History for April 10

History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com
Commodore Matthew Perry 1794, Lew Wallace 1827 - U.S. novelist ("Ben Hur"), William Booth 1829 - Founder of Salvation Army, author ("In Darkets England") 


Joseph Pulitzer 1847 - Publisher, his will left $2 million for a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism, Harry Morgan 1915 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Steven Seagal 1951 - Actor ("Out for Justice") 


1790 - The U.S. patent system was established. 

1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100. 


1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England. 


1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby" for the first time. 


1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes. 






1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA. 



1971 - The American table tennis team arrived in China. They were the first group of Americans officially allowed into China since the founding of the People Republic in 1949. The team had recieved the surprise invitation while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship. 


1992 - Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages. 


2002 - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Senate as a representative of the Israeli government. He warned that suicide bombers would spread to the U.S. if Israel was not allowed to finish its military offensive in the West Bank. Netanyaho also cited the goals of dismantling the terror regime and expelling Arafat from the region, ridding the Palestinian territories of terrorist weapons and establishing "physical barriers" to protect Israelis from future Palestinian attacks.
 

Mexican Officials Find Secret Passageway They Believe Was Being Constructed to Smuggle Illegal Immigrants Into the U.S. – and Wait Until You See Where They Found It | Video | TheBlaze.com

Mexican Officials Find Secret Passageway They Believe Was Being Constructed to Smuggle Illegal Immigrants Into the U.S. – and Wait Until You See Where They Found It | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Mexican soldiers have discovered the start of a secret underground tunnel they believe was being built as a passageway into the U.S. But it isn’t just any tunnel: This one begins in a closet inside a house near Tijuana, Mexico, where a ladder dives 66 feet underground into the passageway that spans 500 feet in length."

Major University Cancels ‘American Sniper’ Screening After Students Call It ‘Anti-Muslim’…but a ‘Fun, Engaging’ Replacement Is Ready to Roll | TheBlaze.com

Major University Cancels ‘American Sniper’ Screening After Students Call It ‘Anti-Muslim’…but a ‘Fun, Engaging’ Replacement Is Ready to Roll | TheBlaze.com:

"An online letter circulated around campus said the Academy Award-winning movie about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle “not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer.” It also called Kyle a “racist who took a disturbing stance on murdering Iraqi civilians. Middle Eastern characters in the film are not lent an ounce of humanity … ”

The letter was signed by “self-identified Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) and/or Muslim students.” (Not all those who signed the letter are shown in previous link.) They said “watching this movie is provocative and unsafe to” them."

Did they actually watch it?  Maybe they need to see the part where a  driver is put through the head of a child.  We are allowing the enemy to dictate or thoughts and actions.  They have already taken over the thought process of the next generation of Americans.  

War is hell, but hell will be our reality if we don't STOP this politically correct insanity!

Higher education at its best!

The Dry Math of Scarcity

The Dry Math of Scarcity:
"There are two possible ways to allocate water in California:
The people in Sacramento, Governor Brown prominent among them, can pick and choose who gets what, with all of the political shenanigans, cronyism, inefficiency, and corruption that brings. 
Or Californians can get their water the same way they get most everything else they need and value: by buying it on the open market.
This is an excellent opportunity to apply the cap-and-trade model that many progressives favor when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, with an important difference:
This deals with real, physical scarcity, not artificial scarcity created by regulation.
(Incidentally, it here bears repeating that notwithstanding the inaccurate proclamations of Governor Brown and President Obama, California’s drought almost certainly is not the result of global warming; the climate models supporting the scientific consensus on global warming predict wetter winters for California, not the drier winters that have produced the current crisis. California’s climate is complex, but a great deal of it is dominated by desert and arid to semi-arid Mediterranean conditions.)
...As the economist Alex Tabarrok puts it: “California has plenty of water — just not enough to satisfy every possible use of water that people can imagine when the price is close to zero...” 

White House Says Biden Is Qualified to Speak on Iraq and the Islamic State Instead of Obama | TheBlaze.com

White House Says Biden Is Qualified to Speak on Iraq and the Islamic State Instead of Obama | TheBlaze.com:

"The White House says Vice President Joe Biden is highly qualified to speak on Iraq policy and combating the Islamic State, which he’ll do in an address Thursday instead of President Barack Obama.

“The president on a number of occasions has spoken about this issue,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told TheBlaze Wednesday. “Obviously the vice president has a lot of expertise on this issue. Early on in this administration, he was responsible essentially for working closely with the Iraqis when the president began the draw down of U.S. military personal from Iraq.”

DNA testing for dog poop on the rise in Seattle area

DNA testing for dog poop on the rise in Seattle area - seattlepi.com
SEATTLE (AP) — Frustrated with dog owners who refuse to clean up after their pets, an increasing number of apartments in Seattle are opting to use DNA testing to identify the culprits.
The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/1HxGgb2 ) that a company called BioPet Vet Lab from Knoxville, Tennessee, is providing its PooPrints testing kits to 26 apartment and condo complexes and homeowners associations in the region.
Erin Atkinson, property manager at Potala Village Apartments in Everett says the messes are all over.
"There was poop inside the elevators, in the carpeted hallways, up on the roof," Atkinson said. "They're lazy, I guess."

After University Canceled ‘American Sniper’ Showing, Football Coach Harbaugh Made This Announcement

After University Canceled ‘American Sniper’ Showing, Football Coach Harbaugh Made This Announcement | TheBlaze.com
University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh announced on Twitter Wednesday night that his team will hold a screening of “American Sniper” after the school pulled a showing when some students called it “anti-Muslim.”

“Michigan Football will watch ‘American Sniper’! Proud of Chris Kyle & Proud to be an American & if that offends anybody then so be it!” the coach tweeted to his nearly quarter-of-a-million followers.

9-Year-Old Girl Tells Her School Board Exactly What She Thinks of Florida’s Standardized Testing, and It’s Pretty Brutal | Video | TheBlaze.com

9-Year-Old Girl Tells Her School Board Exactly What She Thinks of Florida’s Standardized Testing, and It’s Pretty Brutal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Florida’s testing regime isn’t Common Core — Florida ditched the standards last year — though the Washington Post noted that Florida’s replacement testing standards are “remarkably similar” to Common Core.

Noting that the tests come wrapped in a weird veil of secrecy — students are asked to sign a form saying they won’t discuss the test with their parents, and grades are only delivered after the end of the school year — Sydney told the school board, “I have the right to talk to my parents about any and everything related to school and my education.”

Michigan Plummets in Economic Outlook Rankings Among States

Michigan Plummets in Economic Outlook Rankings Among States [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"There is troubling news for Michigan’s economy, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual “Rich States, Poor States” state competitiveness index.
The index ranks states on both economic performance in the past and the outlook for the future.
In the 2015 index Michigan experienced the worst decline of any state on economic outlook, dropping 12 places to No. 24. 
The index is based on 15 state policy variables found to be important indicators of where a state is heading economically.
The factors include eight measures of taxation plus measures of state debt, government employment, minimum wage mandates and right-to-work status.
The economic performance ranking, meanwhile, incorporates state domestic product, domestic migration, and nonfarm payroll employment changes from 2004 through 2013.
Michigan’s overall rank in this category is 50th among the states, the same as the previous year. "

"Christian Pride Night" not on the schedule----A First: Tigers to Host LGBT Pride Night at Comerica Park

A First: Tigers to Host LGBT Pride Night at Comerica Park  –  Deadline Detroit:

Nearly 6,000 Retired Illinois Teachers Made Six-Figure Pensions in 2014

Nearly 6,000 Retired Illinois Teachers Made Six-Figure Pensions in 2014 | Pension360:
"But in Illinois, the number of $100,000 pensions for public school teachers is rising rapidly.
Six-figure pensions for public school teachers and administrators are up over 60 percent from 2012, when 3,458 retired teachers received $100,000-plus pensions from the state, according to pension records obtained by Pension360.
These pensions were usually awarded to very long-term workers.
The average tenure of a six-figure pensioner was 35 years.
Thus, a teacher who joined the system at the age of 22 would be 57 years old before collecting a $100,000 annual check.
Illinois’ unfunded pension liabilities ballooned to an official $111 billion across all systems in 2014 – a 17 percent increase since 2012, according to the state’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
The total liability is about $200 billion, nearly half of which is secured with the money held by Illinois pension funds."

Democrats: Get A $2,000 Tax Credit For Turning In Your Assault Rifles - Matt Vespa

Democrats: Get A $2,000 Tax Credit For Turning In Your Assault Rifles - Matt Vespa:

"Congressional Democrats have a grand scheme to make America’s streets safer; incentivize people cannibalize to their Second Amendment rights for tax credits. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) will introduce the Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our Streets Act, which will do just that (via the Hill):"

As Was Always the Plan: California Water Authorities Using Smart Meter Data as Evidence to Impose Fines

As Was Always the Plan: California Water Authorities Using Smart Meter Data as Evidence to Impose Fines | Truthstream Media
The smart grid isn’t coming. 
It’s already here.

Everywhere people’s houses are being fitted if they already haven’t with smart electric meters and smart water meters. 

These meters communicate real-time usage data via radio frequency (which comes with its own set of health problems).

Essentially, consumption of utilities in your home is being big brother tracked and traced at all times on the smart grid.

Sure, it was sold to everyone as a “smart” solution for keeping consumption in check, that it would decrease utility bills because people could use it to check out how much they use and find smart ways to cut down. (How many people are really even doing that, by the way?)

Not only is this going to be used to serve up “peak pricing” models against the population — to price electricity and water higher during times of higher consumption by the population — it’s also going to be used to allow the people to tattle on themselves via their data, a set up that will come with heavy financial consequences.
As we can see happening now in California during its historic drought, smart meters are also being used by authorities to seek people out and impose fines.
CBS Los Angeles is reporting that water authorities are using smart meters against “water wasters”:
...The punchline? Using this data, Wattier knew the precise moment to send his employees to videotape the infractions to use as evidence. “We are using it specifically for an enforcement tool to go after those customers who we’ve gotten lots of complaints about,” Wattier said.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Convicted of All Charges in Boston Marathon Bombing, Faces the Death Penalty | Video | TheBlaze.com

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Convicted of All Charges in Boston Marathon Bombing, Faces the Death Penalty | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Nearly two years to the day after twin explosions ripped across the marathon finish line, the city of Boston has justice.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges involved in carrying out the bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon.

He is now eligible for the death penalty."

Hitler Reacts To Denied #GayWeddingCake

History for April 9

History for April 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865, Paul Robeson 1898 - Singer, Ward Bond 1903 - Actor ("It’s a Wonderful Life", "The Maltese Falcon") 


Hugh Hefner 1926 - Publisher, Michael Learned 1939 - Actress ("The Waltons", "All My Sons"), Dennis Quaid 1954 - Actor ("Wyatt Earp", "The Right Stuff"), brother of Randy Quaid 


1682 - Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 


1770 - Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 


1865 - At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McClean's home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had killed 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops. 


1867 - The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty with Russia that purchased the territory of Alaska by one vote. 


1870 - The American Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved. 


1942 - In the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino forces were overwhelmed by the Japanese Army. 


1945 - National Football League officials decreed that it was mandatory for football players to wear socks in all league games. 


1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts. 


1967 - The first Boeing 737 was rolled out for use. 


1992 - Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami, FL, of eight drug and racketeering charges. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/04/commander-in-chef-by-tammy-derouin-ive.html

Commander In Chef

By Tammy Derouin

I’ve had it with all the pot stirring by special interest groups.  I wonder how much of this would be taking place if our leader wasn’t holding the spoon. Progressives and radicals never let an opportunity go to waste.  It allows them to do things they might not have otherwise been able to accomplish.  If a crisis doesn’t evolve on its own, they have no problem nudging, pushing and shoving it along.  

The executive, or Commander In Chef, loves stirring the pot.  He stirs and he stirs, waiting for an opportunity to serve his favorite dish, chaos.  His special, but no longer secret ingredient is pepper, or anything that gets the blood boiling.  He really seems to favor this special spice as he indiscriminately tosses it on everything.  

Why would he want to turn everything into a hot item?  According to the Constitution, his days are numbered.  He doesn’t like limitations.  He feels he knows best.  At times, Congress has been able to muster up enough backbone to prevent the executive from moving forward, I mean backwards.  But, when this happens, the executive thumbs his nose and goes around them by way of executive order. 

Still, Congress has given in to his will too many times.... 

The 9 states with the highest property taxes

The 9 states with the highest property taxes - Page 3 - CBS News:
"8. Michigan: $3,168
Residents in this midwestern state face average annual property tax bills of $3,168.
While that would be a significant bill for most Americans, residents of Michigan are faced with a double wallop: 
They have median annual household income of less than $47,500, or below the U.S. median income of $51,915 per year.
Governor Rick Snyder has reformed property taxes, but declining income and high taxes are eating away at the state's middle class, according to Watchdog.org."

Univ. of Michigan cancels ‘American Sniper’ screening: ‘Made students feel unsafe’

Univ. of Michigan cancels ‘American Sniper’ screening: ‘Made students feel unsafe’: "University: ‘While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program’
A scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” at the University of Michigan was abruptly cancelled Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film perpetuates “negative and misleading stereotypes” against Muslims.
“The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,” according to an online letter circulated among the campus community via Google Docs that garnered the signatures.

Obama: I’m Concerned by ‘Less Than Loving’ Comments From Christians | TheBlaze.com

Obama: I’m Concerned by ‘Less Than Loving’ Comments From Christians | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama on Tuesday used the White House Easter prayer breakfast to accuse some Christians of lacking love, then said he was “pulling back” from saying any more.

“On Easter, I do reflect that as a Christian, I am supposed to love,” Obama said. “I have to say that sometimes, when I listen to less than loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned. But that’s a topic for another day.”

Well, Mr. Executive, I get concerned with the lack of tolerance shown towards anyone who is not Muslim.  

Here's How The Embattled Owners Of Memories Pizza Plan To Share Their Newfound Fortune

Here's How The Embattled Owners Of Memories Pizza Plan To Share Their Newfound Fortune: "“They revealed they are set to share their new fortune with disabled children, a women’s help group, firefighters, police trusts, Christian churches, and Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman, 70, who was fined after declaring she would not serve a gay wedding.”
You may recall that the elderly florist was slapped with a $1,000 fine last month after she declined to sell flowers for the 2013 wedding of longtime gay customers.
A judge ruled that Stutzman, a Christian with deeply-held religious beliefs, violated the Washington state law against discrimination.
As for his religious beliefs and how they may have been influenced by the furor over his pizza parlor’s backing of Indiana’s recently enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Kevin O’Connor tells The Daily Mail he still feels the same about not supporting a gay marriage celebration."