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History for May 10

History for May 10 - On-This-Day.com 

David O. Selznick 1902 - Film producer (Movie: Gone with the Wind)

• 1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the American colonies. The legislation led to the Boston Tea Party.
• 1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, UT. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
• 1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Bureau of Investigation. The department became known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
• 1933 - The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
• 1940 - Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
• 2013 - The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) apologized for the "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups about their tax-exempt status during the 2012 election.

'Shredding documents as we speak': Top Republican claims Epstein Files may have been destroyed * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

'Shredding documents as we speak': Top Republican claims Epstein Files may have been destroyed * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff: 

"One of my biggest fears, which I expressed with [FBI Director] Kash Patel and a lot of people, including [White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy] Stephen Miller, going into the new administration, was this: I hope they're not shredding documents right now. This was a few weeks before the transition.

"I said, 'I hope they're not shredding documents.' But you all need to go on that first day and try to get all this stuff released, because my fear – based on what I've dealt with in investigations and in communication with this deep state apparatus – is that they're probably in there shredding documents as we speak. So, hopefully someone has a copy of that."

The way we were-----The joke that pays off 30 years build up! (Jack Benny) #comedy #shopping...

Shouldn't sea levels have risen by now?

How Activists And Flawed Data Created The Illusion Of A Climate Apocalypse - Climate Change Dispatch

Climatologist exposes climate science's biggest lie. - by Dr. Matthew Wielicki 
One of the most influential and deceptive climate graphics circulating today did not originate in any peer-reviewed scientific publication.
Instead, after a thorough investigation, I traced its roots to a 2018 activist document titled “Don’t Mention the Emergency?“ published by the Climate Emergency Declaration group. 
On page 7 of this document, a graphic dramatically juxtaposes heavily smoothed temperature proxy reconstructions with modern instrumental temperature data, falsely presenting today’s warming as unprecedented and alarming...

LOSING THE PLOT: NYT: West Point Is to Educate, Not Indoctrinate, Says Professor Who’s Quitting.

Instapundit - Ed Driscol

Trump's FBI rescues 115 children, nabbing 205 alleged sex predators in nationwide sting | Blaze Media

Trump's FBI rescues 115 children, nabbing 205 alleged sex predators in nationwide sting | Blaze Media: 

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice announced Wednesday the results of a nationwide sting led by the FBI. Operation Restore Justice was a five-day joint effort between 55 FBI field offices, the DOJ's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and United States Attorney's Offices across the country.

They Know What They're Doing

‘It will probably lead to the end of the world’ — what tech bros really think about AI

TECHNOLOGY - In Empire of AI, Karen Hao examines the rise of Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI - Angus Colwell

OpenAI’s Sam Altman was sacked by his own board in 2023 over concerns the company was moving too fast
Sam Altman is one of the most powerful men there has ever been. 

He runs OpenAI, the lab that gave us ChatGPT. 

He’s just turned 40 and he looks like he was AI-generated to run a tech company: casual clothes, big salesman eyes, furrowed brows. 

He tries not to think too much about artificial intelligence turning on us, he has said. 

• But if it does, “I have,” he told The New Yorker in 2016, “guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defence Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.” 
• He also once said, “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there’ll be great companies.”

What’s the most sensible reaction to this? 

I’ll propose one, it’s: Aaaaaarrrgghhh!!!...

Lunch video-----Pacific Century: Chinese Spies: Is America Helpless Against PRC Espionage?

Noon-toon

 

'Snitches': Democrats declare holy war on Christianity, and Catholic Church confirms it will defy new law * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Snitches': Democrats declare holy war on Christianity, and Catholic Church confirms it will defy new law * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Majority Democrats in the autocracy in the state of Washington now have declared open war on Christianity, and the Catholic Church has responded with a volley that includes its commitment to defy a new law. At issue, according to a report from constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has not only testified before Congress on constitutional disputes, but represented members in court in those fights, is the state's decision to alter the confessional requirements of the church. "The Democrats have added to the four stages of the confession. Examination, confession, absolution, and penance may now be followed by incarceration," he explained.

"Trust us!"

 

Green Energy Suicide: The West Pays The Price For Its Net-Zero Delusions - Climate Change Dispatch

‘Clean energy’ kills wildlife, scars landscapes, and fails when it’s needed most. - Paul Driessen

Much of Europe, however, seems headed for energy and civilizational collapse.

• “Grooming gangs” sexually exploiting young girls,
• vehicular rampages and 
• knife attacks, 
• frequent gang rapes, 
• enclaves of assimilation-rejecting migrants, and
• native populations whose lower birthrates make it likely that legal and illegal immigrants will soon dominate demographics, cultures and elections – 

all are harbingers of slow but steady civilizational decline across much of Europe.

• Prolonging these problems, from Britain to France to Germany, ruling liberal/socialist elites are shutting down conservative voices and even entire parties that question or challenge government ideologies on climate change, the energy “transition” to wind and solar, open borders, and free speech...
• Perhaps worst of all, Europe may be entering not just a new intellectual Dark Age, but a North Korea-style darkness age – where energy is scarce and costly, factories close, jobs disappear, lighting and heating become luxuries, and governments increasingly control lives, livelihoods, and living standards...

Not that long ago!

 

80 Years After WWII, US Taxpayers Fund Europe's Authoritarianism

The United States has protected and bailed out Europe for far too long. - Hayden Daniel 

May 8, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ triumph over Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. 

Through Lend Lease and the destroyers-for-bases scheme, we had become involved in the European war much earlier than Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941...
Once the war ended, the U.S. decided to maintain a military presence on the Continent and extend its protective hegemony over Western Europe for two reasons...
And we’re still there today. 

• But if you look at the state of the Continent now, it’s hard to justify our continued presence and support. 
• We stormed the beaches of Normandy to rid Europe of tyranny, but in the decades since, the continent has succumbed to a wave of left-wing authoritarianism...

#1 This day 1975-----He don't love you like I love you Tony Orlando & Dawn 1975

America needs MORE DOGE!-----Former Army Civilian Employee Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for $100 Million Fraud Scheme | United States Department of Justice

Janet Yamanaka Mello, the civilian Army employee who stole over $108 million from a grant program designed to provide services to military dependents and their families was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for five counts of mail fraud and five counts of filing a false tax return.

• In or around December 2016 through at least August 29, 2023, Mello formed a business she called Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development (CHYLD). 
• The sole purpose of CHYLD was to receive grant funds from the 4-H Military Partnership Grant program, which Mello fraudulently secured by way of her position as a CYS financial program manager.

Once Mello received a grant check, she deposited the check into her bank account, spending the money on clothing, jewelry, vehicles and real estate...

The people are learning!

 

Dems' favorite MS-13 associate ran human trafficking operations, says ex-boss | Blaze Media

Dems' favorite MS-13 associate ran human trafficking operations, says ex-boss | Blaze Media: 

Abrego Garcia's illegal entry into the U.S., his failure to appear for hearings on traffic violations, the domestic abuse allegations lodged against him, his links to a terrorist gang, and his identification by two immigration courts as a danger to the community were likely already cause enough to justify his deportation and to question his Democratic defenders' judgment. However, more damning information has come to light. In the wake of the Tennessee Star's publication of footage showing Abrego Garcia's Nov. 30, 2022, encounter with Tennessee Highway Patrol and confirmation of the Department of Justice's investigation into the traffic stop, ABC News reported that the Salvadoran's boss has outed him as an human trafficker.

CFTC 'Staff' Placed on Leave Amid Investigation Beege Welborn

"I’m disturbed by the many accounts of serious misconduct by former union leadership in this report —including a lengthy scheme to defraud the American taxpayer over many years..."  - Beege Welborn
Seemed noteworthy at the time, but there wasn't a lot of information besides what was actually IN the announcement itself.

The government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulates the commodities and derivatives markets.

...the CFTC has placed staff on administrative leave for potential violations of laws, government ethics requirements and professional rules of conduct. Investigations are currently ongoing into these matters and the CFTC will provide updates as appropriate. 

What sort of hanky-panky was going on, and how did they find it?...

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History for May 9

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

Henry J. Kaiser 1882

• 1914 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a joint congressional resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
• 1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.
• 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
• 1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. Thirty-five motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
• 1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.