History for October 27

History for October 27 - On-This-Day.com
James Cook 1728, Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.) 1858, Emily Post (Price) 1873 


Leif Erickson 1911, John Cleese 1939, Lee (Melvin) Greenwood 1942 


1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed in America. 


1787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York Independent. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius." 


1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed. 


1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis. 


1938 - Du Pont announced "nylon" as the new name for its new synthetic yarn. 


1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced. They had been married on January 14, 1954. 


1978 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord. 



1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Reagan. 

When an $8 Million Increase Equals a 'Cut' [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

When an $8 Million Increase Equals a 'Cut' [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:

"O’Connell should have checked with accounting before picking up her pen. According to the Michigan Department of Education, the Calhoun ISD that employs her is projected to receive $8.3 million more in 2014-15 than in 2011-12, despite the school districts it serves having 600 fewer students compared to four years ago."

A nation of girly-men------Youth football pick-six results in coach's suspension, $500 fine

Youth football pick-six results in coach's suspension, $500 fine | Sporting News
Georgia youth football team the Lawrenceville Black Knights were essentially fined because they scored a touchdown.
The Black Knights are undefeated and in the fourth quarter of a recent game they were leading their opponent, Collins Hill, 32-0 when Elijah Burrell intercepted a pass and ran it back for a touchdown.
The Gwinnett Football League has a mercy rule of 33 points and that touchdown put the team over and resulted in the coach's suspension for a week and a $500 fine.
"We were all super excited," Brooke Burdett, Elijah's mom told CBS46 .
"He was beyond excited and we were fined for it.
He had no idea.
This is his first year.
This was his first touchdown.
He is an 8-year-old boy making a pick-six."
It's difficult to tell young player to not score a touchdown after intercepting the ball.
The other parents on the team don't blame Elijah for doing what he did but they want to the league to know that running up the score was not intentional.

The Black Knights even attempted to let the other team score on the next play but they refused to catch the ball.
"How do I explain to an 8-year-old kid that your coach has been suspended because your teammate unintentionally scored?" Chando John, another parent, said.
"It is hard having an 8-year-old in flight to think of everything everybody has said, other than 'I need to make a touchdown."

Barry now gonna dump a $billion on theses same thugs. It's for the children....right?-----Shipment of medical supplies to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone reportedly delayed for weeks

Shipment of medical supplies to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone reportedly delayed for weeks | Fox News:

A shipping container filled with approximately $140,000 worth of medical equipment needed to fight the spread of the Ebola virus in the West African country of Sierra Leone has sat untouched on the docks of the country's capital for nearly two months according to a published report. 

According to The New York Times the shipment of hospital linens, protective suits, face masks, and other items arrived in the port of Freetown Aug. 9, but has still not been cleared by government officials.

....The Times reports that the shipment was organized by Chernoh Alpha Bah, an opposition politician in Sierra Leone. A government official told the paper that approval of the shipment may have been delayed to prevent the opposition from scoring political points about their response to the outbreak. 

The paper also reported that the $6,500 shipping fee for the container had not been paid by the Sierra Leone government, resulting in three other other containers of supplies being kept at the docks by the shipping company. According to The Times, government officials disputed the fee before arguing that proper shipping protocols had not been followed. An official at the country's health ministry said the shipment should have been cleared with them first, before adding that the supplies would be cleared "very soon....."

National Guardsman’s Trip to Walmart With His Family Turns Into Potentially Deadly Nightmare — Then His Training Kicked In | TheBlaze.com

National Guardsman’s Trip to Walmart With His Family Turns Into Potentially Deadly Nightmare — Then His Training Kicked In | TheBlaze.com:

“I immediately felt responsible for that lady’s life,” he added. “If I’m in a position to help someone and I don’t, I would feel just as bad as the guy who does wrong.”
What is bothersome, he explained, is the fact that there are tons of stories about responsible armed citizens that never get reported by most of the media. He may have a point — this incident has barely been reported and it occurred back in April.

“They never let us tell our side of the story,” Nelson said. “We hope that some good can come out of our story and let people know what is really going on.”

How foreign aid screwed up Liberia's ability to fight Ebola

How foreign aid screwed up Liberia's ability to fight Ebola - The Week
Foreign aid has created a hopelessly dependent political class that stays in business by ignoring good governance and begging its Western benefactors instead 

 Liberia's reliance on outside assistance may have stunted its response to the Ebola outbreak.

President Obama is sending military personnel and $750 million to Liberia and other Ebola-afflicted countries in West Africa.
At this point, such aid might offer the only hope of containing this deadly epidemic — but foreign aid also had a big hand in creating Africa's Ebola problem in the first place.
How? 
By breeding a dependence mentality that has prevented these counties from generating their internal institutional defenses to deal with public health emergencies.

Nothing illustrates this better than the contrasting courses of the disease in Liberia, one of the most heavily indebted countries on the continent, and Nigeria, one of the least.
Global aid agencies have berated America and other Western countries for their plodding response and letting Ebola's hemorrhagic virus infect about 10,000 people in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, killing roughly half of them.
But the reality is that distant powers, no matter how well intentioned, have never been any good at proactively identifying and responding to such emergencies, precisely because they are distant.
Hence, they have to rely on intermediary groups such as the World Health Organization, which happens to have an unbroken record of botching every response to every recent epidemic, from bird flu to cholera. 

‘I Told You This Was Coming’: Online Political Speech Could Face New Regulations Next Year | TheBlaze.com

‘I Told You This Was Coming’: Online Political Speech Could Face New Regulations Next Year | TheBlaze.com:

"If political material gets posted online but no one pays to post it, does it get regulated?
It’s literally “free speech” and right now, the answer is basically no, it’s not regulated — but in a surprise move late Friday, regulators said they were honing in on the YouTube videos, tweets and blog posts that have been playing an ever-larger role in political campaigns.

Conservatives, bloggers and even parody makers could all be targets."

We can always trust in the expertise of our betters-----Hazmat team empties and cleans Ebola doctor's New York apartment

Hazmat team empties and cleans Ebola doctor's New York apartment | Daily Mail Online:
Hazmat team sterilizes Ebola doctor's New York home as he battles virus in hospital - and even his mail man is wearing a mask

• Crew sent in to sterilize the apartment of NYC Ebola patient Craig Spencer 
• Worked late into the evening on Friday removing barrels of personal items 
• They were then transported to the CDC where they will be tested  
• They left with sealed barrels, but not wearing any sort of protective gear

Fast and Furious: Family of Slain Border Patrol Agent "Baffled" Obama's Executive Privilege Used to Protect Holder's Wife - Katie Pavlich

Fast and Furious: Family of Slain Border Patrol Agent "Baffled" Obama's Executive Privilege Used to Protect Holder's Wife - Katie Pavlich:

"The family of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was murdered in the Arizona desert in December 2010 by Mexican bandits carrying guns obtained through Fast and Furious, is baffled that the President would use his executive authority to protect Holder's wife and is disappointed with the continuing lack of transparency from DOJ and the White House.

"We are shocked that some of these Vaughn Index documents show that Attorney General Holder was personally involved in crafting talking points and helping his office in responding to the Congressional inquiry into Operation Fast and Furious from very early on. "

Government at war with the people--------LITIGATION NATION: Lowe’s pays $1.6M settlement over 2×4 labeling

LITIGATION NATION: Lowe’s pays $1.6M settlement over 2×4 labeling

Lowe’s has new rules regarding how it can label building products in California. 
A Superior Court judge laid out terms by which the retailer must advertise its 2x4s and other dimensional materials in a $1.6 million settlement order and final judgement filed on August 27. 
The order, brought on as part of a civil consumer protection action, lists three main rules for the retailer to follow going forward:

• “Common descriptions” must be followed by actual dimensions and labeled as such. 
• For instance, a 2×4 must be followed with a disclaimer that the wood is actually 1.5-inches by 3.5-inches and include a phrase equal or similar to “actual dimensions.”
• “Popular or common product description,” like the word 2×4, must be “clearly described as ‘popular name,’ ‘popular description,’ or ‘commonly called.'”
• Dimension descriptions are required to use the “inch-pound unit,” meaning they must include abbreviations such as “in., ft., or yd.,” and can’t use symbols like ‘ or ” to denote measurements."

Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required

Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required - NYTimes.com
ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa — For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished
out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant.
For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last
year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.
The Internal Revenue Service agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime.
Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.
“How can this happen?” Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview.
“Who takes your money before they prove that you’ve done anything wrong with it?”
The federal government does.

More dangerous than Ebola-----CalPERS’ $100K club increases 900%

CalPERS’ $100K club increases 900% | CalWatchDog:
The Register reported:

Back in 2005, some 1,841 retirees pulled down more than $100,000 a year in pension checks from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.

By 2009, this so-called “$100K club” had more than tripled, to 6,133 members.

And by the end of 2013, membership had nearly tripled again, to 16,838, according to data from CalPERS.

We’re talking growth in excess of 900 percent in just eight years, and no one expects the $100K club to stop growing any time soon.

This may give Joe Citizen an idea of why public pensions threaten to be an albatross around the necks of California governments (and, by extension, the necks of Joe Citizens themselves) – and why the question of whether public pension formulas are set in stone, or can be reduced, is so bitterly debated.

“The $100K club – it’s just not sustainable,” said San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, a Democrat fighting to get a pension reform initiative on the 2016 ballot.

A Lefty Explains What the Election Is All About

A Lefty Explains What the Election Is All About | Power Line
Rob Stein is the founder of the Democracy Alliance, an umbrella a group that organizes the funding of left-wing causes by rich liberals and interest groups. 
In The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado by Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer, at page 7, Stein explains candidly what politics is all about for the Left:

“The reason it is so important to control government is because government is the source of enormous power,” Stein continued. “One president in this country, when he or she takes office, appoints…5,000 people to run a bureaucracy, nonmilitary nonpostal service of 2 million people, who hire 10 million outside outsource contractors–a workforce of 12 million people–that spends $3 trillion a year. That number is larger than the gross domestic product of all but four countries on the face of the earth.”

“So the reason we’re doing what we’re doing…and the way we get progressive change, is to control government,” Stein said. “That’s what this is about.”

This will to power explains why the Left, a clear minority among Americans, consistently punches above its weight, politically.
Glenn Reynolds once commented on the seeming paradox of liberals who are terrified at the prospect that libertarians might take power and leave them alone. 
Actually, liberals probably do want to be left alone; they just don’t have any intention of leaving you alone. 

Jason Riley: 'Why Should Blacks Be Eager' To Vote For Dems? | The Daily Caller

Jason Riley: 'Why Should Blacks Be Eager' To Vote For Dems? | The Daily Caller:

"According to Riley, who made the comments on “Special Report,” Obama has done no favors to the black community during his six years in office, asking the question, “Why should blacks be enthusiastic about getting out to the polls to keep the president’s party in power? What have they done for blacks?”

Riley goes on to note increases in black unemployment and poverty."

Top 10 Most Ridiculous Things Liberals Have Tried to Ban

History for October 26

History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com
C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts), Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich), Mahalia Jackson 1911- Singer 


Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan, Jr.) 1914 - Actor (The Kid), first child to appear in a full-lenth movie, Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995),  Pat Sajak 1946 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show) 


Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York (2000-), U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008, Jaclyn Smith 1947 - Actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity), Lauren Tewes 1954 - Actress (The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders) 


1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000. 


1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang. 


1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden. 


1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II. 


1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight. 


1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain. 


1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey. 


1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. 


1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession. 


1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead. 


2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas killed 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were killed by the gas or gunshot wounds.