History for April 13

History for April 13 - On-This-Day.com

Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 3rd U.S. President

• 1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
• 1949 - Philip S. Hench and associates announced that cortizone was an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
• 1959 - A Vatican edict prohibited Roman Catholics from voting for Communists.
• 1976 - The U.S. Federal Reserve introduced $2 bicentennial notes.
• 1981 - Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy." Cooke relinquished the prize two days later after admitting she had fabricated the story.
• 1999 - Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk's assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes" in 1998.
• 2002 - Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, resigned a day after taking office. Thousands of protesters had protested over the ousting of president Hugo Chavez.

Elon Musk Decides NOT to Join Twitter's Board of Directors - Louder With Crowder

Elon Musk Decides NOT to Join Twitter's Board of Directors - Louder With Crowder: 

Elon Musk buying a simple ownership stake in Twitter is turning into an episode of "Days of Our Lives." Now, we wake up to Twitter CEO Parag "Stefano DiMera" Agrawal announcing Musk will NOT be joining Twitter's board of directors. No, I don't think the story is going to end there.

The way we were-----The Great Syphilis Pandemic's True Origins | The Syphilis Enigma | Timeline

An ABANDONED Southwest Detroit Neighborhood: Delray, Detroit, Michigan 5K.

Freedom Of Movement | Global Liberty Media - The Counter Narrative

Freedom Of Movement | Global Liberty Media - The Counter Narrative link

"...If you have gas money, plane or train fare, or the time to walk, you can go wherever you want. 

 But this freedom is under a bit of an attack. 

 Let me explain.

• Big government planners, those that want to run most of your lives, envision a US where the majority of the population lives within its large cities, or suburbs of them. 
• Where personal transportation isn’t needed or desirable. Movement is limited to public transportation methods: bus, commuter train, trolley, subway, etc. 

Under the guise of ‘lowering carbon emissions’, these folks would love to limit autos (and maybe even plane travel) to the very important and very wealthy (them)...Read all.

What if...-----'Red Dawn': A Movie for Our Time - Intellectual Takeout

'Red Dawn': A Movie for Our Time - Intellectual Takeout  link

"The other day I was revisiting the 1984 flick Red Dawn when I had one of those revelations that leave me feeling a bit stupid and more than a bit stunned.           

The film’s storyline is pretty simple: It’s the Cold War, and Russia, Cuba, and Nicaragua launch an attack on the United States....      

As I rewatched Red Dawn, so many scenes matched the circumstances of the last few years that the movie seemed almost prophetic in its message. 

What if we are now undergoing our own “Red Dawn,” except this is an invasion without machine guns and war planes, but with the same ideas of destruction and conquest of the American Republic in mind?..."

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Dallas Airport Deploys Giant Robots to Catch Unmasked Travelers

Dallas Airport Deploys Giant Robots to Catch Unmasked Travelers: 

As air travel is getting back to pre-pandemic levels and airports are getting busy, travelers are still having to mask.

While many public areas are getting more lax about masks, the Dallas Love Field airport now has robots watching travelers.

“Yes, those 7-foot-tall machines at Dallas Love Field are watching you. They want to make sure you’re wearing a mask if you’re boarding a flight or not parking too long at the curb if you’re picking up a returning traveler,” The Dallas Morning News reported Friday.

Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia

The end of civilization-----US Passport Applicants Can Select Gender ‘X' Starting Monday

US Passport Applicants Can Select Gender ‘X' Starting Monday  link

• TSA agents will also receive new instructions on screening intended to make it less invasive...
  

Noon-toon

 

Soros family quietly bankrolls committees supporting 'defund the police' candidates | Fox News

Soros family quietly bankrolls committees supporting 'defund the police' candidates | Fox News: 

George Soros has made targeting the criminal justice system a focal point of his efforts in recent years. The deep-pocketed funder has pushed nearly $30 million into district attorney races across the country, often entering Democratic primaries and backing the most progressive candidate in the field.

Pissing your money away-----Memphis Airport Reinstalls Photo of Asian Elvis Tribute Artist After Outcry | PetaPixel

Memphis Airport Reinstalls Photo of Asian Elvis Tribute Artist After Outcry | PetaPixel:

"These artists represent an ever-evolving arts community that meaningfully contributes to the rich cultural fabric of this city. Whether viewers are enjoying the details of a photograph or taking in an expansive mural, the collection offers an introduction to the many sides of Memphis; for those who call the city home… Inherent in the selected works is a sense of Memphis’s rich history as a place rooted in activism and civil rights, art, and music, and the continuation of that sacred legacy today. – UrbanArt Commission"

THIS is child abuse!

Since J. Edgar Hoover founded it, the FBI has never really been a law enforcement agency. It’s a clearing house for kompromot and intimidation.

Since J. Edgar Hoover founded it, the FBI has never really been a law enforcement agency. It’s a clearing house for kompromot and intimidation.  link
"Following the death of Stalin, the Soviet secret police pivoted from heavy-handed mass arrests to a subtler, but still sinister, system of mass spying and accumulation of “kompromot,” or compromising material, on its citizens. 

The Soviets maintained control by prioritizing spying on religious figures, political activists, journalists, and public officials. 

We’re now finding out that the FBI in America has a similar program of mass surveillance of similar targets. 

And, as with the Soviets, much of the spying has nothing to do with investigating crime.

• According to a Justice Department internal audit report, the FBI maintained an active caseload of 24,584 cases during the 18 months between January 2018 and June of 2019. A grossly disproportionate share of those cases involved surveillance of influential Americans such as candidates for office, public officials, journalists, religious leaders, and political activists. When the FBI targets an individual wielding high social influence, it categorizes the case as “sensitive.”

#1 This day 1962-----Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel

Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise Americans today might do well to heed Bonhoeffer’s warning.

Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise Americans today might do well to heed Bonhoeffer’s warning.  link

• Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise
  
• Americans today might do well to heed Bonhoeffer’s warning.

"Although he was in power for only a handful of years, Hitler and his Nazi government slaughtered millions. 

One of the more well-known victims of that slaughter was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed on April 8th, 1945, a few short weeks before Hitler’s own death.
Unlike many of Hitler’s victims, Bonhoeffer was not a Jew, but a Lutheran minister, scholar, and theologian who boldly spoke against Hitler’s policies. 

Bonhoeffer landed a position in the German government during WWII and subsequently used that position as cover for assassination attempts against Hitler.
While awaiting execution, Bonhoeffer recorded a number of his thoughts in a work we now know as Letters and Papers from Prison. 

One of these essays, entitled On Stupidity, records some of the problems which Bonhoeffer likely saw at work in Hitler’s rise to power...Read all!!

No such thing!!

 

Biden family scandal EXPOSED - TheBlaze

Biden family scandal EXPOSED - TheBlaze: 

"The truth of the matter is an avalanche of facts were held behind the dam of censorship," Solomon told Glenn. "But, you know what? The dam is breaking and the facts are flowing and overrunning the dam now. And soon, the American people are going to know the truth in spite of the news media, and that's a good thing for all of us."

Elon Musk will NOT join the board of Twitter: CEO says 'I believe this is for the best' | Daily Mail Online

Elon Musk will NOT join the board of Twitter: CEO says 'I believe this is for the best' | Daily Mail Online

• Twitter shares rise after Elon Musk abandons plan to join the company's board: Staff speculate (via Twitter) that the Tesla chief could now launch hostile takeover bid
  

"Elon Musk, 50, last week was revealed to be the biggest shareholder in Twitter, having bought a stake worth 9.2 percent - four times that of founder Jack Dorsey
Musk was due to join the board of the company on Saturday but decided not to, CEO Parag Agrawal said on Sunday
He did not say why Musk would not join, but suggested that shareholders had expressed concern
Several Twitter employees tweeted reactions to the announcement, seemingly agitated by the roller coaster surrounding Musk's company involvement...link

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 12

History for April 12 - On-This-Day.com

Tom Clancy 1947 - Author

• 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.
• 1782 - The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.
• 1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
• 1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
• 1911 - Pierre Prier completed the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes.
• 1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.
• 1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.
• 1993 - NATO began enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

MARK LEVIN: Disney transformed from the Magic Kingdom to a WOKE asylum - TheBlaze

MARK LEVIN: Disney transformed from the Magic Kingdom to a WOKE asylum - TheBlaze: 

As leftist Disney executives transform the Magic Kingdom into a woke asylum, Mark unearths a shocking interview where Disney's president of content lays bare the company's plan to indoctrinate the nation with its Marxist agenda. This sexual agenda being taught to your babies has reached unacceptable levels of depravity, and it must be stopped.

The way we were-----The Day The Gauge Changed

The U.S. INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM Explained