History for February 23

History for February 23 - On-This-Day.com

125th birth anniversary of film director Victor Fleming (1889-1949; some sources put his birth year as 1888). He directed, among others, The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939). Fleming won an Oscar for Gone with the Wind.

Birth anniversaries of George Frederick Handel (1685-1759), William Shirer (1904-93).

Happy Birthday! Peter Fonda,  Niecy Nash, Patricia Richardson, Johnny Winter

1813 - The first U.S. raw cotton-to-cloth mill was founded in Waltham, MA. 

1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
 

1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor. 


1861 - U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take his office after an assassination attempt in Baltimore. 


1874 - Walter Winfield patented a game called "sphairistike." More widely known as lawn tennis. 

1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
 

1896 - The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield. 

1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus. 


1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
 

1915 - Nevada began enforcing convenient divorce law. 


1919 - The Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini. 


1927 - The Federal Radio Commission began assigning frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters. On July 1, 1934 the name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
 

1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio" was released. 


1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken. 


1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA. 


1958 - Juan Fangio, 5-time world diving champion, was kidnapped by Cuban rebels. 


1963 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It prohibited poll taxes in federal elections. 


1997 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the 86th-floor observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building. He killed one person and wounded six more before killing himself. 

Milan restaurant made famous by drunken Jell-O wrestling sold at bankruptcy auction

Milan restaurant made famous by drunken Jell-O wrestling sold at bankruptcy auction | MLive.com:
"The owner of the Milan bar and restaurant that was made infamous by an unsanctioned Jell-O wrestling match in 2010 has sold the building in a bankruptcy auction.

Owner Dino Koukoumtzis sold Dino’s Dugout Sports Lounge and Campfire Family Restaurant, which closed in January 2012 and has been vacant for the last two years, after recently filing for bankruptcy."

....Dino’s became known for more than its food and drinks after the owner was fined $800 by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission and received six citations for various violations, including failing to have a proper entertainment permit and serving intoxicated patrons during the Feb. 7, 2010 Jell-O wrestling tournament that coincided with Super Bowl XLIV.

» Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!: "Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth"



Chris Driskill was prevented from voting at the Waller County Courthouse on Tuesday after officials claimed he was violating Texas Election Code section 85.036, which states that “a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party” in or within 100 feet of a voting location.

Image of Great Lakes from space shows extent of deep freeze

Image of Great Lakes from space shows extent of deep freeze | Mail Online:
"Image of Great Lakes from space shows extent of deep freeze hitting the country as Midwest braces for anther polar plunge
The Great lakes currently are 80.3 percent frozen over
In early February, the lakes were 88 percent covered with ice
The last time the ice covered more than 85 percent of the lakes was 1994"

California Bill Would Extend 'Obamacare' To Illegal Immigrants

California Bill Would Extend 'Obamacare' To Illegal Immigrants:

"Via Talking Points Memo:
 A California bill would extend health coverage to undocumented immigrants, using an Obamacare-style program to assist those left uncovered by the health care reform law.
 Kaiser Health News reported that the legislation, introduced by state Sen. Ricardo Lara, a Democrat, would use state dollars to pay for Medicaid coverage for low-income residents who are in the state illegally. 
No federal funding would be used. 
It would also establish an online marketplace where undocumented immigrants with higher incomes could buy private insurance. 
 Up to 2.6 million undocumented immigrants live in California, where they can currently receive emergency medical care and pregnancy care. 
About 1 million of them are estimated to be uninsured, according to KHN.
 What do you think of the idea of giving free health care benefits to illegal aliens?"

Sounds like a democrat voter to me.....Blondie Bennett, Barbie-Obsessed Woman, Uses Hypnotherapy To Make Herself ‘Brainless’

Blondie Bennett, Barbie-Obsessed Woman, Uses Hypnotherapy To Make Herself ‘Brainless’

A California woman who is obsessed with Barbie says she has one goal in life.

“I just want to be the ultimate Barbie. I actually want to be brainless,” Blondie Bennett, 38, told Barcroft TV. “I don’t like being human, if that makes sense… Natural is boring… I would love to be like, completely plastic.

She is so serious about her goal that she uses hypnotherapy sessions in order to decrease her IQ.

“I’ve had 20 sessions and I’m already starting to feel ditzy and confused all the time,” Bennett told the Daily Mail.

She is undergoing the sessions two to three times a week.

 “Recently I went to pick a friend up at the airport and couldn’t remember if I needed to go to departures or arrivals. I also got lost for three hours driving to my mum’s house – the house where I grew up.”

Bennett already has had five breast augmentations costing more than $41,000 and plastic surgery in order to become the “ultimate Barbie.” Although her family and friends don’t approve, it hasn’t stopped her from chasing what she thinks is the perfect life.

“When people ask why I want to be Barbie I think ‘who wouldn’t want to be?’” she told the Daily Mail. “She has the best life. All she does is shop and make herself look pretty – she doesn’t worry about anything.”

Bennett is currently unemployed but makes money from men who pay her in exchange for pictures of her dressed up as Barbie.

Christine O’Donnell: I was a victim of the IRS

Christine O’Donnell: I was a victim of the IRS | New York Post:

 "On March 9, 2010, around 10 a.m., I announced my plans to run for senate representing Delaware.
Later that same day, my office received a call from a reporter asking about my taxes."

Winter Olympics 2014: American Snowboarder Wins 2nd Gold for Russia

Winter Olympics 2014: American Snowboarder Wins 2nd Gold for Russia - ABC News
American snowboarder Vic Wild boosted his adopted country’s medal count for a second time today.

Wild, who’s competing for Russia, won his second gold medal in Sochi in the parallel slalom final. He won the men’s parallel giant slalom earlier in the week.

Wild, who was born in Washington state, said that he didn’t have the support from the United States Olympic Committee or the United States Snowboarding Association to pursue his Olympic dreams at home. So he went abroad.

........“I didn’t have the support I needed. The USOC and the USSA do a great job but not everyone can be happy. I don’t hold a grudge. I am here now doing what I want to do and it’s all good,” Wild said.

Universities in FCC Newsroom Probe Have Close Ties to Soros, Got $1.8M in Funding

Universities in FCC Newsroom Probe Have Close Ties to Soros, Got $1.8M in Funding | CNS News:
 "The FCC may have suspended its invasion into American newsrooms, but the controversial "Critical Information Needs" study also has George Soros' fingerprints all over it.

While disturbing, this should come as no surprise since Soros' gave more than $52 million to media organizations from 2000-2010.

Two schools were working with FCC on the project, according to Byron York of The Washington Examiner. The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Communication and Democracy, were tasked by the FCC with coming up with criteria for what information is "critical" for Americans to have. The FCC study would have covered newspapers, websites, radio and television, according to The Washington Post.

On top of the 1st Amendment problems with this proposal, the schools involved have strong ties to liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations and have gotten more than $1.8 million from since 2000"

Packs of Chihuahuas Roam the Streets of Phoenix

Packs of Chihuahuas Roam the Streets of Phoenix | CNS News:
"Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a reputation for being tough on crime.
But he may have met his match on this one:
 Stray packs of Chihuahuas are reportedly roaming the streets of Phoenix AZ, ready to snarl and yap at anyone who is unfortunate enough to cross their path."

Energy fact of the day: Net oil imports fell to a 28-year low of 33.2% in 2013, another energy milestone for US shale boom

Energy fact of the day: Net oil imports fell to a 28-year low of 33.2% in 2013, another energy milestone for US shale boom | AEIdeas

According to recently released data from the Energy Information Administration, the Great American Energy Boom set another milestone in 2013 as “net oil imports” fell to a 28-year low of 33.2%, the lowest level since 1985. The surge in domestic crude oil production from shale formations in recent years, along with a decrease in crude oil imports, has brought about an amazing turnaround in America’s reliance on foreign sources of oil, and the chart above captures that turnaround graphically.

Mercy Health Muskegon medical center announcement highlights fiscal state, health reform

Mercy Health Muskegon medical center announcement highlights fiscal state, health reform | MLive.com:
"Our average pay and benefit for the 3,700 people we have in our organization ends up being about $75,000 to $80,000. 
So, we're not just a big employer, we're an employer with very, very strong jobs.
It's an important thing, "Allore said."

California sheriff who says $276,000 pension not enough fuels push for reform

California sheriff who says $276,000 pension not enough fuels push for reform | Fox News:
"The latest battle in Ventura County is being fueled by the case of former Sheriff Robert Brooks.
He retired in 2011 with a salary of $227,000.
Today, he collects $50,000 a year more than that, with guaranteed cost-of-living increases.
But that wasn't enough.
Now he's suing for $75,000 more, claiming it’s allowed under the law."

Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth

» Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:

Election officials ejected a Texas man from a voting booth because he was wearing a Second Amendment t-shirt.

Chris Driskill was prevented from voting at the Waller County Courthouse on Tuesday after officials claimed he was violating Texas Election Code section 85.036, which states that “a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party” in or within 100 feet of a voting location.

“I heard a gentleman’s voice over my shoulder say ‘he can’t vote with that shirt on. You’ll have to either turn it inside out our you’ll have to leave,’” Driskill told KVUE.

The officials used the election law to throw Driskill out of the voting booth even though the shirt simply stated “Second Amendment – 1789 – America’s Original Homeland Security” on the front without any mention of a political candidate or proposition.

Cops arrest jogging woman because she couldn't hear them

Cops arrest jogging woman because she couldn't hear them | The Daily Caller:
"The officers chased the woman down and grabbed her arm from behind. Not knowing what was happening, the woman pulled away from the officer. This meant that she was resisting, and the woman soon found herself sitting on the ground in handcuffs.

Local man Chris Quintero watched the incident from a coffee ship window, and was irritated by the police officers’ behavior. He snapped a picture of the woman during her arrest.

“I was annoyed that the cops were kind of just hanging out on the corner giving citation after citation,” said Quintero in an interview with My Fox Austin. “She grabbed his arm and she shook him off.”

Quintero said it was clear that the woman couldn’t hear the officers, and didn’t mean to disobey the police."

History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com

History for February 22 - On-This-Day.com
Birth anniversary of George Washington (1732-99), first president of the US.

Birth anniversaries of baseball manager Sparky Anderson (1934-2010), Robert Wadlow, world’s tallest man (1918-40), Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, coward/murderer/scumbag posterboy

Anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980—when the US Olympic hockey team upset the Soviet hockey at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. The US went on to win gold after defeating Finland two days later.

Happy Birthday! Lea Salonga 1971, Robert Young 1907
 

1630 - Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner. 

1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States. 


1860 - Organized baseball’s first game was played in San Francisco, CA. 


1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store. 


1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman to win a U.S. thoroughbred horse race. 


1973 - The U.S. and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices. 


1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that the state of Alaska was the fastest growing state of the decade with an increase in population of 19.2 percent. 


1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. 

Marc Faber & Jim Rogers On Our "Clueless, Ignorant, Dangerous" Leaders

Marc Faber & Jim Rogers On Our "Clueless, Ignorant, Dangerous" Leaders | Zero Hedge:
"Both are uber-bearish central-bankers and politicians...
Marc Faber:
"Both candidates are clueless and completely artificial..."
 Jimmy Rogers: "It's worse than clueless, because they think they know what they're doing.. and so they are dangerous! 
If they were just clueless and looked out the window, we wouldn't have a problem, but they think they have the solution - but their solutions are what's making the situation worse..."
 Marc Faber: "That is precisely the point. 
It is very dangerous to have ignorant people believing that they know something!"

GM Promotes Gay Rights as Company-Wide Problems Mount

GM Promotes Gay Rights as Company-Wide Problems Mount | National Legal and Policy Center:

General Motors continues to find innovative ways to make political points while losing market value. The company continues its heavy ad spending, this time at the Olympics. The marketing wizards at GM are trying to tap into theLGBT consumer market, which equals approximately 3.5% of the total population. At the same time, GM shares are getting hit once again as higher inventory levels are leading to heavy discounting. The company still looks a lot like Government Motors.

.....GM seems determined to impress its political masters in Washington, rather than investors. If that is not the case, GM shareholders should be even more worried about management credibility as the company continues to focus on all the wrong things. 

I doubt that heterosexual, tax-paying, truck buying males — GM's most important consumers — are going to be swayed by GM's gay Olympics ads. Nor does the company's reliance on tax subsidies to promote the pseudo-green Chevy Volt make them any points.

Obama's america------UC Berkeley Liberals Expose Elementary Kids to Giant Penis and ‘Pin-The-Tail on the Anus’ Game

UC Berkeley Liberals Expose Elementary Kids to Giant Penis and ‘Pin-The-Tail on the Anus’ Game

As debates continue on whose job it is to educate children and teens about sex- the parents or schools- University of California Berkeley, a liberal haven of radical social agendas, gave young elementary school children quite an “education” as they filed past a man in a giant penis costume who was handing out condoms and were exposed to other school-sponsored sex games such as “pin-the-tail on the anus.”

According to Campus Reform:

A group of elementary and middle school students touring University of California – Berkeley last week were exposed to a man in a giant penis costume and school-sponsored sex games.

“All day long, little kids were prancing by the dental dam demonstrations, sex-themed games of chance, and the guy in the penis suit,” student Claire Chiara said in an interview with Campus Reform Thursday.

The children were led through the campus quad while Berkeley students were playing “pin-the-tail on the anus” and tossing condoms through holes on a poster board meant to represent vaginas and anuses.

There was also a man dressed as a giant penis handing out condoms, although he was not permitted to hand them to the children.

The events were not spontaneous but pre-planned as part of the school’s celebration of National Condom Week.

“Every day of the week, we have kids aged 6-18 touring our school, which is fantastic — but not during the National Condom Week,” Chiara said. “It was poor planning on the part of the Tang Center to put up the Sex Ed tent in front of Sproul Hall, as that is the most popular spot on campus for tour groups to stop.”

- See more at: http://www.tpnn.com/2014/02/20/uc-berkley-liberals-expose-elementary-kids-to-giant-penis-and-pin-the-tail-on-the-anus-game/#sthash.5dPeGAdZ.dpuf

25 Charged in Largest Medicaid Fraud Bust in D.C. History

25 Charged in Largest Medicaid Fraud Bust in D.C. History « CBS DC:
"WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Federal authorities say 25 people have been charged in a wide-ranging scheme to obtain millions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid payments from the District of Columbia government.
U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen calls it the largest health-care fraud case in the city’s history.
It involved bogus claims for home care services, a category of Medicaid claim that has grown dramatically in the city over the past eight years.
Machen says fraud is largely responsible for the increase in those claims.
The uptick in billings for home care — from $40 million in 2006 to $280 million last year — was part of what tipped off authorities to illegal activity, U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said."