History for April 8

History for April 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Guatama Buddha 563 BC - 'The Enlightened One' in the Buddhist faith, Sonja Henie 1912 - Ice skater, Elizabeth "Betty" Ford (Bloomer) 1918 - Wife of 38th U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, founder of the Betty Ford Clinic


Shecky Greene (Sheldon Greenfield) 1926 - Comedian, actor ("Laverne and Shirley", "Northern Exposure"), Seymour Hersh 1937 - Investigative reporter, Robin Wright (Robin Wright Penn) 1966 - Actress


1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.


1873 - Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine.


1913 - The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators.


1952 - U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.


1974 - Hank Aaron hits 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's record.


1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.


1994 - Smoking was banned in the Pentagon and all U.S. military bases.

Days of Rage: It’s NOT Just Coming From the Left | Glenn Beck

Days of Rage: It’s NOT Just Coming From the Left | Glenn Beck:

"We have the Black Panthers, we have Occupy Wall Street and we also have the Muslim Brotherhood coordinating for their own summer violence and marches on the streets of America. That’s all well documented, if anybody cares to look, but nobody in the media has looked.

On the other hand, we now have a super PAC of Donald Trump’s speaking out. (I believe that Donald Trump is wrong when he says that Ted Cruz is managing his super PACs. You can’t do that legally. I believe he’s wrong when he says, “Well, they can go around those laws and they know exactly what’s going on, and Ted Cruz can stop those super PACs when and if he wants to.” That would be illegal.) But now Donald Trump’s super PAC, headed by one of his close advisers — a guy who was in the Nixon administration, a guy who studies and adores Saul Alinsky, a guy whose nickname is the Dirty Trickster, the guy who was there at Watergate, a guy who really has no principles whatsoever — he’s now running one of Donald Trump’s super PACs. And he has started to promote the hashtag #daysofrage.

That’s what Chicago was called in 1968. I can’t believe that this is actually happening."

THOUSANDS ARE WAITING FOR PUBIC HOUSING BUT HUD WORKER GETS TWO APARTMENTS IN NO TIME

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THOUSANDS ARE WAITING FOR PUBIC HOUSING BUT HUD WORKER GETS TWO APARTMENTS IN NO TIME: 
Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group strikes HUD again! 
Seems a HUD employee was able to rent two subsidized apartments by somehow leaping ahead of the hundreds of thousands of poor people waiting for public housing units to become available.

The employee lived in the Alexandria, VA., apartment and sublet the apartment in the nation’s capital to her sister who used it, among other things, to park her Lexus SUV. 
Housing authorities in both cities knew about the arrangement, yet did nothing. When the HUD Inspector General discovered the deal, HUD managers initially promised “severe discipline” for their misbehaving colleague.

Can you guess what comes next?

“But instead of being severely disciplined, Mathis was hastily promoted to a position in charge of giving out millions of tax dollars in federal grants,” Rosiak reports.
So a HUD employee steps on poor people who need places to live and gets a promotion to give away millions of tax dollars instead of being fired.
What’s wrong with this picture???"

Students Call for Police to Censor Classmates' Political Messages

Students Call for Police to Censor Classmates' Political Messages
The University of Michigan is one of our nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.
Young people from all over the country move to Ann Arbor every year to obtain an education and to have their ideas challenged by exposure to fellow students from many walks of life.
Or maybe not.
Last Thursday afternoon, a number of anonymous chalk messages appeared on campus.
But because these innocuous chalk messages read “#StopIslam” and “Trump 2016,” they elicited 911 calls and an apology from the president of the university.
...Apparently such statements constitute “hate speech.”
Nowhere in America is the urge to censor and intimidate dissenting opinion more apparent than on college campuses, where students are treated to “safe spaces” from dissenting opinion and where even mentioning controversial topics will “trigger” feelings of insecurity by the unique snowflakes that are our college students.
Apparently pro-Trump chalkings by students have occurred now on several campuses, and the overreaction by politically correct college administrations has elicited a hashtag for this phenomenon: the #Chalkening.
It started on the campus of Emory University in Georgia, when chalk messages appeared and a number of students complained that the messages constituted anti-minority targeting and made them feel “unsafe.”
The president of the university, James Wagner, vowed to investigate the messages before realizing that the messages constituted free expression..."

Mom Unleashes Fury After Spanish Teacher Sends Children Home With This ‘Privilege’ Assignment | Video | TheBlaze.com

Mom Unleashes Fury After Spanish Teacher Sends Children Home With This ‘Privilege’ Assignment | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The mother of a Tampa, Florida, seventh-grader is speaking out after finding an assignment given to her 12-year-old daughter and other students in Spanish class at Monroe Junior High.

The form asked, “How much privilege do you have? Circle the boxes that apply to you.”"

ICE: Illegal Charged With Vehicular Homicide Not a Priority for Detention

ICE: Illegal Charged With Vehicular Homicide Not a Priority for Detention – DennisMichaelLynch.com:
"Illegal released due to Obama and DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson 2014 policy of deporting only those with “the most serious criminal records.”
Edwin Mejia (aka Eswin Mejia), 19, came to the U.S. illegally as part of the surge of unaccompanied children from Central America in May 2013.  The Border Patrol turned him over to social services, who sent him to live with his brother, already in the U.S.  
In January of this year, Mejia was street racing while drunk, in Omaha, Nebraska.  
He struck a vehicle driven by Sarah Root, 21, who later died as a result of her injuries.
Mejia was charged with vehicular homicide, and despite several requests by the Douglas County Police Department, ICE never came to pick him up for detention.   
Mejia posted a $5,000 bond and disappeared, and Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse is demanding answers.
ICE Director Sarah Saldana responded that neither the Obama administration policy nor federal law required ICE to detain Mejia. 
Ms. Saldana said being charged with vehicular homicide wasn’t enough to make Mr. Mejia a priority under standards set by Mr. Obama and Mr. Johnson in 2014.
“Even if he were convicted of the offense, motor vehicle homicide — driving under the influence, the conviction would not constitute a crime of violence under the immigration laws, and consequently, would not constitute an aggravated felony,” she wrote.
“The conviction would not render him subject to mandatory detention, nor would it significantly impact his eligibility to apply for relief or protection from removal.”
Ms. Saldana said her agency has asked Honduran officials to see if he shows up back there."

Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education

Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education | Intellectual Takeout
Recent high school graduates and their families overall paid an extra $3,000 for skills and content they should have learned in high school. 

In recent years, the expressed goal of the education system has been to ensure that every child is college- and career-ready. That goal has enjoyed a measure of success, particularly as college enrollment rates rose from 26% to 41% between 1980 and 2012.

But landing a spot in college doesn’t necessarily mean students are ready for college coursework, a fact highlighted by a new report from Education Reform Now. According to the report, a quarter of college freshmen need to enroll in remedial courses to catch up. The authors explain:

“Contrary to common belief, remedial education is a widespread phenomenon not at all confined to low-income students or community colleges. It affects a broad swath of students, including those from middle-, upper-middle, and high-income families, as well as a broad swath of colleges.”

 

Lunch video-----Number Of Sanctuary Cities In The U.S. Rise to 340 - Illegal Immigration...

Noon-toon

How Journalists Are Bankrolling Democrats by the Millions – and Aren’t Reporting It | TheBlaze.com

How Journalists Are Bankrolling Democrats by the Millions – and Aren’t Reporting It | TheBlaze.com:

"The union dues that the journalist helps to fund political contributions, 97 percent of which have gone to Democrats, according to the Politico piece that cites information from OpenSecrets.org, the website of the Center for Responsive Politics, which monitors political donations.

Since 2008, the organization has contributed more than $8.7 million to federal candidates. These have included some of the most liberal members of Congress, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.).

Despite endorsing Sanders for president, the group actually spent more on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, $15,000, Politico reported."

SCOTUS Gets It Wrong: Noncitizens Should Not Be Counted for Voting Purposes

SCOTUS Gets It Wrong: Noncitizens Should Not Be Counted for Voting Purposes
In a loss for voters, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against two residents of Texas who had argued that the Texas legislature diluted their votes when it used total population to redraw state Senate districts.
In Evenwel v. Abbott, the Supreme Court allowed states to use total population in redrawing district lines, even though that this includes a large number of noncitizens (legal and illegal), felons, and others who are ineligible to vote.
Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger challenged the state Senate districts drawn by the Texas legislature using total population in 2013.
They claimed that both the number of citizens of voting age and the number of registered voters in their districts deviated substantially—between 31 and 49 percent—from the “ideal” population of a Texas Senate district.
They argued that this disparity significantly diluted their votes in comparison to those of voters who live in districts with large numbers of non-voters.
According to this logic, their votes were worth roughly half those of voters in other districts. 
In other words, they claimed that their Senate districts had the same number of representatives as other districts that contained the same number of people but only half the number of eligible voters.
This is a particular problem in Texas, which has almost two million illegal aliens, about seven percent of the state’s population..."

Screaming morons of the "tolerant left"-----Liberal Woman in Starbucks Screams at Rick Scott For Being Pro-Life

Liberal Woman in Starbucks Screams at Rick Scott For Being Pro-Life » Louder With Crowder:
"Next time someone tells you about the “tolerant left,” play the video below on a loop like a morphine drip.
In this one, yet another “tolerant” leftist feminist treats a man as sub-human simply because he has an (R) next to his name (your truly has had a few run-ins like this before).
Gov. Rick Scott was just trying to get a cup of coffee.
Not today.
Not so long as the leftist, fascist, PC police are around.
Especially since this broad fancies herself the chief.
Watch, or read the transcript below.

“You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare!
You’re an asshole.
You don’t care about working people. Y
ou should be ashamed to show your face around here.”
Isn’t this just emblematic of today’s SJW left?
The woman doesn’t argue ideas or policy, she simply attributes motive.
How does she know that Rick Scott “doesn’t care about working people”?
She doesn’t.
Also, why isn’t Rick Scott considered a “working person”?
He has a job, doesn’t he?
Rick Scott worked his way through college, served several years in the Navy and has owned multiple businesses.
None of that counts?
Not to leftists.
Because only their feelings count (read “Bernie Sanders: Simply a Fascist for Mediocrity” here). What comes next is important.
As Gov. Rick Scott points out that he’s created a million jobs, she cuts him off…
Much, much more at link.
Read and wonder how ANYONE can communicate with these morons.

Time Is Running Out (Again) for Greece

Time Is Running Out (Again) for Greece - Bloomberg View:
"The Greek economy is still in desperate trouble, and yet another crisis is looming.
If it happens, this could set back hopes of recovery across much of Europe.
The last emergency won't soon be forgotten -- yet nothing is being done to avoid a rerun.
Greece's Financial Odyssey
The latest quarrel between Greece's government and the International Monetary Fund, one of its official creditors, only underlines this continuing dysfunction.
The impasse has to be broken.
For that to happen, the European Union must take the lead, rethink its current position, and grant Greece debt relief.
Greece's gross domestic product is still falling year over year. 
About a quarter of the population is out of work. 
Depositors pulled a further 500 million euros ($570 million) out of the country's banks in February, showing that last year's rescue plan has failed to restore confidence.
Time is running out..."

Milton Friedman Part II: Evils of Collectivism | Glenn Beck

Milton Friedman Part II: Evils of Collectivism | Glenn Beck:

"Friedman tried to reason with the collectivists who believed in socialism and wanted more of it, including more health care.

MILTON: I say to people who say we have to have government medicine in there. I say, would you mind first telling me which of the other great reforms of government have achieved their objectives? I take it you mean the federal housing program has solved the problem of housing for the low-income groups. I take it you mean that the federal welfare program has solved the problems of welfare of indigents and dependents, that federal urban renewal and housing — and reconstruction programs have solved the problem of urban life."

Common Core and its Effect on Homeschooling

Heartland Daily Podcast – Lennie Jarratt: Common Core and its Effect on Homeschooling | Somewhat Reasonable:

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Project Manager for Education Transformation Lennie Jarratt speaks in front of the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He discusses Common Core and its effect on homeschooling.
Jarratt talks about his personal background with homeschooling and why education choice is so important.
He also clears up some of the confusion as to what Common Core actually means. 
Jarratt explains the danger of ever-expanding government regulations and control over education and what you can do to stop the overreach."

AM Fruitcake

History for April 7

History for April 7 - On-This-Day.com:
W.K. Kellogg 1860 - Industrialist in food manufacturing, most known for founding of the Kellogg Company, Billie Holiday 1915 - Jazz singer, James Garner (James Scott Bumgarner) 1928 - Actor ("Rockford Files", "Maverick") 


Francis Ford Coppola 1939 - Director, Jackie Chan 1954 - Actor ("Rush Hour", "Rush Hour 2"), Russell Crowe 1964 - Actor ("A Beautiful Mind," "Gladiator") 


1864 - The first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California.


1922 - U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming.


1933 - Prohibition ended in the United States.


1945 - The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission.


1948 - The musical "South Pacific" by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway.


1963 - At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.


1970 - John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in "True Grit." He had been in over 200 films.


1989 - A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the Norwegian Sea.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/04/america-awakens-by-tammy-derouin-i-had.html

America Awakens

By Tammy Derouin

I had the pleasure of revisiting a memory of my youth this past weekend.   I was several months late in watching The Force Awakens.  I had my reasons, both controllable and uncontrollable.  Understanding how the forces of the dark side operate in your own life allows you to deflect and survive attacks.  A Higher Power is in control.  I’m grateful for the knowledge and the ability I’ve gained to be able to deal with such struggles and battles.

I was eight years old when I saw the first STAR WARS movie, A New Hope.  The special effects combined with the classic tale of good versus evil were captivating.  I was hooked.  Of course, back in the days of my youth, our lives seemed a lot more secure. The original trilogy came out during a time when the United States was great.  Did we ever think our government would intentionally lower our defenses, making us vulnerable to attack or undermine our foundation as a Republic?

When the next three STAR WARS movies were released, we were entertained, prequel style, as to what led to the fall of the old Republic.  We learned about events that would allow the right conditions for evil to take hold and grow.  We then watched in disbelief as freedom was handed over to an all-powerful centralized government. Freedom was ushered into darkness, escorted by thunderous applause.  It was an excellent example of how tyranny creeps its way into our lives and one which has played out many times over throughout history.

As I watched the latest struggle in a galaxy far, far, away, I noticed how the similarities to real life were undeniable.  The chilling scene, to once again, put an end to the Republic were reminiscent to scenes right out of the Third Reich.  Of course, there were many examples of the destructive power and the evil deeds of this autocracy, or the First Order.  

We identify evil on the silver screen, the television and every video game available.  We understand why evil is evil and that it must be destroyed.    So why do so many cheer when evil is identified and destroyed in the land of make-believe but miss the same signs and vote it into power in real life?

We have a real life crises taking place in our Republic......

Filmmaker Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Says Law Enforcement Raided His Home, ‘Seized All Video Footage’ | TheBlaze.com

Filmmaker Behind Planned Parenthood Videos Says Law Enforcement Raided His Home, ‘Seized All Video Footage’ | TheBlaze.com:

"The filmmaker behind undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives wrote in a social media post that California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office seized his video footage on Tuesday evening.

The Center for Medical Progress posted on Facebook that the California Attorney General’s office was searching the apartment of its founder, David Daleiden.

“Today, the California Attorney General’s office of Kamala Harris, who was elected with tens of thousands of dollars from taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood, seized all video footage showing Planned Parenthood’s criminal trade in aborted baby parts, in addition to my personal information,” Daleiden wrote in a Facebook post."

Experts: ISIS building 'kill lists' of Americans overseas

Experts: ISIS building 'kill lists' of Americans overseas | Washington Examiner:
"The Islamic State is using social media to identify Americans overseas who can be targeted outside of a secure location, experts warned a Senate panel Tuesday.
"One of the emerging tactics that ISIS in particular is trying to use is stalking and killing its foes, especially those who are affiliated with governments," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing.
"Basically, taking them out of the government sphere, making them individuals who can be tracked."
Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., convened the hearing to discuss the threat of terrorism following the Brussels bombings last month.
The panelists agreed that government personnel in Brussels and at various NATO facilities in Europe are at risk, but also noted the difficulty of providing adequate protection outside of government facilities.
"What some of the followers and adherents of ISIS have tried to do is expose military personnel and their family members with personal data, addresses, etc.," said Juan Zarate, a former deputy national security adviser under President George W. Bush.
"So there is a vey real effort underway to at least threaten, if not put at risk, family members and personnel outside the bounds of classic security.""

The 50 Worst Cars of the '80s

The 50 Worst Cars of the '80s | Complex: 
"Some pretty bad cars have been made throughout the years, and most of them seem to have been the result of the questionable engineering and design of the '80s. 
Seriously, it might be best if we just pretended that this stretch of 10 years never happened, and if it took most of the '70s with it that would be OK too. 
 We've gone back and looked at the various automotive horrors of the decade, and we can definitively say that these are The 50 Worst Cars of the '80s."
35. Pontiac Phoenix

Milton Friedman Part I: Economics 101 | Glenn Beck

Milton Friedman Part I: Economics 101 | Glenn Beck:

"Today, Friedman would no doubt be labeled an uncaring, hateful racist for his straightforward thinking. For example, when asked at a college forum what role the government plays in helping the poor, he spoke decisively on the matter:

“First of all, the government doesn’t have any responsibility. People have responsibility. This building doesn’t have responsibility. You and I have responsibility. People have responsibility,” Friedman said. “How can we as people exercise our responsibility to our fellow man most effectively? That’s the problem. So far as poverty is concerned, there has never in history been a more effective machine for eliminating poverty than the free enterprise system and the free market.”"

Geography?-----Academic Farce of the Week: How to Ruin Thin Mints

Academic Farce of the Week: How to Ruin Thin Mints | Power Line:
Some day I’ll have to try to figure out why it is that geography departments became an early hotbed of leftist ideological cant at so many universities, where most of the subject matter and courses no longer have anything to do with . . . geography. 
At least as that subject has always been understood.

Take in this Ph.D dissertation in geography accepted by the University of California at Santa Barbara:

Smart Cookies: The Gendered Spaces of Labor, Citizenship, and Nationalism in the Girl Scout Cookie Sale

Denise Goerisch-Abstract:

Each year thousands of Girl Scouts sell cookies to friends, family, and neighbors to raise money for their troops and local councils. Lauded as the largest girl-led financial literacy program, the annual Girl Scout cookie sale not only teaches girls important business and leadership skills but also prepares girls for their roles as American women in a neoliberal and capitalist society. Girls learn the importance of ‘giving’ through multiple spaces of the cookie sale. Scouts learn to give and care for others under the veil of market capitalism, neoliberalism, and American nationalism, which seeks to reproduce hegemonic gender roles regarding labor, education, and citizenship. Based on a two-year study on the Girl Scout cookie sale, using qualitative methods and rooted in feminist methodologies, this project seeks to understand how ‘spaces of giving’ emerge in the cookie sale and how these spaces shape social constructions of gender, citizenship, and national identity.

First of all, it takes a special kind of academic fathead to ruin Thin Mints. 

But we have people up to it.

Second, if the GPS system failed suddenly, anyone think a current Ph.D in geography could help you navigate a boat in the middle of the ocean, or read a map to get un-lost in the mountains?

If you’re a glutton, you can actually download this dissertation for free right here."

Activist at Chicago Teachers Union Rally Ends Furious Speech by Screaming Three-Word Slogan Every Cop Despises

Activist at Chicago Teachers Union Rally Ends Furious Speech by Screaming Three-Word Slogan Every Cop Despises | Video | TheBlaze.com:
Amid furor over budget and program cuts, Chicago Teachers Union members and their allies staged a one-day strike on Friday filled with protests and rallies on the city streets.
The walkout meant classes were cancelled for over 300,000 students, the Chicago Tribune reported, and many teachers — embroiled in a contract battle — demonstrated in front of schools.
But while the intensity surrounding last week’s “day of action” has tapered off, the conclusion of one incendiary speech has been surging on social media.
Page May, an activist and Black Lives Matter supporter, hollered into the microphone to a cheering audience about young people “winning” ideological battles in the streets.
“I am so in love with my friends and the young black people and allies who are showing up and pouring their blood, their sweat and their tears into the streets every day and shutting s**t down and winning!” she said.
“I am inspired by my 13-year-old students who are half my age and already understand that #BlackLivesMatter is not a slogan, it is a demand.”
Then May added a final message that got the crowd into even more of a frenzy: “F*** the police!” May hollered. “F*** the CPD! … F*** the police, and everybody f*** with ‘em!”
Here’s video of May’s words.
While the clip’s description indicates she’s a teacher, 
May instead appears to be an activist. (Content warning: Rough language):
Click to see who teaches our children!