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History for August 12

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

Cecil B. DeMille 1881

• 1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph Lister.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound recording.
• 1898 - The Spanish-American War was ended with the signing of the peace protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Hawaii was also annexed.
• 1981 - IBM unveiled its first PC.
• 1992 - The U.S., Canada, and Mexico announced that the North American Free Trade Agreement had been created after 14 months of negotiations.

Prestigious U.S. law school discriminated based on race in admissions * WorldNetDaily * by Alan Wooten, The Center Square

Prestigious U.S. law school discriminated based on race in admissions * WorldNetDaily * by Alan Wooten, The Center Square: 

Duke University School of Law, seventh-best nationally in a U.S. News & World Report ranking and consistent member of the national T14 list, discriminated based on race in admissions for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 classes, says the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal officials said the university's conduct violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The former prohibits discrimination on basis of race, color or national origin; the latter banned race discrimination in higher education.

The way we were----- Pierre Laval: His Epic Rise and Fall | Today in History (1945) - YouTube

(113) Pierre Laval: His Epic Rise and Fall | Today in History (1945) - YouTube:

Oxford Debater Thought Nobody Would Check The Quran, That BACKFIRED! - YouTube

(113) Oxford Debater Thought Nobody Would Check The Quran, That BACKFIRED! - YouTube:

To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.

And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice.  - Charles Kasner
I was covered head to toe. 

Even on the beach. 

Even with my male relatives. 

And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. 

You know why? 

• Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. 
• That's what they taught me since childhood...

This interview with a member of the DSA's National Political Committee should frighten everyone | Not the Bee

If you want to know why Republicans have decided socialism is their #1 opponent this fall, just listen to their thought leaders for a few minutes. - Harris Rigby

Interviewer: Your policy agenda on law enforcement is to defund police, ultimately to get rid of police departments, correct?

Gill: Well, what I would say is that we are dramatically overspending on police right now -

Interviewer: I understand, but the goal is to defund the police department so we don't need them in the future.

Gill: What we really want to see is a horizon where folks are not reliant on armed enforcement to meet our public safety needs...

Feds confirm law enforcement sweep in 1 city nets 1,200 illegal immigrants * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Feds confirm law enforcement sweep in 1 city nets 1,200 illegal immigrants * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Law enforcement officers conducting a sweep for illegal immigrants in one American city have arrested 1,200 individuals, including some 720 who already had been convicted of, or charged with, criminal actions. Marco Charles, one chief at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations, said the sweep took violent criminals such as sex offenders and child abusers off the streets.

What Michigan’s Senate Primary Just Revealed About the Democrat Party

What Michigan’s Senate Primary Just Revealed About the Democrat Party:

How do you think the practice of medicine has been going over the past few years?

No, not the cost of it... that's another issue. - John F. Di Leo
We all talk about the pain of paying for medical bills and health insurance premiums all the time. 

Perhaps we talk about its cost so much that we forget to talk about the change in its quality.

• Dr. Randall Bock is a brilliant physician - i think he'd be known as a GP, though he clearly has some specialties too - who now writes a column on substack.
• His latest piece concerns a recent doctor visit - one in which he was the patient, visiting a (prospective) new primary care physician for his own personal health insurance plan.
• So this piece isn't about his other patients; it's a doctor's perspective on the experience of a first visit with a doctor, from the knowing eye of a doctor himself.

I can't recommend it strongly enough. 

This is one of those issues that hits home with virtually every reader: we've all been to the doctor, we've all suspected that care is often no longer what it once was, and we all suspect that something political has changed the nature of the doctor-patient relationship and the quality of that care.
Please read this essay. 

Randy Bock is terrific here.

Lunch video-----Couple blindsided by hundreds in fees at Chicago hotel booked through agency - YouTube

(113) Couple blindsided by hundreds in fees at Chicago hotel booked through agency - YouTube:

Noon-toon

 

'FRANTIC!' WNBA commissioner 'panics' after former NBA stars Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White seek to play among women * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'FRANTIC!' WNBA commissioner 'panics' after former NBA stars Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White seek to play among women * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

Eric Daugherty at Right Line News said Engelbert is in a "panic." "Former NBA players like Enes Freedom have the league FRANTIC! The WNBA is being backed into a corner and will soon decide whether men belong in women's sports or not. Checkmate. Transgenderism is a mental illness! "

Where would you want your family to live??!!

 

What They Found on Fauci’s Phone Should Alarm Every Pregnant Woman Who Took the COVID Shot By Rusty Weiss

Newly released text messages pulled from Anthony Fauci’s government phone are shining a harsh light on the shocking gap between what top health officials discussed privately and what they told the public.

• In the January 25th to 26th, 2021 exchange, Fauci himself noted that the second dose of the COVID vaccine “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester” because of the strong fever and cytokine response it often triggered.
• Yet in the months and years that followed, Fauci and other federal officials repeatedly insisted the shots were safe for pregnant women and urged them to get vaccinated without delay.
• Just over one week later, Fauci appeared on the "JAMA network" to discuss concerns about the unproven vaccine regarding pregnant women and children...

The billionaire the democrats would hound out of our country!

 

Ludwig von Mises sat down in 1920 and published a paper that ended the intellectual case for socialism, even if the socialists took another seven decades to notice.

The argument was precise. - Handre@Handre

• Mises showed that without private ownership of the means of production, there are no real prices for capital goods. 
• Without prices, you cannot calculate profit and loss. 
• Without profit and loss, economic planners have no way of knowing whether they are creating value or destroying it. 

They are flying blind, spending real resources with no feedback mechanism telling them whether the factory, the railway, or the grain depot was worth building. 

• Every allocation becomes a guess dressed up as a decree. 

This, he called the Socialist Calculation Problem, and nobody answered it...

#1 This day 1980----- OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - Magic (Live On Countdown, 1980) - YouTube

(113) OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - Magic (Live On Countdown, 1980) - YouTube:

The greatest secret of the social sciences is that nobody reads any of this stuff.

It's all just busy work to keep a giant grift going, so you can have typos in the title of your PhD dissertation and nobody will notice until you have a plagiarism scandal. -Saul Sadka@Saul_Sadka

When mullahs rule.

 

Fauci mistook the microphone for a throne | Blaze Media

Fauci mistook the microphone for a throne | Blaze Media: 

For one extraordinary moment, Anthony Fauci had the attention of the world. For someone working in public health, epidemiology, and infectious disease, that kind of audience was almost unimaginable. A field normally confined to laboratories, medical journals, and government briefings suddenly occupied every household, with Fauci standing at its center.

A state that has some of the highest taxes that you govern, with laws you still have in place, yet you want to blame others for your problems.

Also, that list of BS you want to enforce by basically making the U.S. a free for all is retarded! - Jeff Whelpley

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History for August 11

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

Alex Haley 1921

• 1896 - Harvey Hubbell received a patent for the electric light bulb socket with a pull-chain.
• 1909 - The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
• 1942 - During World War II, Pierre Laval publicly announced "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."
• 1954 - Seven years of fighting came to an end in Indochina. A formal peace was in place for the French and the Communist Vietminh.
• 1992 - In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the United States.