History for November 25

History for November 25 - On-This-Day.com
Andrew Carnegie 1835, Carry Nation 1846, Ricardo Montalban 1920


Percy Sledge 1940, Ben Stein 1944, John Larroquette 1947


1850 - Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes.


1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.

200 Migrants Apprehended After Crossing Arizona Border

200 Migrants Apprehended After Crossing Arizona Border:

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 200 migrants who crossed the border illegally from Mexico during a five-hour period Saturday night. The apprehensions come as cartel-connected human smugglers continue to utilize the tactic of crossing large groups to tie-up Border Patrol agents in the area.
During a five-hour period on November 16, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested five separate groups of migrants being pushed across the border in large numbers by human smugglers near Sasabe, Arizona. The largest group consisted of 129 illegal immigrants, officials stated.

The way we were-----Paul Mauriat ~ Love is Blue (1968)

Boob-tube-----CAPTAIN VIDEO - Post's Sugar Crisps Commercial (DuMont TV) (1950)

"Baby steps" to confiscating ANYTHING they want from ANYBODY!-----New Jersey man's guns seized under red flag law after his rival in a lawsuit filed a petition - TheBlaze

New Jersey man's guns seized under red flag law after his rival in a lawsuit filed a petition - TheBlaze
"A New Jersey man is waiting to find out whether he'll ever get his guns back, after the government seized his firearms and ammunition under the state's new red flag law at the behest of his former doctor who sued him for defamation.
What are the details?
On Sept. 25, police confiscated guns from the home of Alfred Conti, 56, after a surgeon who operated on him, Dr. Matthew Kaufman, and Kaufman's attorney, James Maggs, called authorities to complain that Conti called the lawyer acting agitated.
Conti had been in pain following the neck surgery Kaufman conducted on him, and had an ongoing dispute with the physician. 
After Conti wrote negative online reviews against Kaufman's practice, The Plastic Surgery Center in Shrewsbury, Kaufman and Maggs sued Conti for defamation over the summer..."
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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE

Instapundit Blog Archive DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE
"Watch The Intellectuals.

I’m not interested in hearing Ann Coulter speak, but I am very, very much interested in fighting the mob culture that seeks to shut down speakers like Ann Coulter, in part by howling curses at, and attempting to humiliate, Americans who are interested in what she has to say.

If you think this is going to stay in Berkeley, you’re mistaken. This mob action might not spread to places outside of the coasts, but here’s what’s going to happen: those young people who join the mobs, they are going to graduate and move into the institutions of American life. They are going to carry their militant illiberalism, including their contempt for free speech and open discourse, into those institutions, and are going to do their damnedest to institutionalize them. One thing I have learned from the past few months spent studying Soviet-bloc communism: watch the intellectual class. It is a very big mistake to think that what they say and do only matters in the shadow of the ivory tower.

Read the whole thing.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

Report: Hunter Biden-Linked Firm Received $130 Million in Federal Bailout Loans | Breitbart

Report: Hunter Biden-Linked Firm Received $130 Million in Federal Bailout Loans | Breitbart:

The Washington Examiner reported Thursday that Rosemont Capital, a company led by Hunter Biden’s business partners, received $130 million in federal bailout loans while Joe Biden was in office as vice president in 2009.
The Examiner reported:

Renewable Wreckage: Texas Town’s Push for 100% Wind & Solar Sends Prices Into Orbit – STOP THESE THINGS

Renewable Wreckage: Texas Town’s Push for 100% Wind & Solar Sends Prices Into Orbit – STOP THESE THINGS
"...Put aside the wholesale slaughter of birds, bugs and bats; the destruction of idyllic landscapes and once bustling communities, with residents driven out of their homes by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound.
Then, there’s the inevitable surge in power prices that follows any pursuit of chaotically delivered wind and solar. It’s a night-follows-day kind of thing. 
Just ask a South Australian, Dane or German.
And you might also direct your enquiry to the people of Georgetown, Texas, where power prices jumped by a fifth overnight.

A town in Texas went “100% renewables” and prices jumped 20%
...The real cost of the mythical “100% renewables” does not include a gas fired backup station (which they’re using) — but it does include a huge storage system, transmission lines, and frequency control. They’d need something like 60,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries costing about $2 billion dollars* and maybe a couple of dams too..."

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The Religion of Climatism - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)

The Religion of Climatism - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF):

• A new faith emerges

"Greta Thunberg, the teenager from Stockholm, is the prophet of a new religion sweeping the West. Call it Climatism. 
Like any religion worthy of the name, it comes with its own catechism (what to believe) and eschatology (how the world will end). 
Thunberg’s bible is the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which gives us 12 years to save civilization as we know it.

We have prayed to the false gods of fossil-fired growth, runs Thunberg’s indictment. 
Guilty are the adults who have “lied to us” and given us “false hope.” 
But her children’s crusade—no-school “Fridays for Future”—will show the path to redemption.

And so, the youngsters did. 
...Of course, Greta Thunberg did not come out of nowhere. 
...Why did she succeed so quickly, virtually in a space of months? 
...Greta has a flawless PR machine running in the background at all times.

Environmentalism is not a new thing under the sun. 
It has a long tradition going back to the American Sierra Club, founded in 1892 for purposes both secular and wholesome. 
Among the club’s feats are wondrous national parks such as Yosemite and Yellowstone. 
But I first noticed the creedal nature of the movement 12 years ago in California. 
In Napa Valley, the Gaia Hotel had ditched the Gideon Bible in favor of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

...For the believers, the debate is closed, and exhortation has segued into excommunication..."
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Lunch video-----The Suicide of Europe

Noon-toon

Trump Gets Win After California’s Supreme Court Nixes Law Requiring POTUS To Fork Over His Tax Returns | The Daily Caller

Trump Gets Win After California’s Supreme Court Nixes Law Requiring POTUS To Fork Over His Tax Returns | The Daily Caller:

California’s high court unanimously knocked down a recently passed state law requiring politicians to provide several years of tax returns before running for national office, CNN reported Thursday.
President Donald Trump immediately challenged the law in court after Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed the law in July after it sailed through the state’s Democratically-run legislation. The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Republican Party of California also joined the challenge.

It's the Bee...or is it?-----Radical, Far-Right Library Just Has Books, No Drag Queens | The Babylon Bee

Radical, Far-Right Library Just Has Books, No Drag Queens | The Babylon Bee
PEAKS BAY, WA—A local public library is being called a "cesspool of radical, far-right hate" after it was revealed that the library just has books and no drag queens whatsoever.
"There are no drag queens in sight, not even in the children's section!" said one protester as they started picketing the building Tuesday afternoon, trying to prevent children from going inside and getting brainwashed by information, facts, and logic.
"What kind of nation are we living in when a library just has books!?"
Progressive protesters came up with a solution: burning the books to prevent the rise of this dangerous brand of fascism..."
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Bye, bye Dave.

99+% of Michigan teachers rated "highly effective" or "effective".-----Michigan Capitol Confidential - Posts

Michigan Capitol Confidential - Posts
"The president of the Michigan Education Association argues against using standardized test scores when doing teacher evaluations. 
...if Michigan residents actually reviewed teacher evaluations districts are required by law to produce, they may think Michigan has reached its goal of being a top 10 state in education.
That’s because despite lagging academic progress (Michigan was below average in three of the four National Assessment of Educational Progress assessments in 2019), teachers in this state appear to be an elite class.
...Yet, it would be difficult for Michigan teachers to receive better evaluations overall.

• In 2018-19, 41 percent of the state’s 102,437 public school teachers received an evaluation of “highly effective,” the highest of the four categories. 
• Then 58% of the teachers received the second-highest evaluation of “effective”.
• Just 1% of teachers were rated minimally effective and just 201 teachers were given “ineffective” ratings, the lowest category. 
• There were so few Michigan teachers rated ineffective that statistically it registered at 0%..."

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#1 This day 1973-----Ringo Starr-Photograph

PLEASE READ THIS!-----"I'm Lonely and Scared. Would You Be My Friend?" 90-Year-Old Woman Writes in Heartbreaking Letter to Neighbor

Seek out these lonely people.
Some are old, some are invalids.
Some have mental issues.
Some are in nursing homes.
Many are in our group homes.
So many without a single person who loves or cares for them.
"I'm Lonely and Scared. Would You Be My Friend?" 90-Year-Old Woman Writes in Heartbreaking Letter to Neighbor
“I’m Lonely and Scared. Would You Be My Friend?” 90-Year-Old Woman Writes in Heartbreaking Letter to Neighbor

• One elderly woman’s courage has inspired hundreds of other senior citizens to speak out about their loneliness and isolation and thousands of younger people to reach out to them

"Two years ago a 37-year-old Missouri woman named came home to a hand written note from a neighbor she had never met.

“Would you consider to become my friend. I’m 90 years old — live alone and all my friends have passed away. I am so lonesome and scared. Please — I pray for some one,” it said.

The letter writer, Wanda Mills, also left her address.

The recipient, Marleen Brooks, had lived almost directly across the street from her for a year and a half, but never met her.

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How dumbed down can we get?

FBI Official Is Under Investigation For Allegedly Altering Russia Probe Documents: Report | The Daily Caller

FBI Official Is Under Investigation For Allegedly Altering Russia Probe Documents: Report | The Daily Caller:

The Justice Department is investigating an FBI official for allegedly altering a document as part of the Trump-Russia probe, according to an explosive report.
CNN reported that the altered document was recovered as part of the Justice Department inspector general’s investigation into the FBI’s surveillance activities against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. The outlet cited several people briefed on the matter.

To: CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NYT, Wash Post, USA Today: You said nothing when.....----West Michigan Republicans

West Michigan Republicans--Yan Nolaseng

To: CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NYT, Wash Post, USA Today:

1. You said nothing when Obama used drone strikes to execute people abroad.

2. You said nothing about Russia for 50 years until Trump was inaugurated.

3. You said nothing about Hillary's campaign manager's brother being paid $175,000 to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia.

4. You said nothing when Obama engaged in military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval...

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AM Fruitcake

History for November 24

History for November 24 - On-This-Day.com
Zachary Taylor (U.S.) 1784, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864, Scott Joplin 1868


Dale Carnegie 1888, Garson Kanin 1912, William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925


1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated in the U.S.


1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.

CNN's Chris Cuomo accidentally validates Trump's claim about Ukraine phone call on live TV - TheBlaze

CNN's Chris Cuomo accidentally validates Trump's claim about Ukraine phone call on live TV - TheBlaze:

CNN host Chris Cuomo attempted during a live broadcast to disprove a claim made by President Donald Trump about a phone call that has become a focus of the impeachment inquiry, but appeared to validate that the president was indeed correct.

The way we were-----Love Affair - Everlasting Love (Official Video)