History for July 27

History for July 27 - On-This-Day.com
Charlotte Corday 1768, Norman Lear 1922, Bobbie Gentry 1944 - Country singer


Peggy Fleming 1948, Maureen McGovern 1949 - Singer, Bill Engvall 1957 - Comedian ("Blue Collar TV")


1777 - The marquis of Lafayette arrived in New England to help the rebellious American colonists fight the British.


1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.

Brian C. Buescher, Trump judicial nominee, confirmed by Senate after Knights of Columbus grilling - Washington Times

Brian C. Buescher, Trump judicial nominee, confirmed by Senate after Knights of Columbus grilling - Washington Times:

The Senate confirmed Brian C. Buescher to a federal judgeship in Nebraska, over the objection of Democrats who’d peppered him with questions about his membership in the Catholic fraternal group Knights of Columbus.

What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns? - WSJ

What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns? - WSJ
"We often make historical parallels here.
History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme, as clever people say.
And sometimes it hiccups.
Here is a hiccup.
We start with the moral and political catastrophe that was the French Revolution.
It was more a nationwide psychotic break than a revolt—a great nation at its own throat, swept by a spirit not only of regicide but suicide.
For 10 years they simply enjoyed killing each other.
...It was a revolution largely run by sociopaths.
One, Robespierre, the “messianic schoolmaster,” saw it as an opportunity for the moral instruction of the nation.
...There would be pageants, and new names for things.
They would change time itself!
...So here is our parallel, our hiccup. 
I thought of all this this week because I’ve been thinking about the language and behavioral directives that have been coming at us from the social and sexual justice warriors who are renaming things and attempting to control the language in America.
There is the latest speech guide from the academy, the Inclusive Communications Task Force at Colorado State University. 

• Don’t call people “American,” it directs: “This erases other cultures.” 
• Don’t say a person is mad or a lunatic, call him “surprising/wild” or “sad.” 
• “Eskimo,” “freshman” and “illegal alien” are out. 
• “You guys” should be replaced by “all/folks.” 
• Don’t say “male” or “female”; say “man,” “woman” or “gender non-binary.”

...there’s an aspect of self-infatuation, of arrogance, in telling people they must reorder the common language to suit your ideological preferences.
There is something mad in thinking you should control the names of things.
...I see in it a spirit similar to that of the Terror.
There is a tone of, “I am your moral teacher.
Because you are incapable of sensitivity, I will help you, dumb farmer.
I will start with the language you speak.”
An odd thing is they always insist they’re doing this in the name of kindness and large-spiritedness. And yet, have you ever met them?
They’re not individually kind or large-spirited.
They’re more like messianic schoolmasters.
Offices and schools are forced to grapple with all the new gender-neutral pronouns.
Here a handy guide from a website purporting to help human-resources departments in midsize businesses.
It is headlined. “Gender Neutral Pronouns—What They Are & How to Use Them.”

• He/She—Zie, Sie, Ey, Ve, Tey, E
• Him/Her—Zim, Sie, Em, Ver, Ter, Em
• His/Her—Zir, Hir, Eir, Vis, Tem, Eir
• Himself/Herself—Zieself, Hirself, Eirself, Verself, Terself, Emself

It’s wrong, when you meet a new co-worker, to ask his pronouns.
(We don’t say “preferred” pronouns—that “implies someone’s gender is a preference”!)
You don’t want him wondering if you think he’s transgender or nonbinary.
Instead, introduce yourself in a way that summons his pronouns: “Hi, I’m Jim and my pronoun is he/him.”
 Use “they” a lot.
It’s gender neutral.
Suggested sentence: “I spoke to the marketing director and they said they’d get back to me.”
This is grammatically incorrect but so what?
...And there are the office arguments about bathroom policy, which I gather are reaching some new peak.
...It’s all insane.
All of it.
But we’re moving forward, renaming the months and the sexes, reordering the language.
You wonder how the people who push all this got so much power.
But then, how did Robespierre?"
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Worth viewing if you want to know how they are cheating---Extreme Fraud At The Union Of Concerned Scientists

Former Facebook Exec Explains Why Media Are Botching Coverage Of Company’s Settlement | The Daily Caller

Former Facebook Exec Explains Why Media Are Botching Coverage Of Company’s Settlement | The Daily Caller:

Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos said Wednesday that people are missing the most important element involved in holding the Silicon Valley company responsible for alleged privacy rights violations.
“The real threat to the tech giants is competition, not regulation, and everybody is missing what really happened today,” he told his Twitter followers. He was responding to a tweet from Obama-era adviser Ashkan Soltani, who laid out details surrounding the Federal Trade Commission’s settlement with Facebook.

Do You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America?

Do You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America?
"I earn my living investing other people’s money in the stock market.
I am terrified contemplating how I am going to save my clients’ money, as well as my own, if a Democrat is elected president. 
The policies that the Democrats are advocating will destroy the American economy, not just the stock market, but the whole US economy.
My first instinct will be to raise cash ahead of the stock market crash, but even that is only a temporary safe harbor.

• The Green New Deal, renewed regulations, Medicare for All, free college,  as well as the 70-90% tax rates proposed by Democrats, will tank the stock market and US economic growth, leading to higher unemployment and reduced wage gains. All these programs require higher taxes and not just the soak the rich fantasy of the 70-90% rates. Most of the Democratic candidates have pledged to roll back the 2017 Republican tax cuts that fueled the renewal of economic growth in the US.
• Open borders will flood the US with poverty stricken immigrants and their competition for jobs will depress wages. The social welfare needs of the immigrants will skyrocket government expenditures. So while taxes receipts are falling due to slower economic growth rates, expenditures will be rising, leading to increased government debt and consequently higher interest rates. 
• If the Federal Reserve tries to keep interest rates low to prevent a deepening recession, then the increase in the money supply and the expanding deficit will eventually destroy the value of the dollar. So much for my safe harbor in cash..."

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The bullsh!t is ratcheting up!-----Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months - BBC News

Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months - BBC News
"Do you remember the good old days when we had "12 years to save the planet"?
Now it seems, there's a growing consensus that the next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the global heating crisis, among other environmental challenges.
Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that to keep the rise in global temperatures below 1.5C this century, emissions of carbon dioxide would have to be cut by 45% by 2030.
But today, observers recognise that the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year.
The idea that 2020 is a firm deadline was eloquently addressed by one of the world's top climate scientists, speaking back in 2017..."
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Lunch video-----A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Global Warming

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Believe It Or Not, Bill Clinton’s AG Actually Predicted Everything Wrong With Mueller’s Report | The Daily Caller

Believe It Or Not, Bill Clinton’s AG Actually Predicted Everything Wrong With Mueller’s Report | The Daily Caller:

Pennsylvania Congressman Guy Reschenthaler compared the confusion surrounding Robert Mueller’s final report to fears previously expressed by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno while questioning the special counsel during Wednesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
Reschenthaler explained that Reno, attorney general under President Bill Clinton, feared that a special counsel’s “final report provides a forum for unfairly airing an opponent’s dirty laundry. It also creates yet an another incentive for a special counsel to over investigate in order to justify his or her tenure and to avoid criticism that the independent counsel may have left a stone unturned.”

Employers think the "product" stinks!-----15 Reasons Why Colleges (as We Know Them) Will Become Obsolete

15 Reasons Why Colleges (as We Know Them) Will Become Obsolete
"...2. Current academic structure does not meet industry expectations
Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and it has very specific demands. 
It looks like current academic system fails to meet them..."
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Industry gave an F to academia."

You say "tomato"...

Nazi finder!-----Snopes Rolls Out New Opinion Check Feature | The Babylon Bee

Snopes Rolls Out New Opinion Check Feature | The Babylon Bee

#1 This day 1964-----The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

Democrats Use the Specter of Racism to Sow Racial Discord

Democrats Use the Specter of Racism to Sow Racial Discord
"Democrats routinely blame Donald Trump for exacerbating racial tensions, but they're the ones who made the stoking of ethnic conflict a hallmark of their electoral strategy long before 2016.
...the practice really ramped up during the administration of President Barack Obama.
As the militant Black Lives Matter movement began calling for violence against police officers and rioting in the streets, Obama added fuel to the fire with his pronouncements on race. 
When the nation was divided over the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, for instance, Obama remarked that if he had a son, he would look like Martin....when Ferguson, Missouri was turned upside-down by protesters after a police officer shot a black teenager who was trying to escape custody...
...Today, one is just as likely to hear talk of "structural racism" and "white privilege" from the lips of Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, or Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke as from Senator Elizabeth Warren or Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 
Biden, who is trying to run as a consummate centrist, even made the discredited Charlottesville hoax the center of his campaign launch.
Their goal is to galvanize minority voters by stoking the unfounded fears of white revanchism and by portraying Republicans as an imminent danger. 
While Democrats have long deployed racial division as a political tactic, today they appear to be constitutionally incapable of discussing anything else.
This has clearly had a pernicious effect on how Americans perceive race relations. 
In 2012, it was considered beyond the pale for then–DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to smear Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's welfare policies as racist dog whistles. 
In 2019, though, those sorts of senseless accusations of racism are daily and ubiquitous.
No wonder people think racial tensions have increased..."
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Math is hard...

William Barr won't be prosecuted for contempt of Congress, Justice Department says - Washington Times

William Barr won't be prosecuted for contempt of Congress, Justice Department says - Washington Times:

The Justice Department said Wednesday it will not prosecute Attorney General William P. Barr for contempt of Congress, rejecting House Democrats’ attempt last week to punish Mr. Barr in a spat over the 2020 census.
The move is in keeping with longstanding department policy, and follows the lead of the Obama administration, which likewise refused to prosecute then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. after he was held in criminal contempt.
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen said they looked at the argument House Democrats made for charging Mr. Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross with criminal contempt, and found the case lacking.

Not a racist statement?-----DNC Chair Candidate: My Job Is To Tell White People When To Shut Their Mouths | Video | RealClearPolitics

DNC Chair Candidate: My Job Is To Tell White People When To Shut Their Mouths | Video | RealClearPolitics

DNC Chair Candidate: My Job Is To Tell White People When To Shut Their Mouths

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"The DNC held a forum for candidates hoping to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Monday at George Washington University. 

One candidate, Sally Boynton Brown, the executive director of Idaho's Democratic Party, urged Democrats to provide "training" to teach people to be "sensitive" and "how to shut their mouths if they are white."
"My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt," Brown said..."

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History for July 26

History for July 26 - On-This-Day.com
George Bernard Shaw 1856, Carl Jung 1875, Aldous Huxley 1894


Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) 1943, Kevin Spacey 1959, Sandra Bullock 1964


1775 - A postal system was established by the 2nd Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General was Benjamin Franklin.


1953 - Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. Castro eventually ousted Batista six years later.

Firearms Study Forgets Differences Exist Between Toddlers And 21 Year Olds | The Daily Caller

Firearms Study Forgets Differences Exist Between Toddlers And 21 Year Olds | The Daily Caller:

It seems every public health journal is obligated to publish one junk-science article on kids and guns per year. The latest is a “study” published in Pediatrics called “State Gun Laws and Pediatric Firearm-Related Mortality.” It is in the headlines, and it is a mess.

The way we were-----Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat

Boob-tube-----April Fools Day on the Howdy Doody Show (April 1, 1952)

Ireland agrees to migrant resettlement plan across EU

Ireland agrees to migrant resettlement plan across EU
"Eight EU member states, including Ireland, have agreed to actively participate in a new "solidarity mechanism" to resettle migrants and refugees across the European Union.
...The issue of what to do with the thousands of refugees still attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea has sparked a sharp response in some countries, with Italy saying it is bearing the brunt of the problem while its EU partners do little to help.
...Mr Salvini, who has closed ports to non-governmental organisation (NGO) rescue boats, said the agreement underscored a demand that Italy "continue to be the refugee camp of Europe".
After snubbing the meeting, he said that Italy "does not take orders and is not a partner: if Macron wants to discuss migrants, come to Rome".
...Mr Salvini, who once accused the NGOs of running a "taxi service" for migrants, has demanded that other European countries open up their ports to the boats."
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