History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com

History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com:

World Malaria Day. See www.worldmalariaday.org 

National Arbor Day

National Hairball Awareness Day

Interstate Mullet Toss. 30^th annual fish flinging begins at Pensacola, FL, and Alabama (Apr 25-27).

Birth anniversaries of Ella Fitzgerald (1917-96)

 

Birth anniversary of journalist Edward R. Murrow (1908-65).

Happy Birthday! Paul Mazursky, Al Pacino, Talia Shire 

1684 - A patent was granted for the thimble. 


1792 - The guillotine was first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier. 


1859 - Work began on the Suez Canal in Egypt. 


1862 - Union Admiral Farragut occupied New Orleans, LA. 


1901 - New York became the first state to require license plates for cars. The fee was $1. 

1915 - During World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in Turkey in hopes of attacking the Central Powers from below. The attack was unsuccessful. 


1928 - A seeing eye dog was used for the first time. 


1945 - Delegates from about 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. 


1953 - Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA. 


1954 - The prototype manufacture of the first solar battery was announced by the Bell Laboratories in New York City. 


1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. The water way connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. 


1961 - Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit. 


1967 - Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. The law was limited to therapeutic abortions when agreed to, unanimously, by a panel of three physicians. 


1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time. 

1992 - Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government. 






1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned by Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation. 


2007 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 13,000 for the first time. 

Calif. tax preparers paid bounty for every Obamacare sign-up | The Daily Caller

Calif. tax preparers paid bounty for every Obamacare sign-up | The Daily Caller:
"Tax-preparing companies are getting paid by an Obamacare exchange to enroll people in Obamacare plans, The Daily Caller has learned.
At least 79 tax service providers, including offices of major companies like Liberty Tax Service and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, are listed as certified Obamacare enrollment entities in the state of California, according to state exchange records."

Could this be the Reason Obama Concocted the YouTube Lie to Cover Up Benghazi?

Could this be the Reason Obama Concocted the YouTube Lie to Cover Up Benghazi?:
"The weapons were intended for Gaddafi but allowed by the U.S. to flow to his Islamist opposition.
‘The White House and senior Congressional members,’ the group wrote in an interim report released Tuesday, ‘deliberately and knowingly pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist organizations in order to topple a ruler [Muammar Gaddafi] who had been working closely with the West actively to suppress al-Qaeda.’

‘Some look at it as treason,’ said Wayne Simmons, a former CIA officer who participated in the commission’s research."

Your tax dollars at work. For union wastrels!-------- Federal agency FMCS gave grants to promote union membership

EXography: Federal agency FMCS gave grants to promote union membership | WashingtonExaminer.com:
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service gave a grant of $101,000 in federal funds to Wisconsin construction unions who complained that union workers were at a disadvantage in hiring because managers had to pay them more than others.
“Skilled trade workers struggle with employment in this economy due to non-unionized construction workers gaining popularity with their lower wage requirements,” they wrote in a successful application for a grant to "promote organized labor."
FMCS gave other money to a multitude of unions to help recruit more workers and combat declining membership.
The supposedly neutral agency sent $55,000 to MichiganTechnological University to ensure that most "campus leaders" are union members.
It even sent $98,000 to the Peoria, Ill., construction industry because of a "lack of interest" in people becoming construction workers.
It gave $103,000 to the Service Employees International Union in Chicago to boost its membership by encouraging more people to become health care workers, $94,000 to conduct green energy training so the Illinois sheetmetal workers' union could get more work for its members, and $83,000 for a mechanics union to teach tech skills.
The grants were part of a program that allowed anyone to request cash grants as long as their mission in any way involves labor issues — and often times, they were connected to that topic in only the most tortured way.

Joe Wilson Was Right: Obama's Lies Through the Years

Gun Rights Expanded in Georgia Under New Law | TheBlaze.com

Gun Rights Expanded in Georgia Under New Law | TheBlaze.com:
"A few hundred gun rights supporters gathered at an outdoor pavilion along a river in north Georgia in the town of Ellijay for the bill signing by Gov. Nathan Deal and a barbecue. Many sported “Stop Gun Control” buttons and several had weapons holstered at their side.
House Speaker David Ralston offered a thinly veiled critique of those who might oppose the bill while describing the people of his district.
“This is the apple capital of Georgia. And, yes, it’s a community where we cling to our religion and our guns,” Ralston said, drawing big applause in referencing a past comment made by President Barack Obama."

What could possibly go wrong?-------The Problem With Student-Loan Forgiveness

The Problem With Student-Loan Forgiveness - NationalJournal.com:
"The federal government now offers three repayment plans that lower monthly payments and will—eventually—forgive remaining debt. 
A separate plan forgives loans for people who take certain public-service jobs.  
Some of these options, however, are so new that nobody knows how well they'll serve borrowers.
Even when it comes to well-established repayment plans, many students don't truly understand their options.
And some analysts say that policy adjustments are needed to ensure that students don't get too comfortable taking on debt and institutions don't get too comfortable charging high prices.
"A lot of students will take out loans because they hear that if you're in a certain job it gets paid off. "

Finally!------Breast Milk Lollipops!

Breast Milk Lollipops! – Lollyphile!

Breast Milk Lollipops!

So what's happening is that suddenly it seems as though a lot of our friends are having babies. 
And since some of us are confectioners, we felt it was our responsibility to find out just what this flavor was that could turn a screaming, furious infant into a placid, contented one. 
Surely the flavor must be heavenly, yes?

We are endlessly grateful to all the mothers who kept sharing their breast milk with our flavor specialists until we were able to candify it. 
These lollipops won't bring back childhood memory; they'll bring up animal instinct. Quite possibly the most inherently satisfying flavor of all time.

(ps there's no actual breast milk in these. they're vegan! omg the armies of pumping women.)

4 Breast Milk Lollipops- $10
Dozen Breast Milk Lollipops- $24
Case of 36 Breast Milk Lollipops- $58

Satellite Data Shows No Global Warming For More Than 17 Years

RPT: Satellite Data Shows No Global Warming For More Than 17 Years | Fox News Insider:
Recent satellite data shows that there has been no global warming for more than 17 years.
Climate Depot reported:
According to the RSS satellite data, whose value for March 2014 is just in, the global warming trend in the 17 years 8 months since August 1996 is zero.
The 212 months without global warming represents just over half the 423-month satellite data record, which began in January 1979.

Author and columnist Mark Steyn was on “Hannity” to discuss the data.
He said that none of the climate models or “scare mongering” predicted these results.
Steyn called the global warming fixation “an appeal to rich people” and “a concern of the elite,” which is why he said it appeals to Hollywood and royalty.

Education 101----Kids caught distributing pot in school

Kids caught distributing pot in school:
"GREELEY – Several Montfort Elementary School students were suspended Tuesday after school officials discovered they were selling and trading stolen, loose-leaf marijuana and edible forms of the drug at school.
"Over the past two days, we have had two separate incidents of students bringing marijuana into our school, both in the form of loose-leaf marijuana and an edible form of the drug," Principal Jennifer Sheldon wrote in a letter to parents.
On Monday, a fourth-grade student brought loose-leaf marijuana to school and sold it to three other students.
A student who could not afford to purchase the loose-leaf marijuana brought an edible to school on Tuesday to trade for the loose-leaf version of the substance."

Gasoline greener than biofuels?

Gasoline greener than biofuels? | Fox News:
"Biofuels produced from waste products left from harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline in terms of carbon emissions, according to a $500,000 study paid for by the federal government and published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The study said biofuels made with corn residue release seven percent more greenhouse gases than traditional gasoline.
Rayola Dougher from the American Petroleum Institute called that an eye opener for the green energy crowd. "You know, what are we doing? If that's so, then we're going down the wrong path here,” Dougher told Fox News in an interview. "

The Fed’s Paint-By-The Numbers Money Printing Is A Fraud; Perhaps The Numbers Are, Too

The Fed’s Paint-By-The Numbers Money Printing Is A Fraud; Perhaps The Numbers Are, Too 
There’s a pattern of falsifying statistics throughout the entire Census Bureau. 
And anyone who attempts to blow the whistle on the fraud is either retaliated against or ignored, according to two new sources who have experienced the process firsthand.

As I’ve been writing for more than six months, the Census Bureau office in Philadelphia uncovered a case of fraud in 2010, did nothing about it and allowed the practice to continue.

In that instance, a data collector named Julius Buckmon was faking reports that went into the nation’s all-important jobless tally and consumer-inflation survey.

Because the Census Bureau’s surveys are scientific — meaning each answer, in the case of the jobless survey, carries the weight of about 5,000 households — Buckmon’s actions alone would have given inaccurate readings on the economic health of 500,000 families….

A source told me from the start of my investigation last October that Buckmon’s actions weren’t isolated and that falsification continued in the Philadelphia office right through the 2012 presidential election, only stopping when I exposed the practice last fall.

Now others who work at Census in different areas of the country are stepping forward to tell me similar stories about data being changed at the whim of supervisors who are more concerned about making quotas than protecting the integrity of information that is used for everything from cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients to monetary policy decisions by the Federal Reserve and business plans by companies in the US.

“I can tell you that waste, falsification and fraud are rampant,” says one of my new sources, who works as a Census supervisor in the Midwest and handles a number of surveys, including those on jobs, health and crime.

When this source complained, higher-ups “told me to shut my mouth.” When that didn’t happen, the source was deprived of work….

The data fabrication takes a number of forms.

My Midwest source says it is not unusual in that region for 800 out of roughly 2,000 interviews for the Current Population Survey (which is used to get the unemployment rate) to be incomplete, called “refusals,” on the last day of the monthly collection period.

Then, magically, only 100 will be unfinished when results are turned in next day to headquarters, which surveys for the Labor Department. “It’s statistically impossible,” my source says, “to complete the number of refusals we have in the last few hours.”

So supervisors are either filling out the surveys themselves or lying that houses are vacant — which also counts as a completed survey. Either way, any kind of falsification would obviously give a misrepresentation as to whether people in the household have a job.

And in an obvious conflict of interest, the wives of two of the supervisors in this Midwest region, according to my source, have been hired to check the results.

Up to 25 percent of the thousands of surveys that go into the jobless report may be fake, this source estimates. Falsification practices, obviously, also include field representatives like Buckmon who fill out the whole survey themselves (called at Census “curbstoning”).

Or reps will simply reach a member of a household and — rather than conduct a legitimate interview — simply ask if anything has changed from last month. If the answer is “no,” the old interview will be handed in again and be falsely counted as completed.

I’ll tell you more when I speak with the rest of the Census workers who now feel free to confess their organization’s failings.

Guess What This Democrat Just Admitted About Obamacare (It Isn't Pretty)

Guess What This Democrat Just Admitted About Obamacare (It Isn't Pretty):
“There are parts of ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act, that have been postponed because they are unpalatable,” he said. “As these provisions come into effect, the administration thus far is saying ‘we can’t handle this now so we’re going to delay it.’”
At some point in the future, however, the other shoe will drop.
“It’s going to hit the fan,” he concluded, noting aspects of the law including mandatory registrations and penalties will give Americans an even clearer look at what a disaster ObamaCare truly is."

Interfaith Panel Denounces a 9/11 Museum Exhibit’s Portrayal of Islam

Interfaith Panel Denounces a 9/11 Museum Exhibit’s Portrayal of Islam - NYTimes.com
Past the towering tridents that survived the World Trade Center collapse, adjacent to a gallery with photographs of the 19 hijackers, a brief film at the soon-to-open National September 11 Memorial Museum will seek to explain to visitors the historical roots of the attacks.
The film, “The Rise of Al Qaeda,” refers to the terrorists as Islamists who viewed their mission as a jihad. The NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who narrates the film, speaks over images of terrorist training camps and Qaeda attacks spanning decades.
Interspersed with his voice are explanations of the ideology of the terrorists, rendered in foreign-accented English translations.
The documentary is not even seven minutes long, the exhibit just a small part of the museum.
But it has suddenly become over the last few weeks a flash point in what has long been one of the most highly charged issues at the museum: how it should talk about Islam and Muslims.
With the museum opening on May 21, it has shown the film to several groups, including an interfaith advisory group of clergy members. Those on the panel overwhelmingly took strong exception to the film and requested changes.
But the museum has declined.
In March, the sole imam in the group resigned to make clear that he could not endorse its contents.
Sitting in his mosque, Sheikh Mostafa Elazabawy, the imam of Masjid Manhattan, answered questions about why he found a film about Al Qaeda at the museum deeply offensive.CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times
“The screening of this film in its present state would greatly offend our local Muslim believers as well as any foreign Muslim visitor to the museum,” Sheikh Mostafa Elazabawy, the imam of Masjid Manhattan, wrote in a letter to the museum’s director. “Unsophisticated visitors who do not understand the difference between Al Qaeda and Muslims may come away with a prejudiced view of Islam, leading to antagonism and even confrontation toward Muslim believers near the site.”

Museum officials are standing by the film, which they say they vetted past several scholars.

History for April 24

History for April 24 - On-This-Day.com:

Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day. 21st annual. See www.DaughtersandSonstoWork.org

Birth anniversary of American poet, novelist, critic Robert Penn Warren (1905-89). Warren was America’s first official poet laureate, 1986-88.

Birth anniversary of English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).

Happy Birthday! Kelly Clarkson, Richard M. Daley, Barbra Streisand

1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.


1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain.
 

1889 - The Edison General Electric Company was organized. 


1898 - Spain declared war on the U.S., rejecting America's ultimatum for Spain to withdraw from Cuba.





1948 - The Berlin airlift began to relieve the surrounded city. 


1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 


1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. 


1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute. 


1967 - The newest Greek regime banned miniskirts. 


2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons. 

You Won’t Believe How Big Obama’s Earth Day ‘Carbon Footprint’ Is

You Won’t Believe How Big Obama’s Earth Day ‘Carbon Footprint’ Is:
"As America celebrated Earth Day Tuesday, Barack Obama marked the occasion by emitting about 15 times more carbon – in one trip – than the average American releases in an entire year.
According to reports, he began the day with a cross-country flight from the nation’s capital to Washington State. That trip sent out an estimated 568,032 pounds of carbon into the atmosphere. Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, are responsible for creating about 38,000 pounds of carbon each year.
That trip, however, was just the beginning of Obama’s pollution-heavy schedule. "

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2014/04/pints-and-quarts-by-tammy-derouin.html

Well, it was too early for ale but we were discussing the Constitution and its original intent over coffee and eggs.  I couldn’t hold back the smile when questions were asked by some, answered by others and then checked by referring to the Constitution.  There were at least three people in our group checking the Constitution on cell phones.

A Billion for Your Thoughts: ‘Environmentalism’ is Costing Us | TheBlaze.com

A Billion for Your Thoughts: ‘Environmentalism’ is Costing Us | TheBlaze.com:
"IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer, speaking in November 2010, advised that: “…one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth…”"

9 Password Managers To Make Use Of

9 Password Managers To Make Use Of [We Ask You Results]:
"Creating and remembering passwords for every website you interact with is a real pain in the ass.
Unfortunately, it’s also an essential part of a life spent at least partially online.
We sought to find out your strategy when it comes to passwords, and the informative results are detailed below.

We asked you, How Do You Manage Your Passwords? 
It turns out that most of you don’t manage your passwords, or at least not alone.
Instead, the majority of people participating in the discussion let a password manager do the hard work of creating and/or storing passwords for their online adventures.
In total, nine password managers were named during the discussion, all of which are used by at least one commenter. The nine are LastPass, KeePass, Passpack, Dashlane, RoboForm, Sticky Password, 1Password, Norton Identity Safe, and aWallet Password Manager."

America's power grid at the limit: The road to electrical blackouts

America's power grid at the limit: The road to electrical blackouts | The Daily Caller

Americans take electricity for granted. It powers our lights, our computers, our offices, and our industries.
But misguided environmental policies are eroding the reliability of our power system.

Last winter, bitterly cold weather placed massive stress on the US electrical system ― and the system almost broke. On January 7 in the midst of the polar vortex, PJM Interconnection, the Regional Transmission Organization serving the heart of America from New Jersey to Illinois, experienced a new all-time peak winter load of almost 142,000 megawatts.

Eight of the top ten of PJM’s all-time winter peaks occurred in January 2014. Heroic efforts by grid operators saved large parts of the nation’s heartland from blackouts during record-cold temperature days. Nicholas Akins, CEO of American Electric Power, stated in Congressional testimony, “This country did not just dodge a bullet ― we dodged a cannon ball.”

Environmental policies established by Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are moving us toward electrical grid failure. The capacity reserve margin for hot or cold weather events is shrinking in many regions. According to Philip Moeller, Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, “the experience of this past winter indicates that the power grid is now already at the limit.

Math mistakes lead government to pay contractors up to 3 times market rate under Davis-Bacon

Math mistakes lead government to pay contractors up to 3 times market rate under Davis-Bacon

Construction workers at companies doing work for the federal government are paid as much as three times what their peers outside of government get for the same work, a Washington Examiner review of federal statistics found.

Pipefitters in Laredo, Texas, for example, can usually expect to make around $11.47 hourly, but if working on a federal contract, they must be paid at least $36.49, plus benefits.

Window installers in New York City make $18.87 an hour in the market -- that's the median salary, including industry veterans -- yet the government requires those doing that work for it in the New York area to be paid at least $42, even if they're inexperienced.

While tradesmen known as lathers in Philadelphia usually make $19.26 an hour, the law requiresfederal contractors to be paid $39.90 with an additional $25 an hour in fringe benefits.

In Just 17 Seconds, S.E. Cupp Perfectly Explains Why Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns Group Has ‘Crumbled’

In Just 17 Seconds, S.E. Cupp Perfectly Explains Why Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns Group Has ‘Crumbled’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"As reported by NewsBusters, Cupp also said Bloomberg’s strategy to go after the National Rifle Association is a “very odd thing” because the gun rights group doesn’t represent criminal or even gun manufacturers.
“The NRA represents law-abiding gun owners, like myself, they don’t represent criminals. They don’t event represent gun manufacturers,” she said earlier in the segment. “So why Mayor Bloomberg is turning his figurative guns on people like me when there are criminals out there seems a very strange way to go about reducing gun crime. His efforts on this issue have been measurable failures.”"

4%?!!-----Hey, they told us there's NO inflation!------- MSU board increases room-and-board rates 3.95 percent

MSU board increases room-and-board rates 3.95 percent | Crain's Detroit Business:

"EAST LANSING — The Board of Trustees at Michigan State University has voted to raise room-and-board rates for its dorms by 3.95 percent next academic year.
With the rate change approved today by the board, the residence hall double-room rate for undergraduate students will increase $144, to $3,780 per year.
The school says their unlimited dining meal plan will increase $204, to $5,374 per year."