History for June 18

History for June 18 - On-This-Day.com
E.G. Marshall 1910 - Actor ("The Defenders"), Sylvia Porter 1913 - Economist, journalist, Paul "Red" Adiar 1915 - Oil well firefighter

  

Tom Wicker (Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker) 1926 - Journalist, Paul McCartney 1942 - Musician (Beatles, Wings), Carol Kane (Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane) 1952 - Actress


1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.


1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.

Jamaal Bowman bid to unseat Eliot Engel follows AOC blueprint - Washington Times

Jamaal Bowman bid to unseat Eliot Engel follows AOC blueprint - Washington Times:

Rep. Eliot Engel’s bruising primary fight to fend off a left-leaning challenger in New York’s 16th Congressional District has become the latest front in the battle between establishment Democrats and the insurgent wing led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Tuesday’s contest has Democrats choosing sides, with some top party figures turning on Mr. Engel and the old guard he embodies.

The way we were-----The Battle of Imphal

Boob-tube-----The Millionaire (1955): "The Amy Moore Story"

Whitmer supports 'spirit' of efforts to 'defund the police'

Whitmer supports 'spirit' of efforts to 'defund the police'
"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday she supported the “spirit” of efforts to defund the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death last month at the hands of Minneapolis police, a statement that her office later clarified did not indicate support for eliminating funding for law enforcement.
...“The spirit as you just articulated is really just about reprioritizing and rebuilding communities, not just policing,” Whitmer said.
State budgets are overwhelmingly focused on law enforcement and criminal justice, the governor told the African-American-oriented online publication, but they should be focused on education, health care, skills training, public transit and “leveling the playing field,” she said.
...Whitmer added at the end of the 33-minute interview that “we’re not going to defund all the police but we’re going to make the investments in people. And that’s what this is all about.”
...Whitmer’s comments come a few days after Attorney General Dana Nessel expressed support for “substantive structural change” to policing and said she was inspired by protesters...
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From Australia----Some Wonder Why Our Educational Results Are Going Backwards--Air-Climate-Energy

Air-Climate-Energy--Max Michael 
"Some Wonder Why Our Educational Results Are Going Backwards..

"This is nothing other than indoctrination and brainwashing.
Greta’s speeches are not ‘her‘ speeches, they are written by radical extremists, that hide behind her and use her a puppet.
What about teaching Churchill’s ’’Fight them on the Beaches’’ speech. ?
Or how about Rudyard Kipling poem ‘’IF” ?
And when it comes to our Climate, what’s the chances of students learning about; the Federation Drought, Cyclone Mahina, the great heatwaves of 1939, Brisbane Floods of the 1800’s, etc.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/…/1875678e7f29f4920005b6e…
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is teaching kids about the environment in NSW schools after the education department encouraged students to study her speeches...

Lesson plans instructing students as young as eight to study Greta Thunberg’s speeches and then spread her message on climate change have been removed from the state’s education department website as an urgent review is carried out into how they were published.

DAILYTELEGRAPH.COM.AU

NSW schools teach your kids how to speak fluent Greta

Lesson plans instructing students as young as eight to study Greta Thunberg’s speeches and then spread her message on climate change have been removed from the state’s education department website as an urgent review is carried out into how they were published.

Gov. Cuomo threatens Manhattan lockdown for COVID violations - TheBlaze

Gov. Cuomo threatens Manhattan lockdown for COVID violations - TheBlaze:

New York City has experienced weeks of George Floyd protests and riots. Thousands of people crammed in close proximity, violating social distancing guidelines. A great deal of the protesters did not wear masks, and chanted protest battle cries, releasing potentially dangerous coronavirus respiratory droplets into the air. But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn't seem to be too concerned with the protests. He is very perturbed about too many patrons at restaurants, and he wants New Yorkers to rat out any businesses not following COVID-19 restrictions.

New Ford Bronco to debut on O.J. Simpson's birthday

New Ford Bronco to debut on O.J. Simpson's birthday

• The global debut of the new Ford Bronco will occur on July 9, O.J. Simpson’s birthday.
• The vehicle is one of the most highly anticipated products from the automaker in years.
• A Ford spokesman said the “date is purely coincidental.”

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Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"...I keep hearing the ignorant on CNN and MSNBC comparing the protests/riots/looting to the Boston Tea Party as a justification for the violent actions of the "protesters".
Well, let me learn them some knowledge.

• The tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party was the property of the Crown-owned East India Company, so what the Sons of Liberty destroyed was the property of the British government, not private property.
• No one was killed or injured in any way during the raid. 
• The ships were not burned or damaged, there was a broken lock, which the Sons of Liberty replaced the next day. 
• The ships were actually cleaned up and anything that was disturbed was put back in place.

...So yeah, other than being completely different, the protests/riots/looting are EXACTLY like the Boston Tea Party...
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Lunch video-----Who's More Radical: The Left or the Right?

Noon-toon

Social studies teacher vandalizes Christopher Columbus statue - TheBlaze

Social studies teacher vandalizes Christopher Columbus statue - TheBlaze:

One of the more unlikely targets of George Floyd protests has been Christopher Columbus statues. The Christopher Columbus statue in Boston was beheaded. The figurine in Richmond dedicated the 15th-century explorer was ripped down and dragged into the lake. In Rhode Island, a Columbus statue was vandalized, and the culprit was a social studies teacher.