History for July 29

History for July 29 - On-This-Day.com
Booth Tarkington 1869, Benito Mussolini 1883, Marcel Bich 1914 - Manufacturer and co-founder of Bic.


Robert Horton 1924, Ken Burns 1953, Martina McBride 1966


1958 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by the U.S. Congress.


1981 - England's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married.

Jim Jordan Video Debunks 'Peaceful' Protests, Shows Violence in Streets

Jim Jordan Video Debunks 'Peaceful' Protests, Shows Violence in Streets:

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) debunked the claim that the protests in the name of George Floyd have been “peaceful,” playing a video during a hearing that showed scene after scene of violence and destruction in America’s streets.
The six-minute video began with nearly two dozen clips of mainstream media journalists and Democrat politicians claiming the protests have been “peaceful.”

Watch -- ER Doctor: 'We Are Not Overwhelming the Health Care System'

Watch -- ER Doctor: 'We Are Not Overwhelming the Health Care System':

An emergency room doctor joined her colleagues for Monday’s “White Coat Summit” in Washington, DC, as part of a greater effort to address the “massive disinformation campaign” around the Chinese coronavirus, reminding the general public that we are “not overwhelming the health care system.”
Dr. Simone Gold spoke at Monday’s “White Coat Summit” and discussed the negative effects of the mass lockdowns while addressing critics, some of whom are calling for renewed lockdown restrictions.

The way we were-----Cher & Chaz Bono - All I Really Want to Do (Live on The Cher Show, 1975)

Boob-tube-----David Cassidy/Shirley Jones - This is your life

What could possibly go wrong-----No Social Distancing Please, We're Rioting: 100,000 Sharpton Rally Planned for D.C. | Frontpagemag

No Social Distancing Please, We're Rioting: 100,000 Sharpton Rally Planned for D.C. | Frontpagemag
"There are two Americas and two sets of rules.

• If you're an American, you have to #CowerSafelyAtHome and #WearaMask. 
• But if you're a leftist going to Black Lives Matter riots, no rules apply. 
• If you're an American and travel to D.C., you must self-quarantine. 
• But if you're attending a Black Lives Matter rally, you're good.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bower has unveiled a list of 27 states deemed “high-risk areas” -- meaning those traveling from them must self-quarantine for 14 days if arriving in the nation's capital.

As part of the District's effort to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the quarantine requirement was officially announced via an order from Bowser on Friday that did not specify which states were affected. It defined “high-risk areas” as “locations where the [seven-day] moving average daily new COVID-19 case rate is ... 10 or more per ... 100,000 persons.” 

Not that this is going to interfere with Sharpton's 100,000 man hate rally.

Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) has scheduled a march (Aug. 28) with an estimated 100,000 participants, 1,000 buses, a host of jumbotrons and lighting equipment, and at least 10 tents on or near the National Mall, according to a permit application from early June obtained by DCist.

The event, officially titled the “Get Off Our Necks” Commitment March on Washington, already has at least 40,000 registrants, and some hotels nearby have already been sold out, according to NAN’s D.C. Bureau Chief Ebonie Riley...Read all.

COVID-19 Facts That Flatten the Fear

COVID-19 Facts That Flatten the Fear--Updated as of 7-20-20

• The CDC recently revised its death rate estimate down to just 0.4 percentCOVID-19 Facts That Flatten the Fear.
• One percent of counties in the country account for nearly half of all Covid-19 deaths nationally.
• Ten percent of counties account for nearly 90 percent of all deaths.
• Roughly 30 percent of the counties in the country haven’t experienced a single coronavirus death.
• Nearly half of all coronavirus deaths have come in nursing homes.
• In many states, nursing homes and assisted living facilities account for far more than half of all deaths—around 80 percent in Minnesota and around 70 percent in Ohio.
• More than 80 percent of all Covid-19 deaths are among those over 65 years old.
• Those aged under 55 account for just eight percent of all Covid-19 deaths.
• If you are 34 years old or younger, your probability of dying from Covid-19 as of June 3rd was 0.0005 percent.
• The overwhelming majority of deaths are among those with at least one other underlying medical condition. For six percent of the deaths, Covid-19 was the only cause mentioned.
• Most ICU admissions—in some cases 75 percent or more—aren’t Covid-related.
• The resumption of elective—yet vital—surgeries is contributing to increased ICU-utilization rates around the country.
• More children die each year from the flu than Covid-19.
• Children rarely display serious symptoms from Covid-19 or infect others. Some scientists believe children are a “brake” on transmissions.
• After European schools reopened, there was no observable increase in Covid-19 cases.
• The American Association of Pediatrics and the National Academy of Sciences conclude that children can safely return to school.

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BOMBSHELL: Leaked documents reveal Seattle City Council's plan to abolish FAR MORE than the police - TheBlaze

BOMBSHELL: Leaked documents reveal Seattle City Council's plan to abolish FAR MORE than the police - TheBlaze:

On the heels of the Seattle City Council's vehement support for cutting the police department by 50%, the council's next plan is to abolish prisons, municipal courts, and ultimately the entire criminal justice system, according to several documents leaked from the King County Executive's Office in Seattle.
The documents, which read like a critical race theory paper or a far-left diversity training pamphlet, detail a plan that has apparently been years in the making. They argue America's criminal justice system is a "white supremacist institution" that must be dismantled entirely.

MURTAUGH: In 100 Days, The Choice Will Be Clear: President Trump Should Be Reelected | The Daily Caller

MURTAUGH: In 100 Days, The Choice Will Be Clear: President Trump Should Be Reelected | The Daily Caller:

Every election is a choice, and over the next 100 days voters will see the clear differences between President Trump and Joe Biden. While the president has an excellent record of achievement on behalf of the American people, Biden has been a failure over 47 years in Washington and is showing stunning weakness in the face of the extreme left of his party. Over the final stretch of the campaign, it will be obvious that Biden is an empty vessel, a Trojan Horse candidate, being used by radicals to push their own agenda through a candidate they control.
We don’t have to guess what the economy would be like under Joe Biden, because as vice president he oversaw the slowest economic “recovery” since the Great Depression, with sluggish job growth and stagnant wages.

"This is one of the better answers I’ve read to the Left’s claims of fascism."--FIGHTING FASCISM--Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today

FIGHTING FASCISM by @proteinwisdom

“The left isn’t fighting against fascism. 

Instead, they are fighting FOR authoritarianism. 

• They claim that their political message transcends the law; that it allows them to control cities; that it allows them to destroy property; that it justifies their designs on canceling heretics; that it permits them to block roads, create no-go zones for non-rioters, prosecute those who stand against them while themselves avoiding persecution.

Leftist-run cities have shown what happens when police and federal law enforcement are demonized and unsupported by elected leaders; when local leadership can seize “emergency powers” — 

• then pick and choose who to punish: rioters are exempt from lockdowns; you can sing in the streets but not in churches; masks are required, but not for them.
• They can tell you what counts as a substantive meal, essentially holding businesses hostage to their arbitrary and incoherent edicts: pot dispensaries and large warehouse stores can open; gyms and restaurants cannot.
• They decide what hate is; what racism is; who is unclean; who is deserving of both punishment and reverence. They presume to control and police every narrative, and in that way, control and police every person.
• They reduce you to your skin color, your “gender” — but mostly, to your politics: individualism, respect for rule of law, constitutional order and the color-blind equanimity that comes with it — all of these things are reduced to the cancer of “whiteness.”

“Systemic racism” is their empty catechism; it creates a Kafka trap in which you are defined by your original sin of birth, but you can neither receive absolution or forgiveness. 

In short, you are defined by your birth, your color, your sex — and there is no escape: either you are born an oppressor who must be fought, or you are born a victim entitled to perpetual grievance, regardless of how much power you actually enjoy.

This is the very structure of authoritarianism run through populist fascism. 
It is where the left always takes you. 
The left has brought back segregation as “racial separatism”; they’ve stoked racial and class division; they’ve sought to control speech, which controls thought which ultimately, is meant to constrain you.

While the left riots in the streets, pulls down statues, demands the sacrificial death of pancake salespeople & rice peddlers, & calls for UNEQUAL treatment under the law, with special dispensation for favored identity groups they bellow the self-righteous claim that it is THEY who are fighting fascism. 

But know this: fascism is what they ARE. 
And they prefer that system because they have presumed to be its leadership class, its enforcement mechanism, and its performative philosophers…

So fight. 
Liberty and individualism are our birthrights. 
Refuse — ever — to surrender either.”

I would add that the Left’s claims of fascism are pure projection. 

It is the Left who are the fascists. 

And it is everyday Americans who know their life may be in danger if they wear a red hat. 

Their cars and homes may be vandalized and even burned if they put out the wrong yard signs or bumper stickers. 

Who may be terrorized, beaten, and made to kiss the feet of well-organized armed rioters, with no protection from the police?

Who are the fascists?"

Bad news for democrats?-----Alan Reynolds - "Federal guidelines advise that states wait until...

Alan Reynolds - "Federal guidelines advise that states wait until...
"Federal guidelines advise that states wait until they experience a downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period before proceeding to a phased opening. 

...In [this Johns Hopkins] visualization, states that appear in shades of orange have experienced a growth in new cases over the past two weeks. 

States that appear in shades of green have seen declines in cases over the same period of time. 

The shade of the colors indicates the size of each state’s growth or decline in new cases; the darker the shade, the bigger the change."
"Green" States in with a declining 14-day trend of new cases include, among others, Texas, Florida, Arizona and (most recently) California.
Nearly all Western states except Oklahoma are trending flat or down, as well as most of the South except Louisiana and Mississippi. 

In the East, only Rhode Island has a declining trend of new COVID-19 cases.
If this sounds like the exact opposite of what you've been hearing from the news, don't blame the facts.

See New Case Trends in all 50 States

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America Is Reopening. But have we flattened the curve?

See New Case Trends in all 50 States

Lunch video-----Yugoslavian Issues Warning To All Americans

"Every Race Riot in Memory Has a Significant Sequence of Events Which Led Up To Them.
Are These Events Political Hit Jobs?
We Have Entered A New Era Of Propaganda Where Future Crises Build On The Restrictions Of Freedom Caused By The Virus Of Subversion
Communists Use Ideological Subversion To Control Us
But What If We Know How To Overcome
This is a brief introduction into how communism infiltrated all governments of the world."

Noon-toon

Mostly Peaceful: Riots in Democrat-Run Cities in 'Solidarity' with Portland

Mostly Peaceful: Riots in Democrat-Run Cities in 'Solidarity' with Portland:

Riots took place in Democrat-run cities across the United States on Saturday as Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists took to the streets in solidarity with demonstrators in Portland who have confronted federal law enforcement nightly.

Your tax dollars forcing this hate on our students!-----Gaj Wilcox - In critical race theory it is racist to deny the...

Gaj Wilcox - In critical race theory it is racist to deny the...

"In critical race theory it is racist to deny the intrinsic advantage of white privilege or to claim to be colour blind. 

As James Lindsay, a leading American critic of critical race theory and social justice puts it, 

• “Notice race? Because you’re racist. 
• Don’t? Because you’re privileged, thus racist.” 

Self-flagellation is meant to be the only choice.
Critical race theory is an anti-Western doctrine, a close cousin of modern social justice and an offshoot of pure critical theory, which in turn is derived from Marxism.
...Once limited to the academy where it was thought they could do no harm, these ideologies have now infiltrated government, media, schools, business, and the law...Read all.

Critical race theory is an anti-Western doctrine, a close cousin of modern social justice and an offshoot of critical theory, which is derived from Marxism.

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In Critical Race Theory, White Self-Flagellation Is the Only Choice

Critical race theory is an anti-Western doctrine, a close cousin of modern social justice and an offshoot of critical theory, which is derived from Marxism.

Critical race theory is an anti-Western doctrine, a close cousin of modern social justice and an offshoot of critical theory, which is derived from Marxism.

Portland police!