History for November 9

History for November 9 - On-This-Day.com
Ed Wynn 1886, Hedy Lamarr 1913, Spiro T. Agnew 1918 


Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) 1936, Tom Fogerty (Creedance Clearwater Revival) 1941, Lou Ferrigno 1951 


1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president. 


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. 


1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization. 


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. 


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.

Why Global Warming Science is NOT Real Science

Why Global Warming Science is NOT Real Science - Eagle Rising:
"Global warming models have made many long term predictions, almost none of which have been accurate. 
The “tipping point” predictions about how urgently we need to turn the CO2 boat around before its too late?
They have been continuing to extend further and further out like the icy shores of Antarctica. Predictions of the extraordinary frequency and power of mega-super storms?
Quite the opposite actually.
Rising sea levels?
Not consistent.
Hiatus in global temperature increases?
Never saw it coming."

Ben knows only wimps apologize

Carr: Ben knows only wimps apologize | Boston Herald
It took Carson a while to figure out that there’s no upside to saying he’s sorry.
But after all those hours standing next to Trump under the klieg lights, he’s got it straight now.
Friday night, he was in Palm Beach Gardens talking to a bunch of Hillary Clinton partisans carrying press credentials.
...See, anyone demanding an apology doesn’t like you to begin with, and whatever you say will just be used to keep the story going.
If they catch you, say, committing perjury, and you have to say something, just put your statement in the passive voice.
...Just ask Hillary Clinton. 
Her husband used to employ George Stephanopoulos. 
Her daughter’s mother-in-law gave CNN’s Jake Tapper his start in politics.
Steffie makes $13 million a year.
In return, he asks crazy out-of-left-field gotcha questions of every Republican candidate crazy enough to go on the Democrat infomercial known as “Good Morning America.” 
Nothing is on the level.
Trump and Carson know this, but the self-evident truth is beyond Juan’s feeble grasp.
The next GOP debate is Tuesday night.
How many groveling apologies will Bush have to issue afterwards?
The over-under in Vegas is three.

What could possibly go wrong? More "staffing" will fix it?-----LA Unified Teachers: Suspension Ban Creating Unruly Classes

LA Unified Teachers: Suspension Ban Creating Unruly Classes - The New York Times:
"LOS ANGELES — Teachers in the nation's second largest school district say a new policy aimed at reducing suspensions is also having another effect: More unruly students in their classrooms.
Los Angeles Unified School District was the first to ban suspending students for defiance in California and began instituting restorative justice policies that emphasize counseling and conflict resolution.
Teachers now blame LA Unified for failing to provide the necessary staff and training to effectively implement those policies, the Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/20Dac0I ).
...Suspensions across the district declined to 0.55 percent last year compared to 8 percent in 2007-08. That reduction came amid a nationwide push to eliminate zero-tolerance policies that emphasize harsh discipline for even minor misbehavior.
..."We're now carrying the consequences of ... not enough staffing to make it work and a lot of frustration," said Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles."

VIDEO: Watching Obama Lie 15 Times In A Row Is Worth Watching Twice... Spread This Everywhere

VIDEO: Watching Obama Lie 15 Times In A Row Is Worth Watching Twice... Spread This Everywhere:

"President Barack Obama lying is nothing new. In fact, we’d probably save ourselves some time if we told you when he told the truth.

However, Obama lying 15 times in a row on something he just recently changed course on? That’s pretty impressive."

Mob rule!-----Missouri football players to boycott season until university president steps down

Missouri football players to boycott season until university president steps down | Fox News:
"A group of black University of Missouri football players announced Saturday night on Twitter they will not participate in team activities until the school’s president resigns.
President Tom Wolfe has drawn fire on campus over what some Mizzou students say is his failure to address at least two incidents where black students have been called racial slurs, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported Saturday.
...The Post-Dispatch said defensive backs Anthony Sherrils and Finis Stribling and linebacker Clarence Greene all retweeted the statement along with Hansbrough.
Sherrils is a starter; the others are backups, according to a Nov. 5 depth chart on ourlads.com.
...The message reads: "The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe "Injustice Anywhere is a threat to Justice Everywhere" 
We will no longer participate in any football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students' experience. 
WE ARE UNITED!!!!!"
...Student groups have been critical over how Wolfe has handled issues of race and discrimination, and blocked his car at homecoming in an attempt to speak with him. They have complained that the use of racial slurs is prevalent.
In April, a swastika was found in a Missouri dormitory, and officials said last month they were investigating another act of vandalism that targeted minorities..."

NOPE: For You, Volkswagen, Ze PR Battle Iz Not Yet Over. I recommend the stage-3 Hillary Clinton Defense...

Instapundit » Blog Archive » NOPE: For You, Volkswagen, Ze PR Battle Iz Not Yet Over. I recommend the stage-3 Hillary Clinton D…:
NOPE:

For You, Volkswagen, Ze PR Battle Iz Not Yet Over.

I recommend the stage-3 Hillary Clinton Defense.

Stage 1: We didn’t do anything.

Stage 2: If we did, it was a mistake.

Stage 3: Emissions laws are stupid and nobody could be expected to understand them.

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Posted at 10:06 pm by Glenn Reynolds 

True Nat'l Debt $65T, Gov't Spending 'Lost Touch with Reality'

True Nat'l Debt $65T, Gov't Spending 'Lost Touch with Reality'
In a radio interview airing on Sunday, former U.S. Comptroller General and chief of the Government Accountability Office Dave Walker asserted that America’s national debt is over three times the official figure, which dramatically understates the government’s financial commitments.

Walker told host John Catsimatidis of AM-970 in New York, as related by The Hill:

If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has, the real number is about $65 trillion rather than $18 trillion, and it’s growing automatically absent reforms.

...Walker worried that Americans have “lost touch with reality” when it comes to government spending. 

The political class profits from that sense of unreality, banking on the public’s reluctance to dwell on red ink of incomprehensible debt. 

Numbers too big for voters to wrap their heads around seem unreal.

Walker is one of many analysts who have attempted to calculate the “true” national debt, which is indisputably much higher than the already horrifying $18 trillion figure cited as the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency approaches. 

Some figure total federal unfunded liabilities at almost $127 trillion, nearly double the figure Walker proposed. 
Some believe that number will soar past $210 trillion in a few decades..."

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‘Diversity’ Means Student Group Is Not Allowed to Include Pledge of Allegiance or Red, White & Blue During Veterans Day Chapel Service | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Diversity’ Means Student Group Is Not Allowed to Include Pledge of Allegiance or Red, White & Blue During Veterans Day Chapel Service | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Students at Seattle Pacific University, an evangelical Christian college, are set to hold the school’s first Veterans Day chapel service “in a long time.”
“It’s been an uphill battle to get to this point,” the Military & Veterans Support club noted on its Facebook page.

But a couple of missing elements in the service are leaving a bad taste in many students’ mouths.

Turns out they can’t say the Pledge of Allegiance or present the colors “given that there are diversity of views on campus whether such elements should be part of a Christian worship service,” the school said in a statement."

Great news: the EPA’s new smog rules will only cost 40 times as much as they said

Great news: the EPA’s new smog rules will only cost 40 times as much as they said « Hot Air
We recently discovered that EPA chief Gina McCarthy is coming for your air conditionersbecause she’s pretty worried about ozone. 
(We’ll leave aside for now the fact that the chemicals used in modern air conditioners don’t affect that particular issue.) 
It’s still on her mind and the agency already put forward some new rules to cut down on smog. 
This is an expensive proposition for American businesses and consumers and the agency admitted up front that the new rules would probably wind up costing us roughly one and a half billion a year. 
But it was worth the cost to save the planet, gosh darn it.

I think somebody forgot to check their math. (Daily Caller)

The Environmental Protection Agency estimated its stricter smog limits would only cost Americans $1.4 billion a year, but a new report argues the total cost to the economy is likely 40 times higher than agency estimates.

The right-leaning American Action Forum says EPA’s updated smog, or ground-level ozone, rule could cost $56.5 billion in lost wages based on economic losses from counties that couldn’t comply with the agency’s 2008 rule.

“Observed nonattainment counties experienced losses of $56.5 billion in total wage earnings, $690 in pay per worker, and 242,000 jobs between 2008 and 2013,” according to AAf policy experts.

This is how they "think"-----Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People

Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People | Aeman Ansari:
"Last week The Ryersonian reported on an incident that involved two first-year journalism students who were turned away from an event organized by Racialized Students' Collective because they are white.
Since then there has been a lot of commentary on the piece and a lot of debate -- a lot of the criticism is valid.
There are two sides to the story:
1) the media has a right to attend public events and report on matters that are in the public interest.
The student media needs to cover initiatives that are happening on campus so that we draw attention to them and in turn create awareness (The Ryersonian reported that one student said he was covering the meeting for an assignment).
2) Marginalized groups have a right to claim spaces in the public realm where they can share stories about the discrimination they have faced without judgment and intrusion from anyone else.
...They should label safe spaces clearly and maybe even host events that educate the public on what they mean.
...However, the point to note is not that two white students were asked to leave the event, but rather that this was a safe space and that we as a newsroom, as a campus and as a society are not as knowledgeable as we should be about what these spaces mean."
Read it all and see the insanity of our government subsidized college campuses.

A Plague on Egypt’s Tourism

A Plague on Egypt’s Tourism - The American Interest
The tragic crash of the Russian airliner should serve as a wake-up call. Egypt matters, and we take it for granted at our peril.
...As the belief that a bomb was the cause of the crash grows, and as investigators sift the debris and listen to the black box recordings (and as we think of the families of the victims), it’s worth thinking about what the crash could mean for Egypt and the world—because trouble in Egypt could be more consequential than many people understand.
...Tourists shun places where tourists end up getting killed, and Egypt has never needed tourists more than it does now (the tourism industry in Egypt makes up about 11 percent of its GDP, and indirectly employs around 11.5 percent of the country’s workforce).
And unfortunately for Egypt, international investors shy away from violent, unstable parts of the world.
Egypt does not have a lot of options for economic growth.
The region is beset by wars in Libya, Syria and across the Red Sea in Yemen, and Egypt itself is embroiled in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Morsi government, including the harsh crackdown that followed Morsi’s fall.
And even before the Morsi government fell, Egypt was already wounded by the instability under that government and permanently weakened by the old, corrupt nexus of clientelism and rent-seeking at the heart of Egypt’s political economy.
All of that means there is not a lot of give in this fragile system on which millions of people depend.
Moreover, Egypt cannot expect much more help from abroad.
...The tragic crash of the Russian airliner should serve as a wake-up call.
Egypt matters, and we take it for granted at our peril.

Hillary Clinton’s Signature Could Undermine Her Chief Defense About Handling of Classified Information | TheBlaze.com

Hillary Clinton’s Signature Could Undermine Her Chief Defense About Handling of Classified Information | TheBlaze.com:

"Just one day after she become secretary of state, Hillary Clinton signed a document asserting that she understands “negligent handling” of classified information poses a potential danger to national security, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

“I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation,” said the Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement, which included possible criminal penalties for the disclosure of such information."

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Politicians, press pile on Politico. If the GOP is smart, they’ll unite …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Politicians, press pile on Politico. If the GOP is smart, they’ll unite …:
"PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Politicians, press pile on Politico. 
If the GOP is smart, they’ll unite against their common enemy — the press. 
If they want to win, it’s important to establish now, during the primaries, that no Crowleyism will be permitted in the general election, and that individual reporters and editors will pay a price for trying."

History for November 8

History for November 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Edmond Halley 1656 - Astronomer, mathmatician, was the first to calculate the orbit that was named after him., Bram Stoker 1847, Margaret Mitchell 1900 


Minnie Riperton 1948 - Singer, songwriter, Bonnie Raitt 1949, Parker Posey 1968 


1805 - The "Corps of Discovery" reached the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was led by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana Purchase territory. 


1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with electricity discovered the scientific principle involved and took the first X-ray pictures. 


1923 - Adolf Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch." 


1942 - During World War II, Operation Torch began as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa. 


1950 - During the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15. 


1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only son. 


1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. 


1979 - The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into "Nightline" in March of 1980. 

Survey: Alarming Portion of Syrian Immigrants in Europe Are Islamic State Sympathizers | TheBlaze.com

Survey: Alarming Portion of Syrian Immigrants in Europe Are Islamic State Sympathizers | TheBlaze.com:

"As the United States moves forward in letting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country, a survey says that 13 percent of the Syrian refugees in Europe sympathize with the Islamic State.

The poll by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies surveyed 900 refugees in what it called “the largest public opinion poll conducted in the Arab region.”

Muslims in Michigan City Accomplish Major Feat Considered to Be a ‘First’ in the U.S. | Video | TheBlaze.com

Muslims in Michigan City Accomplish Major Feat Considered to Be a ‘First’ in the U.S. | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The newly elected Muslim-majority city council in Hamtramck, Michigan, is said to be the first of its kind in America.

Three of the candidates who attracted the most votes in Tuesday’s election were Muslims, with two — Anam Miah and Abu Musa — serving as incumbents and with Saad Almasmari being elected to a first term, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Mohammed Hassan, another member of the city council, was not up for re-election this cycle. That said, four out of six members of the Hamtramck City Council will be Muslims beginning in January."

The Gloves Are On in Fight Over Misguided New York Restaurant Rules

The Gloves Are On in Fight Over Misguided New York Restaurant Rules - Reason.com
Last week, New York City health inspectors ordered the doors of celebrated Japanese restaurant Sushi Dojo closed.
The inspectors claim the restaurant's practice of allowing foodservice handlers to handle food is indefensible and dangerous.
Sushi Dojo chef David Bouhadana told Eater the glove regulation is garbage.
"We were closed for one thing and one thing only, not wearing gloves," he writes.
"Sushi chefs are not supposed to wear gloves.
17 employees lost their job because the DOH has been harassing me for four months and threatening me for this issue.
I have 20+ of the best sushi chefs behind me and many more ready to bat for me.
We will solve this BS rule, a rule I don't stand by.
Sushi is being ruined [b]y gloves[.]"
... A 2007 New York Times piece discussed a study suggesting the solution (gloves) may be making the problem (foodborne illness) worse. 
A 2012 Washington Post piece also cited research that made the same case.
So the rules don't make food safer.
Clean hands, as the saying goes, are better than dirty gloves..."

TPP Agreement THREE TIMES AS LONG As The King James Bible

TPP Agreement THREE TIMES AS LONG As The King James Bible | The Daily Caller:
"The Obama Administration released the full-text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal on Thursday.
Tipping the scales at 5,544 pages — and an astonishing 2,056,560 words — the trade agreement is one of the longest documents The Daily Caller has ever encountered, and for the sake of comparison, we compiled a list of things shorter than the baffling proposal."
Read on and fear for our country!

See What Happens When Carly Fiorina Finally Takes on ‘The View’ Following Co-Host’s ‘Demented’ Face Attack | Video | TheBlaze.com

See What Happens When Carly Fiorina Finally Takes on ‘The View’ Following Co-Host’s ‘Demented’ Face Attack | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Days after one of the show’s co-host’s joked that her face looked like a “demented” Halloween mask during the most recent GOP debate, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina confronted the women of “The View” live on the air."

White House Prepares for EMP That Would "Wipe Out Power, Render Cellphones and Internet Useless"

White House Prepares for EMP That Would "Wipe Out Power, Render Cellphones and Internet Useless":
Every prepper knows about the possibility – even eventuality – of an EMP attack, and most have taken some basic precautions.
Washington and the powers that be know about the threat of an EMP, too, of course, which could come from a powerful solar flare or more dramatically from a foreign enemy.
Nearly everyone admits that such an event would take out the grid, and leave the mass population without power, food, water and other essential services, triggering riots, chaos and mass death within days and weeks.
A number of people in Congress, Homeland Security, the Pentagon and now the White House are strategizing for the big one, and war gaming out how to protect their critical infrastructure, and perhaps salvage mainstream society as well.

The Daily Mail reports:

The U.S. government are preparing for a catastrophic solar flare which could wipe out power across the world for months.[…]

The massive electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from solar flares could wipe out power grids, bringing an end to modern civilization as we know it as cellphones, credit cards and the internet were rendered useless.

In the U.S, alone researchers estimate the cost on the fragile economy would be up to $2.6 trillion, according to a 2008 National Academy of Sciences study.

The report warned that power outages after an extreme solar storm could last months or even longer if it wiped out the transformers.

A catastrophic solar storm came terrifyingly close in 2012… With scientists predicting a 12 per cent chance that one could hit by 2022, the White House is preparing a contingency plan.

Perhaps the real reason the White House is preparing is to guard against the growing tensions with Russia and China, both of whom have been testing some new EMP weapons and other sophisticated gadgets.

Any nation or terrorist group with a nuke could potentially also set off an EMP.
Then again, it could be the equally threatening potential for a massive and “catastrophic” solar flare to render electromagnetic pulse damage.
They know something is coming… and so do you. Are you as ready as you could be?

Read more:

Congressman Urges Protection for Power Grid: EMP Attack “Could Bring Our Civilization to a Cold, Dark Halt”

Military Readies Mountain Fortress to “Shield Against EMP Attack”

Well-Connected Insiders Plead for Action: “An EMP Could Change the Course of Global Civilization By 2030″

Homeland Security Idle on 2008 EMP Threat: “Gov’t Dysfunction Preventing … Protecting Ourselves”

‘Mature’ EMP Weapon Ready for War: “Render Enemy’s Electronics, Data Systems Useless”

This oughta reduce crime--------Obama Admin Now Refers to Juvenile Delinquents as 'Justice-Involved Youth'

Obama Admin Now Refers to Juvenile Delinquents as 'Justice-Involved Youth' - Leah Barkoukis
Much like the term ‘illegal immigrants’ became politically incorrect, so too has ‘juvenile delinquent,’ apparently.
The Obama administration is now referring to this group of individuals as “justice-involved youth.’
In a news release on Monday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the DOJ is “committed to giving justice-involved youth the tools they need to become productive members of society.”
Lynch said the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development are launching a $1.7-million initiative to help Public Housing Authorities and legal assistance groups "reduce barriers for justice-involved youth."

Life in Obama-land

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Obama Officially Rejects Keystone Pipeline: ‘We Need to Keep Some Fossil Fuels in the Ground’ | TheBlaze.com

Obama Officially Rejects Keystone Pipeline: ‘We Need to Keep Some Fossil Fuels in the Ground’ | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama announced Friday that the administration was officially rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline extension from Canada.

“The State Department determined the Keystone pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States and I agree with that decision,” Obama at the White House Friday."

Liberals Don’t Want a Discussion About Race

Liberals Don’t Want a Discussion About Race - WSJ:
..But liberals have no use for even handedness or caution when it comes to charged incidents involving blacks and whites, and they immediately took the commentators to task.
Mr. Lemon had failed to acknowledge that the video was irrefutable evidence that our racist criminal-justice system targets blacks.
And Ms. Symoné had invoked black personal responsibility, which is akin to a capital crime among progressive thinkers.
Hence, petitions circulated at both networks calling for Ms. Symoné and Mr. Lemon to be fired.
...When convenient, racial disparities are presented as evidence of racial animus. 
When inconvenient, racial disparities are ignored.
The Justice Department report released in March on the Ferguson, Mo., police department noted that between 2012 and 2014 “African-Americans account for 85% of vehicle stops,” despite comprising only 67% of Ferguson’s population.
But that doesn’t prove racism. It merely shows that different groups—races, ethnicities, ages, genders—have different driving habits.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks are nearly a third (31%) more likely than whites to be stopped for a traffic violation, and men are 42% more likely than women to be stopped.
Of course, that sort of context didn’t make it into the Obama administration’s report because the whole point of the exercise was to highlight racial disparities and equate them with racial discrimination.
...Liberals do not want to have a discussion about race. 
They want to conduct an inquisition that results in acknowledgment that white racism explains racial disparities and is a major impediment to black advancement. 
Facts to the contrary will be ignored, and disagreement will not be tolerated.