Saturday, January 09, 2021
History for January 9
History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com
Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913
- 1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.
- 1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.
- 1969 - The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol.
- 1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.
- 2002 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.
- 2007 - Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s CEO, announced the first generation iPhone.
Friday, January 08, 2021
Facebook to ban and remove photos and videos from Capitol protest, content labeled as 'promotion of criminal activity' - TheBlaze
Facebook to ban and remove photos and videos from Capitol protest, content labeled as 'promotion of criminal activity' - TheBlaze:
Facebook announced it would ban and remove photos and videos from the protest at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The social media platform claims that photos and videos from Wednesday's events violate Facebook's policy of "promotion of criminal activity." Immediately following the Capitol protest, Facebook and Instagram locked the account of President Donald Trump for 24 hours for "two policy violations."
Just a brief comment on the "takeover" of the US Capitol building yesterday.
John F. Di Leo--Just a brief comment on the "takeover" of the US Capitol building yesterday.
We knew that Antifa and other such leftist thugs were infiltrating the pro-Trump rally.
"There were two distinct events, mixed to look like one.
- First, there was a massive, peaceful rally in which many hundreds of thousands of primarily Trump supporters met outside and heard speeches, including an address from the president.
- Second, there was an onslaught in which a rush of protesters poured into the Capitol building. This cannot happen without inside support.
...It is now clear that it was some of these Antifa thugs who started the rush on the Capitol building.
Now, were they all Antifa thugs? Maybe not.
They probably energized some of the good people and got them to join in but it's clear that it was the Antifa infiltrators who led the trouble.
And why would they do that?
Just look at what happened, almost immediately: it caused us real Trump fans, good law-and-order types that we are, to be suddenly embarrassed, ashamed of ourselves and our side, so we would back down.
...The left knows how to win these things.
Never forget how the Soviet Union grew their influence all over the world in the 20th century.
They didn't move in with tanks and take over every country themselves; they usually sent in small numbers of rabble-rousers who knew how to destabilize their targets.
That's who they are and what they do.
And that's what they're doing now."...Read all!
DENNIS PRAGER: I Now Better Understand the ‘Good German.’
Instapundit--DENNIS PRAGER: I Now Better Understand the ‘Good German.’
How does one explain the “good German,” the term used to describe the average, presumably decent German, who did nothing to hurt Jews but also did nothing to help them and did nothing to undermine the Nazi regime?...
"...One of the biggest revelations concerns a question that has always plagued me:
"What has changed my thinking has been watching what is happening in America (and Canada and Australia and elsewhere, for that matter). The ease with which tens of millions of Americans have accepted irrational, unconstitutional and unprecedented police state-type restrictions on their freedoms, including even the freedom to make a living, has been, to understate the case, sobering.
The same holds true for the acceptance by most Americans of the rampant censorship on Twitter and all other major social media platforms. Even physicians and other scientists are deprived of freedom of speech if, for example, they offer scientific support for hydroxychloroquine along with zinc to treat COVID-19 in the early stages. Board-certified physician Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who has saved hundreds of COVID-19 patients from suffering and/or death, has been banned from Twitter for publicizing his lifesaving hydroxychloroquine and zinc protocol.
Half of America, the nonleft half, is afraid to speak their minds at virtually every university, movie studio and large corporation — indeed, at virtually every place of work. Professors who say anything that offends the left fear being ostracized if they have tenure and being fired if they do not. People are socially ostracized, publicly shamed and/or fired for differing with Black Lives Matter, as America-hating and white-hating a group as has ever existed. And few Americans speak up. On the contrary, when BLM protestors demand that diners outside of restaurants raise their fists to show their support of BLM, nearly every diner does.
Read the whole thing.
Related: Establishment institutions turning conservatives into outcasts.--Posted by
Congressman: Riots had 'all the hallmarks of Antifa provocation'
Congressman: Riots had 'all the hallmarks of Antifa provocation':
"Please, don't be like #FakeNewsMedia, don't rush to judgment on assault on Capitol," he said. "Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics."
Brooks wrote on Twitter:
Rules for Rioters: It Doesn't Matter What You Do, It's Who You Are When You're Doing It - The Rush Limbaugh Show
Rules for Rioters: It Doesn't Matter What You Do, It's Who You Are When You're Doing It - The Rush Limbaugh Show
"RUSH: I’ve been thinking so many things, folks, during all of this, when I’ve had moments of, shall we say, consciousness.
Imagine how things might be different today — and I know it’s no fun to play this game ’cause it doesn’t accomplish anything, but I still want to.
I want to get some of these things out there and off my chest.
Imagine how things might be different today if Congress was as mad, was as outraged when private businesses were being burned to the ground and innocent citizens were attacked this past summer during riots across the country in Seattle; Minneapolis; New York City; Portland, Oregon.
Imagine if there was anything near the degree of outrage over all of that.
When it was not the political class property being torched and destroyed, it was not the political class’s lifestyle that was being summarily attacked, nothing was done about it. In fact, it was ignored in the mainstream media.
The mainstream media said, “What riot? Where? What — what violence?
“There isn’t any violence. There’s peaceful protests out there. What are you talking about? There’s no riots.”
And they didn’t show any videotape of any of the burning and the looting and all that.
You had to search for it yourself ’cause there isn’t any news anymore, and if you had no idea that it has happened you wouldn’t even know to go look for it ’cause you didn’t know it had happened...READ ALL!!!
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott To Introduce Bill Establishing Committee That Would Study Potential 2020 Election Fraud | The Daily Caller
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott To Introduce Bill Establishing Committee That Would Study Potential 2020 Election Fraud | The Daily Caller:
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced that he would introduce a bill to establish an election integrity commission, which would examine the integrity of the 2020 presidential election amid claims of election fraud.
"Where have you been in the last four years?"
A friend writes:
"- Rand Paul is assaulted and severely injured;
"- Stephen Miller is harassed and threatened at his home;
"- Sarah Sanders is harassed out of a restaurant;
"- Maxine Waters publicly calls for the harassment of GOP officials and voters;
"- ANTIFA and BLM loot, destroy, kill, and burn down cities, on a daily basis for months, with impunity;
"- Aforementioned thugs can protest mask-less and without social distancing, while law-abiding citizens have to stay cooped up in their homes;
"- Josh Hawley’s wife and newborn child are harassed at their home;
[and much more]
"Yet, suddenly, somehow what happened today is 'a threat to our democracy?'
"So, you’re aghast and clutching your pearls over what happened today?
Where have you been in the last four years?"
The demonization begins!-----American Airlines temporarily bans alcohol on D.C. flights after pro-Trump mob storms Capitol
American Airlines temporarily bans alcohol on D.C. flights after pro-Trump mob storms Capitol
"American Airlines issued new “precautionary” measures, including an alcohol ban on flights to and from Washington, D.C., the day after hundreds of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol...Read all.
Not Making Headlines - Trump Supporters Pulled Violent Protesters Away from the Capitol Building When They Started Damaging It - Who Were These People?
Not Making Headlines - Trump Supporters Pulled Violent Protesters Away from the Capitol Building When They Started Damaging It - Who Were These People?
"Trump Supporters at the Capitol yesterday’s event in Washington DC told people to stop damaging property.
For some reason Big Media doesn’t want to report this.
Yesterday after the President spoke in Washington, the million or so followers of the President marched to the Capitol.
This is when some individuals in the crowd started damaging the Capitol building.
When this occurred, the Trump supporters in the crowd starting yelling at them and telling them to stop.
Former New York City Police Chief noted this in a tweet:
Ocasio-Cortez, other Democrats reveal what agenda they will push with control of White House, Congress - TheBlaze
Ocasio-Cortez, other Democrats reveal what agenda they will push with control of White House, Congress - TheBlaze:
As the dust settles from Georgia's monumental Senate runoff elections, Democrats are making very clear what agenda they will pursue now that they will likely control the White House and both chambers of Congress.
American Airlines To Crack Down On Emotional Support Animals
American Airlines To Crack Down On Emotional Support Animals
"The upcoming change goes in line with the DOT’s decision made in December 2020 which would allow airlines under their jurisdiction to no longer be obligated to accommodate emotional support animals (ESA) from January 11, 2021.
According to the decision, emotional support animals would no longer be considered service animals, allowing airlines to charge for ESAs and limit the size and weight of animals coming on board.
...service animals will still be allowed, but they must be a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a qualified individual with a disability.
American Airlines will ask customers traveling with service animals to complete a DOT form attesting to the dog’s behavior, training and health...Read all.
History for January 8
History for January 8 - On-This-Day.com
James Longstreet 1821 - U.S. Civil War general
- 1675 - The first corporation was chartered in the United States. The company was the New York Fishing Company.
- 1815 - The Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
- 1889 - The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
- 1901 - The first tournament sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress was held in Chicago, IL.
- 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty."
- 1994 - Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Association later took the title from Harding because of her involvement in the attack.
Thursday, January 07, 2021
Parents Appeal To Reopen California Schools After Initial Suit Dismissed | The Daily Caller
Parents Appeal To Reopen California Schools After Initial Suit Dismissed | The Daily Caller:
California parents filed an appeal Monday at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to reopen schools the state has kept closed after their initial suit was dismissed.
The way we were-----The Extraordinary Voyage of the USS Marblehead
"By May 1942, nearly half of the forty surface ships of the U.S. Asiatic fleet would be sunk, including the fleet’s largest vessel, the heavy cruiser USS Houston.
But the improbable survival of one of the fleet’s vessels, the light cruiser USS Marblehead, is the stuff of legend.
The extraordinary voyage of the Marblehead is history that deserves to be remembered."
Another great one from Kurt Schlichter---Welcome to a Wilderness of Lies
Welcome to a Wilderness of Lies
"...Have you noticed that everything is a lie and a scam?
Everything.
See, the problem starts when our elite realized that it could break the norms and betray the principles that we all thought we were all abiding by without accountability, at least for a little while.
The Establishment realized that it can simply not enforce the norms, and then there will be a lag time while the normals continue on as if the norms were still in effect.
It’s inertia – this is why you get these sad sack RINOs lecturing us on how we’re subverting the institutions when what we are really doing is pointing out that the institutions have subverted themselves.
It’s willful blindness to the corruption because the weakhearts don’t want to admit there is corruption because that would then require them to act.
It’s easier to live on scraps.
...Now, the media’s whole job is to angrily reaffirm the divine right of our garbage elite to rule us.
And they have carefully cultivated a class of drones to support them.
You see them on the street, healthy people wearing face diapers as they walk alone...Read all!
They made us this way.
The Michael Smith Show - They made us this way."
"The media, and even a large contingent of the Congressional Republicans and Democrats want you to believe what happened at the Capitol complex was only about President Trump.
It is not.
I have constantly been told today by preening ruling class members that “This is not who we are”.
Where the hell have they been for a year and a half, in a coma?
Because thanks to the way BLM and ANTIFA were ignored as they occupied, looted, and destroyed without consequence, this is EXACTLY who have become.
They made us this way.
- We have witnessed a national media express overt bias against a president they despise.
- We witnessed talk of impeachment even before the president was inaugurated.
- We watched as Democrats and the media cheered when the 25th Amendment was discussed.
- We watched as Congressman Steve Scalise was shot on a baseball field by a Bernie Sanders supporter.
- We watched a destructive, partisan investigation of “collusion” wind on for two years that ultimately ended in a whimper...Read all.
Study finds Americans are leaving Democrat-run states in throngs and heading for Republican ones - TheBlaze
Study finds Americans are leaving Democrat-run states in throngs and heading for Republican ones - TheBlaze:
A newly published study that tracks migration patterns in the United States has found that Americans are leaving states and cities run by Democrats for Republican-dominant ones — and that the trend may have been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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