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History for April 2

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

Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist

• 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore.
• 1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.
• 1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.
• 1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.
• 1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
• 1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.
• 1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.
• 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.

Chinese illegal immigrant who entered southern border convicted of child porn crimes, possessing video of girl under 5 years old | Blaze Media

Chinese illegal immigrant who entered southern border convicted of child porn crimes, possessing video of girl under 5 years old | Blaze Media: 

AChinese national – who entered the United States illegally through the southern border – has been convicted of child pornography crimes.

Tong Sun attempted to illegally cross the U.S. southern border in May 2023 near Roma, Texas.

Law enforcement took Sun into custody, at which time, investigators reportedly discovered child porn on his cell phone.

This Day in History: April 1

Hiding And Rewriting History

Instapundit - BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Sam Bankman-Fried might be eating a lot of rice, almonds and Skittles drink

Instapundit - We are of the same class, you know. We are not plebs to be held to the same standards as others. - Ed Driscoll

"...But like Epstein’s mother corresponding with esteemed New York teacher Gabriel Kotter, SBF’s mother wrote the judge a letter, you know: SBF Is an Empathetic Vegan Altruist MIT Grad!

SBF’s mom submitted a 6-page letter, so I won’t go through it all. But I will give you a flavor of it and give you my argument for why I think it represents something much more than a mother’s plea for mercy.

From the first paragraph, Barbara Fried tells us what matters to her: credentials.

Dear Judge Kaplan: I am Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother. | am also a law professor at Stanford, where | have taught for the past thirty-five years, and before that was an attorney at Paul Weiss in New York and a law clerk on the Second Circuit. 

She is speaking as a highly credentialed person to another highly credentialed person. I am a law professor. You are a judge. We are of the same class, you know. We are not plebs to be held to the same standards as others.

Cringe...

The next part of the letter is particularly precious: Sam is a VEGAN, don’tcha know?...

One of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes that President Joe Biden should be killed...

TaxProf Blog - The War At Stanford - Paul Caron

The Atlantic Op-Ed: The War at Stanford, by Theo Baker:
"One of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes that President Joe Biden should be killed...I’m saying he is guilty of mass murder and should be treated in the same way that a terrorist with darker skin would be... 

El Boudali has also said that he believes that Hamas’s October 7 attack was a justifiable act of resistance, and that he would actually prefer Hamas rule America in place of its current government (though he clarified later that he “doesn’t mean Hamas is perfect”)....

We’ve had protests in the past,” Richard Saller, the university’s interim president, told me in November—about the environment, and apartheid, and Vietnam. But they didn’t pit “students against each other” the way that this conflict has...

State legislature adopts plan to end 'religious liberty | WND | by Bob Unruh

State legislature adopts plan to end 'religious liberty | WND | by Bob Unruh: 

And they included no provision for exemptions for religious people or groups, "demonstrating their intent to deny religious freedom to Minnesota citizens, churches, and schools and to engage in persecuting Christians and some other religious bodies." He pointedly noted, "If the state can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on 'gender identity,' then it can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on other subjects too."

Serious Charge for 18 Year Old Who Killed Motorcyclist in High Speed Crash

Eight Brand New Biden Gaffes ABC,CBS, NBC Have Buried

The gaffe machine that is President Joe Biden let out another howler on Tuesday and the Big Three networks dutifully ignored it - Geoffrey Dickens

"...Biden: “US Has Lowest Inflation of Any Country in America”
On March 14, India Today reported:

US President Joe Biden has made yet another gaffe while speaking about his administration’s efforts to tackle inflation in the country. Instead of saying that the US has one of the lowest inflation rates in the world, Biden said, “We have the lowest inflation rates of any country in America.” 

“Wages are rising faster than prices and now we have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America. And, still, we are fighting to lower it even further,” Biden said in his address in Milwaukee in the state of Wisconsin.

ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds...

Lunch video-----Do We Have Health Care or Sick Care? | 5 Minute Video

Noon-toon

 

Assisted suicide agenda called out for suggesting some people 'better off dead' | WND | by WND Staff

Assisted suicide agenda called out for suggesting some people 'better off dead' | WND | by WND Staff: 

A report from the Christian Institute details how Canada has been "skiing" down euthanasia's "slippery slope," and experts are warning Great Britain not to follow.

In Canada, already, the elderly and disabled are facing pressure … to die.

Do as we demand or your grandparents will die!

 

Good Lord, the media's resurrecting, deifying this serial liar!-----"One Way Back": Christine Blasey Ford on speaking out, death threats, and life after the Kavanaugh hearings - CBS News

"One Way Back": Christine Blasey Ford on speaking out, death threats, and life after the Kavanaugh hearings - CBS News (gotta Love" their choice of photos)

"...Christine Blasey Ford has surfed this break countless times, on good days and bad. She knows just what it takes to summon up your courage and hurl yourself off a cliff.
In September 2018, Ford – a Ph.D. in psychology, a professor at Palo Alto University, and a mother of two – jumped straight into the maelstrom of American politics.
She alleged that Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was then a nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court, had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17.
"I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified."...

#1 Movie this day 1996-----Primal Fear - Trailer

Instapundit - MORE GOVERNMENT-SPREAD MISINFORMATION - Glenn Reynolds

This FBI Tweet Just Got Nuked by Community Notes.

Plus: “Do we need reminding that the FBI is staffed with bad people, the worst in committing acts of government overreach?
Agents visit people’s homes because they posted anti-Biden material on social media.
Illegal FISA warrants are atrocious, but now they’re targeting Americans exercising free speech rights. Why?
Are they compiling an enemies list?
Would you be shocked?
Not me.” - Glenn Reynolds

• UPDATE (From Ed): FBI Agent Says He Hassles People ‘Every Day, All Day Long’ Over Facebook Posts. “It’s just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will,” he claimed.

#1 This day 1977-----Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl (Official Audio)

Happy Trans Day of Visibility - American Thinker

To the President who claims he is a Catholic in good standing, it’s just another day to poke his fingers in your eyes. - By Clarice Feldman

"...Yes, the White House is hosting the traditional easter egg rolling event, but it has banned all religious symbols at the event, and in a proclamation dated, “in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four” announced that this day, March 31, is “Transgender Day of Visibility.”..
It strikes me that it is so deliberately offensive to Christians it’s puzzling.
It is to Hugh Hewitt as well, who asks:

“Jesting aside: Was the declaration of the (first?) Transgender Day of Visibility coincident with Easter Sunday an unintended coincidence or an intentional overlap by whomever thought it up and sold it to senior staff who sold it to @POTUS, and, if either intentionality for whatever reason or simple indifference to the significance of Easter, did the WH team alert @JoeBiden of the overlap? Which answers would be more revealing about the staff? Because I’m not believing that Joe thought this one up on his own. Second question: Are there other countries in the world that have so declared such a day?”

Biden is not the only Democratic official who could use some lessons in civility...

Biden working to ... something bad to another Kennedy?

The spirit that built skyscrapers will rebuild bridges | Blaze Media

The spirit that built skyscrapers will rebuild bridges | Blaze Media: 

I am absolutely sick to death of all of these stories that say things like that. Have we forgotten who we are? Have we forgotten what we’ve done?

Let me remind you of the American spirit, a spirit so potent and so vibrant that it has scaled towering mountains, mountains nobody thought they could cross.

It’s the spirit that constructed marvels of engineering. Have you ever been to the Hoover Dam? Have you seen the New York City skyline? The skyscraper was invented here for a reason. Here we are on the threshold of tomorrow, and none of us knows what is going to happen. But I'm getting the impression that we’ve been so beaten down that we believe we’re not going to make it tomorrow.

Have we forgotten who our ancestors are and what they did? If you look through our history even briefly, you will see a group of people who never take no for an answer. You will see a people who can do anything.

Scumbaggery!-----Housing Inflation Is 4X "Official" Metrics

First up: what changed? In short, the government stopped using real-world data and started using proxies to estimate the real-world data.
"The reason for this was to artificially bring down inflation numbers, providing political cover for the politicians that created the rising prices in the first place...

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History for April 1

History for April 1 - On-This-Day.com 

Otto Von Bismarck 1815 - First chancellor of united Germany

• 1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$" symbol.
• 1826 - Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.
• 1889 - The first dishwashing machine was marketed (in Chicago).
• 1929 - Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.
• 1933 - Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses.
• 1946 - Weight Watchers was formed.
• 1948 - The Berlin Airlift began.
• 1979 - Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.
• 1985 - World oil prices dropped below $10 a barrel.
• 1987 - U.S. President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."