History for January 27

History for January 27 - On-This-Day.com
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, Lewis Carroll 1832, Jerome Kern 1885


Hyman Rickover 1900, Donna Reed 1921, Mikhail Baryshnikov 1948


1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.


1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Trey Gowdy slaps down Adam Schiff for his 'wildly stupid trial strategy' in fiery interview - TheBlaze

Trey Gowdy slaps down Adam Schiff for his 'wildly stupid trial strategy' in fiery interview - TheBlaze:

Trey Gowdy lobbed a vehement criticism of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for what he called a "wildly stupid trial strategy."
The former congressman from South Carolina made the comments on Fox News on Thursday during the third day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate.
"The big question is," asked Brett Baier, "is the way that Adam Schiff said it, do voters never get to trust the vote and only lawmakers can decide what the line is, that a president can get kicked out of office for?"

Mark Levin: Maybe House Impeachment 'Pornographers' Ought to Be Expelled

Mark Levin: Maybe House Impeachment 'Pornographers' Ought to Be Expelled:

During an appearance on Fox News Channel on Thursday, nationally syndicated radio talker Mark Levin criticized the merits of the impeachment case brought by the House managers for their inability to precisely define President Donald Trump’s wrongdoing.
Levin took issue with the claims of “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress,” and warned the House of Representatives was attempting to breach the Constitution’s separation of powers.

The way we were-----Memories of 1972. Where Were You. Final Update !!!

Boob-tube-----ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks | ‘You Gotta Be Cool' Official Karaoke Vide...

A Comparison of Two Very Different Protests

A Comparison of Two Very Different Protests
"In mid-January America witnessed two rallies that offer a stark contrast in activism.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, over 22,000 men and women gathered in Richmond, Virginia, to protest the gun laws lawmakers are seeking to enact. 

Organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), the rally far surpassed the 10,000 participants the VCDL expected.

...Mainstream news commentators had warned of possible violence, heralding the event as a gathering of “white supremacists.”
The media and the governor came away looking like buffoons. 
...Now let’s turn to the Women’s March, which took place in D.C. on January 18..."
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Why are tax dollars supporting these self-hating wimps?-----Northeastern admin 'intimidated' to mentor minority students because of her racial 'privilege'

Northeastern admin 'intimidated' to mentor minority students because of her racial 'privilege'

• Cornwall is the assistant director for graduate education operations and the Ph.D. Network at Northeastern University.
• She recently shared her advice on mentorship in an op-ed titled “Advice for Mentoring Underrepresented Minority Students.”

The Northeastern University assistant director for graduate education published an op-ed offering guidance to professionals like herself who are given the "intimidating" task of “serving as a mentor to an underrepresented minority student” as a “middle-aged, middle-class white” person.
...In an effort to “unpack and understand the privilege” that she carries, Cornwall provided six key suggestions for counseling minority students, the last one being to “mindfully call out the elephant in the room,” with elephant here being her so-called “privilege."...
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George Stephanopoulos Makes Throat-Slitting Gesture to Cut Away from Trump Lawyer

George Stephanopoulos Makes Throat-Slitting Gesture to Cut Away from Trump Lawyer:

ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos made a throat-slitting gesture to cut away from Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow during live coverage of the Senate’s impeachment trial Thursday.
According to Tim Graham, executive editor of NewsBusters, Stephanopoulos was spotted on camera making the motion around 3:00 P.M. EST. The clip begins with a Capitol Hill reporter asking Sekulow for his thoughts on Attorney General William Barr, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz having previously made the argument that abuse of power is impeachable.

Michigan attorney general using secretive ‘hate crime unit’ to harass pro-marriage group | News | LifeSite

Michigan attorney general using secretive ‘hate crime unit’ to harass pro-marriage group | News | LifeSite:

• Damning evidence exists of Attorney General Dana Nessel's hostility toward traditional marriage.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, January 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Watching, listening, tracking, and compiling secret dossiers on dissidents until they are finally accused and prosecuted — these are the police-state tactics one might associate with an authoritarian regime in a World War II movie.
Yet, these are the very methods the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) has found are being used by Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel acting in concert with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
...The joint release contained Nessel’s promise to establish a hate crimes unit to fight hate crimes and hate groups that have been allowed to proliferate in Michigan..."
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“John Innes Clark Hare, paraphrasing Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote in 1889: ‘A decline of public morals in the United States would probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.’ What House Democrats are doing is not only unfair to Mr. Trump and a threat to all his successors. It is an attempt to overrule the constitutional process for selecting the president and thus subvert American democracy itself. For the sake of the Constitution, it must be decisively rejected. If Mr. Trump’s policies are unpopular or offensive, the remedy is up to the people, not Congress.”

“I think that it will be easy to recognize when the American Republics begin to degenerate: it will suffice to see whether the number of political judgments increases,”

-Alexis de Tocqueville-

Lunch video-----Propaganda Works!

"Vice is bragging that children believe the climate propaganda which they have been continuously exposed to their entire life"

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Colombian Man in Wuhan: We've Known of Deadly Virus for a Month

Colombian Man in Wuhan: We've Known of Deadly Virus for a Month:

A Wuhan resident from Bogot told Colombian newspapermEl Tiempo on Thursday that residents of the Chinese metropolis were aware of a flu-like illness spreading “before 2019 ended,” weeks before the Communist Party publicly revealed an outbreak of a newly documented deadly coronavirus.
The Chinese communist regime officially alerted the World Health Organization (WHO) of a mystery virus on December 31 but state media were insisting the virus was “no need to panic” as recently as last week. Authorities announced they had sequenced the virus’s genome and shared it with global health professionals on Monday.

The 'Climate Emergency' Is A Threat To Democracy | Climate Dispatch

The 'Climate Emergency' Is A Threat To Democracy | Climate Dispatch
"One week, it’s that old Malthusian David Attenborough telling us ‘the moment of crisis has come’. The next it’s that young Malthusian Greta Thunberg telling us ‘our house is still on fire’ and ‘inaction is fuelling the flames’.
Both express the key elements of today’s environmentalist script. 
The shrill tone.
The end-is-nigh urgency.
The act-now-or-else command.
And underwriting this script, as ever, is the core idea of contemporary environmentalism — namely, the climate emergency.
This is the idea that so imminent and ‘existential’ is the threat of climate change that world leaders need to act as if they are at war.

• They need to declare a state of emergency. 
• There’s no time for deliberation or debate anymore, because, well, ‘our house is on fire’.
• In this state of emergency, all civil liberties and democratic freedoms can be suspended.
•  All dissent and debate silenced.
• Only then will the authorities, using all force necessary..."

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These will determine our next President?

Sweden and its Welfare State in Crisis

Sweden and its Welfare State in Crisis

• Within a generation, Sweden's third largest city, Malmö, will have a population in which the majority of people are of foreign background. How will integrating immigrants take place then, and which group will be integrated into which?
• At the same time, many children born in Sweden learn Swedish so poorly that they cannot really speak it, because there is not enough Swedish spoken in some preschools and grade schools. This change is unfolding at a rapid pace.
• It is not just Swedish society that will look radically different within a decade. The Swedish welfare state, which has been the hallmark of the Swedish state around the world, is also changing or possibly even being phased out.

Many children born in Sweden learn Swedish so poorly that they cannot really speak it, because there is not enough Swedish spoken in some preschools and grade schools. This change is unfolding at a rapid pace. Pictured: Migrant children are in a school in Halmstad, Sweden, February 8, 2016. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

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#1 this day 1972-----American Pie

NBC News Goes Full Fascist: Voting for 'Racist' Trump Is 'Not Only Immoral but Illegal' | News and Politics

NBC News Goes Full Fascist: Voting for 'Racist' Trump Is 'Not Only Immoral but Illegal' | News and Politics
"This is what will happen if the fascist radical left takes over: they will literally attempt to outlaw voting for a candidate they don't approve of.

A week ago, NBC News published an opinion piece that has been largely ignored by conservatives and libertarians. 
That is a mistake because author Noah Berlatsky carefully explains to us what he and his fellow extremists think of democracy itself: they hate it and despise it.

Berlatsky's opening salvo is aimed at Donald Trump's 2016 campaign which he deems "openly racist." 

Oh yes, he writes, "Trump made it clear in his campaign that 'Make America Great Again' meant that America was greater when white people's power was more sweeping and more secure."

That's part one..."
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Media hiding this!

Puerto Rican Protesters Bring A Guillotine To Governor’s Mansion | The Daily Caller

Puerto Rican Protesters Bring A Guillotine To Governor’s Mansion | The Daily Caller:

Puerto Rican protestors carried a “symbolic” guillotine to the American territory’s governor’s mansion on Thursday to protest leaders’ handling of disaster relief supplies.
As earthquakes continue to rock the island leaving thousands without power, Puerto Ricans are still suffering the effects from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Late last week, residents of the city of Ponce discovered “a warehouse filled with water, cots and other unused emergency supplies,” NBC News reported. The unused supplies had been there since 2017.

Not good-----Doctor at hospital in Wuhan dies after treating patients with coronavirus…

Instapundit Blog Archive RELAX, PROBABLY JUST A COINCIDENCE.--JANUARY 25, 2020

"Doctor at hospital in Wuhan dies after treating patients with coronavirus. 

“A doctor working at a hospital in Wuhan, China — treating patients stricken with the coronavirus — died Saturday morning. 
Liang Wudong, 62, died after he was infected with Wuhan coronavirus.”
Related: Is Beijing suppressing the true scale of infections? Nurse treating coronavirus sufferers in China claims 90,000 people have already been infected.
We can’t know how bad it is in China. 
We can only know that the PRC government will lie about how bad it is, and the worse it is, the more they will lie.
UPDATE: Weird, I searched N95 respirators on Amazon and an awful lot of them appear to be backordered.
On the other hand, there’s this: Don’t buy the media hype over the new China virus.
ANOTHER UPDATE: On the other hand, in the comments people are invoking John Ringo. I don’t want to live in a John Ringo novel.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds" 

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