History for December 17

History for December 17 - On-This-Day.com
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807, Arthur Fiedler 1896, William Safire 1929 


Ernie Hudson 1945 - Actor, Eugene Levy 1946, Giovanni Ribisi 1974 - Actor


1791 - A traffic regulation in New York City established the first street to go "One Way." 


1895 - George L. Brownell received a patent for his paper-twine machine. 


1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the flight. 


1939 - The German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled by its crew, bringing the World War II Battle of the Rio de la Plata off Uruguay to an end. 


1959 - The film "On the Beach" premiered in New York City and in 17 other cities. It was the first motion picture to debut simultaneously in major cities around the world. 


1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. 


1975 - Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of U.S. President Ford. 


2004 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence gathering in 50 years. The bill aimed to tighten borders and aviation security. It also created a federal counterterrorism center and a new intelligence director.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/12/enter-enemy-by-tammy-derouin-despite.html

Enter The Enemy

By Tammy Derouin

Despite the endless attempts to destroy the American spirit and the homeland for that matter, I believe there is still something very special about being an American.  Most people still have an understanding of the value of our exceptionalism.  But, as a nation, we have lost our way.  Our compass has been badly damaged and we struggle to find the right path.

We were once an exceptional people who lived in an exceptional land.  We defended our way of life because we knew our history.  Sadly, we began to take our exceptionalism for granted.  Enter the enemy.

There was a time when we cherished our history and heritage so much that we educated our posterity on the meaning of being an American. We even celebrated our exceptionalism by proudly displaying the symbols and colors of our United States.  We defended our rights and freedoms and fought those who tried to harm us.

How did we allow ourselves to be convinced, by our enemies, that our symbols of freedom are offensive?  Why do we care what they think....

Lettuce 'three times worse' for environment than bacon, new study says

Lettuce 'three times worse' for environment than bacon, new study says - SFGate:
"Meat-lovers, prepare to shove this in the face of all your vegetarian friends.
According to a new study from Carnegie Mellon, a vegetarian diet could be worse for the environment than a carnivorous one. 
Only pork chops can save the ozone now!
Fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood have a more negative impact on the climate than meat, claims the study.
The meat-less diet increases energy use by 38 percent, water use by 10 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by six percent. 
"Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon," Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decisions sciences and engineering and public policy, told Carnegie Mellon.
"Lots of common vegetables require more resources per calorie than you would think.
Eggplant, celery and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken."
The study set out to discover if the obesity epidemic in America is adversely affecting the environment.
While it's true that losing weight and eating fewer calories reduces energy use, the USDA's recommendations for healthy eating (lighter on the meat, heavier on fruit and veg) isn't necessarily the best thing for climate change."

Few remain in City of Muskegon-----See Muskegon County's top 15 property taxpayers for 2015

See Muskegon County's top 15 property taxpayers for 2015 | MLive.com

‘Is Islam Compatible With American Values?’: Watch CNN Anchor’s Reaction, Response to Famous Pastor’s Answer | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Is Islam Compatible With American Values?’: Watch CNN Anchor’s Reaction, Response to Famous Pastor’s Answer | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Rev. Franklin Graham calmly and bluntly stated his opinion that Islam is not “compatible” with American values during a CNN interview on Tuesday. In response, CNN anchor Carol Costello took a swipe at her own religion of Catholicism."

This moron is teaching our children?!!-----Professor Blames White Privilege For Michigan Existing

Professor Blames White Privilege For Michigan Existing | The Daily Caller
A professor at Calvin College in Michigan wrote a column accusing his students and fellow faculty members of being white supremacists for failing to accept the notion of “white privilege.”
The professor also says Calvin College itself and the entire state of Michigan only exist because of said white privilege...
“What occurred was not an isolated incident, a freak occurrence in an otherwise loving and inclusive community,” Kuilema says in a column last Friday in Calvin’s school paper.
“While few members of this community openly espouse white supremacy, many members of our community continue to deny white privilege.
It must be clearly stated that those who deny white privilege functionally believe in white supremacy, whether they have the courage to write it on a car or not.”
Kuilema goes on to say both Calvin College and the entire state of Michigan are products of white privilege and white supremacy..."

Detroit receives UNESCO "City of Design" designation, first in U.S. to do so

Detroit receives UNESCO "City of Design" designation, first in U.S. to do so | MLive.com
DETROIT, MI-- Detroit was awarded with UNESCO's "City of Design" designation, the first and only U.S city to do so.
"Detroit will be joining 47 cities from 33 countries as new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, comprised of cities that represent a strong legacy in one of seven creative fields, from Gastronomy and Literature to Design," according to Detroit Creative Corridor Center, or DC3, which started the application process in Spring 2015.
"It's a testament to Detroit's legacy, as well as a recognition of our potential and commitment," says Ellie Schneider, Interim Executive Director at DC3, of the designation. "There is so much history and there are so many talented, committed people and organizations carrying on that legacy in Detroit today."
Other U.S. cities are apart of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, but Detroit is the first to receive the designation for design..."

Lunch video-----U.S. WELFARE PAYS FOR 4 'WIVES' PER HUSBAND

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New Report Reveals Why the U.S. Refuses to Strike Known Islamic State Propaganda Locations | TheBlaze.com

New Report Reveals Why the U.S. Refuses to Strike Known Islamic State Propaganda Locations | TheBlaze.com:

"The U.S. has mapped out locations the Islamic State has been using as media safe houses for the distribution of social media and digital propaganda used in its recruiting. But the government won’t strike the locations for fear of harming civilians, the Washington Times reported.

Most of the locations were based in heavily residential areas of Syria, Iraq and Libya since such areas are less likely to be targeted by U.S. airstrikes, according to the information obtained through the a secret military project. The Washington Times report cited anonymous sources, but the White House, CIA and Defense Department each declined to comment to the newspaper."

Money and power-----The new rationale for globalist cultism is 'ecological panic'

The new rationale for globalist cultism is 'ecological panic':
Faith in an ideology based on a desire for power over others and the need to feel personally superior without any legitimate accomplishment is perhaps the most dangerous state of being an individual or society can adopt.
 I would refer to such a mindset as “zealotry,” an integral element of cultism and an extreme result of the elitist side of faith.
Zealotry and cultism are not limited to the realm of the religious.
Zealotry is a clever devil hiding in the woodwork of any political or academic construct, and this includes the scientific community when it strays away from empirical logic and honest data into a world of pseudoscience and social engineering.
I cannot think of a better example of zealotry feeding scientific cultism than the highly propagandized climate change/global warming movement.
Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is quickly becoming the overarching rationale for almost every policy toward global centralization, as well as a scapegoat for nearly every major crisis from mass shootings and the rise of ISIS to geopolitical shifts in economic structures.
Global warming has been projected as a magical force deviously underlying everything.
It is presented by climate scientists and activists as an all-encompassing behemoth of cause and effect, yet nearly all of this frantic propaganda is supported by faith, rather than hard data.
The issue is one of transparency. 
Without transparency of experimental data, climate scientists and think tank operatives become immune to examination.
That is to say, if climate scientists and organizations, many of which are funded by public tax dollars, are not required to reveal the raw data behind their claims on global warming, then their claims are no longer a matter of “fact” or scientific process..."
Worth your time to read it all!

Evil exists!!!-----Black police officers organizing gang rapes of white men in South Africa.

Black police officers organizing gang rapes of white men in South Africa.
Horror stories are emerging from South Africa about the gang rape of white men in police holding cells. 
White men are arrested for crimes such as “speeding,” or “witnessing a crime.” They are placed in a holding cell with hardened black crimes.
They are brutally gang raped by the black criminals, often with black police officers egging them on. The white victims are then released without being charged with any crime. Several white victims have sued police departments, but nothing has happened yet.
The following piece was written by Gayton McKenzie, a black gang member in South Africa, and published in a research paper at the University of Pretoria.
He describes a young, skinny white male who is being held for Marijuana use. Source.
“Wimpie, a white boy who was dabbling with dagga, is put in our cell. I don’t know how old he really is, perhaps 16 or more, but he looks no older than 14, with skinny arms and short, spiky-crowned, brown hair. He tries to fight, and so they hit him. 
His resistance stops abruptly when one grabs the back of his head and smashes his face into the steel bars …
The 20 men take it in turns to rape him. I
t goes on for more than eight hours, almost the whole night. 
The boy does everything he can, in his pathetic, limited range of action, to try to deter them, but he is ignored. 
He screams, he cries, he begs, he tries to bargain, he prays.”
“It is in the morning, though, that I am forced to see what life has coughed up before me. 
What’s left of Wimpie is lying in a corridor between the bunks, just in front of my bed. 
He is still naked, shivering in a pool of his own blood where they have discarded him. 
I will literally have to step over the small body to go and eat my breakfast...”

67% of Palestinians Support Knifing Israelis. Yes, Even Little Girls... »

67% of Palestinians Support Knifing Israelis. Yes, Even Little Girls... » Louder With Crowder:
"We’ve talked about how Palestinians are teaching their kids to stab Israelis.
There’s even a video of a traumatized two-year-old being showed how to “spill Jewish blood.”
...Two-thirds of Palestinians support the ongoing wave of stabbings against Israelis, with the same percentage backing a larger armed uprising, a poll released on Monday found.
Sixty-seven percent back the use of knives, while 66 percent of those asked said an armed intifada or uprising would “serve Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations could not”, the survey by the respected Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) found.
At the same time, nearly three-quarters said they opposed the involvement of “young schoolgirls” in stabbings.
...Meanwhile the leftists will try to tell us about how horrible Israel is for being oppressive or something, even though anyone with any geographical knowledge, or eyes, can see how tiny Israel is in comparison to every other bordering Muslim country.
Though after this article came out about how the Palestinians are pretty okay with stabbing kids, including little girls, it’s not that much of a mystery as to why this countries do not want these people in their backyards..."

Where is the 3rd San Bernardino shooter?

Where is the 3rd San Bernardino shooter?:

"And then the third man disappeared. Media reports stop mentioning him. No law enforcement officials appear to be searching for him. He is gone without a trace, and no one has even noticed that he is missing, or was ever there in the first place.

The vanishing of this third man recalls the disappearance of the third man who was involved in the Oklahoma Federal building bombing with Timothy McVeigh. Jayna Davis of KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City reported on an FBI alert for “Middle Eastern-looking” suspects – an alert that was later canceled."

City subways are a pervert’s paradise

City subways are a pervert’s paradise | New York Post:
Sex crimes on the city’s subways have soared by nearly 20 percent this year, due to a surge in the number of gropers, flashers and voyeurs, NYPD officials said on Monday.
“I think everyone has a subway horror story,’’ said straphanger Ashley Ezparda, 27, of Jackson Heights, Queens, near the 74th Street and Broadway station. “[I saw] some homeless guy masturbating on the R train this past summer. 
I wanted to throw up.”
In the past five months alone, the rate of increase has more than doubled — with a total of 699 incidents reported, or 106 more than the 593 recorded for the same period last year, authorities said.
The most common offenses are forcible touching, lewdness and unwanted surveillance, NYPD Deputy Chief Vincent Coogan told MTA officials at a meeting.
Coogan said the rising number of complaints stems partly from riders getting more serious about inappropriate behavior and reporting it.
He said cops have been able to make arrests in more than half the cases — an increase in busts — because more straphangers are snapping cellphone photos of perpetrators.
By late July, subway sex crimes had increased by around 7.5 percent compared with the same period last year.
The latest figures show that rate has jumped to more than 17.8 percent..."

Egyptian Grandpa Rapes 2-Year-Old Granddaughter... Then Mother Does Unthinkable

Egyptian Grandpa Rapes 2-Year-Old Granddaughter... Then Mother Does Unthinkable:

"What makes this story that much more frightening is the fact that according to an admittedly unscientific opt-in poll conducted by the Center for Security Policy three months ago, 51 percent of Muslims in America agreed that they “should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah.”

It’s frightening to think that even 1 percent of American Muslims could support the actions of this mother."

History for December 16

History for December 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Catherine of Aragon 1485, Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 - Composer, Jane Austen 1775 


Arthur C. Clarke 1917 - Author, Liv Ullmann 1939 Actress, Benny Andersson 1946 - Singer, keyboards, synthesizers (ABBA) 


1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company. 


1838 - The Zulu chief Dingaan was defeated by a small force of Boers at Blood River celebrated in South Africa as 'Dingaan's Day'. 


1901 - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time. 


1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war. 


1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism." 


1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet" in a special preview on "Chesterfield Sound Off Time". The show began officially on January 3, 1952. 


1960 - A United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City, killing 134 people. 


1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain. 

‘Europe Is Gone,’ World Is Heading Toward ‘Global War’: Glenn Beck’s Warning After a Week in the Middle East and Sweden | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Europe Is Gone,’ World Is Heading Toward ‘Global War’: Glenn Beck’s Warning After a Week in the Middle East and Sweden | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Glenn Beck, who last week traveled through Europe and the Middle East, said on his eponymous radio show Monday morning that he believes Europe, “as we know it,” is “gone.”

“You have to understand, Europe is gone,” the host said. “They are headed for catastrophe and headed for terrorist strike after terrorist strike after terrorist strike. Riots in the streets.”

According to Beck, Europe is in serious trouble because “they refused to listen to the warnings.” And he believes that the U.S. is heading down the same path “if we don’t get control of our immigration and our refugee problem right now.”

Michelle Obama Gets Served... But This Time It's A Lawsuit For Her Lavish Taxpayer Funded Vacation Splurges ⋆ US Herald

Michelle Obama Gets Served... But This Time It's A Lawsuit For Her Lavish Taxpayer Funded Vacation Splurges ⋆ US Herald:

"After a request for records regarding a trip to Spain that the press called a "whirlwind tour" and after consistently being denied access to records regarding the cost to taxpayers for the Obama's trip.

The Obama's trip to Spain took place in August of 2010. The injunction to have the numbers released regarding the amount of money spent on the trip was filed in 2011 but no facts or figures were ever turned over.

That's problematic.

As a result of the lack of transparency, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit. And they're perfectly justified in doing so."

Armed Citizens Pull Guns, Save 90-Year-Old Man Under Attack

Armed Citizens Pull Guns, Save 90-Year-Old Man Under Attack - Breitbart:
"On December 7, a man and woman pulled their self-defense handguns and stopped an attack in which a knife-welding man had allegedly knocked down a 90-year-old suspect and “was trying to stab” him.
The incident occurred in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
According to Fox 5, The woman–Karen Duncan–heard the 90-year-old gentleman screaming for help so she grabbed her gun out of her purse and came running. 
When neighbor Ron Childress saw Duncan running “in a panic” he grabbed his gun and ran to the house too.
Duncan was already inside, where she allegedly saw “blood and a big old knife” in the hand a man who was on top of the 90-year-old gentleman. 
She told him to stop and he ignored her so she changed her tactic and told him stop because she was “getting ready to shoot [him].” 
He cooperated at that point.
Childress then entered the room with his gun drawn and told the suspect to lie down flat on the floor with his legs and arms spread, Childress continued to hold the suspect at gunpoint until police arrived.
Childress–who is former law enforcement–said he believes the 90-year-old gentleman would not be alive if Duncan had not been armed and willing to come to the rescue. 
He said, “You cannot protect everybody, police can’t do it, they’re good after the fact, but they’re no good to you when it happens generally. 
They’re not going to be there so you need to be ready to protect yourself and what happened [with the -old man] is a perfect example of how a citizen can protect other citizens.”"