History for December 21

History for December 21 - On-This-Day.com

Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - Author, statesman

• 1620 - The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, MA.
• 1898 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
• 1909 - McKinley and Washington schools of Berkeley, CA, became the first authorized, junior-high schools in the U.S.
• 1913 - Arthur Wynne published a new "word-cross" puzzle in the "New York World" in England. The name was later changed to "crossword."
• 1937 - Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature in Hollywood, CA. The movie was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
• 1988 - 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.

Pinkerton: Democrats Use the Threat of Court-Packing to Intimidate the Supreme Court from Overturning Roe

Pinkerton: Democrats Use the Threat of Court-Packing to Intimidate the Supreme Court from Overturning Roe: 

Needless to say, this is not how our system is supposed to work. According to our Constitution, the judicial branch—of which the Supreme Court is the head—is intended to be an independent and equal branch of the federal government.  

As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51—part of a series of pamphlets from 1787-1788 that have shaped our understanding of the Constitution ever since—the essence of our republican system “consists in giving to those who administer each [branch], the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others.”

The way we were-----How The Great Depression Changed The 1930s | Impossible Peace | Timeline

How Airlines Quietly Became Banks

NEVER FORGET: Democrats Rioted, Attacked, Beat Trump Supporters During Their Insurrection at President Trump's Inauguration (VIDEO)

NEVER FORGET: Democrats Rioted, Attacked, Beat Trump Supporters During Their Insurrection at President Trump's Inauguration (VIDEO)

"In November 2016 following Donald Trump’s presidential victory, the anti-American ANSWER Coalition, a Socialist group, announced its plans to mass protest in Washington DC during Donald Trump’s Inauguration.
In January 2017 far-left protesters announced during a publicized conference that their goal for the Trump inauguration was to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
...Then on President Trump’s Inauguration Day leftists rioted, attacked, blocked entrances to, and attempted to shut down President Trump’s Inauguration.



The Gateway Pundit released exclusive video from that day earlier this year.

Via Andrew Marcus:The shocking footage exposes a coordinated attack on the 2017 inauguration of President Donald Trump. Highlights include anarchists preparing for violent clashes with police (10:22), violent attacks on attendees (2:08), destruction of property (9:50), and the physical premeditated blockades that succeed in preventing voters from attending the Presidential Inauguration (3:29)...Read all.

Why Canada Pulled a BBC Documentary on Transgender Kids | Intellectual Takeout

Why Canada Pulled a BBC Documentary on Transgender Kids | Intellectual Takeout
"Towards the end of 2017, Lindsay Shepherd, a teacher’s assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, got into big trouble for showing her class a debate featuring Jordan Peterson on the issue of gender pronouns. 

As Shepherd would later note, the clip she showed was originally featured on public television, a fact which led her to believe it was safe for academic viewing.
Many would likely agree with Shepherd’s assessment. 

If something is public television-approved, then surely it must be politically correct and above board, right?
The question is, what happens when public television has an opportunity to air something that doesn’t fit the politically correct mold?...Read all.

Joe Manchin to Oppose $4.91 Trillion Build Back Better Act

Joe Manchin to Oppose $4.91 Trillion Build Back Better Act: 

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said on Sunday he will oppose the $4.91 trillion Build Back Better Act, effectively killing the “mammoth” legislation.

“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. … I can’t get there,” Manchin said on Fox News Sunday.

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Orwell was Right: Control the Language, Control the World - American Thinker

Orwell was Right: Control the Language, Control the World - American Thinker
"Of all the elements of today’s “New Normal,” the most ominous is

the “reform” that effectively changed the meanings of previously accepted words or terms. 

The following glossary illustrates how changes to our vocabulary played a central role in making the world a more dangerous and frightening place.

• New Normal - “Normal” is something that has long been the norm and is accepted as the norm. The key point is that the “old” normal no longer applies. This change in thinking provided authority figures the license to enact reforms that would not have been widely accepted in the past. In the old normal, a citizen might not have complied with authoritarian mandates, but in the New Normal, most will… that is, if one accepts the premise that we now have a New Normal, a premise most people now accept.
• Vaccine -- Previously a vaccine was an injection that provided “immunity” or prevented diseases, as well as the spread of diseases. Today, at least as it involves the COVID “vaccines,” vaccines simply (and allegedly) reduce the probability someone will develop a severe case of this disease or die from this disease.
• Safe -- An activity that is not dangerous or does not cause harm. According to public health officials and almost all doctors, COVID vaccines are “safe and effective.” According to VAERS, approximately one million Americans believe they have suffered adverse medical reactions to COVID vaccines, with approximately 20,000 deaths possibly caused by the vaccines. Several studies have concluded that VAERS captures only a small fraction of such adverse events.
• Effective -- Certainly today “effective” does not mean COVID vaccines prevent infection or virus spread. In many heavily vaccinated countries, the vaccinated comprise a greater percentage of new COVID cases than the unvaccinated....All of the above was made possible by changes in accepted language...

George Orwell was right. 

If you want to control people, first control the language.
COVID, a virus that poses no significant health risk to 98 percent of the population, has given us a “New Normal” where “vaccines” are not vaccines, where “freedom” is now a privilege granted to those who obey, and where unelected public health officials have made billions of dollars for pharmaceutical companies...Read all!

The rest of the story--Lunch video-----King Air N559DW EPILOGUE (The Rest of The Story) Doug White

Noon-toon

 

Republican governor begs DOJ to sue his state in sly challenge to prove if Biden admin applies different standards - TheBlaze

Republican governor begs DOJ to sue his state in sly challenge to prove if Biden admin applies different standards - TheBlaze: 

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is asking the Justice Department to sue his own state in a last-ditch effort to thwart Democrats from engaging in egregious gerrymandering of his state's congressional districts.

Undeniable!

 

A christmas plea!-----Scientists call for urgent inquiry into care home residents who died of 'broken hearts' | UK | News | Express.co.uk

Scientists call for urgent inquiry into care home residents who died of 'broken hearts' | UK | News | Express.co.uk

"A TEAM of top scientists has called for an inquiry into tens of thousands of non-Covid deaths in care homes after finding evidence vulnerable residents died of thirst, starvation and "broken hearts" in the pandemic.

Many care home residents suffered from loneliness during the lockdowns last year. (Image: Hugh Hastings/Getty Images)
Their shocking report said almost 40 per cent of excess fatalities were not caused by the virus - with many people dying of neglect and loneliness...Read all!

#1 Movie this week 1959-----Trailer 1959 On The Beach

Biden silent. Leftist media silent.-----Fentanyl Overdoses Become Leading Cause of Death in 18- to 45-Year-Olds

Fentanyl Overdoses Become Leading Cause of Death in 18- to 45-Year-Olds

"...Fentanyl-related drug overdoses in 2020 became the top killer in adults aged 18 to 45—overtaking suicide, vehicle accidents, and gun violence, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by nonprofit group Families Against Fentanyl.

...The substance is most often manufactured in Mexico using chemicals supplied from China and trafficked across the southern border by Mexican drug cartels. 

Fentanyl is mixed with other narcotics to increase potency as well as pressed into counterfeit pain pills that are made to look like blue Oxycodone prescription pills and are commonly known as “Mexican oxys.”...Read all.

#1 This day 1964-----The Beatles - I Feel Fine

The Schizophrenic Nature of Gender Ideology | Intellectual Takeout

The Schizophrenic Nature of Gender Ideology | Intellectual Takeout

• A new study claims to find a genetic basis for being gay. But wait: isn't gender now whatever you decide it is?
  

"It’s hard for an impartial observer to make sense of the arguments about what it is that “makes people gay”… or transgender… or pansexual… or bigender… or genderqueer… or whatever other genders the ideologically fertile imaginations of today’s cultural revolutionaries have come up with.
It used to be that those who identified as gay were “born that way.” 

This was, in fact, an essential part of the case for saying that there were no moral implications to homosexual behavior. 

How could someone be morally judged for something they could not help?...Read all.

They 're not idiots. They're getting giant political contributions in exchange!

 

FOIA emails: Francis Collins told Anthony Fauci to takedown Great Barrington Declaration. - TheBlaze

FOIA emails: Francis Collins told Anthony Fauci to takedown Great Barrington Declaration. - TheBlaze: 

"As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls," the epidemiologists wrote. "We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity."

You’re struggling to understand why some people are vaccine hesitant.

“let me help you”
"Imagine you’re a normal person. 

The year is 2016. 

Rightly or wrongly, you believe most of what you see in the media.
You believe polls are broadly reflective of public opinion. 

You believe doctors and scientists are trustworthy and independent. 

You’re a decent, reasonable person who follows the rules and trusts authority.

• Imagine your shock then, when Brexit, which you were assured won’t happen because it’s a fringe movement led by racists for racists, happens. The polls, which widely predicted it wouldn’t happen were completely wrong...“Oh well” you say, “these things happen”.
• Imagine that soon after Donald Trump is running for President. You are told by your favourite media publications that he is going to lose. Some experts say his opponent has a 99% chance of winning...And now, the racist monster they told you would never get near the White House is the leader of the free world...“It was the Russians,” they tell you.
  
  
  
  

...Again, you ask “How could this happen?” and again the media has the answer: racism. “Your country is racist”, they tell you. If you’re white, this seems strange to you. Other than a handful of idiots, you’ve never met a racist.

• But the evidence is right there on your TV screen. Imagine your horror as a gay black actor is assaulted by MAGA hat-wearing thugs who racially abuse him and put a noose around his neck. He cries while talking about it:
• Imagine your outrage as you see news reports of a bunch of MAGA hat-wearing kids from a religious school contemptuously confront a native America elder. Reza Aslan tells you the kid has a “punchable face” and while you abhor violence, it’s hard to disagree...Much here, read all!!

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Michigan News links--Updated often. 12-20-2021

Michigan News links--Updated often. 12-20-2021

• You live in Michigan? 
• Lot's of stuff goin' on! 
• Most of it aimed at your wallet, your work, your home. 
• And your kids!

Redistricting commission’s proposed maps violate Voting Rights Act, Michigan civil rights department says

Muskegon County now officially owns new Dune Harbor Park in Norton Shores

Spectrum Health reveals list of top baby names for 2021

Muskegon County student accused of threatening school in California

Michigan doctors, nurses report violence, hostility amid COVID-19 surge

Church agency: Captive missionaries in Haiti made daring escape

Detroit police fatally shoot woman who was waving gun at gas station customers

Michiganders in rural, deep red counties twice as likely to die of COVID, data shows

What could modernize Michigan elections? $1.5B, tech-forward group claims

The latest crisis "housing instability"?--Grand Rapids organization helps teens, young adults facing housing instability.

Not MI, but media has low interest when a black person is killed by a black person--Rapper Drakeo the Ruler fatally stabbed at LA festival

Not our father's FBI--Anti-Trump FB rant posted by FBI agent on Whitmer kidnapping case

Hardly an insurrection--Macomb County man pleads guilty in U.S. Capitol riot

Schools use therapy-based programs for 'overwhelmed' kids

Court Fight Over Dead People on Voter Lists Heats Up in Michigan

Hopefully better than their physical health efforts--New Behavioral Health Crisis Center to serve West Michigan being created by Mercy Health, Network180

Notice no mention of actual "education"--Mask debates, staff shortages and tragedy: Michigan schools faced it all in return to in-person classes

Patients staying at hospitals longer during latest COVID-19 swell

Canada reinstates testing requirement for trips under 72 hours

Libs hate energy and pipelines. Why?--Insider: Santa gets roped into Line 5 debate against Whitmer

Horse? Barn? Not even close.--Legislature OKs bill aiming to ban closed-door redistricting meetings

History for December 20

History for December 20 - On-This-Day.com

Max Lerner 1902

• 1790 - The first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.
• 1803 - The United States Senate ratified a treaty that included the Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million. The transfer was completed with formal ceremonies in New Orleans.
• 1820 - The state of Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors between the ages of 21-50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 a year.
• 1860 - South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union.
• 1946 - The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its "official" world premiere. James Stewart and Donna Reed star in the film.
• 1989 - General Noriega, Panama's former dictator, was overthrown by a United States invasion force invited by the new civilian government. The project was known as Operation Just Cause.
• 1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

Border Patrol agent says job has become 'unrecognizable' in fiery resignation letter | Washington Examiner

Border Patrol agent says job has become 'unrecognizable' in fiery resignation letter | Washington Examiner: 

Joseph said he felt that the change in agents' daily duties was a break from the Border Patrol's trademarked motto of "Honor first," a reminder for agents to operate at the highest level of integrity and professionalism.

The way we were-----How Krakatoa Caused The Worst Year In History | Catastrophe | Timeline

Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty

"Manhattan’s skyscrapers aren’t really built for people anymore."

Portland in Decline: Political Failure, Social Breakdown | National Review

The Tragedy of Portland: ‘It’s a Ghost Town, Except for Zombies’

• 
  A once great American city has become something short of a dystopia, where shop owners sleep with shotguns and citizens must act as police.

"...Portland’s approach to governance over the past two years has been a paradox: an unholy marriage of lax prosecution of real crime and draconian crackdowns against law-abiding small-business owners and citizens. 

• The district attorney for Multnomah County, where Portland is located, declined to prosecute 70 percent of cases related to Black Lives Matter protests last year, and the Portland Police Bureau
• leaves 911 callers on hold for hours. 
• The city surpassed its all-time annual record for shootings in late September, with three months left to go in the year — and as is often tragically the case, black Portlanders were killed by shootings at twelve times the rate of white Portlanders. 
• After the municipal government effectively stopped enforcing vagrancy laws, the homeless population exploded from about six large encampments to over 100. 
• At the same time, Oregon has consistently led the country in public-health restrictions throughout the pandemic, with Governor Kate Brown routinely forcing businesses to close at unpredictable intervals, even after vaccines became widely available...Read all.

And nobody cared?--Nobody noticed?----- California pays six figures to its 'superintendent of equity' who lives, works in Philly

Nobody noticed? California pays six figures to its 'superintendent of equity' who lives, works in Philly

"The California Department of Education is facing questions over why it is paying a six figure salary to an individual who has been tasked with overseeing “equity” initiatives in the state’s schools despite his residing in Philadelphia which is over 2,500 miles away.

According to a report by Politico, Daniel Lee, who is described as a “psychologist, life coach and self-help author,” was hired to serve as California’s first superintendent of equity, a capacity that he has served in since last summer where he pulls down a salary of “up to $179,832” despite a resume that “shows no prior experience in California or relationships with school districts in the state.”...Read all!!!!

Dude Gets Thrown Off Plane for Wearing Red Thong as Mask - Louder With Crowder

Dude Gets Thrown Off Plane for Wearing Red Thong as Mask - Louder With Crowder: 

What makes this a 10/10 video is seeing other passengers walk off the plane in solidarity. Even people who were wearing a "proper" mask "properly." Mask or anti-mask, everyone is tired of bullish!t and we all need to have each other's back.