History for August 10

History for August 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Herbert Clark Hoover (U.S.) 1874, Leo Fender 1909, Jimmy Dean 1928 

Eddie Fisher 1928, Rocky Colavito 1933, Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) 1940 

Ronnie Spector 1947, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 1947, Rosanna Arquette 1959 


1792 - King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason. 


1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio. 


1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged. 


1948 - On ABC, "Candid Camera" made its TV debut. The original title was "Candid Microphone." 


1949 - In the U.S., the National Military Establishment had its name changed to the Department of Defense. 


1954 - Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway. 


1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones. 


1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. 


2003 - Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space. 

Islamic State Planned to Assassinate Queen Elizabeth in Massive Bomb Attack on Ceremony Next Weekend: Report | TheBlaze.com

Islamic State Planned to Assassinate Queen Elizabeth in Massive Bomb Attack on Ceremony Next Weekend: Report | TheBlaze.com:

"Islamic State group jihadists from Britain have been working on a plan to launch a dramatic bomb attack at a ceremony next weekend marking the end of World War II in which they aimed to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s Mail reported on Sunday.
According to the report, Islamic State commanders in Syria were coordinating the plot which was meant to be carried out by British jihadists on their home soil.

The Mail – quoting unnamed sources – reported that the plot would involve the use of pressure cookers packed with explosives, like those used at the Boston Marathon bombing,"

Our Nuremberg: Nazi Medical Research no different from Planned Parenthood - Eagle Rising

Our Nuremberg: Nazi Medical Research no different from Planned Parenthood - Eagle Rising:

"Supporting Planned Parenthood’s use of harvested baby organs for medical research actually encourages the continuation and expansion of Planned Parenthood’s baby harvesting program. Imagine if the Nazis still existed and German medical research companies were paying Nazis to continue their “legal” torture of Jews for the collection of “life-saving” medical research. That is more like the current situation with Planned Parenthood. It’s barbarous, unethical, and disgusting. And the likelihood is that future generations will look at us with the same disgust we reserve for those German bystanders who stood idly by while their government endorsed, funded, and defended colossal horrors."

Why no national outrage?-----Document: Judge Napolitano Says Hillary Email Revealed Location of Ambassador Stevens in Libya

Document: Judge Napolitano Says Hillary Email Revealed Location of Ambassador Stevens in Libya
"Hillary Clinton shouldn’t be on the campaign trail right now, she should be in prison. 
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, several emails he read from Hillary revealed the location of Ambassador Stevens in Libya, along with the location of fighter jets during NATO bombings.

Check out this video for details.
The remarks about the specific emails above begins at the 2:45 mark.

This is a pretty huge deal, and if this is 100 percent accurate — and I have no reason what-so-ever to doubt the Judge — then this woman is in big, I mean BIG trouble, and deserves to be punished for her crimes.

Regardless of the outcome, it’s clear Clinton is corrupt from top to bottom, and there’s no way in a million years she should ever be allowed to sit in the White House.

In fact, the only place she should be sitting is in a prison cell. Period."

NAILED: Hillary Revealed This Vital Intel to Enemies... Blows Benghazi & Email Scandal Wide Open

NAILED: Hillary Revealed This Vital Intel to Enemies... Blows Benghazi & Email Scandal Wide Open:

 "Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday, Judge Andrew Napolitano made a shocking revelation regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account on a personal home-based server.

“I saw emails that have been revealed under the Freedom of Information Act, and in them, she is discussing the location of French fighter jets during the NATO bombardment of Libya, how big the no fly zone is, where the no fly zones are, and are you ready for this … "

Clintons Reaped Millions From Foreign Bank After Hillary Intervened In UBS Tax Case To Reduce IRS's Requested Disclosures Of Americans' Offshore Accounts By 91%

TaxProf Blog:

Clintons Reaped Millions From Foreign Bank After Hillary Intervened In UBS Tax Case To Reduce IRS's Requested Disclosures Of Americans' Offshore Accounts By 91%

"Wall Street Journal, UBS Deal Shows Clinton’s Complicated Ties; Donations to Family Foundation Increased After Secretary of State’s Involvement in Tax Case:
A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter.
The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts.
If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court.
Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat.
UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS, an outcome that drew criticism from some lawmakers who wanted a more extensive crackdown.
From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according to the foundation and the bank.
The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $32 million.
And it paid former president Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House."

19 Girls Executed for Refusing to have Sex with ISIS Fighters - Eagle Rising

19 Girls Executed for Refusing to have Sex with ISIS Fighters - Eagle Rising:

"'They began to choose the girls. The girls were shouting, screaming and vomiting,' Noor told the students.

'He brought some honey. He would dip his big toe in honey, and put his toe in my mouth.
The cruelty of the Muslim terrorists at ISIS knows no bounds and yet instead of outrage over their evil deeds, senseless Americans are crying out about a lion. It’s the height of insanity, that so many Americans would become incensed by the death of one lion but not by the enslavement, rape and murder of thousands of women. American pop culture and sensibilities have become unhinged and shameful."

Hackers are attacking US gas stations

Hackers are attacking US gas stations:
"After a gas station monitoring system was hacked earlier this year, Trend Micro researchers Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt decided to take a closer look.
They set up fake internet-connected systems called "GasPots" – honeypots that mimic the real ones – in several countries to track hackers' movements.
Turns out gas monitors are never safe: the researchers observed a number of attacks on their GasPots within a period of six months, with US-based ones being the most targeted.
Some instances were clearly for reconnaissance purposes as they were merely automated scanners pinging the monitors.
Others were more intrusive, with the hackers changing GasPot names to something else.
Once, they changed it to "SEAcannngo," presumably to represent the Syrian Electronic Army, which denied any involvement to Motherboard.
...Gas monitoring systems or automated tank gauges (ATG) keep an eye on fuel levels, volume and temperature, among other stats.
Many of them are easy to get into, because they're not protected by passwords.
Companies are likely not keeping them heavily protected, since they can't really be manipulated to do something extremely destructive – like blow up a gas station.
However, the Trend Micro researchers warn that ATG cyberattacks could still cause serious issues. Hackers can monitor one to find out when a facility is expecting the next fuel delivery or hold it hostage and ask for ransom.
They can also fake fuel levels to induce overflow and put the lives of people in the area in danger.
By the end of their experiment, Wilhoit and Hilt concluded that supervisory systems shouldn't be connected to the internet. 
"If they really need to be," their white paper reads, "their security should be so strong that access to them is extremely limited and private.""

Sweeping, Suspect and Serious: Unpacking the President’s Clean Power Plan | TheBlaze.com

Sweeping, Suspect and Serious: Unpacking the President’s Clean Power Plan | TheBlaze.com:

"Here’s the issue. I don’t believe the president much cares about the environment. After all, this is a guy whose Earth Day (yes, Earth Day) trip this year emitted “roughly as five times as much carbon dioxide as does the average American in a full year.” This is also the same guy whose wife happened to be going to the same state as he was on the same day—yet they took separate, gas-guzzling flights. (And that’s not the only time.)

On top of this, this “aggressive” plan does little to actually reduce carbon output even if implemented with full cooperation. In fact, even if we stopped ALL carbon output, the difference would be almost unnoticeable not by 2030, but by the end of the century."


Power fit for a king!

Public school FRAUD!!!-----The Diploma Mill That Is St. Paul Public Schools

The Diploma Mill That Is St. Paul Public Schools | Better Ed:
"“For Ramon Page and several of his friends, graduating from a St. Paul public high school offered not a springboard to college but a trapdoor.
Because of his low scores on a college placement test, Page had to take developmental math and English courses the summer before enrolling at Minnesota State University Mankato and then again during first semester.
As he spent thousands of borrowed dollars before earning a single college credit, Page grew frustrated with both Minnesota State Mankato's placement system and Humboldt High School, which awarded him a diploma in 2013.
‘You're allowing me to walk (for graduation), and then I'm told I'm not ready,’ the 20-year-old said.”
Is Ramon Page just a frustrated student using the St. Paul Public Schools as a scapegoat for his failure?
Not according to data from the MN Department of Education.
Their numbers show that St. Paul has increasingly high graduation rates even though its students have increasingly low proficiency scores in math, reading, and science."

Culture collapse-----Target Removes Gender Labels From Kids Sections After Complaints

Target Removes Gender Labels From Kids Sections After Complaints - Bloomberg Business
Target Corp. is removing gender labels from most of its children’s departments after customers complained about signs designating certain toys for girls.
The kids’ bedding section will no longer feature boy and girl signage, and the toy department will be without labels and pink or blue paper on the shelves, Minneapolis-based Target said on its website Friday.
Gender labels will remain in the kids’ clothing section because of sizing and fit differences.
Retailers have been moving away from gender stereotypes, and some startups have emerged to break down the divide in kids’ clothing and toys.
The signage that sparked the dispute at Target was for building sets, like GoldieBlox, that are targeted at girls.
“As guests have pointed out, in some departments like toys, home or entertainment, suggesting products by gender is unnecessary,” Target said.
“We heard you, and we agree.
Right now, our teams are working across the store to identify areas where we can phase out gender-based signage to help strike a better balance...”

Ann Coulter Plays 'GOP Survivor' • Cuts the Field Down to Five

Ann Coulter Plays 'GOP Survivor' • Cuts the Field Down to Five - Conservatives4Palin:
"Ann Coulter is ready to cut the size of the large GOP field down to five.
"I’m just suggesting we start voting them off the island."
Who would make the cut in Coulter’s version of GOP Survivor?
The conservative firebrand shares her thoughts on the first Republican debate with Fox Business host Lou Dobbs:"

The New York Times Corrects Significant Mistake in Story About Planned Parenthood Videos — 16 Days Later | TheBlaze.com

The New York Times Corrects Significant Mistake in Story About Planned Parenthood Videos — 16 Days Later | TheBlaze.com:

"In fact, the Center for Medical Progress did release the full-length video along with the edited clip, something even Times columnist Ross Douthat took note of in his op-ed, “Looking Away From Abortion,” all the way back on July 26.

The following Times correction appeared at the bottom of a July 20 story, ”Planned Parenthood Tells Congress More Videos of Clinics Might Surface.” The correction appears to refer to a print version of the July 20 story that ran July 21:"

Illegal Alien Crime Accounts for over 30% of Murders in Many States

Illegal Alien Crime Accounts for over 30% of Murders in Many States - Breitbart:
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump deserves credit for forcing all 17 Republican candidates to talk about the social costs of illegal immigration, but it is not “Trump’s issue.” 
We will be making a fatal mistake if we let the media discuss it that way.

As Ann Coulter has pointed out, this is the most critical issue of the 2016 race because this is the issue that will define whether or not there will even be an American nation recognizable as the “home of the free and land of the brave.”

...Think of illegal immigration this way: If the liberal media can keep illegal alien crime out of the “kitchen table debate,” they can keep any issue out of the debate. And they will if they can get away with it. For those reasons, illegal immigration is much more than an issue of public policy; it is the poster child for media malpractice.

...Let’s look at a few numbers. You haven’t seen them in the New York Times, Atlanta Constitution, or the Miami Herald, nor have they been featured on NBC Nightly news or CNN. So, the average American is blissfully unaware of them.

• Between 2008 and 2014, 40% of all murder convictions in Florida were criminal aliens. In New York it was 34% and Arizona 17.8%.
• During those years, criminal aliens accounted for 38% of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York, while illegal aliens constitute only 5.6% of the total population in those states.
• That 38% represents 7,085 murders out of the total of 18,643.

That 5.6% figure for the average illegal alien population in those five states comes from US Census estimates. 

We know the real number is double that official estimate. 

Yet, even if it is 11%, it is still shameful that the percentage of murders by criminal aliens is more than triple the illegal population in those states...

...Similar data is available at the state level if state officials have the desire to look for it. 

The Texas Department of Public Safety reports that between 2008 and 2014, 35% of the all murder convictions were illegal aliens—averaging 472 murders each year from 2004 to 2008...

Read on.

This is important!

And now we have moved on...... to what?

History for August 9

History for August 9 - On-This-Day.com
Rod Laver 1938, David Steinberg 1942, Sam Elliott 1944 


Melanie Griffith 1957, Whitney Houston 1963, Gillian Anderson 1968 


1790 - The Columbia returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage. It was the first ship to carry the American flag around the world. 


1842 - The U.S. and Canada signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which solved a border dispute. 


1859 - The escalator was patented by Nathan Ames. 


1893 - "Gut Holz" was published. It was America's first bowling magazine. 


1910 - A.J. Fisher received a patent for the electric washing machine. 


1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics. 


1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear." 


1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14. 


1974 - U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S. 


2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells. 

Democrats Are Infuriated Chuck Schumer Won’t Support Iran Deal — Take a Look at How They’re Reacting | TheBlaze.com

Democrats Are Infuriated Chuck Schumer Won’t Support Iran Deal — Take a Look at How They’re Reacting | TheBlaze.com:

"Democrats and liberal advocacy groups infuriated over New York Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Thursday announcement that he will oppose the Iran nuclear deal are openly challenging whether he is qualified to lead the party.

Schumer, the number three Democrat who is next-in-line to lead the party, announced during the GOP presidential debate that after “careful thought and considerable soul searching” he had decided to “oppose the agreement,” one of the hallmark deals of the Obama administration."

Record 93,770,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Matches 38-Year Low

Record 93,770,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Matches 38-Year Low
A record 93,770,000 Americans were not in the American labor force last month, and the labor force participation rate remained at 62.6 percent, exactly where it was in June -- a 38-year low, the Labor Department reported on Friday.
In 1975, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping such records, 58,627,000 Americans were not in the labor force, and the number has grown steadily since then, breaking the 80-million mark at the end of George W. Bush's presidency; and the 90-million mark in July 2013, during Barack Obama's second term. 
The number of Americans not in the labor force has continued to rise since then.
-- 6,325,000  million people were employed part time for economic reasons (involuntary part-time workers) in July, These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part-time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
-- The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 2,180,000 in July (up from 2,121,000 in June). These individuals accounted for 26.9 percent of the unemployed.

Ben Stein: I'm Not Sure Obama Is 'In Good Mental Health'

Ben Stein: I'm Not Sure Obama Is 'In Good Mental Health' - Breitbart:
"Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” commentator Ben Stein discussed President Barack Obama remarks from earlier in the week when he declared Iranian hardliners chanting “death to America” were “making common cause” with Republicans and questioned Obama “mental health.”
Stein said, “Mr. Obama is desperate. 
I’m not sure he is well-rested or in good mental health. 
The idea of comparing loyal, patriotic Americans with Mullahs and terrorists who want to destroy the United States, destroy Israel, is simply incredible.
It’s almost unbelievable.
I think Mr. Obama doesn’t understand have to have a civil discussion.
It seems to me he could have tried various arguments.
 This deal is not 100 percent terrible.
He could have tried sensible arguments.
Instead he went down to the lowest level of smear tactics.”"

Shocking Viral Video Lifts the Veil on How Women Are Treated in Saudi Arabia: ‘It’s Expected and Accepted’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Shocking Viral Video Lifts the Veil on How Women Are Treated in Saudi Arabia: ‘It’s Expected and Accepted’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a minute-long video uploaded to YouTube last month, two young Saudi women walk along the waterfront promenade in the kingdom’s Red Sea city of Jiddah as a group of young men jeer and follow them until the women become visibly agitated."

Cartoons: Gary Varvel for August 7, 2015 — The Patriot Post

Cartoons: Gary Varvel for August 7, 2015 — The Patriot Post

Parents livid after 8th graders read Ice Cube ‘pimps and hoes’ lyrics for English assignment

Parents livid after 8th graders read Ice Cube ‘pimps and hoes’ lyrics for English assignment - EAGnews.org:

FLORENCE, Ariz. – An Arizona middle school teacher was sent home after parents complained about a poetry assignment featuring profanity laced lyrics from Ice Cube’s 1990 gangsta rap “Who’s the Mack?”
“What the hell was he thinking?”
Carrie Scott, parent of an eighth-grader in the Florence Unified School District language arts class, told CBS 6.
“It was horrifying. It was a nightmare. How do you grade this? How do you grade a 13-year-old talking about sexual requests for money?”

The news site reports that an unidentified language arts teacher played the music video for “Who’s the Mack?” for students recently and sent them home with the lyrics and an assignment to identify similes, metaphors and other poetic elements.

Parent Sam Washburn called 12 News to highlight the assignment he found in his daughter’s backpack because, although words like f*** were blacked out, other offensive language and themes of prostitution, drug use, domestic violence, sex acts in the song really made him mad.

“You just kind of take for granted your 13-year-old daughter’s got curriculum at school that’s appropriate for school and come to find out that’s not the case at all,” Washburn said.

His daughter, Spencer Washburn, told the news site she completed the worksheet to avoid a bad grade, but felt violated by the assignment.

“I am in student council, and I would not want to get kicked out,” she said.

...Teachers submit lesson plans for review a week in advance, he said, and the teacher’s did not include the Ice Cube assignment.

CBS 6 did not identify the teacher, but said it was his first year in the district.
He’s now at home waiting for district officials to decide his fate...”

Short video-MUST SEE!!-----Study: Congress Literally Doesn't Care What You Think

Study: Congress Literally Doesn't Care What You Think | The Daily Sheeple:
"Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question:
Does the government represent the people?
Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law.
In other words, they compared what the public wanted to what the government actually did. 
What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of 90% of Americans have essentially no impact at all.
 This video gives a quick rundown of their findings — it all boils down to one simple graph:

Attorneys in Freddie Gray Case Drop Bombshell Claim About Evidence They Say Was Withheld by Prosecution | TheBlaze.com

Attorneys in Freddie Gray Case Drop Bombshell Claim About Evidence They Say Was Withheld by Prosecution | TheBlaze.com:

 "BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorneys for the six police officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death say prosecutors steered investigators away from allegations about Gray’s behavior in past interactions with law enforcement. The attorneys claim detectives were told Gray had a history of participating in “crash-for-cash” schemes in which people hurt themselves to collect settlements – a piece of information attorneys say would be useful for their case."

Obama and the Flippancy of Fools

Articles: Obama and the Flippancy of Fools
Over the last 7 years of the Obama era, Barack Obama and his team have regularly responded to serious questions with flippant responses. 
Don’t Americans deserve better than the flippancy Obama and his top officials dish out to us?
The below compendium is just a sample (or a smidgen in Obama terminology).
When asked why his trillion-dollar stimulus produced far fewer “shovel ready jobs” than he promised to urgently promote its passage, Barack Obama laughed off the issue: 
“Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.”  
The laughter will be little solace for taxpayers on the hook to pay back the debt that financed that union-enriching boondoggle.
When asked about the risk of terrorism arising from his abandoning Iraq, he flippantly dismissed these concerns by comparing the resurgent Al Qaeda to a “Jayvee team” that “puts on Lakers uniforms… that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.”
His flippancy -- his lack of concern and interest in dealing with Islamic terrorism -- has led to the rise of what has become the richest terror group in the world.
He routinely shows the same insouciance whenever there are murders perpetrated by Muslims.
When a man claiming allegiance to ISIS killed four Jews in a deli in Paris in January 2015, Obama dismissed the deliberate targeting of Jews since he said the attack was someone who just “randomly” shot “a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.” 
The facts: the deli was Jewish, all the victims were Jewish (non-Jewish customers and employees were spared) and the murderer had said he was targeting Jews.
They weren’t a bunch of random folks in a deli.
Barack Obama could not bring himself to join other world leaders to protest the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
Did the French feel they were blessed with a consolation prize of James Taylor singing during a John Kerry visit?
Was that flippant?
Or did the French feel they were being flipped the bird?
...Barack Obama specializes in these as the below gallery will show.
Here he is, right after announcing the beheading of an American by ISIS:


Here he is at Nelson Mandela’s funeral service, taking yet another selfie:

...What is it about the deaths of others that put Obama in a jaunty mood?
...We may laugh at flippancy from a comedian but we deserve better from our nation’s leadership.

Municipal Budget Politics Playing a Role in Catholic Church’s Sudden Conversion on the False ‘Religion’ of Global Warming?

Municipal Budget Politics Playing a Role in Catholic Church’s Sudden Conversion on the False ‘Religion’ of Global Warming? | Somewhat Reasonable:
An opinion piece in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal indicates that municipal budget politics may have something to do with the Catholic Church’s sudden acquiescence — at least in Chicago — to the Left’s global warming agenda.

In a piece entitled, The Religion of Climate Change, the paper notes that in 2011, then-Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, expressed alarm, publicly, about Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed phase out of a water fee exemption for the church there. 
The city is, quite famously, broke, from paying generous pensions for generations of retired union workers, including teachers, police and firemen.

The new charges for water are a potential $20.3 million bill, annually, for the Church in Chicago. 

Cardinal George was quoted as saying, as late as April 2013, regarding the emerging water crisis, “If you don’t want a city that only has government institutions, then you have to see to the solvency of religious institutions and other nonprofits.”

George’s successor, Archbishop Blase Cupich on July 25, toured a Catholic school with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy. 
The archbishop invited the EPA to track the power and water usage of the archdiocese. “The Archdiocese of Chicago has partnered with the EPA’s Energy Star program, as it works to make its operations more sustainable and efficient,” the pair wrote in an op-ed piece for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Since municipal budgets around the U.S. are similarly strained — look at Detroit, for example — one reasonably wonders if church leaders there are being silently pressured into an alliance with the global Left in order to keep their parishes in the black financially. 
The WSJwarns about the serious threat to religious freedom here.

If the president can threaten, publicly, to “bankrupt” an industry like the coal business, it takes little imagination to guess what he and his allies have said to church leaders behind closed doors to “persuade” them to embrace the fringe “environmental justice” cause so quickly.

Amazing story... of American flair!----60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington

60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington | The Seattle Times:
"...It’s been written that Allen had contemplated firing Johnston. 
The morning after the barrel roll, Johnston was told to go to Allen’s office, where other higher-ups also were waiting.
Allen asked, “What did you think you were doing yesterday?”
Johnston replied, “Selling the airplane.”
 In his view, Johnston had a very rational explanation for the stunt, and why it was so safe.
 Here is the explanation in his book, “Jet-Age Test Pilot,” although it helps to have piloting knowledge to understand it:
“The airplane does not recognize attitude, providing a maneuver is conducted at one G.
It knows only positive and negative imposed loads and variations in thrust and drag.
The barrel roll is a one G maneuver and quite impressive, but the airplane never knows it’s inverted.”
Allen mulled that over and responded, “You know that. Now we know that. But just don’t do it anymore.”"