History for November 10

History for November 10 - On-This-Day.com

Martin Luther 1483, Richard Burton 1925, Bobby Rush 1934 


Roy Scheider 1932, Tim Rice 1944, Ann Reinking 1949


1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps. 


1801 - The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling. 


1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 


1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan. 


1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA. 


1969 - "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS. 











1975 - The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991. 


1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior. 


1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare. 


1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors. 



1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband. 









2001 - The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.

‘Run Over…the Baby’: The Song That Rallies Palestinians to Kill Israeli Infants | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Run Over…the Baby’: The Song That Rallies Palestinians to Kill Israeli Infants | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A duo of Palestinian singers has posted a song that encourages Palestinians to commit infanticide by using their cars to ‘run over’ Israeli babies, apparently inspired by a recent incident in which a Palestinian driver did just that.

“Run over, run over the 2-month-old baby girl – that’s how we get back at them,” went the lyrics according to a report on the song by Israel’s Channel 2 News."

Arizona Law Against Immigrant Smuggling Struck Down by Federal Judge | Video | TheBlaze.com

Arizona Law Against Immigrant Smuggling Struck Down by Federal Judge | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The law came under heavy criticism after more than 2,000 immigrants who paid to be sneaked into the country were charged with conspiring to smuggle themselves across the border.

Critics said the law was intended for the smugglers, not their customers. Last year, a different federal judge barred the tactic, ruling that the policy criminalizes actions that the federal law treats as a civil matter. County officials agreed to drop their appeal of that ruling."

Report: Election-Eve Bombshell Memo Embroils Jeanne Shaheen in IRS Targeting Scandal

Report: Election-Eve Bombshell Memo Embroils Jeanne Shaheen in IRS Targeting Scandal:

"In response to the memo’s publication by The Daily Caller, Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire consultant Michael Biundo told Breitbart News he’s horrified.

“Despite Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire’s FOIA request, the IRS has continued to stall and illegally ignore deadline after deadline for the past several months in order to delay the release of correspondence between their office and Senator Shaheen and now we know why,” Biundo said in an email. “On the eve of the midterm elections, a plot between Senator Shaheen, Lois Lerner, and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative groups aimed to trample free speech has come to light."

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Mocks DEMOCRATS For Not Being As Young & Diverse as REPUBLICANS

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Mocks DEMOCRATS For Not Being As Young & Diverse as REPUBLICANS | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
"I’m not sure when I entered the Twilight Zone, but I think I like it here.
In one election, the Democrats have become the party of “Old White Men,” and the GOP became the face of diversity. 
In one election, the voters have shown that not only are they sick of being stereotyped by the Washington elites, but they are fully capable of flipping the narrative to expose the Democrats for what they are: intolerant hypocrites who are afraid of change."

Guess What Twice as Many Americans Are Saying About Guns Now as Compared to 10 Years Ago | TheBlaze.com

Guess What Twice as Many Americans Are Saying About Guns Now as Compared to 10 Years Ago | TheBlaze.com:

“Having a gun in the house — safer or more dangerous?”
If you asked Americans that question 10 years ago, the majority would have answered, “More dangerous,” but in 2014, the tables have turned."

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning------The Left did absolutely nothing to stop Scott Walker's re-election. They didn't even slow him down.

The Left did absolutely nothing to stop Scott Walker's re-election. They didn't even slow him down. | RedState:

"Permit me this little amusement.  All bolding mine."

The Daily Beast, August 25, 2014 (“The Tea Party Governor Backlash of 2014″): “Wisconsin’s Scott Waker is frequently talked up by RNC types as a leading 2016 contender, but he’s fighting for his political life at home, beset by a tsunami of scandals and running neck and neck with Mary Burke. Walker’s most-favored Midwestern governor status in D.C. is in trouble despite a misguided arrogance born of his surviving a recall attempt. His efforts to rein in the public sector unions have been successful, but his style and tone—and did I mention scandals—could make him an unexpected loser on Election Night.”

• NPR, October 28, 2014 (“In Wisconsin Election, Gov. Scott Walker Fights To Hold On”): “[Craig] GILBERT: Well, you know, one thing that we’ve seen in all the public polling is that, as divided as the state was in the middle of that kind of raucous recall fight, it’s even more divided now. It has not got – there hasn’t been a lot of healing in Wisconsin. And Governor Walker hasn’t really added to his coalition, politically, since those elections. And if you think about 2010 being a really conservative wave election, and you think about 2012 – winning a recall where some voters, you know, had reservations about Governor Walker but didn’t like the recall process – you can sort of see how this election really ought to be closer than those two elections and is.”
• Politico, October 29, 2014 (“Scott Walker limps toward 2016″): “The politician who confidently lectured Mitt Romney in 2012 (“He has to say that I’m a reformer like Scott Walker,” Walker told The Weekly Standard) has tumbled into yet another fight for his political life. Far from a conservative Clark Kent, Walker is visibly straining in the closing days of his race against Mary Burke, a wealthy former Trek Bicycle executive and member of the Madison School Board.”
• The New Republic,  October 28, 2014 (“Scott Walker Is Scared He Might Lose—and He’s Already Blaming His Fellow Republicans”): “The polls are generally not trending well for Democrats in the final days before the 2014 midterms, but it’s increasingly looking not inconceivable that the party’s loss of the Senate could be accompanied by a loss for one of the party’s biggest bête noires: Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. If polls showing him effectively tied with former Trek Bicycle executive Mary Burke weren’t enough, Walker has been giving off the distinct vibe of a man in a bit of a panic.”
• Salon, October 30, 2014: (“5 Tea Partyers who could lose reelection next week”) “Walker was never going to glide to reelection in a state that in 2012 elected progressive Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)4%, the nation’s first openly gay U.S. senator.”
• Slate, November 3, 2014 (“The Most Important Race in America”): “On a portable stage in the parking lot of a strip mall in front of the Eau Claire GOP field office, sandwiched between a Curves and an Office Products Co. store, Gov. Scott Walker is keeping his chin up. After the beating he’s taken, that’s no small feat. Walker, Wisconsin’s incumbent Republican governor, is in a tough statewide contest for the third time in four years, and this one is much closer than it was supposed to be.”
• ThinkProgress, November 4, 2014 (“A Pro-Environment Candidate Could Kick Scott Walker Out Of Office Tonight”): “With the final polls showing an extremely close race between incumbent Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and challenger Mary Burke (D), an influx of last-minute donations and high-profile supporters indicate the importance of the race on a national scale.”
• Wonkette, October 25, 2014* (“Scott Walker Gets Some Chris Christie All Over Him, On Purpose”): “With a little over a week to go before Election Day, Scott Walker is increasingly a man in need of a helping hand.”

IRS Admits They Never Looked for Lerner's Missing Emails, Networks Skip Revelation

IRS Admits They Never Looked for Lerner's Missing Emails, Networks Skip Revelation:

"So how many Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network stories have been dedicated to this latest revelation in the IRS scandal? 0.
In a statement Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton declared: “The Obama IRS couldn’t care less about the federal court’s orders to provide full information about the ‘missing’ Lois Lerner emails. Instead, the IRS, with the help of a compromised Justice Department, has engaged in a series of transparently evasive distractions.."

Food Stamp Recipients Sue Over Work Requirements

Food Stamp Recipients Sue Over Work Requirements:
"Most Americans agree that able-bodied adults should be required to do some type of work to receive welfare assistance.
But two nonprofit groups and a handful of food stamp recipients in New Mexico are suing the state for trying to encourage just that.
Last Friday, a New Mexico district judge placed a temporary hold on the work requirements, which were set to go into effect Nov. 1.
On Wednesday of this week, Republican Gov. Susana Martinez announced that the state would restart the process of putting the work requirements into place rather than going through the litigation process.
The state will pursue the same work requirements.
While the food stamp program doesn’t have much of a work requirement, it does have a modest one for able-bodied adults without children (or other dependents).
Able-bodied adults without children are limited to three months of food stamp benefits unless they work or participate in some type of work activity for at least 20 hours a week. 
However, since 2009 New Mexico—along with many other states—has received a federal waiver allowing them to bypass the work requirement.
But New Mexico has decided to forego the waiver.
The state also plans to insert modest work requirements for other able-bodied adults who don’t have young children (under age 6), requiring them to look for work or participate in community service.
But the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty and the Southwest Organizing Project say that work requirements are unfair and are suing the New Mexico Human Services Department."

On Berlin Wall Anniversary, Somber Notes Amid Revelry

On Berlin Wall Anniversary, Somber Notes Amid Revelry - NYTimes.com:

For most of Germany, Nov. 9 is a day to celebrate not just the opening of the wall but what came after: integration of East and West and the rise of a united and prosperous Germany that now helps lead Europe.
But for some Germans it also summons memories of the East Germany that was a state of informers and suspicions, public rigidity and private despair — none more so than the families and friends of those killed at the Berlin Wall, for whom the anniversary of its fall is tarnished by tragedy, pocked with the holes where a child, a spouse or sibling once was.
To trace the victims is to delve behind the glamour and groove that is modern Berlin, deep into meticulously neat gardens and homes where most Germans live their ordered lives.
The pain still sears, more than five decades after the first victims died, and a quarter-century after millions of German families divided by the Cold War came back together.
By far the majority of those killed trying to breach the fortified, 96-mile barrier were young men in their teens or 20s.
Many more were tempted to take the risk in the first years than toward the end.
Contrary to myths of heroism and betrayal attached variously by West and East to each escape, few who fled or tried to had a purely political motive.

VIDEO: Sen. Tim Scott Asked How He Can Stand for the Poor and Be Conservative; You’ll LOVE His Answer!

VIDEO: Sen. Tim Scott Asked How He Can Stand for the Poor and Be Conservative; You’ll LOVE His Answer!:

"So, the oh-so-enlightened left should rejoice at the notion that the South has finally elected a black senator, right?
On Thursday, MSNBC host Thomas Roberts asked, “You say you’re concerned about kids that are growing up in the wrong zip code and, like yourself, had a tough start on the way out. But if we look at agencies that are following some of your voting records, they have concern. And the NAACP has given you an ‘F’ on their annual scorecard.”
 Sen. Scott replied with a laugh and answered,
“Let’s just ask ourselves, if we look back over the history when Congress was controlled by the Democrats for 40 consecutive years, if we look at the result of that control, what has happened in black America? We saw greater poverty.”

Russian plan: Mail Putin's semen to 'every citizen' in the country

Russian plan: Mail Putin's semen to 'every citizen' in the country by Kevin Whiteman
In what may be a case of a Russian lawmaker mistakenly being under the impression that The Boys from Brazil was a DIY self-help film, and not a political thriller, a member of the nation’s Duma is floating the idea of mailing President Vladimir Putin’s “genetic material” to every citizen of the Federation. 
As reported by the Business Standard (of New Delhi, India) and also by the New York Daily News, both on Nov. 8, 2014, as if the forcible seizing of the Crimea wasn’t enough, there is officially on the table a proposition to proliferate the progeny of the pint-sized president via the postal system.

Yelena Borisovna Mizoulina, the Chairwoman of Parliamentary Commission on Women’s Affairs, Children and Family formally introduced to the Russian Parliament, technically known as the State Duma, a proposal to impregnate just as many Russian women as humanly possible by mail.

Possibly unwittingly proving that when it comes to the age-old battle between email and snail mail, there are still certain things snail mail proves to be far the superior. Case in point, Mizoulina’s asking the Duma “Every citizen of Russia will receive by mail the genetic material of the President to get pregnant from him and have a baby.”

West Michigan Medical Marijuana Conference draws local vendors, residents to Frauenthal Center

West Michigan Medical Marijuana Conference draws local vendors, residents to Frauenthal Center | MLive.com:
"MUSKEGON, MI — Deven Halberda stood outside the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts waving at traffic and pedestrians while wearing a large, green costume.

The Spring Lake resident received different reactions from people because he was dressed as "Weedie" – a mascot for the first annual West Michigan Medical Marijuana Conference that runs from Friday, Nov. 7 to Sunday, Nov. 9.

"There were some people who walked up to me," Halberda said from inside the insulated costume. The outfit included five leafy points with ridged edges and two cartoonish eyes that were colored slightly red. "I got some not-so-good looks, but there have been a lot of good reactions with people giving me a thumb's up."

Border guard’s snap decision ensured joyful end to Wall

Border guard’s snap decision ensured joyful end to Wall:

One man’s quick thinking helped make the fall of the wall, 25 years ago, a peaceful event

Harald Jäger has spent the last quarter century denying that he was the man who toppled the Berlin Wall.
He has no plans to change his story now, ahead of German celebrations tomorrow to mark the hated structure’s end 25 years ago.

“It wasn’t me who opened the wall, it was the East German people gathered there that evening,” says Jäger.
Despite the border guard’s modesty, it was his snap decision, late on the evening of November 9th, 1989, to throw caution to the wind that ensured the Berlin Wall fell peacefully, joyfully. 

Jäger was at work at 6pm at the border crossing at Berlin’s Bornholmer Strasse, eating a bread roll in the canteen and watching one of the most famous press conferences in history.

Ukraine accuses Russia of sending in tanks, escalating crisis

Ukraine accuses Russia of sending in tanks, escalating crisis - Yahoo News:
"KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine's military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country's east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.
Thursday's cross-border incursion, if confirmed, is a significant escalation of a conflict that has killed more than 4,000 people since the separatists rose up in mid-April and would call into question Russia's commitment to a two-month-old ceasefire deal.
The truce has looked particularly fragile this week, with each side accusing the other of violations after separatist elections last Sunday condemned as illegitimate by the West."

IRS Does Not Follow Federal Requirements, Asks For Money | The Daily Caller

IRS Does Not Follow Federal Requirements, Asks For Money | The Daily Caller:

"A new audit report publicly issued Thursday reveals that despite a massive IT budget, the IRS has no idea how to manage software licenses and still doesn’t even have basic email functionality.

Based on the report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the IRS does not even follow Federal requirements or best industry practices in its IT department. The report was completed at the end of September 2014, but was only released Thursday."

Government workin' to help you!------Ferndale housing director accused of stealing drugs

Ferndale housing director accused of stealing drugs

FERNDALE – The director of the Ferndale Housing Commission has been accused of breaking into apartments and stealing prescription drugs for personal use.

Fifty-two-year-old Deborah Wilson was arraigned Thursday in a Ferndale district court on two charges of home invasion and a count of drug possession. Bond was set at $50,000.

History for November 9

History for November 9 - On-This-Day.com
Ed Wynn 1886, Claude Rains 1889, Hedy Lamarr 1913 


Spiro T. Agnew 1918, Carl Sagan 1934, Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) 1936 


1911 - George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs. 


1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands. 


1923 - In Munich, the Beer Hall Putsch was crushed by German troops that were loyal to the democratic government. The event began the evening before when Adolf Hitler took control of a beer hall full of Bavarian government leaders at gunpoint. 


1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass." 


1961 - Major Robert White flew an X-15 rocket plane at a world record speed of 4,093 mph. 


1965 - The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. 


1979 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran to release all American hostages "without delay." Militants, mostly students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4.

1989 - Communist East Germany opened its borders, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany. 


1997 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) became the first player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in nine straight seasons. In the same game Sanders passed former Dallas Cowboy Tony Dorsett for third place on the all-time rushing list.

Obama to Nominate Loretta Lynch As Attorney General, Would Be First Black Woman in Post (UPDATE: It’s Official) | TheBlaze.com

Obama to Nominate Loretta Lynch As Attorney General, Would Be First Black Woman in Post (UPDATE: It’s Official) | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama has chosen a federal prosecutor in New York to become the next attorney general.
The White House says in a statement that Obama intends to nominate U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as the head of the Justice Department."

Proud to be an American: What this Newly-Elected Senator Did the Day After Her Election is Awesome

Proud to be an American: What this Newly-Elected Senator Did the Day After Her Election is Awesome:

"Lt. Col. Ernst is a 21-year veteran, having served in the Army Reserve and the Iowa National guard, and spent 14 months in Kuwait in 2003-2004 as a company commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

While women like Sandra Fluke posture and pretend that it is a “war on women” when Republicans insist that individuals, not taxpayers, purchase their own birth control, Ernst is one of many women serving this nation who understand what real war is, what real challenges are and what it means to truly take responsibility for oneself and others and lead by example."

Terrific! Minnesota Is Monitoring 48 for Ebola – Already 12 Go Missing | The Gateway Pundit

Terrific! Minnesota Is Monitoring 48 for Ebola – Already 12 Go Missing | The Gateway Pundit:

"Minnesota is monitoring 48 travelers who have returned from Ebola infected West Africa.
Already 12 of the individuals, or 1 in 4, have gone missing."

Why Sand Is Disappearing

Why Sand Is Disappearing - NYTimes.com:
Today, however, 75 to 90 percent of the world’s natural sand beaches are disappearing, due partly to rising sea levels and increased storm action, but also to massive erosion caused by the human development of shores. Many low-lying barrier islands are already submerged. 

Yet the extent of this global crisis is obscured because so-called beach nourishment projects attempt hold sand in place and repair the damage by the time summer people return, creating the illusion of an eternal shore.
Before next summer, endless lines of dump trucks will have filled in bare spots and restored dunes.
Virginia Beach alone has been restored more than 50 times. 

In recent decades, East Coast barrier islands have used 23 million loads of sand, much of it mined inland and the rest dredged from coastal waters — a practice that disturbs the sea bottom, creating turbidity that kills coral beds and damages spawning grounds, which hurts inshore fisheries.
The sand and gravel business is now growing faster than the economy as a whole. 

In the United States, the market for mined sand has become a billion-dollar annual business, growing at 10 percent a year since 2008. 

Interior mining operations use huge machines working in open pits to dig down under the earth’s surface to get sand left behind by ancient glaciers. 

But as demand has risen — and the damming of rivers has held back the flow of sand from mountainous interiors — natural sources of sand have been shrinking.
One might think that desert sand would be a ready substitute, but its grains are finer and smoother; they don’t adhere to rougher sand grains, and tend to blow away. 

As a result, the desert state of Dubai brings sand for its beaches all the way from Australia.