History for July 16

History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Roald Amundsen 1872, Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911


Michael Flatley 1958, Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968


1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.


1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.


1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.


1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.


1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.


1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.


1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.


1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.

Articles: The Left Media's Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Articles: The Left Media's Extraordinary Popular Delusions:

"...and the madness of their crowd. “Collective obsessional behavior” is defined as a “condition in which a large group of people exhibit similar physical or emotional symptoms, such as anxiety or extreme excitement. Also called epidemic hysteria.”

There is no longer any doubt that the American left, especially those who dominate our media and academia, are indeed suffering from the above disorder.  Since their candidate lost the election that they were so terribly confident she would win in a landslide, they have descended deeper and deeper into psychosis."

The way we were-----Jay And The Americans.....Only In America

Ohio’s Medicaid-Expansion Freeze Faces Hospital Resistance | National Review

Ohio’s Medicaid-Expansion Freeze Faces Hospital Resistance | National Review:
"They’re fighting hard against an effort to freeze enrollment in the state’s Medicaid expansion. Hospitals that are using Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion to siphon billions from federal taxpayers fiercely oppose an effort to scale back the policy in Ohio.
While the American Hospital Association (AHA) works to keep Congress from reducing the Medicaid expansion’s federal funding below the 90 percent rate promised in Obamacare, Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) member CEOs are pressuring state legislators to give up on freezing enrollment among Ohio’s Medicaid-expansion population — which is to say, among able-bodied, working-age Ohioans who earn up to 138 percent of the poverty level. 
... The expansion has put 725,000 able-bodied, working-age Ohioans on Medicaid at a total cost of $13.5 billion in just three and a half years.
Kasich projected in 2013 that 447,000 would enroll at a cost of $13 billion by 2020.
...Medicaid expansion in Ohio costs state taxpayers roughly $20 million every month and costs federal taxpayers $380 million more..."

Police seize $15M in Michigan, some cases without criminal charges | MLive.com

Police seize $15M in Michigan, some cases without criminal charges | MLive.com
"Police agencies reported $15.2 million in cash and property seized over 11 months of 2016, according to a new report from the Michigan State Police.
In about 10 percent of the 5,290 cases reported, no one was charged with the violation for which the forfeiture was authorized, the report states.
"Many persons accused of crimes cooperated with authorities, resulting in criminal charges not being pursued," the report notes, and that a new category for those cases will be added to subsequent annual reports.

Obama Administration Let Natalia Veselnitskaya Stay Past Her Visa Expiration. But Why? | Buck Sexton

Obama Administration Let Natalia Veselnitskaya Stay Past Her Visa Expiration. But Why? | Buck Sexton:

"The plot of the lost Russian opera Natalia Veselnitskaya went through another strange turn Thursday as members of Congress honed in on information suggesting the Russian attorney had overstayed her visa well past its expiration date, enabling her to attend the disputed meeting with the Trump, Jr. campaign team which, rather than receiving the damning information on Hillary Clinton that it sought, got a lecture on the lifting of sanctions against Russia.

Journalists at Fox News have examined Veselnitskaya’s social media accounts and discovered pictures taken in New York City and elsewhere that were well past the Jan. 7th, 2016 expiration date of her visa."

Canada's Multi-Million-Dollar Pay-Out to a 'Foreign Terrorist Fighter'

Canada's Multi-Million-Dollar Pay-Out to a 'Foreign Terrorist Fighter'

• "Has any soldier who fought FOR Canada ever received as generous a reward as this soldier who fought against us?" — Canadian Senator Linda Frum.
• In 2003, Khadr confessed to throwing the grenade that killed U.S. Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer and caused Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris to lose an eye. Years later, he retracted his confession, claiming it had been extracted under duress. In fact, it was part of a plea deal that enabled him to be extradited to Canada to serve the rest of his sentence there.
• "There was a Canadian flag flying along with the American flag at our base there, so it's quite a thing that now Canada is giving millions to a guy who would attack a compound where Canadians were serving. I don't see this as anything but treason. As far as I am concerned, Prime Minister Trudeau should be charged." — Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris, who lost an eye from the grenade thrown by Omar Khadr.

The government of Canada recently issued an official apology -- and acknowledged awarding an "undisclosed" sum of money -- to Toronto-born Islamist terrorist Omar Khadr for his "ordeal" at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and "any resulting harm" he was caused by the "torture" (specifically, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and threats) that led to his confession.

...With news of the large settlement he received -- 10,500,000 Canadian dollars (approximately USD $8,000,000) -- he gave an extensive interview..."

Lunch video-----Hooked On Ebonics

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Breaking: TOP HILLARY SUPPORTER Was Russian Lawyer Veselnitskaya's Chaperone in Washington DC

Breaking: TOP HILLARY SUPPORTER Was Russian Lawyer Veselnitskaya's Chaperone in Washington DC:

"The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. in Trump Tower also spent quite a bit of time in Washington DC after her meeting with Trump Jr. at Trump Tower.
Her chaperone Ron Dellums was a huge Hillary Clinton supporter."

Why it's time to shut down Environment Canada - The Rebel

Why it's time to shut down Environment Canada - The Rebel:
"Environment Canada (EC) misled the country on global warming, which caused massive unnecessary expenditures, cost thousands of jobs, destroyed businesses and industries, and devastated communities at all levels. 

Meanwhile, their forecast accuracy beyond 48 hours has not improved; they abandoned medium forecasts (three months to one year) after results that were worse than a coin toss; and all long-term forecasts since 1990, based on their membership in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), were wrong.

John Christy presented the evidence in his congressional testimony (Figure 1)..."
Read on!

If You’re Riding Through Hell . . . - WSJ

If You’re Riding Through Hell . . . - WSJ:
"Americans who live outside the Northeast Corridor might enjoy the schadenfreude of knowing that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has dubbed this the “summer of hell” amid disruptions in public transit.
But hell doesn’t have as many circles of dysfunction, and the root cause is the political misallocation of resources.
Hundreds of trains that run through New York City will be delayed or diverted this summer so Amtrak can make long overdue track repairs at Penn Station, the busiest rail hub in North America. Derailments are now common, and New York’s subways are also breaking down.
The mess is a mere portent of the misery that commuters will experience when the 107-year-old tunnel under the Hudson River, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, undergoes repairs.
***
Liberal politicians extol the virtues of public transit, so why can’t they run a decent public railroad? 
The answer is that modern progressives prefer doling out transfer payments to voters and public workers rather than make long-term investments in subway cars, tunnels and bridges.
And even when they do build something, they pile on the costs to pay off their other political constituencies..."