History for February 17

History for February 17 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Malthus 1766, Rene Laennec 1781, H.L. Hunt 1889


Lou Diamond Phillips 1962 - Actor, Larry the Cable Guy 1963 - Actor, comedian ("Blue Collar TV"), Michael Jordan 1963 - Basketball player


1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.


1995 - Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.

William Barr Is Our New Attorney General. Here Are 4 Things He Should Focus on Right Away | The Heritage Foundation

William Barr Is Our New Attorney General. Here Are 4 Things He Should Focus on Right Away | The Heritage Foundation:

Barr promised that the department’s conduct would be “above and away from politics.” Nothing, he added, “could be more destructive of our system of government, of the rule of law, or the Department of Justice as an institution, than any toleration of political interference with the enforcement of the law.”
So what should Barr focus on, and why?

The way we were-----The Detergents - Leader of the Laundromat

Boob-tube-----People Fainting On Live TV 2018

4 Ways Democrats Want to Ruin Your Life

4 Ways Democrats Want to Ruin Your Life:

President Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Perhaps now, more than at any other time recently, these words must be heeded.  The foundation of American values and freedom is under assault.  The attack is not from a foreign power, but from within.  The Democrats, their media allies, and those who still wear the name "Never Trump" are attempting to fulfill President Barack Obama's dream and transform America.  They seek to redefine what it means to be an American and recalibrate the fundamentals of the American dream.
It is readily seen in four different spheres.

A record number of Americans are 90 days behind on their car payments

A record number of Americans are 90 days behind on their car payments

• More than 7 million Americans are at least 90 days behind on their auto loans, according to the New York Fed.
• That's higher than the peak in 2010 as the country was still reeling from the devastating financial crisis.
• The "number of distressed borrowers suggests that not all Americans have benefited from the strong labor market and warrants continued monitoring and analysis of this sector," Fed economists say.

and this : Student loan debt edged higher to $1.46 trillion while credit card balances rose to $870 billion, right around their crisis peak.

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Lunch video-----Milton Friedman on Slavery and Colonization

Noon-toon

Bullet Train: Could California's Doomed Project Fund Trump's Border Wall? | Investor's Business Daily

Bullet Train: Could California's Doomed Project Fund Trump's Border Wall? | Investor's Business Daily:

So, Newsom plans to dump another $7.6 billion — on top of the $3 billion the state has already spent — over the next three years to build a 119-mile high-speed rail that goes from nowhere, to nowhere.
As Republican state Sen. Jim Nielsen aptly observed: "We're going to put more billions into a train in a place where there is no ridership and no freight will be hauled. What economy is that going to improve in the Central Valley? "
Newsom's reason for keeping this zombie infrastructure project going makes even less sense.
"Abandoning high-speed rail entirely," he says, "means we will have wasted billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises and lawsuits to show for it."
So, he wants to waste billions more just to save face?

Lest we forget-- 2008-----MuskegonPundit: We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

MuskegonPundit: We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore
We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

"The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous."

Nice to see some "love" from Garrison Keillor....... 

or maybe a look into the mind of liberals and ......Obama?

#1 This day 1957-----Elvis Presley - Too Much

Tucker: There was no Russian collusion

Replace "BTUs" with "CFUs"?

A Rising Tide of Global Corruption - Judicial Watch

A Rising Tide of Global Corruption - Judicial Watch:

Transparency International is out with its annual global corruption index and the news is not good. Around the world, according to the group’s sophisticated scoring system, democratic institutions are embattled by a rising tide of corruption.
TI’s “Corruption Perceptions Index” is the gold standard in assessing corruption worldwide. The index is drawn from comprehensive data sets of more than a dozen international organizations, including the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, Freedom House, and the Economist’s Country Risk Service. Descriptions of sources, statistics and methodology can be found here, below “Resources and Downloads.”
Because corruption operates in the shadows, hard data is elusive. TI’s index measures expert and in-country perceptions, focusing on public corruption, bribery, diversion of public funds, malfeasance and crime by public officials, transparency and accountability.
The failure to curb corruption is “contributing to a worldwide crisis of democracy,” TI says. The 2018 research shows “a disturbing link between corruption and the health of democracies, where countries with higher rates of corruption also have weaker democratic institutions and political rights.”
According to the new data, “on a scale of zero (a highly corrupt public sector) to 100 (a very clean public sector), two-thirds out of the 180 countries surveyed have scored below 50 in 2018’s CPI—meaning that the majority pass as corrupt.”

The Trouble With Solar | Power Line

The Trouble With Solar | Power Line
"The Democrats’ Green New Socialism proposes blanketing the U.S. with solar panels and wind turbines so as to replace all reliable forms of power generation with unreliable, intermittent sources. 
Everyone knows that solar panels don’t produce electricity at night, but there is another problem: they don’t produce electricity when it snows, either.

A friend took this photo and wrote:

I was up in Ramsey [Minnesota] picking up my camper, and next door is this fantastic $30,000,000 brand-new solar installation. 

Doesn’t look like they’re making much electricity today, but it sure is going to make for good union jobs clearing the snow off these things.

Do they try to clear the snow off? 

I don’t know. 

It would be a massive undertaking and would add to the absurd inefficiency of solar power.

As is too seldom pointed out, one of the worst features of both solar and wind energy is that they are terrible for the environment..."

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AM Fruitcake

History for February 16

History for February 16 - On-This-Day.com
Henry Adams 1838, Hugh Beaumont 1909, Sonny Bono 1935 - Singer (Sonny and Cher)


LeVar Burton 1957 - Actor, Ice-T 1958 - Rapper, John McEnroe 1959 - Tennis player


1804 - A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by pirates.


1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.

Media Played The ‘Hate Card’ With Covington Students And It Backfired, Says Michelle Malkin | The Daily Caller

Media Played The ‘Hate Card’ With Covington Students And It Backfired, Says Michelle Malkin | The Daily Caller:

“The theme here, and I’ve been talking about this for the past several weeks and months now, is that we finally have people who are willing to fight back against the defamation and smear machines, because it wasn’t just the archdiocese that jumped the gun,” she said. “Why did they do that? Because of the immense amount of social media and mainstream media pressure that stereotypes people, that plays the hate card game and nobody ever pushes back.”

The way we were-----A drive through 1940's Los Angeles!