History for April 14

History for April 14 - On-This-Day.com

Anne Mansfield Sullivan 1866 - "The Miracle Worker", famous for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak

• 1775 - The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president.
• 1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language."
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.
• 1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store.
• 1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived.

Videos: Shanghai Residents Trapped in Lockdown Scream from Their Windows, Fight over Limited Food

Videos: Shanghai Residents Trapped in Lockdown Scream from Their Windows, Fight over Limited Food: 

Videos surfacing on social media in the past week from Shanghai – and rapidly deleted on government-controlled sites like Weibo – show mounting desperation as a poorly planned coronavirus lockdown leaves the heart of China’s economy with rotting food and a lack of basic necessities.

The way we were-----WW2 bomber radio chatter, classy as hell

Southwest Detroit Hoods: Mexicantown 5K.

Emmy Griffin: Is 'Groomer' Really the Right Word? | The Patriot Post

Emmy Griffin: Is 'Groomer' Really the Right Word? | The Patriot Post

• Is this word “violence” or simply the ugly truth about the people pushing “LGBTQ” nonsense on kids?
  

The cacophony surrounding the Parental Rights in Education law in Florida has sparked an inane debate over use of the word “groomer” to describe some of its loud and deceitful opponents...

• What is a groomer?
• Who is grooming our children?
• Why are they grooming children?

Politicians are motivated to groom and indoctrinate children both politically and sexually because it makes them easier to control. It also makes them more sympathetic to the radical Left because they are taught what to think, not how to think...

• This debate over semantics is a trap.

Ultimately, this debate is the same distracting trope that leftist use to focus the Right on a side issue — in this case, semantics over the word “groomer.” When people use words to describe a truth that is generally the rule, leftists get offended because there are always exceptions to the rule...Read all!!

Never trust government to do anything right!-----Brooklyn Subway Shooter U-Haul Found | National Review

Brooklyn Subway Shooter U-Haul Found | National Review link

"....The discovery of the van comes as police continue to search for the gunman, who remains at large. New York City mayor Eric Adams told WCBS 880 AM earlier on Tuesday that there was a “malfunction with the camera system at that particular station” where the attack happened.

The city is reportedly working with the MTA to determine whether all of the cameras at the station were affected by the malfunction...Read all.

Poll: Joe Biden Completely Underwater on Key Issues in America

Poll: Joe Biden Completely Underwater on Key Issues in America: 

President Joe Biden is flopping on a variety of key issues in the country, a CBS News/YouGov poll released this week found. The survey found Biden completely underwater by double digits on four key issues — inflation, the economy, immigration, and crime

Dave Rubin: We let the inmates run the asylum

Michigan’s Broken System For Rating Teacher’s Classroom Effectiveness

Michigan’s Broken System For Rating Teacher’s Classroom Effectiveness

• 
  Southwestern Classical Academy, a high school in Flint Community Schools, has among the lowest student test scores in the state of Michigan.
  
• The average (mean) SAT score of students attending this high school in the Flint district was 764.5 in 2018-19, the last year for which test results have been released. By comparison, the average SAT score for students in the Detroit Public Schools Community School District came in at 847.6. The statewide average was 985.1.
• A report card compiled by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which adjusts raw test scores to reflect students’ socioeconomic backgrounds, gave the school building an F.

There were 33 teachers at Southwestern Classical Academy in the 2020-21 year. In annual assessments that schools must perform under state law, 17 were rated “highly effective” and 15 were rated “effective.” 

One teacher was rated “minimally effective.” No teacher was considered “ineffective.”... link

Lunch video-----The Whiteness of Wokeness

Noon-toon

 

Fauci warns covid won't be eradicated, people need to assess personal risks. - TheBlaze

Fauci warns covid won't be eradicated, people need to assess personal risks. - TheBlaze: 

Dr. Anthony Fauci had a very different message for Americans on Sunday – one they likely haven't heard from the White House chief medical adviser. Fauci conceded that Americans should assess their own personal risk levels for potentially being infected by COVID-19 because the virus is not going to be eradicated.

Where liberals rule.

 

INCREDIBLE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Capitol Police ALLOW Protesters to Enter Side Door – WILL BE USED IN COURT – “Dream Team” of Lawyers Including Alan Dershowitz Set to Defend January 6’ers

INCREDIBLE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Capitol Police ALLOW Protesters to Enter Side Door – WILL BE USED IN COURT – “Dream Team” of Lawyers Including Alan Dershowitz Set to Defend January 6’ers

"A trusted source exclusively released the video below to The Gateway Pundit. Tightly edited with markers and commentary narration, it is meant to be presented in court to defend Brady Knowlton and Patrick Montgomery. 

Both men are facing felony charges for “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding” on January 6th.
This new video will indisputably exonerate Brady Knowlton, Patrick Montgomery and all the rally-goers seen entering these doors by any reasonable jury or fair judge.
See video of Capitol Police Officers letting Trump Supporters in The Capitol...See all!

What if...

 

Liberals' Latest Reasoning Behind a Student Loan Debt Bailout Is Beyond Laughable

Liberals' Latest Reasoning Behind a Student Loan Debt Bailout Is Beyond Laughable
"...Democrats and Joe Biden specifically must cancel all student debt. 

If they do that, it will energize the 18-30 demographic which was key in the 2018 midterms. 

Yeah, okay—that’s just not going to happen. 

First, Democrats don’t have the votes. 

Second, Democrats don’t have the votes. 

And third, Democrats don’t have the votes. 

• ...Generations of Americans who have been able to obtain a higher education degree have worked through school and paid off their loans. 
• We’re just going to offer a college loan bailout for the most privileged in the country because they whine about how little they’re being paid post-college. 

Too bad. 

Most don’t make six figures out of the gate. 

Second, that goes double if you focus on ‘woke’ degrees...."

#1 This day1967-----Frank & Nancy Sinatra ~ Something Stupid (1967)

Ready to riot??-----Activists march alongside Patrick Lyoya’s family 5 days after man was killed in Grand Rapids police traffic stop

Activists march alongside Patrick Lyoya’s family 5 days after man was killed in Grand Rapids police traffic stop

• Activists march alongside Patrick Lyoya’s family 5 days after man was killed in Grand Rapids police traffic stop  link

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Local activists held a march on Saturday afternoon, April 9, in response to the death of Patrick Lyoya, 26, who was killed during a traffic stop by a Grand Rapids police officer five days earlier.
Hundreds of supporters, starting at nonprofit Amplify GR’s offices, marched through the city’s Boston Square neighborhood with members of Lyoya’s family. 
The Lyoya family left the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014 to come to the United States to escape the violence there.
“I knew that they came to America it was going to be safe, and there’s no safety here,” Lyoya said...link

Public Schools’ New Critical Race Theory Window Dressing: Social-Emotional Learning

Public Schools’ New Critical Race Theory Window Dressing: Social-Emotional Learning
"Progressives in public education establishments nationwide are packaging the tenets of critical race theory into a concept they call social-emotional learning.
In Michigan, teachers unions and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan Department of Education are advancing an effort that incorporates the progressive project of indoctrinating students into accepting claims of institutional racism under the banner of student mental health and wellness.
The Michigan Department of Education has created its own social-emotional learning website stating, “MDE feels Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)” is critical “to support the healthy, safety and wellness of all students.”...Read all.

False idols...everywhere!

 

Pete Buttigieg tries to take down DeSantis - TheBlaze

Pete Buttigieg tries to take down DeSantis - TheBlaze: 

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined Joy Behar, Sara Haines, and Ana Navarro on 'The View" this week to talk about Florida’s new “Parental Rights in Education” law — which he absurdly claimed "will kill kids" — before going on to add inflation and high gas prices to his list of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' crimes.

For the Sake of Our Children, Abolish the Department of Education

For the Sake of Our Children, Abolish the Department of Education link

• I don’t know if there’s a more reactionary, superfluous arm of the U.S. government than the Department of Education.

"...One of the great illusions—great lies, actually—is that the more you spend on education, the better it is. 

Of course, you need to spend a certain amount, but at a certain point, the reverse is true.
Money becomes an instrument of control, with the government withholding it if you don’t go along with their diktats. 

Further, fancy buildings don’t make a child smart. 

Never have...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

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.