History for July 22

History for July 22 - On-This-Day.com
Gregor Mendel 1822, Alexander Calder 1898, Bob Dole 1923


Louise Fletcher 1934, Alex Trebek 1940, Willem Dafoe 1955


1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.


2004 - The September 11 commission's final report was released. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to White House officials the day before.

Trump Puts Limit on Asylum Claims at Border

Trump Puts Limit on Asylum Claims at Border:

“This rule is a lawful exercise of authority provided by Congress to restrict eligibility for asylum,” Attorney General William Barr said in a prepared statement. Barr said this would deter phony asylum claims “while ensuring that no one is removed from the United States who is more likely than not to be tortured or persecuted on account of a protected ground.”
“The United States is a generous country but is being completely overwhelmed by the burdens associated with apprehending and processing hundreds of thousands of aliens along the southern border,” the attorney general said.

The way we were-----The Story Behind The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”

Boob-tube-----I Love 70's Commercials Compilation - Epic Commercial Mix

Why Are They All So Angry? — Manhattan Contrarian

Why Are They All So Angry? — Manhattan Contrarian
"It’s the defining characteristic of today’s progressive left:  Anger. 
And it’s not just the rioters like Antifa, or the unspeakably rude people who confront administration figures in restaurants and gratuitously yell at them. 
Take a look at any of the new icons of the Democratic Party when they are speaking — for example Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Ilhan Omar — and you see them seething with barely controllable anger, if not outright fury.  
Same with essentially every left-wing commenter on CNN or MSNBC.
And I’m just getting to the Democratic presidential candidates. 
...My observation is that, at least for those of the progressive mindset, the less they have to be angry about, the angrier they become.  
You can’t look at the economic history of the United States over the course of my lifetime without seeing tremendous improvements on essentially every measure. 
Here are some statistics that I can easily find, using the mid-60s (when I was in high school) as a baseline:

• Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was 70 years in 1965.  Today it is 79.
• Real per capita GDP has gone from about $22,000 in 1965 to $58,000.  It has grown by a factor of more than 2.5. The change in real per capita GDP shows up in numerous measures of physical well-being throughout the economy.  
• One of my favorites is the size of the average new house.  In 1973 (earliest year I can find) it was under 1600 square feet, and by 2015 it had reached about 2700 square feet.  The neighborhood where I was growing up in the 60s consisted of similar houses of about 1200 square feet, many filled with large families.  Ours had 4 kids; a neighbor had 6.  When we went to sell that house in 2004, we were told that no large family nowadays would even consider such a place.  The house could only be sold to a single person.
• In 1965, legally-enforced Jim Crow was just coming to an end.  Today, it is a distant memory..."

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Stupid laws!

Abortion is last straw, conservatives should quit NEA teachers union

Abortion is last straw, conservatives should quit NEA teachers union:

Until recently, the NEA forced teachers to pay agency fees, whether they joined the union or not. The Supreme Court put a stop to that practice with itsJanus v. AFSCME decision. Since then, the NEA has lost 17,000 members and 87,000 non-member agency fee payers. That mass exodus could explain their decision to open membership to non-teachers for the purpose of funding their political action committee.
And if the unions’ adoption of radical left-leaning resolutions were not enough, delegates defeated a resolution to “make student learning the priority of the Association.” With that vote, the mask fell. Left-wing activism rather than student learning is now clearly the union’s top priority.

COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM

Instapundit  Blog Archive  COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE...
"COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: 
Patti LuPone defends violent attack on Rand Paul:

Sen. Paul suffered six broken ribs and damaged lungs after Rene Boucher, his neighbor, tackled him from behind in 2017. Paul also endured pneumonia following the attack. The Senator successfully sued Boucher, earning more than half million dollars as a result.
Then again, according to LuPone, maybe Boucher had a point..."---Posted by Ed Driscoll

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We Shouldn't Be Surprised Renewables Make Energy Expensive Since That's Always Been The Greens' Goal

We Shouldn't Be Surprised Renewables Make Energy Expensive Since That's Always Been The Greens' Goal
"The Green Party’s success in last (month's) European elections will likely result in demands to expand and extend decades-old subsidies to renewables.
Like a lot of people, I used to think that subsidies to promote the switch from fossil fuels to solar and wind would be a one-time thing.
Once a solar or wind farm was built, I thought, it would produce electricity forever, without further subsidy, because sunlight and wind are free.
Renewables would thus allow a “sustainable” and even “circular” economy without waste or mining because everything would be recycled.
But it turns out that only nuclear can produce sufficient clean energy to power a circular economy.
That’s partly because nuclear plants have seen their efficiency increase dramatically. 
Nuclear plants used to operate for just 50% of the year. 
Now, thanks to greater experience in operations and maintenance, they operate 93% of the year.
Nuclear plants were expected to run for 40 years, but thanks to greater experience, they’re expected to run for 80. 
And simple changes to equipment allowed the amount of power produced by existing nuclear plants in the US to increase the equivalent of adding eight full-sized reactors. 
By contrast, the output of solar panels declines one percent every year, for inherently physical reasons, and they as well as wind turbines are replaced roughly every two decades.
As for circularity, solar panels and wind turbines are rarely recycled because the energy and labor required to do so are much more expensive than just buying raw materials.
As a result, the vast majority of solar panels and wind turbines are either sent to landfills or join the global electronic waste stream where they are dumped on poor communities in developing nations..."
It gets worse.
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Lunch video-----Top Scientist Reveals How Google and Facebook Are Going To Steal The 202...

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Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Hoping For Gun Control | The Daily Caller

Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Hoping For Gun Control | The Daily Caller:

None of these ideas address criminals, criminal misuse of firearms or initiatives that would make the public safer. Instead, they only look to limit and outright eliminate the ability of law-abiding Americans to purchase the firearms of their choice, which is a right protected by the Second Amendment.
National Shooting Sports Foundation knows blame-shifting and baseless rhetoric to satisfy the most outlandish gun control supporters isn’t what our nation needs. America deserves real solutions for safer communities and the industry has a plan for that.

Clarice Feldman---Mogadishu Mon Amour

Mogadishu Mon Amour
"The French movie Hiroshima Mon Amour is based on human memory and forgetfulness as recounted by two lovers. 
The tale of the congresswoman who calls herself Ilhan Omar is a tale of an anti-Semite bred-in-the-bone corruptocrat whose rise in political power rests very largely on complicity by the media’s airbrushing of her history because they thought this physically attractive African Moslem “refugee” was just the ticket to defeat Donald Trump. 
The media counts on our forgetfulness and ignorance..."
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You Don't Need A Science Degree To Know That Global Warming 'Science' Is Fake | PSI Intl

You Don't Need A Science Degree To Know That Global Warming 'Science' Is Fake | PSI Intl
"If you follow the subject of global warming alarm, you will have read many times that there is a “consensus” of “97% of climate scientists” on — well, on something.
I’ve actually never been able to find a precise statement of the proposition on which the 97% supposedly agree.
...Really, what choice do you have other than to trust the people who have done the work, and who call themselves the scientists and the experts on this subject?
This approach apparently seems reasonable to a lot of people, including many, many seemingly intelligent people.
But not to me.
The approach does not seem reasonable to me because the scientific method provides a very simple check for testing whether scientific claims are valid, and you don’t need to be a scientist to apply this check.

(Another way of looking at it is that the people who apply this check are actually the real scientists, because they are the ones using the scientific method; and the people who call themselves “scientists” and work in “scientific” fields of endeavor and publish in scientific journals and wear scientist outfits, but don’t apply the actual scientific method, are not really scientists. But at this point in time the label “scientist” has been so captured by those who apply it to themselves whether or not they follow the scientific method that I think it is hopeless to get it back.)

Here is the very simple check. 
When confronted with a claim that a scientific proposition has been definitively proven, ask the question: 
What was the null hypothesis and on what basis has it been rejected?
Consider first a simple example, the question of whether aspirin cures headaches. 
Make that our scientific proposition: aspirin cures headaches. 
How would this proposition be established?
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Repeat until the masses believe it's "true".

Here's What We Know About The Missing Tanker Iran Now Says It Has Seized - The Drive

Here's What We Know About The Missing Tanker Iran Now Says It Has Seized - The Drive
"Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, says it seized...the Panama-flagged Riah, which turned off its transponder and effectively went missing on Saturday.
This also follows Iran's harassment of a British oil tanker, British Heritage, as it passed through the Strait last week and comes amid growing tensions between Iran and the international community, in general.
...It is possible that the tanker was actually involved in illicit activity, but Iran has yet to present any hard evidence of this.
...The Iranian government heavily subsidizes gasoline, in particular, which has created a significant incentive for individuals to buy it at low prices in Iran and then smuggle it elsewhere to then sell it at a profit.
This has created an odd situation where Iran, which routinely experiences shortages of gasoline due to limited domestic refining capacity and international sanctions, has to further contend with smugglers shipping what is available out of the country.
...The detention of Riah also comes as tensions between Iran and the international community are steadily growing, in general.
Beyond the matter of Grace 1, Iranian authorities have been increasingly critical of the United Kingdom, as well as France and Germany, accusing them of failing to abide by the terms of the controversial agreement over Iran's nuclear program..."
Heatin' up.
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#1 This day 1952-----Bobby Vinton -- Roses Are Red (My Love)

LIKE A LOT OF COLD WAR ERA SOVIET PROPAGANDA, IT’S WELL-CRAFTED

Instapundit Blog Archive --Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory…
"LIKE A LOT OF COLD WAR ERA SOVIET PROPAGANDA, IT’S WELL-CRAFTED: 
Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory Lives On. 
Why?

It’s all Gramscian Damage. 
And by the way, if you’ve never followed the link and actually read the Gramscian Damage piece, you really should. 
It explains so much.---Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

Imagine my shock.

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Trump to nominate Gene Scalia, son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for secretary of labor | Fox News

Trump to nominate Gene Scalia, son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for secretary of labor | Fox News:

President Trump on Thursday night announced he's nominating attorney Gene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to replace Alex Acosta as secretary of labor.
The surprise move -- which top Republicans privately supported -- was a visible manifestation of the close personal bond Trump has forged with the Scalia family in recent years. The confirmation process for Justice Neil Gorsuch, who ultimately filled Justice Scalia's seat, sparked the connection.

Senior Center Compares Pledge of Allegiance to Nazism | Todd Starnes

Senior Center Compares Pledge of Allegiance to Nazism | Todd Starnes
"When a group of senior citizens in Washington State were told they could no longer pray or recite the pledge of allegiance at their community center, they reached out to the one organization they knew would help – the American Legion.
...The senior center went on to say they had a “duty to provide a safe and peaceful environment in our building and on our property, inclusive to all.”
In a separate posting on the center’s Facebook page, they explained a growing a patriotic divide between older seniors and younger seniors.
...“We feel we cannot let habits of the past be the enemy of the future.”
They also report that sheriff’s deputies escorted one veteran out of the building after he brought a flag onto the premises and recited the pledge.
Holzer tells the radio station that a staffer even compared reciting the pledge to Nazism.
The staffer reportedly told Holzer, “You think that the people of Nazi Germany enjoyed saying, ‘Heil Hitler?’”...”
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AM Fruitcake

History for July 21

History for July 21 - On-This-Day.com
Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist, Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar, Don Knotts 1924 - Actor


Garry Trudeau 1948 - Cartoonist ("Doonesbury"), Robin Williams 1951 - Actor, comedian, Jon Lovitz 1957 - Actor ("Saturday Night Live") comedian, singer


1925 - The "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating the state prohibition on teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned on a legal technicality because the judge had set the fine instead of the jury.


1961 - Captain Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth. He was flying on the Liberty Bell 7.

A Time for Trade Schools

A Time for Trade Schools:

Other opportunities exist. Technical and trade schools provide a rich alternative to higher education that allows students to gauge what they want to get from their post-secondary education according to their own abilities and life goals. What stands in the way is a prejudice against trade schools as places that are inferior to university.
An article in Popular Mechanics reports: “Over the past year, media from the The Wall Street Journal to PBS have hailed technology schools and programs as harbingers of a new economy and reformers of a postsecondary education system that’s become over-priced, over-valued, and often irrelevant.”

The way we were-----Gone Groups of the 1960s: Musical acts that have fallen off the radar of...

Boob-tube-----Adventures of Superman episode Stamp Day For School Children (video)

'Green' Germany risks running out of power | The Conservative Woman

'Green' Germany risks running out of power | The Conservative Woman
"Last year Jo Nova, the Australian science writer, told a British audience how to destroy a perfectly good electricity grid in three easy steps. 
For a hundred years Australia had bountiful and reliable electricity at 10 cents a kilowatt that bought plenty of vegetable production and ambient temperature, she told us. 
It was clearly time to do something different. 
That something different – despite the benefit of more energy resources per capita than any place on earth – has resulted in state-wide blackouts, flying squads of diesel generators, and a tripling of wholesale electricity prices in just five years. 
What do you need to do it? 
Buckets of State cash, bypassing of the free market and a policy transition to renewables.

You can see her lecture here..."

I was reminded of this when I read that ‘green’ Germany now also risks blackouts as it renounces nuclear (by 2022) and coal, and ‘transitions’ to ‘renewables’. 

You can read about this folly, and imagine the damage this lights-out policy will do to the German economy and standard of living,  here.

Since The Media Won't Report it, Here are Dozens of Anti-American Statements by 'The Squad'

Since The Media Won't Report it, Here are Dozens of Anti-American Statements by 'The Squad'
"...Remember this: These scumbags are entirely representative of today’s Democrat Party.

Omar's anti-Semitic tweets, claiming "evil" Jews have "hypnotized the world" and "it's all about the Benjamins" pic.twitter.com/JHgkF8t2mc

Trending: Colorado State University Tells Students to Stop Using Offensive Term ‘Americans’— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) July 15, 2019

Omar dismisses 9/11 as "some people did something"pic.twitter.com/kHc1O3a4lV— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) July 15, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses the U.S. of running "concentration camps" on the border, making obscene comparison with the words "never again"pic.twitter.com/grqk0kDfVD— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) July 15, 2019

Again, this is only a small slice of the dozens of things these women have uttered while in Congress and out. 

They hate America, they hate capitalism, they hate our system..."

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