#1 This day 1960-----Brian Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"

Violent crime in large cities across the nation is getting worse

Violent crime in large cities across the nation is getting worse

• Death spiral for America?” Violent crime in large U.S. cities is getting worse, and police are all but powerless to stop it.

"In a op-ed written by Michael Snyder with The Economic Collapse Blog, the hard truth is exposed … the country is experiencing a major breakdown of law and order, and thanks to the progressive “defund the police movement” that snowballed after the death of George Floyd, there are not enough qualified police officers to respond to serious crimes that are overpowering large cities.

• In many cases, police officers either do not show up when a crime is being committed or their response time is over an hour long, like in Seattle. 

Across the country, the number of serious, violent crimes keeps increasing..."

Bozos at every level. Our national embarrassment.

 

Linda Sanchez changes story about giving finger to Republicans at Congressional Baseball Game - TheBlaze

Linda Sanchez changes story about giving finger to Republicans at Congressional Baseball Game - TheBlaze: 

However, the insinuation made by Sanchez was disputed by Corey Inganamort – who is the mascot coordinator for the Washington Nationals.

“I was in the dugout with the Republicans last night. She is lying,” Inganamort said of Sanchez. “Nothing offensive or misogynistic was said by anybody. In fact, everybody was shocked by what @RepLindaSanchez did.”

Visualized: The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation

Visualized: The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 2

History for August 2 - On-This-Day.com 

James Baldwin 1924

• 1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent.
• 1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
• 1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
• 1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
• 1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.
• 1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

Jean-Pierre insists that Biden is not 'finishing' Trump's wall when Doocy asks about plan to close border wall gaps in Arizona - TheBlaze

Jean-Pierre insists that Biden is not 'finishing' Trump's wall when Doocy asks about plan to close border wall gaps in Arizona - TheBlaze: 

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday repeatedly insisted that the Biden administration is not finishing President Donald Trump's border wall, even though the administration said it will complete unfinished gaps of wall in Arizona.

The way we were-----1958 Mars Bluff Nuclear Bomb Incident

"The latest consequence of climate change"

"Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels."

Trust the Artificial Intelligence, Part One.

Instapundit--Trust the Artificial Intelligence, Part One.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Trust the Artificial Intelligence, Part One.

"The next political crisis may be triggered by a further loss of trust in authority, coupled with another institutional demand for power...

Yet this loss in institutional trust coincided with unprecedented demands by institutions for a vast increase in power...

Finally, institutions demanded the power to ‘check facts’ in any speech and ‘de-platform’ anyone suspected of uttering misinformation, thus insulating themselves against criticism.

Since the institutions were so mistrusted...

Glenn has been writing about the loss of trust often in recent years and Richard’s piece is an important addition. Read the whole thing. --Posted by Stephen Green

What the hell???-----Farmington schools consultant sees problems with strong family structure

Farmington schools consultant sees problems with strong family structure

• 
  ‘Systemic familialism’ is the name for the privilege held by people with intact families

"An audit of Farmington schools by an outside consultancy recommends reprogramming teachers who resist the consultant’s brand of diversity, equity, and inclusion — which includes labeling the U.S. government’s definition of family as “systemic familialism.”..."

Inflation Reduction Act will have no effect on inflation - TheBlaze

Inflation Reduction Act will have no effect on inflation - TheBlaze: 

Analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model – a nonpartisan group at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School – found that the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act would have so little impact on inflation that the effects would be "statistically indistinguishable from zero."

City Refuses to Pay Judgments and Nothing Happens

West Point is going woke, alumnus warns | The College Fix

West Point is going woke, alumnus warns | The College Fix

"The woke agenda is destroying the tradition of “Duty, Honor, Country” at West Point Military Academy and replaced it with “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,” according to an alumnus.
Major General Paul Vallely...

• ...“They were requiring mandatory vaccinations and booster shots of all the cadets where they would not be accepted in the first place or would be released,” he told The Fix. 
• “No conservative speakers were invited over the past year and a half. 
• Almost every speaker was a leftist whose ideology was liberal and progressive.”..."

Lunch video-----Find Square Root by Hand without Calculator

Noon-toon

 

Republicans push resolution that calls critical race theory a 'threat' to the US - TheBlaze

Republicans push resolution that calls critical race theory a 'threat' to the US - TheBlaze: 

The resolution also states the the House "declares that, as a Marxist ideology, critical race theory poses a significant threat to the United States Republic, its citizens, and the free people of the world rising to the degree of a clear and present danger to the Republic, its citizens, and the States, its allies, and the good and happiness of mankind."

Words matter. Your money implosion matters too!

 

Lemmings | The Bizarre Story of the Term's Definition -

Lemmings | The Bizarre Story of the Term's Definition

"Ever heard the phrase “don’t be a lemming”?
It means, basically, “don’t just go where others are going.”
You might have known that.
But did you know it’s a total fabrication resulting from a fake documentary?
I’m referring to that time in 1958 when the Walt Disney Company staged a mass lemming suicide in an Academy Award-nominated documentary film.

• ...How Disney Faked Mass Lemming Suicide in a Nature Documentary

Now Disney didn’t create the myth that lemmings jump off cliffs to commit mass suicide — there are references to the concept dating as far back as this 1918 National Geographic Magazine — but Disney is widely credited with popularizing the idea with its 1958 nature documentary White Wilderness.
Here’s the full scene in all its grainy vintage glory:...Read/view all!

#1 Movie this week 1976-----The Omen (1976) - Trailer

MUCH here, read all!!-----The Existential Threat - The Last Refuge

The Existential Threat - The Last Refuge

"President Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe famously said of Donald Trump’s entry into politics: “It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again.”

• What was it that Washington DC and President Obama’s team feared so much about Donald J Trump?
• The answer to that question is why the FBI, DOJ and CIA targeted Trump in 2016; and why they continued the targeting in 2017 with the Mueller investigation; and why they continued the targeting through two attempts at impeachment in 2019 and 2020; and why they still keep targeting Donald Trump with the J6 committee and a DOJ investigation two years after he is no longer in office.

Donald J Trump is the(ir) existential threat.
When your business involves gaining personal wealth by selling out America, Donald Trump is bad for business...."

#1 This day 1965--Herman's Hermits "Henry The VIII, I Am" on The Ed Sullivan Show

The effort to mandate ‘insurrection’ as the only acceptable description...

Instapundit--The effort to mandate ‘insurrection’ as the only acceptable description...

"YEP: “[T]here has been an unrelenting effort to make ‘insurrection’ a litmus test for anyone speaking about January 6th.” 

Plus: “If one does not use that term (and, worse yet, expresses doubts about its accuracy), you run the risk of immediate condemnation as someone excusing or supporting insurrection. This framing also reduces the need to address the question of how this riot was allowed to spiral out of control…

And I’ll venture this prediction: If the Biden Administration’s catastrophic downward spiral continues, the January 6 “insurrectionists” will eventually come to be seen as martyrs who tried to prevent a tragedy. Posted by Glenn Reynolds..."