - Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for first time.


1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.

DEVELOPING: Obama Set to Sign Deal Allowing Foreign Takeover of America's Land and Resources

DEVELOPING: Obama Set to Sign Deal Allowing Foreign Takeover of America's Land and Resources:

"Once shrouded in secrecy, President Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership is now becoming public, and what we’re discovering is absolutely frightening.

Apparently the deal reverses policies in place to protect national security.

Chapter 11 of the deal allows foreign investors the rights to acquire American land, businesses, ports, natural resources, infrastructure and other property."

What could possibly go wrong?-----Detroit medical marijuana shops sprout like weeds near the suburbs

Detroit medical marijuana shops sprout like weeds near the suburbs - Crain's Detroit Business
A new zoning law and suburban customer base are pushing medical marijuana dispensaries to the fringes of Detroit.
About 250 dispensaries have applied to operate under the new zoning law in Detroit, and an analysis shows clusters of retail medical marijuana shops operating along Eight Mile Road and the east side of Detroit, bordering Ferndale, Hazel Park, Eastpointe, Harper Woods and the Grosse Pointes.
"If you're looking for honey, where are all the bees?" said Grosse Pointe Park attorney Tim Dinan of Dinan and Associates PC, who represents both medical marijuana caregivers and patients.
"The bees are in the suburbs..."

One student calls mural of gun shooting flowers 'emotionally triggering' - artist paints over it

One student calls mural of gun shooting flowers 'emotionally triggering' - artist paints over it - The College Fix:
"Artistic self-censorship — over one complaint
Move over comedy — art may be the new offense on college campuses.
Case in point: A mural of a gun shooting flowers was largely covered over after it was accused by one student of being an “emotionally triggering” image that threatens black students at Pitzer College.
“My Black Mental and Emotional Health Matters.
I shouldn’t be reminded every time I leave my dorm room of how easy my life can be taken away, or how many Black lives have been taken away because of police brutality. 
This is emotionally triggering for very obvious reasons,” student senator Gregory Ochiagha had said in a mass email to students recently.
Original intent for the mural was to comment on peace movements during the Vietnam era with no intention to weigh in on police brutality.

...But student artist Selena Spier agreed to re-conceptualize her masterpiece over the one complaint.
“I spoke with Gregory earlier and we agreed on a modification that preserves the integrity of the original piece while avoiding any potentially triggering content—it’s a change I was absolutely happy to make in the interest of creating a safe and inclusive environment for everyone in my community,” Spier told the Claremont Independent.
Not everyone agreed with the decision."

Sheriff Joe FORCES King Obama to Face a Federal Judge! Joe Is Standing UP for America - The Political Insider

Sheriff Joe FORCES King Obama to Face a Federal Judge! Joe Is Standing UP for America - The Political Insider:

"Joe Arpaio is one of America’s most important defenders of America’s Southern border. But he is helpless against a President who refuses to follow the Constitution and court orders. That’s why it’s time to force Obama before the court to answer for his illegal activities."

How Democrats Win Debates by Corrupting English

How Democrats Win Debates by Corrupting English - Reason.com:
"Humans have been using euphemisms ever since Adam first "knew" Eve.
In politics especially, obfuscating and twisting the meaning of words has been going on forever.
But today's debates aren't only littered with rhetorical distortions; in some ways, many of Democrats' most potent arguments are built on corrupt language.
One word that's really getting a workout this cycle is "loophole." 
Basically, all of life is a giant loophole until Democrats come up with a way to regulate or tax it.
In its economic usage, "loophole"—probably more of a dysphemism—creates the false impression that people are getting away with breaking the law. 
It's a way to skip the entire debate portion of the conversation and get right to the accusation.
So when Hillary Clinton promises to close the loophole of corporate inversion, what she means to say is that Democrats disapprove of this completely legal thing that corporations do to shield their money from the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.
Loopholes are like giveaways, monies that D.C. has yet to double and triple tax.
It's one thing for Democrats to try and set the parameters of a debate before the debate is even had, but it's quite another to watch the press participate.

• Here's CNN: "Clinton to push closing corporate tax loopholes." 
• Here's The Hill: "Obama calls for Congress to close corporate tax loopholes." 
• Here's how Halimah Abdullah and the Associated Press reported the issue on NBC: "President Obama on Tuesday criticized loopholes that help protect offshore tax havens and U.S. companies that move abroad for lower tax rates."
• ...Bernie Sanders..."The offshore tax haven network isn't something that we need to reform or refine. It's a form of legalized tax fraud that must end."

"Legalized tax fraud" is a revealing statement about the progressive belief system.
For progressives, taxation is moral.
So when you fail to pay an imaginary tax that doesn't exist but Democrats think should, you are by default engaged in fraud. 
The law has just to catch up with sin..."

Pandering to felons?!!-----The Voting Effect of Virginia’s Move on Felons? Small but Potentially Decisive

The Voting Effect of Virginia’s Move on Felons? Small but Potentially Decisive - The New York Times:
"There was considerable fretting — or satisfaction — over Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s decision Friday to re-enfranchise 200,000 ex-felons in Virginia.
The state will be one of the central battlegrounds this November, and it’s widely believed that ex-felons will vote heavily for Democrats. (More than half are African-Americans, a big voting bloc for the party.)
And the big number of newly enfranchised voters — 200,000 — is actually larger than Mr. Obama’s 149,298-vote margin of victory there in 2012.
But the electoral effect of felon re-enfranchisement is likely to be modest.
The best-case scenario for Democrats might be that they improve their popular vote margin by a half-point.
That’s a big deal, but only in a close election..."

Lunch video-----Americans Petition to Ban Cash and Issue New Digital Dollar for a Cashless economy...

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On The Prowl: Russian Attack Submarines Patrolling Near Cold-War Levels

On The Prowl: Russian Attack Submarines Patrolling Near Cold-War Levels:

"Even more worrying was this nugget buried in the piece:

Russia is also building an undersea unmanned drone capable of carrying a small, tactical nuclear weapon to use against harbors or coastal areas, American military and intelligence analysts said.

Charming. An enemy that was defeated by Ronald Reagan’s military buildup in the 1980s is posing an entirely new threat to the United States. Meanwhile, the current American president prattles about the liberal dream of a nuclear free world, and makes war policy based on the exaggerated threat of “climate change” as the very real threat of foreign countries flexing their military muscles grows right under his nose.

Putin’s Russia is changing the rules of the game, while Obama sits on the sidelines."

Follow the money------Top Global Corporations Urge Leaders To Sign Paris Climate Accord on Earth Day

Top Global Corporations Urge Leaders To Sign Paris Climate Accord on Earth Day - Technocracy News: "
TN Note: And, why not? 
The money is flowing like never before and profits are piling up, but will their profits be sustainable? The alternative energy market is already imploding and trillions are being wiped out.
Global firms responsible for tens of trillions of dollars in investments on Tuesday (April 19) urged the world’s leading economies to sign the landmark Paris accord to limit global warming adopted at a UN summit in December.
Seven organisations that represent over 400 investment funds sent a letter to the leaders of G20 nations calling on them “to sign the Paris Agreement on April 22nd at the United Nations in New York.”
...Most large banks and financial services companies are represented in the letter, including American giants like Blackrock, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as well as Britain’s Aviva, HSBC and RBS..."

Heavy teen marijuana use may cut life short by 60

Heavy teen marijuana use may cut life short by 60 - CBS News:
"Heavy marijuana use in the late teen years puts men at a higher risk for death by age 60, a new long-term study suggests.
Swedish researchers analyzed the records of more than 45,000 men beginning in 1969 and 1970.
The scientists from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm reported that 4,000 died during the 42-year follow-up period, and men who'd used marijuana heavily at ages 18 and 19 were 40 percent more likely to die by age 60 compared to guys who hadn't used the drug.
The authors of the new study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, said the findings contradict previous research involving the same group of men.
But this study was longer and participants might have reached an age where the long-term effects of cannabis were taking a toll on health, said addiction expert...
"Cannabis users have poorer health in general.
You'd expect there to be increased mortality risk," Krakower told CBS News.
He pointed to another long-term study linking early heavy marijuana use with lung cancer, and a second study that associates the drug with increased heart problems..."

Democrat culture of corruption-----The mayor is going down!

The mayor is going down! | New York Post:
"Less than a week ago, Mayor de Blasio was offering aid to Ecuadorians after the earthquake there. Now a political earthquake is rocking City Hall and the mayor is the one who needs help.
The report from the state Board of Elections that accuses him and his team of “willful and flagrant” violations of campaign-finance laws immediately changes everything.
The veneer of business as usual is shredded.
Never again can de Blasio wave off questions about the mushrooming investigations of his administration.
As revelations pile up day after day, allies will desert him and the Putz will find himself a very lonely man.
There is no way to sugarcoat the facts: de Blasio is in trouble. 
Maybe very big trouble.
His City Hall is being depicted as the seat of a criminal enterprise. 
And so far, he offers nothing resembling a convincing ­denial.
As bad as it is, the election report covering the 2014 state Senate races is just the start.
The endgame involves the more ­lethal issue of whether de Blasio sold government favors to donors. 
That is what federal prosecutors are looking for, and I believe they will find a mother lode..."
Read on.
It gets worse!

‘You Know That’s Not True’: Fox Host Gets DNC Chair to Admit Clinton Was Only Sec. of State Ever to Use Private Email Sever | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘You Know That’s Not True’: Fox Host Gets DNC Chair to Admit Clinton Was Only Sec. of State Ever to Use Private Email Sever | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz struggled to defend former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server this morning during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

When host Chris Wallace asked the Florida congresswoman about about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ persistent critiques of Clinton’s campaign and the scandal that surrounds it, Wasserman Schultz unsuccessfully tried to divert the conversation to the messy, “backwards” Republican race."

AT&T offering $5 internet to low-income families

AT&T offering $5 internet to low-income families | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV:
"SAN FRANCISCO — AT&T will start offering discounted internet access to low-income families for as low at $5 a month.
Any home where at least one person receives food stamps will be eligible for the new program, called Access from AT&T.
The offering is part of an agreement AT&T made with the FCC as part of last year’s DirectTV merger and will be available until 2020.
The company is the latest to offer discounted internet to low-income households in the United States, joining Comcast, Google Fiber, and some local government and nonprofit.
...In March, the FCC voted to expand its Lifeline program and add a $9.25 subsidy that could go toward broadband internet for low-income households. 
Another government initiative called ConnectALL wants to bring internet access to 20 million homes by 2020.
Access from AT&T will offer 3Mbps connections for $5 a month, and faster 5Mbps or 10Mbps connections for $10 a month.
All installation and equipment fees will also be waived.
...To spread the word about the program, AT&T says it will work with community organizations on education. 
The pool of potential customers is deep. AT&T currently offers internet in 21 states, and there are 22 million families signed up for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which offers food stamps."

AM Fruitcake

History for April 25

History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader, Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system), Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist


Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella", Meadowlark Lemon 1932 - Basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters, Al Pacino 1940 - Actor


1684 - A patent was granted for the thimble.


1915 - During World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in Turkey in hopes of attacking the Central Powers from below. The attack was unsuccessful.


1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. The water way connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.


1961 - Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit.


1967 - Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. The law was limited to therapeutic abortions when agreed to, unanimously, by a panel of three physicians.


1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.


1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned by Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.


2003 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to four years in prison for her conviction on fraud and theft charges. She was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft of money from a women's political league.

Sheriff Clarke Slams Hillary Clinton, Democrats, For Pandering To Blacks

Sheriff Clarke Slams Hillary Clinton, Democrats, For Pandering To Blacks:

"He went on to make a broader point about the Democrat Party’s perceived penchant for pandering. Though he has won four elections as a member of the party, Clarke urged blacks to consider the candidate before his or her party affiliation.

“You go to all these cities where there’s high poverty,” he asserted, “there’s now high levels of crime and violence. They’re all run by liberal Democratic mayors, liberal Democratic politicians. Nothing’s getting better.”

He concluded that voters should treat every candidate the same way he asks Milwaukee County voters to treat him each election cycle."

Massive Amounts of WMDs Were Found in Iraq

Massive Amounts of WMDs Were Found in Iraq – Daily Headlines
"One of the biggest knocks against George W Bush is that he lied about WMDs in Iraq.  Even today, liberals still spew those lies.  
Before the Iraq War started under Bush, trailer load after trailer load of what is suspected to have been WMDs were moved from Iraq to Syria.  
But even with all that movement, large amounts of weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.  
The CIA was even able to buy 400 Borak rockets filled with pure Sarin gas.  
And on top of that, our troops found 5,000 WMDs that the Pentagon kept secret until last year...

Last year, The New York Times did an investigative piece on WMDs found by our soldiers.  
Here are parts of a story I did on the subject at the time:

The soldiers at the blast center sensed something was wrong.

It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.

Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before. He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. “That doesn’t look like pond water,” said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.

The specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red — indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.

All three men recall an awkward pause. Then Sergeant Duling gave an order: “Get the hell out.”

That led to more discoveries including one cache of 2600 rockets armed with chemical weapons.  At the time, Jarrod Lampier, a now retired Army major said that he was ordered to make a statement downplaying the find:

“’Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say.”

...And the victims of this policy are the American soldiers who came into contact with these materials.  First of all, since the Pentagon was hiding the existence of these weapons, soldiers who stumbled upon them did not have protective clothing and the medics did not carry the proper medicines needed to treat them.

The Times found 17 servicemen and 7 Iraqi policemen who were injured by these weapons and it was discovered that American soldiers found it difficult to impossible to get treatment for injuries not recognized by the Pentagon.

In 2008 MSNBC reports the US removed 550 metric tons of yellowcake (Used to make nuclear weapons) from Iraq. This is the same yellowcake Joe Wilson, husband of Valerie Plame said Saddam never tried to get. George W Bush accepted the lies and criticisms against him because he felt it might be harmful to the morale of our troops and could hurt our intelligence community if the details got out.  Can even one of you say that Obama would do that?  Anyone who says yes is a liar or a fool.

Angry Brit: Correcting Grammar Is Racist, Classist, and Censorious

Angry Brit: Correcting Grammar Is Racist, Classist, and Censorious:
Apparently having good grammar or correcting someone else’s grammar means you are a racist and experiencing yet another form of “white privilege.”
 At least that’s what The Guardian’s data editor, Mona Chalabi believes.
Chalabi also thinks grammar rules were created by wealthy white people and can be ignored by minorities without facing any criticism:
“Grammar snobs are patronizing, pretentious, and just plain wrong.” [HT Daily Wire]

This sounds quite unbelievable, but sadly, it’s no joke.
Chalabi argues that using good grammar or correcting one’s grammar is just another way to shut up minorities:
“The people pointing out the mistakes are more likely to be older, wealthier, whiter, or just plain academic than the people they’re treating with condescension…"

Mother Left ‘In Tears’ After Being Investigated for Letting Her Kids Play in Backyard | Video | TheBlaze.com

Mother Left ‘In Tears’ After Being Investigated for Letting Her Kids Play in Backyard | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"One Canadian mother was left in tears after being investigated by Child and Family Services for allowing her children to play in her own backyard.

Jacqui Kendrick, a stay-at-home mom from Winnipeg, said a CFS worker showed up at her house unexpectedly earlier this month, telling her they were there to perform a “well-being check” after receiving a complaint about her children being left unsupervised in the fully-fenced-in backyard."

The Green Unreality Show

The Green Unreality Show - WSJ:
"The climate deal negotiated in Paris and signed in New York Friday is not a treaty.
It is not enforceable against the U.S. or anybody else. 
It waves vaguely at the idea of a $100 billion adjustment fund for poorer countries, to be filled in later by somebody else, maybe.
Like all such international agreements, it’s a giant PR exercise designed to put a global imprimatur on what domestic politicians want to do anyway. 
In China and India, that’s grow their energy output any way they can.
In President Obama’s case, it’s continue to dish out green mandates and subsidies that please his entourage.
Economist Bruce Yandle coined the term bootleggers and Baptists for political coalitions of true believers and their more self-interested fellow travelers.
The climate movement is the ultimate example.
Having ginned up a climate “crisis” in the first place, it’s almost as if the movement has ginned up a fake victory to keep the game going.

This week’s signing was preceded by an outpouring of fishy studies in the press about how renewable energy is on the verge of solving the problem. 
The most paradoxical claim, regularly aired in the New York Times, is that the fate of the planet depends on how you vote in the U.S. presidential race because solar power is falling rapidly in cost and is now competitive with fossil fuels.
Well, then it doesn’t matter how you vote.
Cheaper solar energy will displace fossil energy for purely economic reasons.
The fragment of truth here is that the cost of solar collectors has come down thanks to Chinese production, but this represents a small fraction of the actual cost of integrating solar into the power system.
Solar is free; the sun does not send us a bill.
But solar is only competitive to the extent that fossil-fuel plants remain on hand to provide backup power when the sun is not shining. 
Unfortunately, fossil-fuel plant economics deteriorate rapidly when plants must stop and start to make up for fluctuating wind and solar..."

A great read-----Queen Elizabeth II, The War Years

Queen Elizabeth II, The War Years:
"When Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, Elizabeth was only fourteen years old.
The long-serving British Conservative politician, Douglass Hogg, the Viscount Hailsham, had recently retired from government, but still had the ear of those at the top of British society.
He suggested to the Royal Family that the young Elizabeth and her sister Margaret should be evacuated to Canada, but the princess’ mother replied in no uncertain terms.
“The children won’t go without me,” she said, “I won’t leave without the King, and the King will never leave.”
It was settled.
The British Royal family would stay in their country.
....Still at the young age of fourteen, the Princess Elizabeth made her first public radio broadcast, on the long-running BBC radio programme Children’s Hour.
She spoke with feeling directly to the many children and young people who had been separated from their families during the evacuations which had begun in September 1939.
She appealed to their courage and to their determination, telling them to stay strong and to stay hopeful.
She expressed a belief that, eventually, peace would come again.
“When peace comes,” she said, “remember, it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place...”"

Lunch video-----Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy