History for November 21

History for November 21 - On-This-Day.com
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) 1694 - Writer, historian, philosopher, William Beaumont 1785 - Surgeon, known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology", Stan Musial 1920 - Baseball player


Marlo Thomas (Margaret Julia "Marlo" Thomas) 1938 - Actress ("That Girl"), Harold Ramis 1944 - Actor, director, writer, Goldie Hawn 1945 - Actress


1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris.


1877 - Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.


1929 - Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first art exhibit.


1942 - The Alaska Highway across Canada was formally opened.


1953 - British Natural History Museum authorities announced that "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.


1980 - An estimated 83 million viewers tuned in to find out "who shot J.R." on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas. Kristin was the character that fired the gun. (Texas)


1982 - The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day player's strike.


1992 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in past years.

Germany: 440,000 Migrant Drifters Fuel Surge in Homelessness

Germany: 440,000 Migrant Drifters Fuel Surge in Homelessness:

"Homelessness in Germany has dramatically worsened with the onset of the migrant crisis, rising by 150 per cent to 860,000 between 2014 and 2016."

The way we were-----Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Boob-tube-----The Maury Show | Can You Change Your Race? Watch And Discuss

What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change - Slashdot

What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change - Slashdot:
"...But Slashdot reader dryriver shares an article titled "What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change."
No, it is not that Climate Change is a hoax or that the climate science gets it all wrong and Climate Change isn't happening.
According to the Economist, it is rather that "Fully 101 of the 116 models the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses to chart what lies ahead assume that carbon will be taken out of the air in order for the world to have a good chance of meeting the 2C target."
In other words, reducing carbon emissions around the world, creating clean energy from wind farms, driving electrical cars and so forth is not going to suffice to meet agreed upon climate targets at all. 
Negative emissions are needed. 
The world is going to overshoot the "maximum 2 degrees of warming" target completely unless someone figures out how to suck as much as 810 Billion Tonnes of carbon out of Earth's atmosphere by 2100 using some kind of industrial scale process that currently does not exist.
That breaks down to 1,785,742,000,000,000 pounds of CO2, "as much as the world's economy produces in 20 years," according to the Economist.
"Putting in place carbon-removal schemes of this magnitude would be an epic endeavour even if tried-and-tested techniques existed. 
They do not.""

Venezuela Is Starving Its People - WSJ

Venezuela Is Starving Its People - WSJ:
"There’s something vaguely uplifting about the house arrest of Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe last week.
But it’s depressing to think that he hung onto power for 37 years, despite hyperinflation and famine in an African nation that was once a major food producer for the continent.
Ronald Reagan believed that “what is right will always eventually triumph,” but Zimbabwe is proof that it can take a long time.
So too is Venezuela, which is experiencing its own Zimbabwean meltdown with no electoral way out.
Venezuelan shortages of everything are widely acknowledged.
But there is less recognition that strongman Nicolás Maduro is using control of food to stamp out opposition. 
Hyperinflation has shriveled household budgets and the government has taken over food production and distribution.
Most damning is evidence that access to government rations has become conditional on Maduro’s good favor.
The hardship is killing and deforming children.
But Cuba, which runs the Maduro intelligence apparatus, also endorses it.
Holding power trumps all.
Maduro took the helm in Venezuela after the March 2013 death of Hugo Chávez.
Over 14 years Chávez had destroyed property rights and civil liberties and greased the monetary printing press..."

Pirro: 'I'm Tired of the Powerful and the Clintons Being Above the Law' - Breitbart

Pirro: 'I'm Tired of the Powerful and the Clintons Being Above the Law' - Breitbart:

"Saturday in her Fox News Channel “Justice” opening statement, Jeanine Pirro called for “truth and justice” in regards to Hillary Clinton’s shady dealings, as well those in power who aided her.

Pirro began by noting how the Clinton Foundation received $145 million for the Uranium One deal and that Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a Moscow speech paid for by a Kremlin-backed bank while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, saying it is obvious the deep state exists."

California, Where Sanctuary Cities Are No Longer Sanctuaries - Arthur Schaper

California, Where Sanctuary Cities Are No Longer Sanctuaries - Arthur Schaper
"Seemingly absent from the fight for the last two months, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered 29 more sanctuary jurisdictions to comply with federal immigration laws or lose funding.
The sanctuary city debate is the essential fight on illegal immigration, as these lawless jurisdictions signal to the world: “Come here illegally, and we won’t stop you.”
These cities invite crime, drug and human trafficking, and degradation to our American quality of life.
,,,Despite these “victories”, illegal social justice warriors won’t stop until ICE is permanently banned from California’s borders: law-breakers in; law enforcement out..."
Read on!

Must read! Democrat party royalty!-----Hillary’s War on the Women Who Boinked Bill - John Hawkins

Hillary’s War on the Women Who Boinked Bill - John Hawkins
"Most Americans haven’t forgotten the bald-faced lies the Clintons told about Bill’s affairs and molestations along with the sheer savagery of the attacks their surrogates launched against these women.
For example, we all remember Bill Clinton perjuring himself by saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” 
...What you may not remember as well was the brutality of public relations war the Clintons waged against these women. 
Just to point out one particularly nasty quip out of many, Clintonista James Carville rather famously said of Paula Jones that if you, “drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.” 
Of course in the end, Paula Jones ended up getting an $850,000 out-of-court settlement from the Clintons while Bill had to pay $90,000 for lying in court and was stripped of his law license for five years as part of a deal to avoid disbarment.
However, there was much more to the story. 
While agents of Bill and Hillary were publicly trying              to destroy the women Bill slept with and molested, the IRS was going after them as well. 
Before Obama’s IRS harassed the Tea Party, Clinton’s IRS audited Gennifer Flowers, Liz Ward Gracen, Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick.
Even worse, several of the Clinton women faced extremely creepy harassment.
Both Gennifer Flowers and Juanita Broadrick say their homes were burglarized..."
Read it all!

Lunch video-----Homer is accused of sexual harassment.

Noon-toon

Border Patrol Agent Killed, Another in Serious Condition in Texas

Border Patrol Agent Killed, Another in Serious Condition in Texas:

"One Border Patrol agent is dead and his partner left hospitalized in serious condition in the Big Bend Sector of Texas. The FBI is leading the investigation while Border Patrol Special Operations agents and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations aircrews are currently searching the area for possible attackers."

A worthy read-----Why Africa Benefits From Sport Hunting

Why Africa Benefits From Sport Hunting
"...So let's take a look at some of the realities of life in Africa.
Despite what most media and Walt Disney will have you believe, hardly any African animal ever dies of old age. 
Everything eats everything else in the African bush...
The hunting safaris that we offer to clients are high income for the country involved and low impact for the environment (which is the opposite of photo safaris) and are all part of the game management programme run by the government of whichever country the hunt takes place in.
...A hunting client will pay a large sum of money to cover his camp expenses, which pays for his full board accommodation and camp, hunting services and the many and all the varied Government levies imposed on the hunter and his companions.
This camp, (which would not be there if it were not for the hunter) provides employment for many local and international staff such as chefs, maids, cleaners etc. 
He will then pay a sum of money for each animal that he hunts.
This sum is used to pay wages to the hunting staff (local and Professional) to pay for vehicles which are maintained locally by local labour and a large percentage is paid to the relevant Parks Board or Game Department, who use it to fund further game research and conservation.
The hunter also spends considerable additional amounts of hard currency and provides further employment 'in country' with local taxidermists, hotels, airlines and air charter companies etc.
All animals that are hunted are animals that would otherwise need to be culled to maintain the balance of the ecosystem. 
If one species is allowed to flourish too much it means the decline and possible demise of other species..."
Read on!