History for May 27

History for May 27 - On-This-Day.com
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 - Entrepreneur (shipping and railroads), Wild Bill Hickok 1837 - gunfighter, scout, lawman, Vincent Price 1911 - Actor


Herman Wouk 1915 - Author, Henry Kissinger 1923 - Former U.S. Secretary of State, Louis Gossett, Jr. 1936 - Actor


1647 - Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."


1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.

Four Dead, 11 Injured in First 36 Hours of Chicago's Memorial Weekend

Four Dead, 11 Injured in First 36 Hours of Chicago's Memorial Weekend:

Four people were shot dead and at least 11 were injured as shootings occurred across gun-controlled Chicago during the first 36 hours of Memorial Weekend.
NBC Chicago reports the first shooting of the holiday weekend were recorded around 2 p.m. Friday and the last one reported during the 36-hour window took place about 7 p.m. Saturday.

The way we were-----Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is? 1969

Boob-tube-----PT.2 - "BLAZING SADDLES": BACK IN THE SADDLE - A RETROSPECTIVE (2001)

Michigan regulators moved fast on dangerous dam. To protect mussels. | Bridge Magazine

Michigan regulators moved fast on dangerous dam. To protect mussels. | Bridge Magazine
"...when Michigan regulators assumed oversight of the dam in late 2018 after its owners lost their federal license to generate energy, they took action.
To protect mussels.
Three weeks before the 96-year-old dam failed this week amid heavy rains and caused the worst flood in Midland history, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued its owner, alleging it illegally lowered Wixom Lake in 2018 and 2019, killing “thousands if not millions, of freshwater mussels.”
“Defendants wrongfully exerted dominion over the freshwater mussels and caused their death which denies and is inconsistent with the state’s right to them,” state lawyers wrote in an April lawsuit.
..."How we got to the point where environmental issues trumped public safety, I don't know,"
...Michigan assumed oversight in September 2018 after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission revoked the dam’s license to generate and sell power...
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Horowitz: 67K criminals released so far under coronavirus jailbreak. And crime keeps rising - Conservative Review

Horowitz: 67K criminals released so far under coronavirus jailbreak. And crime keeps rising - Conservative Review
"According to UCLA, which is tracking this data, 67,000 criminals have been released throughout the 50 states. 
The majority of the criminals, 43,000 of them, have been released from the nation’s jails, and 24,356 were released from prisons.
Consequently, given that we know the shocking degree of recidivism even among criminals more carefully selected for release, we can add victims of crime due to coronavirus jailbreak as the latest long-term death toll from COVID-19, or at least from the governmental reaction to it.
Remember, this has nothing to do with fear of prisoners dying of coronavirus...
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Italian Government Recruits 60,000 Informants to Spy on Neighbors

Italian Government Recruits 60,000 Informants to Spy on Neighbors:

ROME — The Italian government announced Sunday it is recruiting 60,000 volunteer “civic assistants” as informants to report on anyone violating norms concerning the use of masks and social distancing.
The government is recruiting unemployed citizens, especially those who receive social security or unemployment income, as an extension of its uniformed security services during the second phase of the coronavirus lockdown, Italian media reported.

The Doctrine of Media Untruth - American Greatness

The Doctrine of Media Untruth - American Greatness:
"When knowledge, wisdom, independent thought, even basic competence were no longer requisites for success, then the media naturally slid into mediocrity, and mastered networking and obsequiousness instead of valuing independence.
As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.
Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to what is abjectly false. 
Perhaps we can call the lesson of this valuable service, the media’s inadvertent ability to convey truth by disguising it with transparent bias and falsehood, the “Doctrine of Media Untruth.”...
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Missed this on the national news?-----Election Judge Pleads Guilty to Ballot Stuffing for Democrats

Election Judge Pleads Guilty to Ballot Stuffing for Democrats
"A former elected official in Philadelphia who accepted large payments from a political consultant to stuff ballot boxes for Democratic judicial candidates has pleaded guilty as part of a continuing federal investigation. 

The Justice Department announced Thursday that Domenick J. DeMuro, 73, who was an election judge in South Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive city voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing ballot boxes in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections..."

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Lunch video-----Science Studies Journalists, Concludes They're Stupid, Childish Drunks

Noon-toon

‘Wake Up Call’: Several Black Conservatives Outraged Over Biden’s ‘Racist’ Remark | The Daily Caller

‘Wake Up Call’: Several Black Conservatives Outraged Over Biden’s ‘Racist’ Remark | The Daily Caller:

Black conservatives are outraged over former Vice President Joe Biden’s Friday morning comment suggesting that if a person votes for President Donald Trump, then “they ain’t black.”

"1/3 of all deaths are in the red region, 1/3 in the yellow, 1/3 in the green"

el gato malo on Twitter: "this graphic is amazing-. https://t.co/4MCxFdI689" / Twitter

• "6 states in the US adopted this policy of forcing nursing homes to take COV patients to "protect hospitals".
• these homes were NOT equipped to deal with this.
• the results have been tragic.
• these states have 19% of US population and 62% of covid deaths.
• and this was avoidable."

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Remember this when the recall petition comes round.

2014. Likely worse today.-----1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says : The Two-Way : NPR

1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says : The Two-Way : NPR
"A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation.
The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.
To the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth," 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly..."
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#1 This day 1962-----Stranger On The Shore - Acker Bilk

ABRAMS on VOTING: Illegal Immigrants ‘Now No Longer Able to Elect Anyone Who Represents Them’ | Sean Hannity

ABRAMS on VOTING: Illegal Immigrants ‘Now No Longer Able to Elect Anyone Who Represents Them’ | Sean Hannity
"Potential Democratic frontrunner for Vice President Stacey Abrams surprised viewers on social media Thursday; lamenting that illegal immigrants “are no longer able to elect anyone who represents them.”
“In the United States today, 50% of the population under the age of 15 is communities of color.
If you remove them from the calculation then what that means is you create a whiter, more Republican voting base,” said Abrams.
“They are now no longer able to elect anyone who represents them… This weaponization is not only intentional, it’s continuing,” she added...
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Still think it's about your health?

New York Sent More Than 4,500 Coronavirus Patients Into Nursing Homes After Cuomo Order: AP | The Daily Caller

New York Sent More Than 4,500 Coronavirus Patients Into Nursing Homes After Cuomo Order: AP | The Daily Caller:

New York nursing homes were forced to accept more than 4,500 coronavirus patients from hospitals thanks to an order from Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a tally by The Associated Press found.
Cuomo has come under heated criticism for his March 25 order forcing recovering COVID-19 patients into New York nursing homes — a decision blamed for the state’s high body count among the elderly. The governor waited roughly six weeks before reversing the order on May 10.