History for February 13

History for February 13 - On-This-Day.com:
Bess Truman 1885, Grant Wood 1892, Patty Berg 1918


Chuck Yeager 1923 - United States Air Force General, test pilot, Kim (Marilyn) Novak 1933 - Actress, Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) 1942 - Actor, musician (The Monkees)


1542 - Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII.


1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.


1920 - The National Negro Baseball League was organized.


1935 - In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes.


1965 - Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.


1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 1297.92 after it topped the 1300 mark earlier in the trading session.


1997 - The Dow Jones industrial average passed the 7,000 mark for the first time. The day ended at 7,022.44.


2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.

The media's DACA scam isn't working

The media's DACA scam isn't working:

"In so much as it’s a “crisis,” it was solely created by former President Barack Obama, who went around Congress to set up a system that indefinitely protected a subset of illegals. That Trump came into office — largely elected on his immigration platform — and said he would no longer enforce the made-up program doesn’t make it his responsibility.

This would be like selling your house to me and demanding that I allow the hobo in the basement to keep permanent residency after you’ve left."

The way we were-----Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings 16 Tons

Boob-tube-----Old Commercials That Would Be "Politically Incorrect" Today

Clarice!-----A Night at the Crying in Our Beer Salon

A Night at the Crying in Our Beer Salon
"I couldn't take much more of the news.  
The miscreants reportedly involved in the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign were fleeing the FBI; parties in the intelligence agencies were contradicting one another with sloppily conceived alibis.  
On top of that, the agencies involved looked both more stupid and more partisan than ever.  
The latest was the New York Times account of how the CIA paid Russians a $100,000 down payment on a million-dollar contract to tar the President (doubtless with disinformation).  
The viewing of the promised "compromising video" was – get this – in a room in the Russian Embassy in Berlin:

A Russian was trying to sell the alleged Trump kompromat to [U.S.] spies.  He even showed off a 15-second clip of a video that he claimed showed Trump in a room with two women.  The choice of venue for the viewing: [t]he Russian embassy in Berlin ‪

To be sure, the paper's Matthew Rosenberg offered up an alibi.  
Sharyl Attkisson tweeted:

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Ace of Spades had some fun dissecting the "'splaining and spinning" published by Rosenberg:

Note [that] this story is going to claim [that] the CIA paid to get their own stolen cyber weapons/hacking tools back and this Russian just insisted on offering dirt on Trump they didn't want.

That's absurd.  How do you buy back your own cyber tools?  You already have the tools; the problem is that other people have them, and paying someone to send you a copy does nothing at all to stop him from selling other copies forever, to who[m]ever he wants.

No, this is about the Trump dirt, and the cyber weapon thing is the cover story. ...

Yeah, you thought you were buying stolen cyber tools, which cannot be bought back (and you already have them), but these guys just kept forcing this faked-up Trump dirt on you.

This cover story is the same as paying a blackmailer to "get back" a compromising photo, even though he still retains the negative and you have no idea how many copies he's already made, or how many people he's already sold them to, or how many additional prints he'll make off the negative.

No, they paid $100,000 (as a down payment for a $1 million payout) to get dirt on Trump before an election, and the "cyber tools" claim is just a cover story, a legend.

Another lie. 

...As the Daily Caller writes, the Steele dossier's coincidences keep piling up. 

In sum: Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson met before and after the Russian lawyer, connected to his client, met with Donald Trump, Jr. in their quickly aborted meeting in Trump Tower.  DOJ official Bruce Ohr, whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, met with Simpson and met with Steele before the election and weeks after the election to discuss his work on Trump.  Clinton hatchet men Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer passed on the same salacious stuff about Trump that remains unverified in the dossier to Department of State official Jonathan Winer, who gave the information to Steele.

It certainly looks as if the gang was playing an adult version of "telephone," which we used to play in Girl Scouts to show how gossip gets magnified and is unreliable...

...I was driven to drink by imbeciles who think we are.  
So I headed off for a couple of margaritas at the local watering hole, the Crying in Our Beer Salon..."
Read it all!

Medicaid recipients find $1 premiums too confusing to pay

Medicaid recipients find $1 premiums too confusing to pay
"Imagine if you were poor and you got Medicaid, heavily subsidized by the taxpayer, but you had to pay between $1 and $15 a month in premiums.  
Wouldn't that be confusing?  
For many people, it is so confusing that they don't understand how to pay and end up being kicked off Medicaid.

While the work requirement is unprecedented in the history of Medicaid, Mr. Wagner and others say they're just as concerned about other new rules that will be confusing and hard to follow.  For example, many adults who don't pay their small premiums can be locked out of Medicaid for six months, unless they complete a financial or health literacy course.  Others will lose access to dental and vision care.

Critics of the plan point to Indiana, which dropped about 25,000 adults from its Medicaid program from 2015 through 2017 for failing to pay premiums there.

Some also find the new work requirements some states have imposed troubling:

I'm wanting to go back to work, but if I was told, 'You have to go back,' I do think that would step up my anxiety,"  Ms. Penney said. "Volunteering would be less pressure, but you would still want to be consistent and reliable."

She expects she will find a way to pay the new premiums she'll owe under the plan – $4 a month – but predicts [that] it will mean going without other necessities at times.

"I was at the store yesterday, looking in my wallet and going, 'Do I have enough money for dog food?'" she said.  "The thought of taking on even one more expense feels overwhelming."

Imagine having to eat dog food to pay $4 a month in premiums!  Or, alternatively, imagine working a minimum wage job for 20 minutes, long enough to earn $4.  Some people would rather eat dog food.  But Ms. Penny is fighting back!

[S]he's a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed last month to stop Kentucky's new requirements from taking effect.

Read on!