History for August 6

History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809, Leo Carrillo 1881, Sir Alexander Fleming 1881


Lucille Ball 1911, Robert Mitchum 1917, Andy Warhol 1928


1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.


1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career.


1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)


1960 - Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began.


1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.


1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart.


1990 - The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.


1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.

When It Comes to Helping People, Facts Don’t Care About Your Intentions

When It Comes to Helping People, Facts Don’t Care About Your Intentions:

"Haven’t you heard? Conservatives are heartless, cruel, and all other synonyms for “bad” because we don’t care about other people.

Which is to say that conservatives don’t agree with those on the left on how best to help the poor, educate children, and provide health care.

To many on the left, these are not just political debates. For them, our disagreement with their ideas deserves an indictment of our character and intent."

The way we were-----Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law(1966)

Before You Leave The Swamp... - WSJ

Before You Leave The Swamp... - WSJ:
"Republican staff of the House Financial Services Committee have completed a legal analysis concluding there is sufficient basis for Congress to initiate contempt proceedings against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray. 
The staff report, which may be released as soon as this afternoon, describes how Mr. Cordray has defied a committee subpoena for documents related to his effort to ban arbitration agreements.

The arbitration ban itself was a Beltway beauty, designed to benefit the trial lawyers lining up to fund an expected Cordray run for governor of Ohio. 
Getting rid of arbitration as a way to resolve disputes between financial consumers and service providers would allow more class-action lawsuits. 
A Journal editorial explained why the House voted last month to repeal the rule:

Mr. Cordray said the ban would protect consumers, but his own agency’s study suggests otherwise. Consumers who prevailed in arbitration recovered on average $5,389 while those who joined class actions received $32. Trial lawyers on average raked in $1 million...

Readers may also recall that Mr. Cordray’s bureau executed an appalling series of shakedowns against auto lenders, described in another editorial in 2015:

The regulators are simply guessing the race of borrowers based on their last names and addresses in the loan files and then claiming racism if the people they guessed were minorities seemed to be paying higher rates.

Read on! 

Doctor: 'Throwing Money' Won't Solve Opioid Crisis

Doctor: 'Throwing Money' Won't Solve Opioid Crisis:
"WASHINGTON – Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) last week introduced legislation that would extend $2.5 billion in funding over five years for states combating the opioid crisis, money that would be spent on top of the $1 billion appropriated in 2016 for two years of support.
...Arizona-based general surgeon Jeffrey Singer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, said that if lawmakers continue the status quo by “throwing money at addiction treatment centers,” they’re wasting taxpayer dollars.
“It’s not like we have shortage of rehab centers,” Singer said.
“People who are addicted to this are addicted because they enjoy it, so having a rehab center available to them isn’t going to make them want to go in and sign up. I just think it’s a waste of money.”
...Singer said that there are two groups significantly impacted by the opioid crisis: those who are physically dependent, who could benefit from treatment centers, and addicts, who take the drugs because they enjoy it and who are not going to actively seek help.
...For more than two decades, Switzerland has participated in a heroin-maintenance program, in which people can declare themselves heroin addicts at clinics, receive prescription-grade diamorphine dosages, and inject themselves in the presence of a nurse with clean syringes.
Singer said this helps prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C, while also driving overdoses down because the drugs are safer.
But the most positive impact from the program, he said, is that some individuals begin to wean themselves off the substances naturally..."

In Abusing NSA Intelligence, Did Obama White House Commit A Crime? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

In Abusing NSA Intelligence, Did Obama White House Commit A Crime? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"Day by day, the scandal of the Obama administration's abuse of domestic intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency grows. Forget the phony Russia-Trump collusion charges — the Obama White House looks increasingly to have committed a crime by using U.S. intelligence for political purposes.

The NSA's insatiable gathering of data and conversations on Americans make it a potentially highly dangerous enemy of Americans' freedoms. Who would want to have a federal government spy shop that knows almost everything you do in public, on the phone, by email, or by computer?"

Conservative Political Cartoons Daily - Posts

Conservative Political Cartoons Daily - Posts:
"CNN OUTRAGED! Trump BUSTED eating Kentucky Fried Chicken with a fork & knife.
And this crap is what passes as professional journalism? SMH"

Cicero cop shooting tied to gun Chicago P.D. should have destroyed | Chicago Sun-Times

Cicero cop shooting tied to gun Chicago P.D. should have destroyed | Chicago Sun-Times
"Thirteen years ago, William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, drove to a South Side church to turn in a handgun his late father had owned.
The Chicago Police Department was accepting guns as part of a buyback program meant to take weapons off the streets and help make the city safer.
...The guns are supposed to be destroyed.
But the gun Judge Boyd took in somehow wasn’t.
Instead, it turned up eight years later next to the body of a young man who was shot to death by a Cicero police officer.
The cop — Officer Donald Garrity, who, records show, had a history of discipline problems — is now out of the suburban department and collecting a disability pension as a result of post-traumatic stress he blames on the shooting.
How did a gun Chicago cops were supposed to have kept in a locked custody room and then destroyed end up all of those years later at the scene of a police shooting in Cicero, on a patch of pavement next to the body of a 22-year-old Latin Counts gang member named Cesar A. Munive?..."
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RMV clerks nabbed in fake ID bust | Boston Herald

RMV clerks nabbed in fake ID bust | Boston Herald:

"Four state Registry of Motor Vehicle clerks and two other people have been charged with conspiring to help illegal immigrants get false identifications — some of which were used to register to vote in Boston — in a blockbuster bust that state officials call “troubling and intolerable.”"

How they "think"-----You can predict how many blacks are killed by police by measuring the racism of whites, research finds - LA Times

You can predict how many blacks are killed by police by measuring the racism of whites, research finds - LA Times:
"Some of the stereotypes that prev
ail in a given geographic area go unrecognized by the people who hold them, and even more often, they’re not acknowledged.
But psychologists know that such bias is widespread.
New research finds that when more white people in a community hold African Americans in greater suspicion, that prevailing view may influence police behavior in ways that drive the outsize use of lethal force against African Americans by cops..."
Read on.... what drivel!

Gimme a break!-----'Fat-shaming' by doctors is 'physically harmful,' prof says

'Fat-shaming' by doctors is 'physically harmful,' prof says

A psychology professor gave a lecture at an academic conference Thursday claiming that “medical fat shaming” at the doctor’s office is “mentally and physically harmful.”

Joan Chrisler asserted that doctors "repeatedly advise weight loss for fat patients" rather than CAT scans or blood work, and also commit "microaggressions" like wincing at their medical charts.

Chrisler acknowledged that it is impossible to prove causation behind her claim that fat shaming has negative health consequences, pointing out that “it would be unethical to do such an experiment.”

A psychology professor gave a lecture at an academic conference Thursday claiming that “medical fat shaming” at the doctor’s office is “mentally and physically harmful.”

“Disrespectful treatment and medical fat shaming, in an attempt to motivate people to change their behavior, is stressful and can cause patients to delay health care seeking or avoid interacting with providers,” Connecticut College professor Joan Chrisler told attendees at the 125th annual convention of the American Psychological Association.

"Medical fat shaming, in an attempt to motivate people to change their behavior, is stressful."    Tweet This

Asserting that doctors “repeatedly advise weight loss for fat patients while recommending CAT scans, blood work, or physical therapy for other, average weight patients,” she argued that “recommending different treatments for patients with the same condition based on their weight is unethical and a form of malpractice.”

[RELATED: ‘Fat Studies’ course labels dieting ‘special enemy’ of diversity]

During her presentation, titled “Weapons of Mass Distraction—Confronting Sizeism,” Chrisler said there are many ways that doctors commonly microaggress against fat patients, not just in their approach to medical treatment, but even through interpersonal interactions..."

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#1 This day 1962-----Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka

[H]ardOCP: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation

[H]ardOCP: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?: 
"Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Professor of psychology Jean M. Twenge, has written an incredible article on how the Smartphone and social media has been shaping a generation, and it does not look good. 
In it she goes into the sharp swings in characteristics including fleeting desire for independence and dating, as well as increased rates of depression, suicide, and delayed adolescence.
While this article is quite lengthy, it is full of amazing information. 
We reported a similar story last month, but this one is much more substantial. 
The small portion about childhood is stretching longer was quite interesting, and I could not even imagine not having a desire to drive. 
These massive swings in behavior, mental health, and attitude are quite worrying..."
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Illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $750 billion over lifetime: Report - Washington Times

Illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $750 billion over lifetime: Report - Washington Times:

"Deporting the country’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants would cost nearly $125 billion, but allowing them to remain in the U.S. could cost taxpayers far more, according to a new report being released Thursday by a think tank that wants to see stricter immigration limits."

The Scandal That Matters - WSJ

The Scandal That Matters - WSJ
"Imran Awan was arrested at Dulles International Airport July 24, while attempting to board a flight to Pakistan.
For more than a decade the congressional staffer had worked under top House Democrats, and he had just been accused by the FBI of bank fraud.
It was a dramatic moment in a saga that started in February, when Capitol Police confirmed an investigation into Mr. Awan and his family on separate accusations of government theft.
The details are tantalizing:
The family all worked for top Democrats, were paid huge sums, and had access to sensitive congressional data, even while having ties to Pakistan.
The media largely has ignored the affair, the ho-hum coverage summed up by a New York Times piece suggesting it may be nothing more than an “overblown Washington story, typical of midsummer.”
But even without evidence of espionage or blackmail, this ought to be an enormous scandal.
Because based on what we already know, the Awan story is—at the very least—a tale of massive government incompetence that seemingly allowed a family of accused swindlers to bilk federal taxpayers out of millions and even put national secrets at risk. 
In a more accountable world, House Democrats would be forced to step down..."

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