History for April 10

History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com:
William Hazlitt 1778 - English writer, essayist, philosopher and critic, Commodore Matthew Perry 1794, Lew Wallace 1827 - U.S. novelist ("Ben Hur")


Joseph Pulitzer 1847 - Publisher, his will left $2 million for a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism, Harry Morgan 1915 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), David Halverstam 1934 - Author


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


1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.


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


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


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


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


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


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

U.S. Aircraft Carrier-Led Strike Group Reverses Course, Heads Back Towards North Korea & Korean Peninsula - American Military News

U.S. Aircraft Carrier-Led Strike Group Reverses Course, Heads Back Towards North Korea & Korean Peninsula - American Military News:

"U.S. Navy strike group Carl Vinson, led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is headed towards the Western Pacific Ocean to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force in response to the recent blatant provocations by North Korea."

Obama Administration Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, Despite Saying Otherwise | The Weekly Standard

Obama Administration Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, Despite Saying Otherwise | The Weekly Standard:

"Despite such evidence of dishonesty, the media have been awfully credulous about the Obama administration's self-serving claim of having rid Syria of chemical weapons. Now we know better. In fact, Keeley goes on to note that general revulsion at participating in the Obama administration's dangerous charade has led many former Obama administration officials to support President Trump's actions in Syria."

What could possibly go wrong?-----New York poised to pass free public college tuition statewide - UPI.com

New York poised to pass free public college tuition statewide - UPI.com:
"April 8 (UPI) -- New York is poised to become the first state in the nation to provide free tuition to public colleges and universities, after a deal struck as part of larger budget negotiations announced Friday night.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the proposal in January alongside former Democratic presidential candidate Sen Bernie Sanders, hailed the deal as an historic opportunity for hundreds of thousands of families in the Empire State.
Under terms of the deal, the program would be phased in over three years.
This year, students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year would be eligible for free college tuition. 
That cap would be raised to $125,000 once the program is fully implemented.
...Though the legislation eliminates tuition costs for many lower- and middle-income families, for students who exceed the income cap, tuition will increase $200 per year for the next five years at all state schools..."
Read on!

Could be BIG?-----MYSTERY: Private messages evidence DNC leaker was murdered IT staffer? - The American Mirror

MYSTERY: Private messages evidence DNC leaker was murdered IT staffer? - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
"The late-night murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich is still not solved, but Wikileaks may have established the motive: a new release by the group indicates he was the leaker of internal emails.

On Saturday, the group pointed readers to a series of screen shots of a Twitter conversation between “Guccifer 2.0” and actress Robbin Young...

Posted on Young’s website, the messages are mostly personal in nature, but at one point last summer, Guccifer 2.0 indicates “Seth” was his “whistleblower.”

“…it was horrifying to hear about his death,” Young responded.

“I have no facts, but it’s my opinion Hillary had him murdered.”

Guccifer 2.0 didn’t dispute the assertion.

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Fox 5’s Paul Wagner reported last July 27-year-old Seth Rich “was found shot multiple times near Flagler and W NW just after 4 am Sunday.”

According to ABC 7:

D.C. Police say they heard gunshots while patrolling in the area Monday around 4:19 a.m. Police say they found Seth Rich, 27, of Northwest D.C. in the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW suffering from multiple gunshot wounds but conscious and breathing.

Rich was taken to a local hospital where he later died..."

When Dems Loved the Nuclear Option

When Dems Loved the Nuclear Option:


"The only host who showed any hesitance was MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, who admitted that he had been "intimidated" by Mitch McConnell's threat (that they would regret it) because like "the traditionalists in the Senate, I was like afraid what happens when the other side has the power.""

Democrats aren't the party of science: Jonah Goldberg

Democrats aren't the party of science: Jonah Goldberg:
"Clinton is peddling stale, corporate feminism as settled science.
As fate would have it, Hillary Clinton spoke at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security, where she emphasized the importance of peace, of women and of women in peace.
...But she also got in what was seen as a partisan shot at the Trump administration.
At one point she began a sentence by saying, “Studies show…” and then interrupted herself: “here I go again talking about research, evidence and facts."
The crowd laughed, cheered and loudly applauded for a while, proving that there’s nothing like working out your best material with a friendly audience.
Clinton laughed at her supposedly very funny joke, too.
She also said, "Before anybody jumps to any conclusions, I will state clearly: Women are not inherently more peaceful than men. 
That is a stereotype. That belongs in the alternative reality."
But here’s what I think is funny.
Clinton’s wrong.
She’s the one peddling an alternative reality.
Yeah, there’s a stereotype that women are inherently more peaceful than men — but, as a generalization (which is what stereotypes are) it’s true.
This is an evidence-based conclusion backed by a great many studies.
In 2015, according to the FBI, 7,549 men were arrested for murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Only 984 women were.
Men were four times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes and ten times more likely to be arrested for illegal possession of a weapon.
It’s not just in America. Disproportionate male aggression is a human universal, appearing all over the world and across thousands of years.
Interestingly, one of the things that is most likely to make men less violent is getting married, proving that Clinton is right when she says that women have a pacifying effect...
What’s annoying about Clinton’s cheap partisan preening isn’t simply that she’s wrong (and I suspect she knows it).
It’s that she is perpetuating an infuriating tendency of liberals today to claim science is always on their side.
There’s a decidedly undemocratic flavor to this kind of argument.
Patrick Moynihan famously said that everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts.
Liberals want to turn that on its head and claim that their opinions are facts and anyone who disagrees isn’t merely voicing a bad opinion but it somehow living in alternative reality or “denying” science. It’s the secular version of claiming that God is on your side.
Clinton is peddling stale, corporate feminism as settled science in part because she’s pandering to a friendly audience, but also because she’s too lazy to shed her own alternate reality."

Lunch video-----Save The Snowflakes Offers Prescription Crayons

Noon-toon

Muslim Leads PRAYER Against Infidels In Senate, Then A Veteran Steps In! | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Muslim Leads PRAYER Against Infidels In Senate, Then A Veteran Steps In! | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"Two Muslims men took to the Delaware Senate floor to pray to Allah in Islamic Prayer. The part hat really was shameful was that the Senators of the state, many of them, even went as far as to bow their heads in reverence, and join them in a prayer, to a religion that didn’t even consider them worth living…"

The Most Stunningly Detailed 2016 Election Map Was Just Released—Democrats Should Be Scared, Very Scared

The Most Stunningly Detailed 2016 Election Map Was Just Released—Democrats Should Be Scared, Very Scared:

"The Trump administration is off to a rocky start, as every week seems to bring new turmoil and drama. 
However, it is important to remember how shockingly unlikely this presidency was in the first place.

Exhibit A:

Twitter/@HuffingtonPost

Since Trump went from nearly zero chance of becoming Leader of the Free World to launching missiles at our enemies, one is left to ask: what trends led to this fate for Democrats?

Ryne Rohla at Decision Desk HQ set out to model American voting patterns, not just on a national or state level, but by burrowing down to the most localized, nuanced metric available: local precincts. 
Because of the incredible locality and difficulty of attaining such data, few have ever attempted to map the voting populace in this way. 
Rohla persisted. He explains in his piece entitled, “Creating a National Precinct Map”...
(Many maps here, click!)

Want to see what that looks like year over year?

Ryne Rohla/Decision Desk HQ

Where did it go?-----$500 Billion Later, HUD Books Are A Disaster | The Daily Caller

$500 Billion Later, HUD Books Are A Disaster | The Daily Caller:
"HUD Can Fix $520 Billion In Accounting Errors, But Still Can’t Document Its Spending
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) financial books are in such bad shape that HUD’s Inspector General (IG) can’t complete an audit even after HUD officials corrected $520 billion in bookkeeping errors, according to a new IG report.
Officials at HUD fixed $3.4 billion in errors from its 2015 books and $516.4 billion in errors from its 2016 books after the IG in December was unable to issue an opinion on either year’s financial statements and highlighted 11 material weaknesses, seven significant deficiencies and five instances of failure to comply with laws and regulations.
These same problems have been reported for three straight years by the IG..."

Google to display fact-checking labels to show if news is true or false - Geller Report

Google to display fact-checking labels to show if news is true or false - Geller Report:
"Who will determine whether a news item is true or false? 
By what criteria? 
This is just another tool to shut down those who tell truths about Islam and jihad and Muslim immigration that the elites don’t want you to know. 
I guarantee you that actual fake news outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, and BuzzFeed will never get flagged as false. 
Only truth-tellers will.

“Google to display fact-checking labels to show if news is true or false,” by Samuel Gibbs, Guardian, April 7, 2017:

Google is to start displaying fact-checking labels in its search results to highlight news and information that has been vetted and show whether it is considered to be true or false, as part of its efforts to help combat the spread of misinformation and fake news..." 

You ought to know!

Obamacare Watch: Judicial Watch Sues IRS and HHS for Records of Sharing of Taxpayers’ Private Information - Judicial Watch

Obamacare Watch: Judicial Watch Sues IRS and HHS for Records of Sharing of Taxpayers’ Private Information - Judicial Watch:

"Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records about the sharing of private taxpayer information under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia"

Limbaugh: Obama Should Have Spied On Syria Instead Of Trump Tower

Limbaugh: Obama Should Have Spied On Syria Instead Of Trump Tower:

"“Do you realize Assad’s been doing this for seven years, folks? The gassing of Syrian citizens with chemical weapons and other WMD has been going on for seven years,” Limbaugh maintained. “And Obama’s out there surveilling Trump and whoever else during the Republican primary campaign and then the Trump transition.”

Limbaugh said Syria’s use of chemical weapons and Trump’s attack on a Russian ally have turned the narrative of who is the pawn of Russia on its head."

Syria – It Doesn’t Matter Who Used The Chemical Weapons, The Issue is Extremism and Stability… | The Last Refuge

Syria – It Doesn’t Matter Who Used The Chemical Weapons, The Issue is Extremism and Stability… | The Last Refuge:
(Much here-click to read all)

...Now pay attention to Secretary Tillerson:

Overall, the situation in Syria is one where our approach today and our policy today is, first, to defeat ISIS. By defeating ISIS we remove one of the disruptive elements in Syria that exists today.

That begins to clarify for us opposition forces and regime forces. In working with the coalition — as you know, there is a large coalition of international players and allies who are involved in the future resolution in Syria.

So it’s to defeat ISIS; it’s to begin to stabilize areas of Syria, stabilize areas in the south of Syria, stabilize areas around Raqqa through ceasefire agreements between the Syrian regime forces and opposition forces. Stabilize those areas; begin to restore some normalcy to them. Restore them to local governance — and there are local leaders who are ready to return, some who have left as refugees — they’re ready to return to govern these areas.

Use local forces that will be part of the liberation effort to develop the local security forces — law enforcement, police force. And then use other forces to create outer perimeters of security so that areas like Raqqa, areas in the south can begin to provide a secure environment so refugees can begin to go home and begin the rebuilding process.

In the midst of that, through the Geneva Process, we will start a political process to resolve Syria’s future in terms of its governance structure, and that ultimately, in our view, will lead to a resolution of Bashar al-Assad’s departure.

~ Secretary Tillerson during Air-Strike Debrief

See the plan?

AM Fruitcake

History for April 9

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



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


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


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


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


1940 - Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.


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


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


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


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

Hundreds of TSA workers at airports across the US failed drug, alcohol tests – TheBlaze

Hundreds of TSA workers at airports across the US failed drug, alcohol tests – TheBlaze:

"“TSA employees have been criminally charged for using cocaine on the job, facilitating large scale drug and human smuggling, and engaging in child pornography activities,” the report stated.

And in February, TSA and airport employees were brought up on charges related to an alleged cocaine-smuggling operation going back nearly 20 years. The defendants allegedly transported cocaine-filled suitcases through security at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico."

I'm still wondering about this-----Trump, #SyriaStrike, and Fake News – Mike Cernovich – Medium

Trump, #SyriaStrike, and Fake News – Mike Cernovich – Medium
Trump, #SyriaStrike, and Fake News

Assad had no incentive to gas his own people, let alone children, as he finally had ISIS on the run. The entire rest of the world (save for one huge exception) was either pro-Assad (Russia) or neutral:

Last week, both Tillerson and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said the U.S. had abandoned its demand that Assad be removed from power and that the only priority in the Middle East was the defeat of Islamic State, which is concentrated in Syria and Iraq.

In what world does Assad, who is 51, make the most catastrophic mistake of his life by bombing children with poison gas? Even in prison, those who murder children are killed. Harming children isn’t merely the act of a maniac. It’s a level of deprativity even violent criminals will not countenance.

Consider the following meeting occurs. Assad is at his table, surrounded by his generals and most trusted advisers. He has finally defeated ISIS. Syria is stable. The U.S. is considering a major aid package. As he smiles with pride, a general speaks up… “Imma let you finish, but first I have to say that we need to gas children with poison gas.”..."

Read on!

‘Black Lives Matter!’: Mob descends upon campus building, pounds windows, shuts down pro-cop speech – TheBlaze

‘Black Lives Matter!’: Mob descends upon campus building, pounds windows, shuts down pro-cop speech – TheBlaze:

"A mob of hundreds of screaming protesters descended upon a California college building Thursday in opposition to a pro-police author’s speech. The actions ended up preventing would-be attendees from entering the room and forcing police to end the event early and give the author an escort to safety.

Because of the melee outside, Heather Mac Donald — author of “The War on Cops” — "

Harvard Grad Students Faced 'Existential' Crisis of Sadness, Despair After Election - Washington Free Beacon

Harvard Grad Students Faced 'Existential' Crisis of Sadness, Despair After Election - Washington Free Beacon:
"Graduate students at Harvard University said Donald Trump's presidential victory pushed them into an "existential" crisis of sadness and despair.

The "deep feeling" of misery led students to start a "resistance school," which kicked off at Harvard, Wednesday evening. 

Timothy McCarthy, a lecturer at the Kennedy School, taught the first course.

The first lecture covered all the favorite topics of the campus left, including anticolonialism, white privilege, intersectionality, and "allyship." 

McCarthy described Trump as a "devil" and said America was founded on the "callous slaughter of indigenous people," and the subjugation of every minority group from "queer folks" to the disabled.

"Around four in the morning we peeled ourselves off the couch, some of us off the floor," said Jasmine, a graduate student who introduced the course. 

"We took a deep breath, and we decided to head home and try to get just a couple hours of sleep after what had been a very long day. 

But we couldn't sleep.

 Like so many of you, my friends and I woke up on Nov. 9 just devastated."

"We couldn't shake this deep feeling, almost existential feeling, of sadness, of bewilderment, and of anger," she said..."

Read on.

Morons!

31 Hilarious Fast Food Signs That Had It Their Way (Slide #1) - Offbeat

31 Hilarious Fast Food Signs That Had It Their Way (Slide #1) - Offbeat:

Lunch video-----Feminist Whores For Islam

Noon-toon-----Mike Lester by Mike Lester for Apr 8, 2017 | Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com

Mike Lester by Mike Lester for Apr 8, 2017 | Read Comic Strips at GoComics.com: