History for July 25

History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com
Morris Raphel Cohen 1880, Walter Brennan 1894, Eric Hoffer 1902


Walter Payton (NFL) 1954, Illeana Douglas 1965, Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")


1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.


1861 - The Crittenden Resolution, which called for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, was passed by the U.S. Congress.


1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.


1907 - Korea became a protectorate of Japan.


1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel.


1924 - Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.


1946 - The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.


1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

Military readiness was undermined by Obama experiments - Washington Times

Military readiness was undermined by Obama experiments - Washington Times:

"In June 2015, as part of the social engineering transformation of our military, the Department of Defense added “sexual orientation” to Military Equal Opportunity” categories; thereby, making the military institution just another equal opportunity employer. As a follow on, in June 2016, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter issued the initial directive ordering the military services to accept transgender personnel. How then did homosexuality and transgenders get accepted into the military culture?"

The way we were-----Sandy Posey - Born A Woman

"Yesterday I asked how much of an enemy is... - Christopher Buckley

(9) "Yesterday I asked how much of an enemy is Russia? - Christopher Buckley:
""Yesterday I asked how much of an enemy is Russia.
Here's my take:

• Russia is small (144M people, $2T economy). 
• It seems to be taking it's Christianity more seriously than Western Europe does (a different flavor than we are used to, but still an ideological counter to Islam). 
• Putin is a rival and an old school monarch. 
• He has his interests which he pursues and he doesn't have a problem using spies, secret police and assassinations. 
• But he's not the leader of an ideological movement. 
• He's not funding communist ideological insurgencies around the globe.

...Putin has a lessened military threat than the Soviets and is engaging in Geopolitics.
He's not leading an ideological movement, sending emigres or subverting our internal ideology. 
So I just don't see him as an existential threat.
We have 2 threats and 2 rivals:
Threat: Cultural Marxism, Globalism, Open Borders, etc.
Threat: Islam
Rival: Russia
Rival: China
So overall, I think that Putin is not a threat and more of a rival. 
Potentially a frenemy. 
Few monarchs are paragons of virtue.
But he's not really a threat and he's actually less of a threat than Europe.
Not that Europe will do anything to us militarily, but can rot us from within...– Jeffrey Varasano"
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