History for September 15

History for September 15 - On-This-Day.com
James Fenimore Cooper 1789, William H. Taft (U.S.) 1857, Robert Benchley 1889


Agatha Christie 1890, Oliver Stone 1946, Tommy Lee Jones 1946


1916 - During the Battle of the Somme, in France, tanks were first used in warfare when the British rolled them onto the battlefields.


1923 - Oklahoma was placed under martial law by Gov. John Calloway Walton due to terrorist activity by the Ku Klux Klan. After this declaration national newspapers began to expose the Klan and its criminal activities.


1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.


1935 - The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany.


1940 - The German Luftwaffe suffered the loss of 185 planes in the Battle of Britain. The change in tide forced Hitler to abandon his plans for invading Britain.


1949 - "The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto.


1950 - U.N. forces landed at Inchon, Korea in an attempt to relieve South Korean forces and recapture Seoul.


1982 - The first issue of "USA Today" was published.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/09/constitution-day-by-tammy-derouin.html

Constitution Day

By Tammy Derouin

Throughout history there have been many important events.  Events, for better or worse, must be remembered to either prevent such atrocities from reoccurring or to commemorate an achievement which would forever change the path of mankind. 

Man’s exodus out of darkness has been a long and brutal journey.  Enslavement of the people by the governing establishment was, and in many cases still is, common place. Tyranny is readily available in many forms.  A dictator or a monarch may be the first examples which come to mind.  Tyranny also exists when religion is used to promote an ideology; a political agenda.  This is probably the most dangerous because many will deny or ignore the atrocities committed by such factions out of fear.  Falling for such tactics only pacifies the enemy, making them stronger. 

When extraordinary events take place they should be remembered and commemorated. By forgetting the importance of such events, by not educating our posterity and by taking our achievements and advancements for granted, we lose the ground which so many gave their lives to secure and protect.  When we do not know our history and the events which allowed man to live free, we willingly descend back into darkness.

History is brutal but it’s necessary to understand if we wish to remain free. A key factor for controlling and oppressing people is withholding information and preventing the population from learning. Lack of knowledge creates the perfect environment to manipulate the thinking process of those, the powers that be, wish to control. 

To claim transparency...... 

News - Democratic Platform Calls for End to Fossil Fuels, Prosecuting Climate Skeptics

News - Democratic Platform Calls for End to Fossil Fuels, Prosecuting Climate Skeptics | Heartland Institute:
"The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party’s 2016 platform calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change and ending the use of fossil fuels.
The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party’s 2016 platform, approved at the party convention in July, calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change.
On page 45 of the platform, the Democratic Party agreed, “We believe the United States must lead in forging a robust global solution to the climate crisis. 
We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations, to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II.”
The platform states climate change is an “urgent and severe threat” and calls for an 80 percent cut in carbon-dioxide emissions below 2005 levels by 2050 and getting 50 percent of the nation’s electric power from “clean energy sources” by 2025.
The platform also adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies for skeptical statements they’ve made concerning the causes and consequences of climate change..."
Read on!

Michigan’s Quiet Success in Containing Retiree Health Care Costs

Michigan’s Quiet Success in Containing Retiree Health Care Costs [Mackinac Center]:
"It’s not news that government employee pension systems across the nation have promised retirees billions in pensions and not saved enough to make good on those promises.
But a related problem could pose an even greater risk to taxpayers: lifetime health insurance benefits provided through these systems.
Michigan may be showing governments across the country the way to resolve the fiscal challenge, however.
Without much fanfare, the state and many local governments have stopped offering new employees open-ended post-retirement health insurance benefits. 
In doing so, they have contained their exposure to ever-increasing premiums that could one day threaten their solvency.
Governments have tended not to set aside money to pay for those benefits as employees work, but rather pay the insurance premiums as they come due.
This means today’s taxpayers are paying payroll expenses incurred by government employees years or even decades in the past.
This is both unfair and imprudent.
If such coverage is offered at all, a better course would be to place money in a health insurance trust fund as the benefits are earned, just as pension contributions are deposited annually into pension funds.
Such prefunding is what governments are supposed to do with pensions. 
Most have fallen short, though. 
The latest Pew report tallies nearly $3.7 trillion in pension liabilities that governments acknowledge; stricter pension assumptions can inflate this figure.
Governments have saved $2.8 trillion to pay for pensions, leaving $934 billion in unfunded liabilities.
The retiree health insurance is a smaller, $627 billion gap, but fewer dollars have been set aside to pay these future benefits. 
The size of this gap is even more uncertain than that for pensions, given the employers’ exposure to rising health care costs and premiums..."

Technician Who Deleted Hillary's Emails Pleads The Fifth | The Daily Caller

Technician Who Deleted Hillary's Emails Pleads The Fifth | The Daily Caller:

"Two employees for the tech firm that managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server invoked their Fifth Amendment rights in a House hearing on Tuesday.

Paul Combetta and Bill Thornton both appeared in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for a hearing to examine the preservation of Clinton’s State Department emails.

Both technicians work for Platte River Networks (PRN), a Denver-based tech firm that Clinton hired in 2013 to manage her private email setup."

15% Over Target: 11,491 Syrian Refugees Admitted Already; 0.46% Are Christians

15% Over Target: 11,491 Syrian Refugees Admitted Already; 0.46% Are Christians:
(CNSNews.com) – With three weeks of the fiscal year to go, the Obama administration has exceeded its Syrian refugee admission target by 15 percent, with 11,491 resettled in the United States as of the beginning of this week.

Since President Obama’s goal of 10,000 Syrian refugee admissions in FY 2016 was achieved on August 29, the number continues to pick up steadily.

August ended with a new monthly record of 3,189 Syrian refugee arrivals, and a further 751 have been ushered in so far in September: 749 Sunni Muslims; two Catholic Christians.

State Department Refugee Processing Center data show that of the now total 11,491 arrivals this fiscal year, the vast majority – 11,300, or 98.33 percent – are Sunnis.

Just 54 of the 11,491 – 0.46 percent – are Christians. 

...Obama has yet to announce plans for refugee admissions from Syria for the new fiscal year – although the administration did announce earlier that global admissions would rise from 85,000 in FY 2016 to 100,000 in FY 2017..."

Search violent crime changes by Michigan county

Search violent crime changes by Michigan county | MLive.com:
"Violent crime in Michigan has gone down over the past eight years, statistics from the Michigan State Police show.
Annual violent crimes fell from 46,380 to 35,123 offenses in Michigan between 2008 and 2015. Those crimes include including murder and non-negligent manslaughter, criminal sexual conduct involving penetration, robbery and aggravated/felonious assault.
Search the database MLive created using MSP data for violent crime rates from 2008 to 2015.
You can see the number of violent crime incidents recorded, by county.
Crime rates are based on the number of offenses per 100,000 people. "

Lunch video-----Hillary Clinton's Illness Revealed

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The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson:

"The Takeaways

The FBI could not review all of the Hillary Clinton emails under investigation because:

The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine.
An Apple MacBook laptop and thumb drive that contained Hillary Clinton email archives were lost, and the FBI couldn’t examine them.
2 BlackBerry devices provided to FBI didn’t have their SIM or SD data cards.
13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed. Therefore, the FBI couldn’t examine them.

Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI couldn’t examine them.
After State Dept. notified Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by House Benghazi Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of her attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review them.
After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clinton’s email archive was also permanently deleted from her then-server “PRN” with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review it.
Also after the subpoena, backups of the PRN server were manually deleted."

...... And the list goes on and on and on...

Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades | Ars Technica

Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades | Ars Technica
"Harvard researchers got hefty sums to downplay role of sweets in heart disease."
Back in the 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers so that they’d downplay the links between sugar and heart disease in a prominent medical journal—and the researchers did it, according to historical documents reported Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
One of those Harvard researchers went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where he set the stage for the federal government’s current dietary guidelines.
All in all, the corrupted researchers and skewed scientific literature successfully helped draw attention away from the health risks of sweets and shift the blame solely to fats—for nearly five decades.
The low-fat, high-sugar diets that health experts subsequently encouraged are now seen as a main driver of the current obesity epidemic..."

Republican lawmakers upset Detroit's worst schools temporarily exempted from closure

Republican lawmakers upset Detroit's worst schools temporarily exempted from closure | MLive.com:
"Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature are disappointed Gov. Rick Snyder's office is interpreting the $617 million Detroit schools rescue package as preventing the state from shuttering any of the district's lowest performing schools until 2019.
House Speaker Kevin Cotter and Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof say prohibiting school closures is not in the spirit of the accountability measures built into the law.
"As a simple matter of common sense, it cannot be said with a straight face that the Legislature intended for the worst-of-the-worst schools in Detroit to remain open," Cotter, R-Mt. Pleasant, said in a statement.
"This mistaken interpretation would also require failing charter public schools to be closed while failing traditional public schools are allowed to persist and drag down class after class of Detroit students, which is an absurd conclusion."
The discussion on the fate of Detroit's struggling schools came on the same day the state School Reform Office released the 2015 list of the worst performing schools in the state.
Forty-seven of the 124 schools on the list are Detroit public schools..."

This Is The Most CONVINCING Diagnosis Of Hillary Clinton I've Seen Yet

This Is The Most CONVINCING Diagnosis Of Hillary Clinton I've Seen Yet:

"With all the falling, coughing, pneumonia, decision fatigue and all around bizarre behavior exhibited by Hillary Clinton, one has to wonder. What’s REALLY going on with her? Sure, her campaign can blame her various “medical episodes” on weather or allergies (even if that was the case, it proves she lacks the stamina to be POTUS), but we all know there has to be something more to it.

Dr. Ted Noel, former Director of the NovaMed Surgery Center in Orlando, recently released a video, making a very convincing argument that Hillary Clinton has Parkinson’s disease."

Must read of the day!-----The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson:
The Takeaways. The Players. The Timeline.

The Takeaways

The FBI could not review all of the Hillary Clinton emails under investigation because:

• The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine.
• An Apple MacBook laptop and thumb drive that contained Hillary Clinton email archives were lost, and the FBI couldn’t examine them.
• 2 BlackBerry devices provided to FBI didn’t have their SIM or SD data cards.
• 13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed. Therefore, the FBI couldn’t examine them.
• Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI couldn’t examine them.
• After State Dept. notified Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by House Benghazi Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of her attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review them.
• After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clinton’s email archive was also permanently deleted from her then-server “PRN” with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review it.
• Also after the subpoena, backups of the PRN server were manually deleted.

Even though the FBI did not have a complete record of Hillary Clinton’s emails on three unclassified personal servers, it found:

• 2,093 emails State Dept. currently classifies as Confidential or Secret. (State Dept. did not address what their classification was at the time they were sent.)
• 193 emails (81 separate email conversations) that were classified at the time they were sent, ranging from “Confidential” to “Top Secret/Special Access Program.”
• 68 of the 81 email chains remain classified today.
• 8 were Top Secret.
• 37 were Secret.
• 36 were Confidential.
• 7 were Special Access Program.
• 3 were Sensitive Compartmentalized Information.
• 36 were Not Releasing to Foreign Governments.
• 2 were Releasable Only to Five Allied Partners.
• 12 of the suspect email chains were not provided by Hillary’s attorneys. The FBI found them other ways.
• The email chains contained classified information from 5 other agencies: CIA, DOD, FBI, NGA and NSA. 
• Read on!!

AM Fruitcake

Planned Parenthood Honors Hillary Clinton with Margaret Sanger Award - Susan B. Anthony List

Planned Parenthood Honors Hillary Clinton with Margaret Sanger Award - Susan B. Anthony List:
"On Friday, March 27th (2009), Secretary of State Clinton accepted the Margaret Sanger Award at Planned Parenthood Awards Gala. The Margaret Sanger Award is named for Planned Parenthood’s founder, a noted eugenicist.
In accepting this ‘honor’ Hillary Clinton praised Sanger’s “vision”, defended the Obama Administrations funding for international groups that promote abortion, and advocated for more U.S. tax payer funding to go to “family planning” organizations at home and abroad.
Here are some telling excerpts from Secretary Clinton’s acceptance speech:
“I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision…taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions, I am really in awe of her. 
And there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from her life and from the cause she launched and fought for and sacrificed so bravely...”"

Live video today-Noon-1pm.-----How Pensions Are Bankrupting Cities and States and How to Fix It [Mackinac Center]

How Pensions Are Bankrupting Cities and States and How to Fix It [Mackinac Center]
How Pensions Are Bankrupting Cities and States and How to Fix It

Registration has been filled to capacity. 

We will be live streaming the event here as well as on our Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/MackinacCenter from noon to 1pm.

State pension systems across Michigan are facing a crisis that threatens workers, retirees, businesses, taxpayers and residents who rely on public services. 

For decades, state legislators and governors, Republican and Democrat, have promised billions more in pensions than has been saved to pay for them. 

And despite now spending an extra $1 billion more than the state did just five years ago, policymakers still aren’t making the full payment required to pay the estimated costs of the largest pension system. 
This repeated underfunding has led to large liabilities that will require severe cuts to public services. 

Retiree benefits are a national crisis, but some cities and states have made significant reforms that are saving money and preventing liabilities being pushed off onto future generations. 
This event will discuss the scope of the problem and what Michigan should be doing to solve it.

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Pete Constant is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, where he works on the Pension Reform Project. He was previously a member of the San Jose City Council who helped usher through a ballot measure that reformed retiree benefits in the city and passed with 69 percent of the vote.

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Dan Liljenquist is a former state senator from Utah who spearheaded pension reforms which shifted employees from a defined benefit plan onto a defined contribution. For his role in the Utah reforms, Liljenquist was named a 2011 “Public Official of the Year” by Governing Magazine, and has since a become national expert on this issue and highlighted by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, among other outlets. He serves on the board of the Retirement Security Initiative.

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Aric Nesbitt is a state representative for the 66th House District. He is the House Majority Floor Leader and the Chairman of the Energy Committee. He lives in Lawton, Michigan.

History for September 14

History for September 14 - On-This-Day.com
Ivan Pavlov 1849, Margaret Sanger 1879, Clayton Moore 1914


Allan Bloom 1930, Walter Koenig 1936, Sam Neill 1947


1814 - Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner," a poem originally known as "Defense of Fort McHenry," after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, MD, during the War of 1812. The song became the official U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931.


1847 - U.S. forces took control of Mexico City under the leadership of General Winfield Scott.


1899 - In New York City, Henry Bliss became the first automobile fatality.


1901 - U.S. President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded him.


1915 - Carl G. Muench received a patent for Insulit, the first sound-absorbing material to be used in buildings.


1938 - The VS-300 made its first flight. The craft was based on the helicopter technology patented by Igor Sikorsky.


1960 - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.


1972 - "The Waltons" premiered on CBS-TV.

FBI Director Comey refused to testify on Clinton emails | Washington Examiner

FBI Director Comey refused to testify on Clinton emails | Washington Examiner:

"FBI Director James Comey refused to attend a classified briefing with the House Oversight Committee despite receiving an invitation to testify about the bureau's reluctance to disclose thousands of pages of evidence compiled in its year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email use."

U.S. Senate boosts bill for water projects, including $220 million for Flint

U.S. Senate boosts bill for water projects, including $220 million for Flint - Crain's Detroit Business: "WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to move forward on a $10 billion water projects bill that includes $220 million in emergency funding for Flint and other communities beset by lead-contaminated water.
Senators advanced the bill 90-1 on a procedural vote, with approval expected later this week.
...The measure includes $100 million in grants and loans to replace lead-contaminated pipes in Flint and other cities with lead emergencies, as well as $70 million toward loans to improve water infrastructure across the country.
It also includes $50 million to bolster lead-prevention programs and test water for lead in schools.
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said lawmakers finally "have a pathway to success" on Flint after months of effort...."

Police Seize Car, Drive 54,000 Miles, Sell It Without Charging Owners With a Crime

Police Seize Car, Drive 54,000 Miles, Sell It Without Charging Owners With a Crime [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"A year after the Saginaw County Sheriff seized a classic muscle car from a Shiawassee County couple, it sold the car at auction — with another 54,000 miles that had been logged in the interim. Last month, the couple filed a federal lawsuit over the car and other items that had been seized and then sold by the department.
The department's actions grew out of a 2008 investigation for possible drug crimes, but the couple was never convicted or even charged with a crime.
Gerald and Royetta Ostipow filed the lawsuit on Aug. 24 with the U.S. District Court in Detroit against Saginaw County Sheriff William L. Federspiel, the department and a number of unnamed sheriff deputies. The lawsuit alleges that Federspiel and members of his department seized, then sold, hundreds of thousands of dollars in property belonging to the couple before the final determination of for feitability.
In April 2008, the department received search warrants to search a farmhouse in Shiawassee County owned by the Ostipows, who lived a half-mile down the street in their longtime residence.
The search warrants were issued by Saginaw Count judges, said Outside Legal Counsel, which is representing the Ostipows.
But it’s unclear why the Saginaw County officers were in a neighboring county’s jurisdiction and didn’t get search warrants from Shiawassee County judges.
The farmhouse, which was being renovated by Gerald Ostipow, was occupied by his adult son, Steven, and the property’s outbuildings were used for storage.
When the sheriff’s deputies searched the farmhouse they found marijuana plants and seeds grown by Steven Ostipow, but his parents have denied knowledge of his illicit activities, their lawyers said.
That’s when the Ostipow’s property stored in the Shiawassee farmhouse and outbuildings were seized by the Saginaw County officers, despite Gerald and Royetta not being charged with any drug-related crimes.
The deputies seized dozens of animal mounts, tools, deer blinds and farm equipment from the farmhouse property. 
They also took a 1965 Chevy Nova SS that was being renovated and stored on a trailer..."
Read on!!

9/11 Anniversary: Fifteen Years Later, Islamic Jihadism Is Still a Threat | National Review

9/11 Anniversary: Fifteen Years Later, Islamic Jihadism Is Still a Threat | National Review:

"Carved into the memorial — the point of which is to signify that which we must never forget — is the factual assertion that, on September 11, 2001, “nineteen Islamic terrorists” carried out coordinated suicide-hijacking attacks against the United States.

The Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier has decided that the monument is dangerous because it “could encourage hatred toward Muslims.” Fifteen years on, we are supposed to believe that the danger we face is not an enduring global threat fueled by an ideology drawn directly from Islamic scripture; the danger lies in speaking honestly about the threat."