History for May 14

History for May 14 - On-This-Day.com

Flower Moon--May full moon (3:16 PM, EDT)

“The Stars and Stripes Forever” Day: first public performance of this march in 1897.

Birth anniversary of Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736).

Happy Birthday! Cate Blanchett, George Lucas, Mark Zuckerberg

1796 - The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner. 


1804 - William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the "Corps of Discovery." 


1853 - Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk. 



1862 - The chronograph was patented by Adolphe Nicole. 


1878 - The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough. 


1897 - "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled. 


1897 - Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph. 


1904 - In St. Louis, the Olympic games were held. It was the first time for the games to be played in the U.S. 


1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress. 


1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end. 


1961 - A bus carrying Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama. 


1975 - U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation. 


1980 - U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.

No Joke: White House Tweets Picture of Obama on Throne

No Joke: White House Tweets Picture of Obama on Throne:

"Apparently, that is exactly how Obama sees himself."

Warren Buffett: The Billion-Dollar King of Abortion

Warren Buffett: The Billion-Dollar King of Abortion | Media Research Center:

They say the key to successful investing is diversification. But Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor known as the  “Oracle of Omaha,” is a one-issue man -- and that issue is abortion.

Through the foundation he financed with more than $3 billion of his own money, Buffett donated $1,230,585,161 to abortion groups worldwide from 2001 to 2012. These groups, including Planned Parenthood, NARAL and the Population Council, either campaign for pro-abortion legislation, perform abortions themselves, or helped develop the controversial abortion drug RU-486. Buffett gave an additional $21 million to these groups between 1989 and 1996. (Tax forms between 1997 and 2000 are not available.)

So the $1.2 billion that Buffett gave to these organizations is enough to pay for the abortions of more than 2.7 million babies in the womb. Those figures come from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, which says the average amount paid for a surgical abortion in the United States is $451 for the first trimester. That accounts for the majority of abortions.

To put that in perspective, Warren Buffett donated enough money to abortion groups to perform as many abortions as there are people in the entire city of Chicago.

Feds Spending $1.5 Million on ‘Bicycle Trains,’ ‘Walking School Buses’ to Get Fat Kids to Lose Weight

Feds Spending $1.5 Million on ‘Bicycle Trains,’ ‘Walking School Buses’ to Get Fat Kids to Lose Weight | Washington Free Beacon:
The federal government is spending more than $1.5 million to research how “bicycle trains” and “walking school buses” can help obese children lose weight.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently funding two studies to a researcher at Seattle Children’s Hospital, both of which aim to get more children to stop riding the school bus.

Dr. Jason Mendoza has received $405,835 for a pilot study on “bicycle trains,” or a group of kids who bike to school with adult chaperons. The project is billed as a “low-cost, practical program to reduce risk of obesity for at-risk children.”

....The study’s premise is that there is a correlation between the decline in walking to school and the increase in childhood obesity in recent decades.

Senator: Feds Pressured States to Adopt Common Core | TheBlaze.com

Senator: Feds Pressured States to Adopt Common Core | TheBlaze.com:
"Common Core, while backed by the Obama administration, is not a formal federal policy, but was established by the National Governors Association and the Council for Chief State School Officers.
“They adopted this and, to make it look like it was state-oriented and coming from the grassroots up, I think maybe it’s easier to sell that until you start looking into where the roots of it happened, basically here in Washington, D.C,” Grassley said."

More Democratic buffoonery- a Benghazi "truth squad"

More Democratic buffoonery- a Benghazi "truth squad" | Tea Party:
"Former Bill Clinton hack turned Hillary Clinton hack Lanny Davis will form a “truth squad” outside the select committee on Benghazi hearings to put his own partisan spin on the hearings.
Good luck with that.
I do not expect chairman Trey Gowdy to put on a show.
As a prosecutor Gowdy never lost a case which means he knows which cases to dismiss or plead down and which cases to fight.
He is ready to fight but not with innuendos or half truths.
The public can expect to see a very professional investigation and it deserves nothing less.

Obama's Fake Brakes on Running to Economic Crash

Obama's Fake Brakes on Running to Economic Crash:

...The problem is that the administration is using a flawed economic model.
All of them subscribe to the progressive Keynesian economics model.
Amongst other things, this states that government can build up the economy by injecting stimulus money into it. That’s why we saw so many rounds of government stimulation when Obama first entered office.
However, we haven’t seen the promised results. 
Their answer to that is that we need to do another stimulus. 
The idea behind stimulus packages is that the government gets back $1.50 for every dollar they put into the economy.
There’s only one problem; that’s an unproven theory, not a known fact.
Looking at the recent stimulus efforts, it looks like the only ones who got anything were bank executives and executives of failing green energy companies.
The economy didn’t do a lick better. (Video first seen on Truthstream Media.)

So, where does this leave us?
I hate to say it, but we’re still on the fast road to an economic crash.
The only real questions are when it will happen and what will trigger it.
The new Fed Chairwoman has already gone on record stating that we can’t sustain the current national debt. With it growing daily, there’s no question that we are heading into troubled waters. 
I hope your boat is ready.

Why is the MSM ignoring/minimizing this stunning failure? Three-fourths of ObamaCare enrollees were previously insured

Three-fourths of ObamaCare enrollees were previously insured « Hot Air:

Former Treasury Secretary Claims Obama White House Instructed Him to Mislead Americans on This Topic | TheBlaze.com

Former Treasury Secretary Claims Obama White House Instructed Him to Mislead Americans on This Topic | TheBlaze.com:
"The former Treasury Secretary’s claim comes shortly after declassified White House emails revealed last month that the Obama administration coordinated with National Security Adviser Susan Rice after the 2012 assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, to portray the attacks as being “rooted in [an] Internet video” and not “a broader failure of policy.”

Listen to the 1st 30 seconds. You'll listen to the rest. And be mad as HELL!-------------------IT TAKES TREY GOWDY JUST THREE MINUTES TO SILENCE THE MEDIA

Brookings: More businesses dying than being created — for first time ever

Brookings: More businesses dying than being created — for first time ever « Hot Air:
Behold, the power of Obamanomics. 
More businesses are failing now than are being created, a first for the American economy since the Carter era, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution. 
That has become even more true during the Obama “recovery” than during the Great Recession:

Iran says it has built copy of captured American drone, will take it on test flight

Iran says it has built copy of captured American drone, will take it on test flight | Fox News:
"Iran says it has “succeeded” in copying an American drone it captured in 2011 and will soon take the replicated aircraft on a test flight.
State television in Iran broadcasted images Sunday apparently showing a replicated US RQ-170 Sentinel drone alongside the original one, according to the AFP.
"Our engineers succeeded in breaking the drone's secrets and copying them,” an officer in the footage reportedly said. “It will soon take a test flight."

Bipartisan House bill calls on Congress to fly coach

Bipartisan House bill calls on Congress to fly coach | WashingtonExaminer.com:
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Monday that would prohibit members of Congress from flying first class on commercial airlines at taxpayers' expense.
"Members of Congress are public servants and should not receive special privileges at the expense of hard-working taxpayers," said Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., one of the bill's initial four co-sponsors.
"It’s wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet."
The "If Our Military Has to Fly Coach Then so Should Congress Act" seeks to extend to the legislative branch the same restrictions on first-class air traveled placed on many government employees.
"It's a very simple bill," said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., another co-sponsor. "
At a time of massive deficits and with a national debt in excess of $17 trillion, members of Congress should not be using taxpayers' hard-earned money to buy luxury airline seats.
"If members of our military can't fly first class using taxpayer funds, neither should members of Congress."

Meebee ya ought to EFFIN vote!---------Establishment's new name, Effin Bar & Grill, draws mixed comments from Dalton Township residents

Establishment's new name, Effin Bar & Grill, draws mixed comments from Dalton Township residents | MLive.com:
"DALTON TOWNSHIP, MI – The new name and a sign for a renovated bar on Holton Road was a hot topic at the Dalton Township Board of Trustees meeting Monday night, May 12.
Effin Bar & Grill’s name and sign drew a few complaints -- and one speech in support – during the public comments section of the meeting. 
Dalton Township resident Janice Niles invoked obscenity law and a township ordinance in a speech trying to convince the trustees that the sign was questionable from a legal standpoint.
Township Supervisor Chris Hall said earlier that the sign was within the rules.
“I don’t feel that that sign is promoting the moral standards of our community,” Niles said."

EMP Attack On Power Grid Could Kill 9-In-10 Americans

EMP Attack On Power Grid Could Kill 9-In-10 Americans - Investors.com:
Vulnerability: Expert testimony before Congress on Thursday warned that an electromagnetic pulse attack on our power grid and electronic infrastructure could leave most Americans dead and the U.S. in another century.
That dire warning came from Peter Vincent Pry, a member of the Congressional EMP Commission and executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
He testified in front of the House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies that an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event could wipe out 90% of America's population.
......Today an electromagnetic pulse event would be devastating. It wouldn't need a solar storm, just a solitary nuke detonated in the atmosphere above the American heartland. We would envy the horse-and-buggy era.
"Natural EMP from a geomagnetic superstorm, like the 1859 Carrington Event or 1921 Railroad Storm, and nuclear EMP attack from terrorists or rogue states, as practiced by North Korea during the nuclear crisis of 2013, are both existential threats that could kill 9-of-10 Americans through starvation, disease and societal collapse," the Washington Free Beacon quoted Pry as saying.

WH: 'Retrofitting Buildings...Is One Way to Create Jobs' | CNS News

WH: 'Retrofitting Buildings...Is One Way to Create Jobs' | CNS News:
"As job growth lags in the sluggish economic recovery, the Obama White House is pointing to climate change policies as a fix:
Efforts to reduce carbon pollution, far from costing jobs, will create them, a White House spokesman told reporters on Wednesday:
"Retrofitting buildings and modernizing them is one way to create jobs," Josh Earnest said. "It saves companies money in terms of their energy costs, but it also creates jobs in terms of people who are installing updated lighting, modern heating and cooling systems, and other things that make buildings more efficient." "

CNN’s 9PM Hour Hits Second-Lowest Ratings in Nearly 15 Years

Cable News Ratings | May 9, 2013 | Mediaite:

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends 930	New Day 212	Morning Joe 329	Express 200
5 pm	The Five 1.695	Blitzer 343	Schultz 509	Detective 109
6 pm	Baier 1.630	Blitzer/Crossfire 316/282	Sharpton 496	Detective 126
7 pm	Van Susteren 1.224	Burnett 338	Matthews 588	Velez-Mitchell 151
8 pm	O’Reilly 1.508	Cooper 353	Hayes 398	Grace 185
9 pm	Kelly 1.360	Weir 226	Maddow 560	Files 224
10 pm	Hannity 1.046	Weir 232	Investigates 280	Files 278
11 pm	O’Reilly 743	Bourdain 200	Investigates 356	Files 269
PRIME TIME	1.305	270	414	229
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) da

History for May 13

History for May 13 - On-This-Day.com

100th birth anniversary of legendary boxer Joe Louis (1914-81).

Musical birth anniversary Motown star Mary Wells (1943-92).

Happy Birthday! Stephen Colbert, Harvey Keitel, Stevie Wonder

1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, was settled as a colony of England. 


1648 - Margaret Jones of Plymouth was found guilty of witchcraft and was sentenced to be hanged by the neck. 


1821 - The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust. 


1865 - The last land engagement of the American Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. 


1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil. 


1917 - Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. 


1940 - Winston Churchill made his first speech as the prime minister of Britain. 


1954 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act. 


1958 - French troops took control of Algiers. 


1958 - U.S. Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. 


1985 - A confrontation between democrat party Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. 11 people died in the fire that resulted. 

llegals Visit Capitol Hill, Demand Amnesty Through Executive Orders | CNS News

llegals Visit Capitol Hill, Demand Amnesty Through Executive Orders | CNS News:
"To mark May Day last week, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) invited people who are in the country illegally to Capitol Hill where they released a list of executive orders they believe President Barack Obama should put in place, including stopping all deportations and bringing back deportees who have family here."

Hamas TV’s Bumble Bee Character Encourages Children to Do Some Disturbing Things to Jews | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hamas TV’s Bumble Bee Character Encourages Children to Do Some Disturbing Things to Jews | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"In a recent episode of a Hamas-sponsored television show, Palestinian children were encouraged by a giant bee character to punch, throw stones at and shoot Jews."

Beyond the hashtag

Beyond the hashtag | New York Post

But good wishes won’t get the girls back or bring their captors to justice.

It’s true that with each day the job gets more complicated. We’ve lost time. Intelligence reports suggest the girls have been broken up into smaller groups and sold off in different countries. And the Boko Haram Islamists plainly do not believe there will be any consequences for the evil they have done.

They are determined, like their brother Islamist terrorists, to prevent girls from being “corrupted” by education. And there is no atrocity they are unwilling to commit in pursuit of that goal.

When Not Even The "1%" Can Afford College

When Not Even The "1%" Can Afford College | Zero Hedge:

"Since in America one now needs a Bachelor's degree (if not a PhD in economics, of course) to get a job as a waiter, according to the following chart the US may soon have a severe waiter shortage considering the cost of college tuition has outpaced even the income of the 1%.
As for everyone else, forget it - want that French Polynesian belly-dancing major? 
Prepare to become a debt slave for life."

Just Wait Until You Hear What UCLA Student Government Candidates Are Being Asked to Sign | TheBlaze.com

Just Wait Until You Hear What UCLA Student Government Candidates Are Being Asked to Sign | TheBlaze.com:
"Candidates running to serve as officers in the undergraduate student government at UCLA are being asked to sign a pledge that they will not go on certain free or sponsored trip to Israel, a prerequisite that one pro-Israel group is calling “bigoted” and “absurd.” According to the UCLA newspaper the Daily Bruin, the majority of candidates have signed the pledge."