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Monday, June 20, 2016

History for June 20

History for June 20 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Chesnutt (Charles Waddell Chesnutt) 1858 - Author, essayist, political activist, Jean Moulinn 1899 - High profile member of the French Resistance during World War II, Audie Murphy 1924 - Actor, most decorated American soldier of World War II

Martin Landau 1931 - Actor, Brian Wilson 1942 - Musician (Beach Boys), Anne Murray (Morna Anne Murray) 1945 - Singer

1756 - In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."

1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a cotton gin patent. He received the patent on March 14. The cotton gin initiated the American mass-production concept.

1910 - Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law and arrested hundreds.

1941 - The U.S. Army Air Forces was established, replacing the Army Air Corps. The Army Air Forces were abolished with the creation of the United States Air Force in 1947.

1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills, CA, at the order of mob associates angered over the soaring costs of his project, the Flamingo resort in Las Vegas, NV.

1950 - Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with the New York Giants.

1967 - Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the conviction.

1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operation.

Sunday, June 19, 2016

‘That Is Not My Question’: Trey Gowdy Absolutely Grills DHS Official on Second Amendment, Due Process | TheBlaze.com

‘That Is Not My Question’: Trey Gowdy Absolutely Grills DHS Official on Second Amendment, Due Process | TheBlaze.com:

"Last December, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) pressed a Department of Homeland Security official about about the idea that American citizens on the terrorist watchlist should be denied the right to own a gun. In light of the recent terrorist attack in Orlando, Gowdy re-posted the video of his back-and-forth with DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary, Kelli Ann Burriesci, to his personal Facebook page.

To combat the common liberal call for gun control that follows terror attacks, Gowdy reminded a confused Burriesci that the right of every U.S. citizen to own a firearm is is affirmed in the Constitution, and that there’s a certain “process” that takes place before that right is stripped."

Lewinsky allegedly freaked out after Clinton’s affair with VP’s daughter

Lewinsky allegedly freaked out after Clinton’s affair with VP’s daughter | New York Post:
"President Bill Clinton had an affair with former Vice President Walter Mondale’s daughter — while multitasking with at least two mistresses in the White House — according to a tell-all by a Secret Service officer who guarded the Oval Office.

Gary J. Byrne’s account of walking in on Clinton and the gorgeous Eleanor Mondale, then a TV journalist, is the first eyewitness report of the long-rumored affair.

“There before us was E! Network host Eleanor Mondale . . . and President Clinton in a compromising position, that is, making out on the Map Room table,” Byrne writes of the alleged Christmastime tryst around the middle of Clinton’s presidency.

Mondale, who was romantically linked to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eagles drummer Don Henley, died in 2011 of brain cancer at age 51. She had maintained she and Clinton were “just friends.”

Byrne’s book, “Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience With Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate,” out June 28, depicts a cheating Bill Clinton and an unstable and tyrannical Hillary Clinton.

Leaked excerpts have already rocked the campaign, and Byrne’s account of Bill Clinton’s conquests under his image-obsessed wife’s nose, revealed exclusively to The Post, will surely ramp up the controversy.

“I stood guard, a pistol at my hip, outside the Oval Office, the last barrier before anyone saw Bill Clinton,” Byrne writes. “The last barrier before Monica Lewinsky saw Bill Clinton. Yes, I’m that Secret Service officer.”

They Don't Want Your AR-15: They Want Everything

They Don't Want Your AR-15: They Want Everything - Alan Korwin:
"The “news” media is ranting the democrats familiar song, after a muslim jihadi committed atrocities in a gay nightclub:
“We must ban the AR-15, a weapon of war, it has no place in the public’s hands.
Why does anyone need an AR-15 to murder Bambi?”
It doesn’t matter to the “fair and balanced“ media that the mass murderer (not “gunman,” a deliberate derogatory sexist slur against men—and guns) didn’t use or even have an AR-15.

...What democrats and anti-rights bigots want is to ban all effective weapons in American hands.
Without realizing it (maybe) they pursue marxist goals of making the public subservient to the government boot.
...Democrats and their sycophantic media allies have been down this road before.
They’re yelling about the AR-15, but when the bills come out—mark my words—the AR will not be the only gun in the bill.
Every black gun known will be included.
They hate black guns.
They barely understand guns at all, but if they’re big and black, they hate ‘em.
...Ours only fire one shot at a time, and are all we have left.
Antis think they’re machine guns, but they took those from us back in 1968.
They know nothing, but that doesn’t matter to hoplophobes—people with morbid gun fear who desperately need but never seek treatment..."

DISGUSTING: Take A Look At The Unbelievable Way Hillary Is Fundraising Off Orlando Shooting

DISGUSTING: Take A Look At The Unbelievable Way Hillary Is Fundraising Off Orlando Shooting:

"President Obama has spent more than seven years in the well-guarded White House as Muslim terrorists have wreaked havoc around the globe and on American soil, but the woman who hopes to succeed him is more determined to shred the Constitution’s Second Amendment than she is to protect the lives of the country’s citizens.

And she never lets a good crisis go to waste."

Seven-Year-Old Little Girl Shows Gersh Kuntzman How To Shoot AR-15

7-Year-Old Girl Schools NY Reporter on AR-15s

AWESOME: 7-Year-Old Girl Schools NY Reporter on AR-15s:

Last week New York Daily News reporter Gersh Kuntzman set out to prove just how dangerous the AR-15 really is.

Toward that end, he went to the range and fired one himself – but instead of scaring people, he invited ridicule upon himself.

Kuntzman said that firing the AR-15 was “terrifying and very loud”:

“The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary form of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

Even in semi-automatic mode, it is very simple to squeeze off two dozen rounds before you even know what has happened. If illegally modified to fully automatic mode, it doesn’t take any imagination to see dozens of bodies falling in front of your barrel.”

In addition to those who pointed out the obvious flaws in his assessment:

he claimed to be distracted by brass flying in front of his face, but shells would have ejected away from his body
he claimed that “even in semi-automatic mode, it is very simple to squeeze off two dozen rounds before you even know what has happened,” but semi-automatic mode only allows for one bullet per trigger squeeze

He took a beating on Twitter:

And then this little girl showed him just how easy – and not scary – it was to fire an AR-15 when one has been properly trained to do so. After she easily fired 5 rounds – one at a time – she confirmed that this was the first time she had ever fired an AR-15.

Kuntzman noted on Thursday that a number of people had sent him videos of young girls firing AR-15s, and rather than feeling shamed or corrected, he simply found it “horrifying.”

After Brexit: Roadmap for a leap in the dark

After Brexit: Roadmap for a leap in the dark | Reuters:
"Dawn, next Friday.
The votes are in.
The British have spoken in their EU membership referendum and they want out.

It is a scenario European leaders are planning for in earnest while praying it never happens.
Secret meetings in Brussels and across Europe reveal huge uncertainty, officials and diplomats familiar with the proceedings say, over what would follow a vote that British Prime Minister David Cameron calls a "leap in the dark" - and also no little concern about what happens if Britain stays on.
This is a rough roadmap to Europe after June 23, based on conversations with many diplomats and officials, few of whom speak of it in public for fear of inflaming debate in Britain:
DAY 1 - FRIDAY, JUNE 24 - THE THREE R'S - OR MORE
Read on!

Lunch video-----Failed Leadership

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Former UN Ambassador John Bolton Takes Off The Gloves...Calls Obama 'A Small Man' Because...

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton Takes Off The Gloves...Calls Obama 'A Small Man' Because...: "But Bolton summed it up the best.

“This is a failure of presidential leadership,” said the former diplomat and Yale-educated lawyer. “The country wants to hear from the president what we’re going to do to prevent this from happening. Instead we get a lecture from one of the most narcissistic individuals ever to hold that job about what’s wrong with the rest of us, who don’t have the tolerance he does for people he thinks are being unfairly criticized."

Which Labor Market Data Should You Believe?

Which Labor Market Data Should You Believe? - The New York Times:

"When the unemployment rate falls below 5 percent, it usually means things are going pretty well. It was 4.7 percent in May, a level last seen in November 2007.
A different measure of the economy’s health, however, is beeping and flashing red.
It says that labor market conditions have deteriorated with each passing month this year.
In May, it fell to its lowest level in seven years.
Called the Labor Market Conditions Index, it has been billed as a more complete measurement than that old war horse, the unemployment rate.
There are two possible explanations for the index’s decline: one somewhat comforting, and the other scary.
...But there are also some pretty strong reasons for skepticism.
My personal favorite:

In 2007, about 88 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 were working. Now, roughly 85 percent of such men are working.

That’s a difference of about two million men, most of whom probably would like jobs.
The scary explanation?
Job growth is slowing because the economy is losing steam.
...The Federal Reserve introduced the new measure of labor market health a few months after Janet Yellen became the Fed’s chairwoman in 2014.
It created the index because the unemployment rate is too simple.
Even the name is too simple.
It doesn’t actually measure unemployment; it counts only people who are actively looking for work. Moreover, a low unemployment rate doesn’t tell you how many part-time workers would like full-time gigs.
It doesn’t tell you how many full-time workers would like a better job at higher pay..."
Read on!

IRS Spent $11 Million On Guns, Ammo In The Past Ten Years

IRS Spent $11 Million On Guns, Ammo In The Past Ten Years | The Daily Caller:
"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seems to be building an army.
The IRS spent nearly $11 million on guns, ammunition and “military-style equipment” between 2006 and 2014, according to a new report.
IRS investment in heavy firearms and tactical gear is a new trend for the agency, but it follows a pattern of militarization repeated throughout the executive branch of the government.

...The report shows that the IRS and other non-law enforcement agencies rapidly increased purchases of military gear in the past decade.
The amount the IRS spends on weapons and equipment has risen since 2006 from around half a million to $1,070,456 in 2014.
Purchases of guns and ammunition spiked in 2011 to more than $2 million, according to the report. Over the same period, the number of special agents the IRS employed declined from more than 3,000 to just about 2,000 in 2014.
...While the number of IRS special agents has declined, the number of total federal agents has increased sharply.
“The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000),” former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn and OpenTheBooks founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski said in a Wall Street Journal column..."

Amarillo, TX being destroyed by refugee overload

Amarillo, TX being destroyed by refugee overload « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
"Small ghettos” of competing ethnic groups have developed!
We have been writing about Amarillo, Texas (a ‘pocket of resistance’) for a couple of years (see our complete archive by clicking here).
Like so many meatpacking towns in America, federal refugee resettlement contractors got a foot hold there years ago (mostly working as ‘head hunters’ for the meatpacking industry) and have continued to pour third-worlders into Amarillo despite pleas by elected officials to STOP!

From Watchdog.org (hat tip: Robin):
As Texas officials spar with Obama administration lawyers over refugee resettlement, Amarillo is building Muslim “ghettos.”
Under federal refugee programs, the North Texas town has become home to more than 1,000 Mideast migrants – giving Amarillo the highest refugee ratio in the country.
“Our education system is overloaded with kids who can’t speak English.
We have something like 22 languages spoken in our schools,” said William Sumerford, a local taxpayer activist.
City Commissioner Randy Burkett is considering a plan to halt further refugee settlements.
Burkett could not be reached, but Mayor Paul Harpole isn’t optimistic about the city’s authority to push back.
“We’ve been a giving community, and it’s a huge disservice to bring in refugees in numbers that we’re not able to handle.
We create small ghettos,” Harpole told Watchdog.org.
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Why do Somalis need their own government within American cities?
It is about Sharia Law!
This is how it begins!
“A group of Somalis came in to say they had elected a mayor of their community,” Harpole related. “Then another faction claimed they had their own leader.
We come to find out that rival tribes — slaves and masters — were being settled together....”

CNN Reporter Asks Fla. Governor if He ‘Accepts Any Responsibility’ for Gun Laws in Wake of Orlando Attack | Video | TheBlaze.com

CNN Reporter Asks Fla. Governor if He ‘Accepts Any Responsibility’ for Gun Laws in Wake of Orlando Attack | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"CNN reporter Pamela Brown asked Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott on Friday if he “accepts any responsibility” for the state’s gun laws after the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando that killed 49 people last weekend."

What a great response!

Think Your Kids' Schools Are Bad? UN-Run Schools Are Teaching Kids to Fight for ISIS

Think Your Kids' Schools Are Bad? UN-Run Schools Are Teaching Kids to Fight for ISIS | PJ Media
"Kids as young as seven are calling for the killing of Jews and are pledging their allegiance to ISIS in schools run by the UN.
The documentary “The UNRWA Road to Terror: Palestinian Classroom Incitement," shows a clip of a Palestinian child who is a 13-year-old student at one of the schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency chanting “With Allah’s help I will fight for ISIS, the Islamic State.”
...The U.S. provided $390 million to aid to UNRWA in 2015 alone.

...The documentary shows children from several schools expressing their hatred for Jews and their willingness to join and support ISIS.
A 7-year-old girl is filmed saying, "We have to make war to prove we are stronger than the Jews..."