Christmas Day-History for December 25

History for December 25 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Isaac Newton 1642, Clara Barton 1821, Humphrey Bogart 1899 


Cab (Cabell) Calloway III 1907, Anwar Sadat (Egypt) 1918, Rod Serling 1924 


Gary Sandy 1945 - Actor ("WKRP In Cincinnati"), Jimmy Buffett 1946 - Singer, Barbara Mandrell 1948 


0800 - Charlemagne was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III. 


1223 - St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy. 


1776 - Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, NJ. 


1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War. 


1896 - John Philip Sousa finally titled the melody "The Stars and Stripes Forever." 


1914 - During World War I, British and German troops observed an unofficial truce and even playing football together on the Western Front. 


1926 - Hirohito became the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Emperor Taisho. 


1946 - W.C. Fields died at the age of 66. 


1979 - The USSR invaded Afghanistan in a bid to halt civil war and protect USSR interests. 






1989 - Former baseball player and manager Billy Martin died in a truck crash in Fenton, NY. 

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2014/12/presidential-error-by-tammy-derouin.html

Presidential Error

By Tammy Derouin

I take it personally when I see my country, my home, being destroyed from within.  We entrust every individual who has been elected to the highest office, by the people, to protect our homeland and uphold the law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.  When that individual fails to do his job properly by not putting the interests of the U.S. citizens and homeland first, we have a presidential error. 

Our Pres-a-king has intentionally weakened our security, making us vulnerable to attacks from our enemies inside and outside of our borders.  He relentlessly attacks our foundation, the very document which states our rights and freedoms; freedoms which come from God, not man. The land of the free is fast becoming the land of the enslaved. 

Christmas is upon us.  It is the first holiday, the most important holiday, and the holiday which no others would exist without His presence.   If we allow one document of liberty to disappear, others will soon follow.  Holidays will have little to no meaning, if they exist at all.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a free life.

‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s Dad Looked Two Hollywood Megastars in the Eye and Gave Them One Crystal Clear Warning About His Son | TheBlaze.com

‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s Dad Looked Two Hollywood Megastars in the Eye and Gave Them One Crystal Clear Warning About His Son | TheBlaze.com:

"The father of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle reportedly warned actors Bradley Cooper and Clint Eastwood that there would be hell to pay if they did “anything” to disrespect his son in their Hollywood production of “American Sniper,” which is based on Kyle’s autobiography of the same name."

How's that green energy workin' out for ya?--------DTE Energy wants to raise electricity rates

DTE Energy wants to raise electricity rates | Crain's Detroit Business:
"DTE Energy wants to raise electricity rates by 3.2 percent.
The Detroit News reports today that residential customers would see an average increase of nearly $10 a month.
The request was filed Friday at the Michigan Public Service Commission.
Rate cases can take many months, but DTE can implement the increase on its own in June while waiting for a decision from regulators.
The utility says it needs to charge more for electricity to pay for billions in improvements in the last four years."

Sheriff Joe Predicts More Police Deaths

Sheriff Joe Predicts More Police Deaths:

"During a recent interview, Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio offered a stark forecast for fellow law enforcement officers across the nation. Following Saturday’s execution style shooting of two New York City police officers, the Maricopa County sheriff appeared on Breitbart News Sunday to offer his thoughts.

He echoed other critics in placing at least some of the accountability on activists like Al Sharpton who have stoked racial tensions over the past several months."

Scenes from Putin’s Economic Meltdown

Scenes from Putin’s Economic Meltdown - Alec Luhn - POLITICO Magazine:
"Get the hot deals while they last!
Whatever’s on your holiday shopping list—buy now, it may never be this cheap again!
In a single day this past week, the ruble exchange rate dropped from 59 to 80 to the dollar, further eroding confidence in the Russian economy and ensuring a deep recession next year—but also briefly turning Moscow into the shopping capital of the world.
Although this past week’s currency crisis marked the worst fall for the ruble since Russia defaulted on its debt in 1998, no one was waiting in bread lines or starting a run on the bank.
Instead, anyone with any cash at all went on a buying spree.
....The ruble has lost over half its value this year as falling oil prices and Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis hit Russia’s energy-dependent economy. 
But a drop of 10 percent on Monday and another 10 percent on what has come to be known as “Black Tuesday” further shook consumers, undermined investor confidence and revealed divisions among the country’s elite on how to react. 
Nonetheless, Russians’ approval for President Vladimir Putin has remained sky-high.
Buying continued on Wednesday as major electronics chains had yet to raise their prices.
“I apologize; I argued with them, but they sold every last one,” an M.video employee informed a man who was trying to purchase a washing machine. “F—k your apologies,” the man yelled back as he stormed off to complain to a manager."

Forty Portraits in Forty Year

Forty Portraits in Forty Years - NYTimes.com: "Forty Portraits in Forty Years
Photographs by NICHOLAS NIXON
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. 
The latest image in the series is published here for the first time."

Bill Prohibiting Gay-To-Straight Therapy Passes In D.C.

Bill Prohibiting Gay-To-Straight Therapy Passes In D.C. | The Daily Caller:
"Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray signed legislation banning any form of therapy which purports to help gay youth transition to straight on Monday, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
The legislation, termed The Conversation Therapy for Minors Prohibition Amendment Act, was originally passed by the city council without objection on Dec. 2, rendering Washington, D.C. the first city to ban the practice.
New Jersey and California are two states with similar prohibitions.
Similar legislation has been unsuccessfully proposed in over 12 other states.
Licensed mental health providers will no longer be able to offer sexual orientation change therapy to minors in Washington, D.C., based on the bill authored by Councilmember Mary Cheh.
Supporters of the bill claimed that no major medical association endorses conversion therapy.
Some even accused mental health practitioners of lying to families and abusing their power."

David Barton wins million-dollar defamation suit

David Barton wins million-dollar defamation suit:

"David Barton critics beware: There’s now a price to pay if you want to defame the popular historian, author and speaker with false and outlandish charges.

Barton won a $1 million defamation judgment in August against two left-leaning candidates for the Texas State Board of Education. The pair, Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Judy Jennings, charged in a 2010 campaign video that Barton, a consultant to the Board, was “known for speaking at white-supremacist rallies.”

Obama's Hitler Youth----Anti-Gun PSA Encourages Kids To Steal Parents' Guns

Anti-Gun PSA Encourages Kids To Steal Parents' Guns | The Daily Caller:
"A provocative public service announcement released by a San Francisco-based production company encourages children to put themselves at risk and commit a slew of crimes by stealing their parents’ guns from home and turning them in at school.
In the anti-gun ad, published Dec. 13 by Sleeper 13 Productions, a boy who appears to be in his early teens is shown walking up the stairs of his home and wandering into his mother’s bedroom.
The boy is shown opening the drawer to his mother’s dresser, where a handgun is hidden.
The boy takes the gun from the dresser and leaves the room. The ad then flashes to his school. Sitting in a classroom, the boy ventures up to his teacher’s desk after the rest of his classmates have left.
The tension building in the scene breaks, and the boy produces the gun from his backpack, slamming it on his startled teacher’s desk.
“Can you take this away? I don’t feel safe with a gun in my house,” the boy says.
What the ad-makers are encouraging is highly illegal and invites danger.
The boy would be guilty of weapons theft, illegal concealed carry and carrying a weapon on school property."

Is Diesel the New Green Fuel?

Is Diesel the New Green Fuel? | Somewhat Reasonable:
Ten thousand professional climate crusaders recently attended yet another Climate Carnival in Lima, Peru. 
Did they use green power to minimise their carbon footprint? 
No way; massive diesel generators were trucked in on diesel-powered lorries because the local hydro/solar power could not cope. 
The delegates were also moved between hotels and the venue in more than 300 diesel buses – few bothered to walk or ride bicycles.

In sunny Spain, the government solar subsidies were so generous that some entrepreneurs managed to produce solar energy for 24 hours per day. 

However, inspectors discovered that diesel generators were being operated at night, thus producing great profits in selling “solar” energy to the grid.

Then in “go-green, vote-blue” Britain, wind power is proving so erratic that thousands of reliable diesel generators are being installed by utilities and businesses to maintain power when the grid becomes unstable.

Vandals of UVA’s Phi Kappa Psi house unrepentant

Vandals of UVA’s Phi Kappa Psi house unrepentant
Although the Rolling Stone “gang rape” story at the University of Virginia has fallen apart, the apparent ringleader of the attack on the Phi Kappa Psi house — where the “rape” supposedly occurred — remains undaunted.

Reportedly from a family of privilege, the alleged leader “admitted his role and described the attack his friends carried out in details that match police and eyewitness reports.”

The Washington Times reports:

The student agreed to talk to The Times only on the condition that his name wasn’t published, saying he didn’t want police to find him.

“I texted one of my friends and I was like, ‘Let’s throw bottles at the Phi Psi house tonight,’ and she said, ‘Yes!’ I think that the article made it clear that victims at the university have no legitimate channels to take action, and I think vandalism is a completely legitimate form of action when like, legitimate authority is corrupt. I think it was justified,” he said in an interview with The Times.

Asked whether he believed the ends generally justified the means, he casually replied, “Sure.” He also said he is not opposed to “armed revolution” as a means to end what he termed “systemic oppression.”

The student said his group of friends sent an anonymous letter to various news organizations several hours after the attack warning that it was “just the beginning.” The letter threatened to “escalate and provoke until certain demands were met,” including “an immediate revision of university policy mandating expulsion as the only sanction for rape and sexual assault.”

Thus far, there is no definitive word as to whether local law enforcement and the university have undertaken investigations to determine the identities of the vandals, and if there will be charges brought against them.

How Bill Gates Bankrolled Common Core in 2014

How Bill Gates Bankrolled Common Core in 2014 | TheBlaze.com:
"The Post named the 15 largest education grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, two of which were made to organizations focused heavily on promoting the controversial K-12 standards."

Heartbreaking Detail Revealed About What Murdered NYPD Cop Was Supposed to Do the Day He Died

Heartbreaking Detail Revealed About What Murdered NYPD Cop Was Supposed to Do the Day He Died | TheBlaze.com:
"As new details continue to emerge following the shooting deaths of two NYPD cops Saturday, it has been revealed that one of the victims, Officer Rafael Ramos, was a Christian who would have been officially commissioned as a lay chaplain on the very day he died.

Ramos, 40, who was killed alongside partner and fellow police officer Wenjian Liu, 32, viewed his law enforcement position as a form of ministry, according to the Christian Post.
New York State Chaplain Task Force president the Rev. Marcos Miranda told the outlet that Ramos had recently completed a 10-week program and was set to graduate Saturday."

What is 'Manspreading' and Why are People Angry about It?

What is 'Manspreading' and Why are People Angry about It? - Breitbart
Witness the absurd, offensive, ludicrous spectacle of inanity and stupidity currently surrounding the New York subway: a campaign to stop men sitting comfortably on public transport.
We “manspread,” apparently, which observers have interpreted as “sit in such a way as not to painfully crush the testicles or penis” but which feminists insist is an expression of patriarchal authority.
You could not, as British newspaper columnists like to say, make this shit up.
One heroic social justice warrior took to the subway for a whole weekend, sitting as she imagines men do on the way to work.
I have never seen a man sit quite as absurdly as she suggests, perhaps because I do not frequent public transport.
But even in the dark bars of the London suburbs I trawled as a late teen looking for companionship, filled with desperate masculinity, I never saw such a comically absurd picture as this brave social justice warrior paints.
The manspreading complaint is couched as a response to “rudeness” by men, but it is no such thing: it is pathetic feminist pipsqueakery, the last dying gasp of a movement with nothing to win and nothing to say, determined to abuse and antagonise the male sex at all costs and for whatever perceived or outright imaginary infraction it can conjure from the vicissitudes of everyday life.
 It is offensively trivial, and those associated with it ought to be ashamed.

History for December 24

History for December 24 - On-This-Day.com
Benjamin Rush 1745, Kit Carson 1809, James Joule 1818 


Howard Hughes 1905, Ava Gardner 1922, Ricky Martin 1971 


1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium. 


1818 - Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr. 


1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan. 


1914 - In World War I, the first air raid on Britain was made when a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in Dover. 


1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord. 


1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans. 


1968 - Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon. 


1979 - Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the country's Marxist government. 



1990 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married. 


1997 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," was sentenced by a French court to life in prison for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national. 

It’s Not Every Day You See an Exchange Like This Between Israeli Soldiers and Palestinian Kids | Video | TheBlaze.com

It’s Not Every Day You See an Exchange Like This Between Israeli Soldiers and Palestinian Kids | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Though some of the most common media reports out of the West Bank involve Israeli troops clashing with Palestinians, many of them teenagers, one new video shows a very different kind of interaction — a simple act of human kindness."

‘Everything Is Confidential’: Obama Stiffs Congress on Details of Cuban Spy Swap | TheBlaze.com

‘Everything Is Confidential’: Obama Stiffs Congress on Details of Cuban Spy Swap | TheBlaze.com:

"Another source told TheBlaze that the White House is claiming executive privilege, and said one way around that might be to ask if the FBI or other national security agencies recommended their release. In past years, national security agencies have often recommended against a release of a spy, only to be overridden by political officials.
Members of Congress were told that the White House led the negotiations with Cuba, not the State Department. The House aide said that news surprised several members, since past negotiations have been led by State.

“It’s really unprecedented for the White House to lead these negotiations,” the aide said."


The Pres-a-king is at it again!

Video: There Isn’t Much Dem Rep. Can Say After CNN Host Delegitimizes His Claim About NYC Protesters With Just Four Words | Video | TheBlaze.com

Video: There Isn’t Much Dem Rep. Can Say After CNN Host Delegitimizes His Claim About NYC Protesters With Just Four Words | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) was called out on live television by CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Monday after the Democrat claimed protesters in New York City never chanted for “dead cops” — even though demonstrators were recently caught on video clearly chanting for dead police officers.

“There are people who are marching through the streets calling for dead cops in New York,” Banfield said."

Report Blames Obama White House for Weaponizing the IRS and Turning It Against Conservatives | TheBlaze.com

Report Blames Obama White House for Weaponizing the IRS and Turning It Against Conservatives | TheBlaze.com:

"The report also blamed Obamacare, which gave the IRS a key role in implementing Obama’s health program, for turning the IRS into an arm of the White House, when it should have remained independent.
“Evidence shows an IRS responsive to the partisan policy objectives of the White House and an IRS leadership that coordinates with political appointees of the Obama administration,” it found.

It said efforts to cover up the scandal were ultimately led by Obama himself. Obama initially said the IRS’s actions were inexcusable, but later said there was not a “smidgen of corruption” at the IRS."

Grad students, professor, union leader charged in Brooklyn Bridge assault

Grad students, professor, union leader charged in Brooklyn Bridge assault by Renee Nal:

F— the police/To rise as you/Disappear below current/Interpretations of observations/F— the police, – Poetry by Professor Eric Linsker
What do three graduate students, a professor and an SEIU labor leader have in common? They all allegedly assaulted two members of the NYPD earlier this month.

A graduate student has turned herself in in the case of an assault on two NYPD lieutenants on the Brooklyn Bridge on December 13. Cindy Gorn, 29, has standard “research interests” including “race, resistance; marxism” according to her student bio.

Gorn was a part of a panel discussion for a Left Forum conference (the successor to the Socialist Scholars Conference) called “The Crisis, the Fightback, and Solidarity, from Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives,” where a description of the discussion states:

From anarchist-communist and libertarian-autonomist Marxist perspectives we will analyze the current crisis of capitalism and to consider alternate strategies for popular struggle, such as mass strikes, electoral and non-electoral action, etc.

Eric Linsker, 29, is an adjunct professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY) who “was once known more for his erotic poetry interspersed with expletives aimed at the police.” But Linsker, perhaps unsurprisingly, translated his hatred toward police into action on the Brooklyn police when he attempted “to throw a large garbage can down onto the roadway below, where other demonstrators and police officers were walking....Robert Murray, 43, is “a six-figure-earning organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)” who was also arrested for his role in the attack.

Maybe, instead of blaming the cops, we take a look at a government that encourages and funds this bizarre style "family" unit.