History for February 18

History for February 18 - On-This-Day.com:
Enzo Ferrari 1898, Jack Palance 1919, Gahan Wilson 1930 


Cybil Sheppard 1950 - Actress, John Travolta 1954 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction"), Molly Ringwald 1968 - Actress ("Sixteen Candles) 


1841 - The first continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It lasted until March 11th. 


1861 - In Montgomery, AL, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the President of the Confederate States. 


1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time. 


1930 - Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane. 


1932 - Sonja Henie won her 6th world women’s figure skating title in Montreal, Canada. 


1970 - The Chicago Seven defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention. 


1987 - The executives of the Girl Scout movement decided to change the color of the scout uniform from the traditional Girl Scout green to the newer Girl Scout blue. 


2001 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/02/descend-into-darkness-by-tammy-derouin.html

Descend Into Darkness

By Tammy Derouin

When those in the future look back and judge the events which are currently taking place, what will they determine?

One man, one administration, one party could not have become this powerful without the loyalty of those who blindly follow.  How did an intelligent people, a people who fought against such evil, allow evil to creep up and capture them?  How could the people, in a nation of freedom, willingly give up their rights and descend into darkness?

Thirty pieces of silver comes in many forms and this administration offers a variety.  Promises equal votes and they are used as a distraction from reality.  Irresponsible actions have a way of catching up with everyone.  Irresponsibility will cost us our freedom.

This administration has used the Cloward and Piven strategy in hopes of financially collapsing the United States.  The number of welfare recipients has increased for a reason.  It’s all part of the strategy.  The reasons were formulated in the past and the past has been intentionally hidden. 

We elected a president without checking into his background.  We began to cower and feared false accusations if we dared to ask questions or if we didn’t accept the manufactured explanation.  What has been uncovered is mind blowing.  Seriously, red flags.... 

EU Expecting Flood of Spring Migrants After 91,671 Entered Germany in January

EU Expecting Flood of Spring Migrants After 91,671 Entered Germany in January - The Gateway Pundit:
Germany, a country of 80 million, received over one million migrants and unvetted “refugees” in 2015.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is expecting another million migrants this year.
Another 91,671 migrants entered Germany in January of this year despite ice snow and freezing temperatures.
In five to seven years the migrants will be able to bring in their family members.
The third world migrants are already causing massive problems.
...The scale of disorder and political disruption could be even greater than what Europe faced in 2015."

White students undergo weekly 'deconstructing whiteness' program at Northwestern University

White students undergo weekly 'deconstructing whiteness' program at Northwestern University - The College Fix:
White college students are undergoing a weekly “deconstructing whiteness” program at Northwestern University.
The “6-part workshop series for undergraduate students who self-identify as white” launched in January and runs through March, according to the university’s website.
Students enrolled chose to do so – it is voluntary.
A spokesman for the prestigious private university located outside Chicago declined to give The College Fix details on the program, such as how many students enrolled and how it’s been received so far.
“It’s part of Northwestern’s Social Justice Education effort to create learning opportunities for our students,” Bob Rowley, a spokesman for the campus, told The College Fix in an email, providing a link to the social justice webpage and adding:
“Beyond that, we don’t have anything more for you on it.”
According to a report in the campus newspaper, the workshops focus on “terminology used in conversations of race, the history and meaning of whiteness, white guilt and the difference between intellectualizing and feeling racism...”

Marine Vet Says Group of Teens Harassed Him While He Was Eating — He Woke Up a Short Time Later and Pieced Things Together | TheBlaze.com

Marine Vet Says Group of Teens Harassed Him While He Was Eating — He Woke Up a Short Time Later and Pieced Things Together | TheBlaze.com:

“Do you believe black lives matter?” they asked him repeatedly. When Marquez ignored them, they began shouting that he was a racist.

After finishing his food, Marquez left the restaurant. As he was walking out to the parking lot, he allegedly sustained a blow to the back of his head, which knocked him unconscious.

The vet awoke to find his pants ripped and his wallet, which contained $400, three credit cards, his VA medical card, school identification, metro card and driver’s license, missing.

“I remember this group of teens harassing me while I was eating, they surrounded my table "

Fed-Funded 'Scandals Waiting To Happen'

Fed-Funded 'Scandals Waiting To Happen' | The Daily Caller
Six obscure nonprofits funded almost entirely by federal taxpayers in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that recruits technically skilled seniors for cheap labor are “scandals waiting to happen,” according to an expert on advocacy groups.
“The idea of government funding charitable works ought to be something conservatives and libertarians are concerned about,” Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Senior Vice President Matthew Vadum told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“The government’s been doing this a long time, but it rarely gets discussed.”
The CRC is a right-leaning research group that focuses on the funding sources, agendas and public policy influence of political activist non-profits.
The six nonprofits administer the EPA’s Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) program.
Each of the six received more than 99 percent of their funding from the government from 2009 to 2013, according to 990 tax forms..."

Obama's army-----End the Army coverup on the ‘lost dogs of war’

End the Army coverup on the ‘lost dogs of war’ | New York Post:
"From Bernie Sanders to Ted Cruz, the presidential candidates talk up how much they care for America’s veterans.
Well, Sunday’s Post suggests a test: Will any of them fight for the “lost dogs of war”?
Maureen Callahan’s expose shows the Pentagon repeatedly breaking its promise to reunite bomb-sniffing dogs with their handlers on the pups’ return from war.
Instead, private firm K2 Solutions routinely places the four-footed veterans in civilian hands.
Never mind that a federal law passed in 2000 mandates that soldiers who handled the animals in Iraq, Afghanistan and so on get the chance to adopt their dogs.
Callahan uncovered evidence that three Pentagon employees took dogs for themselves.
And in February 2014, K2 doled out at least 200 of the dogs to civilians — a “mass dump” the Army and K2 then covered up.

K2 tells adopters they can’t give away, sell or profit from the dogs, but two civilians who acquired 13 “lost dogs” last February have confessed to scheming to sell them to the Panamanian government.
Many of the dogs come home injured or traumatized — by itself good reason to reunite them with their handlers.
“We got blown up together,” one handler told The Post.
“Before I was even done with training, I knew I’d try to adopt him.”
But when he called K2 to do so, it told him information on the canine was “privileged.”
Maybe the candidates are too busy to champion these dogs and their soldiers.
But congressional hearings are plainly in order.
Those dogs belong with the men and women who got shot at beside them."

Lunch video-----OBAMA BANNED THIS VIDEO

Noon-toon

Senate GOP Unites to Send Obama Clear Message on Nominating a SCOTUS Replacement for Scalia | TheBlaze.com

Senate GOP Unites to Send Obama Clear Message on Nominating a SCOTUS Replacement for Scalia | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans united behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in insisting that President Barack Obama’s successor fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Democrats looking to reclaim the Senate majority immediately accused them of putting politics ahead of their constitutional responsibility."

Russia's Medvedev: We Are in ‘a New Cold War’

Russia's Medvedev: We Are in ‘a New Cold War’ - Bloomberg Business:
"Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said his country is in a new Cold War with the U.S. and its allies, underscoring the tenuous level of trust that’s putting a day-old plan for a truce in Syria at risk.
The clash, with echoes of superpower rhetoric during the 20th century, played out at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday even as Russia, Europe and the U.S. say they’re seeking cooperation to end Syria’s civil war, resolve the armed standoff in eastern Ukraine and make progress toward lifting European economic sanctions against Russia.
Fresh from helping craft the accord for Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that the U.S. is reneging on the agreement and put the chances of success at less than 50 percent.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, addressing the meeting separately, demanded an end to Russian bombing of groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“This is a hinge point,” Kerry told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
“We hope this week can be a week of change.
It is critical for all of us to take advantage of this moment to make this cessation of hostilities work.”
On stage at the international gathering of diplomats and defense officials, Medvedev set a different tone, blaming the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization for stoking conflict. Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance’s secretary general, said Russia is using its nuclear arsenal to intimidate Europe.
“The political line of NATO toward Russia remains unfriendly and closed,” Medvedev said in a speech. “It can be said more sharply: We have slid into a time of a new Cold War.”

Good News: Female Muslim Prof. Says Muslims Can Rape, Rob Infidel Women Only in Some...

Good News: Female Muslim Prof. Says Muslims Can Rape, Rob Infidel Women Only in Some... - Linkis.com:
"...Consider the significance of yet another video of yet another learned Muslim justifying the enslavement and rape of non-Muslim women.
Suad Saleh, a female professor of doctrine at Al Azhar University, correctly defines the Arabic phrase melk al-yamin -- “right hand possession” (see Koran 4:3):
"[Non-Muslim] female prisoners of wars are “those whom you own.” In order to humiliate them, they become the property of the [Muslim] army commander, or of a Muslim, and he can have sex with them just like he has sex with his wives."
Ms. Saleh’s comments are not new or unique.
Countless Muslims -- beginning with Muhammad himself -- have confirmed that Islam permits the sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women seized during the jihad..."

Bernie Sanders's Free College Tuition Problem

Articles: Bernie Sanders's Free College Tuition Problem
"Bernie Sanders is running for president of the United States proclaiming that under his presidency, all Americans will have the opportunity to attend public college for free.
There's only one fly in the ointment of this free college proposal: today in Illinois, half of the public college and university tuition goes not toward education, but toward pensions for college professors who no longer work.
So in order for Sanders to make college free, someone, other than students, has to pick up the huge cost of the retired professors' pensions.
He has said nothing about eliminating this cost by forcing public university professors to save for their own retirements.
Sanders is in an awkward situation.
He has to gain the support of young voters by criticizing the high cost of college but can't acknowledge that his party not only depends on this money, but established this quid pro quo setup.
The Illinois Policy Institute has reported that the huge pension plans, which are unfair, economically unjust, and exploitative of the middle class, are responsible for half the tuition cost of a public university education in Illinois.
In 2006, just 20% of tuition went to pay pensions.  
Now pensions are the main driver of tuition increases.  
It is unfair for students to fund the luxury pension plans of professors who didn't have to save for their own.
And of course, Illinois is not the only state that pays its public college and university professors one-percenter salaries.
California's education system actually pays higher salaries to professors.
Khalil Tadsch earns $2.3 million a year at the UCLA Medical center, and 40 others earn salaries of between one million and this $2.3 million.
Medical school tuition is $95K a year and more.
...It is interesting to consider what Bernie Sanders and his party gain from allowing these high professor salaries and pensions.  
The major public include the SEIU, AFCSME, the National Education Association, and the American Federal of Teachers.
These unions are four of the six biggest national campaign donors of the past 20 years, and they give 99% of their money only to Democrats..."

Ted Cruz Rallies The Grassroots In South Carolina: 2016 Race Now A ‘Referendum On The Supreme Court’ - Breitbart

Ted Cruz Rallies The Grassroots In South Carolina: 2016 Race Now A ‘Referendum On The Supreme Court’ - Breitbart:

“All across South Carolina, people are waking up. And there is a wakening and spirit of revival that is sweeping this country,” he told the audience.

Cruz promised that on his first day of office, he would rescind all of the “illegal and unconstitutional” executive actions taken by Obama, “rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal,” and move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, its capital city."

Radar blimp went rogue because auto-deflation system had no batteries

Radar blimp went rogue because auto-deflation system had no batteries | Ars Technica
Last October, a Defense Department tethered radar blimp broke loose of its moorings near Baltimore and drifted across two states—taking out power lines as it dragged its tether cable behind it in a 13-hour, unguided flight.
A new investigation into the incident has revealed that most of the damage could have been avoided. The aerostat—half of the pair used by the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) System—would have come down without causing nearly as much damage if someone had remembered to install its batteries.
...Each aerostat was equipped with an automatic deflation system to bring the giant floating sensor to the ground quickly in the event of a cable break.
But the system's batteries had not been installed at the time of the accident, so the system failed to activate when main power was lost.
The report, a summary of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times, found that "design, human, and procedural issues all contributed" to the aerostat breaking loose, disrupting air traffic and causing jets to be scrambled to track its progress..."

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History for February 17

History for February 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas Malthus 1766, Montgomery Ward 1843, Arthur Kennedy 1914 


Hal Holbrook 1925 - Actor, Michael Jordan 1963 - Basketball player, Paris Hilton 1981 


1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president. 


1876 - Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines. 


1924 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 100-yard freestyle. He did it with a time of 57-2/5 seconds in Miami, FL. 


1933 - "Newsweek" was first published. 


1934 - The first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA. 


1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison. 


1995 - Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison. 


1996 - World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue" in Philadelphia, PA.

Muslim Leader Demands that Western Countries Allow Muslim Child Brides because “It’s Part of their Culture”! - Eagle Rising

Muslim Leader Demands that Western Countries Allow Muslim Child Brides because “It’s Part of their Culture”! - Eagle Rising:

You see, in much of the Islamic world, it is acceptable for an older man to marry a child if the family is willing. Now Muslim religious leaders are demanding that the Western nations that they are invading also allow Muslim men to marry children! In Denmark, the government has already allowed girls as young as 14 to marry older men, even though the legal age of consent there is 15. However, even this is not enough for the Muslim invaders, as they would like the “freedom” to force marriage on girls who are even younger!

Danish Muslim leader, Imam Oussama El-Saadi told the Metroxpress that:

“One should look at these cases from a different perspective. It is an extraordinary humanitarian situation,"

FBI video?!!-----‘I am a radicalised goat hell-bent on jihad’ – the FBI’s new anti-Isis video game

‘I am a radicalised goat hell-bent on jihad’ – the FBI’s new anti-Isis video game | Technology | The Guardian:
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I’m a susceptible goat speeding down the path to Islamic extremism, but first I must negotiate the green-and-grey blocks of infidel propaganda. 

No, wait; I’m a radicalised goat, hell-bent on jihad, but my extremist beliefs are threatened by green-and-grey blocks of debate. 

Or could it be that I’m trying to master the FBI’s virtually unplayable – it’s almost as infuriating as Flappy Bird – new online anti-extremism game, which involves manoeuvring a wayward goat through a sub-Minecraft-style obstacle course whose metaphorical intent is all but unfathomable?

The game, entitled Slippery Slope, is supposed to educate impressionable kids on “the distorted logic of blame that can lead a person into violent extremism”, but it’s also indicative of how clueless governments can be when it comes to reaching out to the kids. 
Slippery Slope is part of an online initiative launched by the FBI called Don’t Be a Puppet: Pull Back the Curtain on Violent Extremism, which uses games and quizzes to inform young people about radicalisation. 
As the title suggests, there are more metaphors to unmangle here: a wooden mannequin bound by strings, for example, which you can free by visiting all the site’s sections. 
These are rendered as rooms of a confusing family home, which appears to contain a dingy, windowless lecture room and a serial-killer basement. 
“We want teens to apply their critical thinking skills to this issue,” says an FBI spokesman. Gaming sites have done just that. 
“The FBI made a video game and it sucks,” declared Kotaku. 
“Everything about this site screams awful, out-of-touch 90s educational game,”complained Gizmodo..."

Five Years of Gas Can Hell! - Jeffrey Tucker - Liberty.me

Five Years of Gas Can Hell! - Jeffrey Tucker - Liberty.me:
"It happened again but to tell the story I have to admit something a bit embarrassing.
My gas meter on my car doesn’t work.
I could get it fixed but it seems like a waste when I only need to calculate gas use carefully.
I don’t always, which means I sometimes just run out, at inconvenient times.
This happened yesterday, so I had to get a can of gas from the local car shop.
I started to pour it in.
But, hmmm, this is strange.
The nozzle doesn’t quite go in.
I tilted it up and tried to jam it in.
I waited.
Then I noticed gas pouring all down the side of the car. 
So I pulled it out and experimented by pouring it on the ground. 
There was some weird contraption on the outside and it wasn’t clear how it worked.
I poured more and more on the ground. 
Some got on my shoe. 
Some got on my hands. 
Some got on my suit.
Gas was everywhere really — everywhere but in the tank.
It was a gassy mess.
If someone had lit a match, I would have been a goner.
...Then government “fixed” the gas can. 
Why?
Because of the environmental hazards that come with spilled gas.
You read that right.
In other words, the very opposite resulted.
Now you cannot buy a decent can anywhere. 
You can look forever and not find a new one.
Instead you have to go to garage sales.
But actually people hoard old cans.
There is a burgeoning market in kits to fix the can..."

Poetic Juctice? Obama Was 1st US President To Vote To Filibuster A Supreme Court Nominee

Poetic Juctice? Obama Was 1st US President To Vote To Filibuster A Supreme Court Nominee:

"In 2006, while no doubt starting to lay his eyes on a presidential run, then-Sen. Obama had no problem throwing a wrench in the works of democracy by voting to filibuster George Bush’s nominee to the high court, Samuel Alito.

Obama told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News This Week that he would “be supporting the filibuster because I think Judge Alito, in fact, is somebody who is contrary to core American values, not just liberal values, you know. When you look at his decisions in particular during times of war, we need a court that is independent and is going to provide some check on the executive branch, and he has not shown himself willing to do that repeatedly.”

Perfect! Obama Moves Tractor Factory to Cuba

Perfect! Obama Moves Tractor Factory to Cuba - The Gateway Pundit
"The Obama administration approved the first U.S. factory to be built and operated in Cuba in more than 50 years, in the latest sign of the rapidly changing relationship between the United States and the communist nation.
Cleber LLC, an Alabama-based company that builds tractors for small farms, was notified by the Treasury Department that it could open a facility in Cuba. 
Co-founder Saul Berenthal said the company’s attorney was in Havana on Monday to start the lengthy process of finalizing the agreement with the Cuban government and hopes to start production by early 2017.
Berenthal said he was proud to get the approval, but it means even more for the future relationship between the Cold War foes.
“Being first is great,” he said. “But for certain, we should not be the only ones. We’re hoping and expecting many more will follow.”
A U.S. business operating in Cuba is possible because of sweeping changes made by President Obama since his Dec. 17, 2014, announcement that the long-time enemies would re-establish diplomatic relations.
Since then, embassies have reopened in Washington and Havana, and diplomats and business people have flooded Cuba.

AS OF SUNDAY, AT LEAST 365 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOT IN CHICAGO THIS YEAR AND AT LEAST 85 ... killed...

Instapundit » Blog Archive » AS OF SUNDAY, AT LEAST 365 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOT IN CHICAGO THIS YEAR AND AT LEAST 85 OF THEM HAVE B…:
"AS OF SUNDAY, AT LEAST 365 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOT IN CHICAGO THIS YEAR AND AT LEAST 85 OF THEM HAVE BEEN KILLED.

Why are Democrat-run cities such hellholes of corruption, racism, and violence?  
Perhaps a change in management is long overdue:"

Lunch video-----Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight.