History for December 12

History for December 12 - On-This-Day.com 

Edvard Munch 1863 - Norwegian artist

• 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.
• 1900 - Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation.
• 1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town in Nebraska. The farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979 it was opened to girls.
• 1925 - The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA.
• 1983 - Car bombs were set off in front of the French and U.S. embassies in Kuwait City. Shiite extremists were responsible for the five deaths and 86 wounded. Total of five bombs went off in different locations.
• 2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.

Mamdani Picks Convicted Armed Robber to Lead Public Safety Transition Team

Mamdani Picks Convicted Armed Robber to Lead Public Safety Transition Team: 

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tapped Mysonne Linen, formerly incarcerated rapper, to lead his City Hall transition team on public safety, according to reports.

The way we were-----THE WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRIC CAR - BUILT IN 1884!!

Can Trump Reclaim the Affordability Narrative?

“If a loving father wants to marry off his nine-year-old daughter to a righteous man and all parties consent, what is the issue with that?”

This is North Carolina btw - Defiant L’s@DefiantLs

Guess Who Charlotte-Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden Says the Real Victims of Violent Crime Are.

It never fails. - Amy Curtis

• The Democratic Party always finds who the "real" victims of crime are, and it's never the people who are hurt or killed by the criminals...
• Most of the time, the "victims" are the criminals themselves..

But this is a new one. 

After the murder of Iryna Zarutska, the Democratic sheriff of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Garry McFadden, has decided that the actual victim of that crime isn't Iryna or even the criminal who stabbed her, Decarlos Brown, Jr.

• It's the magistrates who let him go free more than a dozen times.

"Behind the scenes things that you did not see, was that our magistrates were attacked, violently, verbally. 

When I say violently, on social media. 

And they lived in fear for many days," McFadden said...

Tim Walz Presided Over 'Greatest Theft' of Taxes 'Through Welfare Fraud in American History': White House

Tim Walz Presided Over 'Greatest Theft' of Taxes 'Through Welfare Fraud in American History': White House: 

Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz presided over “the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller says.

Miller said fraud linked to Somali migrants will “rock the core of Minnesota politics and American politics,” according to the New York Post.

“We believe that we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes,” he told Sean Hannity Friday on the Fox News show “Hannity.”

Can the Supreme Court Really Overturn Birthright Citizenship?

A quiet 2025 hurricane season — zero U.S. landfalls — gets barely a mention, but every big storm is headline “proof” of climate doom

We need sober analysis, not selective alarmism - Bjørn Lomborg
My op-ed in WSJ: https://wsj.com/.../thank-climate-change-for-our...

Lunch video-----Former TSA agent recalls millions in cash flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul ...

Noon-toon

 

Online vitriol: Twins arrested for threatening to hang, torture and murder Trump DHS assistant secretary * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

Online vitriol: Twins arrested for threatening to hang, torture and murder Trump DHS assistant secretary * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Authorities charged Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores over posts on social media that declared their intentions to shoot United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on sight and to hang McLaughlin, according to a Tuesday release by DHS. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons vowed that threats against officials would not be tolerated.

The collapse began accelerating with 2020-2023 coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Guinea...

 

Hey Michigan...... Remember when we were told that we should approve the lotto because that money would help fix our public education system and roads?

Michigan Life - Jessica Sambor

• Then, we were told that we should raise the sales tax from 4% to 6% because we needed that money for education and fixing the roads.
• Then, we were told that we should approve casino gambling because that money would, you guessed it, go to education and fixing our roads.
• And then, we raised the gas tax and vehicle registration fees to fix the roads.
• Then, we were told that we should legalize marijuana and use the tax revenue for education and fixing the roads.

And now, after all of this, our education system is still sorely lacking and our roads are even worse than that and the governor proposes that we need to raise our gas tax 45 CENTS PER GALLON to fix the roads... I THINK NOT!

• How about finding all that money we were told was going to be used to fix the roads and using it to FIX THE ROADS!...

War?

 

DOJ finally restores equality under the law by getting rid of “disparate-impact” policy that has ruled America for 50 years

In 1971, the Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power banned IQ tests for jobs on the basis that they were racist. - Joel Abbott

• The precedent not only ruined hiring, making degrees (credentialism) the only way businesses could reliably find qualified candidates, but it also 
• set the stage for "disparate impact," or the idea that minorities could sue if some law or policy disproportionately impacted them, even if that law was meant to be neutral...

This is why leftists have claimed that the criminal justice system is racist against blacks. 

• It doesn't matter that American blacks actually commit crime at higher rates than other ethnic groups; what matters is that more blacks are being arrested, therefore the law is seen as "inequitable."
• If that sounds like commie gobbledygook, it is, but it's been the standard for the last 50 years in America.

That's now changing:

#1 This day 1961-----The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman (1961)

US could run out of missiles in weeklong Taiwan war, analyst warns | Fox News

And in an interview with Fox News Digital, Jones warned that if war broke out over Taiwan, the United States could burn through key long-range missiles "after roughly a week or so of conflict" — 

a shortfall he says exposes how far behind the U.S. industrial base remains as Beijing moves onto what he calls a wartime footing. - Morgan Phillips Facebook

That economic weight is fueling a military buildup across every major domain, from fifth- and sixth-generation aircraft to an enormous shipbuilding sector he describes as "upwards of 230 times the size of the United States." 

The effect, he said, is unmistakable. 

"The gap is shrinking."

• In "The American Edge," Jones lays out how great powers historically win long wars through production, not just innovation — and that’s where he believes the U.S. has the most to worry about...

Illegal means ILLEGAL!

 

'Why did Ilhan Omar marry her brother?' Benny Johnson reveals dark reasons behind rampant Somali scams * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Why did Ilhan Omar marry her brother?' Benny Johnson reveals dark reasons behind rampant Somali scams * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

"Restaurants in Somali neighborhoods in Minneapolis claimed they were feeding people during COVID. Those were ghost meals, those meals never happened. They were able to pocket all the money through a program. It was called the Meals Act, it was passed in 2020. Who was the author of that bill? Ilhan Omar! Ilhan Omar created the vehicle for the mass billions of dollars of fraud in the community.

"And it's not a coincidence that the vast majority of restaurants had a connection to Ilhan Omar. The people who were now federally indicted for this fraud were close allies of Ilhan – worked on her campaign, donated to her campaign.

We KNOW what they are HIDING!-----DOJ Sues Blue States for Blocking Voter Roll Audits!

It’s no secret that voter confidence in the integrity of our elections has been eroding for some time.  -David Catron

• A Gallup survey conducted just before the last presidential election found that only 57 percent of Americans believed that the votes for president would be accurately counted. 
• The legacy news media routinely blame this phenomenon on “election deniers,” yet studiously ignore the large number of states that flout federal election laws requiring officials to maintain clean voter registration rolls and make them available for public inspection.
• In short, the liberal establishment in this country has actively created an election integrity crisis by refusing to comply with federal law and then calling conservatives conspiracy theorists for noticing...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 11

History for December 11 - On-This-Day.com 

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918 - Nobel Prize-winning author

• 1792 - France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January.
• 1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
• 1894 - The world's first motor show opened in Paris with nine exhibitors.
• 1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries.
• 1961 - The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon.

'Forced to succumb to a manifestly irrational mandate': University to fork out more than $10 million for COVID-jab religious discrimination * WorldNetDaily * by Jaryn Crouson, Daily Caller News Foundation

'Forced to succumb to a manifestly irrational mandate': University to fork out more than $10 million for COVID-jab religious discrimination * WorldNetDaily * by Jaryn Crouson, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

The University of Colorado (CU) is now on the hook to pay out $10.3 million in a settlement over discriminating against religious students and staff during its 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate process.