History for June 26

History for June 26 - On-This-Day.com:
Abner Doubleday 1819, Sidney Howard 1891, Pearl S. Buck 1892


William P. Lear 1902, Col. Tom Parker 1909, Roy Plunkett 1910


1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.


1927 - The Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster opened in New York.


1936 - The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 made its first flight. It is often considered the first practical helicopter.


1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.


1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.


1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.


1974 - In Troy, Ohio, a Marsh supermarket installed the first bar code scanning equipment, made by IBM, and a product with a bar code was scanned for the first time. The product was Juicy Fruit gum.


1976 - In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower opened to the public. The official opening date is listed as October 1, 1976. It was the world's tallest free-standing stucture and the world's tallest tower until 2010.

Who Does The FBI Work For?

Who Does The FBI Work For?:

"That brings us to yesterday’s FBI briefing on the shooting targeting Republicans in Alexandria, a briefing that could not be more bizarre in its content and its conclusions.  Mollie Hemingway has more:

“The FBI admits that Hodgkinson: vociferously raged against Republicans in online forums, had a piece of paper bearing the names of six members of Congress,"

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Gotta read this!-----The DNC Scams the Suckers and Contradicts the Feds on 'Hacking'

Articles: The DNC Scams the Suckers and Contradicts the Feds on 'Hacking'
By Clarice Feldman

"Daniel Greenfield reveals why there’s no mystery behind the Democratic loss in Georgia, while Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and the George Washington University Profiling Project Deepen the Mystery of the “Russian Hacking” narrative.

There was a great deal of press this week about the District 6 Georgia Congressional race in which once again -- for the fourth time -- the hyped “referendum on Trump” produced a Republican victory over a Democratic challenger in a special election.

As usual, David Burge tweeted the most succinct wrap up of the left-wing take on their latest failure to recapture Congress and impeach Trump:

“David Burge‏ @iowahawkblog
So I gather GA06 has suddenly gone from Enlightened Sunbelt Suburban Panera Voters back to Inbred Reactionary Neo-Confederate Klansmen”

When hyping the Ossoff-Handel race, the media regularly misrepresented the district (Newt Gingrich’s former seat) as rock-ribbed Republican when in fact it has become more Democratic due to redistricting, and the race was tighter than represented. But as Daniel Greenfield – alone -- observed, the race was hyped as winnable only to fill the Democratic coffers. It was never likely that Jon Ossoff, a pajama boy who didn’t even live in District 6, was going to beat Karen Handel, a well-known and respected District 6, resident no matter how much money the Democrats spent there.

So why did the Democrats pour $31 million down the drain to advance his doomed candidacy? Daniel Greenfield explains: the DNC is badly short of cash and spun this (and the three losing races which preceded it) to raise cash for itself and its infrastructure.

Most of the money came through Act Blue, the big DNC fundraiser. And much of the money raised went to Canal Partners Media Mothership Strategies and Mission Control, Inc. the Democrats’ infrastructure.

[Ossoff] was sucker bait. And the suckers bit hard enough to make a special election in a conservative district the most expensive House race in history.

Ossoff was a great way for Washington D.C. campaign pros to extract money from Bay Area lefties. His campaign had nine times more individual donations from California than from Georgia. He had almost four times more donations from nine Bay Area counties than all of Georgia.

The Dems lost and they’re laughing all the way to the bank.

There was much fussing in the Bay Area over snarky Republican ads in the race taking potshots at them. If they had any sense, they would be far more offended by the greedy contempt of their political allies.

The Democrats have gone far to the left partly because of a profitable machine for transmuting the left’s worst instincts into money. The Washington Post scored record profits by tempting lefties with fake news promises of impeachment. The special elections scam offered lefties the seductive idea that throwing away millions on a doomed cause would somehow reverse Trump’s victory.

Hey, it worked for Jill Stein, didn’t it?

Angry, emotional people do stupid things. Like wear pink hats and shout in public about their private parts, subscribe to the Washington Post because they think it can deliver Watergate on demand or plow millions into backing an annoying hipster with no credentials in Newt Gingrich’s old district.

Jon Ossoff’s slogan was “Make Trump Furious.” He failed even at that. But it isn’t Trump’s fury his backers were interested in. Instead they succeeded in cashing in on the angry stupid rage of the left.

Lots more, read on!!!

The joke of "journalism-----Arthur Schwartz on Twitter: "This is CNN > > https://t.co/yySZvkmFKU"

Arthur Schwartz on Twitter: "This is CNN > > https://t.co/yySZvkmFKU"

Did Votes By Noncitizens Cost Trump The 2016 Popular Vote? Sure Looks That Way | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Did Votes By Noncitizens Cost Trump The 2016 Popular Vote? Sure Looks That Way | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"In 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there were 21.0 million adult noncitizens in the U.S., up from 19.4 million in 2008. It is therefore highly likely that millions of noncitizens cast votes in 2016.

And it was no accident. Democrats had extensive get-out-the-vote campaigns in areas heavily populated by illegal aliens. As far back as 2008, Obama made sure that those who wanted to vote knew it was safe, announcing that election records would not be cross-checked with immigration databases.

And last year, the Obama White House supported a court injunction that kept Kansas, Alabama and Georgia from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The message was sent, loud and clear: If you're a noncitizen or here illegally, don't be afraid. You're free to vote. No one will stop you."

"Russia, Russia, Russia!:" Kellyanne Conway Goofs on Indian-Slurring Alisyn Camarotta

Ace of Spades HQ:
"Russia, Russia, Russia!:" 
...Alisyn Camarotta was most recently embarrassed when she asked a girl of Indian descent who'd just won a national spelling bee to spell "confeve," and then, when the girl got it slightly wrong, excused her mistake because "it doesn't have a Sanskrit root, which is what you're probably used to."

The Indian girl in question lives in the United States, speaks English, and wouldn't know Sanskrit even if she lived in India, where less than 1% of the population speaks it as a primary language.

Apart from being an expert on Languages That Indians Don't Really Speak, Camarotta also fancies herself a bit of a "player" in matters of national security and geopolitics..."

Yahoo Shutters That $30 Million App It Bought From a Teen

Yahoo Shutters That $30 Million App It Bought From a Teen:
"Yahoo is shutting down an app created by teenager. 
Four years ago, said teenager sold the app to the struggling internet company for a reported $30 million. 
It’s one of many casualties from Verizon’s recent acquisition of the big purple Dot Com giant, but it’s especially interesting since Yahoo turned so many heads by spending such a huge sum on an app created by a teen. 
Then again, maybe it was inevitable all along.
The app in question was called Yahoo News Digest.
It was apparently downloaded 9.5 million times and was based upon technology that aggregated news articles and summarized them in short paragraphs.
The technology made headlines before its Yahoo days, when it was called Summly, because it was built by then 15-year-old named Nick D’Aloisio in 2011.
...Yahoo bought D’Aloisio’s app for a reported $30 million and gave the teen a job at Yahoo in 2013..."

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Susan Rice records that intelligence committee wants are locked in Obama archive - Washington Times

Susan Rice records that intelligence committee wants are locked in Obama archive - Washington Times:

"It was first revealed in a recent Freedom of Information Act exchange between Judicial Watch and the NCS that the records had been moved to the Obama library’s secure archive.
“Having to subpoena this information indicates the insanity of the situation when the nation’s top intelligence agencies are withholding information — basic information — that could bring to an end the controversy raging across this country,” Mr. Fitton said in an interview Thursday.
He said he is considering other legal options to obtain the records."

PUERTO RICO GOING BANKRUPT

Instapundit » Blog Archive » PUERTO RICO GOING BANKRUPT: It’s been on the verge for a year. Investors Business Daily says Puerto …:
JUNE 24, 2017

PUERTO RICO GOING BANKRUPT: 
It’s been on the verge for a year. 
Investors Business Daily says Puerto Rico “essentially declared bankruptcy” earlier this month.

Puerto Rico is currently $73 billion in debt, which is close to 100% of the island’s annual output. It owes a sizeable portion of this to the island’s current and future pensioners: Puerto Rico’s pension fund is woefully underfunded. It also owes billions to general obligation bondholders — whose investments are guaranteed by the island’s constitution — and to COFINA (also known as Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp.) bondholders, who hold debt explicitly backed by sales-tax revenues.

Has Puerto Rico gone “Full Illinois” before Illinois goes Full Illinois? Not according to the article.

Illinois also has taken a page out of the Puerto Rico playbook by beginning to demonize its bondholders as greedy investment bankers profiting off the misery of others..."

Read on!!

Blind leading the blind | Statistical Ideas

Blind leading the blind | Statistical Ideas:
"In his latest debacle, Nate Silver was among many pollsters/pundits who in 2016 forecasted a super-high probability for a Hillary Clinton win (after giving Donald Trump only 2% probability to make it through his primaries).  
This high “probability” was of course mistaken, and sets an extraordinarily high bar for actual delivery of outcomes.  
And he was in the high 80% range, for a couple months prior to the election.  
These high probabilities are nothing new to Nate Silver, but also provides an opportunity to examine how poor polling works and how we might be better served ignoring them and instead listening to one another.  

...So what would be a good baseline for presidential elections?  

The “dumb forecaster” in journal literature from the American Statistical Association, where I have served on their editorial panel, is simply guessing the same election results as what just happened in the previous election.  

No more, no less.  

Put differently, one doesn’t need to think any further than to state that all the 2016 state’s electoral results will be the same as in 2012!

Lots here, read on!!

HORROR AT TEXAS BORDER - What Was Just Found There Proves Trump Was Right...

HORROR AT TEXAS BORDER - What Was Just Found There Proves Trump Was Right...:
"Liberals and the mainstream media is constantly calling for Donald Trump to open the U.S. border with Mexico.
What is happening very close to the Texas border right now, however, shows EXACTLY why our borders must remain closed.
Breitbart reported that the war between drug cartels along the border escalated in a chilling way this week when members of the Los Zetas cartel dropped three severed heads just south of the city of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.
The heads were left in a black trash bag on the highway that connects Ciudad Victoria to Monterrey, known as Rio Corona.
Around a mile away, police found two bodies and their respective severed heads at a soccer field in the rural community of Plan de Ayala, along the same highway.
These bodies had also been dropped there by members of the Los Zetas cartel.
Rival factions of the Los Zetas cartel have been battling for control of the region over the past few weeks in a war that has led to scores of kidnappings, drive-by shootings, gun battles, targeted executions, home invasions, beheading, and dismemberment. 
Many of these incidents have been recorded and sent to rival factions of the cartels as a warning.
This violence is happening close to the Texas border and could easily spill into the U.S. if we do not remain vigilant. 
This is EXACTLY what President Trump is trying to protect us from..."

You ought to know!

Senate announces probe of Loretta Lynch behavior in 2016 election - Washington Times

Senate announces probe of Loretta Lynch behavior in 2016 election - Washington Times:

"The Senate Judiciary Committee has opened a probe into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s efforts to shape the FBI’s investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the committee’s chairman announced Friday.
In a letter to Ms. Lynch, the committee asks her to detail the depths of her involvement in the FBI’s investigation, including whether she ever assured Clinton confidantes that the probe wouldn’t “push too deeply into the matter.”"

Dirty Secrets of Electric Cars - Fueling U.S. Forward

Dirty Secrets of Electric Cars - Fueling U.S. Forward:

Electric cars are not as green as we have been led to believe. And the evidence is piling up: everyone from The Washington Post and 60 Minutes to Amnesty International have exposed the horrendous costs of electric cars to people and the planet.

As the following video explains, unlike regular cars, which run on gasoline-powered engines, electric cars require expensive batteries. Electric car batteries are made from toxic, hard-to-find metals called “rare earths.” These rare earth metals, including lithium and cobalt, are mined primarily in places like China and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where pollution is rampant and thousands of children are forced to work in the mines.

Recent investigations have uncovered the appalling cost of rare earth mining:

• ...Amnesty International: “It isn’t only adults who dig for cobalt. So too do children, earning as little as two dollars a day. And they are ripe for exploitation. The United Nations, which is based in the [Democratic Republic of Congo], says that there are at least 40,000 children working in these ‘artisanal mines’ in the southern parts of the country.”

• ...Study by Arthur D. Little: “…the usage of heavy metals in the manufacture of lithium-ion battery packs for [battery electric vehicles] combined with pollution generated by the US power grid (e.g. tailings from coal power plants) for the In-Use portion of a BEVs lifecycle generate approximately three times the amount of human toxicity compared to [internal combustion engine vehicles].”

Despite the rush to mine cobalt, only 1% of cars in America are electric. Yet many environmentalists want to see millions more electric cars on the road. That would mean more demand for cobalt and lithium, and more human rights abuses that come with mining these foreign metals..."

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History for June 25

History for June 25 - On-This-Day.com
Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886, Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900, George Orwell 1903


June Lockhart 1925, Carly Simon 1945, George Michael 1963


1867 - Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.


1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."


1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.


1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.


1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.


1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.


1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.


1985 - ABC's "Monday Night Football" began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson.


1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.

Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College professor, calls white people 'inhuman': 'Let them f-ing die' - Washington Times

Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College professor, calls white people 'inhuman': 'Let them f-ing die' - Washington Times:

"A Connecticut college professor has created a firestorm for calling white people “inhuman a-holes” who need to “die” following last week’s shooting attack on congressional Republicans.
Trinity College’s Johnny Eric Williams’ social media feed after the June 14 shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise included racial tirades and commentary calling on minorities to “confront” white people and “end this now,” a reference to an alleged system of “white supremacy.”"

The way we were-----Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way - 1977

CNN deletes, retracts story linking Trump and Russia

CNN deletes, retracts story linking Trump and Russia
"On Thursday evening, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a potentially explosive report involving an investigation of a Russian investment fund with potential ties to several associates of President Donald Trump.
But by Friday night, the story was removed from CNN’s website and all links were scrubbed from the network’s social media accounts.
“That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted,” CNN said in an editors note posted in place of the story.
“Links to the story have been disabled.”
Neither Frank or CNN immediately responded to requests for comment, and a spokesperson for the Senate Intelligence Committee wasn’t available to comment.
Frank, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, had reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating a “$10-billion Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team four days before Trump’s inauguration...”
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Boom!-----[H]ardOCP: New World Record Set for Longest Sniper Shot

[H]ardOCP: New World Record Set for Longest Sniper Shot:
New World Record Set for Longest Sniper Shot

"Apparently, a Canadian sniper in the elite special forces, JTF 2, set the record for the longest confirmed kill shot at a distance of 3,450 meters (2.14 miles) away from the target, beating the old record by almost a 1,000 meters. 
The sniper used a McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle, firing from a high-rise killing an Iraqi insurgent in a matter of 10 seconds preventing an attack on Iraqi security forces. 
That's an amazing feat including taking into account of the Coriolis effect with excellent work between the sniper and his observer partner. 
And I thought my deteriorating no-scope awping skills were good in Counter-Strike.

...A military insider told The Globe: "This is an incredible feat. It is a world record that might never be equalled."