History for October 10

History for October 10 - On-This-Day.com
Giuseppe Verdi 1813, Helen Hayes 1900, James Clavell 1924


David Lee Roth 1954 - Singer (Van Halen), Tanya Tucker 1958, Brett Favre 1969 - Football player


1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD.


1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

John Brennan rewrites foundation of American justice - WND

John Brennan rewrites foundation of American justice - WND:

At the White House, President Trump insinuated that the genesis of the Russia-collusion investigation came from the Obama White House.
A reporter asked: "Do you think it reached the West Wing of the Obama White House?"
"I don't want to say that, but I think you know the answer."
Later, Trump said: "I think it went very high up. I think what happened is a disgrace. I don't believe our country should allow this ever to happen again."

The way we were-----NOVELTY SONGS THROUGHOUT THE DECADES

Boob-tube-----One Way Out (TV-1955) IDA LUPINO

Convincing!-----What if there is no Climate Emergency? | Watts Up With That?

What if there is no Climate Emergency? | Watts Up With That?
"What if there is no Catastrophic Risk from Man-made Global Warming ?

What if Man-made Climate Change really is a non-problem ?

But what if there is a Global Cooling Catastrophe in the offing ?

It is the propaganda of Catastrophic Global Warming / Climate Change alarmists that has illogically conflated Carbon Dioxide, the beneficial trace gas that sustains all life on earth and which can cause some minor warming, with real and dangerous pollutants to create the “Great Global Warming Scare / Climate Change Scare / Climate Emergency / etcetera”.

The role of Atmospheric CO2

To establish realistic policy the following points about man-made CO2 emissions need to be recognised:

• The warming Greenhouse effect is essential to all life on earth, without it at ~+33°C planet Earth would be a very cold and inhospitable place indeed.
• Most of the greenhouse effect, (more than ~90% – 95%) arises from water  as vapour and clouds in the atmosphere....

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

Man-kind as a whole contributes only a small amount of the CO2 in the Carbon cycle, (~3% per annum), and any extra atmospheric CO2 is rapidly absorbed by the oceans and the biosphere, (with a half-life of ~5 years).

...Nonetheless there is a coming Climate catastrophe

That catastrophe is the exact opposite of the “we are all going to fry narrative” of the Climate alarmists.  

It presages a very scary future for Man-kind and the biosphere in the comparatively near-term:

• According to reliable Ice Core records the last millennium 1000 – 2000 AD was the coldest of our current Holocene interglacial.
• The world has already been cooling at ~0.14°C / millennium, ~20 times the earlier rate since before Roman times, in fact since ~1000 BC.

https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/holocene-context-for-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming/ ...
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540 Apply For One Teaching Opening, Zero For Six Others – Michigan Capitol Confidential

540 Apply For One Teaching Opening, Zero For Six Others – Michigan Capitol Confidential

• Union contract provisions narrow candidates for some of 184 open positions

"Ann Arbor Public Schools received 540 applicants in 2019 for a single job as a general education teacher in an elementary school.
At the other extreme, the district did not attract a single application this year for six teacher openings out of the 184 it posted. 
The six were: fifth grade elementary, high school math, high school special education (two postings), middle school social studies and a middle school social worker.
The Ann Arbor school district’s experience is not unusual.  
Additionally there are challenges in finding teachers that match the diversity of our student population.”
...The teachers union contract states: “The parties also agree that it shall be their mutual goal to assign at least two African-American classroom teachers to each building.”
As with every other conventional and unionized school district in Michigan, teachers in Ann Arbor work under a single union pay scale that bases salaries exclusively on seniority and on having additional academic credentials. 
Such provisions restrict school districts’ ability to attract candidates for hard-to-staff positions by paying them more..."
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Warren tells voters she was fired for being 'visibly pregnant' — but once told a much different story - TheBlaze

Warren tells voters she was fired for being 'visibly pregnant' — but once told a much different story - TheBlaze:

However, newly resurfaced video footage from more than a decade ago reveals Warren was not a victim of sexist discrimination like she portrays today. Instead, Warren lost her teaching position because she lacked the proper educational credential needed for the job.
Speaking at the University of California at Berkeley in 2007, Warren said:

Harriett Lublin - FTA: Bottom Line: To adapt that old legal...

Harriett Lublin - FTA: Bottom Line: To adapt that old legal...
]FTA: Bottom Line: To adapt that old legal aphorism, when you’ve got decisive scientific evidence on your side, you argue the evidence. 
When you’ve got great arguments, you make the arguments.
When you don’t have decisive evidence or great arguments, you claim consensus."

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Politics disguised as science: a 12-point checklist for when to doubt a scientific ‘consensus’ | American Enterprise Institute - AEI %

Dr. Patrick Moore wrote today on Twitter about an “Excellent piece on how to distinguish good science from bad politics. Don’t know how I missed it.” He’s referring to the 2017 article by Jay Richards “Politics Disguised as Science: When to Doubt a Scientific ‘Consensus’” with the su...

Trump Refuses to Participate in Impeachment Farce | Power Line

Trump Refuses to Participate in Impeachment Farce | Power Line

"Today, President Trump’s White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone, directed an eight-page letter to Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, et al., declining on behalf of President Trump to participate in the Democrats’ sham impeachment proceeding. 

The letter, embedded below, is excellent. 

Some would say, brilliant. 

It attacks the Democrats’ constitutionally defective and politically motivated proceeding at its root. You should read it all. 

This is the letter’s introduction:

I write on behalf of President Donald J. Trump in response to your numerous, legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled–contrary to the Constitution of the United States and all past bipartisan precedent–as an “impeachment inquiry.” As you know, you have designed and implemented your inquiry in a ma[nn]er that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process.

For example, you have denied the President the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counsel present, and many other basic rights guaranteed to all Americans. You have conducted your proceedings in secret. You have violated civil liberties and the separation of powers by threatening Executive Branch officials, claiming that you will seek to punish those who exercise fundamental constitutional rights and prerogatives. All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent. Never before in our history has the House of Representatives–under the control of either political party–taken the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to pursue.

Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen...

Well said! There is lots more good stuff, some of a more technical nature. Here are just a few more paragraphs..."
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Lunch video-----Are Some Cultures Better than Others?

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Exclusive— Stephen Miller Exposes the Deep State: ‘A Collection of Permanent Bureaucrats Enmeshed Inside the Federal Government’ | Breitbart

Exclusive— Stephen Miller Exposes the Deep State: ‘A Collection of Permanent Bureaucrats Enmeshed Inside the Federal Government’ | Breitbart:

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, joined Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel this weekend to expose the deep state: forces he said are driving the effort by Democrats to proceed with impeachment against the president.
“The attempt at impeachment is best understood as a legislative coup against a democratically elected president, and the radical leftists in Congress are working arm-in-arm with the deep state saboteurs and their allies in the media in order to try to effectuate this illegal coup,” Miller said.

'South Park,' games company swept up in China censorship fury

'South Park,' games company swept up in China censorship fury
"TV show "South Park" and a major video game studio are the latest businesses swept into a growing debate over how to navigate China’s censorship efforts.
The question has heated up after the NBA suffered a backlash in China over a pro-Hong Kong tweet by the Houston Rockets general manager.
"South Park’s" creators tackled the issue head on, making the latest episode of their satirical cartoon about how Hollywood self-censors to gain access to China’s vast consumer market. 
The show was quickly scrubbed from the Chinese internet.
...Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a faux apology, saying, “Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. We too love money more than freedom and democracy.”


Workers dismantle signage for an NBA fan event scheduled to be held on Wednesday night at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China on Tuesday. 
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV announced Tuesday it will no longer air two NBA preseason games set to be played in the country..."
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Maybe "MONEY" isn't the answer?

WELL, THAT’S RATHER UNFORTUNATE

Instapundit Blog Archive WELL, THAT’S RATHER UNFORTUNATE
"Paris police attacker had top secret security clearance. 

“Mickaël Harpon, who stabbed three police officers and a woman civil servant to death before he was killed at Paris police headquarters on October 3rd, was a radical Islamist with a top secret security clearance and access to all computers in the police prefecture’s directorate of intelligence, known as the DRPP. 
The DRPP is responsible for the surveillance of suspected radical Islamists. 
Yet Harpon continued to work there, even as he showed signs of radicalisation. 
This mind-boggling fact has shaken President Emmanuel Macron’s administration.”
It should.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

#1 This day 1963-----Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - Sugar Shack

Must click link for video. Excellent!!-----Trump's new campaign ad is incredibly inspiring

Trump's new campaign ad is incredibly inspiring

"These days it's pretty hard to be "creative" when it comes to devising new campaign ads, but I've got to say that the 2020 Trump campaign has done an awe-inspiring job with THIS one. 
"Even if you don't like the guy you've gotta admit it's creative at least!

This is controversial?

Trans activist stokes controversy by saying that gender reassignment surgery does not help many with gender dysphoria - TheBlaze

Trans activist stokes controversy by saying that gender reassignment surgery does not help many with gender dysphoria - TheBlaze:

British trans activist Charlie Evans made big news last week when she announced that she is detransitioning, and that many trans people have approached her saying that gender assignment reassignment surgery does not help gender dysphoria.

Democracy Dies in Darkness, Indeed

Democracy Dies in Darkness, Indeed
"Talk about Democracy dying in darkness.
It’s looking more and more as if the Democrats really are going to try to overturn the 2016 election based on testimony from an unnamed individual they won’t let the Americans see. 
That’s what we take from a bombshell report that House Democrats are considering masking the whistleblower when he testifies before the impeachment caucus.
...The idea that some schlepper from the CIA could be brought before Congress with a mask over his head to testify in an effort to bring down a sitting president is gobsmacking.
...Under consideration, it quotes the three officials as saying, is “having the whistleblower testify from a remote location and obscuring the individual’s appearance and voice.”
“Kafka couldn’t make this up,” ..."
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