History for May 24

History for May 24 - On-This-Day.com

Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) 1941 - Musician, singer, songwriter (Traveling Wilburys)

• 1764 - Bostonian lawyer James Otis denounced "taxation without representation" and called for the colonies to unite in demonstrating their opposition to Britain’s new tax measures.
• 1816 - Emamual Leutze was born in Germany. He was most famous for his paintings "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "Columbus Before the Queen".
• 1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America's first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was "What hath God wrought?"
• 1883 - After 14 years of construction the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic.
• 1935 - The Cincinnati Reds played the Philadelphia Phillies in the first major league baseball game at night. The switch for the floodlights was thrown by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
• 1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.
• 1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminate.

Exclusive Photo: Gretchen Whitmer Violates Own Coronavirus Orders at Dive Bar

Exclusive Photo: Gretchen Whitmer Violates Own Coronavirus Orders at Dive Bar: 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) hit the bar this weekend and violated her own coronavirus orders, according to a photo Breitbart News has exclusively obtained. Whitmer and a large group of friends, including her appointed chief operations officer, Tricia Foster, visited the Landshark in East Lansing, violating her restaurant orders in the process, according to a photo one of the attendees posted on Facebook.

Steven Crowder SUES YouTube: 'The Roman Empire couldn't fathom the POWER' of today's Big Tech - TheBlaze

Steven Crowder SUES YouTube: 'The Roman Empire couldn't fathom the POWER' of today's Big Tech - TheBlaze: 

Recently, YouTube gave Crowder's account its second hard strike, meaning that the next one will result in a permanent ban. He joined Glenn Beck on the radio program to explain what this would mean for the future of conservative media and how he's fighting back. "We have filed a legal notice of a lawsuit and an immediate injunction against YouTube," Crowder explained. "This is the big one. This is the big one with the Roman Empire at this point. As a matter of fact, the Roman Empire couldn't fathom the power of Alphabet, who owns YouTube and Google."

It's war!-----China's Rush Into Africa, Explained.

Two weeks – trust us.

Two weeks – trust us.
"Afternoon there, neighbor!
There's a new disease in town, and I wanted you to know about it.
It gives the chills and sweats and headaches and fevers and diarrhea and a cough and it can kill you.
Not a cold or a flu, but a new thing.
It can kill most of us, it turns out.
Very dangerous.
We're going to have to lock you down, in fact.
For your well-being. 

Two weeks is all we ask to flatten this curve.
What's a curve? 

Funny you ask.
It's when too many people get put into the hospital.
We just want to slow the numbers.
Whittle them down a bit.
Lock you out of work and church and play for two weeks.
Totally worth it, we promise.
What do you mean, you don't have any symptoms?
It causes all symptoms and no symptoms, and the people with no symptoms are the most dangerous people.
In fact, wear this mask. 

Put it on your kids.
Pull them out of school and hide them from the other kids...Read all.

Criticizing the Squad Is Not Permitted | Power Line

Criticizing the Squad Is Not Permitted | Power Line

"Alpha News is Minnesota’s scrappy alternative news service...Today Alpha reported that Facebook has threatened to ban its page for posting a cartoon that Facebook found offensive:

Facebook has threatened to ban Alpha News from its platform for publishing an anti-Hamas cartoon.

The Alpha News Facebook page now has “reduced distribution and other restrictions” for publishing a cartoon from syndicated cartoonist A.F. Branco, whose political satire is shared widely by conservative outlets, including Fox News.

The cartoon in question was critical of Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for their commentary on the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

That, of course, is the point. You can criticize Hamas on Facebook, but you can’t criticize the Squad. This is the cartoon:

...But at a bare minimum, charging the Squad with being apologists for Hamas is fair comment...Read all.

Policies Have Consequences: Five Things You Should Know | American Center for Law and Justice

Policies Have Consequences: Five Things You Should Know | American Center for Law and Justice: 

One often hears the statement, “Elections have consequences.”  That political aphorism is such a given, it reminds me of another one from my Army career:  “That is a blinding flash of the obvious!”  However, just as important and true is this maxim: “Policies have consequences.”  Whatever the motives and the intended results of the Biden Administration as to their policies—some of the policies and actions have dire consequences for every American.  The United States is facing a plethora of challenges and crises in national security, economics, and foreign policy directly related to the Executive orders and policies of President Joe Biden.  Biden’s presidency is beginning to resemble Jimmy Carter’s—where matters beyond his control were exacerbated by weak reactions and poor policies.

In a mere four months, here is a short list of problems that seem to be self-inflicted by the new Administration.

Biden's tax cut for the wealthy ain't "inadvertent"!-----Part 2--EDITORIAL: Joe Biden and the magic money nightmare - The Spectator World

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden and the magic money nightmare - The Spectator World

"...Biden is under serious pressure to raise, or abolish altogether, the cap on how much state and local tax (SALT) taxpayers can deduct from their federal tax bills. Under Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, this was limited to $10,000. 

Democrats hate the SALT cap because it discriminates against taxpayers who live in high-tax states like New York. 

But if the SALT cap were eliminated altogether, estimates the Joint Committee on Taxation, it could cost the federal government $88.7 billion in revenue, with the rich benefiting most. 

How ironic that Biden could scupper his own spending plans through an inadvertent tax cut for the wealthy...Read all.

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden and the magic money nightmare - The Spectator World

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden and the magic money nightmare - The Spectator World:

• It’s unfashionable to worry about inflation. It’s also right

"'We have nothing to fear but fear itself,’ said Franklin D. Roosevelt famously, at his first inauguration in the depths of the Great Depression in 1933. 

What he didn’t allow for was the danger of overconfidence. 

Yes, a country can talk its way into recession, but it can also print and spend its way into an inflationary nightmare. 

That is the worrying prospect now facing America as Joe Biden, a president often compared to FDR, tries to tempt the country into a post-Covid spending spree courtesy of magic money.

It has become deeply unfashionable to worry about inflation. 

• According to proponents of modern monetary theory, what happened in Weimar Germany and more recently in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe somehow is not relevant to developed economies. 
• Governments can print their way out of economic crises without worrying about debt or inflation. 
• Why, look what happened after the 2008-09 crisis when governments first started quantitative easing, they say: we had no inflation problem after that, however the Cassandras cried. 
• Biden’s various multitrillion plans, including that $1,400 of helicopter money to every American who earns up to $75,000 a year, are not risky bets but wise and equitable policies which will return the US to growth and a fairer economy...Read all.

Lunch video-----Whole Foods' John Mackey: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism

Noon-toon

 

Former FBI director reportedly gave $100k to Biden grandchildren's trust, emailed Hunter that he'd like to work 'with you and dad' - TheBlaze

Former FBI director reportedly gave $100k to Biden grandchildren's trust, emailed Hunter that he'd like to work 'with you and dad' - TheBlaze: 

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to a trust for the grandchildren of President Joe Biden, according to newly surfaced emails. The financial contribution to Biden's family allegedly happened in 2016, when Biden was vice president. The ex-FBI director reportedly sent emails to Hunter Biden expressing that Freeh would like to work "with you and dad."

We know what really happened!

 

Judge sides with Biden, rules that Christian college must open women’s bedrooms and showers to biological males​

Judge sides with Biden, rules that Christian college must open women’s bedrooms and showers to biological males​

"A federal judge this week rejected a Christian college's request to bypass new rules under the Biden administration that force religious schools to open their dormitories — including shared bedrooms and shower spaces — to members of the opposite sex.

...The school filed a lawsuit in April arguing that the Biden administration was forcing religious schools to violate their beliefs by opening up female dormitories to biological males, and vice-versa, under subject of punitive damages, six-figure fines, and attorneys' fees.

...The directive holds that entities covered by the Fair Housing Act cannot discriminate against someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. 

Meaning that a transgender person who is biologically male but identifies as a female must be permitted to share dormitory spaces such as bedrooms, bathrooms, and showers with female students...Read all.

Not just the left. China too!

 

PUSHBACK: Interest in Veterans Motorcycle Ride Skyrockets After Pentagon Denies Parking Permit

PUSHBACK: Interest in Veterans Motorcycle Ride Skyrockets After Pentagon Denies Parking Permit

"During President Donald Trump’s tenure, America’s veterans were cared for better than at any time in recent memory.

...We have a new administration now — another Democratic regime — and so gone, too, are Trump’s love and respect for our men and women who served their country so selflessly in uniform.

That stark difference was laid bare earlier this spring when Biden’s Pentagon revoked a license for a major veteran’s motorcycle group to gather on on the parking lot of the Defense Department to kick off their annual ride.

Because they are vets, however, they didn’t simply roll over and take it: In fact, this year’s event promises to be bigger than ever...Read all.

#1 This day 1965-----The Beatles - Ticket To Ride

Yes, The Bee .... or is it???-----White Liberal Shocked As Black Man Gets ID

Hypocrites!

 

Fed up with leftist politics, 5 Oregon counties vote to join Idaho - TheBlaze

Fed up with leftist politics, 5 Oregon counties vote to join Idaho - TheBlaze: 

The state of Oregon is literally driving residents away with its progressive policies. On Tuesday, thousands of residents from rural counties in the Beaver State voted for their elected officials to consider seceding from the state and becoming part of conservative neighbor Idaho.

A once great American city on its way to becoming "Detroit".-----Minneapolis shooting: 2 dead, 8 others injured, police say

Minneapolis shooting: 2 dead, 8 others injured, police say

"A shooting in downtown Minneapolis left two men dead and eight other people injured early Saturday, police say.

...No arrests were immediately announced, but police say there is no active threat, according to a tweet.

Police spokesperson John Elder told the Star Tribune that the shooting resulted from an argument between two men in a crowd of dozens of clubgoers.

"It's the same thing we've said over and over again, bottom line is people need to put their guns down," Elder said...

The shooting was not the only one in the city overnight. 

The Star Tribune reported five people were shot and one died in separate incidents that night, bringing the city's homicide total to 31 so far in 2021...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 23

History for May 23 - On-This-Day.com

Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) 1810 - Journalist, critic, women's rights activist

• 1618 - The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.
• 1701 - In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy.
• 1785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
• 1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
• 1879 - The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University.
• 1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
• 1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
• 1998 - British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.

At least 12 Republicans defy Nancy Pelosi's mask mandate