History for April 26

History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com

Bernard Malamud 1914 - Author of novels and short stories

• 1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.
• 1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.
• 1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio in St. Louis, MO.
• 1937 - German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force.
• 1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia.
• 1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.

Women's Advocates Alarmed as Soros-backed San Francisco DA Drops Domestic Violence Charges

Women's Advocates Alarmed as Soros-backed San Francisco DA Drops Domestic Violence Charges: 

Women’s groups are expressing alarm as San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has decreased the rate at which domestic violence charges are filed, allowing many suspects to go free and potentially putting women and children in danger.

Boudin was backed by billionaire left-wing donor George Soros in his 2019 election race — one of several left-wing prosecutors Soros has funded in a bid to overturn criminal justice in the U.S., long before the George Floyd case.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Explains It's Not Racist to Require ID for Voting

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Explains It's Not Racist to Require ID for Voting: 

Am I to believe that black Americans who have overcome the atrocities of slavery, who were victorious in the civil rights movement, and now sit in the highest levels of this government could not figure out how to get a free ID to secure their votes? That they need to be coddled by politicians because they don’t think we can figure out how to make our voices heard?

Are you kidding me? The notion that people must be protected from a free ID to secure their votes is not just insane—it is insulting.

And let me tell you something about this. This doesn’t have anything to do with justice, this has everything to do with power.

Ohio State University students stage sit-in protest, demand school sever ties with Columbus police for shooting of knife-wielding teen - TheBlaze

Ohio State University students stage sit-in protest, demand school sever ties with Columbus police for shooting of knife-wielding teen - TheBlaze: 

Students at Ohio State University staged a sit-in protest Wednesday over the fatal police shooting of a teen girl wielding a knife who attempted to stab two people. The protesters demanded that the university sever ties with the Columbus Division of Police, the Ohio law enforcement department whose officer shot and killed 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant at the exact moment she lunged with a knife at another girl.

The way we were-----The smell of Mimeographs and Dittos - Life in America

"America" today-----Suspect in McDonald’s deadly drive-thru shooting of 7-year-old girl shot...

Data Doesn’t Support Narrative Of 'School Sports Caused The Surge'

Data Doesn’t Support Narrative Of 'School Sports Caused The Surge'

• 
  Media outlets have claimed that youth sports are responsible for the latest surge of COVID-19 cases in Michigan.
• WDET carried an April 7 story with the headline: “Michigan’s Latest Wave of COVID-19 Infections Being Driven by Youth Sports, Child Care.”
• “Unlike previous surges, Michigan’s latest wave of COVID-19 infections is being driven by young people,” the article said.
  

But state data doesn’t back up that claim.

Instead, it shows there have been only 1,189 cases from K-12 sports and youth club/travel sports from Jan. 1 to Apr. 17. 

That’s 0.35% of all cases over that period...Read all!

"...more unionized..." That's the political driver folks. Money and power to a few.-----AOC Introduces a New and Improved Green New Deal

AOC Introduces a New and Improved Green New Deal

"With Representative Ocasio-Cortez reintroducing her Green New Deal bill and Joe Biden pledging to halve carbon emissions in the U.S. in less than 10 years, and after the “Climate Summit” goes virtual on April 22, America is going to be so green we’ll be mistaken for an artichoke.

There’s no time to lose.

 The earth is doomed unless we stop poisoning our atmosphere with the exhalation of so many politicians and world leaders.

...“We’re going to transition to a 100 percent carbon free-economy, that is 

• more unionized, 
• more just, 
• more dignified and 
• guarantees more health care and 
• housing than we ever have before,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference overlooking the National Mall. 

“Do we intend on sending a message to the Biden administration that we need to go bigger and bolder? The answer is absolutely yes.”

Joe Biden Warns July Fourth May Be Canceled if Americans Don't Do What They're Told - Louder With Crowder

Joe Biden Warns July Fourth May Be Canceled if Americans Don't Do What They're Told - Louder With Crowder: 

Last month, Joe Biden addressed the American people. We were told if we train, say our prayers, and eat our vitamins, we may be allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July. But only in small groups and only if we do what he tells us to do. I'm sure you remember what he told us to do. I'd say it myself, but I'm trying to work around the Big Tech hall monitors. Biden has been busy for the past month pouring gasoline over racial tensions and creating a crisis on the border where there wasn't a crisis. But don't think the old man has forgotten about July Fourth!

How will Biden's climate plan affect everyday Americans | Daily Mail Online

How will Biden's climate plan affect everyday Americans | Daily Mail Online

How Biden's climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH, cost $3.5K a year per person in taxes, force you to spend $55K on an electric car and 'crush' American jobs

• Joe Biden announced the goal to cut emissions by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, at the start of a two-day climate summit on Thursday 
  
• He vowed the plan, which would set the US on a path of a zero emissions economy by no later than 2050, would create jobs and boost economies
• But he is yet to release any firm details on exactly how such a plan will affect the daily lives of ordinary Americans 
• It could prompt sweeping changes that could affect how Americans eat, drive and heat their homes 
• While Biden hasn't released details, experts and recent studies have laid out what would need to change by 2030 to reach the goal.

...Americans may have to cut their red meat consumption by a whopping 90 percent and cut their consumption of other animal based foods in half. 

Gradually making those changes by 2030 could see diet-related greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 50 percent, according to a study by Michigan University's Center for Sustainable Systems...Read all.

Woke Levi Strauss CEO Condemns GA Voter ID Law- Can’t Explain Why It’s Racist

Woke Levi Strauss CEO Condemns GA Voter ID Law- Can’t Explain Why It’s Racist: 

• Levi Strauss CEO Confronted At Shareholder Meeting-Can't Answer

"Davis Soderberg of the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) asked Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh, “Can you explain specifically how requiring voters to show ID to avoid fraud is racist..."

From comments: "Levi’s are not made in America. They are made in China, and they sell more in China than here. Bergh has more allegiance to China than he does America."

Lunch video-----China: Friend or Foe?

Noon-toon

 

Feds Open New Migrant Child Detention Site in Long Beach, California

Feds Open New Migrant Child Detention Site in Long Beach, California: 

Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the opening of another Emergency Intake Site (EIS) to move increasing numbers of unaccompanied children out of Customs and Border Protection custody. The development follows recent announcements by HHS to address the surge in unaccompanied children flooding the southern border.

In a world not gone insane, this would be called child abuse.

 

MIT researchers say you're no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet in new study

MIT researchers say you're no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet in new study

KEY POINTS

• An MIT study showed that people who maintain 60 feet of distance from others indoors are no more protected than if they socially distanced by just 6 feet.
• According to the researchers, other calculations of the risk of indoor transmission have omitted too many factors to accurately quantify that risk.
• “We need scientific information conveyed to the public in a way that is not just fear mongering but is actually based in analysis,” the author of the study said.

The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is
as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet — even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world...Read all.

Don't know much 'bout history.....

 

Why Wind and Solar Energy Are Doomed to Failure | Power Line

Why Wind and Solar Energy Are Doomed to Failure | Power Line
"...a paper published last week by Center of the American Experiment argues that land use constraints are the most basic reason why wind and solar are inexorably destined to fail. 

The paper, titled Not In Our Backyard, is authored by internationally recognized energy expert Robert Bryce, producer of the terrific documentary Juice: How Electricity Explains The World and the book A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
Robert’s paper acknowledges that there are multiple reasons why wind and solar energy will never meet America’s energy needs, but focuses on the particular problem of land use:
'Of course, other factors, including the incurable intermittency of renewables as well as the massive amounts of materials, including steel, concrete, copper, and rare earth elements, will limit the deployment of wind and solar. 

But the biggest barrier is the land-use problem. 

The ferocity and extent of rural land-use conflicts are showing that any attempt to convert the domestic economy to run solely on renewables is destined to fail.'
Why is land use such a problem for wind and solar, but not for coal, nuclear or natural gas? 

Because wind and solar are pathetically low-intensity energy sources, as reflected in this chart from Bryce’s paper:

...Because wind and solar produce so little energy per square mile, an enormous amount of land would have to be devoted to panels and turbines if we seriously tried to get all of our present electricity needs from those weak sources...
“Green” energy holds political sway, which has made a relative handful of people (largely non-Americans and lobbyists) immensely wealthy, while impoverishing utility rate payers and taxpayers–that is to say, the rest of us. This insanity will continue until voters wise up, or–more likely, I am afraid–until the laws of physics, along with land use and raw materials constraints, make it blindingly obvious that the “green dream” is just that. A nightmare.
By that time, an astonishing amount of wealth will have been destroyed...Read all.

#1 This day 1956-----Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel - I Was The One 1956 in STEREO(e)

EQUITY!-----Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan | Fox News

Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan | Fox News

• State says framework includes 'differentiated instruction' catered to the needs of the child

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would in the school system.

...A Loudoun parent who spoke on the condition of anonymity worried that the changes would "lower standards for all students in the name of equity."

...Ian Prior, a Loudoun parent and former Trump administration official, similarly panned the move as a way to "stifle advancement for gifted students and set them back as they prepare for advanced mathematics in college. This is critical race theory in action and parents should be outraged."...Read all.

How they "think".

 

Biden Considering Offering Asylum to People Displaced by Climate

Biden Considering Offering Asylum to People Displaced by Climate: 

President Joe Biden’s administration may provide immigration rights and citizenship to many foreign “climate migrants” who claim they are being displaced by climate change, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week.

Choose your child's entertainment.. or they will!-----Pixar Animation House Releases Casting Call for '14-Year-Old Transgender Female' Cartoon Character The Gateway Pundit

Pixar Animation House Releases Casting Call for '14-Year-Old Transgender Female' Cartoon Character The Gateway Pundit

"Pixar Animation Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, has released a casting call seeking someone to portray a “14-year-old transgender female” in an upcoming cartoon.

The studio is seeking someone who can “authentically portray” the character.

“Pixar is casting a youth voice-over role for an upcoming animated project. The character, Jess, is a 14-year-old transgender girl. She’s compassionate, funny, and always has your back,” the casting call says.

The ad continues on to say that they are “looking for actresses 12-17 years old who: Are enthusiastic, outgoing, funny, and energetic. Feel comfortable acting in front of a microphone. Can authentically portray a 14-year-old transgender girl.”

The call says that if you know someone who fits the description, her “legal guardian” should contact them....Read all.

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