Wednesday, May 18, 2022
History for May 18
History for May 18 - On-This-Day.com
Frank Capra 1897 - Film director ("It's a Wonderful Life")
- 1652 - In Rhode Island, a law was passed that made slavery illegal in North America. It was the first law of its kind.
- 1792 - Russian troops invaded Poland.
- 1896 - The U.S. Supreme court upheld the "separate but equal" policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. The ruling was overturned 58 years later with Brown vs. Board of Education.
- 1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.
- 1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.
- 1983 - The U.S. Senate revised immigration laws and gave millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program.
- 2012 - Facebook Inc. held its initial public offering and began trading on the NASDAQ. The company was valued at $104 billion making it the largest valuation to date for a newly listed public company.
- 2014 - Russian President Putin signed a bill to absorb Crimea into the Russian Federation.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Sen. Cynthia Lummis booed, heckled at University of Wyoming graduation for stating that there are 'two sexes' - TheBlaze
Sen. Cynthia Lummis booed, heckled at University of Wyoming graduation for stating that there are 'two sexes' - TheBlaze:
Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.) faced loud boos and jeering on Saturday after stating a basic scientific fact about biological sex during her commencement address at the University of Wyoming.
"...Then it all will make sense."
Michael Smith
"If you think of the current assault on the mind, body and senses, it helps to think of it as the Cloward Piven strategy applied to the mind.
The husband and wife team of sociologists, Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven, both longtime "democratic socialists", proposed the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” that seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by
"If you think of the current assault on the mind, body and senses, it helps to think of it as the Cloward Piven strategy applied to the mind.
The husband and wife team of sociologists, Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven, both longtime "democratic socialists", proposed the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” that seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by
- overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands,
- thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse,
- to be rebuilt, of course, in the image of Karl Marx.
Where the main target of this strategy was the welfare system - basically overwhelming through a proposed “massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls,” calculating that the system would be bankrupted if even a fraction of potential welfare recipients were to demand their entitlements.
The result, the lovely couple predicted, would be “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level.”
Now imagine your mind as the welfare system and the flood of progressive ideas and actions as welfare recipients, demanding shares of time and brain cells in your mind.
Then it all will make sense."
Now imagine your mind as the welfare system and the flood of progressive ideas and actions as welfare recipients, demanding shares of time and brain cells in your mind.
Then it all will make sense."
Good morning. May I show you something truly amazing?
Good morning. May I show you something truly amazing? Glenn Greenwald
To see her justifications for why she nonetheless voted YES, see the full statement, if you can discern a rationale..."
Jim Jordan: FBI Used Counterterrorism Measures to Go After Concerned Parents
Jim Jordan: FBI Used Counterterrorism Measures to Go After Concerned Parents:
During an appearance on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said he had proof the FBI targeted parents who protested COVID policies at public schools even though Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed it did not happen.
Jordan called it “scary stuff.”
Democrats, Tanking with Hispanics, Pressure Biden to Give Murderous Venezuelan Regime a Break
Democrats, Tanking with Hispanics, Pressure Biden to Give Murderous Venezuelan Regime a Break:
With an “opposition” and a group of Democrats essentially doing sanctions lobby work for him, Nicolás Maduro has availed himself of the opportunity to try to delay the International Criminal Court’s probe on the crimes against humanity committed by his regime while also attempting to recover the Venezuelan economy that his regime destroyed, and to try to rehabilitate his image both locally and internationally — going as far as to selectively adapting tidbits of Western “woke” language on his social media posts to entice millennial leftists in the U.S. and portraying a “relatable” image through his personal account on the Chinese Tik Tok platform.
When the Rule of Law Ends, Tyranny Soon Follows - Intellectual Takeout
When the Rule of Law Ends, Tyranny Soon Follows - Intellectual Takeout
"The rule of law in our country is buckling under the weight of those who seem intent on its destruction.
We are fast becoming a nation without laws.
"The rule of law in our country is buckling under the weight of those who seem intent on its destruction.
We are fast becoming a nation without laws.
- Rioters associated with Antifa and Black Lives Matter burned and looted some of our cities in the spring and summer of 2020, occupied the streets, and even committed murder, often with few, if any, consequences.
- In some cities, thieves and thugs apprehended by the police are released the same day to return to the streets.
- In the last 17 months, our government has permitted millions of people to illegally walk into our country via the southern border.
- Meanwhile, some protesters who entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 remain incarcerated after months..."
I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired. - by Zac Kriegman
I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired. - by Zac Kriegman
- The data about police shootings just didn't add up, but no one at Thomson Reuters wanted to hear it.
- That’s what Paul Rossi experienced at Grace Church School.
- It’s what Jennifer Sey went through at Levi’s.
- It’s what Antonio GarcÃa MartÃnez dealt with at Apple.
- And Roland Fryer at Harvard. And Gordon Klein at UCLA.
- And Maud Maron at Legal Aid.
- Now comes the story of Zac Kriegman, who, until not so long ago, was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters. Kriegman’s crime? Questioning the Black Lives Matter narrative.
"...About a year ago, I stumbled on a really big story. It was about black Americans being gunned down across the country and the ways in which we report on that violence. We had been talking nonstop about race and police brutality, and I thought: This is a story that could save lives. This is a story that has to be told.
But when I shared the story with my coworkers, my boss chastised me, telling me expressing this opinion could limit my ability to take on leadership roles within the company. Then I was maligned by my colleagues. And then I was fired..."
But when I shared the story with my coworkers, my boss chastised me, telling me expressing this opinion could limit my ability to take on leadership roles within the company. Then I was maligned by my colleagues. And then I was fired..."
Your tax dollars at "work"-----New study links support for Brett Kavanaugh to the endorsement of hegemonic masculinity
New study links support for Brett Kavanaugh to the endorsement of hegemonic masculinity
- People who held traditional stereotypes about masculinity tended to have more positive evaluations of Brett Kavanaugh during his contentious Supreme Court hearings and more negative evaluations of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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- The authors of the new research have previously found the endorsement of “hegemonic masculinity” — an idealized form of masculinity — was associated with support for Donald Trump.
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Candace Owens slams Black Lives Matter founder - TheBlaze
Candace Owens slams Black Lives Matter founder - TheBlaze:
"Patrisse is pretending to be scared because she knows that this Black Lives Matter lie is falling apart. And she doesn’t know what to do,” Owens said on Instagram. "What you are seeing right now is the face of a woman who is pretending she's afraid of right-wing pundits when in reality, she’s being exposed as a fraud… took millions of dollars to fund herself, to fund her lifestyle, to fund her girlfriend and to buy million-dollar mansions in neighborhoods where no black people live."
The left's attack on Tucker Carlson, alleging he is pushing the Great Replacement Theory, is rubbish.
Michael Smith
"The left's attack on Tucker Carlson, alleging he is pushing the Great Replacement Theory, is rubbish.
"The left's attack on Tucker Carlson, alleging he is pushing the Great Replacement Theory, is rubbish.
- Democrats have been bragging for decades that the white population in America is going to be reduced. They even included it in their 2020 party platform.
- White demographic replacement isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a statistical fact.
- What would make any Democrat believe that the share of the white population magically decreased by 30 percentage points in less than 50 years?
- Or that in a decade (2010-2020), the percentage of white people dropped from 71% of the population to just over 60%.
- Would it not make sense that a desire for demographic change is driving the open borders policies of the Biden administration, particularly in a era when tens-of-thousands of non-Whites are marching for the southern border at any given time based on a clearly implied promise of mass amnesty?
Tucker's crime, it seems, was to notice what the Democrats are doing and then putting it on television."
History for May 17
History for May 17 - On-This-Day.com
Dennis Hopper 1936 - Actor
- 1756 - Britain declared war on France, beginning the French and Indian War.
- 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded at 70 Wall Street by 24 brokers.
- 1814 - Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden. Norway's constitution, which provided a limited monarchy, was signed.
- 1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville, KY.
- 1932 - The U.S. Congress changed the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico."
- 1946 - U.S. President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
- 1954 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal.
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