History for August 15

History for August 15 - On-This-Day.com

Candlelight Vigil for Elvis Presley, Graceland, Memphis, TN (Aug 15-16). See www.elvisweek.com

Birth anniversary of novelist and playwright Edna Ferber (1887-1968). She wrote Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and cowrote the plays Dinner at Eight and Stage Door.

Birth anniversary of American culinary legend Julia Child (1912-2004).

Birth anniversaries of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) and Oscar Peterson (1925-2007).

Happy Birthday! Ben Affleck, Mike Connors, Phyllis Schlafly

1057 - Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan. 


1848 - The dental chair was patented by M. Waldo Hanchett. 


1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone. 


1911 - The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company. 


1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. 


1935 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash in near Point Barrow, AK. 


1947 - India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British about 200 years. 


1948 - The Republic of Korea was proclaimed. 


1961 - East German workers began construction of the Berlin Wall. 


1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices. 


1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up. 

Here's Yet Another Obama Scandal – One The White House Has Been Denying All Along

Here's Yet Another Obama Scandal – One The White House Has Been Denying All Along:
"Hold on to your hats. This is a doozy.
Former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, now writing for the Heritage Foundation’s The Daily Signal, has uncovered the latest Obama scandal; and it could put every American’s safety in jeopardy."

AWESOME: See what Happens When Armed Business Owners Stand Guard During a Riot..

AWESOME: See what Happens When Armed Business Owners Stand Guard During a Riot..:
"Countless rioters and looters raided and looted stores and burnt several to the ground. Destruction of property was rampant and it was a sickening display.
 However, through the smoke of the burnt-out building, one can see a crystal-clear demonstration of the power of the Second Amendment."

The Collapse of the Liberal World Order | 2

The Collapse of the Liberal World Order | The American Spectator
This is the fulfillment of the liberal worldview crashing in on itself. A view of utopia — all of it. Every last bit of it. It was never real — it could never be real.

Take for instance this jewel from then White House aide — and now CIA Director — John Brennan. Back in 2011 Brennan gave a speech on the Obama strategy in foreign policy, saying this:

Our strategy is also shaped by a deeper understanding of al-Qa’ida’s goals, strategy, and tactics. I’m not talking about al-Qa’ida’s grandiose vision of global domination through a violent Islamic caliphate. That vision is absurd, and we are not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen. We are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they are.

Today, ISIS has declared itself precisely what Brennan assured was “absurd” — the headline from the Associated Press reading:

ISIS declares new Islamic caliphate

BAGHDAD — The Al Qaeda breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighboring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday in the territory under its control.

The spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Mohammed al-adnani, made the announcement in an audio statement posted online. Islamic extremists have long dreamed of recreating the Islamic state, or caliphate, that ruled over the Middle East in various forms for hundreds of years.

Abu Mohammed al-Adnani declared the group’s chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the new leader, or caliph, of the Islamic state, and called on those living in areas under the organization’s control to swear allegiance to al-Baghdadi and support him.

The Collapse of the Liberal World Order

The Collapse of the Liberal World Order | The American Spectator
"Pesident Obama has ended the Iraq War.” 

So says the White House blog, the headline preserved in the amber that is the Internet. 

The date: October 21, 2011 at 2:18 Eastern Daylight Time. 

Along with a video of the president saying this, a statement on the site has been helpfully provided, partially excerpted here:

In 2008, in the height of the presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama made a promise to give our military a new mission: ending the war in Iraq.

As the election unfolded, he reiterated this pledge again and again — but cautioned that we would be “as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in.”…

Now, that promise will be wholly fulfilled. Today, President Obama announced that the rest of our troops will be home by the holidays.…

But this moment represents more than an accomplishment for the President. It marks a monumental change of focus for our military and a fundamental shift in the way that the our nation will engage in the world….

[As the President announced:] “The United States is moving forward, from a position of strength. The long war in Iraq will come to an end by the end of this year.”

Meanwhile, here at home the New York Post has headlined: 

Squeegee men are back terrorizing NYC streets

Should universities and colleges replace courts for sexual violence and harassment?

Should universities and colleges replace courts for sexual violence and harassment? « Hot Air:
"This is not a new question, and it’s becoming more and more of an issue. It began over three years ago, when the Obama administration sent out a directive to universities and colleges that sexual violence and harassment of any kind violated Title IX laws against gender discrimination. This was an innovation prompted by the later-debunked claim that 1 in every 5 female college students became the victim of sexual violence. "
....Last week, the Boston Globe reported on a lawsuit from a student expelled by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after a kangaroo-court process found him “responsible” for sexual violence even when none had been specifically alleged:

During a night of drinking, playing card games, and dancing with friends, the two students became friendly and flirted, and she later invited him to her room to have sex, the lawsuit said. They had consensual sex, and the female student at no point showed signs of intoxication, according to the suit.

The next day, the female student could not remember what had happened, according to the lawsuit. At her roommate’s urging, the female student went to the campus health center for an evaluation. The following day, she filed a complaint with the dean of students’ office.

In her written complaint, she never called what happened harassment, assault, or rape, according to the lawsuit.

Three days later, the university told the male 

student he was under investigation for threatening behavior, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, and violating community living standards, the lawsuit said. He was immediately ordered to move off campus and was barred from the premises except to attend classes, the lawsuit said.

Two months later, the university held a disciplinary hearing, the lawsuit said. But the male student had not been given copies of case documents beforehand, key pieces of evidence were not presented during the hearing, the male student was repeatedly interrupted, and questions he had were ignored, the suit said.

Two days later, the student was told he had been found “responsible” for three violations: “sexual harassment, sexual misconduct and community living standards,” and he would be expelled.

The student’s appeal was denied.

VIDEO: ‘FBI Snitch’ Al Sharpton Gets Heckled: ‘Are You Here to Snitch on the Rioters?’

VIDEO: ‘FBI Snitch’ Al Sharpton Gets Heckled: ‘Are You Here to Snitch on the Rioters?’:
"As MSNBC’s race-hustling Marxist Al Sharpton hurried to Ferguson, Missouri, never allowing a crisis to be a wasted opportunity to bask in the limelight, following the death of Michael Brown, he was greeted by a message spray-painted on a looted QuickTrip (QT) convenience store during the riots, that was no doubt directed towards him. "

Quotation of the day on picking the taxpayers’ pockets to pick energy losers….

Quotation of the day on picking the taxpayers’ pockets to pick energy losers…. | AEIdeas
Quotation of the day on picking the taxpayers’ pockets to pick energy losers….

Mark J. Perry | August 13, 2014, 11:44 pm

…. is from Matt Ridley’s article “Renewable energy is not working”:

Over the past ten years the world has invested more than $600 billion in wind power and $700 billion in solar power. Yet the total contribution those two technologies are now making to the world primary energy supply is still less than 2 per cent. Ouch.

If we had spent that sum on research, and steadily replaced coal with gas as a source of electricity, we would have done far more to cut carbon emissions and kept prices low. A new report by Charles Frank of the Brookings Institution has come to the startling conclusion that if you encourage gas to replace coal, you get fewer emissions per dollar spent than if you use wind or solar.

In Mr. Frank’s words: “Solar and wind facilities suffer from a very high capacity cost per megawatt, very low capacity factors and low reliability, which result in low avoided emissions and low avoided energy cost per dollar invested.” In short, we are picking losers.

Liberals Manage to Make Your Grocery List Racist

Liberals Manage to Make Your Grocery List Racist - Michael Schaus - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page 1: "
Oh, how exciting…
Now you can be a good little liberal, even when shopping for fresh produce and certain off-brand whiskies.
According to a politically obsessed hack over at the Washington Post, some other politically obsessed hack has developed an app so you can wander through your daily life without ever losing sight of partisan political squabbles.
The new smartphone app allows users to scan the barcode of consumable products in the grocery store, and it divulges the corporation’s political leanings. (I just found out that Fiji Water has switched from heavily Republican, to entirely Democrat… Ugh.)
It’s so nice to see that we’re now able to make dinner ingredients a conversation starter about Ted Cruz and Nancy Pelosi…
I suppose, soon, we’ll be calling certain bakery products “racist” because of their political inclinations, right? Good.
I was beginning to worry that there might be a couple of moments throughout the day that were not focused on divisive political partisanship.
(A sarcasm font! My kingdom for a sarcasm font!)"

If anyone is looking for a visualization of the welfare state, look no further

If anyone is looking for a visualization of the welfare state, look no further

That’s a Black Flag Associated With Islamic Terror Groups — and Just Guess Where Police Confirmed the Picture Was Taken | TheBlaze.com

That’s a Black Flag Associated With Islamic Terror Groups — and Just Guess Where Police Confirmed the Picture Was Taken | TheBlaze.com:
"People across the U.S. expressed outrage on social media after a flag associated with radical Islamic terror groups was found flying outside a Garwood, New Jersey, home. The militant flag, a symbol routinely used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has since been taken down “voluntarily,” according to a police spokesperson."

Residents Complain of Smell of Growing Pot Filling the Air in Denver

Residents Complain of Smell of Growing Pot Filling the Air in Denver:
"Now that marijuana is legal in Colorado, the pot-growing industry has exploded in Denver's industrial areas. Consequently the smell of the growing pot is now filling Denver's air, as the indoor pot farms bring an acrid, skunky smell to the city and draw complaints from residents.
Certainly there are regulations that govern how much odor businesses may emit into the community, but the dank smell of pot growing is something quite new for Denverites.
It is a smell quite different from that of a bakery or any of the other usual smells businesses might emit in a bustling city.
City authorities report that this year some 30 percent of the complaints about industrial odors came because of the indoor pot-growing facilities that have sprung up in the Mile High City.
USA Today reported that tests of air quality in Denver do not seem to indicate any violation of the city's clean air ordinances.
Perhaps the large number of complaints has come because residents aren't used to the new smell in the air, but some residents are quite insistent that the odor is hurting their quality of life."

Protests turn violent in St. Louis suburb

My Way News - Protests turn violent in St. Louis suburb:

"Two reporters said they were detained by police for not clearing out quickly enough from a McDonald's where they were working, near the protests but away from the more volatile areas.

The two, who work for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post, were released without any charges. Both say they were assaulted but not seriously hurt."

May be the most important article you'll ever read.... er.... ignore----------When the lights go out forever…

When the lights go out forever… « Hot Air:
It would come with almost no warning. 
Without any immediate signs as to why, the lights go out, cars stop dead, telephones cease to function, everything with a microchip in it fails, and most of it all never works again.
In the wake of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States, part or all of the country is thrust back into the 1860s but with 10 times the population. 
The threat is real, it is pressing, and the United States is doing little to address it.

It strikes many Americans as a fanciful prospect, almost cheesy apocalypse porn, to suggest that something as simple as the destruction of the nation’s power grid could thrust the United States into the dark ages. 
But those who have investigated this prospect are not rolling their eyes to the threat as are so many of the country’s sophisticates.

In The Wall Street Journal opinion pages on Wednesday, former CIA director James Woolsey and CIA veteran and congressional EMP Commission member Peter Vincent Pry warn of the threat posed by an EMP attack on the United States.

Recent declassification of EMP studies by the U.S. government has begun to draw attention to this dire threat. Rogue nations such as North Korea (and possibly Iran) will soon match Russia and China and have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as Scuds that could be launched from a freighter near our shores; space-launch vehicles able to loft low-earth-orbit satellites; and simple low-yield nuclear weapons that can generate gamma rays and fireballs.

“What would a successful EMP attack look like?” they ask. 
“The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.”

Greedy anti-competitor groups work to reduce your shopping AND employment choices!--------Anti-Wal-Mart group: We've filed appeal of Muskegon County judge's ruling

Anti-Wal-Mart group: We've filed appeal of Muskegon County judge's ruling | MLive.com:
WHITEHALL, MI – A group fighting a proposed Wal-Mart "superstore" in northern Muskegon County says it has filed its bid to appeal a circuit judge's decision allowing the development to proceed.

According to Dave Frederick, spokesman for a group called BOW NOT, their attorneys on Wednesday, Aug. 13, filed an appeal with the Michigan Court of Appeals of a decision by Muskegon County 14^th Circuit Chief Judge William C. Marietti.

The group's attorney earlier said BOW NOT planned to file an application for leave to appeal Marietti's ruling. It will be up to the higher court to decide whether to hear an appeal.

Yet Another State Is Ditching Common Core | TheBlaze.com

Yet Another State Is Ditching Common Core | TheBlaze.com:
"Iowa had implemented much of the Common Core State Standards into its “Iowa Core” education standards, working with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium on a single testing program to measure students’ progress."

McDonalds’ response to Democrats threatening to raise the minimum wage is incredible!

McDonalds’ response to Democrats threatening to raise the minimum wage is incredible!

War against women-------University to Offer ‘Gender-Open’ Restrooms

University to Offer ‘Gender-Open’ Restrooms:
"EVANSTON, ILL. – Northwestern University will offer “gender-open restrooms” to its students this fall.
“We are trying to be responsive to the needs of all of our students and to be inclusive,” campus spokesman Bob Rowley said in an email to The College Fix.
“This is becoming a common occurrence on campuses across the U.S.”
At Northwestern, the two sex-segregated bathrooms to be changed will simply have their front door placards replaced to reflect the transition – no major renovations are planned.
The bathrooms are located on the third floor of the university’s main building that serves as the campus hub.
Northwestern joins the estimated 150 campuses across the nation that now offer some sort of gender-open restrooms, also called gender-neutral, unisex, or all-gender bathrooms, according to a tally by the LGTBQ group Stonewall at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. "

History for August 14

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

V-J Day: Anniversary (1945)

Happy Birthday! Lynne Cheney, David Crosby, Magic Johnson, Mila Kunis, Gary Larson,  Steve Martin

1888 - A patent for the electric meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger. 


1896 - Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold. 


1900 - An international force, consisting of eight nations, lifted the siege of Peking. It was the end to the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners. 


1919 - About 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident. 


1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly. 


1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter. The charter was a statement of principles that renounced aggression. 


1945 - It was announced by U.S. President Truman that Japan had surrendered unconditionally. The surrender ended World War II. 


1947 - Pakistan became independent from British rule. 

1953 - The whiffle ball was invented. 



1980 - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was incorporated. 


1992 - The U.S. announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2014/08/setting-trap-by-tammy-derouin-first.html
Our president is anti-American. Islam is anti-homosexual and anti-women.  If lying to infidels is acceptable in the Islamic faith to further their cause, it would appear the president is setting a trap.  The very people who help further his agenda could one day become expendable tools.

This will CERTAINLY calm things down-----------Rev. Al Sharpton plans visit to St. Louis; NAACP to host mass public meeting

Rev. Al Sharpton plans visit to St. Louis; NAACP to host mass public meeting | kplr11.com:
"FERGUSON, Mo. (KPLR) _ The Rev. Al Sharpton says the shooting death of an unarmed 18-year-old black man by a St. Louis-area police officer is “very disturbing,” and the civil-rights leader is planning a visit to that suburb to make that known.
Sharpton says he’s spoken with a grandfather of Michael Brown and plans to meet with the family in person Monday night or Tuesday in Ferguson.
That’s where St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar says the shooting happened Saturday afternoon after an officer scuffled with one of two men. Brown was shot multiple times and died, though the investigation continues.
The shooting has drawn angry protests in Ferguson, and Sharpton cautions against anyone reacting to Brown’s death with violence.
But he says “obviously we want a fair investigation.”
The St. Louis County NAACP is planning a mass public meeting on Monday at Murchison Tabernacle Church at 7629 Natural Bridge in St. Louis.  
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m.
The NAACP says their expectation is to “educate the public on the NAACP’s strategy toward justice for the Brown family and the community.”"