History for August 4

History for August 4 - On-This-Day.com
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 - Poet, Louis Armstrong 1901 - Musician, singer, Raoul Wallenberg 1912 - Sweedish humanitarian during World War II


Billy Bob Thornton 1955 - Actor, Barack Hussein Obama 1961 - 44th President of the United States, Dennis Lehane 1965 - Author


1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."


1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Supreme Court Allows Construction Of Border Wall To Continue | The Daily Caller

Supreme Court Allows Construction Of Border Wall To Continue | The Daily Caller:

The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision Friday that the Trump administration could continue building portions of the southern border wall using funds diverted from the Department of Defense.
The ruling meant that the Supreme Court would not halt border wall projects that were challenged in 2019 and earlier this year, the Associated Press reported. The challenges came amid questions of whether the administration illegally sidestepped Congress in diverting Pentagon funds.

The way we were-----Hindenburg - Titanic of the Skies

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Minneapolis Police Advise: Surrender Your Property to the Criminals and Obey Them

Minneapolis Police Advise: Surrender Your Property to the Criminals and Obey Them
"...That’s a tremendous amount of violence in the estimation of the police.

Now with crime spiraling out of control, the Minneapolis Police has issued advice to residents on how to deal when facing a robbery or a carjacking.

The Daily Caller’s Kyle Hooten tweeted a copy of their advice.

The letter includes the information that in addition to the increased robberies and carjackings, that some robbery victims have been “maced, dragged, assaulted” or threatened with a gun.

So they counsel to “be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet” and “do as they [the criminals] say.” 
What’s odd about that is that it’s under “robbery prevention.” Doesn’t sound much like “prevention.”

The police also give tips on how to deal with carjackings...Read all.

BLM's Popularity Is a Politically-Motivated Myth | CNSNews

BLM's Popularity Is a Politically-Motivated Myth | CNSNews
"The supposed popularity of “Black Lives Matter, Inc.” is a complete fantasy — willfully repeated ad nauseam by the left and the media — that is distorting public discourse around the wave of radicalism that has ravaged our cities this summer.
Mainstream polls ostensibly show striking levels of “support” for Black Lives Matter (BLM) — up to 63 percent of respondents in one recent survey...
There’s one problem: the entire premise is nonsense.
Further polling makes perfectly clear that many of the people who tell pollsters they "support black lives matter" have no idea what they’re saying.
Americans, like all civilized people, believe that black people have a right not to be killed.
In the extraordinarily rare circumstances when police officers unjustifiably kill black Americans, the public has always believed that the victims’ lives matter.
But that’s not really what “Black Lives Matter” — a for-profit organization founded by Marxists and funded by an outfit with a convicted domestic terrorist on the board — stands for.
...When you ask Americans about the things BLM does stand for, you get a picture very different from the glowing support they now claim.
Only 15 percent of respondents in a recent Gallup poll want to scrap the police...Read all. 

Woman publicly berates beachgoers for Confederate towel. A black vet intervenes, changes the narrative. - TheBlaze

Woman publicly berates beachgoers for Confederate towel. A black vet intervenes, changes the narrative. - TheBlaze:

A woman approached a group of Evanston, Illinois, beachgoers earlier this week and railed against them for using a Confederate flag towel as they lounged on Lighthouse Beach.
The incident was caught on video and quickly went viral.
An unidentified black male, however, interrupted her filming and completely changed the tenor of the argument.
What are the details?

150 Law School Deans ask ABA to require “every law school [to] provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism” – Reason.com

150 Law School Deans ask ABA to require “every law school [to] provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism” – Reason.com
150 Law School Deans ask ABA to require "every law school [to] provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism"

• Law schools should be very, very careful before imposing loyalty pledges and flawed social science testing on faculty and students.

Yesterday, I wrote about faculty and students being required to take pledges to support certain values, such as diversity and inclusion. These pledges do not define what actions have to be taken to support these values. 
There are great risks to sign.

Today, I learned that 150 law school deans (including my own) asked the American Bar Association to require "every law school provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism." The letter does not define what "anti-racism" training would consist of...Read all.

Using hate to divide us and enrich the thugs!-----Shakedown: BLM Demands Protection Fees from Louisville Business

Shakedown: BLM Demands Protection Fees from Louisville Business
Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters issued “social justice” and “black liberation” demands regarding “diversity” to a restaurant owner in Louisville, KY, including a directive for “donations” to organizations run by non-whites.

Listed demands from a BLM affiliate in Louisville include racial quotas for staff and ownership of business suppliers, donations to organizations run by non-whites, and adjustment to dress codes. 

The posters used the acronym “BIPOC” (“black or indigenous persons of color”) as a euphemism for non-white persons:

23% of Staff is BIPOC in Front of House

23% of inventory is from BIPOC retailer(s)

Regular donations to BIPOC organization

Dress code policy does not discriminate against BIPOC patrons of employees.

Additional demands issued via the letter included the option to give 1.5 percent of revenues to a local “black nonprofit or organization” in lieu of purchasing a minimum of 23 percent of the business’s inventory from “black retailers,” mandated “diversity and inclusion training” for all employees, and displaying of left-wing messaging to support “reparations.”...

“Repercussions of non-compliance” are listed in the letter:

• Reduction in Racial Index Score/bias report to the Better Business Bureau.
• Social Media Blast: Notification, via all social media platforms, of non-compliance.
• Boycott: Public boycott, coordinated through social media and mail announcements, of yours NuLu establishment AND any other business ventures owned by you.
• Protest: Visible, media-covered demonstration/sit-in outside your establishment.
• Invasive Reclamation: Placement of booths/tables outside your establishment where competing Black proprietors will offer items comparable to those offered by you.

Fernando Martinez, the owner of La Bodeguita de Mima, a restaurant serving Cuban cuisine, described Black Lives Matter’s demands as a Mafia-style shakedown. He characterized them as “Mafia tactics,” according to Courier-Journal, a Kentucky-based newspaper...

...Chris Turner, a Louisville-based reporter, reported on a Black Lives Matter protest forcing the closing of businesses on July 24:

Black Lives Matter Louisville markets “anti-racism training” on its verified Facebook page produced in partnership with MoveOn.org and other left-wing and partisan Democrat organizations...Read all.

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Woman angry at 2020 flag outside pizzeria tells owner she'll put him out of business. Her plan backfires. - TheBlaze

Woman angry at 2020 flag outside pizzeria tells owner she'll put him out of business. Her plan backfires. - TheBlaze:

And we've seen how such scenarios go, haven't we? The social media mob gets outraged and delivers immense online pressure, and before you know it, the victim apologizes profusely — or even closes up shop for good.
But as it turns out, the last laugh was on Long Island Karen.
Caligiuri told Fox Business that the following morning Patio Pizza was inundated with customers from all over who also declared their support for President Donald Trump, as well as the pizzeria.

"Mostly peaceful protests" is interesting as a terminology--Michael Smith

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"Mostly peaceful protests" is interesting as a terminology used to explain and excuse the minority of violence that occurs in conjunction with the protests.
Using that definition, pretty much every war - especially the World Wars, would be considered "mostly peaceful" because only a small percentage of people actually actively participated in them - but wars are defined by destruction, violence and death, just as these "protests" should be."

#1 Movie this week 1960-----Psycho Official Trailer 1960 HD

Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts

Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts
"As the NBA and MLB return from their coronavirus-imposed hiatus, it appears TV viewers are not interested in what the increasingly woke leagues have to offer.

With both baseball and basketball draped in all sorts of Black Lives Matter and social justice symbolism for their opening games, a substantially smaller number of fans tuned-in to the rest of the week’s games...

For good measure, Strauss also pointed out that baseball can’t blame the coronavirus. 

The virus didn’t stop people from watching Tom Brady golf with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson back in May...Read all.

#1 This day 1960-----Brian Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"

Analysis: NY Times hints at Leftist Coup if Trump wins in November - Capstone Report

Analysis: NY Times hints at Leftist Coup if Trump wins in November - Capstone Report
"If you think the Resistance to 2016 was unhinged, you haven’t seen anything yet. 
Get ready for crazy if the Woke Mob doesn’t get its way. 
The New York Times provided a hint into how Leftists could respond to a Donald Trump victory this November. 
Buried at the end of a column on the media’s coverage of the election was a shocking tidbit floating a constitutional crisis.

According to Ben Smith in the New York Times:

“A group of former top government officials called the Transition Integrity Project actually gamed four possible scenarios, including one that doesn’t look that different from 2016: a big popular win for Mr. Biden, and a narrow electoral defeat, presumably reached after weeks of counting the votes in Pennsylvania. For their war game, they cast John Podesta, who was Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, in the role of Mr. Biden. They expected him, when the votes came in, to concede, just as Mrs. Clinton had.“

But Mr. Podesta, playing Mr. Biden, shocked the organizers by saying he felt his party wouldn’t let him concede. Alleging voter suppression, he persuaded the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College.

“In that scenario, California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede from the United States if Mr. Trump took office as planned. The House named Mr. Biden president; the Senate and White House stuck with Mr. Trump. At that point in the scenario, the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do.”

Wow....Read all.

Some folks just ain't never gonna get it.

Alveda King: Obama took nation back to segregated '60s

Alveda King: Obama took nation back to segregated '60s:

It was more like a stump speech than a eulogy, taking America back to the segregated '60s, according to Alveda King, a niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
King was talking about Barack Obama's "wordplay" in the funeral of Congressman John Lewis on Thursday, BizPacReview reported.

It’s August: Rest, Fall will be Even Crazier - American Thinker

It’s August: Rest, Fall will be Even Crazier - American Thinker
"If you had any doubt that the Democrats know they have a losing candidate (who has this week pushed back the announcement of his running mate) at the head of their ticket, their conduct the past week is the tell:

1.The outrageous House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General William Barr, whose IQ surely bests that of the combined intelligence of the Democrats on the committee, was surely a desperation move to hold their base. Scott Johnson:

To say the Democrats must be crazy would be an overly charitable interpretation of their performance in the House Judiciary Committee spectacle starring Attorney General Barr yesterday. They only seemed crazy as they repeatedly disgraced themselves. The disgrace, however, was obviously premeditated...

2. The Democrat mayors’ walkbacks of their overt support for the rioters...

3. The push for mail balloting as evidence grows of its inadequacies...

4. RussiaGate

At the House Judiciary Committee Hearings, Democrats pressed Barr to agree that no criminal prosecutions would be initiated until after the election. He refused...

To recap, as we head into the national campaign, the Democrat mayors and councils have done little to protect their citizens and property, and only the federal government, despite the strictures of the federal system, has been working to restore law and order. 
It’s possible that indictments will be filed against the wrongdoers in the RussiaGate scandal before the election, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to make the election as chaotic and litigious as they possibly can. 
As if there is not enough chaos in ordinary national elections (and transitions), they hope to make it even more so. 
Doesn’t sound like they think they have this in the bag. 
Rasmussen says they certainly do not. 
He places the President ahead of Obama’s approval ratings at this point in time."
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