Raymond Spencer: Suspect in 'Sniper-Type' D.C. Attack Found Dead | National Review"The suspect believed to have shot four people in a Friday attack in Washington, D.C., was found dead on Friday night, police said in a press conference.
Raymond Spencer, 23, opened fire from his apartment window on Friday afternoon after configuring a rifle and tripod in a “sniper-type setup,” according to police.
...Police did not indicate a more specific motive for the incident.
Four people were injured in the shooting, including a twelve-year-old girl and a former member of the D.C., police..."
Monday, April 25, 2022
History for April 25
History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com
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Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist
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- 1846 - The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.
- 1928 - A seeing eye dog was used for the first time.
- 1952 - After a three-day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment was annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.
- 1953 - Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA.
- 1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. The water way connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1961 - Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
- 1967 - Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. The law was limited to therapeutic abortions when agreed to, unanimously, by a panel of three physicians.
- 1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.
- 1984 - In France, over one million people demonstrated to show they favored the decentralization of education.
- 1992 - Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Atlanta police, prosecutors outraged after bond granted to alleged gang member suspected of shooting Atlanta police officer - TheBlaze
Atlanta police, prosecutors outraged after bond granted to alleged gang member suspected of shooting Atlanta police officer - TheBlaze:
Atlanta police chief Rodney Bryant said, "We find it quite appalling that this individual received this level of bond, but we appreciate the actions taken so swiftly by this DA’s office."
Yet, American students side with the tyrants!-----Nicaragua seizes private universities to stifle dissent
Nicaragua seizes private universities to stifle dissent link
A generation of students who participated in the April 2018 protests saw their education interrupted.
- The seizure of a dozen private institutions and more state control over education are part of Pres. Daniel Ortega's pursuit against those believes conspire against the government.
A generation of students who participated in the April 2018 protests saw their education interrupted.
Many were forced into hiding, jailed or exiled when Ortega’s police cracked down.
Now others who managed to resume their studies worry they won’t be able to finish or have finished but can’t find work because the now state-run schools haven’t given them diplomas...."
Calm down, it's only .005%!-----What's With All the Food Processing Plants Blowing Up Lately?
What's With All the Food Processing Plants Blowing Up Lately? link
- A weird trend has emerged over the past few months that seems statistically unlikely...
The actual number listed on the USDA website is 36,486.
As they say, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. One can manipulate statistics to create virtually any desired outcome to support a narrative. But looking into the plants that have been damaged or destroyed, something seems off.
The oddest coincidence? Small planes have now crashed into two food processing plants, one in Idaho, and another a week and a half later in Georgia..."
What is space? Kamala Harris has answers, gets slammed - TheBlaze
What is space? Kamala Harris has answers, gets slammed - TheBlaze:
Vice President Kamala Harris has gotten herself into a pickle before over her talks on space. Last October, it was outed that a YouTube Kids original video she participated in included child actors, leading to some heavy mockery for days. So you would think the VP would be on her game the next time she was asked to confront the topic of space. You would think.
After reportedly receiving a briefing on the work of the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command advancing national security, the Vice President stopped by Vandenberg Space Force Base to speak to members of the U.S. Space Force.
Mark Levin MSNBC Journalist Compares Republicans War Ukraine - TheBlaze
Mark Levin MSNBC Journalist Compares Republicans War Ukraine - TheBlaze: When it comes to hating America, the kings of the left-wing media reside at MSNBC. Need proof? Mark brings the goods as Ali Velshi spews his Marxist propaganda while smearing America and Israel.
You have probably noticed that the people who hate America tend to hate Israel. People on the hard left, whether in the media, the Democratic Party, or academia, hate Israel. They won't call it anti-Semitism, but that's what it is. The standards that they apply to Israel, the attacks on Israel, they don't apply to any other free democratic country on the face of theEarth: France, Britain, Spain, or Germany.
Read this!!-----How opportunists got rich off COVID pandemic by stealing our money
How opportunists got rich off COVID pandemic by stealing our money link
"On Saturday, April 26, 2020, Robert Stewart Jr., a 33-year-old contractor from Virginia, invited an investigative reporter to take a trip on his private jet.
“I’m talking with you against the advice of my attorney,” Stewart laughed, before bringing J. David McSwane aboard a luxury Legacy 450 Flexjet, which
"On Saturday, April 26, 2020, Robert Stewart Jr., a 33-year-old contractor from Virginia, invited an investigative reporter to take a trip on his private jet.
- he’d rented to deliver six million N95 masks during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stewart had recently landed a $34.5 million contract with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, which operates the nation’s largest network of hospitals, promising to provide them with enough of the medical-grade (and at the time, scarce) masks to meet the overwhelming demand.
...McSwane recounts the meeting in his new book, “Pandemic, Inc. Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick” (Atria/One Signal Publishers), out now, which illustrates how COVID-19 became a boon to entrepreneurs like Stewart.
- Problem was, there were no masks aboard the plane.
- Although he claimed to have secured the masks, they were never delivered.
...McSwane recounts the meeting in his new book, “Pandemic, Inc. Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick” (Atria/One Signal Publishers), out now, which illustrates how COVID-19 became a boon to entrepreneurs like Stewart.
Having access to essential medical supplies, or even just pretending to, became “an unexpected ticket to riches” early in the pandemic,
McSwane writes, as the federal government “cast money out indiscriminately, like chum into the sea, and just see what bites.”
Developments in bio-tech, particularly around treatments and vaccines, helped pharmaceutical company founders become billionaires during the pandemic.,,"
The Rise of Woke Capitalism - Intellectual Takeout
The Rise of Woke Capitalism - Intellectual Takeout link
"A new creature has appeared on our political landscape—woke capitalism.
"A new creature has appeared on our political landscape—woke capitalism.
- It is not the usual, perfectly rational, corporate politicking where businesses hire lobbyists or run PR campaigns to help boost their bottom lines.
- Here clout is mobilized to advance policies that have absolutely nothing to do with either generating profit or enhancing a company’s “good citizen” public imagine.
Indeed, this political venture may be inimical to shareholder value and prove a political liability.
Woke capitalism is best understood as ill-informed, economically counter-productive virtue-signaling.
...Particularly odd about this sudden outpouring is how it has overshadowed Biden’s call for increased corporate and business-related taxes.
...Particularly odd about this sudden outpouring is how it has overshadowed Biden’s call for increased corporate and business-related taxes.
Where is Starbucks’ outrage about tax hikes that will reduce company profits and thus executive salaries?
Surely these hefty tax increases deserve more CEO attention than the number of drop-off boxes for mail-in ballots..."
3 Colleges Get Their Just Deserts
3 Colleges Get Their Just Deserts:
When the Soviet communists’ hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered at the Kremlin for the last time on Dec. 25, 1991, some said that the last refuge of Marxism was in the academic institutions of the West.
They were right. That totalitarian ideology has infected American colleges and universities and other institutions that are purveying cancel culture, wokeism, censorship, and gender dogma that rejects reality.
But students, parents, and others are fighting back. And two colleges—Oberlin College and Shawnee State University—recently got exactly what they deserve: large legal judgments against them for defamatory and discriminatory misbehavior.
Earth Day’s failed predictions of 52 years ago & the amazing environmental improvements that have occurred since
Earth Day’s failed predictions of 52 years ago & the amazing environmental improvements that have occurred since link
- Earth day is coming up. It is a good time to remind the public what the (failed) predictions were 52 years ago
– Here are some of the dire predictions from the first Earth Day, compiled by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
Earth Day, Then and Now,” by Ronald Bailey, Reason.com. May 1, 2000
History for April 24
History for April 24 - On-This-Day.com
Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress
- 1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
- 1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain.
- 1877 - In the U.S., federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans. This was the end to the North's post-Civil War rule in the South.
- 1884 - Otto von Bismarck cabled Cape Town that South Africa was now a German colony.
- 1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians.
- 1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
- 1970 - The People's Republic of China launched its first satellite.
- 1989 - Thousands of students began striking in Beijing.
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