History for July 15

History for July 15 - On-This-Day.com

Birth anniversaries of Rembrandt (1606-69), Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) and Jacques Derrida (1930-2004).

Happy Birthday! Arianna Huffington (super rich/powerful/famous), 



Linda Ronstadt  ("It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.")

1099 - Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders. 


1789 - The electors of Paris set up a "Commune" to live without the authority of the government.  The Paris Commune was a revolutionary and socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from 18 March until 28 May 1871...Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx


1888 - "Printers’ Ink" was first sold. 


1916 - In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co. 


1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I. 


1922 - The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. 


1942 - The first supply flight from India to China over the 'Hump' was carried to help China's war effort.
 

1958 - Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958. 


1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations." 

Guess How Many Bills the Senate Has Actually Voted on This Year | TheBlaze.com

Guess How Many Bills the Senate Has Actually Voted on This Year | TheBlaze.com:
"An analysis of votes held this year shows the Senate is doing very little legislative work, and on average is holding a major vote on a bill every nine days.
It also shows that Senate Democratic leaders don’t get anywhere on legislation when they choose to ignore their Republican colleagues, something they do often by insisting that no amendments can be considered."

The Odd Book One Texas Rancher Found Near the Border | TheBlaze.com

The Odd Book One Texas Rancher Found Near the Border | TheBlaze.com:
“We have limited resources,” said the agent, who was not authorized to speak publicly. “It’s frustrating for all of us and there’s no doubt that we have OTMs [Other Than Mexicans] coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and other parts of the world that we are very concerned with — these guys won’t be turning themselves into Border Patrol like the family units or children. I expect we’ll see more the OTMs of special interest this year and next, now that they know they can get in easier and they won’t be turned back home.”

Amazing proof of the lies of the left------The Truth about Michigan Education Funding

#MIKidsFirst | The Truth about Michigan Education Funding:

Sensible Gun Control

Sensible Gun Control | Fellowship of the Minds

Great Idea! Why didn’t I think of this!

In 1865, a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
In 1881, a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States who later died from the wound.
In 1975, a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.
In 1983, a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.
In 1984, James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant.
In 1986, Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.
In 1990, James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.
In 1991, George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby’s cafeteria.
In 1995, James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.
In 1999, Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service.
In 2001, a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US.
In 2003, Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.
In 2007, a registered Democrat named Seung – Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech.
In 2010, a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner allegedly shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.
In 2011, a registered Democrat named James Holmes allegedly went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.
In 2012, Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.
In 2013, a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza allegedly shot and killed 26 people in a school in Newtown, CT.
As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard.
One could go on, but you get the point, even if the media does not.
Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns.
Not one NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservative was involved in any of these shootings and murders (except as a target!).

SOLUTION: Let’s make it illegal for Democrats to own guns.

Hollywood Heavyweight’s Message for America Includes Takedown of Obama, Democrats — and One Woman He Calls a ‘Gang Leader’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hollywood Heavyweight’s Message for America Includes Takedown of Obama, Democrats — and One Woman He Calls a ‘Gang Leader’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“Five years ago I stated that Obama would take the country apart piece by piece, that he would cause a civil war in this country,” Voight said as part of a statement on Mike Huckabee’s Fox News show Saturday, The Hollywood Reporter noted.

“In hindsight we can see how many things have come to pass.”

Sure beats a candle-light vigil and a group hug------Slain jogger Becky Bletsch's family organizes women's self-defense clinic

Slain jogger Becky Bletsch's family organizes women's self-defense clinic | MLive.com

DALTON TOWNSHIP, MI – The mysterious slaying ofRebekah "Becky" Bletsch on June 29, apparently while she was jogging on rural Automobile Road in Dalton Township near her home, has affected many people in the Muskegon area -- and not only those who knew her.

In some cases, "Women are really insecure at this point in time to go for a run by themselves," said Erin Wilks, Bletsch's neighbor and cousin by marriage.

Wilks and others are trying to do something about that.

The Bletsch/Wilks family have organized a women's self-defense clinic Saturday, July 19, at Reeths-Puffer High School, 1545 N. Roberts Rd., Muskegon Township.

With a cost of $25, two sessions are offered, from 8 to 10 a.m. and from 10 a.m. to noon. Staff of NorthWinds Martial Arts will conduct the clinic, Wilks said.

The event is partly a fund-raiser for the Bletsch family, with $10 of each registration fee going for that. 

Bletsch, 36, left behind her husband, Kevin, and their 11-year-old daughter.

Women interested in the self-defense training can register at the website of Wilks' business, Flipz Tumbling Gym of Whitehall: www.flipztumblinggym.com.

Remember, these monsters don't want women. They want young boys--------Pope Francis: 'About 2%' of Catholic clergy paedophiles

BBC News - Pope Francis: 'About 2%' of Catholic clergy paedophiles:
"Pope Francis has been quoted as saying that reliable data indicates that "about 2%" of clergy in the Catholic Church are paedophiles.
The Pope said that abuse of children was like "leprosy" infecting the Church, according to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper.
He vowed to "confront it with the severity it demands".
But a Vatican spokesman said the quotes in the newspaper did not correspond to Pope Francis's exact words.
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says there is often a studied ambiguity in Pope Francis' off-the-cuff statements.
He wants to show a more compassionate attitude towards Church teaching than his predecessors, but this can sometimes cause consternation among his media advisers, our correspondent adds."

Bowe Bergdahl set to return to active duty

Bowe Bergdahl set to return to active duty | Rare:
"Former prisoner of war Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who came under fire after being traded for five Taliban detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, is set to return to active duty this week, according to the New York Times.
Citing unnamed sources at the Defense Department, Bergdahl has completed therapy and will “return to life as a regular Army soldier .”
Bergdahl was released six weeks ago after being held captive for five years by the Taliban.
“Sergeant Bergdahl has finished undergoing therapy and counseling at an Army hospital in San Antonio, and will assume a job at the Army North headquarters at the same base, Fort Sam Houston,” the New York Times writes.
Controversy erupted over Bergdahl’s trade for potentially putting Americans at risk by returning Taliban leaders to the government of Qatar."

The hypocrisy of Obama's 15-day Vineyard vacation

CURL: The hypocrisy of Obama's 15-day Vineyard vacation - Washington Times:
"On April 1, the U.S. economy dropped a whopping 2.9 percent for the first three months of the year (no fooling).
The American workforce participation rate fell to a 40-year low.
One-third of people aged 18-29 have moved back in with their parents.
Millions of Americans this summer will enjoy yet another “staycation”:
They just can’t afford to go to the beach or the mountains, even for a week — again.
Swipe cut to President Obama:
He’s eating shave ice in Honolulu; playing golf (some 180 rounds so far); jetting off to Martha’s Vineyard for a 15-day vacation in a $12 million house on the beach.
He’s playing pool in Colorado (he turned down an offer from a young heckler to smoke some weed); eating barbecue with a college student in Minnesota; hitting fundraiser after fundraiser across the country (at $228,000 an hour for his swank 747 super-jumbo jet).
Cut back to the economy.
By the end of April (no fooling), the federal government had set a new record for total tax receipts, pulling in $1,735,030,000,000. 
Yes, you people out there sent in $1.7 trillion — in seven months. 
It didn’t matter, though:
The government still ran a $306 billion deficit.
By the end of fiscal year 2014, you’ll have sent in more than $3 trillion total, but the feds will spend $3.65 trillion, a deficit of some $650 billion, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Fade to black.
Fin.
The job of president is, in large part, about perception — style over substance.
The president really can’t do much (especially this one); he gets blamed for things that aren’t his fault (but also takes credit for things that aren’t his doing, especially this one).
In the end, all the president has is his character.
It’s like Andrew Shepherd says in “The American President”:
“For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was, to a certain extent, about character I can tell you without hesitation — being president of this country is entirely about character.” (If it’s in a Hollywood movie, it must be true.)

The ‘Deadly Combination’ in the Middle East Causing ‘Extreme, Extreme Concern’ in the White House | Video | TheBlaze.com

The ‘Deadly Combination’ in the Middle East Causing ‘Extreme, Extreme Concern’ in the White House | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Since Syrian terrorists may be plotting to down a U.S.- or European-bound plane — aided by any number of thousands of Americans and other foreign fighters possessing U.S. and European passports who’ve joined terrorist groups in the region — U.S. officials have stepped up security at overseas airports."

Phony news--"All The News Fit To Buy"-----Whoa: Look who’s being paid by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to cover Common Core

Whoa: Look who’s being paid by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to cover Common Core | Twitchy:
"Wow.
Here’s a link to the Gates-subsidized NBCNews.com article.
There is no indication that it’s an advertisement or advertorial.
It appears to be a bona fide news story written by a bona fide reporter (Nona Willis Aronowitz).
Here it is featured along with NBC News’ other articles on its education page:"

"It’s no secret that the Gates Foundation has been lobbying hard for Common Core educational standards. 

This, however, is the first we’ve heard of a grant to subsidize a major news outlet’s Common Core coverage.

How long, we wonder, has this cozy little arrangement been going on? 

Have other MSM news outlets accepted grants from the Gates Foundation?"

Detroit water department finds 79 customers stealing water in three-day period

Detroit water department finds 79 customers stealing water in three-day period | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department cited 79 accounts in the city for illegal water usage in a three-day span earlier this month, resulting in $21,750 in fees.
A department spokesman said the snapshot of illegal water usage from July 1-3 illustrates one of the challenges facing the DWSD in its effort to collect more than $90 million from about 90,000 delinquent accounts.
“It’s another example of money that we’re not getting that’s due to us,” DWSD spokesman Greg Eno said. “Those people should be put on notice ... if you’re flat-out stealing, we’re coming after you as well.”"

Obamacare’s Biggest Legal Threat

Obamacare’s Biggest Legal Threat | National Review Online:
The legal positions of President Obama’s Justice Department have been slapped down unanimously a remarkable 13 times in the Supreme Court in the last two years.
Over and over, even Obama’s own two appointees to the court — Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — have held that the president has exceeded his authority and violated the separation of powers.
This coming week, we could see the second-highest court in the land rule that the administration broke the law in enforcing a key provision of Obamacare, calling into question once again Obama’s fidelity to the Constitution — and further endangering his signature program.
 The case of Halbig v. Sebelius (since renamed Halbig v. Burwell, for the current HHS secretary) was argued before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court in March.
It attacks the central nervous system of Obamacare — the government exchanges that were set up to subsidize health insurance for low-income consumers.
If the Supreme Court ultimately finds that the Obama administration violated the law in doling out those subsidies, it could force a wholesale revision of Obamacare.
In January, The Hill quoted a key Obamacare supporter as saying that Halbig was “probably the most significant existential threat to the Affordable Care Act.”
Jonathan Turley, a noted liberal constitutional-law expert at George Washington Law School, recently agreed, writing in the Los Angeles Times that Halbig “could leave Obamacare on life support.”

Op-Ed: The ‘Stealthy’ Plan to Infuse HS American History with ‘Sharply Left-Leaning Curriculum’ — and Its Common Core Connection

Op-Ed: The ‘Stealthy’ Plan to Infuse HS American History with ‘Sharply Left-Leaning Curriculum’ — and Its Common Core Connection | TheBlaze.com:

The way American history is taught in high schools across the United States may soon undergo a radical shift toward a “centrally-controlled and sharply left-leaning curriculum,” one conservative commentator said — and there’s a curious connection to Common Core underneath it all.

In his op-ed for National Review Online, “New War Over High School U.S. History,” Stanley Kurtz noted that the College Board — which issues the SAT college entrance and Advanced Placement exams — is implementing a new framework for the AP U.S. History Exam.

College Board President and C.E.O. David Coleman attends The New York Times Next New World Conference on June 12, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (Image source: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for New York Times)

In the end this framework will jettison high school American history’s “traditional emphasis on America’s founders and the principles of constitutional government” in favor of “a left-leaning emphasis on race, gender, class, ethnicity…” he wrote.

Kurtz also insisted that public debate about the issue has been “largely suppressed by the stealthy way in which the College Board has rolled out the new test.”

Nightmare for America but wetdream for B Hussein--------Obama Had A DREAM

Blog: Obama Had A DREAM:

The White House’s explanation of why so many “children” are crossing our southern border recently is that the violence in Central America drove them here. 
Also, as usual, Bush is to blame: in 2008 President Bush signed a law “to prevent immigration officials from inadvertently sending [children] back to pimps and drug violence”.

On July 5, the Los Angeles Timespublished an article by Brian Bennett. Using data obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Bennett reported as follows.

“The increase has been dramatic. For most of the last decade, U.S. agents apprehended fewer than 4,000 ‎unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras each year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures.

“‎The total jumped to 10,146 in fiscal year 2012. It doubled to 20,805 last fiscal year. It nearly doubled again, to 39,133, between last October and June 15 this year.”

Below is that same data in graph form. (Since the figure for FY 14 was only through three quarters, I multiplied by 4/3 to get a comparable figure for the full year, assuming the pace of Jul-Sep matches that of Oct-Jun. Note that the chart depicts fiscal years.)

President Obama issued the “DREAM Act” Executive Order in June 2012.

Here is some more data you might find interesting: the murder rates (per 100,000 population), from 2008 to 2012 (most recent data available).

• El Salvador: from 51.7 to 41.2 (a 20% drop).
• Guatemala: from 46.1 to 39.9 (a 13% drop).
• Honduras: from 60.8 to 90.4 (a 49% increase).
• U.S. (for comparison): 5.4 to 4.7 (a 13% drop).

Unless all those kids are coming from Honduras, the “violence in Central America” excuse looks like a non-starter.

And here are some murder rates (per 100,000) in selected U.S. cities in 2011.

• Camden, NJ: 60.6.
• New Orleans: 57.6.
• Flint, MI: 50.8.
• Detroit: 48.2.
• Anniston, AL: 47.4.

I report, you decide. 

What do you think did it – something Bush did in 2008, something Central America did recently, or something Obama did in 2012 and later?

Bank for International Settlements fears fresh Lehman crisis from worldwide debt surge

Bank for International Settlements fears fresh Lehman crisis from worldwide debt surge - Telegraph:
"The world economy is just as vulnerable to a financial crisis as it was in 2007, with the added danger that debt ratios are now far higher and emerging markets have been drawn into the fire as well, the Bank for International Settlements has warned.
Jaime Caruana, head of the Swiss-based financial watchdog, said investors were ignoring the risk of monetary tightening in their voracious hunt for yield.
“Markets seem to be considering only a very narrow spectrum of potential outcomes.
They have become convinced that monetary conditions will remain easy for a very long time, and may be taking more assurance than central banks wish to give,” he told The Telegraph.
Mr Caruana said the international system is in many ways more fragile than it was in the build-up to the Lehman crisis.
Debt ratios in the developed economies have risen by 20 percentage points to 275pc of GDP since then.
Credit spreads have fallen to to wafer-thin levels.
Companies are borrowing heavily to buy back their own shares. 
The BIS said 40pc of syndicated loans are to sub-investment grade borrowers, a higher ratio than in 2007, with ever fewer protection covenants for creditors."

VIDEO: Not Interested in Photo Ops? Unless, Of Course, He Is

VIDEO: Not Interested in Photo Ops? Unless, Of Course, He Is:

"In what could be construed as either the “Joke of the Week” or the “Lie of the Week,” President Obama actually stated that he was not visiting the Rio Grande border in Texas to see firsthand the reality of the illegal alien invasion because he’s not interested in a photo op, he’s interested in solutions. He said that all the things that people have suggested that we do to curb the massive entrance of illegals into the country are already in place with legislation he has sent to Congress."

EPA has no business garnishing wages without due process

EPA has no business garnishing wages without due process: Examiner Editorial | WashingtonExaminer.com
It took Mike and Chantell Sackett five years and a unanimous Supreme Court decision just to gain a fighting chance against a thuggishEnvironmental Protection Agency.
Officials appeared at their Idahoproperty in 2007 threatening them with fines of $37,500 per day unless they immediately stopped construction on their dream home on land they owned near a lake.
The agency cited the Clean Water Act after a neighbor complained, perhaps upset at the prospect of another home being built in the well-developed neighborhood.
There are dozens of adjacent homes, multiple piers on the lake and even a well-trafficked marina close at hand. The Sacketts' property already had a sewer hookup.
The agency not only threatened to ruin the Sacketts, but also insisted they could nothing to contest the agency's actions. 
So, the couple took their case to court, battling EPA efforts to deny them due process of law at every step all the way to the Supreme Court.
But after losing that case unanimously in 2012, the EPA now wants to strengthen its hand for future confrontations with individual citizens who, like the Sacketts use their private land in ordinary ways with little or no significant consequences to the environment. 
The agency announced July 2 that it plans new regulations claiming the power to garnish workers' wages in order to collect fines and other money owed the agency without so much as a court order.

Obama caught in A Haze Of Marijuana Smoke

History for July 14

History for July 14 - On-This-Day.com

France: Bastille Day (or Fête National). Celebrates the fall of the Bastille in 1789.

Northern Ireland: Orangemen’s Day (observed; usually July 12)

Birth anniversary of Gerald Ford, 38th president of the US (1913-2006).

Birth anniversary of William Hanna (1910-2001), cocreator with Joe Barbera of Academy Award-winning Hanna-Barbera animated shorts.

Birth anniversaries of folksinger Woody Guthrie (1912-67) and filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007).

Happy Birthday! Polly Bergen,  Rosey Grier, Harry Dean Stanton

1430 - Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais. 


1789 - French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside. 


1798 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government. 


1868 - Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure. 


1891 - The primacy of Thomas Edison's lamp patents was upheld in the court decision Electric Light Company vs. U.S. Electric Lighting Company. 


1914 - Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel. 


1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed. 


1958 - The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy. 


2003 - Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio. 

House Says ‘No’ to Obama’s Request for $3.7 Billion to Address Border Crisis — Here’s How the Money Would Be Spent | TheBlaze.com

House Says ‘No’ to Obama’s Request for $3.7 Billion to Address Border Crisis — Here’s How the Money Would Be Spent | TheBlaze.com:
"A key Republican said Friday that President Barack Obama’s multibillion-dollar emergency request for the border is too big to get through the House, as a growing number of Democrats rejected policy changes Republicans are demanding as their price for approving any money."

Obama’s Split-Screen Presidency: Relishing the Roadshow While His Agenda Flounders in D.C. | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama’s Split-Screen Presidency: Relishing the Roadshow While His Agenda Flounders in D.C. | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Obama has long sought refuge outside of Washington when his frustrations with the nation’s capital reach a boiling point. But his ability to rally public support in a way that results in progress for his legislative agenda has perhaps never been weaker than it is as he nears the midpoint of his second term."