History for February 9

History for February 9 - On-This-Day.com 

William Henry Harrison (U.S. President) 1773

• 1895 - Volley Ball was invented by W.G. Morgan.
• 1895 - The first college basketball game was played as Minnesota State School of Agriculture defeated the Porkers of Hamline College, 9-3.
• 1942 - Daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the U.S.
• 1943 - During World War II, the battle of Guadalcanal ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.
• 1950 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism." (He was right!)
• 1960 - The first star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was for Joanne Woodward.
• 1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight.

Biden filled terrorist coffers with $1.3 billion before Trump took wrecking ball to foreign aid * WorldNetDaily * by Hudson Crozier, Daily Caller News Foundation

Biden filled terrorist coffers with $1.3 billion before Trump took wrecking ball to foreign aid * WorldNetDaily * by Hudson Crozier, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism.

Federal watchdog reports and other documents show former President Joe Biden's aid programs funneled the money toward a network of terrorism in the Muslim world — largely by reversing Trump-era policies. National security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the new Trump administration must take the trend more seriously.

The way we were-----Deep Purple by Nino Tempo and April Stevens

Victor Davis Hanson: Did California Elites Cause the Los Angeles Wildfires?

Last year, $10 million in taxpayer funds was spent creating transgender animals | Fox News

White Coat Waste Project exposes misuse of taxpayer dollars - Deirdre Heavey Fox News  

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., laid out the misuse of taxpayer money funding "gender-affirming care" for animals during opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing Thursday. 

The hearing, "Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty," featured a witness from the White Coat Waste Project...
"These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country."
Mace took aim at the Biden-Harris administration's radical policy agenda for allowing taxpayer dollars to fund "surgically mutating animal genitals."
"The Biden-Harris administration spent $2.5 million … to study the fertility of transgender mice," Mace said. "The Biden-Harris administration was so eager to propagate their radical gender ideology across all facets of American society that they were surgically mutating animal genitals. Taxpayer money went to that."...

Must Read!-----The USAID scandal isn’t just about wasted taxpayer dollars—it’s about a massive, government-backed propaganda machine designed to manipulate public opinion and control the narrative.

Funding outlets like Politico and The New York Times wasn’t just about paying for favorable coverage—it was about creating a feedback loop of manufactured “truth.”  - Torsten

Here’s how it worked: 

• USAID-funded media outlets published the stories the Biden-Harris administration wanted. 
• Those same articles were then cited by CNN, NBC, and other leftist networks as “independent reporting,” laundering government-funded propaganda into what appeared to be objective journalism. 

This isn’t just bias—it’s outright deception. 

And who benefited? 

The Democratic Party, their corporate backers, and the bureaucrats clinging to power. 

The same people screaming about “democracy” were quietly undermining it by turning the free press into a government mouthpiece. 

• Any opposition—Trump, conservatives, independent journalists—was drowned out by a coordinated media blitz funded by the very taxpayers they were deceiving. 
• This isn’t journalism—it’s state-sponsored disinformation at a level that would make authoritarian regimes jealous. And now that it’s being exposed, the left is panicking. 

No wonder they want DOGE shut down. 

They’re terrified of what else will be uncovered.

Ex-USAID director confirms 'culture of corruption' within agency | Blaze Media

Ex-USAID director confirms 'culture of corruption' within agency | Blaze Media: 

The former director calls for a forensic audit to expose 'very crafty ways' bureaucrats have hidden payments. Mark Moyar, a former director of the United States Agency for International Development, declared that the government agency has a "culture of corruption" that needs to be rooted out. During a Wednesday interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters, Moyar described his experiences at the scandal-plagued USAID.

UPDATE: Judge Tosses 47 Cases Filed by the Colorado Elctronics Repair Shop

Oh SNAP! Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Blown On Free Food Fraud

The good people of the United States don’t want anyone to starve, but people who are starving don’t trade away their food credit. SNAP needs an audit. -  Beth Brelje 

SNAP needs an audit.

• A small Philadelphia corner grocery store is the scene of yet another example of squandered taxpayer money. 
• In this case, “nearly $2 million” in food benefits meant for the hungry went to one person...

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson on 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜

Noon-toon

 

Leftists claim 1st Amendment keeps TERRORISTS in the US | Blaze Media

Leftists claim 1st Amendment keeps TERRORISTS in the US | Blaze Media: 

Immigration advocacy groups have sued the Trump administration over its ban on asylum access at the southern border, claiming that there’s a fundamental right for anyone in the world to freely pass over the United States border.

“Conservative Review” host Daniel Horowitz finds it all laughable, as do Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“It sounds crazy, but is there a free speech right to admit immigrants who hold pro-terrorist views?” Savage asks, adding, “When I hear this, right on the face of this, this sounds absolutely absurd.”

The UN is the enemy of Americans!

 

MUST READ!!----Fake insurance courtesy of Newsom’s California

Since 2018, under Governor Gavin Newsom, FAIR plan policyholders have grown from 150,000 to more than 450,000 as commercial insurers have left California due to premium adequacy issues. - Philip A. Fitzpatrick 

The California FAIR Plan was organized by the state in 1968 as the insurer of last resort for fire insurance when a relatively small number of high-risk homeowners were unable to obtain policies from commercial insurance companies following a series of wildfires. 

Since 2018, under Governor Gavin Newsom, FAIR plan policyholders have grown from 150,000 to more than 450,000 as commercial insurers have left California due to premium adequacy issues.
While organized by the state, the FAIR Plan has no explicit financial support or guaranty from it...

Pure THEFT!

 

Even a short list of how USAID spent our money is outrageous *UPDATED* - American Thinker

Large sums of money were disbursed to terrorists, already wealthy people or organizations, geopolitical enemies, and branches of foreign governments. - Andrea Widburg
As more information comes out about USAID, we’re learning that it’s been used to advance leftist ideologies, everything from climate change to LGBTQ+ promotion to anti-religion initiatives to antisemitic and anti-Israel attacks to partisan attacks on President Trump...

In other words, the whole thing was a giant leftist grift intended to destabilize the West—and all using your money to do so...
Paid $20 million to the hard-left Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a 501(c)(3) that manages at least $200 million in annual fund disbursements. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, in turn, funded Bill Kristol, a wealthy man whose raison d’etre since 2016 has been to destroy Trump...

The fund is especially notable for its commitment to destroying Israel. 

• UPDATE: This chart shows how the money was laundered to Kristol's organization:

• Paid $1,999,900 to Asociacion Lambda to strengthen transgender organizations in Guatemala.
• Paid $1,499,999 to Grupa Izadiji to advance LGBTQ+ diversity in Serbia.
• In the years leading to the October 7 attack on Israel, USAID did nothing to prevent at least $151 million in aid from going straight to Arab terrorists in Gaza and the West Bank... Keep reading!

#1 This day 1979-----Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? (Official Video) [HD Remaster]

More Proof: USAID 'Care Packages' Found with Hezbollah Weapons in Lebanon

More Proof: USAID 'Care Packages' Found with Hezbollah Weapons in Lebanon - Joel B. Pollak
USAID materials were found among weapons used by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, according to a newly-released photograph.
Asher Fredman, a conservative policy analyst and peace advocate who also served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a reservist during the recent conflict in Lebanon, posted a photo Wednesday of a USAID box he had found in a Hezbollah weapons cache:

Stealing from the poor!

 

Sec. Sean Duffy obliterates Hillary Clinton for trying to politicize tragic plane crashes: 'You lie and distort facts' | Blaze Media

Sec. Sean Duffy obliterates Hillary Clinton for trying to politicize tragic plane crashes: 'You lie and distort facts' | Blaze Media: 

"I know you’re lashing out because [the Department of Government Efficiency] is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via [the U.S. Agency for International Development], but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts," wrote Duffy.

HERE’S MORE OF THAT USAID HUMANITARIANISM IN ACTION:

Instapundit - I cannot stress this enough: USAID made a formal program to promote foreign countries to pass foreign laws and regulations to influence content moderation policies of US tech platforms.

...From the birthplace of freedom of speech as a constitutionally protected right to outsourcing government censorship to foreigners. - Stephen Green

AM Fruitcake

History for February 8

History for February 8 - On-This-Day.com 

Jules Verne 1828

• 1861 - The Confederate States of America was formed.
• 1896 - The Western Conference was formed by representatives of Midwestern universities. The group changed its name to the Big 10 Conference.
• 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began with Japan attacking Russian forces in Manchuria.
• 1910 - William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.
• 1952 - Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne. Her father, George VI, had died on February 6.
• 1993 - General Motors sued NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that some GM pickups were prone to fires after certain types of crashes. The suit was settled the following day by NBC.

Argentina says it will leave the World Health Organization, echoing Trump - Washington Times

Argentina says it will leave the World Health Organization, echoing Trump - Washington Times: 

Argentina’s decision is based on “profound differences in health management, especially during the (COVID-19) pandemic,” spokesperson Manuel Adorni said at a news conference in Buenos Aires. He said that WHO guidelines at the time had led to the largest shutdown “in the history of mankind.”