History for August 6

History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com

Birth anniversaries of Alexander Fleming (1881-1955); Lucille Ball (1911-89); Robert Mitchum (1917-97); Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) and Andy Warhol (1928-87).

Happy Birthday! Peter Bonerz, Dorian Harewood, M. Night Shyamalan

1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. Serbia declared war against Germany. 


1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time) 


1960 - Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began. 


1965 - The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. 


1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire. 


1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart. 


1990 - The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait. 





1997 - Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.

Some Are Calling This the ‘Most Important Video About Israel Ever Made’ — and It’s Taking the Internet by Storm | Video | TheBlaze.com

Some Are Calling This the ‘Most Important Video About Israel Ever Made’ — and It’s Taking the Internet by Storm | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"It’s been dubbed the “most important video about Israel ever made” — and it’s being widely circulated on the Internet amid the recent Gaza conflict."



This is a great video!

Eric Holder Makes a Startling Admission That Will Surprise No One

Eric Holder Makes a Startling Admission That Will Surprise No One:
"But, at least Holder is admitting what many have stated all along. Rather than act as he should as the lead attorney for America, he has worked as an activist and as Barack Obama’s personal attorney, doing his bidding and abusing his power to push the progressive agenda.
Perhaps we should not be surprised at Holder proudly wearing the label of activist 1000% and distorting his role of Attorney General in the process. After all, he did participate in an armed takeover of the ROTC office at Columbia University and his law firm defended terrorists who attacked and killed American citizens. When you look at his history, some may think the word activist is not a strong enough word to describe his actions and agenda."

Moron alert!------Not so bright: CA bill would require bb guns to be painted bright colors

Not so bright: CA bill would require bb guns to be painted bright colors - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.:
"SACRAMENTO, Calif. – From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” file, a bill currently in the California Legislature would require BB guns and Airsoft Pellet guns painted bright toy colors so they won’t be mistaken for real guns.
Coloring BB guns (“BB” stands for “ball bullet,”) in bright colors will only give parents and children the impression that they are children’s toys, rather than recreational and target sport guns.
And criminals will start painting their AK 47s hot pink.
Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed 11 gun control bills into law and vetoed seven. More gun bills are on the firing line this year — even banning some BB guns."

Dem. Uses German Uniform To Represent U.S. Navy In Mailer

Dem. Uses German Uniform To Represent U.S. Navy In Mailer | The Daily Caller:

"Democratic lawmaker Julia Brownley sent a political mailer to her constituents in late July featuring a woman wearing fake military attire and a German Luftwaffe insignia — apparently unaware that the costume was not an official uniform worn by U.S. personnel."
...Brownley serves on the House Committee for Veteran Affairs and is ranking member on the House’s Subcommittee on Health, which oversees the VA. Her district includes Naval Base Ventura County, a large military installation near the southern California town of Oxnard that supports 19,000 naval personnel.

Is thinking now obsolete?

Is thinking now obsolete?:
"Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera says that there is no way Israel is winning the battle for world opinion.
But Israel is trying to win the battle for survival, while surrounded by enemies.
Might that not be more important?
Has any other country, in any other war, been expected to keep the enemy’s civilian casualties no higher than its own civilian casualties? 
The idea that Israel should do so did not originate among the masses but among the educated intelligentsia.
In an age when scientists are creating artificial intelligence, too many of our educational institutions seem to be creating artificial stupidity."

VA Accused of Misleading Congress in a Big Way | TheBlaze.com

VA Accused of Misleading Congress in a Big Way | TheBlaze.com:
“They tried to misdirect Congress and the American people away from the facts,” House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) told the Tampa Bay Times. “I think they got caught and now they are trying to modify their story…. The misdirection was, in fact, designed in Washington.”

Union thugs still trying to limit OUR shopping choices---------Wal-Mart superstore fight in Whitehall Township heading to appeals court

Wal-Mart superstore fight in Whitehall Township heading to appeals court | MLive.com:

"Marietti rejected an appeal of the township's decision by a group of seven White Lake-area residents and an anti-Wal-Mart group calling itself BOW NOT -- Back Off Wal-Mart, Not Our Town.
BOW NOT and the residents went to circuit court in October 2013 to appeal the township planning commission's approval of the Wal-Mart development.
They sued Whitehall Township, with Wal-Mart's real-estate company later added as a defendant at the company's request.
The plaintiffs have decided to keep the fight going.
"We're asking the court of appeals to hear our appeal of the circuit judge," Howard said. 
"We respect Judge Marietti but have a disagreement with his rationale on the ruling and want the court of appeals to take a hard look at it.
It's important to us and important to the community that that happens."

Mackinac Center offers teachers form to withdraw from MEA during 'August window'

Mackinac Center offers teachers form to withdraw from MEA during 'August window' | MLive.com

LANSING -- The Mackinac Center, a vocal opponent of the Michigan Education Association, is giving disgruntled teachers a form letter to use in voicing their desire to leave the union during the "August window."

Union by-laws require that MEA members submit formal withdrawal requests in August, a rule the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has railed against as violating the spirit and possibly the letter of the state's right-to-work law.

The Mackinac Center launched what they described as an "informational" campaign earlier this year about the withdrawal period, but said in June that the group was not encouraging teachers to leave the MEA.

"We're not encouraging anyone to opt out, we're simply providing information," F. Vincent Vernuccio, the group's director of labor policy, said in June. "We're encouraging people to think about if they want to opt out."

Now that the window is open, however, the Mackinac Center is taking a more active approach toward teachers leaving the union.

The group's "August Opt-Out" site, which previously offered information about the window, now has a withdrawal letter generator for teachers who want out of the MEA.

The form letter threatens legal action against the MEA for failing to honor withdrawal requests, and demands that the MEA legally justify any refusal to honor the request.

Mackinac Center spokesman Ted O'Neill contends the form letter still represents information for teachers in the union and isn't an attempt to encourage members to leave.

"We would prefer that the MEA be the ones to make this information available to their members. Since they’ve chosen not to, we felt someone had to step in and do this," O'Neill said. "It’s up to each member to do what they wish, whether that’s completely ignore it or fully utilize it."

According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively”

According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively” - Salon.com:

"Webster’s first definition of literally is, “in a literal sense or matter; actually.”
Its second definition is, “in effect; virtually.” 
In addressing this seeming contradiction, its authors comment:
“Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposition of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. 
Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary.”
So it’s okay to use literally to mean figuratively as long as you really, really, really need to do so?
Hmph."

What Will It Mean If The Potential Ebola Victim In New York City Actually Has The Virus?

What Will It Mean If The Potential Ebola Victim In New York City Actually Has The Virus?Officials tell us that the plane was rapidly quarantined and that they were tracking down anyone that had been in contact with that woman.
I don't know about you, but all of this is starting to remind me of some of the really bad Hollywood disaster movies that I have seen.
In my article yesterday, I included the following chart which shows how this Ebola outbreak is beginning to grow at an exponential pace...

Chicago Nonprofit Has Received Millions in Taxpayer Dollars — and Played Host to Some Pretty Racy Events | TheBlaze.com

Chicago Nonprofit Has Received Millions in Taxpayer Dollars — and Played Host to Some Pretty Racy Events | TheBlaze.com:
“As has been the practice in Illinois as witnessed by the $100 million Neighborhood Recovery Initiative now under investigation both state and federal the answer is yes,” Bivins said. “This is typical Chicago way politics, funnel state and federal monies to friends, donors through grants contracts and not for profits.”

Town treasurer on runaway spending: ‘There’s never anyone that says no’

Town treasurer on runaway spending: ‘There’s never anyone that says no’ « Watchdog.org:
"For residents of Charlotte, Vt., who want to know why the cost of living has risen dramatically in recent years, the town treasurer has the answer.
“At budget time, there’s never anyone that says ‘no’ to anything,” Mary Mead told Vermont Watchdog.
.....“I don’t understand why in such a small town certain departments have to increase in their expenses at such a rate,” Mead said."

Unreal: Look at what liberals now say is “sexist” to call your daughter…

Unreal: Look at what liberals now say is “sexist” to call your daughter… | Young Conservatives:
"From the Daily Caller:
"Have you ever called your daughter “princess” or, if you are a daughter, have you been called “princess” by anyone? 
If so, you are sexist scum."
This important pronouncement comes from Marquette University psychology professors Stephen Franzoi and Debra Oswald.
Franzoi and Oswald reported their findings in an article called “Experiencing Sexism and Young Women’s Body Esteem.” "

Oshkosh Saturday Air Show Highlights

Almost No Teachers In District's Low-Performing Schools Considered 'Ineffective'

Almost No Teachers In District's Low-Performing Schools Considered 'Ineffective' [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"For the last two years, every high school student in the Lansing School District received a letter from the district stating that all three high schools are on the state’s low-performing watch list.
The letters are mandated after a school is designated as one of the worst performing in the state by finishing in the bottom 5 percent academically.
Yet, according to the district, the effectiveness of its teachers is increasing significantly while it has had more schools put on the state’s low-performing watch list."

Today!

Devastating-----Vote No On Proposal 1?

Vote No On Proposal 1? | Right Michigan:

"It is my estimation that it was not necessary to place anything on the ballot to allow the reduction of that tax." Rose Bogaert WCTA

It’s seemed all too easy for this to almost slip right by, unquestioned as we fight our local political battles..

Folks have been trying to figure out the impact of proposal one.  The complicated gobbledygook language contained in multiple bills as a part of PA 80 has not helped, and the question remains: “Why is it necessary to have the voters act to ‘reduce’ taxes?” Before we as a state vote on ANYTHING, it ought to be at least reasonably explained.

Indeed, I don’t know anyone who likes the personal property tax, but will the ‘devil we know’ be replaced by one even more destructive? 
Rose Bogaert, of the Wayne County Taxpayers Association lays it out:

The News Media Now Reports All Weather as “Extreme”

The News Media Now Reports All Weather as “Extreme”:
In a desperate effort to keep the global warming hoax alive even though it is now called “climate change”, the meteorologically challenged print and broadcast media is now declaring all weather “extreme” these days.

The Media Research Institute recently analyzed broadcast network transcripts between July 1, 2004 and July 1, 2005, along with those between July 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014.
What it discovered was the network coverage of “extreme weather” had increased nearly one thousand percent!
As Sean Long reported, “during that time, extreme weather was frequently used by the networks to describe heat waves, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, and winter storms, and they often included the phrase in onscreen graphics or chyrons during weather stories.”
Thanks to Al Gore who continues to lie about global warming despite the fact that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle for seventeen years, the news media, print and broadcast, now substitutes its latest reincarnation, “climate change”, when reporting the weather.
It’s worth noting that the weather is what is outside right now wherever you are and climate is something that is measured in decades and centuries.
The one thing you need to keep in mind is that every form of weather has been around for much of the Earth’s 4.5 billion years.
Long before humans were blamed for causing it, they developed ways to adapt and survive, but tornadoes, hurricanes and floods, among other events, still kill humans with the same indifference to them that Mother Nature has always demonstrated.
Gore became a multi-millionaire based on the global warming scam
Gore became a multi-millionaire based on the global warming scam and, along the way; the U.S. wasted an estimated $50 billion on alleged “research” whose sole purpose was to give credence to it. 
Too many scientists lined their pockets with taxpayer dollars and many government agencies increased their budgets while falsifying their findings.

History for August 5

History for August 5 - On-This-Day.com:

National Night Out. 31st annual. Designed to heighten crime prevention awareness and to promote police-community partnerships. See www.nationalnightout.org

Birth anniversaries of astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), Joseph Merrick (known as "the Elephant Man," 1862-90), Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947).

Happy Birthday! Loni Anderson, Patrick Ewing, John Saxon 

1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250. 


1861 - The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872.
 

1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Adm. David G. Farragut were led into Mobile Bay, Alabama. 


1944 - Polish insurgents liberated a German labor camp in Warsaw. 348 Jewish prisoners were freed. 

1957 - "American Bandstand” premiered on national TV with host Dick Clark.

1962 - Actress Marilyn Monroe died at Los Angeles, CA.

1964 - U.S. aircraft bombed North Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. 


1974 - U.S. President Nixon said that he expected to be impeached. Nixon had ordered the investigation into the Watergate break-in to halt. 


1981 - The U.S. federal government started firing striking air traffic controllers. 


1991 - Iraq admitted to misleading U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons. 


1998 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors.
 

‘Hang Your Heads in Shame’: A Hollywood Heavyweight Gives Fellow Actors a History Lesson | TheBlaze.com

‘Hang Your Heads in Shame’: A Hollywood Heavyweight Gives Fellow Actors a History Lesson | TheBlaze.com:
"You have been able to become famous and have all your monetary gains because you are in a democratic country: America. Do you think you would have been able to accomplish this in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, et cetera? You had a great responsibility to use your celebrity for good.  Instead, you have defamed the only democratic country of goodwill in the Middle East: Israel."