History for October 3

History for October 3 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Wolf 1900, Harvey Kurtzman 1902 - Founder of "Mad" magazine, Chubby Checker 1941 


Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) 1947 - Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954, Tommy Lee 1961 Musician (Motley Crue)


1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman. 


1906 - W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store. 


1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. 


1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again." 


1954 - "Father Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV. 


1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV. 


1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV. 


1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV. 


1974 - Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in major league baseball. 


2006 - North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. attack. A date for the test was not announced.

It's Way Past Time to Have a Talk About Islam

It's Way Past Time to Have a Talk About Islam:

"Here’s what passes for respectable behavior in the Muslim world. It’s called pedophilia and child rape, and any condemnation of it will likely get your name put on a list for beheading.

If you think that is an over-the-top statement, please consider that the founder of Islam, Mohammed, was a pedophile. It’s a historical fact that he “married ” a nine year-old girl and that practice is widespread to this day in the “Muslim world.” In fact, one of the reasons Muslims want Sharia Law in the countries they are immigrating to is that Sharia Law makes this pedophilia perfectly legal.

This is one of the prime reasons civilized people hold the opinion that Muslims are animals. And that subject was broached by CNN’s Chris Cuomo when he asked a guest about it ."

Jobs up only for immigrants, +14,000, down 262,000 for 'native-borns'

Jobs up only for immigrants, +14,000, down 262,000 for 'native-borns' | Washington Examiner:
"For a third month in a row, native-born Americans saw their job numbers tumble while immigrants experience solid gains.
According to the montly Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers just released, "foreign-born" jobs numbers increased by 14,000, while those for "native-born" Americans fell off a cliff, by 262,000.
Over the past three months, the job numbers for native-born have dropped by nearly 1 million, exactly the number of jobs President Obama promised to add when he ran for re-election in 2012.
During that period, jobs for immigrants grew 218,000."

Secret Service Broke The Law To 'Embarrass' Chaffetz

Secret Service Broke The Law To 'Embarrass' Chaffetz | The Daily Caller:
"The Secret Service violated federal privacy laws by improperly accessing Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s 2003 job application to the Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general found.
According to the investigation, more than 40 Secret Service employees accessed the file more than 60 times, even though they had “no official need to query” Chaffetz.
Wednesday, the Secret Service apologized publicly to Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah who also happens to be a critic of the agency, for “this wholly avoidable and embarrassing misconduct” and promised that those responsible would be held accountable.
Chaffetz called the violation, “a tactic designed to intimidate and embarrass me.”
“It’s scary to think about all the possible dangers in having your personal information exposed,” Chaffetz explained.
“The work of the committee, however, will continue. I remain undeterred in conducting proper and rigorous oversight.”
Chaffetz has previously investigated allegations of Secret Service misconduct as chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
In an interview with NBC News, the Chaffetz said, “It’s a bit scary.
If they would do this to me, I just, I shuddered to think what they might be doing to other people. 
I’d like to tell you how tough I am, but it’s scary, and it’s intimidating, and I will continue to investigate the Secret Service and others, but this should have never ever happened...”

Public School Violates Constitution Asks Students How Many Guns their Parents Own and Why! - Eagle Rising

Public School Violates Constitution Asks Students How Many Guns their Parents Own and Why! - Eagle Rising:

"By distributing this questionnaire the Pflugerville ISD violated at least five Constitutional amendments related to privacy (3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 14th)– in addition to the Ninth Amendment’s protection of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.

The Bill of Rights ensures the protection of specific aspects of privacy:"

The Most Bizarre ICD-10 Code Awards

The Most Bizarre ICD-10 Code Awards - | Power Your Practice:
Remember the time a patient walked in with that gruesome killer whale bite on his leg?
Even worse, do you recall what a pain it was to bill their insurance?
Well, probably not, but just in case this ever does happen to you, CMS has created an ICD-10 code for it: W5621XA – Bitten by orca, initial encounter.
While the ICD-10 transition is no laughing matter, the federal government, with their exceptional ability to over-document everything, has created a series of diagnosis codes that had us cracking up here at PYP.
So, we’re going to take advantage of the fact that it’s the end of the workweek and have a little fun with CMS. Without further adieu, we present you with the Awards for the Most Bizarre ICD-10 codes.
In the Animal category:

• Bronze:  Bitten by a turtle – W5921XS
• Silver: Bitten by sea lion – W5611XD
• Gold: Struck by macaw – W6112XA (Pesky, talking birds)

In the Water Sports category:

• Bronze: Hit or struck by falling object due to accident to canoe or kayak – V9135XA
• Silver: Civilian watercraft involved in water transport accident with military watercraft – V94810
• Gold: Burn due to water-skis on fire – V9107XA (Evel Knievel is reborn!)

In the Strange Places category:

• Bronze: Hurt at the library – Y92241
• Silver: Hurt at swimming pool of prison as the place of occurrence – Y92146
• Gold: Hurt at the opera – Y92253 (The fat lady can get a tad cranky when she doesn’t get to sing.)

In the Air/Space Category:

• Bronze: Prolonged stay in weightless environment – X52
• Silver: Unspecified balloon accident injuring occupant – V9600XS
• Gold: Spacecraft crash injuring occupant – V9542XA (Eyes to the skies, people.)

In the Just Plain Weird Category:

• Bronze: Hurt walking into a lamppost – W2202XA
• Silver: Stabbed while crocheting – Y93D1
• Gold: Unspecified event, undetermined intent – Y34 (Well, that clarifies things…)

Every Mass Shooting in the US Since the 1950s Except Two Occurred in Gun Free Zones

Every Mass Shooting in the US Since the 1950s Except Two Occurred in Gun Free Zones ⋆ Conservative Firing Line
A professor from Purdue researched mass shootings from the 1950s on and discovered that only two of them occurred where guns are legal to be carried. 
This really blows apart liberal arguments that more guns means more mass shootings. Between 2004 and 2012, gun ownership increased by 61%. 
But since 2008, violent crimes decreased by 12.9%. Eric Dietz, Ph.D., the former director of Homeland Security for the state of Indiana and a 22-year Army veteran, and now a professor at Purdue University, set out to find out how armed citizens could prevent deaths.

In order to examine the results, he chose to study the most common gun free zone in America, and also the place most mass shootings take place, (Outside of Chicago) public schools. 
Dietz outlined 4 scenarios and using statistical math, developed a model whereby he could estimate the results. 
He noted that since schools are gun free, they have to rely on the police, who on average take 10 – 12 minutes to respond to a live shooting. 
Given the fact that a mass shooter can kill a person every twenty seconds, the delay can costs a lot of lives.

Here are the four scenarios Dietz used in his study:

• Scenario 1: No access to control or security.
• Scenario 2: Resource officer
• Scenario 3: 5-10 percent of work force has concealed carry
• Scenario 4: 5-10 percent of work force has concealed carry and a resource officer

In study number one, it was determined that the most crucial aspect is time. The more time a shooter has, the more people he can kill.
Moving on to the second scenario, that includes an armed resource officer, casualties dropped by a whopping 66.5% and response time was cut by 59.5%.
In the third scenario, with 5%-10% of the workforce armed, there is a decrease in fatalities of when 5% of the workforce is carrying concealed weapons of 6.8% and response time is reduced by 5.4%. When 10% of the workforce is armed causalities dropped by 23.2% and response time was slashed by 16.8%.
But the most amazing statistic is that when 5% of the workforce is armed AND they have a resource officer present, the fatality rate drops 69.2% and response time improved by 57.9%. 
With 10% armed and a resource officer, the fatality rate drops by 70.2% and response time by 62.7%.
Dietz says he still has some work to do.  
He wants to see if in cases where there is no active shooter present, would the guns being carried by school personnel lead to violence in the schools.  
Since many schools have armed guards already, with no incidences of violence, his report will not aid the gun grabbing liberals.

Remember, this is STATE funding only. Federal and local funding also increased.-----Why Won't It Die? Media Keeps Pushing School Funding Cuts Myth

Why Won't It Die? Media Keeps Pushing School Funding Cuts Myth [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: "The Dearborn Press and Guide has repeated a myth still perpetuated by many in the media when it wrote that state funding has been cut to public schools.
A story about Glenn Maleyko, the new superintendent of Dearborn Public Schools, stated: Fewer people are going into teaching, which is understandable, he said.
The pay scale is lower than what many professionals earn with a bachelor’s degree, and it takes longer these days for teachers to climb to the top of the pay scale, a change forced on districts by stagnant or reduced state funding.
ForTheRecord says:
Despite numerous erroneous media reports over the past few years, state funding has not gone down in Michigan. 
It has increased in each of Gov. Rick Snyder’s five K-12 budgets.
In the case of Dearborn, total state funding has increased from $7,012 per pupil in 2010-11 (former Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s last budget) to $7,497 per pupil in 2014-15."

When it Comes to the Flood of Muslim Refugees Hungary says "Stay Out!" - Eagle Rising

When it Comes to the Flood of Muslim Refugees Hungary says "Stay Out!" - Eagle Rising:

"Lessons in Ruthlessness

Eastern Europeans learned from the Hungarian experience that the only way to succeed against Islamic Jihad was to be as ruthless as the Muslims were—both during and after the battle.  Muslim warriors fight fiercely, since they embrace death, valuing the afterlife more than this one, as a rule.  And, in the aftermath of battle, Muslims usually behead the men who refuse to convert or to accept Islam as a Dhimmi (a semi-slave without even the right to defend one’s life).  It is also normal for Muslims to take the adult women and the female children above the age of eight as sex slaves and to castrate the pre-pubescent boys for use as eunuchs.  Females under eight are generally cared for, until they can be married off by the age of eight or nine."

More ‘Minnesotans’ Merrily Joining Jihad

More ‘Minnesotans’ Merrily Joining Jihad | PJ Tatler
First of all, they’re not Minnesotans.
But they are working for the enemy:
Minnesota leads the nation in the number of people who have left or sought to leave the country to fight with terrorists aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria, according to a scathing congressional report that says the U.S. and western countries have failed to disrupt the flow of combatants to the Middle East.
...Minnesota recruits made up 26 percent of the sample of 58 cases reviewed by the committee’s bipartisan task force. California and New York had the second most recruits, with each state making up 12 percent, according to findings.
Luckily, responsible Somali-Americans are appalled by this, right? Right?
“This report is alarming and it’s really very worrisome,” said Sadik Warfa, deputy director of the Global Somali Diaspora based in Minneapolis. “I worry about the stigma and the prospect of our community being marginalized.”
Right…
“But in the end, it’s up to us as Somali-Americans to really change our image.
And as Minnesotans, we need to be asking what can we do to put these kinds of people into our mainstream here instead of over there.”
Okay, then.
Meanwhile:
More than 250 Americans have attempted or succeeded in reaching Syria and Iraq to fight with terrorist groups, intelligence officials estimate.
“We have largely failed to stop Americans from traveling overseas to join jihadists,” the task force declared. 
“A handful of suspects were stopped in other countries, but it appears the majority — 85 percent — still managed to evade American law enforcement on its way to the conflict zone.”
The task force said it could identify only 28 cases in which federal authorities stopped suspects before they left for the Middle East.
Eight of those involved Minnesotans who conspired since March 2014 to leave the U.S. for Syria but who were stopped by FBI agents.
Those men, all Somali-Americans, are in custody.
Three have pleaded guilty in recent weeks to conspiring to join ISIL
So what could possibly go wrong with Obama’s plans to import 10,000 or more Syrian “refugees” next year?

The unilateral war on college men

Glenn Reynolds: The unilateral war on college men:
"It appears to many — including me — as if the Obama administration is engaged in a war on college men.
Using debunked statistics, the president, the vice president and various other political officials have falsely claimed that there’s an epidemic of rape on college campuses, even though campus rape is, in fact, falling, just as off-campus rape is. 
(And, in fact, rape is less common on campus than off).

And, ever since the Department of Education issued a ”Dear Colleague" letter to universities in 2011, in essence ordering them to adopt new and draconian campus “sexual assault” rules that treat accusations as presumptively true and force the accused — almost always men — to prove their innocence, sometimes even very strong evidence of innocence is ignored.
Spearheading this effort has been Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Catherine Lhamon, who has characterized the letter as binding on colleges and universities even though it is not a law...
But through a period of interpretation and reinterpretation, that simple statutory language has produced reams of federal paperwork that, in effect, turn a simple academic non-discrimination rule into a rape law that lacks the due process protections and evidentiary standards of actual rape law.
...So why did colleges  roll over?
Law blogger Scott Greenfield suggests that it’s because the colleges are also warring against college men:
“After all, why should a college risk the loss of its lifeblood (federal money) for the sake of protecting a few guys, particularly when the colleges pretty much agree with Lhamon’s progressive ideals?”
...But male college students and their parents, as well as alumni and trustees — and those women noticing that there’s a shortage of college-educated men all of a sudden — need to ask why there’s a war on college men, and why colleges, seemingly, are on the other side."

The Looming Medicaid Time-Bomb

The Looming Medicaid Time-Bomb | Zero Hedge
From 1985 through 2011, an average 11.7 percent of seniors were enrolled in Medicaid, primarily for long-term nursing home or home and community care, according to data compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Keep that stat in mind, because if it remains true, as the Baby Boomers progress through old age, by 2030, as many as 8.7 million seniors could be enrolled in the program, up from 4.6 million today, an Americans for Limited Government analysis of the data reveals. 
By 2035, that figure could rise to about 9.3 million.

And it will drive the costs of the program to the moon, particularly the costs for long-term nursing home and home care targeted at elderly and the physically disabled, which stood at $88.85 billion in 2013. Why?

As the Urban Institute’s Melissa Favreault noted at the Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Long-Term Care Financing Colloquium on July 30, “We project that formal long-term services and supports use and costs will roughly track the growth in the aged population.”

That is not good news, particularly considering the older age population wave now underway.

By 2035, the number of seniors will have increased 66 percent to 79.2 million, the U.S. Census Bureau projects. 66 percent.

As jaw-dropping as that is, in the meantime the population of those aged 15-64 will have barely increased 6.65 percent to 232.9 million.

So, how will revenues ever keep up with costs if comparatively fewer Americans will be of working age as a percent of the overall population — for the rest of the century? We’re already running deficits and the answer is, they won’t.

UNREAL: Obama's "Clock" Kid Just Went to the UN to Do Something Despicable to America

UNREAL: Obama's "Clock" Kid Just Went to the UN to Do Something Despicable to America:

"So to recap, the punk kid rightfully got in trouble for bringing a device that looked like a bomb to school, and now he wants to lecture America about racism and discrimination. Given the age we live in, as well as the fact that a terrorist attack recently occurred in the nearby town of Garland, it seems obvious that his detainment had nothing to do with racism or discrimination, but everything to do with common-sense.

Yet this did not stop him from not only meeting up with the U.N., but also befriending Davutoğlu, a rabid Islamist hellbent on turning Turkey into an Islamic theocracy where real racism and discrimination runs rampant.

Nor did it stop the liberal mainstream media and President Obama from propping this kid up as some sort of victim, which in today’s culture translates to “hero.”

Sorry, liberals, but Ahmed Mohamed is not a victim of racism or discrimination, let alone a hero. He is a liar, con artist and punk, and he might also be an Islamist as well."

There Are Now Officially 70,000 Ways to Get Sick or Die

There Are Now Officially 70,000 Ways to Get Sick or Die - Bloomberg Business
There are 70,000 ways to get sick, hurt or mortally injured, and the U.S. is making them official.
On Thursday, U.S. hospitals, doctors and other care providers have to start using internationally developed standards called ICD-10 codes to bill government programs and private insurers in the nation’s $2.9 trillion-a-year health-care system.
The codes cover everything from parrot bites to getting sucked into a jet engine.
Doctors have already begun mocking the diagnostic list, picking out the most absurd and arcane, such as Z63.1, “Problems in relationship with in-laws,” or V91.07XA, “Burn due to water skis on fire.” 
Yet for health-care providers who have payments at stake, the complex change is no joke.
Health insurers and government programs stopped accepting the old set of codes, called ICD-9, in the early morning hours Thursday, completing the switch.
In a study released last month, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said “little is known” about how much it will cost the health-care system to make the transition.
...Rothenhaus said that the biggest concern for his clients is local insurers, such as state Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans that make up a large proportion of some providers’ bills.
If these plans fail to implement the new codes properly, it could hurt individual doctors, he said.
...And if, even after all the efforts to get the transition right, doctors and hospitals are still dealing with problems, there’s an ICD-10 code for that -- F43.22: “Adjustment disorder with anxiety.”

History for October 2

History for October 2 - On-This-Day.com
Mahatma Gandhi 1869, Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life", Bud Abbott 1895 


Don McLean 1945, Donna Karan 1948, Sting (Police) 1951 


1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold. 


1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. 


1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy. 


1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. 


1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old. 


1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising. 


1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers. 


1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV. 


1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes. 


1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Islam quiz has U.S. parents ‘outraged’

Islam quiz has U.S. parents ‘outraged’:

"Hundreds of irate parents are planning to attend the Walton County, Georgia, school board meeting Oct. 10 to convey their outrage over their children being taught the religious beliefs of Islam in middle-school social studies.

The outrage erupted over a quiz handed out to students asking them to answer questions related to the five pillars of Islam, the Quran as the “holy” book of Muslims, and the conversion prayer known as the “shahada,” which states, “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” Perhaps most disturbing to Christian parents was the “correct” answer that the Muslim god Allah is the “same god” that is worshiped by Christians and Jews."