History for June 14

History for June 14 - On-This-Day.com
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811, Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax 1848, Burl Ives 1909


Pierre Salinger 1925, Donald J. Trump 1946 - 45th Presdient of the United States, real estate developer, television personality, Boy George (George O'Dowd) 1961 - Singer (Culture Club)


1775 - The Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army. On June 15, George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief.


1777 - The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as the national flag of the United States. The Flag Resolution stated "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed June 14 "Flag Day" as a commemoration of the "Stars and Stripes."

FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review

FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review:

In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong?
How and why would James Comey believe that as a private citizen he had the right to leak classified memos of presidential conversations that he had recorded on FBI time and on FBI machines?

The way we were-----NEIL DIAMOND - Thank The Lord For the Night Time

Boob-tube-----Comedienne Jean Carroll--Rare 1965 Color TV

BOOM!!-----Oberlin College hit with maximum PUNITIVE DAMAGES (capped at $22 million by law) in Gibson's Bakery case

Oberlin College hit with maximum PUNITIVE DAMAGES (capped at $22 million by law) in Gibson's Bakery case:

• Added to $11 million compensatory damages, brings total to $33 million

The jury just rendered its verdict on punitive damages in the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case.

Daniel McGraw, our reporter in the courtroom, reports that in addition to the $11.2 million compensatory damages awarded last Friday, the jury awarded a total of $33 million in punitive damages, which will probably be reduced by the court to $22 million because of the state law cap at twice compensatory (it’s not an absolute cap, but probably will apply here). 

That brings the total damages to $33 million. 

We will have the breakdown soon. 

The jury also awarded attorney’s fees, to be determined by the judge.

The breakdown was:

David Gibson – $17.5 million punitive damages

Allyn W. Gibson — $8.75 million punitive damages

Gibson Bros. Inc. (the Bakery) – $6,973,500 punitive damages

MORE TO FOLLOW..."
Read all!

Great Lakes Reveal a Fatal Flaw in Climate Change ‘Science’ – Issues & Insights

Great Lakes Reveal a Fatal Flaw in Climate Change ‘Science’ – Issues & Insights
"Lake Erie and Lake Superior — two of the five that make up the Great Lakes — broke records for water levels this May. Lakes Michigan and Huron could follow suit.

Naturally, climate change is getting the blame. 

“We are undoubtedly observing the effects of a warming climate in the Great Lakes,” says Richard Rood, a University of Michigan climate scientist. 

But just a few years ago, climate scientists were insisting that a warming climate would cause water levels to decline. 

In 2008, Science Daily reported on a study that attributed the decline in Great Lakes water levels to global warming. 

The researchers who conducted the study said that the drop “raised concern because the declines are consistent with many climate change predictions.”

• In 2009, Columbia University’s Earth Institute informed us that “most climate models suggest that we may see declines in lake levels over the next 100 years; one suggests that we may see declines of up to 8.2 feet.”
• In 2011, the Union of Concern Scientists said that “scientists expect water levels in the Great Lakes to drop in both summer and winter, with the greatest declines occurring in Lakes Huron and Michigan.”
• In 2013, the Natural Resources Defense Council said that “it’s no secret that, partially due to climate change, the water levels in the Great Lakes are getting very low.”That same year, Think Progress reported that “Several different climate models for the Great Lakes region all predict that lake levels will decline over the next century.” 

Since the Great Lakes account for 21% of the world’s surface fresh water, these stories were all wrapped in doom-and-gloom scenarios about the impact on drinking water, shipping, recreation, and so on.
The very next year, however, water levels started rising..."

Read all!

Rush Limbaugh: Here's How The Media Sabotaged News Of Trump's Deal With Mexico | Daily Wire

Rush Limbaugh: Here's How The Media Sabotaged News Of Trump's Deal With Mexico | Daily Wire:

"It was fascinating. When the media first started reporting on it, they gave it great huzzahs. I mean, they gave it great coverage. They were very positive about it," said Limbaugh during his radio program, according to RushLimbaugh.com. "And then it’s almost like somebody [said]: 'Wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, we can’t do this.' And the coverage turned immediately negative. I’m talking about the tariff deal with Mexico that Trump announced on Friday."

Continuing story the lib-media is hiding from you!-----Oberlin College to Jury: We're cash poor and big punitive award to Gibson's Bakery will hurt students

Oberlin College to Jury: We're cash poor and big punitive award to Gibson's Bakery will hurt students:

• Oberlin College basically begged for mercy at punitive damages hearing today. (UPDATED with additional details of today’s hearing)

"The witness testimony completed today in the punitive damages hearing, which follows the $11.2 million compensatory verdict last Friday in the lawsuit Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College. 
The jury could award up to double damages, meaning $22.4 million on top of the $11.2 million, bringing the potential total to $33.6 million, plus a recommendation that the judge award attorney’s fees.

I will have a complete update later, but here is the essence of Oberlin College’s defense today:

Gibson’s lawyers spent considerable time going over Oberlin College’s IRS Form 990, showing over $1 billion in assets and numerous employees earning over $100,000.

...The defense then argued that notwithstanding the Form 990, the college had cash flow and liquidity issues that would make a large punitive award difficult for the college. 

The defense compared the relatively poor financial condition of Oberlin College to other colleges and universities in Ohio. 

The defense argued that students would be harmed by a large verdict because the college might have to cut back on grants given to students.

Closing argument will start at 10 a.m. tomorrow, followed by jury instruction, and then the jury gets the case.

MORE TO FOLLOW LATER

(added 8:50 P.M.)

NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY..."

Read all!

Climate Cult!-----THE GREAT ‘’TRANSITION TO RENEWABLES’’ FANTASY

Air-Climate-Energy: --Craig Kelly
THE GREAT ‘’TRANSITION TO RENEWABLES’’ FANTASY
The belief that the world is ‘’transitioning to renewables’’ is part of the religious dogma of the Climate Cult.
However the data from the just released ‘BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2019’ demonstrates what a complete fantasy this belief is.
The facts are, that there is no ‘transition’ there is only ‘addition’.
The world continues to use MORE fossil fuels; more coal, more oil and more gas.
And even if there where no further increases in energy use (and hundreds of million in Africa and Asia were left trapped in poverty) to reach zero emissions from the energy sector by 2050 would require;

• * 1,500 Wind Turbines (2MW) to be built EVERYDAY to 2050 (and that doesn’t count the ones that need to be replaced after they reach their 25 year expected life) or
• * 1.5 Nuclear Power plants (1000MW) to be built EVERYDAY to 2050.

Even a Mad Hatter would understand that ‘transition to renewables’ is a complete fantasy.

Lunch video-----The Carbon Tax Scheme, Explained

Noon-toon

Supreme Court Rejects Atheists' Attempt To Remove 'In God We Trust' From U.S. Currency | Daily Wire

Supreme Court Rejects Atheists' Attempt To Remove 'In God We Trust' From U.S. Currency | Daily Wire:

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a case filed by atheists to remove the phrase "In God We Trust" from all currency issued by the Department of Treasury.

Must read to the end!-----The Central Park 5 Were Murderous Thugs | Frontpage Mag

The Central Park 5 Were Murderous Thugs | Frontpage Mag:

• Despite the Left’s attempt to make them martyrs.

"Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix series, When They See Us, is being billed as an important exposé of the American criminal-justice system's racist underbelly. 
As a review in the Daily Beast explains, it is the “riveting” story of how that system coerced and intimidated five innocent “teenage boys of color” into confessing to the highly publicized “rape and vicious assault of Trisha Meili, a white investment banker,” in New York's Central Park on April 19, 1989. 
We are told that the boys — Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, and Raymond Santana — tragically had “their youth snatched from them” by the false convictions and the subsequent prison sentences that they served.

...It's a story we've all heard many times before. 
And it is a damnable, disgusting lie.
Sometime between 9:00 and 9:30 on the night of April 19, 1989, a group of more than 30 black and Hispanic teenagers — including the aforementioned “Central Park Five” — attacked 28-year-old Trisha Meili while she was jogging in the park. 
One of the assailants — whose identity would remain unknown for the next 13 years — raped her with vaginal penetration, leaving his DNA inside the woman's cervix. 
As Miss Meili screamed in agony, one or more of her attackers shut her up by fracturing her skull with a lead pipe and mutilating her face with a brick. 
Meili lost three-quarters of her blood in the assault, and her brain activity could scarcely be detected by medical equipment in the hospital emergency room to which she was later transported. 
So badly was Meili's face mangled — one of her eyes had popped out of its socket — that even her boyfriend was able to recognize her only by a familiar ring on her finger..."
Must read it all.
And never believe the lying libs or their personal propagandists ever again!

Testing how far they can go before the election?-----Google Protecting Jussie Smollett From 'Disparaging' Searches

Google Protecting Jussie Smollett From 'Disparaging' Searches

• Search-engine’s autocomplete feature filters out hate crime related searches

"News that Chicago police charged Jussie Smollett with staging a brutal attack on himself was covered on every network and in every major newspaper, but Google is hiding searches of it from its platform due to concerns of "potentially disparaging" the liberal actor.

A review of Google's autocomplete function on searches of Smollett found no references to anything regarding the hate crime, even though the company's own data show it is the only reason his name was ever searched.

The top suggested searches for Smollett included Empire (a show he no longer has a role in), Mighty Ducks (a nearly three-decade old movie he had a small role in as a child), and his wife (who doesn't exist), the Free Beacon found.

Even with a nudge—adding the letter "H" to indicate an interest in the Smollett "hate crime" or "hoax"—the top suggestions were inquiries into his height and ties to Hawaii.

Easily accessible Google search information reveals there were virtually no searches of Smollett until he said he was attacked, and that the searches spiked further once it was revealed as a hoax..."
Sneaky way to stifle the truth.
Read all!

#1 This day 1971-----Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move (Audio)

WORSE than gas or diesel!!-----Electric Vehicles in Germany Emit More Carbon Dioxide Than Diesel Vehicles - IER

Electric Vehicles in Germany Emit More Carbon Dioxide Than Diesel Vehicles - IER

"A study by the IFO think tank in Munich found that electric vehicles in Germany emit 11 percent to 28 percent more carbon dioxide than their diesel counterparts. 
The study considered the production of batteries as well as the German electricity mix in making this determination. 
Germany spent thousands of euros on electric car subsidies per vehicle to put a million electric vehicles on the road, but those subsidies have done nothing to reach the country’s greenhouse gas emission targets. 
This is just the latest example of government programs expecting one outcome and getting quite another, instead..."

Read all.

Chop off his junk, this is what remains.

Carter Page: FBI Informant ‘Intensified’ Outreach Before Spy Warrant Application | The Daily Caller

Carter Page: FBI Informant ‘Intensified’ Outreach Before Spy Warrant Application | The Daily Caller:

Carter Page said Sunday that his contacts with Stefan Halper, an alleged FBI informant, “intensified” in the month before the U.S. government obtained its first spy warrant against the former Trump campaign aide.
“My conversations with him intensified right, the month before my illegitimate FISA warrant, in September 2016, when all these defamatory articles were being placed by the DNC,” Page said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Worthy read---Cornell law prof: Oberlin bakery onslaught an 'example of the mob not waiting for facts'

Cornell law prof: Oberlin bakery onslaught an 'example of the mob not waiting for facts'
"Cornell law professor William Jacobson says that the recent controversy at Oberlin College over a bakery that was allegedly libeled is yet another example of the "mob not waiting for the facts to come out." 

As Campus Reform reported Monday, Oberlin College in Ohio was ordered to pay $11 million in damages to Gibson's Bakery amid accusations of the college and its employees committing defamatory behavior against the family-owned shop, which largely depended on the college community for its business. 

The allegations against the bakery stemmed from a 2016 shoplifting incident, which involved a minority individual.

"This is another example of the mob not waiting for the facts to come out."    Tweet This

An onslaught of criticism against the bakery followed that incident, including many labeling the shop as racist. 

The racial minority involved in the 2016 incident, along with two more individuals, eventually pleaded guilty to attempted theft and aggravated trespassing.

[RELATED: Oberlin College sued for MILLIONS after attacking 'racist' local bakery]

In an exclusive interview with Campus Reform, Jacobson, who is also the founder of Legal Insurrection Foundation, which runs the website Legal Insurrection, said the slew of allegedly slanderous comments just goes to show how the "mob" doesn't wait on the facts to come out. 

WATCH:

Campus Reform asked Jacobson if the three individuals involved in the incident were the first ones to allege the bakery discriminated based on race, or if those allegations surfaced elsewhere. 

"I'm not sure if they alleged it at the moment of the arrest but by that evening it was all over the campus," Jacobson said. 

"So who started it, I don't know, but significantly, several months later, all three pleaded guilty to shoplifting and to aggravated trespassing and in their plea statements acknowledged that they were shoplifting and that there was no racial profiling going on."

[RELATED: Lawsuit accuses Oberlin of slandering local bakery as racist]

AM Fruitcake

History for June 13

History for June 13 - On-This-Day.com
Winfield Scott 1786 - United States Army General, James C. Maxwell 1831 - Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician, William Butler Yeats 1865 - Poet, dramatist


Richard Thomas 1951 - Actor ("The Waltons"), Tim Allen 1953 - Comedian, actor ("Home "), Ally Sheedy 1962 - Actress


1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.


1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

State Department Official Helped Christopher Steele With Business Concerns, Emails Show | The Daily Caller

State Department Official Helped Christopher Steele With Business Concerns, Emails Show | The Daily Caller:

A State Department official who played a key role in handling the Steele dossier facilitated meetings between Christopher Steele and private consulting firms, according to State Department emails obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Jonathan Winer, a longtime associate of former Secretary of State John Kerry, set up a meeting in late 2014 with an executive at APCO Worldwide, an international consulting firm where Winer worked before and after his most recent stint at the State Department.

The way we were-----Vaughn Meader "The First Family" 1962 FULL ALBUM

Boob-tube-----Abbott & Costello 'Jonah and the Whale'