History for August 16

History for August 16 - On-This-Day.com
T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") 1888, Menachem Begin (Israel) 1913, Charles Bukowski 1920

     

Kathie Lee Gifford 1953 - Television host ("Today"), James Cameron 1954 - Director ("Titanic"), Madonna Louise Ciccone 1958 - Singer Madonna Merchandise


1812 - Detroit fell to Indian and British troops in the War of 1812.


1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by the lower house of parliament.

This Sheriff Was Sued for Cooperating With ICE. Now, He’s Vindicated. | The Heritage Foundation

This Sheriff Was Sued for Cooperating With ICE. Now, He’s Vindicated. | The Heritage Foundation:

When local jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, they create de facto sanctuaries for criminals like Francisco Guardado Rios. It makes no more sense to release those aliens back into the community than it would make sense to release a convicted criminal who is a U.S. citizen, but who is wanted in another state or by federal authorities.  For Sheriff Scott Jenkins, job no. 1 is safeguarding the citizens of Culpepper County. Providing sanctuary to criminal illegal aliens isn’t in the job description.

The way we were-----Homer & Jethro - The Battle of Kookamonga

Boob-tube-----10 Commercials from the 40s

No. 7 Bookworm Room Podcast: America has become a fantasy land - Bookworm Room

No. 7 Bookworm Room Podcast: America has become a fantasy land - Bookworm Room

America is a divided country in part because half of Americans live in a fantasy land, predicated on fear and gossip, and entirely unrelated to reality.

In today’s fantasy land, our beliefs about Jeffrey Epstein are the only things binding America today.

"I finally realized why I’ve been having such a hard time blogging (and podcasting) for the past few days. It’s because there’s nothing going on. 

Despite the 24-hour news cycle, the non-stop screaming from the Left, and the insanity of social media, nothing of note has happened in the world. 

Nothing at all. 

Instead, we’re getting made up headlines intended to convince credulous people — by which I mean most of the people amongst whom I’ve lived for the past several decades — that the world is coming to an end.

And that’s not an exaggeration. 

These people really do believe that Trump is a colorful amalgam of Satan, Hitler, the KKK Grand Wizard, and some hysterical television evangelist who wants to kill gays. 

That there is no evidence to support any of those claims is entirely irrelevant. Let me walk you through some of the madness.

Exhibit A is a little video that comes up every time I open Twitter. 

It doesn’t matter that I don’t follow Kirsten Gillibrand. 

It doesn’t matter that this was posted over 22 hours ago. 

And it doesn’t matter that this is not news. 

It’s the top of my Twitter feed no matter what:

Kirsten Gillibrand

✔@SenGillibrand

This is not easy to watch.

But the face of this little girl, crying for her father who was taken from her in an ICE raid, is not something we can turn away from. Americans need to know the pain this administration is inflicting on families.

This president has no morality.

It also doesn’t matter that it was President Obama who separated families and put kids in cages.
The stunning thing about this bathetic crying child video is that the Left is advocating an entirely new standard here: 
If you commit a crime and have children, it’s wrong for you to be arrested or punished for your crime..."
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Miniature Horses Cleared For Take Off As Service Animals – CBS Denver

Miniature Horses Cleared For Take Off As Service Animals – CBS Denver
(CBS Local) — Miniature horses are among the service animals approved to take on flights, according to new guidelines provided Thursday by the federal government. 

...“With respect to animal species, we indicated that we would focus our enforcement efforts on ensuring that the most commonly used service animals (dogs, cats, and miniature horses) are accepted for transport as service animals,” the department said in a statement.

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James Kelleher@etienneshrdlu

Here's a miniature horse on a plane

Network face now wants white people 'destroyed' - WND

Network face now wants white people 'destroyed' - WND:

An MSNBC contributor who previously called for a mob with “pitchforks and torches” to protest outside the home of a President Trump supporter now wants white people “destroyed.”

Trump Green Card Rule: Three Lefty Lies Debunked | The American Spectator

Trump Green Card Rule: Three Lefty Lies Debunked | The American Spectator

It has long since become commonplace for the Democrats and the media to misrepresent any and all policies proposed by the Trump administration, but the blizzard of balderdash that greeted the so-called “green card rule” has been over the top even by left-wing standards. 

...The Connecticut Mirror reports that the Nutmeg State’s attorney general, William Tong, plans a legal challenge to the green card rule. 

...“This rule is the latest chapter in this Administration’s cruel and racist campaign to intimidate and punish immigrants of color.” 
...Sen. Cory Booker, for example, brays, “This administration’s cruel new policy called #PublicCharge is another racist policy that targets the less fortunate.” 

...As Cuccinelli points out, “This regulation has no impact on humanitarian-based immigration programs for refugees.” 

So, what are we to make of the so-called green card rule? 

It is, despite the false claims of the Democrats and the media, perfectly consistent with 140 years of U.S. immigration policy..."

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The Millionaires and Billionaires of Environmental Politics | Competitive Enterprise Institute

The Millionaires and Billionaires of Environmental Politics | Competitive Enterprise Institute
"There’s a story that’s told in newspapers, on news networks, and in the buzzing of Twitter. 
In this story, there’s a clear good guy, a heroic underdog fighting the good fight, and a clear villain cackling in a corporate boardroom. 
This is a tale of grassroots environmentalists, banding together to solve the so-called climate emergency and financing their campaigns from small dollar donors impressed by and invested in the cause that these organizations are supporting.

...The annual revenue amassed by the biggest environmental groups is astonishing. 

...Much of that money is not coming from small-dollar grassroots fundraising, either. 
For instance, the Environmental Defense Fund received $71 million from the Walton Family Foundation in 2010. 
...Greenpeace had nearly ten percent of its funding in 2014 come from Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation. 

...Many of the private donations are also obscured by being routed through charitable “pass-through” entities, such as the Energy Foundation. 

One foundation will donate to a pass-through—for instance, in 2018, the Hewlett Foundation donated $20 million to the Energy Foundation—and the pass-through then sends the money to another organizations, such as the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Niskanen Center, or others. 
No one can say for sure that any particular donation to the original foundation definitely went to the final organization; it’s plausible deniability for these wealthy donors..."

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Lunch video-----Scientists Selling Great Lakes Snake Oil

"After decades of predicting plummeting water levels on the Great Lakes, climate scientists are now blaming high water levels on global warming.
And no doubt they predicted it all along."

Noon-toon

Senate Dems deliver stunning warning to Supreme Court: ‘Heal’ or face restructuring | Fox News

Senate Dems deliver stunning warning to Supreme Court: ‘Heal’ or face restructuring | Fox News:

Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to "heal" the court in the near future.
The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court's conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied.

This is so wrong!-----'We're all in the closet': Trump's Hamptons supporters go underground

'We're all in the closet': Trump's Hamptons supporters go underground
"President Trump’s Hamptons supporters have gone underground.

While Trump attended two big-money fundraisers for the Republican Party and his 2020 re-election campaign at mansions in Southampton and Bridgehampton on Friday, many of his East End supporters are eschewing the spotlight — especially after last week’s calls for boycotts of billionaire Stephen Ross’ gyms because he hosted the president.

“We are all in the closet,” said a boutique owner in Southampton who fears reprisals from his customers — most of them moneyed Democrats — if he speaks openly about his allegiance to Trump. 

...“You can’t win,” said the Southampton boutique owner. 

...I’m just struggling to make the bottom line here.
 Honestly, I am not rich enough to have a political opinion.”

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Tucker Carlson: Everything The Left Says Is Projection, They Accuse You Of Exactly What They're Doing | Video | RealClearPolitics

Tucker Carlson: Everything The Left Says Is Projection, They Accuse You Of Exactly What They're Doing | Video | RealClearPolitics--Posted By Ian Schwartz 
"TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: 

Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. 

Gun control saves lives. 

That’s what they’re telling you on CNN. 

Anyone who opposes gun control is a bad person, a callous, cruel, probably-violent person, who doesn’t care about the safety of others. 

Last night a group of progressive activists took that message to Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell’s home.
Here’s what they said:
"We’re at Mcconnell’s house. This bitch thinks he’s about to get some rest. Not if the children you’re kidnapping can’t get any rest, not if families being murdered cant get any rest. F*CK MITCH."
"He’s in there nursing his little broken arm, he should’ve broken his little raggedy ass neck.”
...This is dangerous. 

Our democratic system only works when citizens can disagree with their neighbors without fear. 

The left now opposes that. They demand total conformity. 

They use censorship and threats to keep people in line. 

In the short term, that may work. 

But over time, it’s exactly how things fall apart..."

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#1 This day 1979-----Chic - Good Times (Atlantic Records 1979)

Leftist attack on ICE office in San Antonio may be a portent of worse to come

Leftist attack on ICE office in San Antonio may be a portent of worse to come
"San Antonio's ICE office was hit with a barrage of bullets in the wee hours of the morning...

Obviously, what happened was a political act, rooted in die-hard opposition to any enforcement of U.S. borders.  

According to the Washington Examiner, it was the fourth such act targeting law enforcement in just a few weeks:

Last month, protesters with Never Again blocked the entrances to ICE's national headquarters in Washington, D.C.

In mid-July, police in Tacoma, Washington, fatally shot an armed man after they said he hurled Molotov cocktails at an ICE building.

On July 12, a group of protesters in Aurora, Colorado, took down an American flag and two other flags from outside an ICE facility and raised a Mexican flag and a defaced "thin blue line" flag, which commemorates law enforcement.

Antifa is a likely suspect, given its open advocacy of violence and encouragement from some elements of the media, such as Fredo Cuomo...

It represents a downward slide, the Latin Americanization of U.S. politics.  
If you want to know how Colombia became a hellhole in the late 1990s when first Pablo Escobar and his M-19 leftist guerrilla allies waged a reign of terror on the country's judges, then the Cali cartel did its damage, then the FARC Marxist narco-terrorists made open warfare with the Colombia government, and now the ELN has made Colombia so miserable, look no farther than the leftist rhetoric coming from the pols, the press, and the university intellectuals.  
...That's what makes this attack a signal that worse is coming..."

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