History for December 4

History for December 4 - On-This-Day.com

Francisco Franco 1892

• 1783 - Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.
• 1812 - Peter Gaillard patented the power mower.
• 1875 - William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Democrat, Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled from the U.S.
• 1943 - Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players.
• 1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later.
• 1978 - Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been murdered.
• 1997 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended Latrell Sprewell of the Golden State Warriors for one year for choking and threatening to kill his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.

Ex-USPS Subcontractor Says Colleagues 'Ordered to Backdate Ballots'

Ex-USPS Subcontractor Says Colleagues 'Ordered to Backdate Ballots': 

Former US Postal Service subcontractor Ethan Pease alleged USPS workers were ordered to backdate ballots received too late so that they could be lawfully counted, detailing the allegation during a Tuesday press conference hosted by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society. Pease explained he worked as a temporary hire at United Mailing Services (UMS), a USPS subcontractor in Wisconsin, in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

The way we were-----Caravan Concourse (1966)

Boob-tube-----Decision 2000 with Bush and Gore Cold Open - SNL

Walter E. Williams 1936-2020--RIP American hero!--by Thomas Sowell

Walter E. Williams 1936-2020

"Walter Williams loved teaching. 

Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. 

But not in the classroom.

Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. 

And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.

He was my best friend for half a century...MUST READ ALL!

How they "think"-----COVID turns everyone into potential serial killer by breathing | Opinion

COVID turns everyone into potential serial killer by breathing | Opinion: 

"If I hold my breath when I hug my parents, will that spare me the Greek tragedy of killing them? 

This mental toll will last long after the threat fades.

As coronavirus burns an exponential path of destruction across the American terrain, an insidious blanket of shadow damage is quietly unfurling in its name. 

It’s not just the death and scarred lungs. 

COVID-19 has turned every man, woman and child into a potential serial killer...Read all.

Facebook and Google Are Buying Up Rivals Despite Antitrust Action

Facebook and Google Are Buying Up Rivals Despite Antitrust Action: 

Despite ongoing government antitrust investigations and lawsuits, tech giants Facebook and Google are continuing to finalize deals to purchase rival companies. Axios reports that despite an antitrust lawsuit filed against Google by the DOJ and reports of addiitonal incoming government antitrust lawsuits, tech giants such as Facebook and Google are continuing to finalize deals to purchase smaller rivals. On Monday, Facebook announced that it has purchased a customer service chatbot startup called Kustomer for $1 billion, the same amount the company paid for the photo-sharing app Instagram in 2012.

The Tragedy of Black Education Is New--Walter E. Williams

The Tragedy of Black Education Is New
"Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore’s school system. 

What it found was an utter disgrace.

• In 19 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were proficient in math.
  
• In 13 of Baltimore’s high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math.
• In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading.

Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma—a fraudulent high school diploma.

• The Detroit Public Schools Community District scored the lowest in the nation compared to 26 other urban districts for reading and mathematics at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels.
• A recent video captures some of this miseducation in Milwaukee high schools: In two city high schools, only one student tested proficient in math and none are proficient in English.

Yet, the schools spent a full week learning about “systemic racism” and “Black Lives Matter activism.”...Read all.

World Economic Forum Encourages Plebs To Eat Weeds & Drink Sewage | Zero Hedge

World Economic Forum Encourages Plebs To Eat Weeds & Drink Sewage | Zero Hedge

"The World Economic Forum published two articles on its website which explored how people could be conditioned to get used to the idea of eating weeds, bugs and drinking sewage water in order to reduce CO2 emissions.

Yes, really.

“Finding new plant-based foods is becoming increasingly urgent with the world’s population forecast to grow by two billion in the next 30 years,” states an article authored by Douglas Broom published on the official WEF website

“While farming animals for meat generates 14.5% of total global greenhouse emissions, weeds capture carbon from the atmosphere and can therefore help to control climate change.”

According to Broom, “Weeds can be nutritious and tasty” and are easy to grow.

The article fails to explain why weeds such as dandelion leaves, given that they are so ubiquitous, haven’t been made a staple of western diets already.

“The next time a panhandler approaches your car at a stoplight, point to the tasty and nutritious weeds sprouting up through cracks in the pavement and tell him, “Bon appétit!” writes Dave Blount.

A separate article also published on the WEF website investigates how people can be conditioned to enjoy consuming ‘food’ which on the surface sounds disgusting...Read all.

Lunch video-----YouTube Terminates Free Speech

"Due to censorship, I can't post anything meaningful on YouTube anymore.

My new home is https://newtube.app/user/TonyHeller

Please subscribe today before YouTube deletes my account and you can still find me." 

Noon-toon

Report: Democrats face voter fraud allegations after ballot review by Dem judge erased Republican lead - TheBlaze

Report: Democrats face voter fraud allegations after ballot review by Dem judge erased Republican lead - TheBlaze: 

Democrats are reportedly facing voter fraud accusations in an extremely tight New York congressional race that resulted in a Republican candidate having her lead over a Democratic incumbent completely erased, the Washington Examiner reported.  What are the details? On election night, freshman Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi (N.Y.) trailed Republican challenger Claudia Tenney by over 28,000 votes. Then, as mail-in ballots were counted over the coming weeks, Brindisi's deficit was erased, and he trailed Tenney by just 100-200 votes, the Examiner noted.

Say what?

 

Nasdaq Seeks Board-Diversity Rule That Most Listed Firms Don’t Meet

Nasdaq Seeks Board-Diversity Rule That Most Listed Firms Don’t Meet

"Nasdaq Inc. is pushing to require the thousands of companies listed on its stock exchange to include women, racial minorities and LGBT individuals on their boards, in what would be one of the most forceful moves yet to bring greater diversity to U.S. corporations.

The exchange operator filed a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday that would require listed companies to have at least one woman on their boards, in addition to a director who is a racial minority or one who self-identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. 

Companies that don’t meet the standard would be required to justify their decision to remain listed on Nasdaq...Read all.

Solar is absurd!

 

The Best of Biden Infomercial

#1 This day 1964-----Ringo (Ballad of a Gunfighter) by Lorne Greene

Hysteria? Ummm, that's only 2000 patients per state. 16 per hospital. Math is hard.-----COVID-19: Hospitalizations near 100,000; doctors, nurses, beds needed

USA TODAY

--COVID-19: Hospitalizations near 100,000; doctors, nurses, beds needed

"The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients nationwide stood on the brink of 100,000 Wednesday, an alarming statistic fueling enormous strain on the health care system and its brave but beleaguered workers.

Some experts said the total, compiled by the COVID Tracking Project, could soon double. 

Robert Glatter, an emergency room physician at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital, said the country has reached a "dangerous inflection point."

"I wouldn’t be surprised if we stand at 200,000 people hospitalized in the next month," Glatter told USA TODAY. 

"Explosive growth of the virus has the potential to overrun our ability to provide care. Not only for patients with COVID-19 but also for basic medical conditions."

Many hospitals will be forced to suspend elective surgeries and other routine operations, set up temporary field hospitals and stretch staff to the limit, experts said...Read all. (USA has 6210 hospitals)

"I'll wait..."

 

James O’Keefe Crashes CNN Daily Call With Jeff Zucker, Reveals Months Of Recordings

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-james-okeefe-crashes-cnn-daily-call-with-jeff-zucker-reveals-months-of-recordings?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand&fbclid=IwAR1QsiK9pqM2qfel5_sk-ONLHqmD-Up-GdnOW4r_Njg4A2tILCpwF9uLHvY 

A contractor working at CNN came forward on Monday and released videos that they recorded of CNN President Jeff Zucker appearing to admit that the network is pushing the agenda of the Democrat Party by making all their news coverage about “moves towards impeachment” and telling CNN employees that the only coverage he wants is “impeachment.”

Better to know BEFORE the election-----QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Instapundit--QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

"QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● Shot: Trump’s leaving Biden a Christmas gift of Middle East peace — will Joe throw it in the trash?

● Chaser: Joe Biden’s Dream of a Worse Iran Nuclear Deal.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 3

History for December 3 - On-This-Day.com

Joseph Conrad 1857-- Author

• 1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
• 1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.
• 1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
• 1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
• 1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
• 1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.

CDC to release revised guidance reducing COVID-19 quarantine time from 14 days to 7-10 | Fox News

CDC to release revised guidance reducing COVID-19 quarantine time from 14 days to 7-10 | Fox News: 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to release revised guidance on quarantine time for those who may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus from 14 days to 7 days, for those who have received a negative test, and 10 days for those who have not been tested, Fox News has learned. Fox News obtained an internal CDC document on Tuesday which outlined the proposed changes. A source told Fox News that the changes have been discussed with and approved by the White House Coronavirus Task Force.