History for July 22

History for July 22 - On-This-Day.com
Gregor Mendel 1822, Alexander Calder 1898, Bob Dole 1923 


Louise Fletcher 1934, Alex Trebek 1940, Danny Glover 1947 


Albert Brooks 1947, Willem Dafoe 1955, David Spade 1964 


1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date. 


1926 - Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field in New York. The ball had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet. 


1933 - Wiley Post ended his around-the-world flight. He had traveled 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. 


1943 - American forces led by General George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily. 



1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress. 



1998 - Iran tested medium-range missile, capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia. 


2003 - In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces. 


2003 - In Paris, France, a fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower. About 4,000 visitors were evacuated and no injuries were reported. 

Investigators Uncover Chattanooga Shooter’s Alleged Link to Radical Islam | Video | TheBlaze.com

Investigators Uncover Chattanooga Shooter’s Alleged Link to Radical Islam | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the man who killed four Marines and a Navy sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week, reportedly followed writings and downloaded recordings of infamous al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki."

Watch Scott Walker’s Blunt Response After Being Confronted by Illegal Immigrant: ‘We’re a Nation of Laws’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Watch Scott Walker’s Blunt Response After Being Confronted by Illegal Immigrant: ‘We’re a Nation of Laws’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker was confronted by a illegal immigrant during a stop in Plainfield, Iowa, on Sunday — and it caused the Wisconsin governor to make his stance clear on the issue of immigration."

Home-care workers find getting out harder than getting in union

Home-care workers find getting out harder than getting in union - Watchdog.org:
"Renee Katz has one question for the Service Employees International Union:
What part of “no” don’t you understand?
“I can’t get out of it. 
They want me to now do some letter and certify mail it.
They didn’t certify mail anything to me.
And then every time I call or email, they try to talk me into staying,” said Katz.
The Oakdale mother works part-time as a personal care assistant for her special needs daughter and other care recipients through subsidized programs designed to avoid institutionalized care.
She was outraged to learn 3 percent of their gross wages would be taken for dues for a union she didn’t realized she joined.
Her hard-line response stands out because Katz comes from a pro-union family.
“We’re a huge union family.
My husband’s union is wonderful,” Katz said.
 “… It’s not that I don’t believe in unions. 
It’s just not right for me. 
I don’t want to be part of the union, 
I don’t need it.”"

McDonalds + minimum wage hike = We told you!

McDonalds + minimum wage hike = We told you!:
"The left has been pushing a minimum wage increase, mainly because telling voters “we’re going to give you more money” is easier than teaching them about economics and/or reality. 
If a leftist wants to be particularly panderific, they specify a wage hike on fast food workers, with McDonalds as their most popular whipping post.
The same McDonalds which just announced their WORST financial outlook in 12 years.
Some 29 franchisees, who collectively own and operate 208 McDonald’s restaurants in the United States, were asked to give their six-month forecast from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent).
The average response was 1.69, the lowest in the survey’s 12-year history.
Previously, the lowest rating was 1.81, which was recorded three months ago.
One of the reasons?
Another respondent said, “At least half of the operators in my region are on [the] verge of collapse.
With minimum wage for fast food workers potentially increasing to incredibly high levels, we are facing a crisis situation.”"

Obama’s Newest Gun Control Scheme Involves Social Security Benefits | TheBlaze.com

Obama’s Newest Gun Control Scheme Involves Social Security Benefits | TheBlaze.com:

"The Obama administration has taken action to tie gun ownership with Social Security benefits, expanding background checks for firearms owners.

Obama was unable to push through stricter background check laws for gun buyers through Congress in 2013, but through executive action, the Social Security Administration could threaten to cut off benefits by adding millions of people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the Los Angeles Times reported."

Study: Uber is twice as fast as taxi service and half the price

Study: Uber is twice as fast as taxi service and half the price | Washington Examiner:
"Uber is twice as fast as taxi service and about half the cost of a regular taxi, according to a new study of the company's ride-sharing app conducted in Los Angeles.
The average UberX ride took just under 7 minutes to arrive, versus over 17 minutes for a taxi requested by phone. 
For the same rides, the average UberX trip cost $6.40, while the cost of using the taxi was $14.63, including tip.
UberX gets people rides through private people driving their own cars, instead of professional drivers."

Kerry: Trust Me, Iran Can’t Use Unfrozen $150 Billion For Terror Operations–The UN Resolution Says So

Kerry: Trust Me, Iran Can’t Use Unfrozen $150 Billion For Terror Operations–The UN Resolution Says So - Matt Vespa:
 "UPDATE: Katie wrote today that National Security Adviser Susan Rice admitted that some of that money will be spent on "bad behavior."  
You know, like terrorism and such.

...First, let’s rehash what Iran got with this agreement:

• It (almost immediately) pumps more than $100 billion into the regime's economy, providing Tehran with desperately-needed resources to step up its habitual terrorism abetment and toxic regional meddling. 
• It eschews the sort of solid anytime/anywhere snap inspections regime proponents of the deal promised repeatedly. 
• It permits Iran to maintain its infamous underground nuclear facility -- long seen as an emblem of Iranian lawlessness and non-compliance.
• It allows Tehran to press forward with research and development on advanced-level centrifuges. Astonishingly, it caves to Iran's preposterous 11th-hour demands by accommodating the lifting of both the UN arms embargo and sanctions against the regime's illegal ballistic missile program -- issues that were allegedly off the table for Western negotiators..
• It guarantees that even if Iran were to abandon its incurable habit of cheating and lying by fully complying with the agreement, the country would emerge as a threshold nuclear-armed state in just over a decade.

Now, as for the unfrozen $150 billion that will go to Iran, Secretary Kerry assures us that Iran will keep its word and not use the money to fund Shiite militias in neighboring countries, or fund Hezbollah because the deal says so. 
As Kerry told Judy Woodruff of PBS News Hour, “they’re not allowed to do that. 
They’re not allowed to do that outside even with this agreement. 
There’s a UN resolution that specifically applies to them not being allowed to transfer to Hezbollah. They are specifically not allowed under another UN resolution to transfer to the Shi’a militia in Iraq.”
Yeah, I’m not sleeping any better with these remarks (are you kidding me, Kerry?). 
I’m not one to be all doom and gloom, but who expects the Iranians to actually honor any of these agreements? 
I mean, how is that even a serious subject of conversation. 
Like North Korea, UN resolutions and arms negotiations fared poorly. 
The North Koreans did get the bomb. 
They did circumvent the Agreed Framework by having a covert uranium enrichment program that was exposed by the CIA in 2002, and the geopolitical situation in Asia..."

White lives matter..... NOT!-----Black 18 Year Old Charged In Brutal Stabbing Murder Of Army Veteran

Black 18 Year Old Charged In Brutal Stabbing Murder Of Army Veteran - Allen West Republic: "Erico Montalvo, of 10 Pocasset Ave., wore no expression as he was led handcuffed into District Court early Friday morning to face the charges. The timing, coincidentally, was just before the funeral Mass for 26-year-old Colby Mendonca of Pawtucket.
Mendonca and his friend, Russell Gleason, 25, were in the parking lot behind the Walgreens at 533 Elmwood Ave. just before 2 a.m. when they got into an argument with strangers, according to police.
The argument became a fight that left Gleason badly injured and Mendonca dead.
Special Assistant Attorney General Meg McDonough told Magistrate Joseph Ippolito that Montalvo admitted to Providence investigators that he’d been at the scene and had stabbed both men.
Montalvo was charged with murder and assault with a dangerous weapon, both felonies..."

Outspoken Sheriff Calls Obama’s Reaction to Chattanooga Shootings a ‘Shoulder Shrug’ — but That’s Mild Compared to What Comes Next | TheBlaze.com

Outspoken Sheriff Calls Obama’s Reaction to Chattanooga Shootings a ‘Shoulder Shrug’ — but That’s Mild Compared to What Comes Next | TheBlaze.com:

"In the wake of the shootings that claimed the lives of five U.S. servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week, outspoken Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., took to Twitter on Sunday and explained why he believes President Obama’s reaction to the murders was more or less a “shoulder shrug”

Teach the children well.....Univ. of Wisconsin professor says Hitler, Scott Walker share ‘terrifying’ similarities

Univ. of Wisconsin professor says Hitler, Scott Walker share ‘terrifying’ similarities - The College Fix:
University of Wisconsin sociology Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab claims there are “terrifying” psychological similarities between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Nazi leader and mass murderer Adolf Hitler.
In a July 1 tweet, Goldrick-Rab said:
“My grandfather, a psychologist, just walked me through similarities between Walker and Hitler. There are so many-it’s terrifying.”
The extreme comparisons didn’t stop there.
A day later, Professor Goldrick-Rap tweeted:
“No doubt about it-Walker and many Wisconsin Legislators are fascists. Period. They proved it today. #SHAME.”
...Recently Goldrick-Rab also targeted the Wisconsin budget as an attack on education and tenure, tweeting she “spent more than 20 years working for & honoring the tenure I earned.
Walker just robbed me of it.
He robbed Wisconsin.
It’s unforgivable.”

Here's what 'check your privilege' really means

Here's what 'check your privilege' really means - The College Fix:
"Gary Galles, an economics professor at Pepperdine University, offers an insightful piece for the Mises Institute that dissects the term “check your privilege” – and what it really means.
He begins by giving the phrase’s users the benefit of the doubt.
“It could be an invitation to debate,” Galles notes.
“In a sense, ‘check your privilege’ largely amounts to ‘check your premises’ behind your views, and many are willing to recognize that such a reminder can be useful in advancing conversations about social issues.
...But the Phrase Could Simply Mean ‘Shut Up’
And when does “check your privilege” become code for “be quiet” rather than “evaluate your premises”?
“Check your privilege” is about shutting down discussion when the user is making the assertion that you are hopelessly confused in your understanding, and that your opinions amount to aggression (whether “micro-” or “macro-”). …
In other words, others assert that they don’t need to listen to you, much less respect your arguments.
… when “check your privilege” is used as a magic phrase to peremptorily end “social justice” discussions, it is the assertion of a special privilege for some to be allowed to define themselves as white hats and those who disagree as black hats, without ever having to make a real argument.
It also allows users to turn it into an epithet of social demonization to try to impose their “solutions,” always at the expense of the supposed black hats.
In the process, it undermines social cooperation by undermining the rights upon which it is built.
And that, unfortunately, is how it is most often used by social justice warriors on campus today.
Read the full piece."

A&P Files For Chapter 22——A Cautionary Tale In The Demise Of The Nation’s First Supermarket Chain

A&P Files For Chapter 22——A Cautionary Tale In The Demise Of The Nation’s First Supermarket Chain | David Stockman's Contra Corner:
"Back in December 2010, we were “stunned” when we learned that in a what was a clear case of a supermarket chain unable to pass through costs to consumers, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Company (“Great Atlantic”, “A&P” or the “Debtors”), which in 1936 became the first national supermarket chain in the US, would file for bankruptcy adding that “it is ironic that instead of passing through costs supermarkets are instead opting out to default”.
Although perhaps even back then it was clear to A&P that the capacity of US consumer to shoulder higher prices is far worse than what the mainstream media would lead everyone to believe.
Fast forward to last night, when less than five years after its first Chapter 11 filing (and three years after emerging from a bankruptcy in March 2012 as a privately-held company part owned by Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa with a clean balance sheet including $490 million in new debt and equity financing), overnight Great Atlantic, which controls such supermarket brand names as A&P, Waldbaum’s, SuperFresh, Pathmark, Food Basics, The Food Emporium, Best Cellars, and A&P Liquors – filed for repeat bankruptcy, or as it is better known in restructuring folklore, Chapter 22.
So what happened in the intervening 5 years that caused the company which employes 28,500 workers (93% of whom are members of one of twelve local unions and who are employed by A&P under some 35 separate collective bargaining agreements) to deteriorate so badly that it burned through all of its post (first) petition cash and redefault?
In one word: unions."

Obama Disgrace - 238,000 Veterans Died Waiting for Health Care Under Obama! - Eagle Rising

Obama Disgrace - 238,000 Veterans Died Waiting for Health Care Under Obama! - Eagle Rising:

"Barack Hussein Obama is neither the friend of America nor the friend of America's veterans. This evidence provided by a VA whistleblower only adds to the massive amount of evidence that the usurper-in-chief is not incompetent, but is knowingly engaged in an agenda to bring America down."

Jean Jacques, Haitian immigrant accused in Norwich, Connecticut killing, was spared deportation after prior violent felony

Jean Jacques, Haitian immigrant accused in Norwich, Connecticut killing, was spared deportation after prior violent felony - CBS News:
"NEW LONDON, Conn. -- A Haitian immigrant who was released from prison in January after serving a 17-year prison sentence for attempted murder is back in custody on a murder charge in the death of a Connecticut woman last month.
The Bulletin reports that Jean Jacques's prison file was marked "Detainer: Immigration" and that Connecticut officials say he was released in January to the custody of the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but was never deported.
ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer tells the newspaper the law prohibits him from discussing Jacques' case.
On Monday, the 40-year-old Jacques was in a Connecticut court to answer to murder and drug charges, stemming from the June 15 stabbing death of Casey Chadwick in Norwich, the city where Jacques lived before he went to prison.
The 25-year-old woman's body was found stuffed in a closet.
According to the Bulletin, in January 2014, Connecticut made history by becoming the first state to enact legislation that prohibited law enforcement agencies from holding people simply because they had a civil immigration detainer put on them..."

History for July 21

History for July 21 - On-This-Day.com
Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist, Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar, Don Knotts 1924 - Actor, Janet Reno 1938 - Attorney General of the U.S. (1993-2001) 


Yusuf Islam 1948 - Musician (Cat Stevens), Robin Williams 1951 - Actor, comedian, Jon Lovitz 1957 - Actor ("Saturday Night Live") comedian, singer 


1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians. 


1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle. 


1925 - The "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating the state prohibition on teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned on a legal technicality because the judge had set the fine instead of the jury. 


1930 - The Veterans Administration of the United States was established. 


1940 - Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia were annexed by the Soviet Union. 


1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. 



1961 - Captain Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth. He was flying on the Liberty Bell 7. 


2004 - White House officials were briefed on the September 11 commission's final report. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to the public the next day. 

After Chattanooga Shooting, Fired Up Rev. Franklin Graham Calls For Drastic Against 1.5 Billion Muslims

After Chattanooga Shooting, Fired Up Rev. Franklin Graham Calls For Drastic Against 1.5 Billion Muslims:

"The problem, of course, is that President Barack Obama refuses to admit that the bulk of terrorist attacks committed in the United States can be directly traced back to Islam.

To this day, for instance, Obama still refers to the 2009 Fort Hood terrorist attack as an “act of workplace violence,” even though the evidence proved him wrong a long time ago.

Graham ended his emotional Facebook post by urging his followers to let their congressional leaders “know that we’ve got to put a stop to this and close the flood gates.”

Stunning Photo Taken During Battle Flag Protests at SC Statehouse

Stunning Photo Taken During Battle Flag Protests at SC Statehouse | PJ Tatler:
The Klu Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party held separate protests for and against the Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse yesterday.
The two sides competed for the “Hate Group of the Year” title and from all reports, it looked to be a draw.
NBC News:
About 2,000 people were at the Statehouse at the peak of the two rallies, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
The department said five people had been arrested after the KKK members showed up for offenses including disorderly conduct, simple assault and breach of peace.
Additional officers were on scene at that time.
No officers were injured, but there were 23 calls for emergency services and seven people were transported by medical personnel, according to the Department of Public Safety.
The temperatures rose to the high nineties in Columbia Saturday afternoon.
The earlier rally, including members of Black Lawyers for Justice and Black Educators for Justice, a Florida organization with links to the New Black Panther Party, began with about 200 people gathered around a podium and responding to passionate speakers shouting, “Black power!”
The two sides hurled insults and racial epithets at each other for about an hour.
And then, a state trooper was snapped assisting an elderly neo-Nazi wearing a shirt with a swastika on it, who was apparently overcome by the heat, up the stairs of the statehouse.
The trooper — Leroy Smith — is black.
What do you suppose those two men were thinking?

Yes, the outrages continue!-----The IRS Scandal, Day 801

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 801:
Imagine having a vision for your country.
You worked hard to start an organization to promote the ideas and values that you believe can fix our nation.
When you apply for tax-exempt status, which should be a simple matter of paperwork, you face repeated delays and demands from the government that stretch the process across months and years.
Then you learn—not from the government, but from an outside source—that your private information was shared with multiple government agencies, all of whom wanted to “piece together” criminal charges against you.
Imagine being awakened in the middle of the night by a gang of police, shouting and waving their weapons at you. They turn your house inside-out, steal your laptop and phone, then order you not to tell anyone they were there.
All this happened because your political beliefs landed on the wrong side of those officials in power.
This is not a scenario from China, Russia, or Iran.
Welcome to the very real tyranny of modern America.
Think it can’t happen here? 
Just do some reading on the John Doe proceedings in Wisconsin, or the IRS targeting scandal....

A Music Legend Just Dropped The Hammer On Obama With EPIC Rant Sparked By Chattanooga Shootings

A Music Legend Just Dropped The Hammer On Obama With EPIC Rant Sparked By Chattanooga Shootings:

"One of America’s most famous country rock musicians excoriated President Obama for how he reacted publicly after what many believe to have been a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tenn., that left four Marines dead Thursday — a mass murder allegedly committed by a lone shooter."

Mark Weiner conviction vacated: Chelsea Steiniger text case finally overturned.

Mark Weiner conviction vacated: Chelsea Steiniger text case finally overturned.:
Three years ago, one of the strangest criminal cases in recent memory began in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live, when a young woman sent a series of text messages telling her boyfriend that a man had abducted her, followed by a series of texts, allegedly from her captor, taunting her boyfriend with threats of sexual violence.
Her story was strange, and the case was fraught with complications from the get-go, but the accused ended up in prison long after the doubts outweighed the evidence.
This story is bizarre, but it’s not all that unusual: 
Prosecutors can prosecute even the weakest, most clearly flawed cases relentlessly, and innocent people can end up in jail.
This week, after two and a half years in prison, Mark Weiner saw his conviction vacated.
It finally ended a saga in which Weiner was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to eight years in jail on charges of abducting a woman with the intent to sexually harm her.
The story began on a December night in 2012. Weiner, then a 52-year-old man who managed a local Food Lion and attended night classes at a local community college, stopped and picked up 20-year-old Chelsea Steiniger, who was walking from a convenience store to her mother’s house..."
Read on!

What US leaders have never understood about Iran

What US leaders have never understood about Iran | New York Post:
“American rulers have always dreamed of forcing us to change our behavior, and failed,” Iran’s “Supreme Guide,” Ali Khamenei, said Saturday.
“Five US administrations took that dream to their graves.
The present one shall have the same fate.”
Khamenei’s analysis is not far off the mark.
Successive American presidents have worked hard to persuade the Khomeinist regime in Tehran to modify aspects of its foreign policy, so far with no success.
The reason may be the inability or unwillingness of successive US presidents, and a good part of the American political and cultural elite, to properly understand the nature of the Khomeinist regime.
Jimmy Carter believed the Khomeinist seizure of power represented the return of religion to the center of public life.
His administration described Khomeini as “a holy man” and “the Gandhi of Islam.”
Carter wrote letters to Khomeini “as a man of faith to a man of faith.”
He even ordered the resumption of arms supplies to Tehran.
We all know what that did to Carter.
...To admire this regime because of Iranian culture is like admiring Hitler for Goethe and Beethoven and praising Stalin for Pushkin and Tchaikovsky.
This regime has executed tens of thousands of Iranians, driven almost 6 million into exile, and deprived the nation of its basic freedoms.
It has also killed more Americans, often through surrogates, than al Qaeda did on 9/11.
Not a single day has passed without this regime holding some American hostages.
Iran as a nation is a solid friend of America. 
Iran as a vehicle for the Khomeinist revolution is an eternal enemy of “The Great Satan.”
The only realistic strategy for the United States would be to help it stop being the Islamic Republic and become Iran again.
President Obama’s policy, however, points in the opposite direction. 
He has made it harder for the Iranian people to regain their human rights.

Sooo, the big problem is geezers and dopes legally buying guns and killing folks?------Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security

Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security - LA Times:
"Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.
...A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."
There is no simple way to identify that group, but a strategy used by the Department of Veterans Affairs since the creation of the background check system is reporting anyone who has been declared incompetent to manage pension or disability payments and assigned a fiduciary.
If Social Security, which has never participated in the background check system, uses the same standard as the VA, millions of its beneficiaries would be affected.
About 4.2 million adults receive monthly benefits that are managed by "representative payees."
...But critics — including gun rights activists, mental health experts and advocates for the disabled — say that expanding the list of prohibited gun owners based on financial competence is wrongheaded."