EAA AirVenture week!-----The Soviet Airborne & Disembarking the Tupolev TB-3

The Soviet Airborne & Disembarking the Tupolev TB-3:
"The photographs below show the rather unusual method of how Russian Paratroopers disembarked from the TB-3.
By jumping or rather sliding from the wing.
The Soviets were one of the first countries to take the concept of airborne infantry seriously developing the tactic during the 1930s."

Windfarms Contaminate The Water Supply?

Instapundit » Blog Archive » #GREENFAIL: Windfarms Contaminate The Water Supply? “Right. So we’ve gone from wind farms choppi…:
"#GREENFAIL:
Windfarms Contaminate The Water Supply?
“Right.
So we’ve gone from wind farms chopping up birds to poisoning the water supply.
They’re not economically viable without public subsidy, they never meet their promised power generation or reliability, but, hey, they do give you diarrhea.
And maybe kill your unborn child. . . .
What on Earth are you complaining about?
Now, of course, nothing is proven yet, but I’ll wager dollars to donuts there’s more to this than the hysteria over fracking and earthquakes.”"

Chattanooga: The Effects of Our Suicidal Immigration Policy

Chattanooga: The Effects of Our Suicidal Immigration Policy | Conservative Review
The deadly terror attack that killed four Marines in Chattanooga will undoubtedly weigh on Americans sitting around the dinner table tonight and present questions for many heading into the weekend.
Why have we not learned the lessons of 9/11?
This past month, liberals looked throughout the country to destroy every last vestige of Civil War history in the pursuit of a peaceful utopia.

In the state of Tennessee, liberals are in the process of disinterring the grave of confederate Generals.
But nobody is willing to discuss the biggest existential threat to our national security, despite yet another sad reminder with the Islamic terror attack that killed four Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee yesterday.
When are we going to stop letting in Islamic terrorists through our front door?
...After 9/11, when the bipartisan 9/11 Commission identified the obvious root cause of the attack as an immigration problem, we doubled down on stupidity.
The U.S. has admitted roughly 1.6 million individuals from predominantly Muslim countries since 9/11 – twice the rate of immigration from that part of the world relative to the previous decade.
The Most Important Lesson of Chattanooga Terror Attack
The Islamic terrorist who murdered four marines at a recruiting station, Mohammad Youssduf Adbulazeer, was an immigrant from Kuwait.
Let’s be honest, not a single person has been killed in this country in recent history from a killer acquiring inspiration from the confederate flag and generals.
Yet, we have had countless Islamic terror attacks on our soil since 9/11 that have been directly inspired by the Islamic ideology and the teachings of Sharia.
...We can waste trillions of dollars and incur thousands of casualties refereeing endless Islamic civil wars oversees.
We can tip the scales of power from ISIS to Iran in response to this terror attack.
But what will that accomplish if we have already let in so many ticking time bombs through our front door and continue to do so on a daily basis?
We can talk about the absurdity of gun-free zones on military installations, and that is a valid point. As Mark Levin observed last night, the Iranian Islamists can be trusted with nukes but our military cannot be trusted with guns on their own bases.
But the most fundamental problem is suicidal immigration.
And it’s time we wake up as the political class gears up for new waves of immigration from the Middle East.
Here’s why:
Twenty-nine percent of males under 45 believe that violence against America is justified in order to make Sharia the law of the land..."

Disparate impact!---No evidence of violation of laws, so sue 'em anyway?--------Chicago suburbs hit with lawsuit for guns used in city crime

Chicago suburbs hit with lawsuit for guns used in city crime | Fox News:
"CHICAGO –  Summertime in Chicago, shootings ring out on the South and West sides as gang members execute drug-fueled vendettas.
Bodies pile up, and innocent civilians are caught in the crossfire.
Still, nothing seems to stop the bullets flying from illegal weapons.
Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina on Chicago’s South Side, is trying something new; pressuring the municipalities where he says the illegal guns originate.
He and several co-plaintiffs are now suing the Villages of Riverdale, Lyons and Lincolnwood. 
Each town is home to a gun store that Pfleger claims is lax with oversight for gun purchases. 
He wants the villages to crack down and prevent “straw purchasing” -- buying weapons in bulk, then selling them into the black market at a profit.
“We’re not asking anybody to take away guns from [legal] gun owners,” Pfleger said.
The lawsuit argues that a disproportionate number of crime guns originate from the targeted villages.
However, the heart of the issue is gang violence.
And the ATF says gang guns don’t necessarily come from the gun shops in Riverdale, Lyons and Lincolnwood.
“The largest percentage of crime guns used by gang members are coming from Indiana,” Special Agent Thomas Ahern said.
The Village of Lyons – the only one of the municipalities that responded to a request from Fox News for comment – said in response to the suit that Chicago officials, with whom Pfleger works closely, are trying to pass the blame to outside communities for shortcomings dealing with crime.
The suit also makes a civil rights argument along racial lines.
It reads: “The victims of these crimes in which the guns from these stores are used are overwhelmingly African American....

Disparate Impact As Official U.S. Policy – White House Administration Gathering Racial Stats on Everything To Support Social Justice….

Disparate Impact As Official U.S. Policy – White House Administration Gathering Racial Stats on Everything To Support Social Justice…. | The Last Refuge:

WASHINGTON – A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”

Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.

This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.

Big Brother Barack wants the databases operational before he leaves office, and much of the data in them will be posted online.

So civil-rights attorneys and urban activist groups will be able to exploit them to show patterns of “racial disparities” and “segregation,” even if no other evidence of discrimination exists...

(read much more)

Half of New CA Driver's Licenses Go to Illegal Immigrants

Half of New CA Driver's Licenses Go to Illegal Immigrants:
More than half of the new driver’s licenses issued in California during 2015 have gone to illegal immigrants.
“Of the 759,000 total licenses the DMV has issued, 397,000–or 52 percent–have gone to [illegals].”
The surge in illegal licensing is the result of AB 60–a California law that went into effect at the beginning of the year.
The law allows applicants to get a license by “only [proving] their identity and California residency, rather than their legal presence in the state.”

History for July 19

History for July 19 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Colt 1814, Edgar Degas 1834, Lizzie Borden 1860


Richard Jordan 1938, Vikki Carr 1941, Anthony Edwards 1962 


1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt. 


1942 - German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures. 


1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test. 


1971 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970. 


1975 - The Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days. 


1982 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981. 


1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President. 


1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year. 

Obama Tried To Make Nice With Israel After Iran Deal, But Netanyahu Smacked Him Down By Doing THIS

Obama Tried To Make Nice With Israel After Iran Deal, But Netanyahu Smacked Him Down By Doing THIS:

"As reported by Western Journalism, Netanyahu used very Churchillian themes in March when addressing a joint session of Congress regarding the dangers of entering into a bad nuclear deal with Iran. Winston Churchill, as a member of the British Parliament, said following the signing of the Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany in 1938 that Great Britain and the West had “sustained a total and unmitigated defeat…”

Obama-food-----Is Free School Lunch the Next Great American Entitlement Program?

Is Free School Lunch the Next Great American Entitlement Program? | Somewhat Reasonable:
As Congress considers changes to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA), one little-known section of the law is expected to sharply increase the number of students receiving free lunch (and breakfast) over the next several years.
This includes taxpayer-funded meals for students who would not have previously qualified under the old rules.
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows entire school districts, rather than individual families, to qualify for subsidized meals.
This is a stark departure from how the program has been administered over the last 70 years, when families needed to prove financial need.
Now, all students in a school district are eligible if more than 40 percent are low-income.
So even if only half of the students actually qualify, every single student will receive a free breakfast and lunch each day.
...The USDA claims the CEP will “improve access for free meals in eligible high poverty schools” and “reduce the burden of collecting funds … for the students who pay for school meals.” Proponents claim this is actually “more cost-effective” because schools will “no longer handle school breakfast or lunch payments in the food line because there are no fees to collect.”
...However, the new lax standards are inimical to the school lunch program’s original purpose.
“This undermines the integrity of the program,” said a former USDA official who led the school lunch program years ago.
Schools were supposed to sell lunches to kids who could afford them, which would partially subsidize the meals for those who couldn’t.
But while free lunch participation is rising, paying customers are dropping out. 
...Boosting child nutrition, lowering obesity rates and ensuring needy children receive meals are necessary and noble goals; perpetuating another costly federal entitlement program — which doesn’t deliver what it promises — is not.
It’s time for Congress to fix the program.

CBO report paints a dire picture for U.S. economy

CBO report paints a dire picture for U.S. economy - Watchdog.org:
"Even though it’s summer and Congress is in recess, it’s no reason not to care about politics.
...Indeed, there is no balancing of the budget in sight.
Within 25 years, the CBO predicts that the deficit will be 5.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – it’s at 2.7 percent right now.
This means that some $5.9 trillion will be overspent compared to revenues.
During this time, revenue would increase only 9.6 percent, compared to 23.4 for spending.
The total public debt will be over 100 percent of GDP by 2040.
...The US is pressing on the gas pedal towards the fiscal cliff with the present trends.
If nothing is done by 2040, the US public debt will amount to all the production of goods and services in the economy.
And that’s just the US debt; we are not even talking about unfunded liabilities like Social Security or veterans’ benefits, which some estimates have as high as $222 trillion."

Texas Gov.’s Warning to Mexican Drug Lord: Cross Our Border & Here’s What We’ll Have Waiting for You | TheBlaze.com

Texas Gov.’s Warning to Mexican Drug Lord: Cross Our Border & Here’s What We’ll Have Waiting for You | TheBlaze.com:

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a blunt warning this week to escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, explaining what would happen to him if he entered The Lone Star State.

“If he or any other cartel member thinks about trying to come into Texas, we’ve got a prison cell waiting for them,” Abbott told Newsmax."

Yes, not enforcing our immigration laws will change our country.

Hillary’s Latest Whopper

Hillary’s Latest Whopper | Power Line
HILLARY’S LATEST WHOPPER

"Yes, this could become a daily feature. 
You’ll recall that Hillary Clinton once claimed to have been named for Mt. Everest climber Sir Edmund Hillary, even though he didn’t achieve that feat until several years after Hillary was born.
No matter.
Her latest claim is that she wanted to be an astronaut, but that NASA wrote back to say, “Thank you very much, but we’re not taking girls.”
This story might actually be more or less true, not because of NASA sexism back in the 1960s, but because of common sense.
(NASA in the 1960s was struggling to figure out the risks of putting men into a tiny tin can for a few days; did you really expect them to put women of childbearing age into an unknown high radiation environment right out of the box? James Taranto has a lot more on this story in his “Best of the Web” column today.)

More interesting in this story were Hillary’s additional comments on scientific research:

“You know, back in the early ’90s, our country invested in mapping the human genome, and my husband was president when it finally was revealed. Money had been put in by both Republican and Democratic presidents and Congresses because we wanted to know more about what this meant. And in the years since, hundreds and thousands of jobs have been created and many millions of dollars have been generated for our economy,” Clinton said.

“I think we’re just at the beginning of trying to understand what is a black hole? Why is it there? What is in it? What does it mean for us?”

We might actually be further ahead in answering some of those latter questions if her husband and the Democratic Congress of 1993 hadn’t killed the superconducting supercollider that even the budget hawks of the Reagan administration had supported.
(Maybe Bill just wanted to be the only “supercollider” in the hood.)
Instead, the action in subatomic physics has shifted to the LHC at CERN in Switzerland. 
Worth remembering the next time you hear the “Republican war on science” cliché..."

As Heroin and Cocaine Deaths Soar, Obama Wants 'Non-Violent Drug Offenders' Out of Prison

As Heroin and Cocaine Deaths Soar, Obama Wants 'Non-Violent Drug Offenders' Out of Prison
As the number of heroin and cocaine deaths escalate in this country, President Obama is making the case that "non-violent drug offenders" should not serve long prison sentences -- if they serve time at all.
"There are a lot of folks who belong in prison," President Obama told the NAACP this week.
He specifically mentioned "murderers, predators, rapists, gang leaders, and drug kingpins -- we need some of those folks behind bars."
...But as Obama calls for "criminal justice reform" that would send "low-level" drug offenders to drug courts and treatment programs instead of prison, the poison they peddle is taking a bigger and bigger toll on Americans.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drug poisoning (overdose) is the number-one cause of injury-related death in the United States, with 43,982 deaths occurring in 2013, a 6 percent increase from 2012.
The number of drug-poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics (prescription pain-killers) was 16,235 in 2013, a 1 percent increase over 2012; overdose deaths involving heroin totaled 8,260 in 2013, a whopping 39 percent increase from 2012; and there were 4,944 cocaine overdoses in 2013, up 12 percent from 2012....

Voter ID: Other Countries Require It

Voter ID: Other Countries Require It | National Review Online:
What the rest of the world calls an anti-fraud measure, Democrats call racist. 
It’s been over seven years since the Supreme Court, in a 6–3 decision that was written by liberal favorite John Paul Stevens, declared that voter-ID laws don’t constitute an undue burden on people attempting to vote.
But that hasn’t stopped liberals from fighting in legislatures and courts against those laws and other efforts to promote voter integrity.
The lawsuits are often brought by Marc Elias, who doubles as the attorney for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
And their efforts have paid off:
Only about 18 states currently require a photo ID to vote.
Last month, the New York Times reported that billionaire liberal George Soros was largely bankrolling the multi-million-dollar effort.
Democratic-party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has accused Republicans of trying to bring back Jim Crow because “photo I.D. laws, we think, are very similar to a poll tax.” 
Almost all industrialized democracies — and most that are not — require voters to prove their identity before voting...
Read on!

The Total Failure Of Gun Control Captured In One Photo

The Total Failure Of Gun Control Captured In One Photo
If you want to know why gun control doesn’t work, you only need to look at one photo to see why.

The picture below, taken after the terrorist attack on a military career center in Chattanooga, captures the complete failure of the logic underlying demands for greater gun control in the U.S.:

“Federal Installation,” the top of the sign reads in black letters atop a yellow background. “Firearms Are Prohibited In This Facility.” 
The bullets that shattered the glass in more than a dozen places around the gun-free zone sign did not heed its commands.

Pension Funds Burn Cities as $1 Trillion Shortfall Set to Grow

Pension Funds Burn Cities as $1 Trillion Shortfall Set to Grow - Bloomberg Business
The cost to American cities for their cash-strapped pension funds is starting to look a lot worse, and it’s not because the stock-market rally may be losing steam.
...“If you’re AAA or AA rated and you’ve got significant and visible unfunded pension obligations, you’ve only got one direction to go in terms of rating, and that’s potentially down,” said Jeff Lipton, head of municipal research in New York at Oppenheimer & Co.
...Janney Montgomery Scott has said growing retirement costs are “the largest cloud overhanging” the $3.6 trillion municipal-bond market, where investors are demanding higher yields from borrowers under the greatest strain.
That was on display this week for Chicago, whose credit rating was cut to junk by Moody’s in May because of a $20 billion pension shortfall.
The city was forced to pay yields of almost 8 percent on taxable bonds maturing in 2042, about twice what some homeowners can get on a 30-year mortgage.
Estimates of the pension-fund deficits facing states and cities vary, depending on the assumptions used to calculate the cost of bills due over the next several decades.
According to Federal Reserve figures, they have $1.4 trillion less than needed to cover promised benefits.
...Moody’s, which in 2013 began using a lower rate than governments do to calculate future liabilities, has estimated that the 25 largest U.S. public pensions alone have $2 trillion less than they need. 
Cincinnati and Minneapolis are among cities Moody’s has since downgraded.
The credit-rating company said in a report Friday that the shortfall in Dallas’s police and firefighters’ pension system will more than triple to $4.7 billion because of the accounting-rule shift.

Rome is on the verge of collapse and needs urgent repair, leaders warn

Rome is on the verge of collapse and needs urgent repair, leaders warn - Telegraph:
Rome is on the verge of collapse and needs urgent repair, leaders warn
No Roman Holiday – the Eternal City is in chronic decline as a result of a toxic mix of corruption, debt, poor administration and shabby infrastructure"

It may boast the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and the glories that were ancient Rome, but the city is now in chronic decline, its business leaders and inhabitants have warned.
The Eternal City is facing crisis, with its administration engulfed in corruption scandals and debt, its roads scarred by pot-holes, the main airport partially closed and a growing immigration crisis...

Buck Sexton Highlights Exactly How Obama Has ‘Boxed the Israelis In’ With Iranian Nuclear Agreement | Video | TheBlaze.com

Buck Sexton Highlights Exactly How Obama Has ‘Boxed the Israelis In’ With Iranian Nuclear Agreement | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Sexton said the danger will only become more severe now that the United States has essentially said: “Not only are we going to … sort of bless your nuclear program, but on top of that, yeah the Russian arms bazaar — go for it. Whatever China can sell you, that’s also yours to keep.”

“This is a disaster. And the only thing that you can tell yourself makes this a little better …"

The Bankruptcy Of The Planet Accelerates - 24 Nations Are Currently Facing A Debt Crisis

The Bankruptcy Of The Planet Accelerates - 24 Nations Are Currently Facing A Debt Crisis:
There has been so much attention on Greece in recent weeks, but the truth is that Greece represents only a very tiny fraction of an unprecedented global debt bomb which threatens to explode at any moment.  
As you are about to see, there are 24 nations that are currently facing a full-blown debt crisis, and there are 14 more that are rapidly heading toward one.  
Right now, the debt to GDP ratio for the entire planet is up to an all-time record high of 286 percent, and globally there is approximately 200 TRILLION dollars of debt on the books...
According to a new report from the Jubilee Debt Campaign, there are currently 24 countries in the world that are facing a full-blown debt crisis…

■ Armenia

■ Belize

■ Costa Rica

■ Croatia

■ Cyprus

■ Dominican Republic

■ El Salvador

■ The Gambia

■ Greece

■ Grenada

■ Ireland

■ Jamaica

■ Lebanon

■ Macedonia

■ Marshall Islands

■ Montenegro

■ Portugal

■ Spain

■ Sri Lanka

■ St Vincent and the Grenadines

■ Tunisia

■ Ukraine

■ Sudan

■ Zimbabwe

And there are another 14 nations that are right on the verge of one…