Monday, December 14, 2015

History for December 14

History for December 14 - On-This-Day.com:
Nostradamus 1503 - Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant, James Doolittle 1896 - Aviater, World War II hero, Margaret Chase Smith 1897 - Republican-Politician, first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress 


Lee Remick 1935 - Actress, Patty Duke 1946 - Actress, Dee Wallace-Stone 1948 - Actress 


1798 - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented the nut and bolt machine. 


1799 - The first president of the United StatesGeorge Washington, died at the age 67. 


1900 - Professor Max Planck of Berlin University revealed his revolutionary Quantum Theory. 


1903 - Orville Wright made the first attempt at powered flight. The engine stalled during take-off and the plane was damaged in the attempt. Three days later, after repairs were made, the modern aviation age was born when the plane stayed aloft for 12 seconds and flew 102 feet. 


1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole. He reached the destination 35 days ahead of Captain Robert F. Scott. 


1945 - Josef Kramer, known as "the beast of Belsen," and 10 others were executed in Hamelin for the crimes they committed at the Belsen and Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps. 


1984 - Howard Cosell retired from the NFL's Monday Night Football. 


1986 - The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from California on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world. The trip took nine days to complete. 

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Here Are A Few Questions I’d Love To Ask The President | TheBlaze.com

Here Are A Few Questions I’d Love To Ask The President | TheBlaze.com:

"Remember the movie “Liar Liar,” where Jim Carey was physically unable to lie for 24 hours? How amazing would it be if our president HAD to answer our questions; if he were physically unable to give politically calculated, perfectly coiffed non-answers? Now THAT would be cool.

And so without further ado:

1. Mr. President, you made it clear that Islamic State isn’t Islamic."



Exclusive - DHS Whistleblower: Tablighi Jamaat Is Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Obama Refuses to Track - Breitbart

Exclusive - DHS Whistleblower: Tablighi Jamaat Is Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Obama Refuses to Track - Breitbart:

"Haney said the initiative he was part of as an analyst for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) component of DHS was monitoring Tablighi Jamaal’s network in the United States, which had been linked to the mosque in Southern California frequented by Syed Farook, one of the shooters behind the San Bernardino, California, massacre.

“[DHS] Civil Rights and Civil Liberties shut the case down because we were focusing on individuals who belong to Tablighi Jamaat,” Haney said, adding, “this administration is more concerned about the civil rights and civil liberties of foreign Islamic groups and foreign nationals than securing the freedom and security of the American public.”

If the CBP initiative would have been allowed to continue, Haney claims the San Bernardino couple who carried out the terrorist attack would have been flagged."

VIDEO: Reporters burst into cheers after Paris climate change deal | The American Mirror

VIDEO: Reporters burst into cheers after Paris climate change deal | The American Mirror
Think the media in Paris covering the world “climate change” conference will give Americans an unbiased report about the impact of the global agreement?
Judging by video published by Miranda Johnson, environment correspondent for The Economist, the answer might be no.
As the deal was announced, reporters alongside Johnson in the press room can be seen jumping to their feet, cheering and hugging each other. Several women can be seen repeatedly jumping off the ground in excitment.

“Watching #ParisAgreement close w journos. Feels like watching @themichaelowen score in EnglandVBrazil 2002 again,” Johnson observed in a tweet that was later deleted.

It’s understandable for a politician to celebrate, but the so-called “unbiased” media?

My Turn: Cruz has best blueprint to move nation forward | Concord Monitor

My Turn: Cruz has best blueprint to move nation forward | Concord Monitor:

‘To restore America,” says Sen. Ted Cruz, “we must rein in the leviathan. We must revive our love story with liberty and restore America as a shining City on a Hill.”

How vital it is to cut back the power and intrusiveness of the federal government! When government is big, the rich gain wealth faster than the poor, because the rich induce government to help them. Liberals say they intend to help the poor, but their policies actually widen the gap between rich and poor.

Cruz is the best candidate to begin a reversal.

“Never underestimate Ted Cruz,” said professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School. “He is off-the-chart brilliant.” Plus, the man is a dynamic speaker.

To tackle the massive Social Security program, he will need "

Problem: 21% of Parents Don’t Require Their Kids to Do Chores

Problem: 21% of Parents Don’t Require Their Kids to Do Chores | Intellectual Takeout:
"Ever feel like a meanie by requiring your kids to help with family chores, such as folding laundry or washing dishes?
You shouldn’t, because as Time Magazine reports, children whose parents require them to do chores are likely to be more successful in life.
Reporting on a recent survey from Funifi, TIME notes the ups and downs of chores:
“Setting regular chores probably means you will argue more.
A third of parents in the U.S. who require their youngsters to perform regular household duties argue with them once a week, according to the survey.
That compares with just 21% of parents that do not require that their kids perform household chores.
But the payoff is big.
According to the survey, among parents who require chores:
87% report their kids are doing well in school, vs. 61% of parents who do not require chores..."

Obama's "war"-----Putin’s Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies

Edward Luttwak on Putin’s Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies – Tablet Magazine:
"...In reality Putin’s young bombing campaign has hit very few Islamic State targets.
Yes, aircraft have flown and bombs have been dropped, but the Russians have no ground intelligence in place to identify targets any more than the United States has, except in those rare occasions when black-flagged vehicles are actually seen driving around in broad daylight—which is why the Islamic State has expanded ever since the U.S. bombing started.
But Putin must certainly be innocent of the accusation that his air force has bombed the U.S.-trained “pro-democracy” freedom fighters, because the trainers themselves have admitted that the first lot on which one-tenth of the budget has been spent, i.e., $50 million, are exactly five in number, the rest having deserted after receiving their big family-support signing bonus and first paycheck, or after they were first issued with weapons (which they sold), or after first entering Syria in groups, when they promptly joined the anti-American Jabhat an-Nuá¹£rah, whose Sunni Islam they understand, unlike talk of democracy.
That guarantees Putin’s innocence: All five extant U.S.-made freedom fighters are reportedly alive and well, though one may have defected since the last count
(It would really be much cheaper to hire Salvadoran contract gunmen and fit them out in Arab head-dresses.)...
...So, yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, the aforementioned accused, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is guilty of a very great crime: 
He defends his allies and attacks his enemies—conduct particularly reprehensible in the eyes of the Obama Administration, which does the exact opposite.
 Obama’s America dislikes Japan’s staunchly pro-American Prime Minister Abe (deemed “insufficiently apologetic”),..."

Lunch video-----Climate Change is Unfalsifiable Woo-Woo Pseudoscience

Noon-toon

School District Tried to ‘Censor’ Christmas — and Here’s How This Law Firm Is Responding | TheBlaze.com

School District Tried to ‘Censor’ Christmas — and Here’s How This Law Firm Is Responding | TheBlaze.com:

"A conservative legal firm fired off a letter to a New Hampshire public school district after the superintendent decided that the term “Christmas tree” needed to be changed to “holiday tree” on fliers advertising a local tree lighting ceremony.

The Alliance Defending Freedom’s letter to New Hampshire School Administrative Unit 29 in Keene, New Hampshire, explained that the use of “Christmas” — from the firm’s perspective — is not illegal and that a ban on it is patently unconstitutional."



Must Read of the day!! Islam and the Cultural Jihad in America

Islam and the Cultural Jihad in America | Politically Short:
"The belief that Islam is a peaceful religion and that Islamic terrorists have twisted that faith to unrecognizable extremes is a false interpretation that surrounds today’s narrative regarding Islam”, writes Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.
The greater overall threat this misconception poses is neglected because of fear and outright denial to acknowledge what or who our enemy truly is.
The more we lie to ourselves and allow our politicians, media and government officials to lie to us, the more we enable terrorists to become embolden.
Spencer further notes, “we cannot possibly defeat an enemy whom we refuse to understand, refuse to study, refuse to listen to because he explains why he is our enemy in terms that we can’t bear to hear”.
The public discourse in our country that regards Islam as no different from Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and others is a lie perpetrated against an American public whom is unaware of who their enemy is and what their goals truly are.
The enemy is a terrorist organization that goes by the name of the Muslim Brotherhood. 
Their goal is to eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within.
The document that reveals how to achieve this goal is labeled An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.
...The 18-page document was entered into evidence in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial. Federal investigators found the document in the home of Ismael Elbarasse, a founder of the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, during a 2004 search.
The document was written in 1991 by Muslim Brotherhood operative Mohamed Akram.
The document lays out the plans by the Brotherhood in America as a “civilizational alternative” for infiltrating non-Islamic forms of society and governance for the “global Islamic state”. (The memorandum can be viewed in full at link)."
....If we are to learn from the recent terrorist attacks that took place in France this week and cost the lives of 20 people, we must first look at how the government in France has surrendered authority to Muslim communities in the form of no-go zones.
There are an estimated 750 no-go zones across France that are compromised of up to 40 percent of France’s five million Muslims in which insular neighborhoods have become off-limits to non-Muslims.
These areas function as micro-states that are governed by Islamic Shariah law.
The no-go zones have become so dangerous that authorities no longer provide basic public aid such as police, fire and ambulances services.
...What is happening in France is also happening in other European countries such as Germany and Britain that have effectively relinquished legal control in portions of its territory.
In Britain, where Islamic law has been enforceable nationwide since 2008, there are dozens of no-go zones, including all-Muslim enclaves in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Bradford where “Shariah Zone” stickers went up on utility poles and lamp posts in July 2011.
...In Germany, Chief Police Commissioner Bernhard Witthaut, in an August interview with the newspaper Der Westen, revealed that Muslim immigrants are imposing no-go zones in cities across Germany at an alarming rate..."

Ya think this is the "Final" step?-----Paris Junk Science Pact Calls for US to Redistribute Wealth to Banana Republics and 3rd World Hell Holes

Paris Junk Science Pact Calls for US to Redistribute Wealth to Banana Republics and 3rd World Hell Holes - The Gateway Pundit:
Paris Junk Science Pact Calls for US to Redistribute Wealth to Banana Republics and 3rd World Hell Holes

money toilet
It’s a liberal’s wet dream…
Global elites released details of their global warming junk science pact Saturday. The international agreement calls for developed nations to transfer hundreds of billions of aid to third world hell holes.
The money will then be quickly deposited into Swiss bank accounts under an anonymous name until the dictator is thrown from office and replaced by the next tinpot dictator.
And America continues to drown in debt in the process.
CNS News reported:
The draft of the international agreement to deal with climate change, which is being considered today in Paris by representatives from 195 countries, calls for the developed nations of the world (which include the United States) to transfer wealth to developing nations, including through “public funds.”
“Developed country Parties shall provide financial resources to assist developing country Parties with respect to both mitigation and adaptation in continuation of their existing obligations under the Convention,” says Article 9 of the draft agreement.
“As part of a global effort, developed country Parties should continue to take the lead in mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources, instruments and channels, noting the significant role of public funds,” says the draft.
The draft agreement sets a goal for developed countries to dole out at least $100 billion per year by 2020.
The agreement at one point says: “Resolves to enhance the provision of urgent and adequate finance, technology and capacity-building support by developed country Parties in order to enhance the level of ambition of pre-2020 action by Parties, and in this regard strongly urges developed country Parties to scale up their level of financial support, with a concrete roadmap to achieve the goal of jointly providing USD 100 billion annually by 2020 for mitigation and adaptation while significantly increasing adaptation finance from current levels and to further provide appropriate technology and capacity-building support.”
It will look something like this…
global change chart climate

The 10 best books of 2015 - Washington Post

The 10 best books of 2015 - Washington Post:
"In our annual roundup of best books, you’ll find 10 that we think are exceptionally rewarding and 100 more you shouldn’t miss.
In addition to our usual recommendations for lovers of mysteries, graphic novels and audiobooks, we’ve added lists drawn from our new monthly columns in romance, poetry and science fiction and fantasy."

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist Has Stinging Message for Obama White House: ‘The One Word They Seem to be Unaware Of…’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist Has Stinging Message for Obama White House: ‘The One Word They Seem to be Unaware Of…’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Michael Ramirez had strong words for the Obama White House in an interview with the TheBlaze this week, calling it a “disaster” and raising the the specter of impeachment.

“If I had a message the the White House, the one word they seem to be unaware of. … "



Unbelievable!!!-----Disgraceful White House Hanukkah celebration

Blog: Disgraceful White House Hanukkah celebration
Leave to Barack Obama to turn what should be a celebration of the Jewish people’s survival in the face of adversity into a politicized rant celebrating the cause of the Palestinians, who want to “drive them into the sea,” as has been promised since the birth of the modern State of Israel.
Daniel Greenfield reports on what should have been the highlight of this year’s White House ceremony at Front Page Magazine:
the White House chose Susan Talve to light the Menorah. Talve is a member of the anti-Israel group T'ruah which is currently promoting assorted "soft BDS" programs. She's also a Ferguson activist. Her behavior was deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community and made it clear that the White House was determined to hijack even a Chanukah party to promote an anti-Jewish agenda.

So the general conviviality of the Chanukah party was disrupted by a crazed rant from Susan Talve in which she seemed determined to jam as many leftist talking points as possible in her limited time. Instead of talking about Chanukah, Talve blathered on about getting, "guns off our streets" and to "clean up the fires of toxic nuclear waste".

Talve screeched, "I stand here with my fierce family of clergy and black lives matter activists who took to the streets of Ferguson". 

Having celebrated the race riots which destroyed a community, she pivoted to Syrian Muslim migrants. Chanukah is a celebration of the Maccabees defeating a Syrian occupation, but Talve may not even know that. Radical clergy tend to be light on the religion and heavy on the social justice.

Instead she rambled on about how the "gates of this nation would stay open for all immigrants and all refugees".

Then, not satisfied with having made a disgrace of the Chanukah ceremony, Susan Talve declared, "I stand here to light these lights to say no the darkness of Islamophobia and Homophobia and Transphobia."

Talve babbled about insuring "justice for Palestinians" and began gleefully chanting, "Ins'Allah, Ins'Allah". Or "Allah Willing". 

I don't recall Susan Talve mentioning G-d or a word of Jewish scripture. Indeed she spent more time talking about Muslims than about anything in Judaism. And yet that's typical for Social justice clergy who have no organic ties to Judaism.

History for December 13


History for December 13 - On-This-Day.com
Dick Van Dyke 1925 - Actor, comedian, John Davidson 1941 - Singer, actor, game show host ("That's Incredible," "Hollywood Squares"), Ted Nugent 1948 - Musician 


Steve Buscemi 1957 - Actor, Jamie Foxx 1967 - Actor, comedian, Taylor Swift 1989 - Singer, songwriter 


1636 - The United States National Guard was created when militia regiments were organized by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 


1809 - The first abdominal surgical procedure was performed in Danville, KY, on Jane Todd Crawford. The operation was performed without an anesthetic. 


1862 - In America, an estimated 11,000 Northern soldiers were killed or wounded when Union forces were defeated by Confederates under General Robert E. Lee, at the Battle of Fredericksburg. 


1913 - In the U.S., the Federal Reserve System was established. 






1937 - Japanese forces took the Chinese city of Nanking (Nanjing). An estimated 200,000 Chinese were killed over the next six weeks. The event became known as the "Rape of Nanking." 


1964 - In El Paso, TX, President Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion that diverted the Rio Grande River, reshaping the U.S.-Mexican border. This ended a century-old border dispute. 


1978 - The Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony U.S. dollar. The coin began circulation the following July. 


2000 - U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the 2000 Presidential election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The Florida electoral votes were won by only 537 votes, which decided the election. The election had been contested up to theU.S. Supreme Court, which said that the Florida recount (supported by the Florida Supreme Court) was unconstitutional. 

Saturday, December 12, 2015

What France Has Found In Mosque Raids Deeply Disturbing - Proof that Trump Is 100% Right ⋆ US Herald

What France Has Found In Mosque Raids Deeply Disturbing - Proof that Trump Is 100% Right ⋆ US Herald:

"Once again Donald Trump has created a firestorm and media frenzy as news outlets across the country played almost nonstop, Trumps speech calling for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country, and within seconds of completing his speech a firestorm of condemnation erupted almost immediately, and from virtually all quarters.

And while Trump was being vilified and attacked as a racist and a bigot for even suggesting a ban on this peaceful religion, back in Paris the authorities were raiding Islamic mosques to see what was hidden."

Military Activist Who’s Trying to Stop Air Force Football Players’ On-Field Prayers Doubles Down: ‘Propaganda Bonanza for the Islamic State’ | TheBlaze.com

Military Activist Who’s Trying to Stop Air Force Football Players’ On-Field Prayers Doubles Down: ‘Propaganda Bonanza for the Islamic State’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Activist Mikey Weinstein believes that the team prayers that are regularly uttered before Air Force Academy football games are blatantly unconstitutional and “putrid,” charging that they provide a “propaganda bonanza for [the Islamic State].”

The debate over the Air Force Falcons players’ pre-game prayers on the field has gone viral in recent days, with strong opinions emerging on both sides of the divide."

‘Intelligence Community Is Concerned’: Here’s How Islamic State Members ‘May Have Traveled to U.S.’ | TheBlaze.com

‘Intelligence Community Is Concerned’: Here’s How Islamic State Members ‘May Have Traveled to U.S.’ | TheBlaze.com:

"A Department of Homeland Security report issued to law enforcement last week indicated Islamic State members may have snuck into the U.S. using fake passports the terror group printed using its own machine."



New Focus on San Bernardino Attackers’ Friend Who Spoke of ‘Sleeper Cells’ | TheBlaze.com

New Focus on San Bernardino Attackers’ Friend Who Spoke of ‘Sleeper Cells’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Enrique Marquez — who authorities said bought firearms for childhood friend Syed Rizwan Farook used in the deadly San Bernardino shooting massacre — didn’t strike those acquainted with him as very credible when he brought up the topic of terrorism."



Back in My Day...

Humor: Back in My Day... — The Patriot Post:

Liberals have chosen The Donald as their 'Destructor'

Glenn Reynolds: Liberals have chosen The Donald as their 'Destructor':
"...Everyone is aghast at Trump’s latest plan, to suspend all immigration by Muslims.
But it’s no coincidence that Trump’s announcement came less than a day after a limp, toneless speech by President Barack Obama on terrorism, one that left Americans feeling much less safe.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, then-president George W. Bush made clear that Muslims weren’t our enemy: Radical Islamists were. 
Because Bush took steps against those radical Islamists that made people feel safer, there was no significant anti-Muslim backlash, though all the bien-pensant types thought it certain that those rubes in flyover country would get violent...
Enter Donald Trump.
People who are unhappy with the things Trump is saying need to understand that he’s only getting so much traction because he’s filling a void.
If the responsible people would talk about these issues, and take action, Trump wouldn’t take up so much space.
And there’s a lesson for our ruling class there: 
Calling Trump a fascist is a bit much (fascism, as Tom Wolfe once reported, is forever descending upon the United States, but somehow it always lands on Europe), but movements like fascism and communism get their start because the mechanisms of liberal democracy seem weak and ineffectual and dishonest. 
If you don’t want Trump — or, perhaps, some post-Trump figure who really is a fascist — to dominate things, you need to stop being weak and ineffectual and dishonest.
Right now, after years of Obama hope-and-change, a majority of Americans (56%) think Islam is incompatible with American values.
That’s true even for 43% of Democrats.
In that sort of environment, where people feel unsafe and where the powers-that-be seem to be, well, weak and ineffectual and dishonest, the appeal of someone who doesn’t seem weak and ineffectual grows stronger..."

Fetal Remains Found in Ohio Landfills Amid Planned Parenthood Investigation, Attorney General Says (UPDATED) | TheBlaze.com

Fetal Remains Found in Ohio Landfills Amid Planned Parenthood Investigation, Attorney General Says (UPDATED) | TheBlaze.com:

“The vast majority of the documents showed they were going to landfills,” Dan Tierney, a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office, told TheBlaze. “Planned Parenthood cooperated with the investigation, and that is what the findings revealed.”

Tierney said the investigation began after the release of the videos by the Center for Medical Progress and that DeWine “felt it necessary” to investigate the state’s Planned Parenthood facilities."

Why are we subsidizing single parentage?-----Reducing youth aggression isn’t as easy as “Kumbaya”

Reducing youth aggression isn’t as easy as “Kumbaya” | Intellectual Takeout
"As crime rates continue to rise in many cities, the media continues to debate how to curb violent behavior before it starts.
A Wednesday column entitled “Parenting with Pete” in a New Jersey newspaper exemplifies a typical response.
“Stopping violence needs to begin long before a teenager or adult picks up a gun and decides to shoot another human being,” writes Peter Herbst. 

Herbst argues that we should “commit to reducing the violence in our own lives and promote peace and compassion instead,” and makes a number of suggestions: 
“Don’t gift violent computer games”; “Learn, practice and teach conflict resolution skills”; “Express love for your children with hugs, kisses and nurturing words”; “Empathize with the suffering of other people.”
Fine suggestions, all, but research suggests that the “nurturing words” promoted by media are a band-aid for a problem that runs much deeper.
Psychologists worry about aggressive children—and with good reason.
In a recent study, researchers at Towson University in Maryland explained the urgent need for a deeper understanding of the problem:
“Aggressive children who bully peers and make trouble for teachers and neighbors are more likely than other children are to have difficulties both as a child and as an adult. They are more likely to have problems with academic work and peer relationships and display antisocial behavior, juvenile delinquency, conduct disorders, and drug abuse during adolescence. As adults, aggressive children are more likely to suffer substance abuse, alcoholism, accidents, unemployment, divorce, and physical and psychiatric illness, commit delinquent and violent behavior, and require more social and remedial services.”
To better understand the social circumstances that foster such aggression,..
Their analysis suggests that when marriage bells stop ringing in a neighborhood, the children in that neighborhood turn mean...
If Americans want to subdue the inner-city aggression that has sent far too many young people to prison and early graves, it may take more than teaching students the words of “Kumbaya.”
It may take preachers, teachers, parents, and civic leaders affirming wedlock as a cherished part of urban culture.