History for June 11

History for June 11 - On-This-Day.com:
Ben Johnson 1572 - English Renaissance Dramatist, Jacques Cousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau) 1910 - Naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, Vince Lombardi 1913 - Football coach


William Styron 1925 - Novelist and essayist, Gene Wilder 1935 - Actor, Jackie Stewart (Sir John Young Stewart OBE) 1939 - Racing driver, team owner, nicknamed The Flying Scot


1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.


1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.


1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.


1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.


1942 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.


1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace refused to allowe two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.


1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.


1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.

Dershowitz: No Plausible Case That Trump Obstructed Justice | Fox News Insider

Dershowitz: No Plausible Case That Trump Obstructed Justice | Fox News Insider:

"Legal expert Alan Dershowitz reminded viewers that President Trump could have just pardoned former national security advisor Michael Flynn and stopped the FBI's investigation into Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador.

"The president has the authority to direct the head of the FBI to stop investigating anyone," Dershowitz stated on "Your World." "I've been saying this for months.""

The way we were-----Vera Lynn - When The Lights Go On Again.

Criminally inept--Years ago but remember he was being set up to be the libs next BIG-----John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash - Wikipedia

John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash - Wikipedia
...Pilot distraction

Kennedy's plane flew into the same path of American Airlines Flight 1484, which was on the approach to Westchester County Airport.^[1]

Late departure

The flight was originally scheduled for daylight hours, but had to be postponed after Kennedy's sister-in-law was delayed at work. Heavy traffic further delayed Kennedy's flight and pushed it back until after dark. Originally planned to depart at 6:00 p.m., Kennedy's plane departed at 8:39 p.m. instead, nearly a half-hour past sunset. At the time of the takeoff, the moon was just above the horizon and provided very little illumination.

No flight plan or request for help

Kennedy never received a weather briefing or filed a flight plan with any Flight Service Station. Except for the take-off portion of his flight, Kennedy did not contact any air traffic controllers; during the flight, he never requested help or declared an emergency.^[16]Under the conditions of his flight, Kennedy was not required to file a flight plan, and because he did not, no one knew his exact route or expected time of his arrival. According to the Weather Service International, Kennedy made two weather requests before taking off. The information he was provided indicated that visibility ranged from 10 miles along his route to four miles at Martha's Vineyard.

Flight over featureless, open water

Shortly after passing Point Judith, Rhode Island, Kennedy's plane headed directly towards Martha's Vineyard. Instead of following the coastline of Rhode Island Sound and Buzzards Bay, which would have provided visible lights on the ground, Kennedy chose the shorter, direct path over a 30-mile (50 km) open stretch of water. According to the FAA Airplane Flying Handbook, crossing large bodies of water at night may be very hazardous, not only from the standpoint of ditching in the water, but also because the featureless horizon visually blends with the water, in which case depth perception and orientation become difficult.

Foot injury

Six weeks before the crash, Kennedy had fractured his left ankle in a paragliding accident. He had surgery, wore a cast, and walked with a cane up until the night of the accident. During his interviews, Kennedy's orthopaedic surgeon stated that, at the time of the crash, he would have been able to apply the type of pressure that would normally be required to drive a car.

Incorrect radio frequencies

While the NTSB examined the wreckage, they soon discovered that both of Kennedy's radios had incorrect frequencies selected. Kennedy had accidentally selected 127.25 for Martha Vineyard's ATIS instead of 126.25; likewise, he selected 135.25 for Essex County ATIS, but it should have been 135.5. The NTSB declined to comment on the contribution this factor had in the crash, if any.^[1]..."

Britain’s Election Disaster | City Journal

Britain’s Election Disaster | City Journal:
"Theresa May has proved an apt pupil of the David Cameron school of political incompetence. Lacking principle, she is not even good at being unprincipled: a Machiavellian, it turns out, minus the cunning.
It did not help that she had the charisma of a carrot and the sparkle of a spade.
As she presented herself to the public, no one would have wanted her as a dinner guest, except under the deepest social obligation.
Technically, she won the election, in the sense that she received more votes than anyone else, but few voted for her with enthusiasm rather than from fear of the alternative.
Her disastrous campaign included repeated genuflections in the direction of social democracy.
Even after her defeat, moral if not quite literal, she burbled about a society in which no one was left behind—never mind that it would entail a society in which no one would be out in front, that is to say, a society resting in the stagnant pool of its own mediocrity.
Unfortunately, egalitarianism is a little like Islam in that, just as a moderate Muslim can always be outflanked by someone more Islamic than he, so an egalitarian can usually be outflanked by someone more egalitarian than he: and in the contest between the Conservatives and the Labour Party, no one will ever believe that the Conservatives are more devoted to equality of outcome than the Labour Party.
May therefore chose her battleground with a perfect eye for defeat.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the election was the recrudescence of the politics of envy and resentment..."

Michigan House passes bills allowing concealed pistol carry without a license | MLive.com

Michigan House passes bills allowing concealed pistol carry without a license | MLive.com:

"LANSING, MI -- Michiganders would no longer need a concealed pistol license to carry a concealed pistol under legislation approved by the Michigan House of Representatives on Wednesday."

DOJ Won't Prosecute VA Execs Accused Of Lying To Congress | The Daily Caller

DOJ Won't Prosecute VA Execs Accused Of Lying To Congress | The Daily Caller:
"The House Committee on Veterans Affairs asked the DOJ for a perjury investigation in 2016, as the committee believed executives were misleading lawmakers to cover up exploding costs for the facility under construction, but the DOJ maintains there is not enough evidence to move forward with prosecution, the Associated Press reports.
Lawmakers wanted the DOJ to look into Glenn
Haggstrom and Stella Fiortes, specifically.
At the time, Haggstrom served as principal executive director of the Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction (OALC) and Fiortes worked as director of the VA’s Office of Construction and Facilities Management.
Haggstrom was well aware the Aurora hospital would balloon in cost, but elected to keep that information from Congress in 2013 and 2014, according to the VA inspector general.
The report blamed the cost on mismanagement, inexperience and bad decision-making.
“I think that there is clear evidence that they intentionally misled Congress,” he said.
What this decision now means is that not a single person has been fired or charged in connection with cost overruns at the Aurora VA hospital under construction in Colorado.
The total costs involved have skyrocketed to $1.7 billion, which is nearly three times as much as the original estimate..."

Trump tosses binders full of permit paperwork on the floor | Daily Mail Online

Trump tosses binders full of permit paperwork on the floor | Daily Mail Online:

• Trump said he saw the binders laying out plans for an 18-mile road at a round table with transportation leaders before his event 
• He skimmed the binders and made jokes about their content as he threw two of them on the floor 
• Binders laid out plans for the Intercounty connector (ICC) running between I-270 to US 1 in Maryland and detailed a controversial environmental impact study 
• 'They spent $29 million dollars for an environmental report weighing 70 pounds and costing $24,000 per page,' Trump said from the podium 
• On his way back to mic, Trump told the crowd, 'Better make sure I move it, I don't want to trip on the way out. That would be a big story'

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Republican House members ‘should be guillotined,’ Democratic Socialist students say – TheBlaze

Republican House members ‘should be guillotined,’ Democratic Socialist students say – TheBlaze:

"The Young Democratic Socialists at the University of Georgia apparently aren’t too fond of the Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Responding to a story about a college professor who said the GOP should be “lined up and shot” for passing the Obamacare replacement bill, the Young Democratic Socialists upped the ante on social media."

The Course Catalogue at Evergreen State College Is Bonkers | Heat Street

The Course Catalogue at Evergreen State College Is Bonkers | Heat Street:
"...For starters, students at ESC don’t receive grades—they receive “narrative evaluations” that give them feedback on their performance while preserving their self-esteem. 
...Students also take only a single set of classes each year.
There are no semesters (that’s probably sexist anyway), and students plan their own path to their chosen major.
This coming fall, for example, you can take a number of classes that count as biology, but actually aren’t biology at all.
They include, as the Daily Caller found, Reproduction: Gender, Race and Power, but also Dancing Molecules, Dancing Bodies, where you’ll use the art of dance to communicate with your body and understand the chemical processes within.
If that’s not up your alley, perhaps you would prefer Actions and their Consequences, which will “examine local, national, and international policy issues of the postcolonial and neocolonial world in education, health care, social welfare and environmentalism” through a series of “interdisciplinary” lectures.
That class will eventually gather and design “projects to address issues of unequal distributions of power.”
If math and economics are more your style, there are plenty of social justice-tinged options for you. Advocating for Sustainable Culture is considered a math course (you even get to do field trips!), as is Dimensions for Inequality and Options for Change.
And lest you think you’d have to abandon your progressive politics for a class in something seemingly objective, like physics, fear not!
Under the “physics” catalog offerings, there’s Defending Mother Earth: Science, Energy and Native Peoples..."
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Diminishing solar activity may bring new Ice Age by 2030 – Astronomy Now

Diminishing solar activity may bring new Ice Age by 2030 – Astronomy Now
"The arrival of intense cold similar to the one that raged during the “Little Ice Age”, which froze the world during the 17th century and in the beginning of the 18th century, is expected in the years 2030—2040.
These conclusions were presented by Professor V. Zharkova (Northumbria University) during the National Astronomy Meeting...
It is known that the Sun has its own magnetic field, the amplitude and spatial configuration of which vary with time.
There are several cycles with different periods and properties, while the 11-year cycle, the 90-year cycle are the best known of them. 

...Its 90-year variation is associated with periodic reduction in the number of spots in the 11-year cycle in the 50-25%. 

In 17th century, though, there was a prolonged reduction in solar activity called the Maunder minimum, which lasted roughly from 1645 to 1700. 

During this period, there were only about 50 sunspots instead of the usual 40-50 thousand sunspots.

Analysis of solar radiation showed that its maxima and minima almost coincide with the maxima and minima in the number of spots..."

In this 1677 painting by Abraham Hondius, “The Frozen Thames, looking Eastwards towards Old London Bridge,” people are shown enjoying themselves on the ice. In the 17th century there was a prolonged reduction in solar activity called the Maunder minimum, which lasted roughly from 1645 to 1700. During this period, there were only about 50 sunspots recorded instead of the usual 40-50 thousand. Image credit: Museum of London.

Lies!-Read of the day!-----Donald Trump -- FBI Investigation, Chuck Schumer & Elizabeth Warren | National Review

Donald Trump -- FBI Investigation, Chuck Schumer & Elizabeth Warren | National Review
"There are a number of important takeaways from today’s Comey hearings, but one of the big ones elaborated on a point I hit yesterday in discussing Comey’s prepared statement: 
Trump was never under FBI investigation during the time that Comey headed the FBI, Comey personally told Trump that three times, and Trump grew increasingly frustrated that Comey wouldn’t clear the “cloud” over his head by publicly saying so. 
Indeed, Trump’s explanation to Lester Holt of why he fired Comey is entirely consistent with this. 
But with Comey’s repeated and emphatic testimony that Trump was not under investigation, we have some new revisionist history: wildly backtracking liberals and Democrats claiming that nobody ever said Trump was under FBI investigation. 
And this is simply untrue. 
Here’s a sampling of what Democrats, liberals, and the media were saying back when Comey was privately reassuring Trump that he wasn’t under investigation: 

• Salon, January 20 headline: “The FBI is leading an investigation into Donald Trump’s connections with Russia” — first line, “The FBI is leading a multi-agency investigation into possible links between Russian officials and President-elect Donald Trump.” 
• Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, March 20: “The FBI is investigating a sitting President. Been a long time since that happened.” 
• The New York Times March 20 headline: “F.B.I. Is Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties, Comey Confirms” 

Much, much more!

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