History for October 26

History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com
C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts), Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich), Mahalia Jackson 1911- Singer 


Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan, Jr.) 1914 - Actor (The Kid), first child to appear in a full-lenth movie, Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995),  Pat Sajak 1946 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show) 


Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York (2000-), U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008, Jaclyn Smith 1947 - Actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity), Lauren Tewes 1954 - Actress (The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders) 


1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000. 


1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang. 


1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden. 


1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II. 


1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight. 


1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain. 


1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey. 


1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. 


1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession. 


1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead. 


2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas killed 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were killed by the gas or gunshot wounds.

A Socialist, a Journalist and a Former George W. Bush Assistant All Try to Explain Why Islam Isn’t So Bad | Video | TheBlaze.com

A Socialist, a Journalist and a Former George W. Bush Assistant All Try to Explain Why Islam Isn’t So Bad | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Progressive liberal Bill Maher may say he doesn’t want to make his “life’s work” railing against the Muslim world, but he’s been speaking passionately against Islamic thought for quite some time.

He wearily took up the issue again on HBO’s “Real Time” Friday night, mentioning the rash of apparently Muslim violence that hit the U.S. and Canada this week.

But he stood alone on his own show as his guests all tried to tone down his remarks."


This is worth watching.

The Government’s First Line of Defense Against a Pandemic: Thousands of Bottles of Expired Hand Sanitizer | TheBlaze.com

The Government’s First Line of Defense Against a Pandemic: Thousands of Bottles of Expired Hand Sanitizer | TheBlaze.com:

"Roth also said DHS has few records outlining what it bought and where it is storied. For example, he said the DHS Office of Health Affairs sent 1,500 courses of antiviral drugs to the Secret Service, but has no records of that transfer."

Could non-citizens decide the November election?

Could non-citizens decide the November election? - The Washington Post
Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens?
....How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections?
More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. 
Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. 
Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.

Estimated Voter Turnout by Non-Citizens
	2008	2010
Self reported and/or verified	38 (11.3%)	13 (3.5%)
Self reported and verified	5 (1.5%)	N.A.
Adjusted estimate	21 (6.4%)	8 (2.2%)

Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. 

Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress. 

Toronto schools to host LGBTQ conferences … for middle schoolers

Toronto schools to host LGBTQ conferences … for middle schoolers:
"It already has gender-neutral bathrooms; now the Toronto School District is hosting several conferences devoted to LGBTQ issues … at the middle school level.
Truth Revolt reports:
The “conferences,” sponsored by Jer’s Vision, will have much LGBTQ promotional materials for the little ones to absorb, such as workshops relating to two-spirit and LGBTQ advocacy for the secondary school students and workshops on Gay pride for middle-school students.
Both teachers and students will be given “instruction” on advocating for all gender bathrooms, which will be taught by David Stocker, the teacher who successfully implemented an all-gender bathroom at a middle-school in Toronto.
According to the schedule, the young teens “will take in a drag performance,” be educated on “transgender, non-binary, two-spirit, and asexual identities,” and “learn about ‘decolonizing gender.'”"

Lawyer: ACLU Is ‘Terrified’ and ‘Running Scared’ From the Case of the Christian Ministers Who Refuse to Marry Gays Inside Their Chapel | TheBlaze.com

Lawyer: ACLU Is ‘Terrified’ and ‘Running Scared’ From the Case of the Christian Ministers Who Refuse to Marry Gays Inside Their Chapel | TheBlaze.com:

“As long as a entity is conducting a religious activity, that is accepted. That should be accepted under the nondiscrimination law in Coeur d’Alene,” Morales told TheBlaze Friday. “Once that entity begins to offer other services that are secular services, we believe it then falls under the category of public accommodation.”

The Biggest Lie

The Biggest Lie | National Review Online
But where did all the WMD come from, and why the sudden fright now about these stockpiles’ being deployed?
For much of the Bush administration we heard from the Left the refrain, “Bush lied, thousands died,” as if the president had cooked intelligence reports to conjure up a nonexistent threat from Saddam Hussein’s stockpiles of WMD — stockpiles that Bill Clinton had insisted until his last days in office posed an existential threat to the United States. 
Apparently if a horde of gas shells of 20th-century vintage was found, it was then deemed irrelevant — as if WMD in Iraq could only be defined as huge Iraqi plants turning out 21st-century stockpiles weeks before the invasion.
...Although we don’t hear much any more about “No blood for oil,” the lie about “Bush lied, thousands died” has never been put to rest.
What was odd about the untruth was not just that Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, and the anti-war street crowd become popular icons through spreading such lies, but that the Democratic party — whose kingpins (Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid, et al.) had all given fiery speeches in favor of invading Iraq — refined the slur into an effective 2006 talking point.
That Democrats from Nancy Pelosi to Harry Reid had looked at the same intelligence from CIA Director (and Clinton appointee) George “slam-dunk” Tenet (who authored a self-serving memoir ankle-biting George W. Bush while still in office), and had agreed with Tenet’s assessments, at least until the insurgency destroyed public support for the war, was conveniently forgotten.
...In sum, the Bush White House certainly did not remind the country that most of the Clinton-era liberal politicians in the 1990s had warned us about Iraqi WMD (do we even remember the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act?).
Nor were we reminded that foreign leaders like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak had predicted mass death for any invaders who challenged Saddam’s WMD arsenal.
(“General Franks, you must be very, very careful. We have spoken with Saddam Hussein.
He is a madman. He has WMD — biologicals, actually — and he will use them on your troops.”)
Was part of the Bush administration’s WMD conspiracy forcing tens of thousands of U.S. troops to lug about chemical suits and masks in the desert?
No one, of course, noted that the initial success in Iraq also helped shut down Moammar Qaddafi’s WMD program in Libya and pressured the Pakistanis to arrest (for a while) the father of their bomb, Dr. A. Q. Khan.
The latter nations apparently feared that the U.S. was considering removing dictators who that they knew had stockpiled WMD....."

In Chicago, Candidate Votes Republican, But His Vote Is Changed to Vote for Democrat

In Chicago, Candidate Votes Republican, But His Vote Is Changed to Vote for Democrat:

"Early voting in Illinois got off to a controversial start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats."

Ken Braun: What if bad public policy were judged as harshly as failing football coaches?

Ken Braun: What if bad public policy were judged as harshly as failing football coaches? | MLive.com:
"Barring the sort of improbable upset that happens at least once every other weekend and makes college football the greatest spectator sport ever crafted by talking apes, the Michigan Wolverines will lose to Michigan State this afternoon.
If so, then embattled Michigan head coach Brady Hoke may soon be seeking new employment.
College football coaches are a costly investment and failure is often swiftly punished.
Imagine if costly public policy failure was judged with the same ruthless critical eye.
We’re still winless in the War on Drugs, yet firing the coach - changing the policy - hasn’t happened for 40-plus years. 
The perils of addiction - the only problem that should be addressed - are still more than with us. The criminal element with the profit motive to make the problem worse is predictably stronger.
We have jacked up our prison population from 300,000 to 2.3 million since 1973.
The “Land of the Free” cages a larger percentage of its people than every nation on the planet, yet still has inner city neighborhoods fought over by murderous drug gangs.
Even our foreign affairs are a mess as a result.
The violence on our southern border is drug fueled and the terrorists we fight in Afghanistan are often funded with heroin profits.....

She Was Asked, ‘Do You Think That President Obama Is a Strong Leader?’ Her Response Left Even MSNBC Anchors Stunned. | Video | TheBlaze.com

She Was Asked, ‘Do You Think That President Obama Is a Strong Leader?’ Her Response Left Even MSNBC Anchors Stunned. | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Hagan, the Democratic senator from North Carlolina, was asked Tuesday by MSNBC if she thought the president was a strong leader. Her answer was a rambling circle that included a him-haw reference to Obama having a lot going on."

Minneapolis Is Micromanaging the Food Supply

Minneapolis Is Micromanaging the Food Supply - Reason.com:
"Minneapolis has become a focal point for testing out policies designed to force people to eat healthier.
Or else.
A law on the books, which voters may very well repeal next month, requires restaurants to prove that food sales make up at least 70 percent of their total food and beverage sales.
The law also bans restaurants from serving alcohol to customers who are waiting for a table in the restaurant.
 Earlier this year, the city council adopted a City Healthy Food Policy that mandates "healthful food in vending machines, in city cafeterias and at meetings with city-funded food.""

Biggest mismatch in Michigan-Michigan State series of late has been coaching, and Brady Hoke and co. have to be better

Column: Biggest mismatch in Michigan-Michigan State series of late has been coaching, and Brady Hoke and co. have to be better | MLive.com
Since Lloyd Carr left in 2007, Mark Dantonio and his coaching staff have been -- without question -- the X-factor in this series. Dantonio's staff has coached circles around Michigan almost without exception, and it's why the Spartans have won five of six in this series.

And most recently, that's all been on Hoke.

In 2011, the Spartans showed up with a thirst for blood. The Wolverines were forced to go through a bush-league uniform switch just before kickoff, and didn't appear prepared to physically handle what Dantonio's team was dishing out.

And even when Michigan did find a way into the football game, the Wolverines dialed up one of the more questionable calls during the Hoke era when Al Borges and company opted for a play-action pass on 4th and inches inside the MSU red zone down seven. The play, obviously, blew up. And Michigan lost.

Teacher’s lawyer wants student prosecuted for showing their sex tape to his friends

Teacher’s lawyer wants student prosecuted for showing their sex tape to his friends - EAGnews.org
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The lawyer for a teacher accused of having sex with a student want to know why he isn’t being prosecuted for sending a recording to his friends.

The Caller Times reports a lawyer for Tanya Ramirez, a former King High School teacher, is seeking to turn the tables on the 17-year-old student she allegedly had sex with.

Ramirez pleaded not guilty this week to having an improper relationship with a student, a second-degree felony.

She has been accused of having sex with the student in May.

The paper reports:

The student surrendered to authorities a cellphone recording of a sex act showing the back of a woman, according to an arrest affidavit.

The student told authorities the woman is Ramirez and a visible tattoo on the woman’s lower back matches a tattoo on Ramirez, according to the affidavit.

Marijuana and your health: What 20 years of research reveals

Marijuana and your health: What 20 years of research reveals | Fox News
Critics argue that other variables besides marijuana use may be at work in the increased risk of mental health problems, and that it's possible that people with mental health problems are more likely to use marijuana to begin with, Hall wrote in the review.
However, other studies have since attempted to sort out the findings, he wrote, citing a 27-year follow-up of the Swedish cohort, in which researchers found "a dose–response relationship between frequency of cannabis use at age 18 and risk of schizophrenia during the whole follow-up period."
In the same study, the investigators estimated that 13 percent of schizophrenia cases diagnosed in the study "could be averted if all cannabis use had been prevented in the cohort," Hall reported.

Tom Izzo?

https://www.facebook.com/MSUathletics/photos/np.95515006.1077170760/10154770392615154/?type=1&permPage=1

State Orders Man to Pay $30,000 in Welfare Benefits for Child Both Mother and DNA Test Say Isn’t His | Video | TheBlaze.com

State Orders Man to Pay $30,000 in Welfare Benefits for Child Both Mother and DNA Test Say Isn’t His | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"For more than two decades, a Detroit man has been fighting the state, which is requiring him to pay for a child he says he never had. Even after a paternity test proved he wasn’t the father and the mother agreed, the court is still saying he owes $30,000.

WXYZ-TV reported that Carnell Alexander first learned of the child a woman claimed to be his in the 1990s when he was pulled over for a traffic violation."

Hillary: 'Don't Let Anybody Tell You' That 'Businesses Create Jobs'

Hillary: 'Don't Let Anybody Tell You' That 'Businesses Create Jobs':
"Appearing at a Boston rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley on Friday, Hillary Clinton told the crowd gathered at the Park Plaza Hotel not to listen to anybody who says that “businesses create jobs.”
“Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs,” Clinton said.
“You know that old theory, ‘trickle-down economics,’” she continued.
“That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.”
“You know, one of the things my husband says when people say ‘Well, what did you bring to Washington,’ he said, ‘Well, I brought arithmetic,’” Clinton said, which elicited loud laughs from the crowd."

MSU vs. Michigan Promo 2014

History for October 25

History for October 25 - On-This-Day.com
Pablo Picasso 1881, Richard Byrd 1888, Leo G. Carroll 1892 


Marion Ross 1928, Bobby Knight 1940, Helen Reddy 1942 


1415 - In Northern France, England won the Battle of Agincourt over France during the Hundred Years' War. Almost 6000 Frenchmen were killed while fewer than 400 were lost by the English. 


1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally. 


1881 - The founder of "Cubism," Pablo Picasso, was born in Malaga, Spain. 


1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia. 


1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company. 


1960 - The Accutron watch by the Bulova Watch Company was introduced. 


1962 - American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. 


1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.

New Evidence in Fast and Furious Scandal Reveals Why Eric Holder and Valerie Jarrett Should Both be in Jail

New Evidence in Fast and Furious Scandal Reveals Why Eric Holder and Valerie Jarrett Should Both be in Jail:

"New evidence obtained by government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, reveal that Obama’s most trusted and loyal adviser, Valerie Jarrett, was managing Eric Holder’s lies told to Congress in the Obama-Holder illegal Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, in which the regime was funneling American-made weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. 

The scheme, which was intended to sucker Americans into giving up more of their Second Amendment Rights, resulted in the death of U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry, as well as reportedly hundreds of Mexican citizens."

Apparent Muslim Suspect Viciously Attacks NYC Officers With a Hatchet; Possible Ties to Radical Islam Revealed | Video | TheBlaze.com

Apparent Muslim Suspect Viciously Attacks NYC Officers With a Hatchet; Possible Ties to Radical Islam Revealed | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Asked if the attack could be related to terrorism, Bratton didn’t rule it out. He cited the fatal shooting of a solider in Canada earlier this week – what officials there have called a terror attack – as reason for concern.
“This early on, we really cannot say yes or no to that question,” Bratton said.

However, law enforcement sources told Vocative that Thompson appeared to have ties to a radical Islamic leader who supports “aggression” towards the United States government. More from the report:"

Churches in California Battle State Gov’t After Being Forced to Cover ‘Elective Abortion’ | TheBlaze.com

Churches in California Battle State Gov’t After Being Forced to Cover ‘Elective Abortion’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Mattox explained this week in a story for The Federalist that the change resulted from “the insistence of the American Civil Liberties Union,” with California officials subsequently deciding that elective abortion now falls under “basic health services” in the state.

But Mattox told TheBlaze that this regulatory situation is curious, as churches are now exempt from providing contraception, but not abortion."

Feel-good video of the day-----ISIS Terrorist Finds Out What Happens When You Try To Play ‘King Of the Hill’ With A Military Bomber

ISIS Terrorist Finds Out What Happens When You Try To Play ‘King Of the Hill’ With A Military Bomber:
"In a video released by Agence France-Presse, an ISIS terrorist is seen walking away from his flag of jihad that appears to have just been planted on a hilltop in Kobane, Syria.
Little does he know, a military bomber also wants the hill.
And we’re betting that the bomber gets what it wants…"

Box Office Bombs: Made in Michigan

Box Office Bombs: Made in Michigan [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Many films are getting more money from Michigan taxpayers than they are at the theaters

"The Genesis Code," a film shot in Michigan, received about a dozen local newspaper stories during the two years of filming and its theatrical release.
The film received a lot of media attention because it was filmed in west Michigan.
The audience reaction was much more restrained:
The movie made just $20,300 at the box office after its Feb. 18, 2011, release. 
However, Michigan taxpayers are on the hook for $1.74 million in the form of a tax subsidy reimbursement to help offset the $4.5 million that filmmakers spent in the state while shooting.
A review of the movies awarded $1 million or more in tax subsidies listed in the 2009 Michigan Film Office annual report found that six of those seven movies received more in subsidies than they made up at the box office in U.S. theaters.

The Political Cartoon From Canada That People Are Calling Absolutely ‘Powerful’ | TheBlaze.com

The Political Cartoon From Canada That People Are Calling Absolutely ‘Powerful’ | TheBlaze.com:

"On Thursday, Canada’s Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, published a political cartoon that’s being widely praised as “powerful” across the United States and Canada."

Tom Coburn highlights ridiculous government spending in final Wastebook

Tom Coburn highlights ridiculous government spending in final Wastebook - Washington Times
This year’s Wastebook does not show the $5,210 that the State Department tried to spend on a blowup, human-size foosball field for an embassy in Belize.
...Leading this year’s edition is $19 million in salaries that the government paid to workers who were suspended from their jobs, usually because of misconduct that would have resulted in outright firing at a private company.
Other highlights include the $50,000 spent to study whether sea monkeys’ swimming changes the flow of oceans, $450,000 that the Homeland Security Department spent on high-end gym memberships for staffers whose federal health insurance already pays for gym benefits and the increasing number of veterans who get disability payments by claiming sleep apnea at a cost Mr. Coburn said could reach $1.2 billion.
All told, Mr. Coburn identifies $25 billion in waste from the 100 projects.
...The senator insists on highlighting projects from his home state of Oklahoma, figuring it’s only fair.
He encountered one on butterfly farming, a $500,000 Agriculture Department grant to a town on an Indian reservation to help tribe members start raising and selling butterflies.

Judge Sides With IRS, Dismisses Lawsuits Over Targeting Scandal

Judge Sides With IRS, Dismisses Lawsuits Over Targeting Scandal:

“We are stunned by today’s judgment,” True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht said. “The notion that the IRS can target Americans for years because of their political beliefs is reprehensible.”

3 Things Worth Thinking About

3 Things Worth Thinking About | Zero Hedge
Interesting Thought Of For The Day

My friend Michael Gayed recently penned a very interesting thought:

"I believe that the Last Great Bubble is bursting — faith in central banks to solve all problems."

I agree with Michael. The mantra has been over the last five years that you "do not fight the Fed." The problem, as discussed above, is that the Bank of Japan, the ECB and the Fed have all failed in accomplishing their objective of "reflating" the global economy.

The issue that has been consistently ignored is the massive, and expanding, debt burdens that act as a deflationary drag on economic growth and inflation. Despite statistical economic headlines, the underpinnings of the domestic economy remain far too weak to create the level of consumption needed to support stronger economic growth. The bond market has already recognized that inflation isn't coming, Japan and the Eurozone economies are slipping quickly back into recession, and even China's seeming inexhaustible growth has begun to drag. These aren't the drivers of a "secular" bull market.

As Michael concludes:

"A growing economy coincides with rising inflation expectations. A healthy bull market coincides with rising inflation expectations. Fight the Fed? You sure they are going to get that inflation target when the market itself is screaming they won't, at the same time quantitative easing is ending?"

Or, maybe this time really is different?