History for September 9

History for September 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Colonel Harland Sanders 1890, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder 1923, Cliff Robertson 1925 


Otis Redding 1941, Joe Theismann 1949, Tom Wopat 1951 


Angela Cartwright 1952, Hugh Grant 1960, Adam Sandler 1966 


490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle. 


1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies." 



1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa. 


1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record. 


1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite. 


1948 - North Korea became the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. 


1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower. 


1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title. 


1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees. 


1995 - Amtrak's Broadway Limited service made its final run between New York City, NY and Chicago, IL. 


1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.

A side agreement could void the Iran deal - The Washington Post

A side agreement could void the Iran deal - The Washington Post:

"This omission has important legal consequences. At the heart of the act is a provision, negotiated between Congress and the White House, freezing the president’s ability to “waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of statutory sanctions with respect to Iran” while Congress is reviewing the agreement.

That review period was supposed to take 60 days and is triggered the day the president submits the agreement to Congress. However, because the president failed to submit the agreement in full, as the law requires, the 60-day clock has not started, and the president remains unable lawfully to waive"

The Work versus Welfare Trade-Off: Europe

The Work versus Welfare Trade-Off: Europe | Cato Institute:
If welfare benefits become too generous, they can create a significant incentive that encourages recipients to remain “on the dole” rather than to seek employment. 
Benefits in European Union (EU) countries vary widely, but in many of them, benefits are high relative to what an individual could expect to earn from a low-wage or entry-level job. 

For example, for a single parent with two children in 2013—

• Welfare benefits in nine EU countries exceeded €15,000 ($18,200) per year. In six countries, benefits exceeded €20,000 ($24,300). Denmark offers the most generous benefit package, valued at €31,709 ($38,558).
• In nine countries, welfare benefits exceeded the minimum wage in that country.
• Benefits in 11 countries exceeded half of the net income for someone earning the average wage in that country, and in 6 countries it exceeded 60 percent of the net average wage income.
• In Austria, Croatia, and Denmark, the effective marginal tax rate for someone leaving welfare for work was nearly 100 percent, meaning that a person would gain virtually no additional income from working. In another 16 countries, individuals would face an effective marginal tax rate in excess of 50 percent.
• Benefits in the United States fit comfortably into the mainstream of welfare states. Excluding Medicaid, the United States would rank 10th among the EU nations analyzed, more generous than France and slightly less generous than Sweden. Thirty-five states offer a package more generous than the mean benefit package offered in the European countries analyzed.

Many European countries have recognized the problem and have begun to reform their welfare systems to create a better transition from welfare to work. 
In fact, the United States is falling behind some European countries with regard to welfare reform.

Countries that are serious about reducing welfare dependency and rewarding work should consider strengthening work requirements, establishing time limits for participation, and tightening eligibility. Perhaps more important, countries should examine the level of benefits available and the effective marginal tax rates their welfare systems create, with an eye toward reducing disincentives and encouraging work.

Obama to Mark Labor Day With an Executive Order | TheBlaze.com

Obama to Mark Labor Day With an Executive Order | TheBlaze.com:

"Showing solidarity with workers on Labor Day, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.

The White House wouldn’t specify the cost to federal contractors to implement the executive order, which Obama was to address at a major union rally and breakfast in Boston. The Labor Department said any costs would be offset by savings that contractors would see as a result of lower attrition rates and increased worker loyalty, but produced nothing to back that up."


Here we go again!

Petition to rename D.C. airport gets 60K signatures

Petition to rename D.C. airport gets 60K signatures - NY Daily News:
"More than 60,000 people have signed a petition to rename Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport so that the former President's name is removed.
The petition, created by CREDO mobile, a California-based mobile network company with a history of supporting left-leaning causes, calls out Republican criticism of President Obama for his order last week to recognize America's tallest mountain, Mount McKinley, by its original name, "Denali," before making a case about the airport.
"President Obama just took a small but important step for recognizing the history, culture, and human rights of America's Native Americans when he decided to rename America's tallest mountain, Mount McKinley in Alaska, to its original name of Denali," the petition states. 
"But right-wing extremists in the Republican party, including House Speaker Rep. John Boehner, don't see it that way.
Boehner announced he is 'deeply disappointed' in President Obama's decision.
But in 1998, John Boehner and his fellow Republicans in Congress weren't so hesitant to remove a president's name from a public landmark when they decided to rename Washington National Airport after Ronald Reagan."
"That's why it's time to see if Speaker Boehner is willing to stay consistent and rename Ronald Reagan airport back to its original name honoring America's first president, George Washington, the petition read.
As of Monday, 65,997 people had signed it.
For decades the airport had been known as Washington National Airport, but in 1998 it was renamed for the former President and conservative hero after Congress passed legislation."

Important article-Read it all!-----The “Great Replacement” Is Killing The EU—Long Live A Europe Of Nations!

The “Great Replacement” Is Killing The EU—Long Live A Europe Of Nations! | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform
It looks like the country that will end the European Union is not Greece, but Germany. 
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been enjoying plenty of positive press for her efforts to welcome hundreds of thousands of “refugees” to Germany and force them on other European countries. 
Yet the European Union is straining under the burden, and several governments are already in open opposition to Merkel’s plan to accept nation-breaking numbers of Muslim immigrants. 
Only months after the Greek financial crisis pushed the European Union to the brink, the issue that is coming to define Continental politics is not economics, but demographics.

The breaking point may come sooner than anyone expects, as Merkel is trapped by her own rhetoric. The Main Stream Media, gleeful at the prospect of non-European Europe, is hailing Merkel as a “hero” who is leading the way by showing “compassion” to refugees [Angela Merkel: Europe’s Conscience in the Face of a Refugee Crisis, by Adam Lebor, Newsweek, September 5, 2015]. 

...If you are trying to extend the power of the European Union, however, this is a good thing for two reasons.

• First, in a purely legal sense, you have centralized authority and gained more power by undermining independent nation-states.
• Secondly, if Europe becomes simply a common market encompassing an ethnically, racially, and religiously mixed population, you no longer have to worry about any populist or nationalist movements screwing up your plans.

...From the gang wars in the banlieues of France to the grenade attacks in Malmo, Sweden, we already have all the evidence we need to see how this latest attempt at “integration” is going to play out. 
A few months from now, there will be the inevitable articles in the MSM quoting “underprivileged” Arab and African immigrants who are having a hard time competing in the First World country.

Rather than the recipient of gratitude, countries such as Sweden, Germany, and France who accept these refugees will find themselves the targets of riots, political agitation, and extremist political movements...

An Open Letter To Jonah Goldberg – RE: The GOP and Donald Trump

An Open Letter To Jonah Goldberg – RE: The GOP and Donald Trump | The Last Refuge
"A few days ago I took the time to read your expressed concerns about the support you see for Donald Trump and the state of current conservative opinion.

...On December 23rd 2009 Harry Reid passed a version of Obamacare through forced vote at 1:30am. 
The Senators could not leave, and for the two weeks previous were kept in a prolonged legislative session barred returning to their home-state constituencies. 
It was, by all measures and reality, a vicious display of forced ideological manipulation of the upper chamber. 
I share this reminder only to set the stage for what was to follow.

Riddled with anxiety we watched the Machiavellian manipulations unfold, seemingly unable to stop the visible usurpation.  
Desperate for a tool to stop the construct we found Scott Brown and rallied to deliver $7 million in funding, and a “Kennedy Seat” victory on January 19th 2010.

Unfortunately, the trickery of Majority Leader Harry Reid would not be deterred. 
Upon legislative return he stripped a House Budgetary bill, and replaced it with the Democrat Senate version of Obamacare through a process of “reconciliation”.
Thereby avoiding the 3/5ths vote rule (60) and instead using only a simple majority, 51 votes.

Angered, we rallied to the next election (November 2010) and handed the usurping Democrats the single largest electoral defeat in the prior 100 years.  The House returned to Republican control, and one-half of the needed Senate seats reversed.  Within the next two election cycles (’12 and ’14) we again removed the Democrats from control of the Senate.

Within each of those three elections we were told Repealing Obamacare would be job #1.  It was not an optional part of our representative agreement to do otherwise.

From your own writing:

[…]  If you want a really good sense of the damage Donald Trump is doing to conservatism, consider the fact that for the last five years no issue has united the Right more than opposition to Obamacare. Opposition to socialized medicine in general has been a core tenet of American conservatism from Day One. Yet, when Republicans were told that Donald Trump favors single-payer health care, support for single-payer health care jumped from 16 percent to 44 percent.  (link)

With control of the House and Senate did Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or House Speaker John Boehner use the same level of severity expressed by Harry Reid to put a repeal bill on the desk of Obama for veto? 
Simply, NO.

Why not?
According to you it’s the “core tenet of American conservatism”.

....Here’s a list of those modern conservative “small(er) government” principles:

• Did the GOP secure the border with control of the White House and Congress? NO.
• Did the GOP balance the budget with control of the White House and Congress? NO.

• Who gave us the TSA? The GOP
• Who gave us the Patriot Act? The GOP
• Who expanded Medicare to include prescription drug coverage? The GOP
• Who created the precursor of “Common Core” in “Race To the Top”? The GOP

• Who played the race card in Mississippi to re-elect Thad Cochran? The GOP
• Who paid Democrats to vote in the Mississippi primary? The GOP
• Who refused to support Ken Cuccinnelli in Virginia? The GOP

• Who supported Charlie Crist? The GOP
• Who supported Arlen Spector? The GOP
• Who supported Bob Bennett? The GOP

• Who worked against Marco Rubio? The GOP
• Who worked against Rand Paul? The GOP
• Who worked against Ted Cruz? The GOP
• Who worked against Mike Lee? The GOP
• Who worked against Jim DeMint? The GOP
• Who worked against Ronald Reagan? The GOP

• Who said “I think we are going to crush [the Tea Party] everywhere.”?
The GOP (McConnell)

And, you wonder why we’re frustrated, desperate for a person who can actually articulate some kind of push-back?
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are what the GOP give us?
SERIOUSLY?

Which leads to the next of your GOP talking points.
Where you opine on Fox:

“Politics is a game where you don’t get everything you want”

Fair enough.
But considering we of questionable judgment have simply been demanding common sense, ie. fiscal discipline, a BUDGET would be nice.

The last federal budget was passed in September of 2007, and EVERY FLIPPING INSUFFERABLE YEAR we have to go through the predictable fiasco of a Government Shutdown Standoff and/or a Debt Ceiling increase specifically because there is NO BUDGET!

That’s a strategy?

That’s the GOP strategy? 
Essentially:  Lets plan for an annual battle against articulate Democrats and Presidential charm, using a creepy guy who cries and another old mumbling fool who dodders, knowing full well the MSM is on the side of the other guy to begin with?

THAT’S YOUR GOP STRATEGY?

Don’t tell me it’s not, because if it wasn’t there’d be something else being done – there isn’t.

And don’t think we don’t know the 2009 “stimulus” became embedded in the baseline of the federal spending, and absent of an actual budget it just gets spent and added to the deficit each year, every year. 
Yet this is somehow smaller fiscal government?

….And you’re worried about what Donald Trump might do?

Seriously?

Voters Reportedly Required to Pledge Their Loyalty to Hillary Clinton Before Attending Ohio Event | TheBlaze.com

Voters Reportedly Required to Pledge Their Loyalty to Hillary Clinton Before Attending Ohio Event | TheBlaze.com:

"In order to attend a recent Hillary Clinton presidential campaign event in Ohio, voters were required to sign a loyalty pledge, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter.

Salena Zito, a staff writer and editorial page columnist for the Tribune-Review, posted a copy of the pledge to Twitter and said it was a requirement for those wishing to attend the event in Cleveland, Ohio over the weekend."

Raging Horror Confirmed at Austria Italy Border – Mid-East Muslim “Refugees” Go On Rampage…

Raging Horror Confirmed at Austria Italy Border – Mid-East Muslim “Refugees” Go On Rampage…. | The Last Refuge:
Reports coming in from various European News Outlets are confirming massmigration rampage events by hoards of Islamists cloaked as “refugees”.

“Half an hour ago on the border between Italy and Austria i saw a huge crowd of immigrants. 
With all solidarity to people in difficult circumstances I have to say that what I saw arouses horror.
This huge mass of people – sorry – but it’s an absolute wilderness … Vulgar, throwing bottles, shouting “We want Germany”. 
So what, Germany is now a paradise?

I saw an elderly Italian woman in a car that was surrounded by the immigrants. 
They pulled her by the hair out of the car and wanted to use it to go to Germany. 
They tried to topple the bus i was in. 
They threw feces at us, banging on the door for the driver to open it, spat on the glass. 
My question is- for what purpose? 
How do they want to assimilate in Germany? 
For a moment, i felt like in a warzone. I
 really feel sorry for these people, but if they would reach Poland – I do not think they would receive any understanding from us.

We spent three hours on the border, but failed to get through. 
The whole group was later transported back to Italy by the police. 
The bus is butchered, feces smeared, scratched, broken windows. 
And this is supposed to be an idea for the demographics? These big powerful hordes?

Among them there were almost no women and children – the vast majority was aggressive young men. 
Just yesterday I read the news on all the websites with real compassion, worried about their fate and today after what I saw I am just afraid. 
And I am happy they do not choose our country as their destination. 
We Poles are simply not ready to accept these people – neither culturally nor financially. 
I do not know if anyone is ready. 
A giant pathology is approaching the EU, one which we have never seen before. 
And sorry if anyone is offended by this entry.

A car with humanitarian aid came. 
Food and water. 
They just toppled it and stole everything. 
With megaphones the Austrians announced a message that there is consensus for them to cross over the border – they wanted to register them and let them go on – but they did not understand these messages. 
None. 
And it was all the greatest horror … 
From those few thousand people nobody understood neither Italian nor English, or German, or Russian, or Spanish … 
What mattered was the law of the fist.

They fought for permission to move on, but they were already allowed to do so. 
They did not understand that! 
They broke into the French bus – everything was stolen in a short time. 
Never in my short life, I had no opportunity to watch such scenes and I feel that this is just the beginning. 
On a final note, it is worth helping, but not at any price.” (link)

https://pl-pl.facebook.com/kamil.bulonis/posts/10153602955940818?

This is in keeping with what we have earnestly tried to expose previously.  These are not necessarily “refugees”; indeed, most are not refugees at all – they are opportunists from various regions, mostly North Africa, using the chaos in Libya/Syria to gain entry into Europe.  

Anyone who doubts the dangers involved only needs to remember what happened to CBS correspondent Lara Logan

At This New Fast-Food Restaurant, Human Interaction Is Almost Zero

At This New Fast-Food Restaurant, Human Interaction Is Almost Zero
"How high-tech can fast food get?
San Francisco is about to find out.
Automated fast-food restaurant Eatsa opens in San Francisco on Monday.
The biggest different between the restaurant and its fast-food competition is not simply the food, but the fact that, from ordering to pickup, the customer experience at Eatsa is managed entirely by machines.
Customers order their customized quinoa bowl and pay using an in-store iPad or on their own smartphones, cutting out the role of the cashier.
Then, when the meal is ready, it appears in a transparent, futuristic cubby that lights up with the customer's name.
The only visible employee present is a single "concierge" available to assist customers struggling with the high-tech devices..."

Hillary Clinton’s Close, Personal Connection to the Muslim Brotherhood - Eagle Rising

Hillary Clinton’s Close, Personal Connection to the Muslim Brotherhood - Eagle Rising:

"None of the above, however, is as concerning as her background before she became an aide to Clinton. Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Three years ago, Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, wrote this article about Abedin in PJ Media.

The Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, with which Huma was associated, is another organization of concern. This organization was founded by a Saudi named Abdullah Omar Naseef, also linked to the Brotherhood. Naseef was also the founder of the Rabita Trust, identified as a front group for Al Qaeda after 9-11."

Russia’s “Military-Build-Up” in Syria: The Beginning of Another Proxy War With NATO

Russia’s “Military-Build-Up” in Syria: The Beginning of Another Proxy War With NATO | Liberty Conservatives:
"Obama administration officials expressed fears Friday that Russia may be planning to significantly increase its military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. 
The New York Times reported the Russian moves, which include “the recent transport of prefabricated housing units for hundreds of people to a Syrian airfield and the delivery of a portable air traffic control station there,” have caused great concern for Secretary of State John Kerry and other administration officials.
...As images on Syrian State TV purportedly show Russian-speaking soldiers in Russian-manufactured armored vehicles fighting alongside Syrian troops, and images from a Twitter page linked to al-Nusra appear to show Russian aircraft and drones operating over the contested city of Idlib, it seems direct Russian military involvement in the Syrian Civil War is not so “premature” after all."

History for September 8

History for September 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Richard the Lionhearted (England) 1157, Antonin Dvorak 1841, Sid Caesar 1922 


Peter Sellers 1925, Patsy Cline 1932, Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1981 


1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL. 


1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York. 


1935 - U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later. 


1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title. 


1952 - The Ernest Hemingway novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was published. 



1960 - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, was dedicated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The facility had been activated in July earlier that year. 


1966 - NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek" entitled "The Man Trap". The show was canceled on September 2, 1969. 


1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon. 


1997 - America Online acquired CompuServe. 

Alaska Native Wants To Ask Barack Obama 1 Simple Question... It's Going Viral

Alaska Native Wants To Ask Barack Obama 1 Simple Question... It's Going Viral:

"On Sunday, President Barack Obama officially renamed Mount McKinley in Alaska to Denali, after years of protests by indigenous tribes who wanted its name changed.

However, not all Alaskans are happy with the change. Bristol Palin questioned Obama’s decision in a passionate blog post at Patheos."

Unemployed Labor Day

Nate Jackson: Unemployed Labor Day — The Patriot Post:
"...In his weekly address for Labor Day weekend, Barack Obama boasted of “the longest streak of job creation on record.”
Indeed, Friday’s jobs report had some good headline numbers — who could argue with 5.1% unemployment?
But the underlying story isn’t so hot.
As we noted Friday, black unemployment is at 9.5%, which increased 0.4% from July.
And as has been true throughout the Obama “recovery,” much of the decline in the overall unemployment rate was caused by people leaving the workforce.
The labor force participation rate remained at 62.6% — the lowest level since 1977 — and there are a record 94 million Americans not in the workforce..."

Here’s the Video Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Took While Tracking a U.S. Aircraft Carrier | Video | TheBlaze.com

Here’s the Video Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Took While Tracking a U.S. Aircraft Carrier | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Iranian state television last year aired a documentary simulating attacks on U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf titled “The Nightmare of Vultures.”

Last week, a top Iranian cleric said the U.S. continues to be the “number one enemy” of his country, despite the nuclear agreement reached with the U.S. and five world powers.

The nuclear deal should not “change our foreign policy” regarding the U.S., “our number one enemy, whose crimes are uncountable,” said Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the head of the Assembly of Experts which elects Iran’s supreme leader."


Our government continues to betray us.  Not one penny should be sent to Iran.  They taunt us and we hand them money which will be used against us.  
The executive cares nothing for our country.  His actions tell the truth.  He has brought nothing but shame to the American people.

A Survey Not Designed to Measure Defensive Gun Use Finds Little of It

A Survey Not Designed to Measure Defensive Gun Use Finds Little of It - Hit & Run : Reason.com
A study in the latest issue of Preventive Medicine estimates that less than 1 percent of crime victims use guns in self-defense. 
The authors, Harvard health policy professor David Hemenway and University of Vermont economist Sara Solnick, find that using a gun seems to be effective at reducing property loss but "is not associated with a reduced risk of victim injury."
It will surprise no one familiar with the long-running debate about defensive gun use (DGU) that the source of the data for this study is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which consistently generates much lower DGU estimates than other surveys do. 
At least some of that gap can be plausibly explained by weaknesses in the NCVS that Hemenway and Solnick do not seriously address or, for the most part, even mention.
...They do mention that the survey includes "no specific questions about self-defense gun use."
That's a pretty big flaw for a study aimed at measuring self-defense gun use, which the NCVS isn't.

350 lb Liberal Says its Tax Payers Fault She is Fat and They Owe Her More Money

350 lb Liberal Says its Tax Payers Fault She is Fat and They Owe Her More Money
A 350 pound mother-of-two, who lives on taxpayers money, says she needs more of their money to overhaul her unhealthy lifestyle.
Christina Briggs, 26, from Wigan, says she hates being 350 pounds but she can’t do anything about it because she can only afford junk food.
Briggs claim exercise is out of the question because she doesn’t have the funds to join a gym.
The only alternative left?
More taxpayers money.
Christina Briggs gets £20,000, roughly $32,274.60 US Dollars, each year from taxpayers.
She feels her only hope is for the government to give her more money so she can afford to buy fruit and vegetables and join a gym.
She also believes that taxpayers should pay her to lose weight as that would give her the motivation to fight the flab.
She currently lives in a council house with her two children by different fathers, Helena, 10, and Robert, two.