History for December 26

History for December 26 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Babbage 1792- Mathematician and inventor, he is regarded as the pioneer of modern computers., George Dewey 1837, Henry Miller (Valentine) 1891 Writer (Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), His Sexus (1949)) 


Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) 1893- Chinese communist, Richard Widmark 1914 - Actor, Steve Allen 1921 - Comedian, actor, composer. First host of "The Tonight Show." Films: The Benny Goodman Story (1955), The Comic (1969), Casino (1995). Scores: A Man Called Dagger (1968) and the CBS musical Alice in Wonderland (1985). 


1776 - The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.
 

1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason. 


1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium. 


1943 - The German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sunk in the North Sea, during the Battle of North Cape. 


1974 - Comedian Jack Benny died at age 80. 


1982 - The Man of the Year in "TIME" magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors. 


1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, CO. 


2004 - Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent 500-mph waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The tsunami killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand and India.

FOX’s Greta Van Susteren Calls Out the Democrat Party for Support of Al Sharpton

FOX’s Greta Van Susteren Calls Out the Democrat Party for Support of Al Sharpton:

"FOX News host Greta Van Susteren has a question for the head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other leading Democrats, and it has to do with taxes, MSNBC racial grievance industry profiteer Al Sharpton, and hypocrisy."

So much wrong here.... expect to hear that giant sucking sound of your children's money going to the gal who helped destroy Muskegon Heights--------Muskegon Heights city manager named to Flint post

No mention of gross fiscal mismanagement. 
Or incompetence. 
Or criminal actions by city "leaders".
How ya gonna fix it if ya don't get how it got broke?

Muskegon Heights city manager named to Flint post | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Flint's state-appointed emergency manager has named Muskegon Heights city manager Natasha Henderson to the same job in Flint.
...The city of about 100,000 went under state emergency control in December 2011 because of persistent municipal budget deficits.
The birthplace of General Motors has suffered in recent decades as auto industry employment has shrunk because of stronger international competition and automation of vehicle production.
"The city should expect the best," Earley said at the reception. "Unquestionably, she is the right person at the right time — now and in the future."
Henderson, 37, starts work Feb. 23, The Flint Journal reported.
At the reception, she said she can see glimpses of what the city can become in the future, including a "beautiful" downtown.
"There are so many opportunities," she said. "I'm definitely up for the challenge. ... When I walked in City Hall here, I felt like I wanted to be here.""

How they "think"---Brandeis Students Rally Around Cop-Hating Student

Brandeis Students Rally Around Cop-Hating Student | The Daily Caller:
"Students at Brandeis University spent Monday effusively supporting Khadijah Lynch, their fellow student who took to Twitter to celebrate the brutal, execution-style murder of two New York Police Department officers this weekend.
“i have no sympathy for the nypd officers who were murdered today,” Lynch had spouted on Saturday afternoon.
“lmao, all i just really dont have sympathy for the cops who were shot. i hate this racist fucking country,” the junior also tweeted. (RELATED: Fancypants College Student: ‘No Sympathy’ For Brutally Executed Cops)
Another Brandeis student, Daniel Mael, publicized these and other fanatical tweets from Lynch’s then-public Twitter account on Truth Revolt.
On Monday, a throng of angry Brandeis students criticized Mael.
Some suggested that the Brandeis administration should punish him for citing Lynch’s public tweets.
Read it all

Bon Jovi Dons NYPD Shirt as Support of Cops Surges Across America

Bon Jovi Dons NYPD Shirt as Support of Cops Surges Across America:

"Bon Jovi’s show of support was a reaction to the horrific execution-style murders on Saturday of two NYPD officers, Rafael Ramos and Wen Jian Liu, deaths many Americans attribute to an anti-cop environment created by Democrats Barack Obama, Eric Holder, race arsonist Al Sharpton, and Communist NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. "

The poles are 'not melting', according to a global warming expert

The poles are 'not melting', according to a global warming expert Dr Benny Peiser | Nature | News | Daily Express:
"In fact, the poles are "much more stable" than climate scientists once predicted and could even be much thicker than previously thought.
For years, scientists have suggested that both poles are melting at an alarming rate because of warming temperatures - dangerously raising the Earth's sea levels while threatening the homes of Arctic and Antarctic animals.
But the uncertainty surrounding climate change and the polar ice caps reached a new level this month when research suggested the ice in the Antarctic is actually growing.
And there could even be evidence to suggest the polar bear population is not under threat.
Ted Maksym, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, conducted a study in which he sent an underwater robot into the depths of the Antarctic sea to measure the ice.
His results contradicted previous assumptions made by scientists and showed that the ice is actually much thicker than has been predicted over the last 20 years."

This is how they think-------Former WI Dem spokesman attacks Walker after Dem DA refuses to charge ex-cop in fatal shooting

Former WI Dem spokesman attacks Walker after Dem DA refuses to charge ex-cop in fatal shooting « Watchdog.org
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Graeme Zielinski was fired as the spokesperson of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in 2013 after he used Twitter to compare Republican Gov. Scott Walker to serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer.

He’s at it again.

Shortly after John Chisholm, a Democrat, announced Monday that his office would not charge a former Milwaukee cop who fatally shot a black man in a public park in April, Zielinski took to Twitter to blast . . . Republicans?

Milwaukee County District Attorney

Be warned: The following tweets from Zielinski include some language that some will find offensive:

Meteorological mafia------NOAAgate: how 'ocean acidification' could turn out to be the biggest con since Michael Mann's Hockey Stick

NOAAgate: how 'ocean acidification' could turn out to be the biggest con since Michael Mann's Hockey Stick - Breitbart:
 "Christmas has come a couple of days early for climate sceptics, in what may well prove to be one of the biggest blows to the Global Warming religion since Climategate.
This time the pillar of green faith which has been rudely dismantled by sceptical investigators is an alleged phenomenon known as “ocean acidification.”
For years this has been touted by environmentalists as possibly the greatest threat to the planet after “global warming.”
....But, as Watts Up With That reports new evidence unearthed by an inquisitive graduate student suggests that “ocean acidification” may be a scientific fraud to rank with the great “man-made-global warming” scare.
....Mysteriously, the chart only began in 1988.
But Wallace knew for a fact that there were oceanic pH measurements dating back to at least 100 years earlier and was puzzled that this solid data had been ignored, in favour of computer modelled projections.
When Wallace emailed his query to Feely and Sabine, however, he found them less than helpful.
Sabine replied that it was inappropriate for Wallace to impugn the “motives or quality of our science” and warned that if he continued in this manner “you will not last long in your career.” 
Having provided Wallace with a few links – all of which turned out to be useless – he concluded his email by saying “I hope you will refrain from contacting me again.”
This response, again, calls to mind the behaviour of Michael Mann in response to queries from Steve McIntyre about where to find the raw data for his Hockey Stick. Mann was similarly obfuscatory, rude and dismissive.
Undeterred, Wallace eventually got hold of the instrumental records which Feely and Sabine had chosen to exclude from their graph of doom and plotted a time series chart of his own, covering the period from 1910 to the present.
His results were surprising.
What they suggest is that global acidification is a figment of Feely’s and Sabine’s imagination: there has been NO reduction in oceanic pH levels in the last century.
Wallace says: “Oceanic acidification may seem like a minor issue to some but, besides being wrong, it is a crucial leg to the entire narrative of ‘human-influenced climate change’.”
He adds: “In whose professional world is it acceptable to omit the majority of the data and also not disclose the omission to any other soul or Congressional body?”"

NYC Gang Threatens to Storm NYPD Precincts; Their Plan After that is INSANE

NYC Gang Threatens to Storm NYPD Precincts; Their Plan After that is INSANE:

"In the Big Apple, police officers are on an even higher alert after the gang “Black Guerrilla Family” threatened to storm two precincts located near where Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were assassinated while eating in their patrol cars. The gang has threatened to storm the precincts and ‘shoot it out’ with police."

Obamacare's Christmas surprise

REP. MARK MEADOWS: Obamacare's Christmas surprise - Washington Times:
"If you like your health care plan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has a Christmas surprise for you!
When will this new present arrive?
December 25th.
In an ongoing effort to keep Obamacare numbers elevated, CMS has embarked on the next step of its government takeover of healthcare.
That’s right, the government will choose your plan, perhaps limit access to your doctor, and ultimately make the decision on what is “best” for you.
Not to worry, just like Lady Justice, who wears a blindfold when determining guilt or innocence, CMS will use a blindfold to pick your plan.
The agency will select your plan without knowing your medical history.
They will do so without knowing if you are currently undergoing treatment or working with a specific doctor.
They will do so without knowing your financial status.
Despite the fact that the millions of people who already enrolled chose the plan that they believed was best for them.
CMS has laid the perfect trap:
Sign up at healthcare.gov one time in your life and we will never let you go.

100 Years Ago Today Christmas Truce Halted World War I

100 Years Ago Today Christmas Truce Halted World War I - Breitbart:
"One Hundred years ago the Christmas Truce of 1914 was a spontaneous cease fire and day of Christian Brotherhood for both sides of the No Man’s Land along the Western Front. 
The event was kept secret by senior military officers and government censors as an embarrassing breakdown in military discipline.
Military recruiters from both the Triple Entente and the Central Powers promised recruits that they would be “Home for Christmas.”
But after five months of war, the Western Front became an entrenched battlefield running almost 600 miles from Belgium Switzerland.
Most of the soldiers were young men from rural villages that had never been away from home.
They were cold, miserable and disillusioned in their three rows of trenches on Christmas Eve of 1914. 
All the hype about God and Country were interrupted by the reality of rats, lice and endless artillery duels."

HuffPost Editor Likens Joseph and Mary to Palestinians — a Law Professor Wasn’t Having Any of That and Wrote a Scathing Response | TheBlaze.com

HuffPost Editor Likens Joseph and Mary to Palestinians — a Law Professor Wasn’t Having Any of That and Wrote a Scathing Response | TheBlaze.com:

"The argument presented by the Huffington Post’s Mehdi Hasan followed a tradition of Palestinian efforts to frame Jesus as a Palestinian Arab, a theme that increases in volume around Christmastime. For example, in his Christmas message last year, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Jesus a “Palestinian messenger.”

Pay Close Attention to What Happens in the Upper Left. Police Say It Holds the Key to Another St. Louis Shooting. | Video | TheBlaze.com

Pay Close Attention to What Happens in the Upper Left. Police Say It Holds the Key to Another St. Louis Shooting. | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The picture is grainy and hard to make out, but police say it vindicates their position and shows the reason 18-year-old Antonio Martin was shot Tuesday night: He pointed a gun at a police officer."

CBS2 Exclusive: Jean Mamakos Sues United After Arrest On Flight

CBS2 Exclusive: Jean Mamakos Sues United After Arrest On Flight « CBS New York:
"A Long Island woman claims she was treated like a criminal and pulled off of a flight just because she wanted to change seats.
As CBS2’s Jennifer McLogan reported exclusively, the in-flight fight turned into a three-day stay in jail for the woman.
“They did handcuff me, there were three policemen that dragged me out of the plane,” said Jean Mamakos. 
(And did they tell you what they were charging you with?)
 They said trespassing.”
Mamakos, 68, of Huntington, held up her jeans to show where they were ripped, she says as she was pulled down the aisle of the plane.
She never made it to her ski trip in Alaska.
Police in Seattle, where Mamakos and her ski club were changing planes, were called aboard the United aircraft to arrest her, McLogan reported.
One of the passengers recorded the incident.
Officer: “Do you want to come willingly or be arrested for trespass?”
Mamakos: “Whatever you have to do.”
Officer: “OK.”
Mamakos said she resisted the arrest because she had paid thousands in airfare for the round trip flight, and claims unfriendly flight attendants overreacted when she tried to move to an empty row after the doors closed for take off.
It was the third leg of a long cross-country trip, and she hoped to sleep.
“One of the stewardesses said ‘Oh no you don’t.’ 
Which stopped me in my tracks,” she said.
So Mamakos moved toward the front of the plane.
“So I went forward and then another stewardess came along and said ‘Give me your credit card,'” she said.
Mamakos, a registered nurse, was in an empty exit row emergency seat and was told this would be a costly upgrade."