History for January 24

History for January 24 - On-This-Day.com
Frederick the Great (Prussia) 1712, Oral Roberts 1918, Neil Diamond 1941


John Belushi 1949, Yakov Smirnoff 1951, Mary Lou Retton 1968


1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.


1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.


1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.


1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale in Richmond, VA.


1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.


1965 - Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.


1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.


1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

‘Dreamers’ Storm Schumer’s New York City Home, Demand Amnesty ‘Now’

‘Dreamers’ Storm Schumer’s New York City Home, Demand Amnesty ‘Now’:

"The group that organized the protests in New York and on Capitol Hill, United We Dream, is funded by a slew of social justice and open borders organizations, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.

United We Dream’s website announcing the New York protest reveals the group’s agenda:"

GOP lawmakers demand that 'alarming' memo on FISA abuses be made public | Fox News

GOP lawmakers demand that 'alarming' memo on FISA abuses be made public | Fox News:

"A four-page memo circulating in Congress that reveals alleged United States government surveillance abuses is being described by lawmakers as “shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming,” with one congressman likening the details to KGB activity in Russia.
Speaking with Fox News, the lawmakers said they could not yet discuss the contents of the memo they reviewed on Thursday after it was released to members by the House Intelligence Committee. But they say the memo should be immediately made public.
“It is so alarming the American people have to see this,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said."

The way we were-----The Supremes , Love Child 1968

Boob-tube-----Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: Intro and Closing Credits [HD]

CNN: Gov’t Shutdown Risks an Undetected Asteroid Strike :: Grabien News

CNN: Gov’t Shutdown Risks an Undetected Asteroid Strike :: Grabien News

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Now that the government is shutdown, Planet Earth risks ... an undetected asteroid strike!

That's the warning coming from CNN, anyway.

Reporter Tom Foreman on Friday hyped the threat posed by the government shutdown, citing a pause in some senior nutrition programs, a loss of scientific research, and NASA's asteroid monitoring system.
Worse, an asteroid is coming February 4th, he said..."
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Advice to Young Ladies in This Very, Very Stupid Era - Kurt Schlichter

Advice to Young Ladies in This Very, Very Stupid Era - Kurt Schlichter:
"...But, in the loosest sense of the term, Aziz is a man.
Now, he’s not like the males you knew in your Gender Studies seminars, but he is like actual men.
He digs pretty girls and having intimate relations with them without a lot of concern for their feelings.
He’s got a goal and he probably correctly assessed that Grace, his retroactively unwilling partner, had a goal too.
They were just different goals.
This is because men and women are different. 
Yeah, that the sexes are different is totally a thing no matter what your ponytailed grad student TA at Oberlin told you.
Aziz played you by pretending to be woke. Aziz was tacky and clumsy and droolingly overeager to make up from his pre-fame decades of drought.
And he displayed the kind of hilariously inept seduction game one might expect from a guy whose seduction game in the recent, pre-sorta stardom past, probably consisted of lowering his standards and outright begging.
Welcome to Earth..."
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WALSH: The Vile, Awful Women's March Is A Symptom Of The Spiritual Disease That Infects Our Culture | Daily Wire

WALSH: The Vile, Awful Women's March Is A Symptom Of The Spiritual Disease That Infects Our Culture | Daily Wire:

"On Friday, hundreds of thousands of compassionate, welcoming, cheerful women and men took to the streets of Washington. D.C., rallying in support of basic human rights. Then the Women's March happened.
Taking place just a day after the March For Life, and in direct contrast to the annual pro-life event's joyful atmosphere of hope and generosity, the Women's March was once again vile, aimless, and embarrassing. Bitter feminists donned their trademark vagina hats and carried grotesque, pornographic signs referring explicitly to their own genitalia.

Venezuela's economic collapse, by the numbers - Axios

Venezuela's economic collapse, by the numbers - Axios
"Venezuela's economic crisis has stretched into 2018 after government forces forcefully quashed protests against President Nicolas Maduro's government last year, killing at least 120 in the process. In recent weeks, the black market exchange rate — far more trusted than the government's laughably rosy official rate of 10 Venezuelan bolivars for one U.S. dollar — has spiraled out of control, recently topping 200,000 bolivars for a dollar, per DolarToday.

Data: dolartoday.com; Chart: Lazaro Gamio / Axios
Why it matters: The crippling economic forces that spurred last year's protests against the Maduro regime have accelerated, and many ordinary Venezuelans not only can't afford food but also often don't have the cash to pay for it.
For normal Venezuelans, the country's hyperinflation takes an exacting toll on daily life. Per a report from CNN Money's Stefano Pozzebano, citizens in Caracas now wait for hours at banks to obtain their daily allowance of cash, equivalent to just a few cents and worth less and less each day..."
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THE GORE EFFECT LIVES! Scientists Get Buried In Snow At Davos While Lecturing On Global Warming. …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE GORE EFFECT LIVES! Scientists Get Buried In Snow At Davos While Lecturing On Global Warming. …:
"THE GORE EFFECT LIVES! 
Scientists Get Buried In Snow At Davos While Lecturing On Global Warming.

To be fair, this really is the 21st century I was once promised."

Posted by Ed Driscoll

Mythologies of Illegal Immigration - American Greatness

Mythologies of Illegal Immigration - American Greatness:
The illegal immigration debate has come to a head once again...
Enough obfuscation. 
Here are some of the most pernicious myths of illegal immigration, debunked.
The System is “Broken”
Broken for whom exactly? Not for Mexico and Latin America. 
Together they garner $50 billion in annual remittances. 
The majority of such transfers are likely sent from illegal aliens...
But the “Dreamers”!
There are 700,000-800,000 DACA recipients, though no one knows the exact numbers. 
Nor is there a clear definition of who constitutes the population of the “Dreamers,” other than arriving into the United States illegally as a minor. 
It is an ossified concept, one frozen in amber, given that the average age of a so-called “Dreamer” around 25. 
When a Dreamer reaches 40, is he still defined as a Dreamer? 
Or have his “dreams” already come true?..."
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Planned Parenthood Condemns House Passage of Bill to Ensure Babies Born Alive During Abortion Receive Care - Breitbart

Planned Parenthood Condemns House Passage of Bill to Ensure Babies Born Alive During Abortion Receive Care - Breitbart:

"During a subcommittee meeting regarding H.B. 1129 – the Infants Born Alive Act – Planned Parenthood lobbyist, Alisa Laport Snow, suggested that killing a baby who survived an abortion is acceptable as long as the physician and patient agreed to it.
The House passed the Born Alive Act on Friday, the day tens of thousands of pro-life activists descended upon Washington, DC, for the annual March for Life. The March is held on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade, when the high court created a right to abortion, although none existed in the Constitution."

Occupational licensing rules are holding back people who want to work

Occupational licensing rules are holding back people who want to work
"Most occupational licensing is corrupt and idiotic. 
People have a right to earn a living and Congress should make sure states don't get in the way.
We want people to be able to get good jobs, and to use their abilities to the fullest.
And we want poor people to be able to rise into the middle class, or beyond. 
At least, we say we do.
What we do, on the other hand, is often calculated to have the opposite effect.
In this case, I’m talking about occupational licensing..."
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• Chart: The Countries Most Optimistic About 2018 | Statista

• Chart: The Countries Most Optimistic About 2018 | Statista
"2018 is still young and globally, most people are optimistic about the year ahead. 
According to an online survey conducted by Ipos in 28 countries, 76 percent of people think this year will be better than last year..."


Infographic: The Countries Most Optimistic About 2018  | Statista

#1 This day 1976-----Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross

Doctor who aided hunt for bin Laden languishes, forgotten

Doctor who aided hunt for bin Laden languishes, forgotten
"PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years — since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden’s home, aiding U.S. Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaida leader.

Americans might wonder how Pakistan could imprison a man who helped track down the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Pakistanis are apt to ask a different question: how could the United States betray its trust and cheapen its sovereignty with a secret nighttime raid that shamed the military and its intelligence agencies?

“The Shakil Afridi saga is the perfect metaphor for U.S-Pakistan relations” — a growing tangle of mistrust and miscommunication that threatens to jeopardize key efforts against terrorism..."
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Oklahoma teacher's union calls for boycott of Christian college students - Washington Times

Oklahoma teacher's union calls for boycott of Christian college students - Washington Times:

"The Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs reports that a collective bargaining group representing public schools in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is calling for a boycott of student teachers from the local Christian university. The reason for the proposed shunning? Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s president (yours truly) dared to suggest that the bad ideas presently being taught in our nation’s schools might, at least in part, be responsible for the bad behavior we are seeing in our national news.
In other words — and call me crazy here — I am openly wondering if what Richard Weaver wrote of in his seminal 1948 classic, “Ideas Have Consequences,” might actually be true: Education matters and what we teach in our classrooms does actually get practiced in our culture."

Trump vs. Hitler, a 1 year retrospective – The Writer in Black

Trump vs. Hitler, a 1 year retrospective – The Writer in Black:
"The claims are still going out there that Trump and his supporters are Nazis.  

The claims are still ridiculous.  

But let’s look at a side-by-side, day-by-day comparison of highlights of the first year of Trump’s presidency against the first year when Hitler was Chancellor of Germany:

Day	Hitler	Trump
1	Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany	Inaugurated As President
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5		The “Border wall” executive Memorandum.Memorandum condemning cities that deliberately flout federal immigration law, hire additional immigration enforcement officers, and empower state and local law enforcement to enforce immigration law.
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7		Proclaimed National School Choice Week, encouraging parents to have a meaningful choice in what schools they want their children to attend.
8		Executive order requiring vetting of non-citizens coming to the US from several terrorism prone nations. (This one gets repeated several times as activist judges keep inventing spurious objections and blocking it.)Examine current readiness of armed forces and develop plan to ensure necessary readiness levels.
9		Ethics policy executive order forbidding any executive branch employees from lobbying for 5 years after leaving their position.Ordered development of a plan to defeat ISIS.

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